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Author: Cary KittrellCary Kittrell
Date: Dec 26, 2008 16:12
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> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:08:56 GMT, David Johnston block.net> wrote:
> >>>Earth's orbit around the Sun is decaying:
>>>"However, a more recent simulation indicates that Earth's orbit will
>>>decay
>>>due to tidal effects and drag, causing it to enter the red giant Sun's
>>>atmosphere and be destroyed."
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>>Oh my gosh! You mean we only have 4 billion years to live?
>
> No, Earth is ending now.
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>> We must
>>panic now! ...
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Author: harryharry52harryharry52
Date: Dec 26, 2008 15:30
No mo' mall. From NPR:
Commercial Properties Seek Federal Bailout
by Chris Arnold
Listen Now [4 min 4 sec] add to playlist
All Things Considered, December 22, 2008 · For the already struggling
economy, a new potential crisis looms: the commercial real estate
industry, which owns office buildings, hospitals and hotels.
Hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of loans are coming due on
those buildings, and the industry says with the credit markets frozen,
the government needs to intervene.
'Train Wreck'
Officials with the Federal Reserve have been meeting with industry
executives to consider the problem. Whether you are a schoolteacher
looking to buy a $20,000 car or a real estate company looking to
refinance a $20 million office building, the credit crisis has made it
much harder to get a loan right now.
"It's a train wreck for the commercial real estate market," says
Richard Cowden, managing editor of the Real Estate Law and Industry
Report.
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Author: DBDB
Date: Dec 26, 2008 13:19
"RogerN" midwest.net> wrote in message
news:dZidnaaEwbrvE87UnZ2dnUVZ_uWdnZ2d@earthlink.com...> My employer is a supplier to the automotive industry. Due to the economy
> and decrease in demand for our product, they have shut down part of the
> operation for a month. My last day at work was Dec. 12th and I'll return
> to work on Jan. 12th. I'll get some holiday pay but my only other
> household income will be unemployment.
>
> My maximum unemployment benefits is $511/wk gross, less 10%% withheld for
> taxes. I thought it was interesting that unemployment only pays you a
> maximum of $141 per week for dependant children no mater how many you
> have, and they don't count a spouse if you have children. So, out of my
> ~$460 take home pay, over $200 will go to CS leaving about $250 for me, my
> wife, and my son to live on. I just thought it was interesting that $141
> per week was enough for a spouse and any number of kids when unemployment
> is paying it. Why don't they count the number of dependants and use the
> same guidelines that fathers have to pay in CS?
>
> Since I'm only off a month I don't think it's worth trying to get the
> support changed and then have to change it back a couple of weeks later. ...
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Author: DBDB
Date: Dec 26, 2008 13:14
"Chris" juno.com> wrote in message
news:haH4l.22991$wV2.9176@newsfe07.iad...>
> Any man that's good enough to pay child support is good enough to have
> custody of such child.
>
> MERRY CHRISTMAS to all who are suffering at the hands of the "child
> support" people; especially the men and children.
Thanks, don't think there will be any hope in our lifetime, lets make sure
future generations don't suffer at the hands of these parasites!
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Author: Harry HopeHarry Hope
Date: Dec 26, 2008 12:56
From CNN, 12/26/08:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/26/bush.poll/index.html?eref=rss_us
Poll: 75%% glad Bush is done
By Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director
(CNN) --
A new national poll suggests that three out of four Americans feel
President Bush's departure from office is coming not a moment too
soon.
Seventy-five percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research
Corp. survey released Friday said they're glad Bush is going; 23
percent indicated they'll miss him.
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23%% say blow in their ears and they'll follow you anywhere. 2%% not
sure what country they're in.
Harry
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Author: Harry HopeHarry Hope
Date: Dec 26, 2008 12:21
From The Anchorage Daily News, 12/24/08:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/633751.html
Troopers: Johnston dodged press to deal 'hillbilly heroin'
By MEGAN HOLLAND
Players on both sides of an undercover investigation that led to drug
charges against Sherry Johnston bumped up against the turmoil visited
on Wasilla by the presidential election, according to new information
about the case filed in court Wednesday.
An affidavit, prepared by the Alaska State Troopers, says Johnston
repeatedly sold OxyContin using text messages to direct customers to
department store parking lots where they paid and she delivered.
But in one message, according to the affidavit, Johnston complained
that unusual media and other public attention was cramping her
business:
"Hey, my phones are tapped and reporters and god knows who else is
always following me and the family so no privacy," Johnston wrote in a
text message to a customer.
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Author: Harry HopeHarry Hope
Date: Dec 26, 2008 12:05
From The New York Times, 12/25/08:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/opinion/26krugman.html?_r=1&hp
Barack Be Good
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Times have changed.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton, under siege from the right, declared
that the era of big government is over.
But President-elect Barack Obama, riding a wave of revulsion over what
conservatism has wrought, has said that he wants to make government
cool again.
Before Mr. Obama can make government cool, however, he has to make it
good.
Indeed, he has to be a goo-goo.
Goo-goo, in case youre wondering, is a century-old term for good
government types, reformers opposed to corruption and patronage.
Franklin Roosevelt was a goo-goo extraordinaire.
He simultaneously made government much bigger and much cleaner.
Mr. Obama needs to do the same thing.
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Author: Video61Video61
Date: Dec 26, 2008 11:47
On Dec 22, 9:32 pm, John Galt gmail.com> wrote:> Michael Coburn wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:18:51 -0600, John Galt wrote:
>
>>> James A. Donald wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:03:13 -0800 (PST), Vide...@ tcq.net wrote: >>>>> you missed the part where jimmy carter ordered government to buy the
>>>>> latest technology, desktop, or as they were called back then, mini
>>>>> computers. government purchasing millions of those computers, set off
>>>>> americas computer revolution, and the price for those computers
>>>>> plummeted, allowing the average middle class american to be able to
>>>>> cheaply purchase one for themselves.
>>>> That is complete fantasy nonsense. Every computer modern people,
>>>> including modern governments, use, is descended from *Micro* computers,
>>>> not minicomputers,
>>> Quite so. The innovators in this business were Digital Equipment
>>> Corporation (run by Ken "who would ever want a computer in their home?"
>>> Olsen), Data General, Wang, Apollo, and Prime. None of these companies
>>> exists, as they were to a one put out of business after the invention of
>>> an entirely different technology, the personal computer. Minis used ...
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