Obama Left Largely Helpless As Judicial Vacancies Reach Crisis
Not better, not worse, but THE SAME.
You just like the packaging better.
I'm not talking skin color, although that may be a factor for you; I'm talking about how a 'D' after the name is a brand you believe and trust in, despite the fact that it's the same 'soap' (product).
About Barack Obama
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Rendell, Scarborough Agree: U.S. Can't Afford Afghanistan, Should Instead Invest At Home
The definition of chutzpah:
Simpson: Veterans 'Not Helping Us' Save Country From Debt
If Social Security is "a cow with 310 million t!ts" then what's the proper metaphor for veteran's benefits?
We don't know. But Alan Simpson seems to think they're too expensive. Or too overused. Or something. Anyway, it's bad.
"The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess," said Alan Simpson, co-chair of the White House's fiscal commission, according to the Associated Press.
About Afghanistan
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Troops Popping Anxiety, Depression Meds Like Never Before
An untold number of active-duty troops and recent veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home with mental health conditions inflicted during service — and their spouses and children are suffering too. Now, with solid data slowly emerging from the nearly decade-long wars, the severity of the crisis is starting to show.
The use of psychiatric medications among 18 to 34-year-olds (both troops and their spouses) soared by 42 percent between 2005 and 2009, Army Times is reporting.
Antidepressants were the most commonly prescribed medication, but the use of anti-psychotic meds — like Seroquel, which is used off-label to treat nightmares and insomnia caused by PTSD — nearly doubled. And the use of anti-anxiety drugs, like Xanax, surged by 72 percent.
Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/troops-popping-anxiety-depression-meds-like-never-before/#ixzz0yy51G8ej
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Rendell, Scarborough Agree: U.S. Can't Afford Afghanistan, Should Instead Invest At Home
The meltdown of the politically-connected Kabul Bank shows that the rampant corruption of the Afghanistan government is jeopardizing the nine-year U.S. war, alienating the people, and making the Taliban look like good-government reformers. And according to one of Washington’s most prestigious defense wonks, it’s all your fault.
Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/09/whos-really-responsible-for-afghan-corruption-you/#ixzz0yy4SLs4B
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Rendell, Scarborough Agree: U.S. Can't Afford Afghanistan, Should Instead Invest At Home
US Can't Afford Afghanistan, Should Instead Invest At Home:
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Like here, for example, cleaning up the many corporate toxic waste dumps causing birth defects & illnesses in nearby residents:
What's K!lling The Babies of Kettleman City?:
When a group of teenage environmental activists started a health survey of their Central Valley town, they were prepared for the usual problems plaguing the mostly Latino, mostly poor residents: Asthma, perhaps connected to diesel fumes from the thousands of trucks rolling down the freeway nearby. Cancer, perhaps from the pesticides sprayed on the vineyards and orchards all around. Obesity and diabetes, perhaps linked to the lack of local supermarkets. What they didn't expect was to knock on door after door to hear of babies born dead, or with severe birth defects. Of 25 births over 14 months, researchers discovered five serious birth defects (three of those babies died). Ever since then, the town and its supporters have been demanding answers: What is killing the babies of Kettleman City?
http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/07/kettleman-city-toxic-birth-defect-cluster
Is BP dumping that oiled boom in a landfill near you?
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Rendell, Scarborough Agree: U.S. Can't Afford Afghanistan, Should Instead Invest At Home
Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Dave Zirin all will be speaking at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday, September 12th, 10-6 pm.
http://www.brooklynbo
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