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Rob Kall: The DCC Just Hung Up On Me (55 comments) I won't tolerate being in an abusive relationship... and that's what it seems to be turning into between me and the Democratic congress. Shame on them. Allen L Roland: *GEORGE W BUSH / TORTURER IN CHIEF WITH NO EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION (2 comments) George W Bush will get his payback for his flagrant transgressions of justice as well as the preemptive death and destruction wrought by his administration. It will be devastating and humiliating and this enormous karmic debt will be called before the end of this decade. But it will not be called by the current Congress for there is no Opposition Party representing the vast majority of Americans who are fed up with Bush. Sunday, October 14: Randy LoBasso: To Change the Subject: Smear (3 comments) Right wing spin has no boundaries.
Jim Paxon's wildfire blog
There is blessed stuff of a White Christmas on the ground in Show Low and even fire ravaged California has finally gotten some rains along with the cessation of Santa Anna winds. Wildland Fire Season 07 is virtually over. Even though this was an unusually mild fire season in Arizona, it was another record breaker in the West and Southeast. Nationwide, there were almost 80,000 fires that burned nine million acres at a cost of 1.5 billion dollars. Thousands of homes and many lives were lost. Contrast that with the last mild fire season prior to this extended drought (1995) which only burned 1.84 million acres with approximately 82,000 fires. This years damage is five times the acreage with approximately the same number of fires. What is going on, we ask? Can we blame it all on global warming? Hardly! We know that fires are burning hotter and are much harder to stop than ever before.
The CNN Wire: Thursday, Oct. 18
House Dems fail to override president's veto on children's health care bill WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Failing to garner a two-thirds majority, the Democrat-led House Thursday was unable to override President Bush's veto of a plan to expand the state-run Children's Health Insurance Program. The vote was 273-156, 13 short of the two-thirds majority needed, even though 44 Republicans sided with the Democrats for the measure. House Democratic leaders have vowed to continue the fight to get some kind of legislation passed on the issue. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was adamant the plan -- which would provide $35 billion for children's health care and which supporters say will cover 10 million children -- would not be scaled back. (Posted 1:37 p.m.) Tornado damages Pensacola church (CNN) -- A tornado accompanied by heavy thunderstorms and gusty winds touched down in Pensacola, Fla., Thursday, damaging a church with an attached day care center, and snapping power lines and trees in the Gulf Coast community.
The Honey Project empowers teen entrepreneurs
When high school students want to get experience in running a business, they usually take up summer internships or shadow corporate executives. But several Broward County students have taken it a big step further - they are running their own honey business and with a global twist. The Honey Project is a program tied to the Junior Achievement Youth Entrepreneurship Program and the Minority E-Commerce Association - also known as MECA. It selects 15 Broward high school students to run the business, which sells organic African honey. Nathan Burrell, founder of MECA, conceptualized The Honey Project and along with being a partner in the business, he serves as an adviser for the students. "There are many after-school programs that focus on career training or reading or certain things from that standpoint, but we're one of the few unique projects that talk about youth entrepreneurship, in a sense that really gives the students an opportunity to own and manage their own business," Burrell said.
Gazprom, Rosneft at War of Succession
Sibneft and Gazprom have reached principal agreement on selling Sibneft stocks to the gas monopoly, Interfax reported Friday, pointing out the deal parameters, including the budget and sources of funding, have not been determined yet. As long as the price remains unclear, it is too early to speak of any agreement, sources of Kommersant insist. As informed earlier, Gazprom is eying the stake of 92 percent in Sibneft (where the principal holders, including Chukotkas governor Roman Abramovich, own 72 percent) and is in talks to raise a loan of $10 billion.
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See-through condos
Sales contracts fell through when buyers couldn't get affordable loans. Investors who had hoped to buy in and then resell at a profit pulled out of the market. Buyers who had to sell their current homes first were stuck when they couldn't sell. Others balked at paying prices that had seemed more reasonable during the run-up in home prices.
New condo sales in metropolitan Baltimore fell 37 percent in the first half of this year - the latest statistics available - while new townhouse sales fell 15 percent, according to Hanley Wood Market Intelligence. And in the third quarter, as the credit crunch hit the market, there were more contract cancellations than sales in the Baltimore metro market, according to an analysis by Delta Associates, which includes projects that are selling or under construction.
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