Today's big news, is that three major phone companies (AT&T, Bellsouth, and Verizon -- and their subsidiaries) have turned over the phone records of their customers to the NSA. Not only that, but this action was done by contract. In otherwords, you're paying to be spied on.
Don't believe me? Well, let's go over the money trail shall we? Read More »
Thom Hartmann (I am quite fond of him) says of this so-called economic growth, "Give me a credit card with a 10 trillion dollar limit that I can leave for my children and grandchildren to pay off and I'll show you how to live." There's your economic growth.
In the mean time, we are paying 27 BILLION dollars a month in interest on the money that George W. Bush has borrowed from China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Yeah. No kidding. Wow. Worst president ever? I think so. He's borrowed more money than all the 42 presidents before him combined. And in the mean time, the repugnicans (that's neocons; not real cloth coat republicans, those who think that Eisenhower was the best, and Reagan wasn't nearly as awesome as they say), are wondering what Bush's legacy is gonna be. Read More »
Science has reared it's ugly head once again and proved that cervical cancer is caused by the human papaloma virus, also know as HPV -- which also causes genital warts. In addition to this, scientists have developed a vaccine that can prevent women from getting cervical cancer.
Once again, there is a vaccine that can prevent you from getting cancer. Read More »
This morning, Monday morning, at 9am on Thom Hartmann's nationally syndicated radio program he had a rightwing guest who was talking about a "study" he had "done" that says that children of homosexuals often become homosexual themselves. This "study" had not been done in a scientific manner, and was pretty much just total bunk, but this guy is getting on all the right-wing radio and tv shows because he hates gay people. He said something that really bothered me, "Homosexuals are like smokers." And basically said that the things that homosexuals do affect them and affect society as a whole. Read More »
World News
*The Associated Press reports today that car bombs in Baghdad and Karbala killed 16 people and wounded dozens. The two attacks happened within half an hour of each other, one day after a British Lynx helicopter was shot out of the sky -- a note to the British: don't name your flying machines after a breed of cat; cats can't fly -- kiling 5 British soldiers in the crash. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani contacted British Prime Minister Tony Blaire to extend his condolences. Blaire replied "Iraq has a president?!" Read More »
