RENO, Nev. –

Nevada is among the states with the
most dramatic increase in average temperatures the
last 30 years,
according to a new study that examines the impact of global warming across the country.

The average temperature in
Reno
from June through August last year was 75.6 degrees,
almost 7 degrees above the 30-year average,
the U.S. Public Interest Research Group reported.

The gap was the biggest measured nationally.

Las Vegas' average temperature last summer was
3.6 degrees above the 30-year average from 1971-2000

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Al Sharpton, who has challenged the entertainment industry on denigrating lyrics,
supported an idea to pull public investments from companies that won't clean up their act.

Roughly $3 billion from New York's state pension fund is invested in the entertainment industry.

GOOD IDEA.

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There are 6 MILLION autos, in the world, that run on Natural Gas.
China is converting Taxis and Buses, to cut pollution.

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WSJ = "Another of Cheney's former aids gets 10 year prison term."
Will HE get a pardon too?
PROBABLY.

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WSJournal = "American's are paying GREEDY OIL $1.25 BILLION a day,
UP from $800 Million a day, in Feb.

"Hundreds of cos could owe Billion$ in back taxes."

House voted to bar lawmaker from accepting gifts, meals or trips from lobbyist -
GOOD FOR THEM = NOW what are the Senate?

Ethanol getting blamed for INCREASE IN STEAK AND CHICKEN prices.

On This Day in History December 27, 1944
As World War II dragged on,
FDR ordered his secretary of war to seize properties belonging to the
Montgomery Ward company
because the
company refused to comply with a labor agreement.

In an effort to avert strikes in critical war-support industries, Roosevelt created the National War Labor Board in 1942. The board negotiated settlements between management and workers

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Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq’s declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling.

Using an average of $50 a barrel, the report said the
discrepancy was valued at $5 million to $15 million daily.

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WSJ = Terrorist Attacks rose 25% last year.

BuSh is the BEST RECRUITER THE TERRORIST HAVE.

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To Reduce Global Warming -
Canada is "banning incandescent bulbs in 2012" WSJ.

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China GDP up 11% for the first Quarter - wsj

WHY is BuSh trying to PO them?
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There is a Bill before Congress that will give Shareholders a say
in Exec Pay.
BuSh Opposes it.

Wonder WHY.

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What was the term the I-Man used? It was
"hos," slang for whores, a term employed ad infinitum et ad nauseam by rap and hip-hop "artists."

It is a term out of the African-American community.

Yet, if any of a hundred rap singers has lost his contract or
been driven from the airwaves for using it,
maybe someone can tell me about it.
If the word "hos" is a filthy insult to decent black women, and it is,
why are hip-hop artists and rap singers who use it incessantly not pariahs in the black community?

Why would black politicians hobnob with them?

Why are there no boycotts of the advertisers of the radio stations that play their degrading music?
Answer: The issue here is not the word Imus used.
The issue is who Imus is – a white man,
who used a
term about black women
only black folks are permitted to use with impunity and immunity.

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Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again. In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.

BuSh STILL opposed to Stem Cell Research.

WE SHOULD BEING BACK THE DRAFT.

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The following are just some of the women who have broken barriers and were "firsts" in their fields.

Nancy Pelosi – First Woman Speaker of the House

Barbara Mikulski – First woman Democratic Senator elected in her own right

Shirley Chisholm – First African American woman elected to Congress; first African American woman to run for President

Geraldine Ferraro – First and only woman to be nominated on a major party ticket

Ella Grasso – First woman elected Governor in her own right -Conn.

Lupe Valdez - First Hispanic, woman, and openly LGBT official to serve as Dallas County Sheriff

Penny Harrington – First woman police chief of major city - Portland, Oregon

Janet Reno – First female U.S. Attorney General

Madeleine Albright – First woman Secretary of State

Sandra Day O'Connor – First female Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Sally Ride – First American woman in space

Ellen Ochoa – First Latina astronaut

Mae Jemison – First African American female astronaut

Dr. Ruth Simmons – First woman President of Brown University and only African American to head an Ivy league school

Drew Gilpin Faust – First woman president of Harvard

Katharine Jefferts Schori – First woman Presiding Bishop (top post) for Episcopal Church

Effa Manley – First woman elected to Baseball Hall of Fame (co-owner of Negro baseball league team Newark Eagles)

Elizabeth Blackwell – First woman doctor

Gwendolyn Brooks – First African American writer to win Pulitzer Prize

Althea Gibson - First African American to play in and win Wimbledon and the United States national tennis championship

Mary Davenport-Engberg – First woman conductor of an orchestra

Helen Thomas – First woman member of the National Press Club and Gridiron Club

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BuSh's War will cost $2 BILLION, A WEEK with a B in 2007,
and $3BILION, A WEEK IN 2008.

Today's News & Questions & Comments
1-29 -07
Quotes from the Anti-BuSh's War Demostration -

"The Iraqis don't want us in Iraq, the American people don't want us in Iraq,"

"We need -- we demand -- leaders that we can follow, but they must be going somewhere to higher ground without fear,"

"We, the women of the United States have a very clear message for every single presidential candidate, including and especially [Sen.] Hillary Clinton -- pull out now. Get out of Iraq now,"

"We want to support the troops by bringing them home,"

They are going to build 30 Nuclear power plants with $8 BILLION in US Subsidies. *C - NOT good.

WSJ = Ethics Rulses = "house and senate" - "Hors d'oeuvres are excptions. So is "food that you have to eat standingup using a toothpick. *C - WMarts policy is - their buyers can even take a "Cup of Coffee".


1-28 - 07

*C - It is time to PUT CONSUMERS FIRST - We DESERVE CHANNEL CHOICE FROM CABLE TV - Several news articles about FCC.

Deadline - April 17 - For Income Tax Filing Is Later This Year
April 15th falls on a Sunday, and
federal officials are observing April 16 as a holiday -- Emancipation Day in the District of Columbia.
*C - That wouldn't matter if we had a - NATIONAL SALES TAX.
When the purchase is made, ALL Taxes are paid.

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1-26-07
7-Eleven recognized several years ago that it was
in the financial services business
because its U.S. stores
sell $4.3 billion worth of money orders, and
their customers conduct 105 million ATM transactions annually.

Microsoft just gave home users a gift of three additional years of support. For XP Home and Media Center editions, the "extended support" clock continues ticking till 2014, the same as it does for business users.

223 million people have broadband

On Thursday, a labor union announced that 44 companies have been targeted by investors calling for a non-binding vote on how top executives are paid. Separately, a group of 13 institutional investors sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking the agency to consider requiring this of U.S. companies,
as is done in Great Britain and Australia.

YouTube = announced that they start sharing revenue with its millions of users.



1-16-07
BuSh wants another $10.6 BILLION with a B, for Afghanistan - *Q - Why don't we pull our troops out, and come home?

Caspian Sea Pipeline is still being discussed - *Q what is the holdup?



WSJournal = "CEO-to-workers pay 1 to 500 from 1 - 40 - *C and there are some that believer the Minimum Wage is hurting."
BuSh health plan "help Auto COMPANIES, but will HURT WORKERS."

AID's Annually infects 40 Million - 2006 2.9 died - *C - Condom Use might help.

*Q - WHY is BuSh going to give $770 MILLION to Lebanon?

NEW Congress will "Probe misleading Credit-card practices", and the "hazards of fine print".

20 Minutes after BuSh said he would DOUBLE THE STRATEGIC-PETROLEUM RESERVE - the price SHOT UP 20 cents a gallon.
One side of his mouth says - reduce the dependence on oil
the OTHER side of his mouth says - double the STRATEGIC-PETROLEUM RESERVE.
*C - Taking an additional 700 million Barrels of oil off the market will RAISE THE PRICE OF GAS.

US Health Care is - 16% of GDP - "more than any other country"

*C = MY comments
*Q = MY Question
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KANSAS CITY A judge has ordered two Kansas City newspapers
to remove articles
about an area utility
from their Web sites and
temporarily barred the papers from publishing the story.

The Kansas City Star, a daily, and
The Pitch, a
weekly alternative newspaper that publishes on Thursdays.


THAT should make the KC People interested.

Banks are WORKING TO KEEP WMart from having a BANK.

WMart Bank would lower banking cost.

The PEOPLE would be better off with a WMart Bank.


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Today's News & Questions & Comments

2-3-07
Did anyone see the WRONG ANSWER on 1 vs 100.
The "Aristocrats" are LOW LIEFS, as in the JOKE - Movie that Penn did.
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Senate will cap at $1Million, the amount an employee can "place in a tax-deferred compensation plan. Currently, there is NO Limit.
Proposed Min Wage raise to = $7.25 an hour.
MILLIONS FOR SOME - $7.25 IS TO MUCH FOR OTHERS.

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1-29 -07
Quotes from the Anti-BuSh's War Demonstration -

"courage to stand up to this mean spirited, vengeful administration."

"But silence is no longer an option,"

"We all know it's not about winning or losing, it's about doing the right thing," she added. "Everybody knows this except the president."

"Americans don't want to send our young men and women into the middle of a civil war, a war we shouldn't have been in in the first place,"

The world is waiting for a new America."

"The Iraqis don't want us in Iraq, the American people don't want us in Iraq,"

"We need -- we demand -- leaders that we can follow, but they must be going somewhere to higher ground without fear,"

"We, the women of the United States have a very clear message for every single presidential candidate, including and especially [Sen.] Hillary Clinton -- pull out now. Get out of Iraq now,"

"We want to support the troops by bringing them home,"
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They are going to build 30 Nuclear power plants with $8 BILLION in US Subsidies. *C - NOT good.

WSJ = Ethics Rules = "house and senate" - "Hors d'oeuvres are exceptions. So is "food that you have to eat standing up using a toothpick. *C - WMarts policy is - their buyers can even take a "Cup of Coffee".

1-13-07
Exxon and Lockheed Martin will "STOP paying executives country club dues - *C - Will that entitle them to the NEW Minimum Wage?
Need to know about an acronym - http://acronynfinder.com/

What to do - BEFORE - your puter is stolen -TheLaptopLock (exe)

http://downloads.zdnet.com/download.aspx?&&compid=38726&docid=277761&tag=nl.e530

Blogger.com has been UPDATED

US embassy in Greece - hit by rocket.

Skype.com has a NEW Version - PART of it STILL - does FREE Calls.

China = "nation can't support population larger than 1.3 Billion - they will continue Controlled Birth Control - *C - The Pope is NOT going to like that.

*C = MY comments
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