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Blackwater (Presidential Airways) gets new $92 million contract, but that's not the interesting part
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on Sunday, October 7, 2007 - 10:16pm PSTI've just recently read about Presidential Airways at wired.com and thought that'll make a nice short little blog in itself, but, since posting to this website is all voluntary and only done in our spare time, I completely forgot all about it because I just didn't have the time until I ran across the following ... and had to make time
Ever see this plane??? ... Hold that thought
So, last week I'm reading thinkprogress.org and run across the story below and of course have to read it.
Pentagon Issues Blackwater New $92 Million Contract[Scroll down to the third paragraph. I'm going to emphasize a few things]
Well, well, well, Presidential Airways, we meet again. Whooda thunk it? Do you know what an IDIQ contract is? IDIQ stands for Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity, which means they get their $92 million contract no matter what; they could make 1,000 flights for the DoD or they could only be obligated for one flight and they would still get the $92 million of your tax payer supported money. Science Friday: 50th anniversary of Sputnik / Geekdads show how to build your own water rocket
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on Friday, October 5, 2007 - 6:28pm PST
First history, then scroll down for the fun
With Fear and Wonder in Its Wake, Sputnik Lifted Us Into the FutureBy JOHN NOBLE WILFORDPublished: September 25, 2007
Healthcare video alerts
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on Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 5:49pm PST
Comix
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on Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 4:20pm PST
You how you can tell when she's lying? It's when her eyes get really big
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on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - 3:00pm PSTNancy Pelosi admits she's useless when it comes to Iraq ... and is contemptuous about it
PELOSI: I wish the speaker had all the power you just describe. I certainly could do that. That doesn't bar the minority from bringing up a funding resolution. They have their parliamentary prerogative as well.
Gary Webb Vindicated by the Crash of N987SA
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on Sunday, September 30, 2007 - 10:40pm PSTCIA "Rendition" Plane brought down in Mexico with FOUR TONS of Cocaine on board
One of the men listed as the registered owners of the plane, Joao Luiz Malago, said in a telephone interview from Brazil that his Florida-based company sold the aircraft for $2 million on Sept. 16 to a Lakeland, Fla., man and his partner, who Malago believed was from Miami. Malago said he feared the man was dead because he hasn’t been picking up the phone. Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico had no information on any American citizens being killed or arrested in connection with the aircraft, a 1975 model Gulfstream II. “We’re in the process of a judicial investigation that the Mexican government is conducting and we are providing information,” said an embassy official, who wasn’t authorized to speak on the record. “Part of that investigation is to find out more about where this plane came from and who had it before.” Some news reports have linked the plane to the transport of terrorist suspects to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but those reports cite logs that indicate only that the plane flew twice between Washington, D.C., and Guantanamo and once between Oxford, Conn., and Guantanamo. No terrorist suspects are known to have been transferred to Guantanamo directly from the United States. Science Friday: Birds Can "See" Earth's Magnetic Field
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on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 6:29pm PSTBirds Can "See" Earth's Magnetic FieldJohn Roachfor National Geographic News September 27, 2007
Scientists already suspected birds' eyes contain molecules that are thought to sense Earth's magnetic field. In a new study, German researchers found that these molecules are linked to an area of the brain known to process visual information. In that sense, "birds may see the magnetic field," said study lead author Dominik Heyers, a biologist at the University of Oldenburg. California/Texas GOP scheme to steal electoral votes falls apart and Texas GOP voting hypocrisy
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on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 6:12pm PSTElectoral initiative backers give up
In an exclusive report to appear on this website late tonight and in Friday's print editions, The Times' Dan Morain reports that the proposal to change the winner-take-all electoral vote allocation to one by congressional district is virtually dead with the resignation of key supporters, internal disputes and a lack of funds. The reality is hundreds of thousands of signatures must be gathered by the end of November to get the measure on the June 2008 ballot.
Texas Hypocrisy
Here's a video showing Rep. Riddle and many of her fellow representatives voting twice on the same issue in the legislature. Later in the video, Riddle explains why its OK for her to cast ballots in other people's names: "We have a lot of votes. We have a lot of amendments. And there's times where we don't break for lunch, and we don't break for dinner, we don't have bathroom breaks." Security Guards and West Sac cops assault and arrest Port of Sacramento workers for "trespassing" (???)
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on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 5:45pm PSTFrom Wu Ming's blog, surfputah
With noone else reporting on it, this is pretty much the only side of the story we've got, although I suspect more will come out at the trial in Woodland next Thusday morning. The longshoremen have called for protests at the Courthouse:
Rally at Yolo County Superior Court 213 Third St.; Woodland, CA Thursday October 4, 2007 BUSES LEAVE FROM LOCAL 10 @ 6AM — Oct. 4 Click header for the entire post with links Lend a hand to kids in need! SCHIP vote today in the House!
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on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 1:19pm PST
Toll-free numbers to the switchboard (via katymine):
1 (800) 828 - 0498
Christy @ FDL:
Having worked with at risk children in abuse and neglect cases, I can tell you first hand how important early intervention health care can be for these kids. This is especially true for children with developmental and other medical delays and with chronic medical conditions, where early and appropriate health care can remediate and often help to somewhat correct issues that would cost taxpayers a lot more down the road in educational services and chronic medical care. The edgy-kay-shin prezidint
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on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 12:57pm PSTClick
* Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a] * Harare [hah-RAR-ray] * Mugabe [moo-GAH-bee] * Sarkozy [sar-KO-zee] * Caracas [kah-RAH-kus] Science Friday: Video on Stem Cell Research / New Cancer Tests; one for Lung Cancer, and one for Oral Cancer
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on Friday, September 21, 2007 - 4:20pm PSTStem Cell video [click]
Thursday, September 20, 2007 Lung-Cancer Blood TestA pharmaceutical company is developing a highly sensitive test that could catch the deadly disease in its early stages.By Katherine Bourzac
Now researchers at a Gaithersburg, MD, pharmaceutical company say they have found that 99 percent of patients with all stages of lung cancer have detectable levels of a particular protein in their blood that healthy individuals do not. The company, Panacea Pharmaceuticals, is reporting encouraging preliminary results for its test for the protein this week at a conference of the American Association for Cancer Research. The company is working toward federal approval to market the test for high-risk patients. "Lung cancer is the only major cancer with no approved screening procedure," points out David Carbone, director of Vanderbilt University's Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center's research program in lung cancer. Smokers and former smokers have a ten- to fiftyfold greater risk of developing lung cancer. But "there's no way to detect [lung cancer] before they're coughing up blood and suffering shoulder pain," signs of advanced cancer, says Carbone. These lunch sacks issued by the State of California and 'Made in China' may contain lead
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on Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 7:36pm PSTState issues warning on lunch boxesThe promotional items handed out by health officials may contain elevated levels of lead.
By Tami Abdollah, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
The California Department of Public Health said testing found increased lead levels in three lunch boxes, which were made in China. They are green canvas and bear a logo that says, "Eat fruits & vegetables and be active." Officials urged the public to stop using the roughly 56,000 such boxes that have been handed out at health fairs and other events. Greenspan's Legacy
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on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 4:14pm PST
Sad Alan’s LamentBy PAUL KRUGMANPublished: September 17, 2007
Then Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, testified before the Senate Budget Committee. Happy Constitution Day! Celebrate by helping to restore Habeas Corpus
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on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 11:41am PSTListen to our friend Dave, on what Congress
did by passing the Military Commisions Act [click the pic] You can do something to change this by calling ...Sen. Feinsteinphone # (202) 224-3841
Sen. Boxer
From the restorehabeas.org website:
We all want to make America safe from terrorism, but becoming a nation that sanctions the unlawful detention of its own residents — detaining and jailing them without the chance to appear before a judge — does not make us safe. Instead, it violates a value that we have held dear for centuries — safeguarding our individual freedom before arbitrary state action. The Movie Proposal
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on Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 10:41pm PST"Would you like another cup of coffee, sir?" said the waitress as she walked by. "No, no thank you," replied Jem as he sat in the old fashioned diner he and his parents went to when they needed to get out of the house and just have a piece of pie and see old friends He looked furtively at his watch and thought, "Where is he? Where is George?" He again looked down, this time at his new screenplay, the one that is going to get him out of this too long of a slump and maybe then he can buy his house back that he had to sell because of his lean times. He was just asking himself if he remembered to put money in the parking meter when he heard a voice calling his name from across the diner. "Jem, you son of a gun, this better be good. I was on my way to my house in Italy when I got your message." "Oh, it is," said Jem, in his best fake confident voice, because he knew this might be the last shot. George looked at him with a twinkle in his eye, "I believe you." He caught the waitress' eye and said, "I'll take a cup a joe and a piece of apple pie, please." He looked back at Jem and said "whaddaya have there for me?" As he picked up the script and looked at it, which said "Nukes at Midnight". Alright Jem give me the final scene. Jem starts, "That's just a working title. Anyway it's a thriller. Sort of Seven Days in May meets Broken Arrow meets Dr. Strangelove meets Operation Northwoods that's set in .." Science Friday: The speed of sound and the Prandtl-Glauert singularity
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on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 6:15pm PST
Quicktime video
Here's the story behind the picture:
"I clicked the same time I heard the boom, and I knew I had it," Gay said. What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of the sound barrier being broken July 7, 1999, somewhere on the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan. Much of what's wrong with politicians brought to light in two stories in Sacramento
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on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 5:37pm PSTTwo perfect examples of why people distrust their government
Editorial notebook: A small K Street restaurant goes under, leaving a void and a bitter ownerPublished 12:00 am PDT Sunday, September 9, 2007Story appeared in FORUM section, Page E6
In sharp and depressing contrast, Griselda Barajas, former owner of the now closed Texas Mexican Restaurant, received $60,000 in moving expenses from the city's redevelopment agency -- and the bum's rush. Tex Mex closed one year ago last month. At the time, I lamented in these columns its departure from the downtown dining scene -- a family restaurant that served good food at reasonable prices, popular with everyone, sacrificed to downtown redevelopment. OMG it's true: Shrub takes orders from E.T. (1999 and 2007 editions) That's hot!
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on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 4:31pm PST
Hillary v. Hillary
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on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 12:00pm PST
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