TomPaine.com - Wal-Mart's Tax On Us
Wal-Mart's Tax On Us
And you still shop there?????
In Rural Texas, Blessings and Culture Shock - Yahoo! News
In Rural Texas, Blessings and Culture Shock
Good Katrina story about the real America. Nice to see after all of the negative garbage in the news.
Why New Orleans Cell Phones Aren't Working - You might want to change your number. By Daniel Engber
Interesting article. A must read if you own a cell phne..
Steady buildup to a complete meltdown - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com
Confusion, bureaucracy reigned as floodwaters overtook New Orleans
Great article reviewing what went wrong during and after Katrina. Must read.
Will New Orleans Recover? by Nicole Gelinas
Weak and struggling before Katrina, the good-time city now teeters on the brink.
China is stepping up its overt and covert efforts to gather intelligence and technology in the United States, and the activities have boosted Beijing's plans to rapidly produce advanced-weapons systems.
An article just for you, Walmart shoppers!!
"Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists—myself included—did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting. "
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
Great read. I've been mulling over the exact same questions and coming tothe same conclusions the last few days!!
I'll been in floods, huricanes, huge blizzards at -50, tornadoes that wiped whole towns off the face of the planet but I never sat on my hands waiting for someone to rescue me. We jumped in and saved ourselves, our relatives, our neighbors, strangers....
I'm disgusted with what I've witnessed the last few days, really disgusted and ashamed. Why should I feel ashamed because a group of people acted like animals? Because I am an American and so, unfortunately, are they....
Police kill at least 5 in New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com
NEW ORLEANS - Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
With much of Friday's media coverage concentrating on the chaotic state of New Orleans, MSNBC's Lisa Daniels welcomed military analyst Dan Goure to 'Connected Coast to Coast' to discuss why it has taken so long to get help in to New Orleans.
Interesting perspective analysis.
Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina - New York Times
Excellent graphics of New Orleans and area. Must see..
New Orleans bar keeps doors open through catastrophe - Yahoo! News
NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - The bars of the Big Easy prided themselves on staying open come rain or shine but only one kept serving through the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
"We don't have any locks on the door," said Julie Sprinkel, a server at Johnny White's Sports Bar on the normally raucous Bourbon Street.
"NOLA Disaster Plan Outsourced
Updated 3 September
The private firm charged with developing the New Orleans hurricane disaster plan identified the need for 1,000 shelters and said that they would need to be open 100 days (more than three months!). A press release asserts that "state resources are adequate to operate shelters for the first 3-5 days." After that, the problem was to organize replinishment from federal and other sources. The firm also "developed a transportation plan for getting stranded residents out of harm’s way."
Doesn't look like this 500 million was spent to wisely! !
nbc13.com - News - Fort McClellan To Take In Hurricane Victims
I've seen this place. Abandoned army base converted over to housing etc. Pretty decent place to relocate if you need to do so.
HoustonChronicle.com - Anatomy of raid rumors: Did helicopter start it?
As if the INS would ever get off of their dead asses and do their job!!!! Fat Chance!!
The panic that sent hundreds of illegal immigrants fleeing from their homes, jobs and schools in recent weeks may have been set into motion on March 23, when a developer and contractor surveyed their sprawling construction site from a white helicopter with green stripes -- the same colors as U.S. Border Patrol helicopters.
CBS News | U.S. Must Pay In Men-Purge Scheme | February 19, 2004 08:36:09
CBS News | Breast Cancer Risk Halts HRT Study | February 3, 2004 10:46:04
Yahoo! News - Indonesian Democracy Boosts Rent-A-Crowd Business
A must read!!
This is a great analysis of President Bush’s immigration proposal and how it will effect our economy, culture and our children. It shows a gloomy picture of their future and how this proposal will impact their jobs and income. A must read!!
Yahoo! News - IBM to Export Highly Paid Jobs to India, China
Some workers are scheduled to be informed of the plan for their jobs by the end of January. After that they will be expected to train an overseas replacement worker in the U.S. for several weeks. The IBM workers marked for replacement have 60 days to find another job inside the company, likely to be a difficult task at a time when IBM is holding down hiring.
Who says IBM isn't hiring? They are hiring Indians and firing Americans!! And they have to TRAIN??!! their replacements? IBM is off MY christmas list!!
ENN News Story - Nanoscale iron could help cleanse the environment
Could clean up a 300X300 foot lot for less than $3000!!
HoustonChronicle.com - Metro's train comes in: Rail plan approved
Seven Billions of Dollars to start!!!
The mouse that roared | CNET News.com
Article about the invention of the computer mouse
Gates, Mills Talk Up Web Services in NY
Bill Gates and IBM were demonstrating a new web technology but in the backgrounhd, it was running on a linux server and Bill used a Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA to run it!! For once, Bill got to use a reliable machine!!
Interesting story about how China, using predatory trade practices, is wiping out some of our industries; in this case, crawfish farmers in Louisiana.
Free trade is great but we don't have it. Soon, we will have achieved a wonderful unity with the rest of the world and will share their standard of living. Hope you LOVE rice...............
To Boldly Go ... Matt Jeffries: 1921 - 2003
Matt Jefferies, the inventor of the Star Trek's Enterprise died. References to Jeffries' contribution continues in almost every episode and movie as the engineering tunnels that run inside each starship are called "Jeffries Tubes" by the characters.
World's Longest Yard Sale/Garage Sale and Antique Alley Yard Sale 888-805-4740
World's Longest Yard Sale
Date: August 2-10, 2003
You still have time to plan your trip!!
Travel more than 450-miles of scenic beauty and see tons of yard sales. Get started on your journey by traveling the 93- mile Lookout Mountain Parkway route from Gadsden, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the most "scenic rural America" in the United States. With more than 1,000 yard sale vendors you will find everything from antiques, collectibles, furniture, dishwares, fresh garden produce, homemade jams and jellies, food vendors, live entertainment and so much more. Continue with the yard sale, following the U.S. 127 Corridor from Chattanooga, TN to Covington, KY for more than 350 miles of yard sale bargains. When combined, the Lookout Mountain Parkway and the 127 Corridor have had as many as 5,000 vendors lined along the 450-mile scenic yard sale route in past years and the year 2003 promises to be even bigger.
Amazon.com: Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 PDA
The new Sharp Linux PDA. For those who want a real palm sized computer.
System break-in nets info on 5.6 million credit cards - Computerworld
Watch your cards. Yours could have been stolen!! Article does NOT give the names of the banks that were affected...
World's Longest Yard Sale/127 Garage Sale and Antique Alley Yard Sale 888-805-4740
World's Longest Yard Sale
Date: August 2-10, 2003
You still have time to plan your trip!!
Travel more than 450-miles of scenic beauty and see tons of yard sales. Get started on your journey by traveling the 93- mile Lookout Mountain Parkway route from Gadsden, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the most "scenic rural America" in the United States. With more than 1,000 yard sale vendors you will find everything from antiques, collectibles, furniture, dishwares, fresh garden produce, homemade jams and jellies, food vendors, live entertainment and so much more. Continue with the yard sale, following the U.S. 127 Corridor from Chattanooga, TN to Covington, KY for more than 350 miles of yard sale bargains. When combined, the Lookout Mountain Parkway and the 127 Corridor have had as many as 5,000 vendors lined along the 450-mile scenic yard sale route in past years and the year 2003 promises to be even bigger.
Ever wonder why schools are overcrowded and failing, the freeways are packed and taxes are so high??
Wonder no more. Read www.numbersusa.com and find out why. And you can do something about it!! Great reading.
http://www.shadetreemechanic.com/allison_hybrid_drive.htm
Allison Electric Drives has released it’s newest product for the transit bus market. The “EP-50 System” was designed specifically for articulated and suburban coaches. This system is referred to as “Split Parallel Hybrid Technology”, and is a design patented by Allison. It uses power from Allison’s advanced energy storage system that contains or uses no “Lead Acid Batteries”. The “EP-50 system combines the Allison automatic transmission with an integrated electric drive unit.
Really good article about Detroit and Allison's new hybrid power plant. Neat stuff.
