tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35101412010-04-09T12:00:14.094-07:00U.S. News BlogsA random walk through the day's news.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger1060125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-42252191610902961162010-02-26T15:25:00.001-08:002010-04-09T12:00:14.109-07:00THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-64613000295447305472010-01-21T14:37:00.001-08:002010-01-21T14:37:50.145-08:00Why did the Democrats lose this week in Massachusetts?Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-78058293904231757092010-01-18T10:53:00.000-08:002010-01-18T11:03:44.444-08:00Obama Is All Talk, Nothing More(Naomi Klein, Alternet,January 18, 2010)Though it's too soon to issue a verdict on the Obama presidency, we do know this: he favors the grand symbolic gesture over deep structural change every time. So he will make a dramatic announcement about closing the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison - while going ahead with an expansion of the lower profile but frighteningly Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-89219504129605613522010-01-13T13:03:00.000-08:002010-01-13T13:04:26.766-08:00A Shining Example of the U.S. Public School SystemLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-87061874892775166942009-12-26T08:31:00.000-08:002009-12-26T09:13:56.283-08:00Send In The Clowns(Chris Williams, The Register, 24th December 2009)If you wanted proof that Bushco had no clue and were overrun with amateurs, here's proof... In 2003, a technological snake oil salesman convinced the management gnomes at CIA and the Bush White House, including George Tenet and Homeland Security, that he had devleoped software that could analyze and decrypt secret "barcodes" in An Old Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468339733863179942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-63622544921708296112009-12-18T14:06:00.000-08:002009-12-18T14:11:45.429-08:00Few cheers on Capitol Hill for Time's Ben Bernanke pickLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-76256036948209554932009-12-16T19:17:00.000-08:002009-12-16T19:18:32.687-08:00The Current Senate Bill Is Not SupportableVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-16016020114844148512009-12-03T13:36:00.000-08:002009-12-03T13:37:29.687-08:00Do you want to know what is REALLY going on?Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-46242789567302170912009-12-03T11:25:00.000-08:002009-12-03T11:38:12.858-08:00Obama's War(Robert ScheerVeteran, Huffington Post, December 2, 2009)[COMMENT by Lorenzo: It's your war now, Mr. Obama. Apparently you weren't paying very close attention in your history classes. I don't see how any Viet Nam Veteran can ever vote for you again, after you so callously have condemned more American's to die in a fruitless cause.]It is already a 30-year war begun by one Democratic Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-67767018802478978032009-11-19T17:36:00.001-08:002009-11-19T17:36:52.840-08:00Geithner Asked To ResignLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-33865128067974954952009-10-03T16:57:00.000-07:002009-10-03T17:00:19.608-07:00WalMart Can't Operate Without Taxpayer Subsidies(UCFW, September 30, 2009)Free enterprise isn't really free enterprise when American taxpayers are subsidizing corporations. . . . But in Ohio, responsible employers are being undercut by irresponsible big businesses who rely on the state to make up for the wages or health care they don't provide to their workers. . . . And no surprise to regular Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-75873001001910276132009-09-26T08:20:00.000-07:002009-09-26T08:23:41.248-07:00It's Official!!! ... America is a Fascist CountryPeaceful citizens are now being carried off by paramilitary storm troopers using unmarked vehicles. Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-13772879007640847162009-09-14T09:14:00.000-07:002009-09-14T09:20:36.388-07:00Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman (Mark Deen and David Tweed, Bloomberg.com, September 13, 2009)Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ... "In the U.S. and many other countries, the too-big-to-fail banks have become Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-68782590566518135862009-09-03T17:39:00.000-07:002009-09-03T17:46:04.851-07:00Special Help for Military Families Available (PDF file)Aid and Attendance is a medical reimbursement pension for Veterans, their spouses, and surviving spouses. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1952 under section 38 USC. It is a mandatory pension and is not subject to partisan spending or discretionary Federal budget cuts. ... This pension is available to all qualified Veterans even ifLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-14431024983831189232009-07-02T07:04:00.000-07:002009-07-02T07:21:10.348-07:00Seeds of Dissent in the U.S. Military Are Growing(By Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, July 2, 2009)"It was in Iraq that I turned against the occupations. I started to feel very guilty. I watched contractors making obscene amounts of money. I found no evidence that the occupation was in any way helping the people of Iraq. I know I contributed to death and human suffering. Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-28477095779023206982009-05-22T20:13:00.000-07:002009-05-22T20:14:54.624-07:00The End of America by Naomi WolfLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-14540180550607816322009-05-17T10:59:00.000-07:002009-05-17T11:18:56.098-07:00Official story of 9/11 "almost entirely untrue" per U.S. Official(Daily Kos, May 16,2009)John Farmer served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, . . . James Farmer has just come out with his new book. . . . Description: As of the 9/11 Commission's one of the primary authors report, John Farmer is proud of his and his colleagues' work. Yet he came away from the experience convinced that thereLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-28917452470902763612009-04-30T16:33:00.000-07:002009-04-30T16:35:39.465-07:00Mayor of Eugene proclaims Medical Marijuana Awareness week(Salem-News.com, April 29, 2009)The city of Eugene, Oregon has done something that few cities so far have had the courage to do; Eugene is commemorating Oregon's Medical Marijuana Program during a special week-long observance.Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy put forth a proclamation that minces no words about the positive side of this medical Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-56494985248475739612009-03-28T17:02:00.000-07:002009-03-28T17:03:19.232-07:00Hey Paul Krugman, where the hell are you, man?Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-17877173625316404362009-03-27T19:31:00.000-07:002009-03-27T19:41:16.727-07:00Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need(Dara Colwell, AlterNet, Posted on March 26, 2009)While Uncle Sam's scramble for new revenue sources has recently kicked up the marijuana debate -- to legalize and tax, or not? -- hemp's feasibility as a stimulus plan has received less airtime. . . . But with a North American market that exceeds $300 million in annual Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-78839282254568667242009-03-24T20:09:00.000-07:002009-03-24T20:37:27.473-07:00The Voters' Uprising: President Obama What Are You Thinking?(Don Hazen, AlterNet, Posted on March 23, 2009)"During the past nine months, gigantic financial bailouts amid collapsing economic life made visible the crippling divide between governing elites and citizens at large. People everywhere learned a blunt lesson about power, who has it and who doesn't. They watched Washington rush to rescue Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-85844074722795892992009-03-22T11:55:00.000-07:002009-03-22T12:58:23.303-07:00We Are Being Robbed!(MATT TAIBBI, Rolling Stone, Mar 19, 2009)The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolutionall this happened at the end of eight straight years that America devoted to frantically chasing the shadow of a terrorist threat to no avail, eight years spent stopping every citizen at every airport to Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-76054790585752751632009-03-20T16:19:00.000-07:002009-03-20T16:20:22.588-07:00ENOUGH! ... Comment by Keith OlbermanLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-60909087921314846382009-03-19T15:03:00.000-07:002009-03-19T15:12:27.619-07:00Does America Face the Risk of a Fascist Backlash?Without loans from China, the U.S. economy cannot be revived. The significance of this cannot be overstated: the U.S. no longer exercises sovereignty over its own economic affairs. That sovereignty now resides in the hands of China, the U.S.'s greatest long-term rival.Thanks to Republican policies of massive debt and shipping jobs abroad, the U.S. Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510141.post-77648610177175782742009-02-28T20:55:00.000-08:002009-02-28T21:00:21.841-08:00Coal-sponsored CNN rejects anti-coal adInterestingly, YouTube won't let me embed the video you can see via the link above. I wonder why?Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.com