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- Night of barbecue, fireworks on tap at White House -
The White House is getting ready for the big holiday barbecue and fireworks show at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
- Looking for vacation? Try Afghanistan -
There's a new building in town, and it isn't a military barracks or a hospital. It's a Tourist Information Center.
- Indian power thieves keep enforcers on the hunt -
It was still dark outside when a spidery man in his underwear answered the knock at the factory door, releasing a wave of heat and gritty smoke from the noisy room behind him.
- Afghan mine clearers rescue artifacts -
On a rocky hillside in central Afghanistan, men in visored helmets and protective blue smocks gently scratch the earth for land mines _ or shards of pottery from the sixth century.
- Yemen says plane wreckage recovered off Comoros -
A Yemeni aviation committee says pieces of wreckage from the passenger jet that crashed off the Comoros islands have been recovered.
- Ireland seeks release of Darfur aid workers -
The head of an Irish humanitarian aid agency appealed Saturday for the release of two of its employees kidnapped in Darfur.
- Police name 5 victims of London high-rise fire -
Police on Saturday identified five of the six people killed when fire swept through a London high-rise, as investigators try to find out what started the blaze and whether the building's design contributed to the tragedy.
- Obama, McCain give dueling holiday addresses -
In dueling holiday addresses, President Barack Obama appealed for public support of his domestic programs and Sen. John McCain said Americans should side with Iranian election protesters.
- 60 votes not so super for Obama, Senate Democrats(2) -
Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.
- Clashes at protest vs US base expansion in Italy -
Protesters have clashed with police at a demonstration against the planned expansion of an airport and U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza.
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- Amy Alkon on MND / George Carlin On Novel-Writing - Joe Penny - Carlin says the girly voiced freak Michael Jackson had more talent than Elvis and Sonatra. Like Letterman, he USED to be funny before he/they morphed into self-loathing liberals bent on heaping the woes of the world on white males.
- Amy Alkon on MND / Pat Condell: "Filthy Kaffir Who Will Burn In Hell" - WhatAboutMGM? - Female genital mutilation? Controversy? Welcome to the party, sis!
- Amy Alkon on MND / Sometimes, There's Nothing So Expensive As "Free" - Redrajesh - Nobody has a problem with innovative and one in a million people surgery being expensive. But in America, normal things like flu or small illnesses cost a bomb to treat. Added to it is the fact that a drug cannot be obtained without a prescription makes it mandatory to visit a doctor and pay a huge fees to get the treatment(an average general practitioner doctors fees is about 150 dollars here in NJ and when I go through the insurance co, I pay my co pay of 15 dollars and the insurance co pays him about 65 thereby bringing the total to $80). If instead of $150 or even $80, it were something like $25 or $30, things would be a lot better. If the doctors could remove some overheads like 3 girls in their office each being paid $3000 a month to fill the insurance claims and receptionist etc, they can make a pretty decent living even at a charge of $30 per visit. And since 9 of the top 10 paying jobs in America is in the medical field and general practitioners come in that 9, I find it difficult to muster any sympathy for them. And if it were not mandatory to get a prescription to get a drug, quite a lot of people would save a bomb just by self medication for some simple ailments.
- Dr. Helen Smith / "America isn't hiring precisely because of government policy." - DcFather - Ditto for home sales, car sales, consumer confidence, and a lot more. Problem is, Obama et al are not as clueless as they act. They are trying as hard as they can to destroy America as fast as they can, and doing a pretty good job at it. It's the people who believe in him/them that are truly ignorant.
- Dr. Helen Smith / But "she managed to disarm him and cut him"..... - Greg - Too bad she didn't hit the throat instead of the hands...
- Sex+Metropolis / Americans are Beginning to Notice Political Swing to Left - Greg - Government gets bigger the more it feeds on itself. The trick has been to hide from the general public just how little power we actually have over them. Given the unelected bureaucracy, the desire by those elected to retain their power and prestige, and the need in any organization to reach consensus - bear in mind the adage, the squeaky wheel gets the grease - there is a slide in one direction or another. We're just starting to realize WHICH direction we've been pulled in.
- Amy Alkon on MND / Highland Hound - Virtue - Heh when I see Burbank on the 5 I know I am about an hour from home
- Amy Alkon on MND / The Trouble With Black Muslims - Tim Merritt - By focusing on a dishonest and hateful version of history, they are losing focus on the tremendous and real contributions black Americans have made to every aspect of our lives. Slavery is one aspect of the American experience, but so is the fact that we have prayed together, fought together, worked together and loved together.
- BlogWonks / Coming: By-The-Mile Road Tax? - Squiggy - What's really "funny" is that this will also affect people who drive total electric cars. Even if they are solar powered or pedaled.
- BlogWonks / The Duke 88 Defend Gay Admin Pervert - Squiggy - I'm not sure I understand what the "professors" are saying. Are they implying that this boy wouldn't have been abused if the rest of us didn't treat gays badly? It sure seems so.
- Amy Alkon on MND / Equal Protection, Except If You're Black Or Latino, And Then You Get More - Denis - The real prize for getting "More" as you well know goes to females. Females are ~ 51% of the population. That means the majority of Americans get "More". Black Females get "More" than Black Males. Hispanic Females get "More" than Hispanic Males. White Females get "More" than White Males. Black Females and Hispanic Females and White Females get "More" than White Males. White Males are at the bottom of the food chain.
- Amy Alkon on MND / The Vagina Gang - bernard - amy, thanks for posting, i cross posted too since the article was so important
- NewsWax / Pitchman Billy Mays Dead One Day After Bizarre Airplane Accident - ace - Another "celebrity" who was 50 just died. He had a lot going for him. May Billy Mays rest in peace despite some of the negative things people say.
- Amy Alkon on MND / Must Not Appeal To The Patriarchal Oppressors! - NothingToSeeHere - Don't want to wear lipstick or shave your legs- it's really easy, don't. Women are free to choose whether or not they want to try and look appealing to men, and men are free to find them more attractive or less attractive. While the hairy, smelly, dowdy feminuts are debating classist folderol with some whiny emo boy, other women will be cavorting with men who find them attractive (and getting their ever-lovin' ____s ____'d out). See, everybody wins!
- Sex+Metropolis / Jackson dies, almost takes Internet with him - howardamin - Wow, what a bad week for the loss of celebrities. RIP Billy, I will miss hearing your voice in the middle of the night. There will be no replacement for you!!! God Bless! found more info at http://billymayes.blogspot.com/
- BlogWonks / GE Wants to Control Your Right to Lamp - Squiggy - I put cfl's in a very high ceiling lamp, so I wouldn't have to keep pulling out the ladder. Well guess what? I had to get the ladder when one of the cfl's caught on fire. I saw a little smoke and then flames. I wonder how many houses will get roasted because of Obama and the cfl express?
- NewsWax / Pitchman Billy Mays Dead One Day After Bizarre Airplane Accident - ashley - I happen to think these kind of rude comments are SO utterly disrespectful, and unnecessary, and you all sould be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. The sorry at the end was an absolute cop out too...your opinion on his voice and how he spoke is completely irrelevant...the man is dead! People like you are a disgace to the world!
- NewsWax / Pitchman Billy Mays Dead One Day After Bizarre Airplane Accident - highly illogical - that`s subepidermal and you`re tyring to say he died from a bruise.
- Jerry Fino / Jenny Got Married (part one of two) - irlandes - You are right, Kevin. That was a great article.
- NewsWax / Pitchman Billy Mays Dead One Day After Bizarre Airplane Accident - corene - Yall people are rude talking about a man that has pasted yall have no respect for him or his family ? Yall need to keep your rude remarks to yourself in his families time of grief!
Water level rising in Chinese rivers, further flooding expected
Further rain has continued to fall across southern China after the country was devastated by floods earlier this week.
176 people have been confirmed to have died as a result of the flooding, and around 50 more are officially missing. Xinhua, the state news agency in China, has reported that the flooding in the Pearl River Delta was the worst in the area for over fifty years.
The Chinese government says it evacuated 111,476 in the Sichuan Province. In Wenchuan County, 72,000 were relocated. Over the past week some 1.3 million people have reportedly fled their homes.
The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) issued a warning on the situation before the first wave of flooding. “Faced with the increasingly severe rain and flood situation, at 16 o’clock of June 12, Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters of Guangxi urgently started level 2 flood control emergency response and required the relevant departments and places to prepare immediately so as to ensure the work of flood control and drought relief,” the CMA said in a statement released late last week.
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