The two leading United States presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are statistically tied according to the latest Day to Day Politics Poll Average. Both the 7-day average and the 10-day average show that the difference between the two candidates is within the margin of error. Barack Obama is polling at 45.8% and...
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It means different things, depending upon your religious faith. Responding to Senator Obama, Citizen of the World, a reader emailed this observation: June 17, 1982 – Ronald Reagan speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, “I speak today both as a citizen of the United States and of the world. I come with the...
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Along with the Internet’s “information overload” has come the vastly expanded ability of people to contact other people. Now, anyone can email anyone in the world. And with email signatures containing contact information, or by asking someone to call you, more and more people are getting your phone number and calling you. Email is...
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Behavioral Finance: Overconfidence (2008-08-04) by David John Marotta Think of confidence as a continuum: Lack of confidence is paralyzing, self-confidence is good, but overconfidence is deadly. Successful investors seek to find a balance between rashness and timidity. Understanding the psychology that causes us to act overconfidently will help you avoid it. Before we really...
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The Department of Justice, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services, has guided the enforcement efforts of the national Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) since its inception in 1997. The program was designed to coordinate federal, state and local law enforcement on cases of health care fraud and...
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A SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket has failed during its third attempt to reach orbit. Over four years behind schedule, the rocket lifted off from Omelek Island, part of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at 03:34 GMT this morning, carrying three technology development satellites, and the ashes of 208 people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper,...
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Making and breaking, dividing and conquering – Yawn – Ctrl-Alt-Del Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 08-02-08 The operating system (government) that runs on our platform (country) is defined by an Application Programming Interface (Constitution). Our operating system has been upgraded by adding updates (Amendments). This operating system allows installed programs to utilize other programs...
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All night it rained in Jocotepec, my small town in Mexico. Rain isn’t unusual, but this was different. It was heavy. It didn’t stop. Come morning, my wife and I looked out the window and saw inches of brown water sluicing down the sloping street from the mountain. About nine o’clock that morning the...
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The Internet-group code named “Anonymous†has released a new video on YouTube, outlining a new phase in what they call the “War on Scientologyâ€ÂÂ. According to a press release sent by the anti-Scientology website whyweprotest.net, two videos — Reclamation : Phase Three and Message to Anonymous and our Allies — were posted to YouTube...
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