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Who has the better plan for reducing the deficit? (If I posted this incorrectly, I would appreciate the MODs help, thank you)

This is a story that I originally posted in a thread a while back and it was suggested to me to make my own thread. Sorry it took so long.... I was kinda busy ;) If this is in the wrong place or I have broken any rules, I apologize in advance. UPDATE: Jack is home now and getting better IN SPITE of the NHS, NOT BECAUSE of it. I really felt the need to share this... it is not just a story in a newspaper or word of mouth tale. We are real life, down to earth people who...

Please... I don't know where this type of thing is supposed to go, but if it is wrong, mods plz move it. My 6 week old grandson in in the PICU unit in Cambridge hospital. I don't have a lot of time right now, as I am dashing around... I promise to post more when time allows.. but for now, please, I need prayers sent up for Jack. Thank you!

The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January, including lobbyists, business executives, activists and celebrities. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33556933/ns/politics-white_house/

I searched for this numerous ways and did not find anything. Sorry if it is a repost or if it is in the wrong place.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate chairman on Tuesday urged Attorney General Eric Holder to sue any states that aren't helping needy citizens to register to vote. Federal laws call for state agencies to try to register people to vote when they are distributing aid, such as food stamps and unemployment benefits. "With the new leadership at the Justice Department, we hope states will be made to meet their obligations," Senate Rules Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. "If that means taking certain states to court, so be it." It's not clear which states, if any, are failing...

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

Rarely has there been a more pathetic arrest than that of 23-year-old university student Paul Saville, who was confronted by four members of Britain's new breed of petty minded police officers after writing in chalk on a pavement, "Liberty: the right to question. The right to ask: 'Are we free?"' With a wonderful lack of irony, the officers told him to stop writing. When he added one more letter they arrested him for criminal damage. The second year sociology and criminology student told the Daily Telegraph: "The whole reason I was writing in chalk was because I wanted to get...

During this US election cycle we are hearing a lot from the pundits and candidates about "heartland voters," and "white working class voters." What they are talking about are rednecks. But in their political correctness, media types cannot bring themselves to utter the word "redneck." So I'll say it for them: redneck-redneck-redneck-redneck.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell, but stopped short of insulting the woman leader on Mother's Day. Instead he called her a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism. "Ms Chancellor, you can go to...," he said, pausing for effect and eliciting giggles from the audience, a group of military officers, cabinet ministers and government officials. "Because she's a woman I won't say anything else." The leftist leader, who famously called US President George Bush the devil at a United Nations assembly, slammed Merkel for calling on Latin American leaders to...

Butch John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets', and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs. The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report...

Excerpt... After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and with no limit on the number of tracks....