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The United States is too dumb to thrive: Absolutely amazing poll results from CNN today about the $787* stimulus package: nearly three out of four Americans think the money has been wasted. On second thought, they may be right: it's been wasted on them. That's what it says at the time of writing, by the way: a $787 stimulus package. Presumably Joe Klein's editors will get around to correcting that at some point, but just for the record let me say that I would have been all in favor of a $787 stimulus package. At any rate, Mr Klein concludes...

Oct 22, 2009 — “We have kept the creationist barbarians from the gate,” announced a professor at Hong Kong University triumphantly. A news article in Science this week described tensions in the city over the teaching of evolution. The Darwinists won a vote over a change in wording in the science curriculum that would have “opened the door to teaching creationism and intelligent design in secondary schools.” The door must be shut tight, apparently. Even the possibility of this happening created a furore. Reporter Richard Stone said, “As a year of honoring Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution draws...

My hubby just left to return a large container of Planters Peanuts. It had a large (what looked like cat dooo doo on the top.) I feel like barfing! He returned it to Wal-Mart in Springfield , Oregon. Luckey for us it was right on top...like it was placed there by some one. Thank the Lord we never ate any of it!

Senate Banking committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told CNN’s Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer Wednesday that he was responsible for adding the bonus loophole into the stimulus package that permitted AIG and other companies that received bailout funds to pay bonuses.

(CBS4) CORAL GABLES -- Presidential hopeful Christopher Dodd would end a decades-old trade embargo with Cuba and lift travel restrictions to the island if elected, he said Saturday in Coral Gables. The Democratic senator from Connecticut also said he would open an embassy in Havana and shut down TV Marti, a U.S. government-run television station that broadcasts to Cuba. "Other than the war in Iraq, no other American policy is more broadly unpopular internationally," Dodd said of the United States' policy toward Cuba. Dodd said as president he would seek a repeal of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which strengthened the...

MARE-AUX-SONGES, Mauritius (Reuters) - Scientists in Mauritius have said they have unearthed a wealth of dodo bones and other remains which could contain clues about how the giant bird became extinct. Most theories blame early settlers who found the plump flightless bird on the Indian Ocean island in the 16th century and hunted it relentlessly. A group of researchers this month excavated a site on a Mauritian sugar estate, where a layer of dodo bones were found last October. "It's a wonderful collection," Dr Julian Hume, a scientist on the Dodo Research Program, told journalists at an excavation site in...

Scientists say they have discovered part of the skeleton of a dodo, the large, flightless bird which became extinct more than 300 years ago. One of the team in Mauritius said it was the first discovery of fully preserved bones which could give clues as to how the bird became extinct. Last year, the team found a number of dodo bones at the site, but said the current find was more "significant". The bird is thought to have been hunted to extinction by European settlers. No complete skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius, and the last full set of...

It was when Air France told us that our bags were still in Paris, rather than Peking, that I suddenly understood why the French national carrier is, in my opinion - an opinion I am wholly prepared to defend in the libel courts of any European nation - the single worst airline in the world. My understanding of the problem had been slowly forming over the past 24 hours. It began as I stared at the back of the pockmarked neck of the bus driver at Charles de Gaulle, his iPod wires dangling insolently from his ears, and I watched...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Scientists said Friday they found a major cache of bones and likely complete skeletons of the long-extinct Dodo bird, which could help them learn more about the lost creature's physique and habits. The find is significant because no complete skeleton of a single Dodo bird has ever been retrieved from a controlled archaeological site in Mauritius. The last known stuffed bird was destroyed in a 1755 fire at a museum in Oxford, England, leaving only partial skeletons and drawings of the bird to go on. The bird was native to Mauritius when no humans lived there but...

'Extinct' Birds in Comeback But No Hope for Dodo Click to enlarge JOHANNESBURG -- Scientists beware: don't count your extinct bird species because one of them may hatch.Several supposedly extinct birds have recently been "rediscovered," raising hopes that others not seen for ages may still be taking to the skies."The real message of rediscoveries is that we didn't look hard enough in the first place," said Nigel Collar of UK-based conservation group BirdLife International."We think we've explored the planet when we haven't. We have this assumption that we know it all but we don't," he said.The most recent reported rediscovery...

Ever hear of how republican's always call the liberal left "Whiner's"? Well, take a look at Wa. State, ...who are the Whiner's now? LOTS OF LAUGHS! Boy, the shoes on the other foot now! I think it's great, don't you? These people deserve it..! Has anyone seen the comedian on HBO, who gave a discription of a "Republican"? Wow was that great, and very very true.

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

    Personal Agitprop-and-Money-Laundering Machine,Cozy-clintonoid-Interviews-of-the-Colmes-Kind-Scheme Conceal REAL "Living History"     The battle is on inside of top media networks to secure Sen. Hillary Clinton's first TV interview -- launching her book LIVING HISTORY. ABCNEWS star Diane Sawyer is emerging as the frontrunner after questions were raised about journalism standards surrounding any Hillary interview at CBSNEWS, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Clinton's publisher SIMON AND SCHUSTER had sought an exclusive launch with CBS and 60 MINUTES, insiders reveal, but immediate questions were raised about the 60 MINUTES employment of Hillary's husband, Bill Clinton. Additional concern over the journalistic fallout...