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For the second time in three years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday vetoed legislation that would have established a government-run universal health care system. Senate Bill 840 by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, would have set up a single-payer system in which the state would assume the role that private insurance companies now play. In his veto message, the governor said he could not support "a bill that places an annual shortfall of over $40 billion to our state's economy."

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court upheld San Francisco's pioneering health coverage program today, saying the city has the legal authority to require employers to help pay for health care for uninsured workers and residents. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges by restaurant owners and the Bush administration to the ordinance, the first of its kind in the nation. The 2-year-old program, when fully implemented, will offer care at a network of hospitals and clinics for 73,000 uninsured adults not covered by the Medi-Cal program for the poor or Medicare for the elderly. More than 80...

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ae1ac9f9cd9e37203565 Please pass this on to all your FRiends. FReegards, David WITH all the serious talk lately about doom and gloom.. I thought a little humor was in order.. with a POSITIVE and ENCOURAGING message for all

At least one author at the Wall Street Journal believes the Wall Street bailout will actually bailout Main Street, as the saying goes. As an aside, how many people live no Main St. anymore? Here's what the WSJ had to say: The $700 billion financial rescue that Congress votes on today must surely rank as the least popular legislation in modern times. Most Members want it to pass, though not with their vote after it has been trashed so relentlessly in the press as a Wall Street "bailout." And yet it deserves to pass because in reality it is an...

Question for the group. How can these attacks by the Democrats go unanswered? If someone doesn't take up the fight, we'll be living in the People's Republic of America come January. Now, the Dems are spinning that this (the financial meltdown) is a failure of the markets not a failure of government (CRA), which it most assuredly was. It's like falling through the looking glass. Is anybody there?

In this little article we are going to repeat a mantra. If Obama thinks the free market philosophy is bad and he's not a socialist, what is he? I'm simply going to take an Obama speech on the economy from Golden, Colorado on September 16, 2008 and ask some basic questions about his philosophy.

If we have free will, so do subatomic particles, mathematicians claim to prove.“If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and effect—what is the source of the free will possessed by living things throughout the earth?”—Titus Lucretius Carus, Roman philosopher and poet, 99–55 BC. Human free will might seem like the squishiest of philosophical subjects, way beyond the realm of mathematical demonstration. But two highly regarded Princeton mathematicians, John Conway and Simon Kochen, claim to have proven that if humans have even the tiniest...

Stand with Georgia!

It sounds almost too good to be true — but chemists believe they have made a key breakthrough that would allow them to mimic photosynthesis and solve the world’s energy crisis. Daniel Nocera and Matthew Kanan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have discovered a simple, inexpensive system that can help to split water to produce oxygen and hydrogen gas. The process could, they suggest, be powered by solar photovoltaic cells. electrolysisA snapshot showing the new, efficient oxygen catalyst in action in Dan Nocera's laboratory at MIT.MIT/NSF This would give a crucial boost to solar power’s potential to...

Found a cool, free program today that gives you Aero-style 3-D windows in XP, without the Vista hassle. It seems to work pretty well so far, though not if you're extending your desktop across multiple monitors.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some U.S. motorists sick of getting clobbered at the pump seem willing to do just about anything for free fuel, from giving up the right to name their children to stealing from day-care centers to donating blood. In Orlando, Florida, David Partin pledged to name his son after local radio hosts to win a $100 gas card as part of a contest. Partin will collect the card in December, when his son is born, if he can produce a birth certificate proving the baby is named Dixon Willoughby Partin, after the hosts. "(His wife said) this...

The 4TH OF JULY Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers...

One year ago today, San Francisco became the first city in the nation to attempt to provide universal health care to its residents. Twelve months later, some city residents wonder why the program is billed as universal when they're still getting turned away. When the Healthy San Francisco program began at two Chinatown clinics July 2, 2007, public health officials said they would swing open the doors to all of the city's 73,000 uninsured residents on Jan. 1, 2008. They anticipated that people would enroll gradually at a pace of about 600 a week, and full coverage would be attained...

“We sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed.” That sounds like the statement of a victor in a war, dictating terms to the vanquished. And it may well be: free speech is under attack in Canada – the prosecution of Macleans Magazine and author Mark Steyn – and in the United States as well by Islamic governments and groups whose goal is to end free speech when it is aimed at exposing the truth about Islamic terrorism and its roots. Their goal is positively Orwellian. Replace “Big Brother” with the “Organization...

Buy one home, get one free: US agents try to beat property slump By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles Last Updated: 10:03PM BST 03/06/2008 A California developer has devised a radical sales pitch to shift new homes amid the current property slump – buy one house, get another one free. Sales of new homes have plummeted by more than 40 percent across the US since their peak almost three years ago "Don't miss this incredible investment opportunity! It's never been done before and may never be done again!" reads the advert promoting the two-for-one offer from Michael Crews Development. The...

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2008 – For the rest of this year, sitting in Shamu the killer whale’s “splash zone” or talking turkey with a big yellow bird are just two activities servicemembers and their families can enjoy for free at Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks. Through its “Here’s to the Heroes” program, which began in 2005, the brewing company is offering free tickets to its theme parks for servicemembers and up to three family members to thank them for all they do in service to the country. “It’s important to us for all the reasons you can probably predict,” said Fred...

On Fox News Wednesday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, "If we don't get universal health care, we will continue to bleed money." Funny. The more Washington politicians promise to control health care costs, the higher they go. As humorist P.J. O'Rourke famously said, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama both promise to provide access to health care for all Americans by mandating that employers provide or contribute to the cost of health plans for employees. Clinton would mandate that...

A 23-year-old Bloomington, Illinois, hotel employee accused of letting a number of people stay in rooms without paying has told police she let them stay only because some of them were homeless. Jeannie Roberts was charged yesterday with theft of labor, services or property. The general manager of the Clarion Hotel called police after discovering that five rooms were being used even though they were not checked out. Some of the unpaid guests were found in a hot tub, and police said the five rooms had been occupied by about 20 people. Police said the unpaid guests may have damaged...

But this week, the old John McCain began to re-emerge. Articulating what tens of millions of Americans feel, he blamed the "greedy" of Wall Street for causing the current economic problems. He noted that it was their insatiable desire to get rich quick that led to the sub-prime frenzy that undermined sound economic growth and created a speculative bubble that had to burst. And he said that, as always, it is the little guy who will pay the price when a recession hits, while the greedy who caused it make out, well, like bandits. This is precisely the kind of...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER — Col. Wayne W. Grigsby, Jr., commander of 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, and Richard Hawkins, 3rd HBCT’s embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team leader, talked to residents of the Mada’in Qada during a live radio show on FM 107.1, “Voice of the Mada’in,” April 8 in al Wahida. “While we are here to talk about governance and economic growth, I want to remind our listeners that the progress we have seen was possible because of the increased security,” said Grigsby, a native of Prince George’s County, Md. “It was security that opened the window for the dramatic...

Vid from RidleyReport.com Is it "neoconservative" to spend ourselves into a military collapse? How will we bomb things if we can't buy the bombs? If you cherish our military adventures, take note: We're out of money and Dr. Paul's controlled drawdown may be the only way to prevent a collapse so complete it costs America her ability to project power. http://youtube.com/watch?v=nbFTicFF9eA

PHILADELPHIA — It was hailed as Internet for the masses when Philadelphia officials announced plans in 2005 to erect the largest municipal Wi-Fi grid in the country, stretching wireless access over 135 square miles with the hope of bringing free or low-cost service to all residents, especially the poor. Municipal officials in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and 10 other major cities, as well as dozens of smaller towns, quickly said they would match Philadelphia’s plans. But the excited momentum has sputtered to a standstill, tripped up by unrealistic ambitions and technological glitches. The conclusion that such ventures would not be...

(IsraelNN.com) Osama Bin-Laden, head of the international jihadist terror organization Al-Qaeda, issued a new call for Palestinian Authority Muslims to fight against the Americans and their allies in Iraq - as a step on the path to the destruction of Israel. The audio tape of Bin-Laden, broadcast on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite TV network on Thursday, included "The nearest field of jihad today to support our people in Palestine is the Iraqi field." a call for a renewed "holy war" on Israel. For its part, Bin-Laden declared, Al-Qaeda would increase its efforts to "free Palestine, all of Palestine, from the...

Moore: 2 years of free collegeGubernatorial hopeful says also he'd want to raise minimum wage MARK JOHNSON mjohnson@charlotteobserver.com Posted on Thu, Mar. 06, 2008 RALEIGH --State Treasurer Richard Moore, running for the Democratic nomination for governor, wants to offer high school graduates two free years of community college as part of an economic stimulus package. The free college proposal, which Moore rolled out Tuesday, also is the latest offering among the Democratic candidates as they try to portray themselves as the best leader to help energize the state's economy. Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, Moore's opponent in the primary, recently proposed...

Women who sign up on MyFreeImplants.com earn the money for their breast augmentation surgery through donations from men who peruse their MySpace-like profiles. . . MyFreeImplants.com operates much like a social-networking site. Women 18 and over can sign up for free and create a profile with photos and the type of implant they desire: silicone or saline. Men — they're called "benefactors" — can also sign up for free, but then they must purchase credits, which can be used to send messages to the women. Rest of the article here

Free iPod Phrase Books released Coolgorilla.com today announced that it has released a series of free iPod Phrase Books that are available for download from the iTunes Store. Provided via a sponsorship agreement with lastminute.com, the Phrase Books are available in six different languages to translate English text into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Greek audio. A separate podcast for each language delivers the necessary sound files, while another download installs a familiar phrase book menu system on to an iPod for quick and easy access to hundreds of audio translations. "Say goodbye to guide books with their incongruous...

Fidel Castro Steps Down...

So, with gasolene prices bobbing up and down. And the economy also bobbing! When and what will it take to get rel action n Aternative energy?Nikola tesla(1856-1943) had the answer more then a 100 years ago!That of broadcasting wirelessly eletric power! He even set up a braodcasting tower for this at Wardecylle,Long Island(Now Shoreham, L.I.) But when he mentioned FREE ELECTRIOC POWER to hs financial backer the great Robber Baron J.P. Morga. Whos meatered eletric power intreste would have been ruined. The money was removed and Tesla went into a life long debt!To honor Dr. Tesla in 2005 and 2006...

WASHINGTON -- The Hollywood studios, consumer electronics makers and the music industry have called a temporary truce and are teaming to convince lawmakers of the importance of free trade. The heads of the groups' major trade organizations told lawmakers in a letter released Monday that it was in the country's best interest to approve a number of trade agreements pushed by the Bush administration. Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Assn., told reporters "it was the first time in my career" that he had agreed to sign on with "two organizations I have opposed for years" --...

A Surrey woman's holiday in California has turned into a healthcare nightmare. The 68-year old needed emergency surgery after her appendix burst, but now she can't come home due to a lack of hospital beds. Arlene Meeks has been in a California hospital since December 17th. Her family has been trying to get her transferred back to the Lower Mainland for 2 weeks now but they haven't had any luck. Stephen Harris with the South Fraser Health Region says the issue is a shortage of ventilated intensive care unit beds, which are highly specialized. He says over the holidays, it's...

Here's today quiz. What do the following have in common: (a) Vladimir Putin; (b) China's currency, the renminbi; (c) the U.S.-Peru trade agreement; and (d) Hugo Ch¿vez? Answer: They all reflect the "new mercantilism." It's an ominous development affecting the world economy. Even as countries become more economically interdependent, they're also growing more nationalistic. They're adopting policies intended to advance their own economic and political interests at other countries' expense. As practiced until the mid-19th century, mercantilism aimed to do just that. It was an economic philosophy that favored large trade surpluses. At the time, this had some logic. Trade...

SAN FRANCISCO—Conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage sued an Islamic civil rights group on Monday for copyright infringement over the organization's use of a 4-minute segment of his show in which he called the Quran a "book of hate." Savage said the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, violated his rights by wrongfully using the segment of his Oct. 29 "The Savage Nation" show in a letter-writing campaign directed against talk radio advertisers. In the broadcast, Savage called the Muslim holy book "a throwback document" and a "book of hate." "What kind of religion is this? What...

The American Civil Liberties Union has concerns that Central Michigan University is violating the First Amendment with regards to political expression. The ACLU sent a letter to Central Michigan University President Michael Rao Tuesday demanding that the ban on videotaping U.S. Congressional candidate Gary Peters on the grounds of a public university, be rescinded. CMU junior Dennis Lennox, contacted the ACLU after he received a letter from Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe. The letter stated that Lennox could not videotape anyone, including Peters, on campus without prior permission. The letter also stated that this rule applies to all students, and...

A Detroit-based group is calling for a national protest early next month after a meeting with Isabella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick regarding nooses found in a Central Michigan University classroom. The Rev. Charles Williams II, leader of the National Council for Community Empowerment, also demanded Monday that Burdick take legal action immediately against the student who said he hung the nooses on Central Michigan University's campus. Williams said in a press release that his organization requested a meeting with Burdick and that the group “has yet to receive return correspondence.” Williams staged a press conference in front of the Isabella...

Oxford students sit-in protest fails to silence Holocaust-denier David Irving and BNP leader Nick GriffinAs student protests go it was a rather tame affair. At stake were two issues that had ignited the passions of some of our brightest undergraduates - the right to free speech versus the right to demonstrate. But when the two camps clashed in the shadow of Oxford university's most hallowed halls last night, neither emerged as a clear winner. BNP leader Nick Griffin and controversial historian David Irving were each allowed a voice during a much-heralded debate at the Oxford Union - and anti fascist...

Jim Robinson has created such powerful software for his site that evil and wicked people have found kinks in the armour to try to cause problems to this site. One such kink in the armour is spamming via FreepMail. Ol' Jim Rob forgot to program FreepMail with the: IF (newbie) AND (Spam Detected) AND (receipients more than 5000) THEN (ban poster forever) !!! With Extreme Prejudice!!! It is understandable that Ol' Jim Rob might have a minor oversight now and then like that. But nobody perfect (though Jim Robinson is somebody I wish I could have been). However, someone in...

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BAQOUBA, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2007 – A 19-year-old man was rescued from an al Qaeda-in-Iraq prison in the village of Hammadi, 10 miles southwest of Baqouba, by 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, during an air assault Oct. 28. The rescued hostage was found tied to a ceiling with his arms raised behind his back, which caused injuries to both arms. The man was treated at Forward Operating Base Warhorse for dehydration, joint injuries, bruises and abrasions. The man was kidnapped on Oct. 25 in Baqouba “at a shop by five men in a...

(CBS) On Roozbeh Mirebrahimi's blog, you'll find a photo of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a podium speaking to students at Columbia University. The caption beneath the photo reads: "He is really a big liar." In 2004, another online political statement led to Mirebrahimi's arrest in Iran. He frequently reported stories perceived as critical of the regime. Among them was the story of Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian journalist of Iranian descent who tried to photograph a very controversial Iranian prison. She was detained, reportedly raped, and died in prison of a fatal head wound. The Iranian government went to extremes...

IBM's Office Rival In launching a free, open-source based software suite, Big Blue hopes to compete for Microsoft's Office clients. The design incorporates user feedback with a nod to Web 2.0 by Matt Vella IBM's (IBM) recent launch of a free, full-featured suite of business software dubbed Symphony is a bold attempt to grab market share from Microsoft's (MSFT) bread-and-butter Office product. But even as early adopters buzz over Symphony's strengths and weaknesses, the release shows how IBM, much like its arch-rival, is trying to find ways to make traditional enterprise software relevant in a Web 2.0 world. For one...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The leader of an artists' cooperative has been sentenced to probation for illegally setting up a secret apartment inside the Providence Place Mall that was equipped with furniture and a video game system. Alerts Michael Townsend, 36, said he and seven other artists built the apartment in a 750-square-foot loft in the parking garage four years ago and lived there for up to three weeks at a time while documenting mall life.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2007 – Military families have a new tool to help them share everyday happenings with deployed loved ones thanks to a national troop-support group. CinCHouse.com started planning its Family Hub program after the success of its similar free Spouse Club Hub program, which family readiness groups use as a communication tool. “We had a lot or families requesting to make Family Hubs, but (the Spouse Club Hubs) just weren’t designed for that at the time, so we had to turn away a lot of families,” said Amy Palmer, Operation Homefront’s interim chief executive officer and vice...

Clinton Rejects Freedom of Speech! In the summer of 1996 Glenn and Patricia Mendoza attended A Taste of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois. An event which President Clinton was also attending. Mrs. Mendoza allegedly yelled, "You suck! And those boys died." Referring to the earlier incident in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in which an explosion was set off, probably by a terrorist, killing 19 servicemen. Mrs. Mendoza believed Mr. Clinton was somehow at fault for the explosion, explaining her comments. Some feel that Bill Clinton caused or contributed to the cause of these murders, though I'm not sure how. At any rate,...

Georgia Singing Group Makes Available Free Pro-Life Song with Sheet Music and MP3 Audio DULUTH, GA, September 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Cathy Weaver (left) and some children record a new song that they believe could possibly change the minds of expectant parents contemplating an abortion. Written by David Burke (right), "We Want to See the World" is an emotional call-and-response ballad between an angel and children who are still in their mothers' wombs.  The lyrics portray beautiful images of earth, convey messages about reaching heaven, and assure parents of God's grace for their children.  Burke sent the song to more...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands (AP) _ Hellenty Phillips' 6-year-old daughter Marian had a piercing earache, but her family couldn't afford to pay $5 for her to see a doctor. So Phillips turned to doctors and nurses visiting her tiny Pacific island nation on a 10-day humanitarian mission organized by the U.S. Navy. For free, they diagnosed Marian's ear infection and gave her ear drops and Tylenol. Such scenes are being repeated across the Pacific and Latin America this year as the Navy deploys two ships to nearly 20 poor nations to treat ailments and repair infrastructure. Behind the bandages and new...

Iraq to free 6,000 Sunni insurgents from jail By Colin Freeman in Baghdad, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:58am BST 02/09/2007 Up to 6,000 suspected Sunni insurgents are to be freed from Iraqi jails in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the country's government from collapsing under the strain of sectarian in-fighting. Iraq’s prison population is 85pc Sunni and a release scheme is seen as an attempt at reconciliation with Sunni parties The release scheme, which could put some hardened combatants back on to the streets, is part of a high-stakes gamble by Iraq's Shia-led government to win back the confidence of...

Ward "Wannabee" Churchill Coming To Richmond Toooo funny! Be there or be sqare! "From a Native Son: Conquest and Colonization in the Americas: An Evening with Ward Churchill" Sept 7, 2007 7pm VCU Student Commons, Richmond Salons 907 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA 23284 Free and open to the public You've got to go read the comments on Richmond's commie website!

About 60 people Wednesday gathered outside the San Francisco radio station that broadcasts radio host Michael Savage's talk show to call for his immediate termination. The demonstration was prompted by a show last month in which Savage said Latino college students should "starve to death" after they fasted to call attention to a proposed law that would provide a path to citizenship for children illegally brought to the United States by their parents.