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A recently uncovered dramatization of Obamacare (with thanks to Monty Python).

Congressional panels in both chambers will look into the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, which left 13 dead and at least 30 wounded. Military prosecutors on Thursday charged Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, with 13 initial counts of premeditated murder. Hasan opened fire on a soldier processing center on the Texas base on Nov. 6.

Yes, there are death panels. Its members won't even know whose deaths they are causing. But under the health care bill sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, Montana Democrat, death panels will indeed exist - oh so cleverly disguised as accountants. The offending provision is on Pages 80-81 of the unamended Baucus bill....

I'm looking at my electrical bill and was wondering if it might be worthwhile for me to investigate either solar or natural gas co-generation systems to reduce the monthly bill. Are there any freepers who have walked this path and can give advice? I live in Colorado where NG is locally produced and relatively cheap and I get 6 hrs of sunlight per day on average.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Obamacare, and Death Panels by rayharvey on August 27, 2009 Poor misunderstood Ezekiel J. Emanuel. Ezekiel, if you don’t know, is the older brother of the statist Rahm Emanuel, and recently Ezekiel got his feeling hurt. In an interview he just gave the Associated Press, Monday (August 24th), Ezekiel said this: “I’m completely dumbfounded. I’ve been in academic disputes before, but I never thought I’d be disparaged on Sunday morning talk shows and in the papers, being distorted in ways that can only be described as willful and intentional.” What Ezekiel Emanuel is referring to here is...

You see it repeated all over the web, but nobody on the left ever bothered to check its validity. Where in her quote did Gov. Palin say: "could kill my Down Syndrome baby?" Media Treatment Of Sarah Palin: Where In Her Quote Did She Say “Could Kill My Down Syndrome Baby?”84rules August 12, 2009

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Archeologists have uncovered carved stucco panels depicting cosmic monsters, gods and serpents in Guatemala's northern jungle that are the oldest known depictions of a famous Mayan creation myth. The newly discovered panels, both 26 feet long and stacked on top of each other, were created around 300 BC and show scenes from the core Mayan mythology, the Popol Vuh. It took investigators three months to uncover the carvings while excavating El Mirador, the biggest ancient Mayan city in the world, the site's head researcher, Richard Hansen, said on Wednesday. The Maya built soaring temples and elaborate...

You think solar electrical generation is going to save you or the Planet? Think again. While it is true that photovoltaic solar panels do not pollute while they are producing electricity -- what about the manufacturing process? What happens when these panels reach the end of their projected lifecycle in twenty-five years? (This is, by the way, an optimistic view of their useful life.) Those questions are addressed in a study by the watchdog group Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. "Green Power" is being hyped as the "Safe Solution." It is anything but safe -- when all factors are considered. Here...

Those of you who have read earlier threads, may rtemember me mentioning a show about a man that went from a $37,000 a year electric bill, to a $13 a year bill for admin/clerical charge. That man, is Larry Hagman. Tonight, Wednesday, 8/06/2008 on DirecTV, Planet Green Ch#286, will air the 'Living with Ed'(Begley episode that tours Larry Hagmans house, with all the "green" features he has installed.

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss personally delivered to Congress the findings of the agency's inspector general report on the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, opening a debate about how much of the highly classified and critical document should be made public. The report, which congressional officials had yet to review Tuesday evening, is a hard-hitting chronicle of actions taken by individuals and the CIA bureaucracy before the attacks nearly four years ago. The findings are expected to highlight failures of specific individuals, according to present and former government officials speaking on condition of anonymity. Goss had told Congress earlier...

Every so often, in the hushed galleries of Congress, history unfolds in a manner that casts the momentous business of Capitol Hill in stark, even humbling relief. Then there are moments spent discussing the Whizzinator. Yesterday morning in Room 2123 of the Rayburn Building, Rep. Bart Stupak, a sober-voiced Democrat from Michigan, held up an advertisement for the "drug-test subversion device," which received national attention last week when it was learned that an NFL player had been detained at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after authorities found the state-of-the-art prosthetic in his luggage (with a packet of dehydrated urine). The player...

WASHINGTON - With Congress and Major League Baseball embroiled in a fight over steroids, the chairman of a House panel said Thursday that all major U.S. sports leagues should work toward a single testing plan. "Our elite athletic organizations, both professional and amateur, should establish uniform, world-class, drug-testing standards that are as consistent and robust as our criminal laws in this area," said Rep. Cliff Stearns (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla. "Nothing less should be tolerated." Stearns' comments came at the opening of a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee he chairs. Labor lawyers from Major League Baseball...

Just barely into its latest diet, the state is already backsliding. A month after a task force appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended that 118 state boards and commissions be abolished, the state Legislature has approved the creation of a half-dozen panels and extended the life of 10 others by up to five years. Assemblymen John Campbell (R-Irvine) and Ray Haynes (R-Murrieta) are keeping a tally. "We are headed in exactly the opposite direction that the California Performance Review wants us to go," said Haynes, referring to the governor's reform group. "It is just creating new bureaucracy." There are already...

  ****THURSDAY, JANUARY 22**** 11:00 Welcome to the 31th Annual CPAC David A. Keene, American Conservative Union Foundation   11:15 State of the Movement Rep. Mike Pence (IN-6) Introduction: David A. Keene, American Conservative Union Foundation   11:45 Presentation of the Conservative Journalism AwardRecipient: TBAPresenter: Terry Jeffrey, Human Events   2:00 Vice President Dick Cheney   Introduction: David A. Keene, American Conservative Union Foundation     EMCEE Notra Trulock, Accuracy in Media   2:45 Judicial Tyranny Sen. John Cornyn (TX) Invited Lynn Hogue, Southeastern Legal Foundation Bill Saunders, Family Research Council Moderator: Richard Lessner, Ph.D., American Conservative Union Foundation...

<p>Legislative committees approved midyear budget cuts Thursday, but Republicans and Gov. Gray Davis said they fell short of what's needed to put the brakes on the state's fiscal crisis.</p> <p>"Unfortunately, they didn't go nearly far enough," Davis, a Democrat, said in a prepared statement. "We are facing an unprecedented problem, and we won't solve it by nibbling around the edges."</p>

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 November 3 The International Space Station Expands Again Credit: STS-112 Shuttle Crew, NASA Explanation: The developing International Space Station (ISS) has changed its appearance yet again. Last month the Space Shuttle Atlantis visited the ISS and installed the third of eleven pieces that will compose the Integrated Truss Structure. The new S-1 Truss is visible on the right, below the extended solar panels across the top. The...