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We went into the store and bought our groceries. Here is a list of what we bought: $ 8.99 —- 2 lbs Raisins $ 3.10 —- 2 boxes of Jiffy Blue berry Muffin mix $ 6.99 —- 1 bag generic cheerios $10.25 —- 3lb Coffee creamer $ 4.72 —- 8 packages unsweetened Koolaid $17.34 —- 6 cans of fruit cocktail $10.76 —- 4 cans vegetables (2 peas 2 beans) $13.35 —- 1 large jar of Mayo $ 6.45 —- 1 one pound box spaghetti noodles $10.35 —- 5 lbs white rice $13.40 —- 4 boxes of rice-a-roni $ 4.49 —-...

AUSTIN – Advocates for more technology in the classroom – and fewer textbooks – are stepping up their arguments for change this year, trying to convince Texas lawmakers that the future of electronic textbooks is now. The technology push is getting a boost from a special House committee that warned about the consequences if Texas is stuck in the past when it comes to classroom materials. Among the reasons: the higher cost of printed books, the expense of transporting and storing them, and the fact that they can be outdated before students get them. "Our current system just seems outdated...

Health summit kicks off overhaul bidPosted: March 5, 2009 07:02 AM EST WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama launches his bid to overhaul health care Thursday with a White House summit on how to proceed. The summit of lawmakers, doctors and drug and insurance executives seeks to get the ball rolling. Obama's budget makes a $634 billion reform down payment. But in a sign of how tough it'll be getting agreement, the upper-income tax hikes and cuts in Medicare and Medicaid he wants to help pay for reform are drawing objections from Republicans and insurers. The president campaigned on a plan...

"TheEroticReview.com" Founder David Elms Cut Out of His Own Business; Misses Court Hearing By Ray Stern in News Wednesday, Mar. 4 2009 @ 9:42PM The founder of a Web site for finding and rating prostitutes has been fired from his own company following accusations by Phoenix police that he tried to have someone killed. David Elms was scheduled to appear before a judge at Maricopa County Superior Court for a hearing on various criminal charges today, but didn't show. Officials agreed he might have been confused about the date, says a court spokesman, so the hearing was postponed until March...

Sgt. Tim Mechaley trained fellow Marines to fire .50-caliber machine guns. He qualified as a marksman.... Yet, when Mechaley sought to buy a 9-mm Ruger pistol for protection at his midtown apartment, the Omaha Police Department rejected his application for a gun permit. Mechaley, 32, has received counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder related to his service in Iraq. While completing an application for a gun permit, he responded "yes" to a question that asked whether he was being treated for a mental disorder. "I circled yes because I wanted to be completely honest," he said. As explanation, he wrote "PTSD...

Deep down, Ed Schultz is shallow, to paraphrase Dorothy Parker. Case in point: Schultz's trite, cliched comparison of conservative talker Rush Limbaugh's remarks before a boisterous CPAC audience with Hitler addressing a Nazi rally. Schultz, the top-rated liberal radio host in the nation, watched Limbaugh's speech on TV last weekend -- with the sound turned down -- and was convinced he saw "striking" parallels to the German dictator. Here's what Schultz said on Monday's show, preceding his criticism of Limbaugh with praise for the late radio giant Paul Harvey (click here for audio) -- He was looked up to...

DETROIT — General Motors Corp.'s auditors have raised “substantial doubt” about the troubled auto maker's ability to continue operations. The company revealed the concerns, raised by the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP, in its annual report filed on Thursday. GM has received $13.4-billion (U.S.) in federal loans as it tries to survive the worst auto sales climate in 27 years. It is seeking a total of $30-billion from the government. During the past three years it has piled up $82-billion in losses, including $30.9-billion in 2008. GM says in its report that its auditors cited recurring losses from operations,...

<p>An servicemember who was participating in the ongoing Barack Obama-birth certfificate saga has been told to shut up. Seeing how soldiers routinely talk with the media, especially the embeds, this smells like the "shit rolling downhill".</p> <p>A member of the U.S. military whose suspicions about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president prompted him to sign onto a legal demand being sent to Attorney General Eric Holder has now been silenced.</p>

I saw the "Rush is the voice of the Republicans" ad and had a bit of a brainstorm. Does anybody know a Republican PAC that will run ads against the democrats? I have a suggestion for a commercial to run in Pelosi's home district (I am willing to contribute what I can to stoping the national-health-care and Pelosi, but I don't know where to turn that is "cost effective"). This would target seniors, hiv-positive people, and mothers, and it would blame Pelosi: Long lines of decrepit seniors waiting in a very utilitarian, faded hallway, being called one at a time...

Joe Scarborough has joined a chorus of Republicans wondering whether Michael Steele might not be cutting it as RNC Chairman . . . Scarborough was spurred to his comments by a clip from Sean Hannity’s show in which Steele claimed that when on CNN he called Rush Limbaugh “incendiary” and “ugly,” he didn’t mean to criticize him but was merely describing how those trying to demonize Rush were taking his words. Joe clearly wasn’t buying. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Oh, is he sad. Is he sad. You know what the Republicans are learning right now? At that point Joe paused, drumming his...

Enduring Union Man joins ailing wife in facility as more retirement homes make effort to accommodate couples By Lolly Bowean | TRIBUNE REPORTER March 5, 2009 From the time they started dating some 62 years ago, Ernest and Gloria Dalpos have been nearly inseparable. They married in 1949, raised their children in Lemont, and after Ernest retired, sold their house and lived in Washington with their son for a while before returning to Illinois. Then Gloria Dalpos, 81, had to move to a Joliet retirement home to get specialized care. Her husband visited daily for about three weeks before deciding...

Once upon a time, you could drive to the most remote reaches of the United States and escape Rush Limbaugh. But from the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico to the Badlands of South Dakota, where only the delicious twang of a country tune or the high-pitched pleadings of a lone lunatic came over the AM dial, there is now the Mighty El Rushbo. As someone who spends a lot of time on the road, I used to find Limbaugh to be an obnoxious but entertaining companion, his eruptions more reliable than Old Faithful. But now that Limbaugh has become something...

A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said. According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian Cosmos-2251 satellite, launched in 1993 and believed to be defunct, collided on February 10 about 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia. However, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Leonid Shershnev, a former head of Russia's military space intelligence, said in an interview published by the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on Tuesday that...

Jonah Goldberg: Here we go again. Rush Limbaugh is public enemy No. 1. Liberal bloggers and media chin-strokers are aghast at Limbaugh’s statement that he hopes Barack Obama fails. Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end — who doesn’t? But Obama’s agenda is much more audacious. Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has said as a matter of objective analysis that Obama wants to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the country as a European welfare state. And yet people are...

A movement is stirring to keep the Seattle Post Intelligencer going. According to a P-I employee website, journalists plan to keep an online version of their paper going for at least a couple of months if the paper stops publishing, which could happen mid-March. The goal is to get subscribers and philanthropists to fund the online version.

310 million Americans have allowed 546 political pigs in Washington DC to completely destroy the greatest nation ever known to mankind. The people didn’t destroy the nation themselves, even though they will be the ones who will have to pick up the pieces and start all over, once it all comes unhinged… But they have allowed it. We have one president, one vice president, nine Supreme Court justices’, 435 members of the people’s House and 100 US senators. That’s 546 people responsible for forcing 310 million Americans into the proverbial soup line, where 546 political pigs hope Americans will choose...

For all the controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh, most Americans don’t really understand who and what he is. And most conservatives – who rightly embrace Limbaugh’s strength and clarity – don’t seem to understand why it’s become a problem that they’ve given over the leadership of their movement to him. It was 20 years ago that Detroit’s then-News Talk Radio, AM 1270 WXYT, made the controversial announcement that it was replacing the Dr. Leonard Portner Show during the noon hour to start carrying some national guy. The first time I heard the announcement, it sounded like they said his name was...

Rejoice in the Lord Today's Scripture “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4, NKJ) Today's Word from Joel and Victoria When was the last time you had so much joy that you couldn’t contain yourself? Maybe your favorite football team won the big game. Or maybe you received some unexpected, good news. There are many reasons to rejoice in this life, but the scripture tells us to rejoice in the Lord. To rejoice simply means to express great joy. There are many ways to express your joy in the Lord. You can sing, shout,...

I just read a blog, written by Eric Florack of PajamasMedia.com, in which he details a lot of the mixed feelings on the Republican Party that surfaced at the CPAC conference held last weekend. I hear you, Eric and agree totally. And I also think the Republican Party officials are closet liberal Dems. Someone said recently that their stupid actions are almost certain to signal the end of the Republican Party in this country. And I say, “It can’t come soon enough.” There’s no question that the conservatives will never control the Republican party; NEVER!. Even though I am convinced...

Were Hoboken City Council people scared to walk into City Hall tonight? They would have had to walk past the 100+ irate and frustrated residents who rallied outside the building as part of a protest organized by Hoboken Revolt and LowerHobokenTaxes. You can watch some of the rally above, as resident Richard Pasquarelli and others lead the charge against City Hall. Protestors held signs demanding lower Hoboken taxes, shouted for a recall of elected officials and someone even held a tarred-and-feathered effigy of Mayor Dave Roberts. (No, they didn't set it on fire.)