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Dear Friends, This week, I was just as outraged as I am sure many of you were, when I learned that millions of dollars were paid out in bonuses to employees at companies that received bailout funding. I am dumbfounded to think that some of the very people at AIG whose recklessness caused such harm to the financial system and our economy are now being rewarded. What’s more is that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department knew about these bonuses before they went out and did not aggressively act to stop them. The Treasury needs to step up oversight...

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore swing through Iowa to aid Obama By JASON CLAYWORTH • jclaywor@dmreg.com • September 28, 2008 Read Comments(63)Recommend (1)Print this page E-mail this article Share Del.icio.us Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine Buzz up! Grinnell, Ia. - Iowa native and Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher and his wife, actress Demi Moore, campaigned in Iowa on Saturday for Barack Obama, telling young voters that their support is critical to the future of the country. "That's what scares me, that if we have another four years of what I call the same dance, a different partner, that's not a dance I want...

Obama abortion = -1 taxes = -1 Change =-1 Biden = -1 John abortion = 10 taxes= 6 change = 8 Sarah = 100

Please do not support the bail out of any company with our money. Cut all taxes for companys and let this work out. Thanks, Robert

Dear Rob: Thank you for contacting me. I am always glad to hear from you. At a time when Americans are working harder to make ends meet, I share your concern about the high cost of gasoline. Iowans are paying record prices and it's creating a ripple effect throughout our economy and the problem only seems to be getting worse. These prices make living our daily lives a real challenge. I am fully committed to changing the course of America's energy policy - to transition America away from our crippling dependence on foreign sources of oil. These debilitating prices are...

Why Terrorism Works By Irwin N. Graulich Sep 4, 2003 Stop thinking like a Westerner and you will begin to understand terrorism. There was virtually no guilt trip for destroying the great cities of Nazi Germany, Japan or Korea, including the unfortunate victims of war known as "innocent civilians." Once upon a time democracies knew their enemies and were able to determine general target locations. There was no moral problem with bombing Berlin, Dresden, Hiroshima or Nagasaki, although they resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties. Yet today, when 5 civilian deaths are produced in Iraq or 2 Palestinians are...

A single vehicle accident kills a Dallas Center man on I-35. Adam Sodersten MASON CITY, Iowa (KIMT) Monday, September 8, 2003 A single vehicle accident on Interstate 35 claims the life of a Dallas Center man. Shortly after 3:00 Sunday morning, 19 year old Nathan Aaron Ballard’s car was wrecked near mile marker 159 on I-35. Ballard apparently wandered onto the road where he was struck by a northbound vehicle driven by 6 year old Joann Hejma of Ventura. Ballard was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.

Statistics: Guns v. Physicians Posted February, 2002 Number of physicians in the US: 700,000. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000. Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services) Number of gun owners in the US: 80,000,000. Number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups): 1,500. Accidental deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188 Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners. "FACT: Not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one Doctor." Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of ...

On the Axel of Evil, the boredom of the Winter Olympics, and Amazon women By Jackson Murphy web posted February 18, 2002 I was at the barbershop getting my hair cut last week and the topic du jour, the barber philosophy if you will, was the Winter Olympics. That is not entirely true, the girl cutting my hair thought most people wanted to talk about the poor haircuts her colleague Lynne was giving. Lynne for her part was showing off her brand new belly button ring-which is probably why the old guys didn't mind coming back to see her after ...

<p>HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Andrea Yates, the mother who drowned her five children in the family's bathtub, broke down in tears Tuesday as individual photographs of her children were displayed on a large screen in the courtroom.</p> <p>Yates' head bobbed up and down and her shoulders shook as she reached for her lawyer's handkerchief while her mother-in-law testified.</p>

Scientists have presented new ideas for the future exploration of planets that circle far-away stars. Prof Sarah Thompson Unlike today's relatively small space vehicles such as the shuttle, the cosmic craft of tomorrow will have to be the size of small cities and be constructed in orbit. Researchers gave their suggestions on how we might explore other star systems to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston. They said the 200 or so volunteers who went on a mission would have to realise that they were taking up a one-way ticket and would ...

<p>A team of Belgian researchers came to that conclusion after using climate models to simulate a 1 percent increase in the primary greenhouse gas each year, a rise they said coincides with current trends.</p> <p>While slight, the shift in the planet's spin could be measured over the course of decades, providing an ideal method to check the effects of civilization-induced warming of the world, the scientists said.</p>

Amidst several decades of media flurry and hype several critical factors about the 'greenhouse effect' and 'global warming' have been left out of the forecasts: 1) There was no C02 buildup in the 1990s. 2) According NASA satellite data and several Antarctic studies recently released, the Earth has been cooling for the last 18 years, the western ice sheet is growing, and the interior valleys have been getting colder for the last 30 years. Scientists who support the global warming theory have been surprised and embarrassed by the results of a number of long term studies. Remember the greenhouse effect? ...

ANYONE WHO DOUBTS this last proposition should examine the farm-subsidy programs, which are the classic example of how unnecessary spending survives. It is a parable for our larger budget predicament. Every year the government sends out checks to about 700,000 to 900,000 farmers. Since 1978, federal outlays to support farmers’ incomes have exceeded $300 billion. How large is that? Well, the publicly held federal debt (the result of past budget deficits) is about $3.3 trillion. The past two decades of farm subsidies equals almost 10 percent of the debt. But wait: Congress is about to expand the subsidies. The Congressional ...

I need some help I am trying to find some information on a person who is a threat to my family I need to know how to find criminal court documents in any state without having to pay big bucks.This person was in court in Texas last year and I would like to know for what. It may help me to take this thug a$$ drug addict/dealer down He has made threats to my wife through her family members because he is a cousin to her.We are just honest people who don't agree with thugs who live off of illeagle ...