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July 22, 2009 Dear xxxxxx, Some of you will remember that the permanent cuts proposed by Governor Kaine and supported by the House to the Standards of Quality (SOQ) had a 2009-2010 price tag of $340 million, and state funding for 13,000 support positions was eliminated. We said then that the cost of the cuts would grow as enrollment increased. We'll they did. According to the Virginia Department of Education the permanent cuts, the imposition of the support cap ratio, will cut $754,301,683 from educating funding in the next biennial budget if adopted. I estimate that this will eliminate funding...

Friend -- As President Obama made clear last night, inaction is not an option on health insurance reform. Its fate will be decided in Congress in the coming days -- and your senators, Sen. Jim Webb and Sen. Mark Warner, are critical to making sure we pass a strong bill. Will you pick up the phone and ask your senators to support health insurance reform containing the President's three core principles today? According to our records, you live in Virginia. Please call: Sen. Jim Webb at 202-224-4024. Sen. Mark Warner at 202-224-2023. (Not your senators? Click here to look yours...

xxxx -- Last week, Republican Senator Jim DeMint made it pretty clear why the opponents of health care reform are fighting so hard. As he told a special interest attack group, "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Here's how the President responded: Think about that. This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses and breaking America's economy. And we can't afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not...

**** ***** is a ***** Commissioner and also the owner of "**** *****", a large Cigar Company located here in Miami and in Nicaragua. To All My Treasured Employees, There has been talk around the office and comments from a questionnaire that we sent out to all of you about the future of our company and about your jobs. As you well know, the economy is getting worse and thanks to your new President signing off on Schip it will present even more challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn't pose a threat to your job. What...

I'll tell you what I found out from my contacts at NSWC Norfolk and at SOCOM Tampa. First though, let me orient you to familiarize you with the "terrain." In Africa from Djibouti at the southern end of the Red Sea eastward through the Gulf of Aden to round Cape Guardafui at the easternmost tip of Africa, (also known as "The Horn of Africa"), is about a 600 nm transit before you stand out into the Indian Ocean. That transit is comparable in distance to that from the mouth of the Mississippi at New Orleans to the tip of Florida...

(Caveat - I received this via email. It seems to check out on the net. Feel free to dissect the article - not me.) READ AND JUST PASS IT ON. Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie 'Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard -- she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games. In a lecture in New York City a few weeks ago, he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that...

Dear "Past Your Eyes", I knew it was going to take an extraordinary effort to help pay off Hillary Clinton's campaign debt. But now, I think we can do it and have some fun at the same time! I won't spend a lot of time trying to convince you to help Hillary. I know what she means to you, and I'm sure you know how important it is for her to have her campaign pay off all its obligations. So let's get to the fun part – enter today to win one of three truly once in a lifetime opportunities...

EMAIL... Baby DNA Warehouse bill passes Senate Committee The Baby DNA Warehouse bill (SF 1478) passed in the same Senate health care committee where it was defeated on March 16th with the help of 50+ parents and children in the room. See WHO did it and what happened (below). No effective public notice was given for this hearing. An email was sent out 16 minutes before the Committee was scheduled to begin. No parents were in the room this time. SF 1478 eliminates the genetic privacy law for every citizen 12 and younger...and their parents. In other words, eventually all...

Dear Friend, I'm very sorry if I am in anyway disturbing your privacy with my Proposal, I write you my proposal with the tears in my heart and the saddest thing that would happen to someone of my age in same day by losing two important thing in my life for just one day which are my parents and I pray may the good Lord keep their soul in peace for me. I will really appreciate it if you could treat my proposal to you as urgent as I really needs your help toward this my proposal. I am using...

Pelosi has effectively moved to SILENCE CONSERVATIVES in Congress and keep the American public in the dark as she quietly strips our rights out from under us! You didn't read about it on the front page of The New York Times but some have gone as far as to call Pelosi's move outright "tyranny." Jim Meyers with CNSNews.com simply called it a "naked grab for power." On the very first day of Congress, Pelosi pushed through a change to a House rule known as the "motion to recommit," a rule that was implemented a CENTURY AGO specifically to PROHIBIT the...