"Reid told colleagues that the AMA said it could deliver 27 Republican votes for the legislation, according to two Senate Democratic lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Reid needs the GOP votes because at least five members of his party have vowed to vote against the doctors' fix."

How does this make sense? Reid is the majority leader of the senate, why is he talking to external groups & "relying" on them to deliver republicans votes? He should just talk to the republicans. Sounds to me like some really weird blame game going on.

"The Senate handed President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a victory, passing 44-24 a law she said will "democratize" the airwaves. After a session lasting almost 20 hours, senators approved the 164 articles of the bill without change. The central provision of the law limits ownership of cable and broadcast operations in a single market. In pushing the bill, Fernandez said Clarin holds 73 percent of Argentina's radio, television and cable licenses. "

Presumably for next year's prize: "Fetus wins Nobel Peace prize. Experts see excellent potential based on genetic testing. "Although the fetus has yet to actually take a breath, the results of our DNA analysis says that, once born, the child will have the capability of speech and is likely to wish for world peace" said researchers about the 20 month old fetus."

""I need a clear-cut purpose if I'm going to get hurt out here or if I'm going to die.""

""Let me dispel these ridiculous rumors once and for all and set the record straight: Under my plan, seniors are going to be killed the way they want to be killed, end of story," said the president, who acknowledged that "wiping out" the nation's elderly population has always been his No. 1 priority. "If your grandmother would rather be euthanized in the privacy of her own home than be gutted and hanged on a high school soccer field, she is entitled to that right.""

""The Mayor and President want parents to get involved in the lives of their children," Jackson said. "We are here, where are they?"The parents are demanding their kids be returned to the high school closer to their neighborhood." The parents are demanding their kids be returned to the high school closer to their neighborhood.

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"Suzanne Haik-Vantoura's approach was the mirror-image of that of the Masoretes. Like them, she used the Hebrew verbal syntax as the "virtual bilingual" necessary to assign a function to each accent. Unlike the Masoretes, she actually believed what both Jewish tradition and musicological consensus indicate: the accents are primarily musical, secondarily exegetical. The resulting "deciphering key" is the only one possible based on that premise, and it explains all the features the Masoretic paradigm explains plus all the features it does not. (I owe to Masoretic scholar James D. Price the needed clue to correct the interpretation of one rare accent by her key. The correction is not in this book, however, but on my King David's Harp, Inc. Web site.)"

Sung here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgP1cZOkWU, skip forward to 1:15

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Combine long hours, limited finances, and each congregation's unique dysfunctions, and it's no wonder an estimated 1500 pastors leave the ministry each month. Worse, the problem isn't limited only to pastors. Ministry workers of all sorts suffer in their vocations: Clergy, volunteers, office staff, those who work in para-church ministries and other non-profits, and their families.

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But this tonic dose of truth-telling may be too little too late. As an Obama supporter and contributor, I am outraged at the slowness with which the standing army of Democratic consultants and commentators publicly expressed discontent with the administration's strategic missteps this year.

Part I is here: Anything I Own

One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation's medical care before the August recess-- for a program that would not take effect until 2013!

Lastly, in the upper right quadrant are organizations in a high state of change, which use information as the key component of their business. These companies constantly use information technology to launch new products, enter new markets, and create partnerships and alliances. The companies often require a CTO as a "Visionary and Operations Manager" to meet the fast-paced demands of these interactions. This CTO must be adept at knowing the potential of the technology and how to make it work - with reliability, availability, and scalability

There are five pie throwers and one non combatant. If we move now, we'll get creamed.

I once heard a story, probably apocryphal, because I can't find a citation for it. But it was said that Mahatma Gandhi, who often quoted from the Sermon on the Mount, once was asked what he thought about the practice of Christianity. He supposedly said, "I do not know. I have never seen it." Also, are we, as charitable givers, required to come up with the deductibles and subsidies for prescription drugs? What about dental? What about pre-existing conditions? What if somebody needs a heart transplant? Apparently, lots of people do.

The second thing that is motivating the new public outcry is a sense of estrangement from political decisionmaking. The worry that Obamacare will result in fewer personal choices and more government fiat is legitimate. That's what Obamacare is set up to do. The debate is not merely a matter of which inputs will produce--voilà!--the desired outcomes, as the Obamacrats think. It's about freedom and responsibility. It's about a family's ability to control its fate, an individual's ability to shape his nation's future.

His [Obama's] policies even have the potential to consign the US to a similar fate as Argentina, which suffered a painful and humiliating slide from first to Third World status last century, the paper says.

We're now only six days away from Saturday's big Taxpayer March On D.C. -- are you fired up, people?

My theory, which I have written before, is that the right was essentially ignorant of Alinsky and his book until Barack Obama became a leading contender. Suddenly, even the mainstream media was interested in understanding, or at least explaining, what a "community organizer" is. It was, indeed, important to describe the serious and intellectual basis for community organization, or Sarah Palin's attack ("I guess a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities") would have done damage that the media Obama campaign would have found difficult to mitigate. So the elevation of the the first "community organizer" to the presidency seems also have transferred the most successful tactics of the left to the right, where -- by dint of their novelty -- they are both shocking and awesome to behold. Ironic, that.

Although Obama attended public school in Indonesia early in life, he soon switched to a private Catholic school, and from fifth grade through graduation went to a private college-prep school in Hawaii. His own daughters now attend a private school in Washington D.C.. "Do you think you're going to get into Harvard University with your one-size-fits-all public school diploma?" the president will reportedly say. "Come on! Don't make me laugh. You'll be lucky to survive through graduation. Seriously, you gotta get out of this mediocrity machine. Go ahead! Get up right now. Run for the door. What are you waiting for?"

Some pretty obvious parody from Scott Orr.