I could swear the standard procedure is to swab cells from the inside of ones cheek. If he's willing to do that, then they they are just intentionally screwing with him for no reason.
Right wing Christians have a real bad habit of intentionally screwing with people with differing religious beliefs (See photos of naked Iraqi pyramids, and the long, long history of guards in US prisons screwing with African-American prisoners who practice Islam).
A few weeks of generic military rifle training will teach anyone all they need to know to use a rifle effectively. The US Army does a pretty effective job teaching rifle skills in basic training. I had never handled anything other than a b-b gun as a kid, and by the time rifle training was done in basic, I qualified expert with the M-16.
Could I hit a target every time at 1000 yards? Probably not. You solve that problem by making sure you have more than one round at your disposal. You don't need to hit a target with every shot as long as you have a full clip. Three-round groups don't hurt too much either.
Not until the moon dust problem is solved.
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"...However, Russell Kerschmann never forgot. He is a pathologist at NASA Ames studying the effects of mineral dust on human health. Both the Moon and Mars are extremely dusty worlds, and inhaling their dust could be bad for astronauts, says Kerschmann.
"The real problem is the lungs," he ex-plains. "In some ways, lunar dust resembles the silica dust on Earth that causes silicosis, a serious disease." Formerly known as "stone-grinder's disease," silicosis first came to idespread public attention during the Great Depression when hundreds of miners drilling the Hawk's Nest Tunnel through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia died within five years of breathing the fine quartz dust kicked into the air by dry drilling--even though they had been ex-posed for only a few months. "It was one of the biggest occupational health disasters in U.S. history," Kerschmann says...."
"...Quartz, the main cause of silicosis, is not chemically poisonous. "You could eat it and not get sick," he continues. "But when quartz is freshly ground into dust particles smaller than 10 m (for comparison, a human hair is 50+ m wide) and breathed into the lungs, they can embed themselves deeply into the tiny alveolar sacs and ducts where oxygen and carbon dioxide gases are exchanged." There, the lungs cannot clear out the dust via mucus or coughing. Moreover, the immune system's white blood cells commit suicide when they try to engulf the sharp-edged particles to carry them away in the blood-stream. In the acute form of silicosis, the lungs can fill with proteins from the blood. He adds that it is as if the victim slowly suffocates from a pneumonia-like condition.
Lunar dust, which like quartz is a compound of silicon, is (to our current knowledge) also not poisonous. But like the quartz dust in the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, it is extremely fine and abrasive, almost like powdered glass. Astronauts on several Apollo missions found that it clung to everything and was almost impossible to remove. Once it was tracked inside the lunar module, some of the dust easily became airborne, irritating lungs and eyes...."
There is no question that Pons and Fleischmann discovered some kind of previous unknown phenomena in their U Utah lab in the late 1980's. The question is what? If Pons and Fleischmann send in their research to scientific journals saying we did this experiment and we regularly got excess heat we can't expalin and we don't know why, Pons and Fleischmann are heroes to the scientific community.
Where Pons and Fleischmann made their mistake was rushing to the press to stick a label "Cold Fusion" to their unexplained phenomena that they even admitted they didn't really understand.
Whatever the phenomenon Pons and Fleischmann discovered is, too many people have repeated similar work and been successful getting similar results.
Mendel did a lot of great work on genetics and heredity without knowing a thing about DNA. I have a feeling the Pons and Fleischmann work will be a similar situation. They found an experiment that proves something in a science we are incapable of analyzing yet.
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I could see a drunken John Daly matching that. A billion mile long drive......200 miles out of bounds, landing in a huge water hazard.
Nice try at repeating a Matt Drudge lie. Matt Drudge chopped sentences off at mid-word to completely reverse the actual context of what was in those Carter and Clinton executive orders...
From judd at the think progress blog...
"Fact Check: Clinton/Carter Executive Orders Did Not Authorize Warrantless Searches of Americans
The top of the Drudge Report claims "CLINTON EXECUTIVE ORDER: SECRET SEARCH ON AMERICANS WITHOUT COURT ORDER..." It's not true. Here's the breakdown -
What Drudge says:
Clinton, February 9, 1995: "The Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order"
What Clinton actually signed:
Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) [50 U.S.C. 1822(a)] of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that section.
That section requires the Attorney General to certify is the search will not involve "the premises, information, material, or property of a United States person." That means U.S. citizens or anyone inside of the United States.
The entire controversy about Bush's program is that, for the first time ever, allows warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens and other people inside of the United States. Clinton's 1995 executive order did not authorize that.
Drudge pulls the same trick with Carter.
What Drudge says:
Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Order on May 23, 1979: "Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order."
What Carter's executive order actually says:
1-101. Pursuant to Section 102(a)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1802(a)), the Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order, but only if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that Section.
What the Attorney General has to certify under that section is that the surveillance will not contain "the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party." So again, no U.S. persons are involved."
I take responsibilty for posting a huge chunk of Judd's post at Think Progress. I think he'll understand how important getting this fact check on these lies around is. It's getting really old dealing with neo-con lies. Thank Gawd their days are clearly numbered.
The laws of physics are the same as they we're going back at least to the first few seconds after the big bang. Humanity's ability to observe the laws of physics has changed dramatically.
Our ability to experiment and record the existing laws of physics improves every day. According to you, the improving quality of experimental equipment to observe the laws of physics can make absolutely no difference in the ability of humanity to accurately observe the laws of physics. According to you, the whole Hubble Telescope thang was pointless scientifically because none of the data gathered by the Hubble was any better to observe the physical universe than the apple that dropped on Newton's head.
Actually, it's you who's using creationist rules of science. You are the one taking it on faith that the current physics textbooks are inerrant and complete and incapable of improvement... just like the creationists claim the Bible is inerrant. You are the one who ranting "black-box mystery" when in actuality the group has been very open about the processes they are using, what is input into the process, and what is output from the process. There's piles of evidence and data, and more than 3 dozen peer-reviewed journal articles based on this pile of data generated by the process as well as the details of the process itself.
This guy has a working prototype, and a pile of data/evidence. People ranting he's wrong without looking at his prototype or his data/evidence IS NOT disproving what the guy is doing. It's stating an uninformed opinion.
Intelligent Design advocates have only gotten one article in one peer reviewed journal... and it was immediately pulled and the editors apologized. There is no data/evidence to base intelligent design on to even attempt to dispute.
This is completely different. These people have a working prototype which is available to experiment on, and a whole pile of data/evidence anyone can use to prove or disprove what is happening.
You have violated the most basic rule of the scientific method by jumping to a conclusion with no evidence.
Yes, this guy and this process has been published in refereed journals. Like a total of 3 dozen different articles. The findings are being argued about, and are very controversial, but to claim the findings haven't been published in peer reviewed jjournals is flat wrong.
The winner of the round gets 10, and the loser gets a 9 in almost all circumstances. Penalties that lower the score from a 9 are somewhat common, but to get the judges to hand out an 8 in a round, the loser has to be on the verge of unconsciousness and bleeding from every oriface. I don't know if even a boxer being beaten to death in the ring can cause a judge to give out a 7 to him.
Chaos League is similar to the old Game Designers Workshop board game Blood Bowl. Orks vs. Elves pigskin play. It's a nice little game that got kind of overlooked. They just released the Sudden Death expansion.
How about making Presidential candidates submit to psych testing before allowing them to be Commander in chief?
Seems like we would want to know that the President liked to torture small animals as a child before they get elected instead of after (As a child, Dubya blew up frogs with firecrackers up their butt... the "up the butt" pattern seemed to repeat at Abu Ghurab and Gitmo, huh?). Seems like it's a good thing to find out they are sociopaths BEFORE they start bombing civilians and torturing prisoners.
The moment you log in, the software re-connects you to your prepaid supply of official World of Warcraft heroin which is supplied to you through a wrist shunt connected to your mouse. As long as you are logged in and keep your hand on the mouse, you are jones free.
How exactly do you sell product placements for a post collapse project? Vin Diesel did as much as you can do with blatantly placed sunglasses already in the Riddick flicks, so that's out. How many old cans of Spam and boxes of Twinkees can you have the characters find in rubble?
I seem to remember it's the Republican Party that's continuously nominating and elect actors, not the Democratic Party.
Wasn't that Ron Silver I saw speaking at the GOP convention, too?
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The unkillable car. Drive it without oil? So what, just hocks up a loogie and keeps on going. Radiator frozen soild? So what. Engine just coughs a couple of times and then purrs.
I knew a lot of high school kids who tried everything they knew to kill the Dodge Dart w/ slant 6s their parents had handed down to them to get a "cooler" car. Nothing worked. The cars would not die. Like "Jaws" in Bond movies.
CNN.com had complete properly weighed exit polls available election night on the CNN web site. Stop pretending we are talking about a couple of blog post. The exit poll that CNN had posted after the polls closed was THE COMPLETE exit poll, properly weighed, sampling errors removed. It was a far, far better more complete exit poll than the GOP held up as evidence in the Ukraine, and it said Kerry won.
You do not have to hold an entire country under martial law to provide forces necessary to effectively police it. The fact that you would suggest such a thing shows how clueless you are on the subject. W. Germany and Japan were only under martial law for short periods after the end of WW 2, and their occupations are considered the model to work from. Go do some research on the history of military occupations. Come back when you're at least remotely literate on the subject.
The military experts at the Pentagon said we'd need a minimum of a force double the size that was sent to Iraq. The civilian chickenhawks who never served in the military, or the ones like Bush that hummed a few bars and faked it, told the military experts they were wrong... and disaster ensued.
Rush Limbaugh's oxycontin-soaked rants are not evidence. They are fiction. Bad fiction. Presenting evidence from one county in Wyoming IS NOT AN INDICATION OF A TREND when the vast, vast majority of wealthy surburban communities in the US break seriously Conservative. The fact that you are trying to apply one Wyoming county's results to the nation as a whole shows how willing you are to distort anything to attempt to fit what you want to spin.
Journalists as a whole are as liberal as the college eduacated population is. The further up the decision-making tree you go, the more conservative it becomes. Progressives are weeded out, Conservatives are promoted to management by the corporate management of media companies.
There's a reason why the smarter people are, the more progressive they are. The more intelligent one is, the more one is able to pick-apart the neo-con lies.
The Kerry by 20 numbers comes from a couple of blogs. That's it. You are lying your ass off by claiming it's anything more than what it was... a couple of blog posts. The CNN.com exit poll numbers posted on election night after being properly weighed after the polls closed showed that Kerry won.
The whole truth is that the infrastructure (schools, hospitals, utilities) is in far worse shape now in Iraq than at any point in the last 30 years. More power outages. Fewer kids in school. Fewer medicines. Less medical equipment. The truth is there's 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians and the country is in worse shape than before Saddam took power in the 70's.
Nomatter how much you try to spin and distort things, you can't change the facts.
Also...Here's the REAL CBO numbers on the Bush tax cuts...
"Since 2001, President Bush's tax cuts have shifted federal tax payments from the richest Americans to a wide swath of middle-class families, the Congressional Budget Office has found, a conclusion likely to roil the presidential election campaign.
The CBO study, due to be released today, found that the wealthiest 20 percent, whose incomes averaged $182,700 in 2001, saw their share of federal taxes drop from 64.4 percent of total tax payments in 2001 to 63.5 percent this year. The top 1 percent, earning $1.1 million, saw their share fall to 20.1 percent of the total, from 22.2 percent.
Over that same period, taxpayers with incomes from around $51,500 to around $75,600 saw their share of federal tax payments increase. Households earning around $75,600 saw their tax burden jump the most, from 18.7 percent of all taxes to 19.5 percent...."
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A phat ride for someone in Kresint Nexis?
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I could swear the standard procedure is to swab cells from the inside of ones cheek. If he's willing to do that, then they they are just intentionally screwing with him for no reason.
Right wing Christians have a real bad habit of intentionally screwing with people with differing religious beliefs (See photos of naked Iraqi pyramids, and the long, long history of guards in US prisons screwing with African-American prisoners who practice Islam).
Did they take a DNA sample from former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham when they put him in jail for taking bribes from defense contractors?
This guy didn't do close to anything as bad as Cunningham.
CEOs are whining about laws that prevent them from looting millions. Couldn't have see that one coming, huh?
In other breaking news...
Murderers say the costs of laws preventing murder exceed the benefits.
A few weeks of generic military rifle training will teach anyone all they need to know to use a rifle effectively. The US Army does a pretty effective job teaching rifle skills in basic training. I had never handled anything other than a b-b gun as a kid, and by the time rifle training was done in basic, I qualified expert with the M-16.
Could I hit a target every time at 1000 yards? Probably not. You solve that problem by making sure you have more than one round at your disposal. You don't need to hit a target with every shot as long as you have a full clip. Three-round groups don't hurt too much either.
"...However, Russell Kerschmann never forgot. He is a pathologist at NASA Ames studying the effects of mineral dust on human health. Both the Moon and Mars are extremely dusty worlds, and inhaling their dust could be bad for astronauts, says Kerschmann.
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"The real problem is the lungs," he ex-plains. "In some ways, lunar dust resembles the silica dust on Earth that causes silicosis, a serious disease." Formerly known as "stone-grinder's disease," silicosis first came to idespread public attention during the Great Depression when hundreds of miners drilling the Hawk's Nest Tunnel through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia died within five years of breathing the fine quartz dust kicked into the air by dry drilling--even though they had been ex-posed for only a few months. "It was one of the biggest occupational health disasters in U.S. history," Kerschmann says...."
"...Quartz, the main cause of silicosis, is not chemically poisonous. "You could eat it and not get sick," he continues. "But when quartz is freshly ground into dust particles smaller than 10 m (for comparison, a human hair is 50+ m wide) and breathed into the lungs, they can embed themselves deeply into the tiny alveolar sacs and ducts where oxygen and carbon dioxide gases are exchanged." There, the lungs cannot clear out the dust via mucus or coughing. Moreover, the immune system's white blood cells commit suicide when they try to engulf the sharp-edged particles to carry them away in the blood-stream. In the acute form of silicosis, the lungs can fill with proteins from the blood. He adds that it is as if the victim slowly suffocates from a pneumonia-like condition.
Lunar dust, which like quartz is a compound of silicon, is (to our current knowledge) also not poisonous. But like the quartz dust in the Hawk's Nest Tunnel, it is extremely fine and abrasive, almost like powdered glass. Astronauts on several Apollo missions found that it clung to everything and was almost impossible to remove. Once it was tracked inside the lunar module, some of the dust easily became airborne, irritating lungs and eyes...."
http://www.space.com/adastra/adastra_moondust_060
There is no question that Pons and Fleischmann discovered some kind of previous unknown phenomena in their U Utah lab in the late 1980's. The question is what? If Pons and Fleischmann send in their research to scientific journals saying we did this experiment and we regularly got excess heat we can't expalin and we don't know why, Pons and Fleischmann are heroes to the scientific community.
Where Pons and Fleischmann made their mistake was rushing to the press to stick a label "Cold Fusion" to their unexplained phenomena that they even admitted they didn't really understand.
Whatever the phenomenon Pons and Fleischmann discovered is, too many people have repeated similar work and been successful getting similar results.
Mendel did a lot of great work on genetics and heredity without knowing a thing about DNA. I have a feeling the Pons and Fleischmann work will be a similar situation. They found an experiment that proves something in a science we are incapable of analyzing yet.
I could see a drunken John Daly matching that. A billion mile long drive... ...200 miles out of bounds, landing in a huge water hazard.
Nice try at repeating a Matt Drudge lie. Matt Drudge chopped sentences off at mid-word to completely reverse the actual context of what was in those Carter and Clinton executive orders...
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From judd at the think progress blog...
"Fact Check: Clinton/Carter Executive Orders Did Not Authorize Warrantless Searches of Americans
The top of the Drudge Report claims "CLINTON EXECUTIVE ORDER: SECRET SEARCH ON AMERICANS WITHOUT COURT ORDER..." It's not true. Here's the breakdown -
What Drudge says:
Clinton, February 9, 1995: "The Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order"
What Clinton actually signed:
Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) [50 U.S.C. 1822(a)] of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that section.
That section requires the Attorney General to certify is the search will not involve "the premises, information, material, or property of a United States person." That means U.S. citizens or anyone inside of the United States.
The entire controversy about Bush's program is that, for the first time ever, allows warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens and other people inside of the United States. Clinton's 1995 executive order did not authorize that.
Drudge pulls the same trick with Carter.
What Drudge says:
Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Order on May 23, 1979: "Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order."
What Carter's executive order actually says:
1-101. Pursuant to Section 102(a)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1802(a)), the Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order, but only if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that Section.
What the Attorney General has to certify under that section is that the surveillance will not contain "the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party." So again, no U.S. persons are involved."
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/20/drudge-fact-c
I take responsibilty for posting a huge chunk of Judd's post at Think Progress. I think he'll understand how important getting this fact check on these lies around is. It's getting really old dealing with neo-con lies. Thank Gawd their days are clearly numbered.
The laws of physics are the same as they we're going back at least to the first few seconds after the big bang. Humanity's ability to observe the laws of physics has changed dramatically.
Our ability to experiment and record the existing laws of physics improves every day. According to you, the improving quality of experimental equipment to observe the laws of physics can make absolutely no difference in the ability of humanity to accurately observe the laws of physics. According to you, the whole Hubble Telescope thang was pointless scientifically because none of the data gathered by the Hubble was any better to observe the physical universe than the apple that dropped on Newton's head.
Actually, it's you who's using creationist rules of science. You are the one taking it on faith that the current physics textbooks are inerrant and complete and incapable of improvement... just like the creationists claim the Bible is inerrant. You are the one who ranting "black-box mystery" when in actuality the group has been very open about the processes they are using, what is input into the process, and what is output from the process. There's piles of evidence and data, and more than 3 dozen peer-reviewed journal articles based on this pile of data generated by the process as well as the details of the process itself.
This guy has a working prototype, and a pile of data/evidence. People ranting he's wrong without looking at his prototype or his data/evidence IS NOT disproving what the guy is doing. It's stating an uninformed opinion.
Intelligent Design advocates have only gotten one article in one peer reviewed journal... and it was immediately pulled and the editors apologized. There is no data/evidence to base intelligent design on to even attempt to dispute.
This is completely different. These people have a working prototype which is available to experiment on, and a whole pile of data/evidence anyone can use to prove or disprove what is happening.
You have violated the most basic rule of the scientific method by jumping to a conclusion with no evidence.
Yes, this guy and this process has been published in refereed journals. Like a total of 3 dozen different articles. The findings are being argued about, and are very controversial, but to claim the findings haven't been published in peer reviewed jjournals is flat wrong.
You are jumping to a conclusion without looking at data.
Don't rant. Test.
If the guy is wrong, publish the results. If the guy is right, publish the results.
Irrational emotional explosions don't help anything.
The winner of the round gets 10, and the loser gets a 9 in almost all circumstances. Penalties that lower the score from a 9 are somewhat common, but to get the judges to hand out an 8 in a round, the loser has to be on the verge of unconsciousness and bleeding from every oriface. I don't know if even a boxer being beaten to death in the ring can cause a judge to give out a 7 to him.
Check out http://www.chaosleaguegame.com/
Chaos League is similar to the old Game Designers Workshop board game Blood Bowl. Orks vs. Elves pigskin play. It's a nice little game that got kind of overlooked. They just released the Sudden Death expansion.
How about making Presidential candidates submit to psych testing before allowing them to be Commander in chief?
Seems like we would want to know that the President liked to torture small animals as a child before they get elected instead of after (As a child, Dubya blew up frogs with firecrackers up their butt... the "up the butt" pattern seemed to repeat at Abu Ghurab and Gitmo, huh?). Seems like it's a good thing to find out they are sociopaths BEFORE they start bombing civilians and torturing prisoners.
The moment you log in, the software re-connects you to your prepaid supply of official World of Warcraft heroin which is supplied to you through a wrist shunt connected to your mouse. As long as you are logged in and keep your hand on the mouse, you are jones free.
I'll bet you didn't know this Battlestar Galactica was on television before, huh? Yep. It's true :-)
How exactly do you sell product placements for a post collapse project? Vin Diesel did as much as you can do with blatantly placed sunglasses already in the Riddick flicks, so that's out. How many old cans of Spam and boxes of Twinkees can you have the characters find in rubble?
Are you kidding? A Bush FTC won't do diddly-squat regarding enforcement of anti-trust laws.
My suggestion is you guys re-examine your options regarding increasing your support of Debian.
I seem to remember it's the Republican Party that's continuously nominating and elect actors, not the Democratic Party.
Wasn't that Ron Silver I saw speaking at the GOP convention, too?
The unkillable car. Drive it without oil? So what, just hocks up a loogie and keeps on going. Radiator frozen soild? So what. Engine just coughs a couple of times and then purrs.
I knew a lot of high school kids who tried everything they knew to kill the Dodge Dart w/ slant 6s their parents had handed down to them to get a "cooler" car. Nothing worked. The cars would not die. Like "Jaws" in Bond movies.
CNN.com had complete properly weighed exit polls available election night on the CNN web site. Stop pretending we are talking about a couple of blog post. The exit poll that CNN had posted after the polls closed was THE COMPLETE exit poll, properly weighed, sampling errors removed. It was a far, far better more complete exit poll than the GOP held up as evidence in the Ukraine, and it said Kerry won.
You do not have to hold an entire country under martial law to provide forces necessary to effectively police it. The fact that you would suggest such a thing shows how clueless you are on the subject. W. Germany and Japan were only under martial law for short periods after the end of WW 2, and their occupations are considered the model to work from. Go do some research on the history of military occupations. Come back when you're at least remotely literate on the subject.
The military experts at the Pentagon said we'd need a minimum of a force double the size that was sent to Iraq. The civilian chickenhawks who never served in the military, or the ones like Bush that hummed a few bars and faked it, told the military experts they were wrong... and disaster ensued.
Rush Limbaugh's oxycontin-soaked rants are not evidence. They are fiction. Bad fiction. Presenting evidence from one county in Wyoming IS NOT AN INDICATION OF A TREND when the vast, vast majority of wealthy surburban communities in the US break seriously Conservative. The fact that you are trying to apply one Wyoming county's results to the nation as a whole shows how willing you are to distort anything to attempt to fit what you want to spin.
Journalists as a whole are as liberal as the college eduacated population is. The further up the decision-making tree you go, the more conservative it becomes. Progressives are weeded out, Conservatives are promoted to management by the corporate management of media companies.
There's a reason why the smarter people are, the more progressive they are. The more intelligent one is, the more one is able to pick-apart the neo-con lies.
The Kerry by 20 numbers comes from a couple of blogs. That's it. You are lying your ass off by claiming it's anything more than what it was... a couple of blog posts. The CNN.com exit poll numbers posted on election night after being properly weighed after the polls closed showed that Kerry won.
The whole truth is that the infrastructure (schools, hospitals, utilities) is in far worse shape now in Iraq than at any point in the last 30 years. More power outages. Fewer kids in school. Fewer medicines. Less medical equipment. The truth is there's 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians and the country is in worse shape than before Saddam took power in the 70's.
Nomatter how much you try to spin and distort things, you can't change the facts.
Also...Here's the REAL CBO numbers on the Bush tax cuts...
"Since 2001, President Bush's tax cuts have shifted federal tax payments from the richest Americans to a wide swath of middle-class families, the Congressional Budget Office has found, a conclusion likely to roil the presidential election campaign.
The CBO study, due to be released today, found that the wealthiest 20 percent, whose incomes averaged $182,700 in 2001, saw their share of federal taxes drop from 64.4 percent of total tax payments in 2001 to 63.5 percent this year. The top 1 percent, earning $1.1 million, saw their share fall to 20.1 percent of the total, from 22.2 percent.
Over that same period, taxpayers with incomes from around $51,500 to around $75,600 saw their share of federal tax payments increase. Households earning around $75,600 saw their tax burden jump the most, from 18.7 percent of all taxes to 19.5 percent...."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5689001/