Dec 21, 1:39 PM By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner signaled on Friday he’s still open to negotiations with President Barack Obama on avoiding across-the-board tax increases set to hit taxpayers Jan. 1, but sounded pessimistic about reach[...]
Archive for December, 2012
December 21st, 2012 - 1:04 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: John Bohner on the fiscal cliff “How we get there, God only knows,”
December 21st, 2012 - 12:46 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Italy Fragility
Mario Monti, Italy’s Prime Minister, Resigns[...]
December 21st, 2012 - 10:32 am § in Misc.
NRA: lets put armed guards around our kids … schools, little league, churches, Disneyland, bump it cars, playgrounds, summer camps ……………………
NRA calls for armed police officer in every school WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer “waiting in the wings.” The National Rifle Association broke its si[...]
December 21st, 2012 - 10:15 am § in Misc.
Free Tibet .. in India?
Tibetans living in exile in India are demanding more rights and Indian citizenship after decades of living in the south Asian country. Tibetan exiles are demanding a right to vote and also contest elections in the country. The community also wants their spiritual leader Dalai Lama to speak in the na[...]
December 21st, 2012 - 4:29 am § in Misc.
DAVEY JONES and SMS: Holday Seasons in Pirate Country
I haven’t heard from you in a while, is everything OK? I hope so, and I hope that you and your family are having a wonderful holiday season. The ship arrived in Sri Lanka at 9AM on the 18th and we were on the dock and finished with engines at noon> The sludge trucks were […][...]
December 20th, 2012 - 7:49 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Boehner Jumps Of the Cliff With No Wings
WASHINGTON — Speaker of the House John Boehner sent the House home for Christmas Thursday night, opting not to bring his “Plan B” bill to the floor when it became clear that he did not have the votes within his own caucus to pass it. It is a major defeat for Boehner and the House […][...]
December 20th, 2012 - 1:36 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: World still here
Mayan apocalypse fails, according to Australia Sorry to disappoint you, but it appears the world is still spinning even though Australia and New Zealand are already well into December 21.[...]
December 20th, 2012 - 11:40 am § in Misc.
UW in top 25 … for academic standing of atheletic program!
Go Huskeys? The UW Athletic Program ranked # 11 in academic success of our athletes …. Pretty good! … Harvard only ranked 114! Stanford, UNC, Georgetown,Notre Dame, Penn State, UCLA, Michigan, Oregon, and Princeton* beat us. We easily beat the Air Force Academy and USC at 73 and 23[...]
December 20th, 2012 - 9:28 am § in Misc.
DAVEY JONES: The Cadet Learns That Some Prosititutes Are “Caucasian!”
I arrive in Colombo Sri Lanka later today, I have more news on the cadet, yes some guys did take him for debauchery, it seems he drank some but did not take up the offer of a girl, he did tell me later that ” the girls were so pretty and very personable” I asked […][...]
December 19th, 2012 - 7:21 pm § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge: Can you name this famous man?
Who was J. Marion Sims? a. Famous physician b. Predecessor of Josef Mengele c. Hero for women d. Has a statue in Central Park e. all of the above. [...]