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Specter's now willing to accept making the Senate's guest worker and legalization programs "contingent on having a secure border," reports the Washington Times. Specter also said "I don't think the Senate will pass a bill that's limited to [enforcement]." No fair issuing sweeping categorical prohibitions! Throw the steering wheel out the window! [You mean that's a suprisingly weak formulation?--ed Yes. He doesn't "think." This is the pre-conference bluster period, remember. House members may think he might think different in a few months!]. ... P.S.: More Specter "It may be down the line that we will come to some terms on a timetable, with border security first and employment verification first." How about this face-saving timetable: Border security, first, employment verification first--and Congress promises that in a few years it will debate a legalization bill? Throw the man a lifeline! ...
Drive Like Jehu
Hugely influential band arrising from the ashes of Pitchfork, created two albums and then split, the members going on to form Rocket from the Crypt and Hot Snakes. Their influence can be found in many of the more abrasive yet intelligent punk/post-hardcore bands coming out of America. News 24/01/2008: Reis with a boon: Rocket from the Crypt, Hot Snakes man back with new band User ratings .
Gaithersburg Mother Killed By Man Fleeing Police
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (WUSA) - Friends say 32-year-old Beatrice Omoro was living the American dream. The Kenyan native was working as a nurse while raising two young children.
But just before midnight her life came to a sudden end. Gaithersburg Police stopped 19-year-old Anthony James Kutten for driving without his headlights on.
As the officer approached his vehicle, Kutten sped off. Police say he ran through two stop lights before smashing into a car driven by Omoro at the intersection of Odendhal Avenue and Goshen Road.
Kutten fled on foot but was found a short time later. Omoro was taken to the hospital where she died. She leaves behind a two year old son and three month old daughter.
Meanwhile, Kutten is in jail facing numerous charges including hit and run and vehicular manslaughter.
New start is within our grasp
It means we can now get on with the vital job of closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. We know that the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians remain dramatically worse than those of other Australians. The 17-year-life expectancy gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians is one of the starkest indicators of inequality in our society. We know health services are often inadequate, housing is substandard and overcrowded, access to education is poor and there are barriers to getting a job. We know alcohol and drugs are crippling indigenous communities. The Government fully comprehends the enormous effort required to close this gap and we know it can be done only in a mutually responsible partnership with indigenous Australians.
Procter & Gamble Sees Earnings Goal Hit Even Without...
Daily News Alerts The company announced plans to divest its coffee business to shareholders on Jan. 31. Chief Financial Officer Clayton Daley confirmed on Thursday the divestiture would likely be accomplished in a transaction that would cut P&G earnings by 3 cents to 5 cents a share annually, starting in fiscal year 2009, which begins in July. 'Our goal is to deliver double-digit core earnings-per- share growth even without the coffee business,' Daley said. The world's largest household and personal-care products maker also said it has not seen signs of consumers leaving its brands -- which include Tide laundry detergent, Pampers diapers and Gillette razors -- for lower-cost alternatives, despite the sluggish U.S. economy. 'We have not seen trade down to private label or lower- priced products,' Daley, P&G's chief financial officer, said during a presentation to the Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, held in Florida.
Sholeh Patrick
Oscar-winning actor Heath Ledger died this week, at 28. With "sleeping pills" in the headline, I assumed suicide. The latest speculation after an inconclusive autopsy includes a possible overdose.This much is known: Like a lot of us, he couldn't sleep. Between work and worry, Ledger was averaging two hours a night. He took a variation of the popular Ambien.I stick to the generic "PM" version near the Tylenol, but I too now succumb. More and more I hear how common not just OTC, but the prescription level habit is becoming. We are too busy, too stressed, and too into quick fixes. We are becoming a sleeping-pill nation. For Heath, it probably killed him.Sleep is as important to survival as food and water. Without it, we fumble, falter and literally go crazy. So if it's a chronic problem, perhaps it's better to trash the bottle and look at why.
Ex-Blue Peter presenter to help Richey adjust to new life
Whatever she does with him,I hope she makes sure Kenny uses a rounded knife for cutting and some stickyback plastic !Dont let him near the matches though !Why are we still making a fuss over this convicted criminal !He will make a fortune out of this.Appearing on all these tv shows,going on about I wanna kill myself ! Play another one Kenny or do it . .
PREVIEW: Obama looks to keep edge as Democratic race hits Wisconsin
Ask the many peoples around the world for whom revolution means not a lame-o Sixties poster above your desk but the carnage and horror of the day before yesterday. Poor mean, vengeful Hillary, heading for a one-way ticket on the Oblivion Express, has a point. Barack Obama is an elevator Muzak dinner-theater reduction of all the glibbest hand-me-down myths in liberal iconography which is probably why he's a shoo-in. The problems facing America unsustainable entitlements, broken borders, nuclearizing enemies require tough solutions, not gaseous Sesame Street platitudes. But, unlike the whose-turn-is-it? GOP, Mrs. Clinton's crowd generally picks the new kid on the block: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama. I wonder if Hillary Rodham, Goldwater Girl of 1964, ever wishes she'd stuck with her original party.
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Since their apparent litmus test for candidates is to be against the wind farm, how can the poor girl lose. If the Editorial Board needs ideas for their endorsement, they can use the rationale of the Boston Herald which endorsed MS Healey today: Times' dichotomy between staff and editors Newspapers report historic drop in circulation Like their senior sibling, The Wall Street Journal which is also owned by the Dow Jones Co., the Cape Cod Times has is a deep division between the news reporters and the editorial board responsible for the newspaper's editorials. Most of the former are young and as liberal as most youths, while the editorial page is controlled by older conservatives who reflect the views of Dow Jones and WSJ. This is obvious in reading most edition where the news stories tend to be direct and fair, while the editorial board is as biased as any newspaper in America.
Politicos flex muscles in opponents’ areas
Politicians in Haryana have taken a fancy to slug it out in their opponents battlegrounds to make their presence felt. The trend by now is so prevalent that holding a rally at their home turf has almost become a thing of the past. The trend has also caught the imagination of the man on the street, forcing the politicos to show their political muscle in their arch opponents area of operation. Although senior politicians have been organising political performances outside their own constituencies or home districts in the past, these were either a part of a statewide political campaign like the one launched by late Devi Lal in 1985 against the Rajiv-Longowal accord or such events marked the end of campaigning before the assembly or parliamentary election in the state. For several decades, Rohtak remained the first choice of all major political parties and their leaders for hosting campaign-end shows.
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