Hangin' with Belinda Carlisle

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Gingrich Had Affair During Clinton Probe

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

Impeachment resolution

By David Postman

Seattle Times chief political reporter

PREV of NEXT JOHN LOK / THE SEATTLE TIMES Elizabeth Walter of Seattle was one of hundreds at a rally Thursday on the steps of the state Capitol in Olympia in support of impeaching President Bush.

OLYMPIA — Dozens of speakers told state lawmakers Thursday that the Washington Legislature needs to do what Congress won't — push for impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Witnesses at a state Senate committee hearing called Bush and Cheney war criminals, decried the "Bush junta" and warned of American dictatorships to come.

"The people have come here today to say to our state Legislature: 'You have the opportunity and you have the duty to do the right thing,' " Democratic activist Susan Harmon said.

Mayor Rocky Anderson speaks in Olympia, WA ... to IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY

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United States attorneys fired recently under questionable circumstances

Carol Lam, the former United States attorney for San Diego, is smart and tireless and was very good at her job. Her investigation of Representative Randy Cunningham resulted in a guilty plea for taking more than $2 million in bribes from defense contractors and a sentence of more than eight years. Two weeks ago, she indicted Kyle Dustin Foggo, the former No. 3 official in the C.I.A. The defense-contracting scandal she pursued so vigorously could yet drag in other politicians.
In many Justice Departments, her record would have won her awards, and perhaps a promotion to a top post in Washington. In the Bush Justice Department, it got her fired.

The Reverend Lonnie W. Latham: Do as I Say

The lawyer ( Mack Martin) for a former Baptist church leader who had spoken out against homosexuality said Thursday the minister has a constitutional right to solicit sex from an undercover policeman. The Reverend Lonnie W. Latham had supported a resolution calling on gays and lesbians to reject their ''sinful, destructive lifestyle'' before his January 3, 2006, arrest outside the Habana Inn in Oklahoma City. Authorities say he asked the undercover policeman to come up to his hotel for oral sex.

Drug May Counteract Down Syndrome

From http://www.sciam.com/



Researchers may have finally found a drug candidate for reducing the
mental retardation caused by Down syndrome, which afflicts more than
350,000 people in the U.S. Researchers gave low doses of a human drug
to mice bred to mimic the learning and memory problems in people with
Down syndrome. After as little as two weeks, the impaired mice
performed as well as normal ones in learning tests, and the improvement
lasted for up to two months after treatment ended.

John McCain Visits the Creationists

Tomorrow, John McCain will deliver the keynote address at a luncheon co-hosted by the Discovery Institute. For those who are unaware the Discovery Institute is the Seattle based “think tank” that is responsible for spearheading the religious right’s war on science education.

The Institute is responsible for, among other things, the creationist lesson plan that was proposed in Kansas, the anti-evolution language in the Santorum Amendment to the No Child Left Behind act, and the infamous Wedge Document.

None of our elected officials should lend credence to this organization, especially a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Atheist Experience #486: Creationist Arguments

Atheist Community of Austin
1 hr 30 min 5 sec - Feb 4, 2007
www.atheist-experience.com

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Modulated Light

by Mike Groth VK7MJ and Chris Long.

On the
evening of 19 February 2005 the authors spanned a 167 km
(104 mile) path between Mount Barrow's South peak and Mount Wellington
in Tasmania with
audio modulated light beams. This was the culmination of about 35 years
of
intermittent experiments by the two authors
of this web page, initially individually and later in association. The
suggestion to try the Barrow-Wellington path originated in
a chance comment to Chris Long by Jason Reilly VK7ZJA, that
Mount Wellington was visible from the top of Barrow. Jason is a
technician for Optus, regularly visiting the transmitter site on Mount
Barrow,
otherwise we would never have known that crucial piece of information!
Both
summits are above the 1200 metre contour, and the earth's curvature on
the land
between only accounts for approximately a 600 metre bulge, with
reasonable
clearance all along the path. We were surprised to find that the
expected rapid optical
fading cycles caused by atmospheric turbulence over this long path were
not too
severe,
presumably because the effect rapidly diminishes with elevation.

Pharyngula: Despicable D'Souza gets it all wrong

It seems to me that instead of surrendering, we ought to be celebrating
those aspects of our culture that they find most objectionable: things
like diversity, secularism, atheism, sex, independent women, and
irreverence. And I thought of someone representative of those ideals,
who'd also piss off the right wing as much as she would the Muslim
freaks

WINDOWS VISTA AERO vs BeOS vs LINUX UBUNTU BERYL vs MAC (1)

Atheist Experience #483: Old Testament Gods

Atheist Community of Austin
1 hr 29 min 56 sec - Jan 14, 2007
www.atheist-experience.com

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Olbermann on MSNBC about 911, Iraq and the coming invasion of Iran

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Cafferty File: Time to IMPEACH Bush and Cheney

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List to use for boycotting Disney

(another) temporary home for Spocko's list of KSFO's advertisers.

Atheist Experience #482:

Atheist Community of Austin
1 hr 30 min 2 sec - Jan 7, 2007
atheist-experience.com

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Personal Aircraft

EAAERS LEAD A NEW CLASS OF PERSONAL AIRCRAFT

H.R. 5674: Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth Act of 2006

H.R. 5674



109th U.S. Congress (2005-2006)





To require the President and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator to establish a comprehensive and integrated HIV prevention strategy to address the vulnerabilities of women and girls in countries for which the United States provides assistance to combat HIV/AIDS, and for other purposes.

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Bill Status



Summary



Other Info



Status: Introduced

This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills go first to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise bills before they go to general debate. The majority of bills never make it out of committee.

Bill Overview

Introduced: Jun 22, 2006

Sponsor:

Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]show cosponsors (84)

Cosponsors

Rep. Neil Abercrombie [D-HI]

Rep. Shelley Berkley [D-NV]

Rep. Howard Berman [D-CA]

Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]

Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]

Rep. Corrine Brown [D-FL]

Rep. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]

Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]

Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]

Rep. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]

Rep. Russ Carnahan [D-MO]

Rep. Julia Carson [D-IN]

Rep. Donna Christensen [D-VI]

Rep. William Clay [D-MO]

Rep. James Clyburn [D-SC]

Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]

Rep. Joseph Crowley [D-NY]

Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]

Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL]

Rep. William Delahunt [D-MA]

Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX]

Rep. Chaka Fattah [D-PA]

Rep. Barney Frank [D-MA]

Rep. Al Green [D-TX]

Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez [D-IL]

Rep. Jane Harman [D-CA]

Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]

Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]

Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]

Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]

Rep. Jesse Jackson [D-IL]

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]

Rep. William Jefferson [D-LA]

Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]

Rep. Stephanie Jones [D-OH]

Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-MI]

Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]

Rep. Tom Lantos [D-CA]

Rep. James Leach [R-IA]

Rep. John Lewis [D-GA]

Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]

Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY]

Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]

Rep. James McDermott [D-WA]

Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]

Rep. Cynthia McKinney [D-GA]

Rep. Kendrick Meek [D-FL]

Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]

Rep. Bradley Miller [D-NC]

Rep. George Miller [D-CA]

Rep. Dennis Moore [D-KS]

Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]

Rep. James Moran [D-VA]

Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]

Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]

Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]

Rep. Major Owens [D-NY]

Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]

Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]

Rep. David Price [D-NC]

Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]

Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]

Rep. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]

Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]

Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]

Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]

Rep. Christopher Shays [R-CT]

Rep. Robert Simmons [R-CT]

Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]

Rep. Hilda Solis [D-CA]

Rep. Fortney Stark [D-CA]

Rep. Ellen Tauscher [D-CA]

Rep. John Tierney [D-MA]

Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY]

Rep. Christopher Van Hollen [D-MD]

Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]

Rep. Diane Watson [D-CA]

Rep. Melvin Watt [D-NC]

Rep. Henry Waxman [D-CA]

Rep. Robert Wexler [D-FL]

Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]

Rep. Albert Wynn [D-MD]

Cosponsorship information sometimes is out of date.

Last Action: Jun 22, 2006: Referred to the House Committee on International Relations.

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Committee Assignments



This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process where the bill is considered in committee and may undergo significant changes in markup sessions. The bill has been referred to the following committees:

House International Relations

GovTrack: H.R. 5674: Protection Against Transmission of HIV for Women and Youth Act of 2006

Earth Observing 1

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/26oct_sensorweb.htm

EO-1
is a new breed of satellite that can think for itself. "We
programmed it to notice things that change (like the plume
of a volcano) and take appropriate action," Chien explains.
EO-1 can re-organize its own priorities to study volcanic
eruptions, flash-floods, forest fires, disintegrating sea-ice—in
short, anything unexpected.