Truth spelled out.

I don't know what this presentation might be but if it explains what is going on in our country and planet, why not?

I have a awful memory, a brain that "fogs" up due to illness and meds that I'm on but sometimes what I was trying to remember from a story I read 3 years ago pops back, sometimes I don't feel so ditzy or worthless after all.

Now reading it and understanding it all is a different story. ;)

http://www.myrubberroom.com/mayblitz.pdf

Think Progress » Debunking Bush’s Whoppers On Pork

Debunking Bush’s Whoppers On Pork

President Bush has tried to justify his planned veto of Congress’ Iraq withdrawal legislation by complaining about the non-Iraq related funds included in the bill.

American Progress senior fellow Scott Lilly, who served for years as Clerk and Staff Director of the House Appropriations Committee, debunks Bush’s rhetoric:

CLAIM: Bush opposes spending in the emergency supplemental that is “unrelated to the war.”

FACT: Bush’s own supplemental request to Congress contained millions in non-war related funds.

Contained in Bush’s request were funds for federal prisons, Kosovo debt relief, flood control on the Mississippi, nutrition programs in Africa, educational and cultural exchange activities around the world, disease control in South Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, and salaries for U.S. marshals.

The request spread additional funding across seven major departments of the federal government. Such items were not only contained in the White House request for this year’s supplemental but have been part of nearly every supplemental the president has signed since the beginning of the Iraq war. One quarter of the money in last year’s $94 billion “Iraq” supplemental was directed at a variety of domestic programs.

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Poor George, his rubber stamp Congress has gone. But he lied then and he still lies now about everything. We should examine all pork funding for the last 6 years, but better yet..let's look into the last 30 years or so. The American public would like to know.


NASA: Mars Probe Doomed By Human Error, Report Finds Error Triggered Battery To Fail On Mars Global Surveyor Last Year - CBS News

(AP) Human error triggered a cascade of events that caused the battery to fail on the Mars Global Surveyor last year, according to a preliminary report released Friday.

An internal NASA board determined that power loss likely doomed the spacecraft after a decade of meticulously mapping the Red Planet.

But the problems actually began in 2005, when a routine technical update to onboard computers caused inconsistencies in the spacecraft's memory. The board concluded that engineers didn't catch the mistakes because the existing procedures to do so were inadequate.

Scientists lost contact last November with the $154 million Global Surveyor. Launched in 1996, it was the oldest of six different active probes on the Martian surface or circling the planet.

Several attempts to locate the spacecraft were unsuccessful, and the mission was declared ended in January.

Global Surveyor was built with redundant control systems to guard against failure. However, the board found inconsistencies in the memories of the spacecraft's two onboard computers because the updates were done at different times.

Six months before Global Surveyor fell silent, engineers sent up incorrect software commands that disabled its solar panels. A final command in November telling the spacecraft to adjust its solar panels caused the battery to overheat and lose power.

The Global Surveyor beamed back some 240,000 pictures, including the first detailed views of swirling dust devils and gullies.

NASA keeping secrets? oxymoron?


Stung by Indictment, a Power Broker Punches Back - New York Times

ASPEN, Colo. — David A. Stockman is trying to unwind at his second home here after another long day spent scouring legal documents. Dinner at a restaurant with his wife, Jennifer, has been a balm, to say nothing of the big glass of scotch he has nursed throughout the evening.
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David A. Stockman, the former chief executive of the auto parts maker Collins & Aikman, after his arraignment in Manhattan in March.

He has much to brood over. Mr. Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s budget director, is facing a trial next year on fraud charges after his attempt to save an auto parts maker from bankruptcy had failed.

“How can you end up losing $13 million of your own money and $350 million of your fund’s and still end up with 30 years in jail?” he asks.

His anger builds. “It’s wrong. It’s sick. I had an honorable career in public and private life and now this prosecutor goes after me as if I were a — ”

“Criminal,” his wife breaks in, saying what Mr. Stockman could not.

David Stockman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Public servants should be viewed openly by the public, there should be no secrets. They tend to forget who their employers are...the People. The People need to demand of the public servants elected to Congress that they and the President and his staff are not there to wheel and deal for corporate selves, friends, graft, perks, kids, whatever. Our country has gone down the tubes from these "public servants" just about killing each other to get "in office". Stop the corruption, entitlement, and the cover-ups.

CourierPress | The Evansville Courier & Press - Evansville, Indiana

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- The Rutgers administration and women's basketball team blasted Don Imus' "despicable" remarks Tuesday, but stopped short of saying he should be fired and agreed to meet with the embattled radio host.

Starting Monday, Imus will be suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers players "nappy-headed hos."

Rutgers' athletic director, Robert E. Mulcahey III, thought a meeting with Imus offered the team's players a chance to listen to him and hear what he has to say. Several players said they wanted to ask the host why he would make such thoughtless statements.

"Unless they've given 'ho' a whole new definition, that's not what I am," said another player, Kia Vaughn.

Head coach C. Vivian Stringer said her players "are the best this nation has to offer, and we are so very fortunate to have them at Rutgers University. They are young ladies of class, distinction. They are articulate, they are gifted. They are God's representatives in every sense of the word."

She said it's not about the players "as black or nappy-headed. It's about us as a people. When there is not equality for all, or when there has been denied equality for one, there has been denied equality for all."

She further said: "While they worked hard in the classroom and accomplished so much and used their gifts and talents, you know, to bring the smiles and the pride within this state in so many people, we had to experience racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable, and abominable and unconscionable. It hurts me."

I don't listen to Imus but have followed this on the news along with his meeting with the Rev. Al Sharpton. I also seen the MSM and various morning shows all put their two cents in on the matter. IMHO, Imus should indeed be punished but firing him where he could just go on a satellite radio show of his own where he would be filled with resentment and say even worse to divide our nation?

Here is a chance for all parties involved along with the MEDIA THAT IS ONLY TOO HAPPY TO PUT THEIR SPIN ON IT to show how people speak to each other causes pain, resentment and suffering. The young kids take the word, "ho" for granted...the word is used everywhere anymore. You see it on talk shows even. Teens pick this speech pattern up, it doesn't matter what color you....they use the word in a playful manner but when it carries over into disagreements, some people don't get how damaging it can be.

Imus, Rev. Sharpton, and even the young women from Rutgers could help today's youth and adults see that we must stop speaking this way about women or men even in a playful manner. (I'm not sure if Imus was doing this playfully either.) Every person deserves respect, Imus should look at himself and ask what makes him say such things to dis-respect himself first.

I'm sure these Rutger's ladies would allow Imus and Sharpton to play some hoops with them, odds are they will find some new respect when they are done. Part of sports is building self-esteem, Imus. Get it?