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Obama To Announce Afghanistan Plan On Wednesday

Obama To Announce Afghanistan Plan On Wednesday
Administration officials say the president is working through the details on how many troops will start leaving Afghanistan in July, his self-imposed deadline for beginning the drawdown. But the more telling aspects of his decision center on what happens after July, particularly how long he plans to keep the 30,000 forces he sent there in 2009.

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Bitten Once, Obama Is Not Shy About Offshore Oil Drilling

Bitten Once, Obama Is Not Shy About Offshore Oil Drilling
The Nation — The first time President Obama announced a plan to expand off-shore oil and gas drilling, it didn’t go so well.

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Obama Gives Sleepy Controllers Wake Up Call

Obama Gives Sleepy Controllers Wake Up Call
President Obama Lectures Sleepy Air Controllers to Do Your Job

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Didn’t President Obama say there was no pork or earmarks in the stimulus bill?

Amazing…..

I posted this yesterday, and it must have hurt some little lib’s feelings because it got reported.

I guess Libs just can’t stand to read the truth.

President Obama said in his press conference that there was no pork and “not a single earmark” in the bill, so how does he explain all of these…..

•$1 billion for Amtrak (which hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years)
•$50 Million for The National Endowment for the Arts
•$400 million for global-warming
•$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
•$650 million for digital TV conversion coupons
•$600 million for the Federal Government to buy new hybrid cars
•$7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities
•$81 billion for Medicaid
•$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
•$20 billion for food stamps
•$83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don’t pay income tax
•$252 billion is for income-transfer payments
•$246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film
•$88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker
•$448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters
•$248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters
•$400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s
•$1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs
•$125 million for the Washington sewer system
•$1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion
•$75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
•$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges
•$25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction
•$500 million for state and local fire stations
•$6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings
•$88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service
•$412 million for CDC buildings and property
•$160 million for volunteers at the Corporation for National Community Service
•$200 million for reseeding the grass on the National Mall

I guess he has a “different deffinition” of pork, or maybe he would rather call it chicken

President Obama urges astronauts to unpack robot

President Obama urges astronauts to unpack robot
(AP) — The 12 astronauts on the orbiting shuttle-station complex had to explain to a higher authority Thursday why they hadn’t yet unpacked R2, the first humanoid robot in space.

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Telemarketing Phone Interview Canvassing for Obama IMG_7058

Image taken on 2008-11-02 18:13:26 by stevendepolo.

What’s going on: Obama prepares State of the Union speech for an altered Congress, political atmosphere (poll)

What’s going on: Obama prepares State of the Union speech for an altered Congress, political atmosphere (poll)
Also, school districts seek to protect student athletes from concussions, and Utica police seek owner of dog left outside in subzero temperatures.

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