11 July - Evening BlogNews

The Galloping Beaver

Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project

Utah reports first swine flu death; NYC has closed 21 schools

Back From Iraq ... With A Traumatic Brain Injury

1 in 5 U.S. soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan

Gordon Brown insists Afghan war being won

strategizing

His Word Was Law

Gonzales called Goldsmith to inform him that the President, in issuing the Authorization, had made an interpretation of law concerning his authorities and that DOJ should not act in contradiction of the President's determinations.

'The President had made an interpretation of law'. Think about that. President Bush is not a lawyer. He has no expertise on this matter. Commanding the DoJ to accept his word about what the law is is as crazy as commanding the Environmental Protection Agency to accept his determination that some power plant does not, in fact, pollute, or commanding the FDA to accept his determination that some drug is safe. (Or, alternately, to take his word for it that that power plant or drug is not a "power plant" or "drug" within the meaning of the relevant statutes, and thus that they don't need to make any determinations about it.

If the President gets to do that, then laws have no meaning, and we might as well have a monarchy.

Jacqui Smith 'quit over porn row'

NIST report doesn’t explain fusing of concrete & steel

see falling debris turn to dust before it gets to the ground

More Families Are Becoming Homeless
Largest Increases in 2008 Came in Rural and Suburban Areas

Last year, we saw a 34 percent increase in homeless families and a 24 percent increase in homeless children

The Next Big Bailout Bamboozle

Habitat for Humanity Finds Buying is Cheaper

Drawdown a logistical quandary

 getting out means moving thousands of vehicles, mountains of machine guns, tons of ammunition and hundreds of modular housing and medical units down a desert road hundreds of miles long to Kuwait, where the materials will be cleaned of sand and dust at a service station, then wrapped up for the voyage home.

Economist declares 'train wreck'

out-of-control federal budget deficits that he’s sure will finally drag the economy under

Down Under Dinosaur Burrow Discovery Provides Climate Change Clues

GM exits bankruptcy

Obesity health risk cause 'found'

Bisphenol A found in baby food in glass jars

( Plastic used on jar lid liners )