Well, just like the trend has been going over the last several years, the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives have broken their promise in an effort to cram through their “Stimulus” bill. The House voted to allow the American people to read the text of the bill for 48 hours before it was [...]
Unfortunately, the President of this great country has completely dismissed the people of the country to solve problems. He thinks the people are helpless and hapless. In gathering support for the second spending bill in less than a year he said: But at this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, [...]
Approximately a year after beating current Zimbabwe “President,” Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai was seated yesterday as Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister. Tsvangirai had beaten Mugabe in the March 2008 elections, but he was unable to obtain the necessary 50% of the vote. Thus a runoff had to be held. In typical fashion, Mugabe and his thugs broke [...]
Apparently all Best Buy stores will be accepting E-Waste. Starting Feb. 15, consumers can bring up to two units per day, per household, for recycling at any U.S. Best Buy store. The company will accept most consumer electronics, including televisions and monitors up to 32 inches, computer CPUs and notebooks, small electronics, VCR and DVD [...]
The state legislature has filed fewer bills this year. According to the WBIR story: By this time in most years, there are typically as many as 2,500 bills filed. But as of Wednesday, there were only about 377on file with the House clerk, about 291 with the Senate clerk, and about 80 resolutions. In general, [...]
Amazon has unveiled the Kindle 2 today. For those of you unfamiliar with the Kindle, it is an e-book reader. It uses a non-backlit screen, so that it is easier on the eyes and very similar to reading a book. Well, the second edition was announced, and it looks really cool. It has built in [...]
Well, the news this weekend is that Alex Rodriguez also tested positive for steroids in 2003. Apparently this was part of a test Major League Baseball was doing to see if steroid testing needed to be implemented. (Guess it did!) The results were not supposed to be released. However, someone of at Sports Illustrated somehow [...]
A friend of mine has started a new food blog. He plans to rate/critique local Knoxville-area restaurants. He has a couple posts up already, and it is good stuff. I have added it to my blogroll and Bloglines. Go check it out at knoxfood.net and let him know what you think.
Mrs. Thomas saw advertisements for a new show a few weeks back. One of the cast is Tom Cavanagh. We loved him in the show Ed, and we were sad to see it go off the air. However, he is back in a new show on TNT called Trust Me. Also in the show is [...]
NPR has an article about the earmark-free stimulus bill. Apparently the bill gives up control of how the spending is done and allocates this to states and lower levels of government. “Someone has to decide how money gets spent. It’s either going to be Congress or the executive branch or states or municipalities,” says Fred [...]
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