cut the millitary

about russia georgia and john mccains ties where documented in the nation magazine . but nothing was brought up in corperate media.

Excellent subject - a back door to silence free speech. Look at how uptight the republicans got during the presidential campaign because President Obama when he did not say whom also helped him put the speech together. Intension intension intension.

Will a school teacher be fined for quoting a research study they do not have the rights to?

The electric light bulb was invented by Sydney H Short. His carbon-arc lights were the first patent for the electric light. Information passed through to me, his great grandson is that his application for the incandescent bulb was taken by patent clerk Thomas Edison and used for himself. That is another story. My life has been deeply involved with copyrights, patents, and in the music industry, the performance rights and publishing rights societies. My latest endeavor is a FaceBook-like website that manages the rights granted you and that you have granted mostly for Internet use. Ironically I just filed a patent application to protect this idea. I have other patents in the process and in my opinion the process is broken. I only hope we bring some sanity to this intellectual properties mess.

There is a site called LinuxFund.org. We got a credit card through them, and every time we use it, some money is donated to some open source projects.
Also, you should check out eff.org. I went to a talk given by someone from Electronic Frontier Foundation, and found out some interesting information about email and the 4th ammendment. Basically, if you have your own email server on your own computer in your house, your email is protected from the government, but if your email is on a server at your internet service provider, the government could demand that they turn your email over to the government, and you wont even know.

DUDE!!!! You just crashed PirateBay.org

Hi Quark,

That's so great!

Are you on facebook? Could you become my friend so you can post them on my facebook page, too? thank you. I'm lorettamarielong on facebook.
all best

Here is the latest call to action from moveon.org regarding health care reform :

Call the White House switchboard and tell them you're disappointed in Chief of Staff Emanuel's comments supporting the "trigger"? Tell them voters want a strong public health insurance option—not half-measures like the "trigger."

Here's where to call:

The White House
Phone: 202-456-1111 or 202-456-1414

Then, please report your call by clicking here:

http://pol.moveon.org/whcalls/index.html?id=16521-1245854-6Rc9gqx&t=3

The "trigger" is a trap to kill health care reform. It would delay the public health insurance option for years, even though we're facing a health care crisis now.4 Without a strong public health insurance option to compete with private insurance companies, health care costs will continue to skyrocket and millions will remain uninsured. And a decision to delay is really a decision to deny: even if the trigger conditions are met years from now, big insurance companies will start the fight all over again to stop the public option from going into effect.

To do the job, we need a strong public health insurance option now, one that is:

* Available to all of us: A strong public health insurance option should be available to anyone who chooses to participate. If you like your current plan, you can keep it; if you want to participate in the public health insurance plan, you can choose to do so.
* A national plan with real bargaining clout: In order to truly control costs and compete with private health insurance plans, a strong public health insurance option must be available nationwide.
* Ready on day one: Every day we wait on real reform, health care costs continue to rise. A strong public health insurance option right out of the gate is key to building a competitive program that will help control costs.
* A truly public plan: To ensure it's held to the highest standards of accountability, a public health insurance option must be truly publicly run—accountable and transparent to Congress and to voters.

Did Thom quote RFK today on GDP? I found this:
Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman’s rifle and Speck’s knife. And the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

If we increase the life-span of Americans , won*t that bankrupt Social Security?
300 million Americans multiply by $10,000 = 3 trillion dollars.

Can you get an expert on the effects and uses of marijuana?Listening to non-users opine on the dangers of marijuana is infuriating.So is referring to users
as dead-enders.

We don't send students to school for themselves. We send them for the good of society. If they learn something at school that they can use to benefit society, what is wrong with paying them to achieve?
I would disagree with paying them to achieve well on a standardized test; but, if they learn basic skills like how to balance a checkbook or business ledger, how to read a credit card statement or balance sheet or even to understand a mortgage agreement, they will be better suited to survive and contribute to society than they are if they can score well on standardized questions that most of them will never work with again.
I am a substitute teacher who has watched the morale of teachers go down since the standardized tests that grew out of a failed policy in Texas have taken over the schools.
You do not pay for the education of today's students. You pay back for the education that you received. Nobody gets a free ride. If your parents decided to send you to a private school, they paid for your education as well as the education of the students of their generation who went to public schools.