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- U.S. Troops Dying at Rate of Over 1 a Day
- Sluggish Job Growth May Threaten Recovery
- not really an economic stimulus
- Friday the Dow was up 100 and NASDAQ was up 50 due to news on employment
- re: Sluggish Job Growth May Threaten Recovery
- Very true. The job market is still very bad. Those new jobs created recently are almost all menial. Few good jobs have been created in the past couple of years. (n/t)
- Actual text of Tenet's speech
- Reading what Tenet actually said is a waste, what with the friendly media and democrats to parse what he said for us (n/t)
- This transcript also includes the questions and answer period
- Media spinning this for all it's worth
- Very good, Tom
- Paul Krugan's nightmare: Jobless rate down to 5.6%, new jobs up 100,000
- Strange: 10,000 birds fall from sky.
- Prices of birds nest soup fall precipitously (n/t)
- re: Strange: 10,000 birds fall from sky.
- I doubt if it happened at the same time. I suspect that a much larger flock (or several) were infected and flew over. A small number, perhaps 1%, died and fell to the ground. (n/t)
- Are your suggesting human involvement? Testing black projects or similar shady work? Please update us with what you know. (n/t)
- A bad omen for those who wish to prevent spread of bird flu. These birds, unlike domestic birds, fly all over the place and carry the germs with them. (n/t)
- A bad omen for those who wish to prevent spread of bird flu. These birds, unlike domestic birds, fly all over the place and carry the germs with them. (n/t)
- Israel knew Iraq had no WMD
- Israeli lawmaker Yossi Sarid said Israeli Intel knew Iraq had no WMD and misled Pres. Bush
- Ritter, who predicted the US defeat by Saddam, is hardly credible
- Scott Ritter!!!!!!!!!!! That bastard was on Saddam Hussein's payroll. He accepted hundreds of thousand of dollars from the former dictator. Why would I pay any attention to what he said? (n/t)
- re: Israel knew Iraq had no WMD
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