“If you don’t like what the postal service has put forward (to cut costs) by closing processing facilities and post offices and eliminating jobs, then come up with a better approach. It’s a challenge we need to accept, and this agreement with the postal service gives us that opportunity.”-Richard Durbin, U.S. Senator for Illinois
The […] Continue Reading…
“I don’t regret leaving the States one bit!”-Matt Landau, left the U.S. six years ago
The U.S. State Department is admitting that at least 6.3 million U.S. citizens have left the Untied States, officially to find jobs or go to cheaper universities!
“There’s a feeling among more entrepreneurial Americans that if you really want to get […] Continue Reading…
“…I think that at the time the Constitution was written it was pretty clear that marriage is between a man and a woman…”-Mitt Romney, candidate for the office of President of the United States
Even if the personal opinions of the founders of the United States were against homosexual marriage, there is nothing in the […] Continue Reading…
‘Hollywood’ isn’t merry this holiday season. That’s ’cause the past two weekends have seen the least amount of revenues since the two weekends after September 11, 2001.
Also, this past weekend (December 10-11) was the lowest money making weekend since Labor Day in 2008.
The past two weekends combined saw only 19.8 million customers! To put it […] Continue Reading…
“We have asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
“I don’t expect that that will happen.”-Leon Panetta, U.S. Secretary of Defense
“We submitted a formal request for the return of our lost equipment as we would in any situation to any government around the world.”-Hillary Clinton, U.S. […] Continue Reading…
“The leaders have not yet proposed fundamental solutions such as euro bond issuance or the European Central Bank’s intervention.”-Kwon Hyouk-se, Financial Supervisory Service, South Korea
“The EU summit was widely seen as a new step in the right direction, but the summit deal has many obvious flaws and lacks operational details in many […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Senate and House have rejected funding for moving the USMC off Okinawa and onto Guam.
For decades the people on Okinawa have complained of criminal activity by U.S. Marines, including rape and murder. The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2012 does not include the needed $150 million for the move.
U.S. and Japanese […] Continue Reading…
“The Kyoto Protocol does not include the world’s two largest emitters, the United States and China, therefore it can not work!”-Peter Kent, Environment Minister of Canada
Canada is the first country to officially exit from the Kyoto environmental protocols. This follows the end of the second round of ‘Kyoto’ (aka COP 17) talks in South […] Continue Reading…
“…the [Obama] administration asked us to remove the language which says that U.S. citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”-Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from Michigan
There is now speculation that President Barack Obama will sign into law S.1253.RS, a bill he said he would veto. The reasoning behind that is based […] Continue Reading…
A video stream from the Port of Long Beach, in California, shows that it’s raining, and you can also hear what Occupiers say are police helicopters circling low.
California media reporting that Occupiers have moved onto several important shipping port; Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Portland in Oregon and Seattle in Washington.
Occupiers were hoping the […] Continue Reading…