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3 hrs ago | www.bloomberg.com | Mr_Bill

Treasuries Gain as Dubai Debt Delay Spurs Global Risk Aversion

Treasury two-year notes advanced, pushing the yield to its lowest level in 11 months, after Dubai' s proposal to delay debt payments sparked a global slide in stocks and higher-yielding assets.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Valley Forge, PA

3 hrs ago | www.freep.com | Mr_Bill

Atlantis returns safely to Earth

Space shuttle Atlantis gracefully returned to Earth at Kennedy Space Center today, bringing to an end 11 days in space and a jam-packed year of five successful shuttle missions for NASA.

1 comment

Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, NASA

3 hrs ago | www.nytimes.com | Mr_Bill

Trying to Explain a Drop in Infant Mortality

Seven and a half months into Ta-Shai Pendleton's first pregnancy , her child was stillborn. Then in early 2008, she bore a daughter prematurely.

Soon after, Ms. Pendleton moved from a community in Racine that was thick with poverty to a better neighborhood in Madison. Here, for the first time, she had a full-term pregnancy.

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Related Topix: Obituaries

3 hrs ago | www.nytimes.com | Mr_Bill

Lobstermen Will Help Study Whether Lost Traps Still Catch Lobsters

Beneath the waters off the coast of Maine lie hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of wire lobster traps. Lost over the years to storms, boats or the knives of fishermen who have cut them from their buoys to settle scores, some of these “ghost traps” continue catching lobsters.

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Related Topix: Outdoor Recreation

3 hrs ago | www.nytimes.com | Mr_Bill

China Joins U.S. in Pledge of Hard Targets on Emissions

The Chinese government announced Thursday that it had set a target to slow the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, a day after the Obama administration set a provisional target for reducing United States emissions.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia

4 hrs ago | 680News

Afghan president renews call to Taliban to lay down weapons, help rebuild Afghanistan

Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons and participate in rebuilding the battered country, as part of reconciliation efforts he has said will be his main objective during his second term.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

8 hrs ago | AZCentral.com

Dems are putting together multibillion-dollar jobs bill

Troubled by the rising jobless rate, President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are assembling a jobs package that would devote billions of dollars to projects meant to put people back on payrolls in 2010 and keep them working.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, US House of Representatives, Representative Betty Sutton, Democrat, Barbara Lee

Thu Nov 26, 2009

WWLP

Auto insurance may parallel healthcare

Thousands of drivers on the nation's roads don't carry auto insurance, despite laws in all but two states requiring it.

21 comments

Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Insurance, University of Pennsylvania, Healthcare Law, Law, W.

KING-TV Seattle

Palin spends Thanksgiving with family in Richland

Sarah Palin is spending Thanksgiving with relatives in Washington state before resuming book signing over the weekend.

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Related Topix: Richland, WA, Richland Metro, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election

ClipSyndicate

GOP: Dems Have Taken Economy From Bad to Worse

The GOP released its weekly address on Thursday, marking the Thanksgiving holiday.

27 comments

Related Topix: Thanksgiving, Life, Holidays, Video

www.nytimes.com | Mr_Bill

Review of Land Mine Treaty a to Take Some Time,a State Dept. Says

The United States is continuing to review its policy on the use of land mines, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday, clarifying an earlier comment in which he said that the Obama administration had concluded it needed the weapons.

10 comments

www.cnn.com | Mr_Bill

U.S. Muslims are Americans too

The serendipitous occurrence of this year's Thanksgiving holiday on the same evening as the Muslim Eid-ul-Adha is a festive occasion to reflect on the place of Islam in American collective consciousness and on Muslims as Americans.

57 comments

Related Topix: Religion, Islam, Documentary Movies, Malcolm X, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Opinion

www.washingtonpost.com | Mr_Bill

White House defends cost-containment efforts in health-care reform bills

Senior White House officials on Wednesday brushed aside criticism that Democrats aren't tackling cost containment in their health-care reform bills, although they acknowledged room for improvement as the bills move forward..

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www.reuters.com | Mr_Bill

Hacked climate emails called a smear campaign

Three leading scientists who on Tuesday released a report documenting the accelerating pace of climate change said the scandal that erupted last week over hacked emails from climate scientists is nothing more than a "smear ...

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Related Topix: Oceanography, Science, US Politics, James Inhofe, US Senate, Republican

www.huliq.com | Iria

Man Dies in Nutty Putty Cave Accident

Nutty Putty Cave sounds like it's a made-up name, but it is not. Nutty Putty cave in a tourist attraction in Stansbury Park, UT, and John Edward Jones, 26, was stuck in a narrow crevice.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Spelunking, Stansbury Park, UT, Salt Lake City, UT

newsbusters.org | Hesed

ClimateGate Funnies: Gore Rap Battles Monckton Over G-Warming

Climate realists are painfully aware that Nobel Laureate Al Gore has repeatedly refused to debate the issue of anthropogenic global warming.

One of the skeptics that has regularly challenged Gore to a one-on-one is England's Lord Christopher Monckton.

So fearful of Monckton is the Nobel Laureate that he refused to appear at a Congressional hearing on climate change in April if the British Lord was present.

As a result, Monckton's invitation was disgracefully revoked by Democrats at the last minute.

With this in mind, the good folks at The Juice Media have created a fabulous video wherein a mock Gore rap battles a mock Monckton over many key issues surrounding the global warming debate.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Al Gore

blog.al.com | Hesed

Our View: Thanksgiving blessings

We offer our thanks today, and these Thanksgiving blessings from a selection of faiths and religions found in the Birmingham area.

Dear Heavenly Father,

We come into your presence today with hearts full of thanksgiving. God, you are exalted above all things and are worthy of praise. We give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness. Your mercy, loving kindness, forgiveness and grace are beyond measure.

At this season of thanksgiving, may we remember that every good and perfect gift comes from you, Lord. Your outpouring of blessings to us should remind us of our responsibility to others. Let us be your hands and feet to reach out and care for those who are hurting and less fortunate. Let us be your ambassadors as we tangibly share the love of God with others.

Thank you for your Son, Jesus Christ, and may we walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him in every good work.

In Jesus' name. Amen.

-- A prayer from a Baptist minister

7 comments

Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Birmingham, AL

Wed Nov 25, 2009

CW11 New York WPIX-TV

Not on the guest list: Couple crashes state dinner at White House in spite of heavy security

Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.

The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said.

President Barack Obama was never in any danger because the party crashers went through the same security screening for weapons as the 300-plus people actually invited to the dinner honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Donovan said.

Donovan confirmed the identities of the couple. The Washington Post, which first reported on their evening out, said the Salahis were well-known in the Virginia horse-country set and were being considered for the Bravo reality TV show "Real Housewives of D.C."

24 comments

www.christiannewswire.com | Hesed

The War on Christmas vs. the War on Thanksgiving

Throughout history there exists an ongoing battle over what cultures celebrate and why. In recent American history the battle lines are often described as pro and anti-Christian. America once was content in allowing civil authorities to select and define its holidays. With the increasing influence of groups which use the courts to challenge any comingling of religion and the function of government, the definition of the some of the nation's holidays have become a war zone.

And while most Americans think of Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas as Christian holidays -- history is clear that Easter and Christmas were originally pagan celebrations, stolen and redefined.

This leaves Thanksgiving as the one American holiday originating within Christian culture. It is a holiday created to remind a nation to thank God. So while talk-show hosts expound upon a war on Christmas -- let's not ignore the war on the one true Christian holiday, Thanksgiving.

68 comments

Related Topix: Thanksgiving, Life, Holidays

www.gregpalast.com | Mr_Bill

Greg Palast TALIBAN = 9/11??Afghanistan by Hypnosis

On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians.

7 comments

Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Dick Cheney, Sarasota, FL

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