Posted on November 22nd, 2007 by TechDigger
By way of Salon
kdka.com - Military Asks Wounded Soldiers To Return Portions Of Signing Bonuses
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.
To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
A sobering list that lingers past July 4 fireworks
Thursday, July 05, 2007
It’s not much, really, just eight pages printed off a computer.
It’s 346 names; perhaps people you know, or think you do.
It looks like the graduating class of a high school.
It probably should be read aloud.
It starts with Andres Aguilar Jr. of Victoria. [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2007 by TechDigger
Bush supports the troops as long as it doesn’t cost any extra money.
Marketplace: Washington at odds over VA funding
The House and Senate have proposed adding 1,000 new positions at the VA to help cut down the wait. And that’s just one piece of a bill that would boost funding for the Veterans Administration by almost [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
You would have to think that nothing happened in the world this week if all the 24 hour news networks had time to spend talking about this picture. Cute little girl, looking bored, playing dress up with her brothers that happens to be Rosie O’Donnell daughter. Rosie has literally hundreds of pictures of Vivi on [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
U.S. struggles with breadth, depth of war injuries - CNN.com
• Estimated number of Iraq war wounded varies from 35,000 and 53,000
• For every soldier or Marine killed, 15 others have survived illness or injury
• 2,000 brain injuries treated; docs think less obvious cases have gone undetected
• Concerns growing about care once troops return
What do [...]
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Posted on June 24th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
Wednesday, Jun. 13, 2007 | Quotes of the Day | TIME
“The terrorists are going to set off a bomb every day because they know CNN and MSNBC are going to put it on the air.” * Fox host BILL O’REILLY
responding to criticism that Fox News has devoted considerably less coverage to the [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
Good Riddance Attention Whore by Cindy Sheehan- CommonDreams.org -
The first conclusion is that I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool†of the Democratic Party. This [...]
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Posted on May 19th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
Martin: Paul’s 9/11 explanation deserves to be debated - CNN.com
(CNN) — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was declared the winner of Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, largely for his smack down of Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who suggested that America’s foreign policy contributed to the destruction on September 11, 2001.Paul, who is [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2007 by TechDigger
Will Iacocca finally be the one to get everyone else to realize that the emperor has no clothes?
The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » Iacocca: ‘Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason’
When it comes to politics, former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca is generally not much of a player. [...]
Filed under: Constitution, Free Speech, Iraq, Lee Iacocca, domestic spying, middle east, patriotism | No Comments »
Posted on April 10th, 2007 by Dig ad veritas
MoveOn, Hillary, Barack & Air America…
* MoveOn.Org and Air America will be co-hosting three “Virtual Town Halls” with the major democratic presidential candidates, with the first one entirely about Iraq today, Tuesday, April 10. Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Richardson, Biden, Dodd and Kucinich will be answering questions and we’ll be broadcasting it on XM satellite, [...]
Filed under: 2008 presidential hopeful, Iraq | 2 Comments »
