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The army is doing most of the fighting, but by the end of the month, only one of the nine combat commands will be run by Army generals

Bush admin has also been key in allowing Vulture funds from exploiting third world countries that are seeking debt relief.
Greg Palast has a series of reports on the ongoing scandal on his website, and discussed it on Air America Sunday. "...a vulture fund can extract more than $40m from Zambia for a debt which it bought for less than $4m......Methinks Bono and company are pretty pissed.

You know, I used to think that for the most part, the role of Labor Unions had become anachronistic. Unfortunately, a series of unanimous Supreme Court decisions is changing that opinion. I want to know how Ginsburg and the rest of the somewhat sane judges justify the way they ruled on these things. *shakes head*

and in proof that regardless of party, the majority of senators don't have any balls, the no confidence vote in AG Gonzales FAILED. WTF????? Seriously, what were the 53 that voted for against this smoking???? How could this not be the one anti-administration vote you could deliver with a clean conscience??????? Notably five republican senators voted yes: Coleman, Collins, Hagel, Smith, Specter, Snowe, Sununu. Dear Mr. Specter: Too little, too late. My only sadness w/ leaving philly is that I won't be able to help vote your ass out of office after all the freaking campaign lies you used to get in.

Marines blame base water for health problems.

a judge set aside Genarlow Wilson's child molestation conviction. However, the prosecution immediately filed an appeal and so he'll remain in jail until that's finished.

Drug dogs fired for sexual harrassment and destruction of luggage.

Apple releases Windows version of Safari

I win, despite not being a functional morning person.

So, I woke up at 5 am simply because my body was sore enough to not want any rest. You'd think this would be great --- plenty of time to do lots of work.

Unfortunately, my body continues to prove that I am NOT a morning person. It took me a full two hours before my brain finally kickstarted into awake. Breakfast, coffee, and a shower had no effect. None. I finally opened my blinds when it started getting bright outside at about 7:30 (my window faces west so it takes a WHILE) and started stretching since I couldn't think and *bang* ten minutes later, the brain started working.

blechh, morning people make me sick.

However, in proving how caffeine aids my writing process, I managed to finally dig out a two paragraph introduction in about an hour (and that long only because I was anally looking up all the citations as I wrote each sentence). :):) and I finished off the problematic graph explanation.

Eee, paper so close to done. Data analysis today should finish off the results section and then all I have to do is write the conclusions, the materials and methods, and figure legends and do the stats and it's done. DONE. :):) Not that that completes anything since I need to rework the other paper w/ the new data and modify it's intro. And then write the hugely long diss. But still, accomplishments!!