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April 11, 2008
Wamp votes NO on funding for AIDS prevention
Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act - Vote Passed (308-116, 7 Not Voting)
The House voted to authorize $50 billion between 2009 and 2013 to help fight the international spread of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Rep. Zach Wamp voted NO...
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April 04, 2008
The 3 Trillion dollar war
When the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, Americans were told Iraqi oil would cover the costs of the war and rebuilding. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld scoffed at estimates of $100 billion.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University and Harvard University professor Linda Bilmes raised a stir in 2006 by estimating the real cost of the war to be $1 trillion. That estimate has been tripled and the title of their new book is "The Three Trillion Dollar War."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/qna/forum/three_trillion_dollar_war/index.html
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April 03, 2008
Strange Fact about U.S. National Debt:
The U.S. debt is big enough to pay for a McDonald's Happy Meal, every day for every child in America for 124 years.
Posted by doctormatt at 04:06 PM
April 01, 2008
Wikipedia on Summum
I REALLY couldn't make this stuff up, even if I tried!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summum
Posted by doctormatt at 09:47 PM
Unofficial critique of Summum
http://www.insolitology.com/organized/summum.htm
Posted by doctormatt at 09:44 PM
Summum provides mummification services
No joke!
http://www.summum.us/mummification/
Posted by doctormatt at 09:38 PM
Supreme Court to consider Ten Commandments vs. 'Seven Aphorisms'
Must a city park that displays one monument also permit others'?
Published on April 1st, but apparently not an April Fools joke!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-monuments1apr01,1,1700911,print.story
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The Seven Aphorisms of Summum
A religion wants to place its aphorisms in a Pleasant Grove City, Utah, park where the Ten Commandments are displayed:
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