Relgion, Politics and Airfoil selection
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:12:24 -0700
I specifically thought I'd post this here instead of the builders workshop forum because we sailplane snobs(term of endearmant, notice the "we") tend to look at the selection of airfoil with a little more deliberation then those who use the "throttle stick" for something other then...
Uganda LGBT Advocates Allege Oundo Is In It For The Money
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:06:15 -0700
Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) held a sparsely attended news conference to call for the protection of equal rights for that nation’s LGBT citizens : Victor Mukasa, the coordinator of the Uganda Minority Sexual Rights group says the campaign against homosexuals in the country is based on wrong information that homosexuality is an acquired behavior which can be taught to people. Mukasa says homosexuals are naturally born attracted to people of the same sex and do not “change like weather”.
Good Reads For 31st March 2009
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:46:48 -0700
Ministry of Defense Braces For A Surge In Suicide Rate Although they represent a tiny percentage of the troops who have undergone tours of duty – about 100,000 in Iraq and 50,000 in Afghanistan – there is concern that the risk of troops taking their own lives is increasing. Greg Sanders on the impact of air strikes on Afghan public opinion Such deaths have both a human and a political toll. At a recent CSIS event, ABC Director of Polling, Gary Langer, described their impact on
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Everything new on anxiety panic attacks
Pentagon spending the real deficit driver
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:29:00 -0700
In all the debates about the deficit, the sacred cow in the budget has always been 'defense spending' by the Pentagon. This estimate puts the base budget alone for the period FY'09 through FY'13 at $2.6 trillion. That doesn't include expenses for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It doesn't include "supplemental appropriations" which are regulary requested whenever the political climate is ripe. As nearly as I can figure, that would add at least another couple of trillion onto the total
Free Desktop Political Research Software Appliance Unifies Information Access and Measures the Coherence Between Words, Phrases and Concepts
Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:00:01 -0700
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:29:00 -0700
In all the debates about the deficit, the sacred cow in the budget has always been 'defense spending' by the Pentagon. This estimate puts the base budget alone for the period FY'09 through FY'13 at $2.6 trillion. That doesn't include expenses for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It doesn't include "supplemental appropriations" which are regulary requested whenever the political climate is ripe. As nearly as I can figure, that would add at least another couple of trillion onto the total
Free Desktop Political Research Software Appliance Unifies Information Access and Measures the Coherence Between Words, Phrases and Concepts
Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:00:01 -0700
News flash on theater movies
US Senators Move To End US Ban On Travel To Cuba (Nasdaq)
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:43:05 -0700
WASHINGTON (AFP)--Some U.S. lawmakers took a step Tuesday toward ending one of the most enduring holdovers from the Cold War: the ban on travel by most U.S. citizens to Cuba.
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:43:05 -0700
WASHINGTON (AFP)--Some U.S. lawmakers took a step Tuesday toward ending one of the most enduring holdovers from the Cold War: the ban on travel by most U.S. citizens to Cuba.
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