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The Record so Far

Bush to seek $80bn for war funds

The White House has confirmed it plans to ask Congress for an extra $80bn,
mainly to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Congress has already approved $25bn in emergency funds for this tax year.

The number of US troops in Iraq rose to 150,000 last month in an effort to bolster security ahead of ( Read more... )

A number of Senate Democrats delivered blistering public attacks on Condoleezza Rice in her role as National Security Adviser Tuesday as the Senate prepared to confirm her to be President Bush's next Secretary of State ( Read more... )

"Let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshipers.
The foundations of the pyramids were hewn in the living rock ere sunset;
did the king weep at dawn that the crown of the pyramid was yet unquarried in the distant land?"

~ Liber LXV: V, 51 ~

Thanks to the Grand Poobah.

http://www.valkeerie.me.uk/mr/inanna/index.htm

"Give me the storm and stress of thought and action rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will but first let me eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge."

~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity ( Read more... )

From a recent broadcast of The Positive Mind:

"Prolonged stress or mental anguish are clear signs of an emotional rut ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/27/rumsfeld.flt93/index.html

Pentagon: Rumsfeld misspoke on Flight 93 crash
Defense secretary's remark to troops fuels conspiracy theoriesFrom Jamie McIntyre ( Read more... )