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Now, I have several pages of notes on the 2010 legislative session- all carefully tabulated, notated and organized.

I have several pages of detailed notes about the need to impeach Pelosi and Reid for wussing out in the health care debate.

So, if you think I’m going to spend most of the show talking about FORMER GOP Republican House majority leader Garn – you’re absolutely right. His colleagues gave him a STANDING OVATION for the love of Pete.

Call in folks – share your genuine outrage or your ineffective, slightly creepy support for ineffective, creepy Repuglican’ts just because they’re members of the GOP.

Call in numbers -

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From KSL -

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SALT LAKE CITY — One of the Democrats who is against health care reform is Utah Representative Jim Matheson. Some of his constituents don’t want him to change his mind.

Protesters gathered with signs outside Matheson’s Salt Lake City office this afternoon with signed petitions saying they oppose President Obama’s reform bill.

“This is nothing to do with health care, this is all about socialism, socializing medicine, building a network or structure so that the government can take away our freedoms,” said protester Ralph Cook.

The group hopes to give Matheson 2,470 pages of petitions against the health care reform, the same number of pages the bill has.

KARACHI, Pakistan — The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.

The arrest of Gadahn is a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against al-Qaida and will be taken as a sign that Pakistan is cooperating more fully with Washington. It follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi.

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Today, in an editorial in Senator Bunning’s home state of Kentucky the Lexington Herald-Leader described Senator Bunning’s actions as “callous grandstanding.”

As long as Republicans were in charge, Sen. Jim Bunning was OK with trading a surplus for a deficit. He voted to put two wars, tax cuts and a Medicare drug benefit on the nation’s credit card.

Now that Republicans are no longer in charge, Bunning is drawing the line on deficit spending. He’s doing it in a way that shows callous contempt for the more than one in 10 working Kentuckians whose jobs disappeared in the economic meltdown.

We’ve become accustomed to bizarre, egocentric behavior from Bunning. So it wasn’t all that surprising when he single-handedly blocked an unemployment benefits extension for a million people, including 119,230 in Kentucky, whose benefits run out this year. About 14,000 Kentuckians will exhaust their benefits in two weeks without the extension.

Bunning’s filibuster also denies newly laid-off workers help paying for health insurance. It halts road and bridge projects around the country by furloughing 2,000 federal transportation employees, stops reimbursements to state highway programs and cuts Medicare payments to doctors.

To those who know him, it’s not surprising that Bunning answered a Democratic colleague’s complaint with a crude profanity. Or that he joked about missing a basketball game while pushing some unemployed Kentuckians into homelessness or bankruptcy.

The Lexington Herald-Leader also chastised Trey Grayson and Rand Paul, the leading Republicans to succeed the retiring-at-the-end-of-term Bunning, for jumping on Senator Bunning’s one-man band wagon of obstructionism.

From MyDD – where there are a lot more examples of how much damage Hatch’s example of “gutsy” is doing to the victims of 12 years of Republican rule in DC.

Winston Churchill, Britain’s PM was enthusiastic of the project and saw to it that it got underway. In 1943, it was discovered that by adding wood pulp to the water before freezing, a very tough material was made which was called ‘pykrete’, in honor of Geoffrey Pyke. It was reported that when demonstrating the idea to a group of high brass military leaders, Mountbatten fired a shot at an ordinary block of ice, which shattered into little pieces. However when he fired at the Pykrete, the bullet bounced right off and almost hit the Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Portal.

Construction on a prototype began at Patricia Lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and it was determined that the hull needed to be at least 35 feet thick in order to contain damage from bombs and torpedoes. However before tests were complete, the Battle of the Atlantic had been virtually won and with the construction underway of the new aircraft carriers, the project was reluctantly abandoned in August 1943.

Andrew Griffiths

Senator Howard Stephenson, sponsor of SB275, claimed his signature removal bill is an “assault on hucksters.”  But several of his Republican colleagues made it clear who the real target is: You! Suggesting petition signature gatherers use “subterfuge” and “deceit,” and that you have been “bamboozled,”* they sent a clear message:

They are scared!  They are willing to do everything within their power to keep Fair Boundaries off the ballot!

It’s time to double our efforts and fight even harder to make our voices heard.

Legislators know that if we are successful they will have to draw district boundaries based on what is best for you instead of what ensures their re-election, and they made it clear last week they are willing to make this fight personal to stop us!

It’s time to turn up the pressure!

Please take a moment and forward this message to 5 friends right now!  Make sure everyone you know has an opportunity to read the initiative and add their name — in person or online.

It’s time to act!

Thanks for all you do,
The Fair Boundaries Team

* Deseret News: Democrats, GOP Spar over initiatives

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So moved by the plight of the people of Haiti, Shane and his long term girlfriend, writer Victoria Clarke made calls to friends and associates from which began the process of recording a track from which ALL proceeds go to Concern, a charity who have provided assistance to some of the poorest countries in the world including Haiti, even before the earthquake struck.

Their God is a powerless, petty twit.

Sovereignty – apparently it’s a word you can only learn in the 12th grade (and, isn’t the correct phrase “state’s rights”?).

Senator Brent Goodfellow, however, has once again won my respect and admiration with this tidbit quoted in the Warchol War Room:

“All these bills are supposed to be ‘delivered to the president and Congress.’ How are we going to do that? Take them to the post office? That’s federal. Drive them to Washington? Federal highways. Fly them? Federal airport money. How about sending them over the Internet? Developed with federal money.

“We’re stuck.”