The Washington Bureau Chief for NBC is gone, Vice President of NBC.
Everybody's mentor in the News died today of a heart attack on the Job. It happened at 1:45 or 2:00 pm EST.
People were openly crying.
President Bush gave his condolences.
Tom Brokaw was quite broken up in the first official announcement from NBC News!
Barack has said he will be missed.
McCain was saddened.
On March 20, 2003 President George W. Bush made a live TV broadcast which aired across the nation, announcing the American military invasion of Iraq. He said that Saddam was a "damnable" dictator, with a nuclear weapons program, whose country was directly affiliated to terrorism, and who could be one of the biggest threats in the Middle East.
So, the president of the good old USA has decided to veto a bill that would stop waterboarding. What can you say to this really? Oh, it's torture. There's no debate about that in my mind. I guess I should have expected as much coming from a guy who executes the mentally handicapped and takes money away from the Boys and Girls Clubs. And that No Child Left Behind Act?
Ever wonder why the US kept pushing the idea of 'going green'? Maybe, it's because 'going green' doesn't help line your wallet with green...
If anyone has been paying attention to recent laws in Congress being pushed by President Bush, one of them includes a bill to let aerial shooters to hunt wolves in Yellowstone National Park area. Over the last several weeks, the U.S.
(just post your answers like 1-good, 2-fair, 3-very good... etc. thanks.)
Presidential Poll Questions
1. On October 30th , President Bush and Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni reaffirmed US support to achieve greater economic development
under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). This is said to
open the US market with the African market to help both economies and
Bush vetoed a proposed healthcare bill meant to expand children’s health coverage. It is only the fourth time that Bush has used his veto power, says the BBC. Bush vetoed the bill because he felt that it was inconsistent with the intended nature of the bill. He felt that it would cause people whose children were insured to take advantage of the bill, causing greater expense.
Thursday September 27, 2007, President Bush signed legislation that raised the maximum Pell grant from 4,310 a year to 5,400 a year. The legislation also cuts the interest rates on federally backed student loans from 6.8 to 3.4 percent. The cost of this increase in financial aid is roughly $20 billion, which is to be paid for by cuts in subsidies that the government makes to banks.
