What To Do With An "Obsolete" Cell Phone

Many cellular phone companies will recycle your phone for you. Some companies offer buyback programs. If you prefer, you can donate your phone to charity.

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Colin Powell On National Guard Service For The Sons Of The Wealthy

In Secretary of State Colin Powell's autobiography, My American Journey, he says,

"I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed managed to wangle slots in the Army Reserve and National Guard units... Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to their country."

Source: My American Journey, ISBN: 0345407288, p. 144

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Remember when newspaper columnist Robert Novak published a column naming a CIA undercover operative?

This "outing" - besides being a federal crime - may have ended the agent's long, successful career as a CIA agent. Even more likely is that it compromised on-going covert activities. The source of the leak - so far not named - appears to be in retaliation for the fact the the agent's husband traveled to Africa and returned with proof that blew a hole through the White House's claim that Iraq had attempted purchase Uranium ore ("yellowcake"). The White House's "yellowcake" fantasy was part of the effort to con us - and the world - into a war.

Several journalists were contacted with this "leaked" information; all but one - Novak - refused to use the information (federal crimes, ethics, etc.). In spite of White House efforts to block an investigation, there is a grand jury investigation. Sources suggest that the leakers have been identified and that federal indictments will be issued soon.

Who are the leakers? Several people involved have pointed - from the start - directly at a high official in The Office of the Vice President. Not naming names, but it looks like the dude in question has a nickname that is also the name of a kid's toy. This will be such a huge disaster for the effort to elect Bush (keep in mind, he hasn't been elected President - ever).... that Dick Cheney will bow out of running for Veep.

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What's Worse Than a Tax-and-Spend Liberal?

How about a Borrow-and-Spend "conservative"?



How bad is it (in spite of what W said on 2.8.2003)?

What's so bad about deficits?
1. Eventually somebody has to pay them. Should that be you, in your retirement years? Your children, or your children's children? Whenever the day of reckoning occurs, someone has to pay, with interest upon interest upon interest.
2. Meanwhile, the government has four ways to deal the current interest due:
a. print money - that leads to immediate inflation
b. raise somebody's taxes - which misses the point (or the current plan misses the point)
c. borrow more - when the government borrows money, interest rates rise for everyone
d. ignore it and pretend it will go away - 'nuff said?

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Don't - um, spit - On My Cupcake and Then Call It Frosting

President Bush named a panel Friday to investigate his intelligence in Iraq. He told them to report in after the election. That's like Arnold Schwarzenegger appointing a panel of eight of his fingers and two of his thumbs to investigate himself for groping, with orders to report after the statute of limitations run out.
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