Can you answer these 10 questions?
* In a recent CNN poll what percentage of Americans approve of granting illegal immigrants earned citizenship?
* What are “lily pads”?
* Why is the head of the National Hurricane Center ticked off at superiors at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?
* What is the current minimum food stamp benefit?
* The average price of regular unleaded gasoline in $3.22 a gallon. That breaks the record for what year?
* How many Americans are being held hostage in Iraq?
* How did Rudy Giuliani fail “Ground Zero” workers?
* In which state did a state senator propose deporting all illegal immigrants?
* What current Bush administration official, in 1996, wrote in the American Enterprise, magazine of the conservative think tank, “"I'll never hire another woman, because they just get pregnant and leave"?
* For extra credit: what media mogul’s daughter claims her father is motivated by "what media can do in terms of empowering individuals"?
The answer to all of these questions can be found in a single issue (22 May 2007) of my favorite online newsletter. For answers: LINK
In my humble opinion, the most informative and well-documented daily newsletter on the Web is THE PROGRESS REPORT from the Center for American Progress.
The newsletter has a new “printer-friendly” format and contains links within the text to reliable sources of its information.
To stay informed on a variety of issues each day, sign up for THE PROGRESS REPORT via email: LINK
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Give yourself 10 points for each answer you got without looking at the newsletter. How’d you do?
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A warm welcome to the naturally curious, the politically engaged and constant learners. I am a retired newspaper editor with a fickle foe, retinitis pigmentosa, or RP. While my sense of sight is waning, my "vision" is not, and, by God, I can still see my dreams!
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Always answer a question with a question; Who, besides George W. Bush, is the only President never to have attended a military funeral during his term in office?
The answer requires one only to know the name of the President with the shortest term of office.
Thanks for the recommendation--Mr. Frodo.
Just one of the tidbits I probably would have missed if I didn't get The Progress Report, in this case today's (23 May 2007):
IRAQ - IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION MIRED IN 'MUD OF INCOMPETENCE:' The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, appeared before the House Foreign Relations Committee yesterday to "explain how billions of dollars of US taxpayers' money had gone missing in Iraq in what [the committee members] called a disastrous effort to rebuild the country." Bowen's latest quarterly report found "that new facilities are crumbling" and that "[s]ome of the supposedly completed ventures are actually houses of cards, ready to collapse." Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) also noted that "between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels of Iraqi oil were unaccounted for each day -- representing [a loss of] $5m to $15m daily" and that Iraq "was still not producing either oil or electricity at rates that matched pre-war performance." Bowen attempted to address the congressional criticisms stating, "This is not the Marshall plan. This is a reconstruction programme conducted virtually under fire." He conceded, however, that "corruption among Iraqi institutions represents 'a second insurgency' in terms of the challenge it presents" and that operations still suffer from "poor U.S. inter-agency planning and co-ordination." Additionally, he said that anti-corruption probes are hampered by new Iraqi laws "that exempt ministers, any employee designated by a minister, and former ministers from prosecution." In regards to American contractors in Iraq, Bowen said his office would soon publish the "results of investigations targeting Blackwater security contracts, Parsons Corp. and DynCorp International."
Confession: I took this to be an open book pop quiz. Otherwise, my score would have been abysmal, I'm afraid. But I read the link before reading the part on scoring ourselves. Thanks for all the info and I will probably sign up for this report and unsubscribe from a lot of other ones.
Have spent most of tonight reading, signing petitions, doing survery, etc. and political burnout done fried my brain.
And I'm totally against these premature primaries. God only knows what can happen before election time rolls around and we find ourselves up that proverbial creek with not even the lesser of two evils! But then again Al Gore may be dragged in screaming and fighting all the way.
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