Headlines

[xrayzebra]

Let's see. Appearing on the drudge report:

Carter: Bush has brought U.S. 'international disgrace'....

Clinton: 'Incalculable Damage Done'...

Stone: 'I'm ashamed for my country'...

Woodward: Bush concealing level of Iraq violence...



BLOWBACK: 'We shouldn't be surprised another critical book about Bush administration 40 days before election'...

And then I saw an article where Bush's approval rating was up by
two percent in the last few days. And then low and behold found this
on drudge......

From the New York Post



ANTI-W. $OROS: I QUIT POLITICS

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

September 29, 2006 -- Billionaire liberal financier George Soros, who spent millions of his fortune trying to oust President Bush in 2004, yesterday said he hopes to stay out of politics from now on.

"In the future, I'd very much like to get disengaged from politics," Soros said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting on the Upper East Side. "I'm interested in policy and not in politics."


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Gotta wonder, just gotta wonder......
:lol

[ChumpDumper]

Soros got out of politics because Bushy came close to 40% approval?

[Nbadan]

Can you say lame-duck? What does it matter what Dubya's approval rating are, he a lame-duck. The only legislation he can pass now, the terra legislation is just CYA by the administration because despite the fact that they can manipulate e-voting results by Diebold, they still may lose the Senate or the House or both in November and that could mean prosecution for torture by the Hague. However, none of this last minute legal manuevering to cover their asses by the WH is gonna work, none of it will stand up in the FED level and it certainly won't stand up in the world court. Unless we rethink our policy on state-sanctioned torture, the U.S. will be come a puria state that sanctions torture and gives sanctuary to known human rights abusers.

[Nbadan]

Even some of the Senators who voted for the bill believe it will not stand up in court...

Court Challenges are ready, Terra legislation has a snow-ball's chance in hell
By Justin Rood - September 29, 2006, 1:02 PM


With President Bush poised to sign the White House-backed detainee treatment bill into law, groups are promising to challenge it in court "in days."

“I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in ‘H’ that this will be found constitutional,” Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Congressional Quarterly (sub. req.). CCR represents a number of Guantanamo prisoners.

Strangely, some senators who voted for the bill weren't convinced of its constitutionality. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who voted for the bill even after his amendment to preserve certain rights for detainees was defeated, called the proposal "patently unconstitutional on its face," The Washington Post reported. When CQ asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who negotiated with the White House to win minor concessions on the legislation, if the bill was constitutional, he responded "I think so."

[Nbadan]

Anyway, here's an interesting outsourcing story...


BOSTON (Reuters) - Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50 an hour -- in India.

"It's made the biggest difference. My daughter is literally at the top of every single one of her classes and she has never done that before," said Robison, a single mother from Modesto.

Her 13-year-old daughter, Taylor, is one of 1,100 Americans enrolled in Bangalore-based TutorVista, which launched U.S. services last November with a staff of 150 "e-tutors" mostly in India with a fee of $100 a month for unlimited hours.

Taylor took two-hour sessions each day for five days a week in math and English -- a cost that tallies to $2.50 an hour, a fraction of the $40 an hour charged by U.S.-based online tutors such as market leader Tutor.com that draw on North American teachers, or the usual $100 an hour for face-to-face sessions.

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060928/tc_nm/life_education_india_dc)

Outsourcing teaching English to the Indian, gee gad.