Tuesday, February 15, 2005

After Bush Leaves Office, His Budget's Costs Balloon (washingtonpost.com). washingtonpost.com - For President Bush, the budget sent to Congress last week outlines a painful path to meeting his promise to bring down the federal budget deficit by the time he leaves office in 2009. But for the senators and governors already jockeying to succeed him, the numbers released in recent days add up to a budgetary landmine that could blow up just as the next president moves into the Oval Office. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] One more time...does anyone else understand why this man was elected? 9:52:57 PM    comment []

Coffee May Help Prevent Liver Cancer (AP). AP - That hot cup of coffee may do more than just provide a tasty energy boost. It also may help prevent the most common type of liver cancer. A study of more than 90,000 Japanese found that people who drank coffee daily or nearly every day had half the liver cancer risk of those who never drank coffee. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Works for me, I'll have a double latte! 9:48:04 PM    comment []

Michael Jackson Hospitalized With Flu (AP). AP - Michael Jackson was taken to an emergency room with flu-like symptoms Tuesday, delaying jury selection in the pop star's child-molestation case for a week. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Does anyone else think this is funny? 9:46:06 PM    comment []

Senator calls for antitrust scrutiny of telecom mergers. WASHINGTON - A U.S. senator influential on telecommunications issues said Tuesday he's "troubled" about recent announcements of multibillion-dollar telecommunications mergers, saying he will press the U.S. Congress and federal agencies to thoroughly examine the deals' potential impact on customers. Is anyone old enough to remember the old telephone company called Ma Bell?  That was the monopoly that controlled the telephone system that everyone in the United States used to talk to their friends and loved ones.  In the mid-1980s a radical judge determined that AT&T was a monopoly that needed to be broken up.  The result was a fractured group of companies that wanted to offer you phone service.  Fast forward 20-odd years and you have the remains of AT&T being purchased by Cingular/SBC,  MCI/WorldComm being bought by Verizon and Nextel and Sprint merging, creating three MAJOR monopolistic phone companies.  Judge Green, paging Judge Green. 9:43:43 PM    comment []

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