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Both Houses of Congress have passed an emergency supplemental appropriations bill that contains benchmarks and goals for progress in Iraq as well as a timetable for redeployment of American troops in Iraq. This is about accountability that has so far been lacking in the Bush administration’s execution of the Iraq War.
George Bush’s threat to veto this accountability is embarrassing. It sends a message to the world that his policy is to sustain a failed war policy that is further increasing instability in the region. …
[Gothamist] With a flourish of his mighty veto pen and perhaps a nod to his entrepreneurial beginnings, Mayor Bloomberg sent a proposed law that would have limited the number of pedicabs in New York back to the City Council.
The move is certain to provoke a showdown with the City Council, which passed the bill last month. Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, who has had a largely cordial relationship with the Bloomberg administration, promised to push the Council to override the mayor’s action. …
[LAist] AP Photo by Chris Carlson
I’m not going to write anything about the pre-season freeway series with the Dodgers. Why you ask? Well, it’s because exhibition baseball games tend to be about as meaningful as promises by Pacman Jones to stay on the right side of the law. Teams are working on specific things; giving guys looks who won’t even be on the team, so essentially, the scores are meaningless. This blog is over Spring Training, get the season started.
What this blog is not over, though, is the fact that the Angels signed Scot Shields to a three-year, $14.6 million contract extension. …
[TreeHugger]
China is drafting its first law on creating a “circular economy” that provides a legal framework for its national sustainable development strategy. Mao Rubai, chairman of the Environmental and Resources Protection Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), said the draft law will improve resource efficiency, and is expected to pass at the end of the year. The handling of eWaste is included in the framework, of which China takes about 70 percent of the world’s ’supply’. …
[Japundit] Japan Talk #064 is now available on the Japan Talk website and at FeedBurner.
* Last day of March! One quarter of the year gone
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[New Zealand Herald - Social issues] The parents of a baby boy left blind and brain-damaged after an alleged assault have a new baby and police are worried for its safety.A jury on Friday night found Andrew Wepiha, 24, not guilty of a charge of intending to cause…
[CodeBetter.Com] Sitting here on Saturday morning with a nice cup of Kona coffee. There just is no better coffee in the world. Strong but deceivingly smooth. I really miss our former annual trips to the Big Island that we used to take with my Father-In-Law and family before he got ill. We used to go up in the hills and buy direct from the growers. Umm, nothing better. …
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Got a term paper to write? No problem, just fire up the old internet connection and copy some text from Wikipedia. Of course, in the good old days, you had to copy off of a neighbor or buy a copy of a paper some other student had written a few years ago.Hoever, modern technology means more than just new ways to cheat. It also means new ways to catch cheaters. A couple of years ago, many schools started turning to plagiarism checking software like Turnitin. …