Marcia N

I've been subscribing to Netflix streaming ever since they first offered this service, and this is the first time this has ever happened. One of the movies in my queue is the 1963 Jack Lemmon movie, Under The Yum Yum Tree. I decided to watch it, but instead the 1963 Glenn Ford movie Love Is A Ball played. This Glenn Ford movie has never been listed in my queue. Even more strangely it isnt listed on Netflix's website at all! Not as a DVD for rental, not as a movie for instant streaming. Even more weirder than that, Love Is A Ball is not at all available on DVD anywhere, period.

Has anyone else ever had this problem?

(I'm not complaining though. I'm more amused by it. Who knows what other movies that arent listed by Netflix and havent been released to DVD on top of that, but are freely available on Netflix streaming under the guise of different movie titles? :-))

Doing a check on a few other movies in my instant streaming queue, the correct movies play.

U.S. gives $1 billion for forests

Breaking news: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak announced Wednesday the United States would provide $1 billion over the next three years to preserve tropical forests overseas.

http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/pos...

Considering the current state of the economy, shouldnt that money be spent in the United States or not be spent at all?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=725_1249619889

White House Keeping Names List- Gibbsy Gets Caught in a Whopper!!

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs gets caught ina HUGE LIE today. After repeating over and over that the White House wasn't keeping any names off their wierd email snitch initiative, a sharp reporter points out that THAT would be breaking the law...

McDermott backs $250,000 federal earmark for Seattle's elite Rainier Club

Among more than 100 local projects for which U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott recently sought funding earmarks in the coming federal budget are a new cancer-research program, municipal road projects and a law-enforcement initiative to combat gang violence.

Also included on the Seattle Democrat's 2010 appropriations wish list is a relatively modest — but curious — appeal:

A $250,000 request to fund a "window repair and limestone sill replacement" at The Rainier Club — one of Seattle's premier private clubs, whose members include some of the city's most well-heeled and politically connected residents.

McDermott's request on behalf of The Rainier Club would match the $250,000 raised by club members to cover renovations at the club's 105-year-old brick building on Fourth Avenue in downtown Seattle.

The club — which provides wood-paneled dining halls, a health and fitness club, a library and private bedrooms where members can stay overnight — has about 1,200 members who pay $191 per month in membership dues, said Michael Troyer, the club's chief operating officer.

A McDermott aide, who said Friday the congressman was on a flight to Seattle and unavailable for comment, called the private club's request "a fair project to submit for funding" that had nothing to do with political back-scratching.

"They made the case that it's a historic building in our home city, and they had tried to raise the money themselves but fell short," Mike DeCesare said. "It was a significant argument."

Representatives for the club said Friday the need for renovations is real and immediate. Limestone window sills are eroding, causing water seepage and damaging structural timbers for the part of the historic building that dates to 1904.

But after more than a year of fundraising, the club has gathered only half the $500,000 needed to cover repairs, Troyer said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/20...

increasing the freedoms and rights of the people?

Obama Budget Rescinds Oil, Gas Industry Tax Breaks

President Barack Obama wants to end $26 billion in oil and gas industry tax breaks, calling them ''unjustifiable loopholes'' in the tax system that other companies do not get.

Obama's proposed fiscal 2010 budget, details of which were released Thursday, also more clearly spells out his intention to shut down a proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and calls for ending a government subsidy that helps utilities license and plan for new nuclear power plants.

The oil and gas industry tax breaks have often been targeted by congressional Democrats in recent years, but they have not been able to muster enough votes to rescind them. Most Republicans and the Bush administration vigorously defended the tax benefits, saying they're needed to boost domestic oil and gas development.

In the budget statement, Obama said the tax breaks, which are expected to save the oil and gas industry more than $26 billion over the next 10 years, are ''unjustifiable loopholes ... costly to the American taxpayer and do little to incentivize production or reduce energy prices.''

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The budget would provide $197 million for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada, but directs that the money be spent to ''explore alternatives'' to the Nevada site and ongoing licensing activities that have yet to be terminated. It provides no money for site access, new engineering or land purchases.

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Obama also wants to end a research program for using nuclear power plants to develop hydrogen fuel for transportation and cancel further subsidies to the nuclear industry to help license and plan for new nuclear power reactors. The budget eliminates $168 million that had been earmarked for the reactor program next fiscal year.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/07/us/poli...

Volunteers fanned out across the Birmingham area and Alabama Saturday to pump up enthusiasm for President Barack Obama's budget proposal in much the same way they did to win over voters during the presidential campaign.

About 30 volunteers in Birmingham canvassed shopping areas and other high-traffic locations to talk about the need for health care reform, an education overhaul and environmentally friendly energy development.

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"If we don't change these three things in the next 10 to 15 years, America is over as we know it," Chris DeHaven, told the group of volunteers before they went their separate ways.

Obama's plan faces criticism from Republicans and others who say it's too expensive. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report Friday saying Obama's agenda would cause huge budget deficits, forcing the country to borrow $9.3 trillion in the next decade.

Those who gathered at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham were urged to enlist others who share Obama's vision and to stay away from trying to convert naysayers.

"We're looking for supporters," said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the event's organizers. "We're not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army."

http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf...

And this little gem:

"The volunteers are part of Organizing for America, the same grassroots, national network "

How can “grassroots” be “grassroots” when its funding comes from taxpayers? Isn’t that called a government employee?

Some pretty impressive investigative journalism from (of all places) the New York Daily News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2009/02/...

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The Daily News cites four more very similar instances of what certainly appears to be “pay to play” kickbacks involving Mr. Carrion.

If true, this is pretty blatant corruption — even for a Democrat.

Of course the most surprising thing about all of this is that Mr. Obama seems to be branching out.

He isn’t just hiring Chicago machine crooks for his cabinet.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obamas-urban-de...

Thank you for giving the opportunity to speak my mind.

I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president, I worked in a prosperous enterprise. But in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor.

This foreign labor worked for low pay under very bad conditions. They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job. This competition could hardly be called "fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years. Not a single government program was there to help me. How can Bush call himself "compassionate?"

Far worse, I lost two of my only sons in Bush's evil war in Iraq. They gave their lives for their country, and for what? So that Bush's oil buddies can get rich. The pain of losing my sons is indescribable.

While it is trivial next to the loss of my sons, I regret to say that I also lost my home. I simply had nothing left. How can Bush call himself a Christian when he neglects people like me? I am a senior citizen with various medical problems. I'm not in a position where I can begin a new career.

I was reduced to the point where I had to live in a hole in a ground, all because of President Bush. And when the authorities found me there, did they have any compassion for my misfortune and ailments? No! I was arrested!!!

Mr. Bush, I DARE you to look me in the face and tell me you are a compassionate man! I DARE you to look me in the face and tell me you a Christian!

If I had any money left, I would donate it to the Democratic party. If Al Gore had been elected in 2000, I guarantee I would still have a job, a home, and most importantly, my dear sons!

Regards,

Saddam Hussein