The budget, partisans and Bin Laden » Times Record News

The teabagging cheat-sheet:

Dear Buster: It is difficult to defend the Republicans during the Bush administration, as they virtually did nothing to rein in Congress’s addiction to spending over his two terms. Unfortunately, President Bush did in fact leave President Obama a deficit of about $450 billion, but not the $1.3 trillion figure Obama bandies about. Not to make excuses, but Bush’s deficit included two wars and the economic fallout from the 9-11 attacks.

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HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features

I wonder how this will work with enterprise GMail.

Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal, the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends. [Update: We think Google might announce these features on Tuesday]

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Slashdot Science Story | Turns Out You Actually Can Be Bored To Death

A study conducted by researchers at University College London shows that boredom can kill you. The researchers found that people who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study. Martin Shipley, who co-wrote the report said, “The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom.”

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Statistics GOP Criticized Were Originally Touted By Bush Administration – The Gaggle Blog – Newsweek.com

Maybe its time to stop some of the name calling over counter-terrorism policy and start checking the facts. As the debate over Obama Administration counter-terrorism policies has heated up in the wake of the failed Christmas Day underpants airplane bombing, prominent Republicans, ranging from leading senators to a former Press Secretary for George W. Bush, have attacked the current administration for claiming that hundreds of terrorist suspects had been successfully prosecuted through the civilian court system during Bushs presidency. But it turns out that the Administrations claims do appear to be well-documented — assuming that an official budget request sent to Congress by Bushs last attorney general was truthful itself.

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