Censorship is not the answer to riots in a democracy

Riots: from peaceful demonstration to illegal violence Sounding more like a third world Middle Eastern dictatorship than a Democracy, the notion of Cameron thinking about censoring communications should be...

Suggested Common Sense Resolution to Federal & MN Budget Impasse

This is a teaser intro for an article i wrote on Examiner.com " First of all, you may ask, who am I to even propose a solution to what all of my state and federal elected officials cannot figure out how to resolve...

Soldiers and families get no pay

Mad as hell The shutdown cheats soldiers and their families in the worst way. How incredibly disrespectful and un-American. Impeach Congress Now! Recall them all. Do over. " “Gates: Shutdown Could Delay...

Don’t mess with my cherry blossom festival

They’re not listening. I asked politely and voted for President Obama to stop the wars. That did not happen. I asked for government to create policies for job creation in the private sector, and something...

Responsibility to govern

If government shuts down, there is a failure to govern that is both an Executive and Legislative failure. That is how Americans see it too. The responsibility is split. " “Breaking News Alert: Poll: Blame for...

Shutdown is harsh reality

Stop work. I remember many years ago when I had my own company and received the stop work order on certain contracts. We had to tell employees that they were laid off until government turned us back on. What...

Mike Huckabee Says the Federal Government May Have to Shut Down

"Speaking on the CBS ‘Early Show’ to plug his new book, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said that the government will eventually have to shut down, but it won’t be that bad this time around. “I think it could happen. And maybe it has to,” he explained....

Mumbai swine flu shutdown begins

" Schools, colleges and cinemas in the Indian city of Mumbai have temporarily closed in a bid to limit the spread of the H1N1 virus. Schools and colleges will remain shut for a week and cinemas for three days. The...

Suspicious Package, Closes Atlanta Transit Station, Evacuation

A Buckhead MARTA train station in Atlanta, Georgia is being evacuated due to a suspicious package.  More information as story developsUpdate 12:14 p.m. - "MARTA spokeswoman Andrea Coleman said the package was...

Nepal shutdown by JACNAS

Kathmandu 1 June 2009: The Joint Action Committee for Newa Autonomous State (JACNAS) organized a shut down program in the capital Kathmandu and other 11 districts in support of making these districts a Newa...

U.S. Steel to Idle Two Canadian Facilities, Affecting 1500

The United States Steel Corp., the largest US based steel maker, announced Tuesday that it will temporily idle two Ontario facilities, affecting 1,500 employees in Hamilton and Nanticoke, as demand suffers from...

Rotating layoffs announced at GM, Chrysler auto plants in Windsor

WINDSOR, Ont. - Employees at two auto plants in Windsor, Ontario are facing rotating layoffs, starting next week. " Workers at the General Motors transmission plant are facing temporary job cuts as the automaker...

'Mad Men' Twitter Fans Mad Over Shutdown

Fan fiction exists in many different forms, but the hit U.S. television program 'Mad Men' has inspired a unique group of its online fans to write micro-blog posts on Twitter under the fictional guise - and...

Canadian Court Shuts Down Quebec Torrent Site

In a move many people see as controversial, a Quebec court has ruled that a torrent tracker site based out of Quebec, and hosting mostly french-language content, must shut down. This is a tricky situation, because it could leave the potential open for shutting down any...

Thousands of B.C. forest workers jobless as sawmills shutdown

Certainly the downturn in the US economy is having a disasterous trickle down theory for Canada's ailing lumber industry.  Let's hope China bites and buys our lumber to build all their homes destroyed in the...

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