Thoughtful Sound Plan for Iraq: And Some Very Good News !

This report released today contains some excellent ideas, plans, and strategies for the future of American military forces in Iraq as well as other recommendations.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090801471.html?hpid=topnews


And it is now down to under 500 days left of the Bush Junta days left in command. Lets hope things do not get much worse in these remaining 16 + months...
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Nebraska US Senator Hegel to Retire; No Presidential Run Expected

One of the few Republicans with the courage to stand up to the incompetence and corruption of the Bush Junta will retire from the US Senate at the completion of his term next year. Chuck Hegel is also expected to rule out any run for the presidency as well.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/08/AR2007090801461.html?nav=hcmodule

Beetles to Wipe Out Pine Trees Across Central Rockies

Within a decade or so, the vast majority of coniferous trees that make up the forests in the Central Rocky Mountains from New Mexico northward through Colorado and into Wyoming will be dead, looking red in color in their needles. There appears nothing that will stop this environmental cataclysm short of about two straight months of nighttime low temperatures around negative 50 degrees to kill the pests. And as we all know, that is not going to happen as the NOAA and the NWS is forecasting the warmest winter in recorded and recent history in the Central and Northern Rockies and across the High Plains.


http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2007/09/09/featured_story/01top_09-09-07.txt


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The Utter Failure of Republican Economics through Reagan, Bush Sr, and Bush Jr.

It is essential to have an understanding of the deep cost that the last three Republican Presidential Adminstrations along with their cronies in Congress have had on and most importantly will have on the future of this nation. The debt these three administrations have amassed will have serious and grave consequences on all citizens, but particularly on those who are but children today. A strong evident decline in the standard of living in the US will occur within the next generation or earlier.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hale-stewart/the-failure-of-republican_b_63520.html


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Summer Ends in SE Wyoming

Today we awoke to daytime temperatures that stayed in the 40s with thick cloudy skies, periodic rain, and an overall gloominess in the air. Tonight snow is expected in areas to the west above 7500' with about 1-3" to fall with limited accumulations. Here in town, snow may mix in with the rain but it is still just a little too warm for any accumulations yet. But that will change in the coming months, maybe weeks. However, warmer weather will occur again in the coming days and we still have a lot of days left with temperatures exceeding 65 degrees in the next two months or so.