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Republicans try and fail to block financial regulatory reform.

There's something going on with the Public Option but it's not clear what.

The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)--government buying crap from banks--is going to cost $200 Billion less than they thought it would.

Comcast to acquire NBC.

Democrats unhappy that we're going to Afghanistan to go to war. Republicans unhappy that 18 months from now we'll be coming home.

President to explain Afghanistan mission Tuesday night in prime time, on all major networks.

Ronald Reagan fails GOP "purity test".

President close to revealing his plan for Afghanistan.

Salt Lake City passes, with support of Mormon Church, ordinance banning discrimination against gays/lesbians in housing and the workplace.

Senators vote against debating health care reform but fail to muster the 41 votes they need to prevent debate from starting.

Investigators discover Bush administration illegally tortured suspects in secret prisons in Romania, Lithuania, and Poland.

Editorial: Deregulation allows "too-big-to-fail" banks to form and actually short-circuits the entire free-market system.

94% of Americans would be covered under the Senate plan. source: the Congressional Budget Office

Will Levi have dinner with them? Will he be wearing any clothes? --my dad

Democrats celebrating as health care reform passes in the House of Representatives. Next step: The Senate.

President announces major investment in education.

White House reports that the Recovery Act has saved or created over one million American jobs so far.

GDP grew at an annual rate of 3.5% in the third quarter, well ahead of the consensus predicted growth rate of 3.2%. Dow up 2% in response.

House and Senate and President now all agree that there will be a public option as part of health care reform.

Thirty Republican Senators stand up for the right of corporations to include a provision in government contracts that one employee not be permitted to sue the corporation if raped by another employee.

Study finds surprising old problem still haunting America's schools and actually getting worse: RACIAL SEGREGATION.

President announces new small business initiatives.

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Dow tops 10,000.

The next step: To merge the Senate Finance Committee bill (Chairman Baucus) with the Senate Health (H.E.L.P.) Committee bill (Harkin/Dodd).

Also try the up arrow, the down arrow, the left arrow, the right arrow, and especially the space bar, on your keyboard, after mouseclicking.

NEVER click on the tiny play/pause button. It's too small. Click on the video itself instead. It's big.

Kanye West interrupts Barack Obama as he accepts the Nobel Prize in Oslo, Norway.

Obama pledges to work with Congress to overturn Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT) and the ironically named Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

In speech to Human Rights Campaign, Obama promises to sign Hate Crimes Bill.

Google and YouTube are back up.

Google's down (including YouTube).

Republican talk show host Glenn Beck admits Barack Obama probably better President than John McCain would have been.

YouTube will begin autoconverting all YouTube channels to the new 2.0 design on: September 30th.

After reports of a fight on a school bus, Rush Limbaugh calls for a partial return to racial segregation.

Republican hysteria once again turns out to have been unjustified as President urges students to work hard and drive up graduation rates.

The Democratic Party (liberal) defeats the Liberal Democratic Party (conservative), in Japan, after 54 years of virtual one-party rule.

Death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver followed by the death of her brother, Senator Edward Kennedy.

America's largest Lutheran denomination, with 4.8M members, has voted to permit lesbians/gays in committed relationships to serve as clergy.

Wilkerson: ''The fourth unknown is the ad hoc intelligence philosophy that was developed to justify keeping many of these people called 'the mosaic philosophy'. Simply stated, this philosophy held that it did not matter if a detainee were innocent.''

Colin Powell's chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson says that 1. many of the detainees at Guantanamo were -completely- innocent, 2. that the White House knew it, and 3. that the White House kept the innocent detainees deliberately.




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