Posted by: Audiegrl
Tonight, on the premiere of John King, USA, John will sit down for an exclusive interview with Vicki Kennedy. They will discuss her personal reflections on the health care reform vote, her late husband’s impact on the bill, the election of Sen. Scott Brown and more. Tune in to America’s new home for political news and conversation at 7pm ET.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Vicki Kennedy Will Be Interviewed on New CNN Show, "<em>John King, USA</em>"
Friday, March 19, 2010
China Southern Airlines To Offer Premium Economy On All Domestic Routes
Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines has announced that it will offer a Premium Economy cabin on all domestic flights in a major expansion of the service, currently available on its non-stop transpacific flight between Guangzhou and Los Angeles. The airline will refit 7,000 Premium Economy seats on nearly 300 aircraft across its Airbus A319, A320, A321, A330, Boeing 737NG and 777 fleets.
Beginning 28 March 2010, passengers will be able to book and purchase seats in Premium Economy Class on routes from Guangzhou and Shenzhen to Beijing and Shanghai for the price of a full Economy Class ticket. China Southern Airlines will gradually phase in the service on the remaining domestic routes by July 2010.
Passengers travelling in Premium Economy Class will enjoy a redesigned cabin with 24 to 53 seats (depending on aircraft) for increased privacy. Each seat offers a seat pitch of between 35 to 37 inches for greater comfort, accompanied by pre-flight snacks, a bottle of water, newspaper and wool blankets in addition to standard amenities for Economy Class passengers.
On the ground, the airline will have a dedicated check-in counter for Premium Economy passengers, with a commitment to ensure that waiting time will not exceed 8 minutes. Passengers will also enjoy an additional 5 kilograms of baggage allowance and priority in baggage delivery, upgrades and boarding at their convenience. China Southern Airlines will also extend passengers the option of a complimentary re-routing between neighbouring destinations for greater flexibility and 10% more frequent flyer miles than a full-fare Economy Class ticket.
A member of the Skyteam alliance, China Southern Airlines flies to 139 destinations within China. For more information, visit www.cs-air.com.
Dems sweeten health bill, set showdown Sunday vote
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Dems sweeten health bill, set showdown Sunday vote
Thursday, March 18 2010
Dems sweeten health bill, set showdown Sunday vote
Thursday, March 18 2010
President Barack Obama again postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia, this time putting it off until June so that he can be in Washington as Democrats in Congress try to pass a health care reform bill, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced Thursday.
Obama had already delayed his trip once and was planning to leave Sunday, but the House health care vote now is expected Sunday as well. Gibbs said the president didn’t want to risk having to cancel at the last minute.
“Passage of health care reform is of paramount importance, and the president is determined to see this battle through,” Gibbs said during the daily press briefing. “The president believes right now the place for him is to be in Washington to see this through.”
Postponing a presidential trip overseas is a dramatic step, and the move — decided on by Obama at 9:45 a.m. Thursday, official said — speaks to the importance health reform has taken on for the president. A trip overseas at such a critical moment could have left him somewhat out of the picture at what could prove to be a signature moment of his presidency, if the House can pass reform this weekend as Democratic leaders expect.
Gibbs insisted that the delay in the trip didn’t mean trouble for the House passing reform. “The president still believes we will have the votes,” he said.
But House leaders say they’re still short of the 216 votes needed to pass reform in the House. That effort got a boost Thursday when the Congressional Budget Office said the bill, which will cost $940 billion over 10 years, would reduce the deficit over the next 10 and 20 years. After the House acts, the Senate also must act to pass a cleanup bill, probably sometime next week.
Obama must sign the House-Senate bill into law before the Senate can pass the cleanup bill.
News about the trip postponement came just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was ending a news conference. As she left the room, she said: “I’m glad. I like having him here.”
She suggested he was staying because the Senate will take up the bill next week.
“This is historical. I’m sure he wants to be here for the history,” Pelosi said.
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) also is happy the president is staying.
“He may have to twist some arms. He may have to talk to some people. His personal presence helps.”
The Senate will take up the bill soon after House passage, probably Tuesday, aides said.
The overseas trip promises to be an emotional one. Obama was planning to visit Indonesia, where he lived for four years as a child. On Thursday, Obama called the leader of Indonesia and plans to soon call the Australian prime minister, Gibbs said.
“We greatly regret the delay in the trip,” he said.
While pushing back an official overseas trip is a personal first for Obama, it is hardly new to the presidency. President George W. Bush pushed back to July 2003 a major Africa trip the White House had scheduled for January 2003 due to a variety of considerations, according to CBS’s Mark Knoller, who keeps a meticulous tally of presidential statistics.
Bush also postponed a trip to Canada in the spring of 2003, in run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. President Bill Clinton also pushed back international trips. He sent Vice President Al Gore in his place to an APEC Summit in Malaysia.
President Ronald Reagan once cancelled a trip to Indonesia citing the need to remain in Washington to deal with the budget and other issues. President George H.W. Bush postponed a trip to Australia amid criticism of his international travel while Americans suffered in a down economy.
Gibbs said the delay was unavoidable. Unless the president left “extremely early” Sunday afternoon, the trip would not have been feasible and putting it off further seemed the best option when staff reviewed his schedule Wednesday night, Gibbs said..
“It just at that point seemed obvious to us that the best course of business was to reschedule,” he said.
The White House is not concerned about possible diplomatic repercussions.
“Each of these two countries understands what the president has been working on, what he’s involved in and the importance of him seeing it through,” Gibbs said.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Porque tu cuentas - EE.UU. Censo 2010
Ayer recibimos el sobre blanco grande del Censo 2010 que usted y muchos otros en el pais recibieron o empezaron a recibir. No hay casi nada que agregar pues las campañas son inmensas y de amplio espectro.
Es necesario que como hispanos nos sintamos integrados e incluídos.
Es una responsabilidad, y además uno está obligado por ley a hacerse contar. Devuelva el sobre incuído y resporte los datos de hasta 10 personas viviendo con usted al 1 de abril del 2010.
Mientras transitaba por la calle vi un aviso publicitario que caló muy ondo en nuestra vista y en nuestro sentido. No es textual pero decia algo como: “Si no sabemos cuantos somos, no sabremos cuantos buses necesitaremos.
Cierto que hasta se han hecho ini\vitaciones ha boicotear el censo pero eso no es sabio. Es lo mismo que en el hogar, si no sabes cuanto ganas , no sabes cuanto tienes para gastar.
Amigos latinoamericanos viviendo en los EE.UU.: Si por alguna razón estás en estas tierras hasta el 1 de Abril del 2010, hazte contar. NO importa tu situación migratoria.
Exuste el miego que esos dato serán compartidos. Si que lo es pero eso solo puede hacerse por medio de uan corte federal.
Además si realmente quisieran perseguirte, existen varias formas de econtrarte y tu lo sabes. Solo reflexiona. Cómo hacen para llegar a los domicilios de los que han cometido delitos federales?
Las redes sociales están jugando un papel activo este año. Facebook tiene su propia página y en Twitter son dos hashtags las destacadas: #Censo2010 y #becounted.
El poder y la organización de los hispanos depende de que sepamos con la mayor exactitud cuantos hispanos somos.
Tu cuentas, inclúyete. Hazte contar!
Online Mom - Keep The Kids Safe
By: Online Mom
Hi, I’m Jenny,
It is every parents nightmare but unfortunately child abduction is a reality. The statistics are quite terrifying:
Somewhere in the United States a child goes missing every 40 seconds.
A lot of these have innocent explanations. Kids visit friends without telling you. They wander off at the mall while you are paying for something with your credit card.
Even thought there are lots of reasons kids go missing, when it happens, the panic and fear of the worst scenario is all you can think about.
Abduction isn’t what parents want to even think about but it does happen. One of the most common cases is abduction of a child by one of the family members. The latest statistics are that 203,900 kids were abducted by family members every year. Arguments over child custody during and after divorce are commonplace.
I for one put my faith in modern GPS technology provided by Amber Alert. These small devices can be placed in children’s clothing or hidden in their backpacks.
With just the press of a few buttons you can receive instant information on where your child is, displayed on your cell phone or computer.
Click Here to have a look at their website and find out about this wonderful device that helps keeps our kids safe.
-Jenny
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Monday, March 15, 2010
India up for sale to MNCs
A nervous Wall Street Journal type-casting Indians!
The recent historic moratorium on Bt brinjal by Jairam Ramesh, minister of environment and forests, has created a network of citizens’ organisations around the country that have risen spontaneously from the ground, and have prevented the country’s agriculture becoming devoid of its diversity and moving in the direction of control by multinational corporations MNCs. (via India up for sale to MNCs).
Grass roots and spontaneous
A 'divided' India has stuck together for more than 60 years - more than any country in the world.
This post makes an excellent point of how Indians ‘divided’ by caste, religion, language, colour made Jairam Ramesh change his mind – and stop Bt Brinjal. And these same ‘divided’, docile, non-violent, supine, Indians, mounted nearly a 100 wars against the British during the 1800-1900 period.
Having met PM Bharagava a lo-o-ong time ago, (my) impressions were exactly opposite of what he is writing in this post now.
An excellent post for many reasons, about the many possibilities that India can wake up to tomorrow – and lies asleep. The one dark cloud, is PMB’s great reliance on the State to take action.
The Great Brown Indian StatePMB – Please! But, puh-leeze, the State will simply take our money, our efforts, our ideas – and finally, our freedom!
It makes little difference, if the colour of the rulers is Brown, Green, Red, Yellow, Black, Blue or White! The Brown Indian State, while better than the White Indian State, is still a bad idea!
It is the Brown Indian State that we must now work on! The nearly 2(0) million Indian who lost their lives fighting the White Indian State did not die to replace the White Indian State with a Brown Indian State.
Remembering David
Today is the 5th anniversary of my older brother’s death, David. He died at age 52 after a ruthless fight with Multiple Myeloma, cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow, for which there is no cure.
Given 2 years, he lived for 4, surviving endless chemotherapy and 2 stem cell transplants (using his own cells, taken and treated prior to chemotherapy). A donor cell transplant was the next step and I’ll never forget the phone call from him telling me that I WAS a match for him! But, he never became well enough for us to give it a try.
He was intelligent, musically gifted, funny and a great father of two little girls!
My brother, David
After his divorce, he wrote some of these hilarious potential single’s ads:
Recently divorced, balding, 45+, grunt lab technician. Speech impediment, Hearing impaired (rock music), and eyesight faltering. Caustic, blunt, and extremely self-centered. Seeking firm figured, attractive 20 -ish nympho with no personality and a fat inheritance. PLEASE – no redheads.
Quiet, stable, strong Christian father, early 40’s, seeks young co-ed, brazen party animal with low self-esteem, no family ties and lots of money. Prefer no REDHEADS, but send picture if you see fit.
Professional gentleman, 45, handsome, entertaining, convincing liar.. seeks 80-ish Mission Hills widow, for nites of financial counseling, hot tea and contract signing.
Out of State father, 45, broke, crude, … oily scalp, poor teeth, seeks “one nite stand” candidates. … 3 times a week – Holidays off.
It makes me laugh just to hear him coming up with these.
I miss you, David!
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