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15 year old Ava Lowrey's Yearly Kos Video

Posted on: June 14th, 2006 by ecthompsonmd

 

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Michael Moore, truthout.org and several others have mentioned this 15 year old progressive.  All I can say is that the girl has video skills and she knows the issues!!

Mav collapse 2 – 1

Posted on: June 14th, 2006 by ecthompsonmd

 

Mavericks couldn't buy a basket in the last 4 minutes of the game.  Stackhouse was 1 - 9 from the field.  Wade stepped up and played like we all knew he could.  He outplayed the whole Maverick Front court by himself.  He was awesome. 

Mavericks just weren't mentally in the game.  The Heat got 16 offensive rebounds?  Aaauuuugghhhh!  That's the game right there.  No other stat needs to be looked at. 

Let's see what game 4 brings.  Now, this is getting interesting.

Go Mavs

We can't raise the minimum wage but…

Posted on: June 14th, 2006 by ecthompsonmd

 

The House Of Representatives voted to give themselves a pay raise of $3300.  These 2% cost-of-living raise is in direct contrast to stagnant American wages.  Congress has a bizarre rule which allows them not to vote on cost-of-living raises and the bill to continue to pass so this gives your congressman and mine plausible deniability.  They can all stand up and smile and say, "I didn't vote for any cost-of-living wage increases."

Remember last week Senator Bill Frist was discussing the "new" fiscal responsibility that Congress was showing.  I continue to see no evidence of fiscal responsibility.

Maybe, we should tie the salaries of our congressmen to the median income of Americans.  If you are in the House of Representatives you should get four times the median income, if you're in the Senate you can get five times the median income.  Then maybe we can get some fiscal policies out of Washington that will actually help middle America.