This is not a test. The TVA, CCC, WPA, alphabet soup are coming back, new millenia style BIGGER BAILOUT - read on, macduff, from WAPO, no more jokes.

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Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion
Spending Package Would Rival Financial System Bailout

By Lori Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 24, 2008; A01

Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years.

That amount, more than the nation has spent over the past six years in Iraq, would rival the sum Congress committed last month to rescuing the country's financial system. It would also be one of the biggest public spending programs aimed at jolting the economy since President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

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She’s Not Just Hot, She’s Vice President - and she stole OBAMA - BIDEN'S THUNDER! -- from American Princess

This was posted on FEBRUARY 12, 2008! Lincoln's Birthday. YE GADS!

She’s Not Just Hot, She’s Vice President --from American Princess, http://americanprincessblog.com/ the gal pol's prada blog - cool beans! Emily M. Zanotti, Esq., Detroit, MI, who is back at it, because her dream came true!

Emily wrote:

"But if you thought all of this, you’d probably be wrong. John Hawkins (who gave us a crazy-awesome plug, so we’ll give one back even though my twenty hits won’t even register on his statcounter) has his top 22 picks for McCain’s Veep, and we share love for one possibility in particular.

Sarah Palin: She’s the extremely popular, very attractive, very young governor of Alaska. She’s appealing and fairly conservative, but she’s a little too inexperienced for the job since she’s only been governor of Alaska since 2006.

Okay, that makes her sound terrible, and like we’re all inexperienced at this and stuff, and like she’s all inexperienced and stuff and she’s not. Yes, she was Miss Congeniality when she competed for Miss Alaska, she used marijuana when it was legal in her state, loves moose burgers and snowmobiling and is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association (she sounds like a Playboy calendar girl now, oops), but she has so much more to offer than just being the dream girl of any red-blooded American, Republican man.

She’s been a

city councilman,

a mayor,

head of various commissions within the state of Alaska (some of which she quit because her fellow Republican commissioners were too corrupt — a character trait we need more of),

and she’s done a hell of a good job as governor

and is a total DC outsider.

Did we mention she favors spreading the wealth so as to empower local rule,

sold a wasteful government jet on eBay,

and is a member of Feminists for Life?

And did we mention she’s hot? Okay, maybe thats not a qualification for office for everyone, but some of us might be a little attracted to Dick Cheney and we’re not afraid to admit that we voted for him because of that (it was one of many…don’t go all sanctimonious on us)…why not share the wealth?

After all, its not like the Democrats are voting on any major policy grounds...

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NEWS: Army moving ahead with Laser Cannon

[Image: Boeing]

Under the High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) Phase II contract, awarded Aug. 15, Boeing will complete the design of, then build, test and evaluate, a rugged beam control system on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck. Boeing also will develop the system-engineering requirements for the entire HEL TD laser weapon system.

Army Moves Ahead With Mobile Laser Cannon

By Noah Shachtman, Wired Magazine, August 19, 2008 12:06:07 PM Categories: Lasers and Ray Guns

The Army is moving ahead with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 35-ton-plus truck.

The service just handed Boeing a $36 million contract to "continue developing a truck-mounted, high-energy laser weapon system that will destroy rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds," according to a company statement.

Under the High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) Phase II contract, awarded Aug. 15, Boeing will complete the design of, then build, test and evaluate, a rugged beam control system on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck. Boeing also will develop the system-engineering requirements for the entire HEL TD laser weapon system.

Low power demonstrations are scheduled for 2010, with battlefield-strength laser tests to follow in 2013.

About a year ago, the Army asked Boeing and Northrop Grumman to work up preliminary designs for the HEL beam control system -- and promised to choose a winning model by 2009. So the program appears to be on track. And it's one of a number of energy weapon projects that have been picking up steam, after decades of unfulfilled promise. Relatively easy-to-deploy electric lasers have just about worked their way up to weapons-grade. Boeing recently test-fired the real-life ray gun on its Advanced Tactical Laser -- a blaster-equipped gunship. Raytheon has worked up a prototype of its Phalanx mortar-shooter that uses fiber lasers, instead of traditional ammo, to knock down targets. Even the eternally-delayed Airborne Laser -- a modified 747, designed to zap ballistic missiles -- may finally get a long-awaited flight test.

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