Monday, March 09, 2009

SPB News for Monday.



Median price of a house in Detroit is $7,000, real estate investors say.

Obama: withdraw 12k troops by September
As part of plan to return power to Iraqis, 4k British troops also leaving.

McCain demands GM bankruptcy
Former Obama foe says Ch. 11 'best thing' for recovery; Shelby agrees.

Who got AIG's bailout billions?
Fed official says naming recipients could hurt insurer's business.

Thousands join talk show hosts in tax protest — Officials estimate more than 8,000 people showed up in downtown Fullerton to protest tax hikes in budget deal. — Recommend — FULLERTON - They're revolting. Families with children, bikers, seniors, pirates - by the thousands descended …

Guantanamo worse since Obama election: ex-detainee A freed Guantanamo prisoner has said conditions at the US detention camp in Cuba have worsened since President Barack Obama was elected, claiming guards wanted to "take their last revenge". Binyam Mohamed, the first detainee to be transferred out of Guantanamo Bay since Obama took office, also said British agents "sold me out" by cooperating with his alleged torturers, in his first interview since release which was published Sunday.

Treasury Dept. gains 3 more Obama appointments President Barack Obama has chosen three people to join the senior ranks of the Treasury Department, where a slow pace of hiring has put the agency on the defensive. The White House on Sunday said Obama is nominating David S. Cohen to be assistant secretary in dealing with terrorist financing; Alan B. Krueger for assistant secretary for economic policy; and Kim N. Wallace as assistant secretary for legislative affairs.
Last week's poll had asked:
President Obama has announced the withdrawal of most US troops from Iraq by the end of August 2010. Is the US right to pull troops out of Iraq and put more into Afghanistan? There was a tie in the answer. Many readers answered yes and no. We shall see what happens in August 2010. New poll is now up.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

We know the US had a criminal corrupt Govenment for 8 years but so did Israel. The Israel President has been indicted for rape and sexual harrassment and the PM Olmert is charged with corruption. At lease the people of Israel know Bush/Cheney were in good company.

Cindy and John McCain have shown what kind of parents they really are. Instead of listening and helping their daughter, she has to go on the web for help with her problems. Once McCain's real life was exposed to the World and people saw he married for money and Cindy brought John. It had to have an effect on the kids. Young men might be looking to do the same thing. Hook up with a rich girl for her money. John McCain treats Cindy like dirt and she takes it. Any other woman would have kicked his sorry butt to the curb a long time ago.