WASHINGTON – As Congress tries to clean up the nation's energy sources and cut gases blamed for global warming, it is struggling to do so in its own backyard.

The Capitol Power Plant, a 99-year-old facility that heats and cools the hallowed halls of Congress, still burns coal and accounts for one-third of the legislative branch's greenhouse gas emissions. For a decade, lawmakers have attempted to clean it up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090301/ap_on_go_co/congress_power_plant

Obama increased the military budget by $40 billion, he increased the amount of our tax revenue that the government gives to churches, he is against equal rights for gays/lesbians, he has increased our covert agenda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he appointed the former head of Goldman Sachs to manage the economic nightmare that they themselves created, etc.

Iceland has announced a new government that will be headed by the modern world's first openly gay leader.

Johanna Sigurdardottir was named new prime minister by the country's coalition political parties.

Iceland's previous coalition cabinet of PM Geir Haarde collapsed last month under the strain of an escalating economic crisis.

Ms Sigurdardottir's government said on Sunday it would immediately start to tackle Iceland's crisis.

"The government inherits enormous difficulties due to the banking and systemic collapse as well as considerable and rapidly increasing foreign debts and liabilities of the national economy," the new coalition said in a statement.

It said its priorities would be replacing the board of governors of the central bank and to ask a parliamentary committee to look at the possibility of entering the European Union.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7862804.stm

both of which are subjective anyway.

The disclosure that near-bankrupt Merrill dished out a staggering $209 million for 10 bankers takes this scandal beyond the absurd-and possibly into criminal territory. Will the Feds prosecute?

The curious case of the obscene Merrill Lynch bonuses just keeps getting more and more disturbing and harder and harder to fathom. For instance, there is the small matter of the whopping $33.8 million bonus that Merrill supposedly paid to the suave European Andrea Orcel, Merrill’s top investment banker, who allegedly generated, according to The Wall Street Journal, some $550 million in revenue in 2008. The Journal attributes the number to “people close to him” and offers nothing close to any further substantiation.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-05/wall-streets-new-bonus-outrage/

don't expect them to do the same for the democrats.

It's called being the opposition party, something the democrats forgot for the last 8 years.

The study pointed to federal initiatives such as Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow employees to put aside pre-tax income for health or dependant care expenses. Married couples can cover their spouses under these plans, according to HRC attorney Lara Schwartz, but a same-sex partner can’t use that money for his or her health care needs.

Other federal programs supported by tax dollars also specifically exclude same-sex partners. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, workers can take up to 12 weeks to care for a spouse, child or parent, but not a same-sex partner. When heterosexual employees leave their jobs, they have the option of keeping their families covered by their health insurance for 18 months, as directed by COBRA laws. Those laws do not require employers to offer the same coverage to domestic partners, although some do voluntarily.

And though it does not require companies to provide the same health benefits, when employers do so, the federal government benefits, according to HRC President Cheryl Jacques.

“Since my partner, Jenn, stays at home to care for our twin toddler boys, her health insurance is covered through the Human Rights Campaign as a domestic partner. But it’s a benefit I’m taxed on, while my straight married friends aren’t,” Jacques said.

“Simply put, we’re working hard and paying more taxes for less protection.”

Prop. 8 is just another example of organized religion exercising it's special status in the United States.

Obama just increased the amount of our tax revenue that goes to chruches, they get to own property, and they get to hold presidential debates.

We will never have equality in this country until religion is kept out of our government and out of our lives.

the same way we lost Korea, Vietnam, and the way we will lose in Afghanistan.

We can either cut our loses or we can stay and lose more lives in some misguided attempt to keep our national machismo.

The American media wouldn't know the truth if they tripped over it.

Just goes to show what happens when the democrats and the republicans pick leaders based on their skin color.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KIRK_TAXES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

not his empty promises or pretty words.

Although it is amusing to watch the Obama supporters twist everything he does into some kind of grand plan that only he knows and understands.

It's the same logic they use to justify the existence of their god.

these are the same tired excuses we have heard for the last 8 years.

Obama = Bush Dark

and increasing the amount of our tax revenue that goes to churches via the faith based fraud.

It's obvious what side Obama is on and it's not mine.

It's not my fault people buy mortgages they can't afford.