Irish scientists have discovered that three million men worldwide share a common ancestor - allegedly a fifth century Irish warlord rather splendidly called Niall of the Nine Hostages.

The revelation, Reuters reports, comes after a team from Trinity College Dublin tested the Y chromosome in 800 males across Ireland. The results showed that up to one in twelve Irish men has the same Y chromosome, with the highest concentration being in northwest Ireland, where an impressive one in five males boasts the same chromosome.

Irishman has three million kids

In California's delta, that approach translates into $20 million this year to improve the levees that protect Sacramento, the state capital, at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, and to strengthen the Folsom Dam, upstream from the city. But virtually no federal money is earmarked for other nearby levees that protect smaller communities, cropland and the conduits that bring drinking water to Southern California.
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California's state government struggles with that issue. The Schwarzenegger administration has proposed more spending on the levees than the Legislature has been willing to approve. Katrina raised awareness of the benefits to be reaped, but even before Katrina, a 1997 flood damaged or destroyed more than 30,000 homes and businesses, and a rupture in a levee last year resulted in $100 million worth of damage and repairs.

This isn't just about levees and infrastructure spending. It's rampant, and it's completely the fault of the current administration and the Republican's taking power of the legislature in 1996. The aim of the Republican party has been to dismantle the "social" side of the Federal government and replace it with capital expenditures that are farmed out to corporations (think Halliburton). The strategy has been to choke off money that's going to states, which is typically social-type programs (Medicaid, DHS, Special Ed, etc), sending that money to Federal programs where it can be outsourced (highway construction, drilling for oil, etc) or create new/bloated bureacracy (Homeland security, FCC, etc).

This starvation on the part of the states is what is currently creating the problems we're seeing. With eroding tax revenues and no help from the Feds, most states are on the brink of fiscal disaster. One look at the energy crisis in CA, the unemployment in MI, TennCare in TN, and the entire southeast region in fiscal junk bond status, and you can see that the plan is working. And it's not just levees. Healthcare, education, public works, and economic development have pretty much all been abandoned by the Feds so they can go off and fight unwinable wars and fatten their friend's corporate profits.

So when you read about how the Bush administration is incompetent and not intouch with reality, think again. They know exactly what they are doing and are executing with aplumb! This is essentially a scorch the earth strategy, which will transfer wealth from every sector of our society into the most wealth Americans who can afford to invest or be shareholders in major corporations who are reaping the benefits of this strategy. This will leave irrepable damage to our society and our community, as it will takes decades to undue the damage, if at all.

Disasters Waiting to Happen

There are just two things to know about Li. First, he grew up in a poor farming community. This makes him hungry.

Second, he comes from Zhejiang, China's heart of capitalism. Zhejiang entrepreneurs are bold beyond words. They scare even the savvy Shanghai business people.

Yes Virginia, the Chinese threat is real.

Nothing less than a revolution will do

Gov. Bob Taft was charged with four criminal misdemeanor counts Wednesday for failing to report dozens of gifts that included dinners, golf games and professional hockey tickets, deepning a scandal that has rocked Ohio's Republican Party.

Hey Bob Taft, thanks for carrying Ohio in the closest race EVER!

Brittney Gilbert's take on the con. This link will self destruct in one week.

BlogNashville

damn. another fine soldier down.

Hunter Thompson commits suicide

] Schmitt said the donations help pay for the venues,
] vendors, parade-route bleachers, entertainment and other
] costs associated with staging the Jan. 20 inauguration,
] as well as lead-up events beginning Jan. 18.
]
] The inauguration is estimated to cost $30 million to $40
] million, which private donations will cover. The estimate
] includes security costs not covered by the federal and
] local government. Security is expected to be tight for
] the first inauguration since the Sept. 11, 2001,
] terrorist attacks.

WTF? Why does a second term president need to even do this? Why not give this money to No Child Left Behind? Or, y'know... feed DC's hungry and sick? Hell, feed Austin's hungry and sick.

14 Give Inaugural Planners $250,000

] The NHL's biggest flaw seems to be that it was beginning
] to think of itself as being on a par with football and
] basketball in the national sports consciousness. Big
] mistake. That's dangerous thinking in a competitive
] environment where people have many other places to take
] their entertainment dollar and enthusiasm.

There's no byline on this editorial, but whoever wrote this is dead on.

Thin ice: NHL dispute could wreck the sport

] A billboard recently put up in Orlando bearing a smiling
] photograph of President Bush with the words "Our
] Leader" is raising eyebrows among progressives who
] feel the poster is akin to that of propaganda used by
] tyrannical regimes.

I have no problem with this type of advertising. It's helpful to hang a flag out and show everyone how stupid you are. What I do have a problem with is that the company which is sponsoring it controls a majority chunk of several media in this country, and it's becoming clear that the line between political stance and objective reporting is more blurred and hidden than it's ever been.

George W. Bush: Our leader

We tried so hard.

Sorry Everybody