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Last login: 1 hour agoShatteredhalo: shatteredhalo is a 24 year old woman from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.; Likes 1,862 pages, 51 videos, 154 photos • 29 fans • Received 6 reviews; Member since Dec 16, 2005

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VetVoice:: Contractors Still Electrocuting Troops: May 4, 7:24am 1 review politics, war-in-iraq
http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1178; From the page: "The Pentagon has provided $30 billion in contracts to KBR during the Iraq War. Apparently that's just the Basic Troop Support Package, however, because it's not enough money to keep the contractor from electrocuting a dozen troops in showers and elsewhere throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.

If we want soldiers to be able to shower without the fear of death, perhaps KBR could offer us a Premium Package for another $20 billion or so, that could guarantee troops their safety when they try to do seemingly standard things: like cleaning up after all-night missions."

Negative Implications Of No Child Left Behind: As Graduation Rates Go Down, Scho…: May 4, 7:22am 5 reviews education, politics, bad-policy
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080214080530.htm; From the page: ""High-stakes, test-based accountability doesn't lead to school improvement or equitable educational possibilities," said Linda McSpadden McNeil, director of the Center for Education at Rice University. "It leads to avoidable losses of students. Inherently the system creates a dilemma for principals: comply or educate. Unfortunately we found that compliance means losing students.""

The New York Times & Log In: Apr 27, 7:30pm 1 review politics
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/opinion/26collins.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin%...; From the page: "Having delivered his objections to the Ledbetter bill this week, McCain went on to tell reporters that what women really need is ā€oeeducation and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else. And itā€s hard for them to leave their families when they donā€t have somebody to take care of them.ā€¯"

Investors Could Profit From Strangers Deaths - Sacramento News Story - KCRA Sacr…: Feb 1, 5:02am 1 review insurance, money, corrupt-insurance-practices
http://www.kcra.com/news/15189803/detail.html?rss=sac&psp=news; Sorry, this is morally disgusting to me. If you invest in that, I hope karma catches up to you in great haste.

Never invest in someone else's misery or grief.

Kitty Wigs! The Wigs: Dec 12, 2007 7:30pm 0 review cats, kitties, wigs, kitty-wigs
http://kittywigs.com/wigindex.html?oh=pleeeze; ... ;)

MORTGAGE MELTDOWN / Interest rate freeze - the real story is fraud / Bankers pay…: Dec 10, 2007 6:05am 3 reviews news, money, fraud, bankers, sub-prime-mortgages
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/09/IN5BTNJ2V.DTL; From the page: "This logic is like saying shoppers seeking bargain-priced soup encourage the grocery store owner to steal it. I mean, we're talking about criminal fraud here. We are on the cusp of a mammoth financial crisis, and the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury are trying to limit the liability of their banking friends under the guise of trying to help borrowers. At stake is nothing short of the continued existence of the U.S. banking system."

Ailing 5-year-old girl is sworn in as New Baltimore police officer: Nov 10, 2007 6:51am 1 review real-estate
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071109/NEWS04/71109052; From the page: "Juliana Marrocco has just two goals: to be a doctor so she can save people, and to be a police officer so she can protect them. Doctors said the cancer that's been attacking the 5-year-old's brain since she was just 4 months old would make it unlikely she'd ever reach either goal. That changed Friday."

Bankruptcy Reform Bites Back: Nov 6, 2007 4:17am 2 reviews politics, debt, bankruptcy, bankruptcy-law, housing-woes
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_44/b4056080.htm; From the page: "By contrast, the new law was designed to protect creditors. For one thing, only low-income borrowers can file for Chapter 7, which wipes out debts. The amended law pushes more people into Chapter 13, which forces households to accept 3-5 year repayment plans on all debtsā€"secured and unsecured. In other words, they're still trying to make payments on car, credit card, medical, and other bills that used to be discharged in Chapter 7."

Too Cool For School: Futurama Theme Song Inspiration: Nov 5, 2007 6:45am 3 reviews animation, music-videos, futurama, psychedelic-music, 60s-music
http://toocoolvideos.blogspot.com/2007/11/futurama-theme-song-inspiration.html; Great song and awesome animation. Is that BACON?
Check it out. Sixties gold.

NPR : 900,000 Affected by Massive Flooding in Mexico: Nov 3, 2007 8:40am 1 review mexico, news, flooding
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15878777; From the page: ""The situation is extraordinarily grave. This is one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the country," Calderon said in a televised address Thursday night."

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