My Way News - LEDs Emerge to Fight Fluorescents

My Way News - LEDs Emerge to Fight Fluorescents: "The energy efficiency is no doubt a draw for commercial clients like hotels, but LEDs have another big advantage: they last up to 50,000 hours, according to manufacturers. That compares to about 10,000 hours for fluorescents and 1,000 hours for incandescents. Not having to send out janitors to replace burned-out bulbs means big savings in maintenance costs." Janitors are people too!

My Way News - Pentagon Tells 35,000: Prepare to Deploy

My Way News - Pentagon Tells 35,000: Prepare to Deploy: "WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 Army soldiers to be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the year if needed. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Tuesday the deployment orders, which have been signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, do not mean that the military has made a decision to keep the increased level of 20 brigades in Iraq through December. A brigade is roughly 3,500 soldiers. Instead, he said the decision gives the Pentagon the 'capability' to carry the buildup to the end of the year. The replacement forces, Whitman said, would give commanders in Iraq the flexibility they need to complete the mission there. The announcement, said Whitman, has 'nothing to do' with a decision to extend the troop buildup. He said the Pentagon 'has been very clear that a decision about the duration of the surge will depend on conditions on the ground.'"

My Way News - House Pitches New Iraq Plan

My Way News - House Pitches New Iraq Plan: "House Democrats want to provide a bill that supports the troops, but not give Bush a blank check on the deeply unpopular and costly war. Further complicating matters, several House liberals oppose funding the war at all while other more conservative Democrats are reluctant to tie strings to a bill needed by the troops. The new version is likely to meet resistance in the Senate. Several Senate Democrats said they would oppose a short-term funding bill because it leaves open the question of whether troops will get the resources they need after July. 'There's the question of why it wasn't fully funded,' said Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. If the House version of the bill fails in conference with the Senate, Democratic leaders say their members will have other chances to affect Iraq policy. Party leaders have pointed to the 2008 defense authorization bill, which helps to set Pentagon policy, as well as the 2008 appropriations bills. However, that plan could meet resistance by members reluctant to watch their carefully crafted bills sink under a presidential veto. Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has drafted a defense authorization bill that requires U.S. officials to report on progress made on the war. But according to a panel aide familiar with the draft, the bill so far does not include a tough" Let's see, has 100 hours passed yet? Couldn't have, because Pelosi said her congress would fix all of our problems by then. Last I checked, they hadn't done a thing. I thought April marked the first 100 days? I am so confused... I feel like a democrat.

My Way News - Queen Elizabeth to Honor U.S. Soldiers

My Way News - Queen Elizabeth to Honor U.S. Soldiers: "The queen, accompanied by her husband Prince Philip, had a full day of sighteeing in the U.S. capital planned for Tuesday, including a stop at the Children's National Medical Center with first lady Laura Bush and a trip to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Maryland." I didn't even know the queen was married.

My Way News - Bush's Veto Survives House Challenge

My Way News - Bush's Veto Survives House Challenge: "Democrats flashed defiance, yet signaled they were ready to make significant concessions such as jettisoning the troop withdrawal timetable in order to gain Bush's signature on a replacement measure. There was early talk in both parties of setting goals for the government of Iraq to meet as it strives to develop a self-defending, democratic society."

My Way News - Senate OKs War Bill With Iraq Timeline

My Way News - Senate OKs War Bill With Iraq Timeline: "With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at his side, Reid said Democrats hoped to have a follow-up war-funding bill ready for the president's signature by June 1. Despite administration claims to the contrary, he said that was soon enough to prevent serious disruption in military operations. Several Democratic officials have said they expect the next measure will jettison the withdrawal timetable, a concession to Bush. At the same time, they say they hope to include standards for the Iraqi government to meet on issues such as expanding democratic participation and allocating oil resources."

Exactly what Cheney predicted. The democrats are showing their complete incompetence to lead. When will Americans wake up and realize that the Democratic party of today is a loser party?

My Way News - '$100 Laptop' to Cost $175

My Way News - '$100 Laptop' to Cost $175: "CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The founder of the ambitious '$100 laptop' project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface. Nicholas Negroponte, the former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab who now heads the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, updated analysts and journalists on where the effort stands, saying 'we are perhaps at the most critical stage of OLPC's life.' That's partly because at least seven nations have committed to being in the initial wave to buy the little green-and-white 'XO' computers - Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya - but it remains unclear which ones will be first to pony up the cash. The project needs orders for 3 million machines so its manufacturing and distribution effort can get rolling."

My Way News - Petraeus Eyes Long Commitment in Iraq

My Way News - Petraeus Eyes Long Commitment in Iraq: "WASHINGTON (AP) - Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require 'an enormous commitment' over time by the United States."

Reid: Bush in denial over war in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Reid: Bush in denial over war in Iraq - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday President Bush is in a state of denial over Iraq, 'and the new Congress will show him the way.' Holding his ground, Bush renewed his staunch opposition to timetables for U.S. troop withdrawals."

My Way News - Supreme Court OKs Abortion Procedure Ban

My Way News - Supreme Court OKs Abortion Procedure Ban: "WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a disputed abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench."