BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Even though President Obama says he is against off shore drilling for our country, he signed an executive order to loan 2 Billion of OUR taxpayers dollars to a Brazilian Oil Exploration Company (which is the 8th largest company in the entire world) to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil. The oil that comes from this operation is for the sole purpose and use of China and NOT THE USA. That's right - NOT THE USA. Now here's the real clincher...the Chinese government is under contract to purchase all the oil that this oil field will produce, which is hundreds of millions of barrels of oil". The U.S.A., in trillions of dollars of debt, has absolutely no gain from this transaction whatsoever! Guess who is the largest individual stockholder of this Brazilian Oil Company and who would benefit most from this? It is American BILLIONAIRE, George Soros, who was one of President Obama's most generous financial supporters during his campaign. If you are able to connect the dots a...

FINALLY! SOMEONE STOPS THE SPREAD OF CAPPUCCINOISM O.K. I love Starbucks. I don't lie, so there. I said it. Their frappuccinos on a hot day in August are like manna in the Baked Apple. Sure, some mornings after getting my kids to school - I get a latte or cappucino to get myself going... oh yeah, and a biscotti. I know... I have a terrible coffee addiction. I've been like this since undergrad school. I am working on it. Really. But Starbucks is spreading like fungus. It's everywhere. In the capitol of British Columbia there's a cross-street with a Starbucks on every corner. In London, where tea is king, Starbucks and Burger King were just about everywhere. There's one parked inside my local Target store. Branding? Yes. World Domination? No. However, there are some places Starbucks just should not be. And the Imperial Palace was probably one of them. Starbucks finds Imperial Palace a forbidding market A controversial Starbucks coffee shop in the Forbidde...

BETRAYED BY THE INTERNET! With all the recent buzz in the JBlogsphere on the Orthomom case and in the Domestic Violence Blogsphere (and I'm fairly certain every other blog niche on the net) on anonymity, free speech and intellectual property law - I felt this article was important enough and 'scary' enough to warrant reposting it here. Be glad this isn't us... or is it? Read EFF's Legal Guide for Bloggers YAHOO BETRAYED MY HUSBAND! By Luke O'Brien (excerpts) FAIRFAX, Virginia -- Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling's Beijing duplex. She's cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journals to a group of Yahoo users. He's been having problems with his Yahoo service recently. He thinks it's a technical issue. This is the day he learns he's wrong. Wang picks up the phone: "Yes?" "Are...