<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Doing the Troops Wrong : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/education/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Doing the Troops Wrong : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/education/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing the Troops Wrong]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60824/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Who wouldn&#8217;t support an effort to pay for college for G.I.&#8217;s who have willingly suited up and put their lives on the line, who in many cases have served multiple tours in combat zones and in some cases have been wounded?<br/>Well, you might be surprised at who is not supporting this effort. The Bush administration opposes it, and so does Senator John McCain.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sneak Peak of New Fashion Line &quot;The Row&quot;]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/17973/1/</link><description><![CDATA[For those of you who haven&#8217;t heard, Mary Kate and Ashley (yes, the Olsen twins), are in the process of launching a new high-end fashion line called &#8220;The Row.&#8221;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Gonzales Next Bush, Rove and Cheney Fall Guy?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/13292/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Does anyone notice a trend in the Bush administration:<ul style='list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 0px 10px;'><li class='li'>Passing the buck and setting up others to be fall guys<br/><li class='li'>Truckloads of lies, deception and half truths<br/><li class='li'>Lack of accountability</ul>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Bush Sr to Endorse McCain]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50759/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Former President George H.W. Bush will appear with his wife, Barbara, on Monday to showcase their endorsement of Sen. John McCain. A senior campaign official said that the former first couple will attend a rally for McCain and are expected to campaign for him.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush is A commander guy, not THE commander guy]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19102/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The White House is trying to clarify something: President George W Bush is ''a commander guy'' but not ''the commander guy.''<br/><br/>Or something like that.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain opposed Bush Iraq policy in '03; why didn't he try to unseat him in '04?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78603/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The McCain-Palin ticket has been making much of the fact that the Arizona senator wanted more troops in Iraq as early as 2003. Yet he supported Bush for re-election, wrong-headed Iraq policy and all. He could have done the truly &quot;maverick&quot; thing and tried to unseat Bush so as to improve the execution of the war. He put the interests of the Republican Party over the good of his country.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush says US to send more troops to Afghanistan ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/67543/1/</link><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He conceded that June was a &quot;tough month&quot; in the nearly seven-year-old war.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush to bring home 8000 troops from Iraq in February ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75366/1/</link><description><![CDATA[One Marine battalion, about 1,000 troops, will go home in November and not be replaced. An Army brigade of around 4,000 troops will leave in February. In addition, about 3,400 support forces will also be removed from Iraq]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colorado DoE Working to Kill Bill Providing Free College Tuition to Decorated Combat Vets]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50926/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A bill that would grant Colorado residents who were awarded Purple Heart or higher medal free college tuition is <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/colorado-department-of-higher-education.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">under fire</a> as too costly by people such as David Skaggs of the Dept of Education. The same David Skaggs who <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_5657370,00.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">proposes</a> having tax payers pay a large percentage of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/08/colorado-in-state-tuition-for-children.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">illegal</a> alien's tuition.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/69753/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush endorses John McCain for president]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/53203/1/</link><description><![CDATA[If that ain't the kiss of death, what is?  Can McCain tell him to please not do that?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free higher education for troops in MoD welfare overhaul]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/73143/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Servicemen and women may be able to go to college or university without paying tuition fees when they leave the army, navy or air force under a wide-ranging package of measures announced today.<br/>Unveiling the proposals in the Commons the defense secretary, Des Browne, also confirmed that he would double the compensation paid to troops seriously injured in military operations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush seeks new Iraq funding bill]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/15874/1/</link><description><![CDATA[US President George W Bush invited Democrats to the White House on Tuesday to discuss a standoff over a bill that provides for more than $100 billion to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Vetoes Children's Health Bill]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/44060/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The measure would provide $60 billion over the next five years, $35 billion more than current spending and $30 billion more than the president proposed. Mr. Bush and his backers argue that the bill would be a step toward federalization of health care, and that it would steer the program away from its core purpose of providing insurance for poor children and toward covering children from middle-class families.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[SoCal college offers YouTube class]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/35651/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Here's a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube. Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever Wonder Why College Tuition Goes Up Every Year?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42622/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It costs a lot of money to go to college. It costs even more money to run a college. And it&#8217;s costing increasingly more money to pay college and university presidents&#8217; salaries and compensation packages, with many reaching the million-dollar mark.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68232/1/</link><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate approved and sent the White House a bill Wednesday to overhaul bitterly disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the U.S. spy on Americans.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61579/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Mr. McCain added pointedly: &#8220;I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges.&#8221;<br/><br/>Ouch! That will cost him some votes with the hardliners.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Does #2 For The Troops]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18880/1/</link><description><![CDATA[President Bush again appeared on national TV to further clarify that &quot;this commander-in-chief ain't not going to unfund the troops.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush: I Gave Up Golf For The Troops]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61801/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.&#8221;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want A College Course Without Going To College?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3107/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Now on Google Video: a college class in Anatomy and Physiology. <br/>Quite interesting]]></description></item></channel></rss>