<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Congresman takes $40k bribe to steal $10 million : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>Congresman takes $40k bribe to steal $10 million : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-18T12:58:01+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Congresman takes $40k bribe to steal $10 million]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/31788/1/" /><id>31788</id><summary><![CDATA[Congresman takes $40k bribe to steal $10 million]]></summary><issued>2007-08-16T01:22:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-16T01:22:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In 2005, Rep. Don Young (R-AK)waited until after the House and Senate passed a bill, but before the president signed it, to forge a passage granting $10 million for an interstate in Florida. His new wording targeted the money to a more specific project to connect Coconut Rd to that interstate. It's a boon for developer Daniel Aronoff, who held a $40,000 fundraiser for Young just before the earmark appeared.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Could it be? A Politician Facing Criminal Charges for Stealing?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/58870/1/" /><id>58870</id><summary><![CDATA[Could it be? A Politician Facing Criminal Charges for Stealing?]]></summary><issued>2008-04-18T11:48:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-18T11:48:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Update to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/politics/l/31788/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this.</a> (R-AK)Don Young waited until after the House and Senate passed a bill, but before the president signed it to alter it without informing the senate/house so as to benefit a major &quot;donator&quot;. Now he may actualy face criminal charges for his outrageous crime.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68232/1/" /><id>68232</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></summary><issued>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The 10 Worst Congressmen]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/61343/1/" /><id>61343</id><summary><![CDATA[The 10 Worst Congressmen]]></summary><issued>2008-05-10T16:30:58+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-10T16:30:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is quite a group. <br/>Even in politics these folks are standouts.<br/>Number 3, Don Young of Alaska has recently added another shady episode with his adding of a 10 million dollar earmark to the I-75 road project in Florida. The earmark showed up <i>after</i> congress passed the bill but <i>before</i> the president signed it.<br/>This is from 2006 but unfortunately it never seems to get old.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[House planning veto showdown over Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/41241/1/" /><id>41241</id><summary><![CDATA[House planning veto showdown over Iraq]]></summary><issued>2007-11-09T21:37:53+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-09T21:37:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[House Democrats are planning another veto showdown with President Bush on the Iraq war. And this time, they say they won't back down.<br/><br/>*I'm not holding my breath.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Florida Interstate Turns Into Human Pinball Game]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30805/1/" /><id>30805</id><summary><![CDATA[Florida Interstate Turns Into Human Pinball Game]]></summary><issued>2007-08-09T13:27:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-09T13:27:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A man attempted to cross Interstate 4 during a storm late Tuesday.  He was struck by at least five vehicles and killed.  Only one of the cars bothered to stop and report the accident.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The US House Will Save The World]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/67212/1/" /><id>67212</id><summary><![CDATA[The US House Will Save The World]]></summary><issued>2008-06-30T11:32:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-30T11:32:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The House of representatives has recently passed a bill that if passed by the senate and the President will ask Nasa to look into what they can do about <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Apophis</a>. This <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/astronomy/l/38477/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">asteroid</a> will pass extremely close to the Earth in 2029 and may hit the Earth in 2036. One suggestion is to plant a radio transponder in order to track the asteroid.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Fla. woman chooses to go to jail over $7.45 bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80014/1/" /><id>80014</id><summary><![CDATA[Fla. woman chooses to go to jail over $7.45 bill]]></summary><issued>2008-10-22T09:23:35+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-22T09:23:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Half-Man, Half-Woman Hybrids Torture Boy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42251/1/" /><id>42251</id><summary><![CDATA[Half-Man, Half-Woman Hybrids Torture Boy]]></summary><issued>2007-11-22T01:40:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-22T01:40:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two ungodly ugly women drug and threaten a young boy with a box cutter in one of the most complex ways of making $100 ever devised. If you guessed Florida, you're RIGHT!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ron Paul: Buying bad debt is the wrong solution]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78446/1/" /><id>78446</id><summary><![CDATA[Ron Paul: Buying bad debt is the wrong solution]]></summary><issued>2008-10-01T12:02:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-01T12:02:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Two days after the failed house vote and before the Senate vote, Ron Paul gives his opinion on the bailout again.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate passes bill to hurt the taxpayers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/78497/1/" /><id>78497</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate passes bill to hurt the taxpayers]]></summary><issued>2008-10-01T23:22:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-01T23:22:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Senate voted 74-25 to pass a *slightly* different bill than the house voted down.<br/><br/>Yay! [/sarcasm]<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00213" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Vote Record</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Al Franken Wins Primary For U.S. Senate Seat]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/75518/1/" /><id>75518</id><summary><![CDATA[Al Franken Wins Primary For U.S. Senate Seat]]></summary><issued>2008-09-09T22:57:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-09T22:57:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Comedian Al Franken grabbed the Democratic nomination Tuesday for U.S. Senate in Minnesota...<br/><br/>Minnesota voters joined those in six other states and the District of Columbia... Nominations for House, Senate and governor were on the line, along with the fate of another TV celebrity: Kevin Powell, a former cast member on MTV's &quot;Real World,&quot; who lost his bid for Congress in New York.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What $1 Million can buy in Homes by Area]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10962/1/" /><id>10962</id><summary><![CDATA[What $1 Million can buy in Homes by Area]]></summary><issued>2007-02-16T17:53:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-16T17:53:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So you've got a little over a million dollars and you're homeless.  What kind of house can you expect to get in these locations?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Man jailed for trying to pass $1M bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37779/1/" /><id>37779</id><summary><![CDATA[ Man jailed for trying to pass $1M bill]]></summary><issued>2007-10-09T08:40:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-09T08:40:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Change for a million? That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[State Senate OK's gun-at-work bill]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57639/1/" /><id>57639</id><summary><![CDATA[State Senate OK's gun-at-work bill]]></summary><issued>2008-04-09T19:22:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-09T19:22:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In the three-year duel over whether citizens should be allowed to conceal their firearms in locked vehicles at work, state lawmakers have decided Florida business owners will have to bite the bullet.<br/><br/>The possibilities for stories here is endless]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/43664/1/" /><id>43664</id><summary><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent.&quot;<br/><br/>This blog summarizes the bill and links to the full text.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[South Florida heading for serious drought]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18433/1/" /><id>18433</id><summary><![CDATA[South Florida heading for serious drought]]></summary><issued>2007-04-29T21:41:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-29T21:41:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Despite heavy rains during the past month, scientists say South Florida is on its way to a serious drought.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Draw A House]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/6010/1/" /><id>6010</id><summary><![CDATA[Draw A House]]></summary><issued>2006-11-17T04:46:46+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-17T04:46:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The way you draw a house says a lot about your personality. You can use this site to draw a house, answer some questions based on your house then find out what your house says about you.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man spends 96 years in same house]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19734/1/" /><id>19734</id><summary><![CDATA[Man spends 96 years in same house]]></summary><issued>2007-05-10T10:04:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-10T10:04:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A 96-year-old man in Portsmouth, England, still living in the house in which he was born says he doesn't understand why people move around so much.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senate approves bill to broaden wiretap powers]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68307/1/" /><id>68307</id><summary><![CDATA[Senate approves bill to broaden wiretap powers]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T12:25:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T12:25:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government&#8217;s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues. As most of you may know, I am a huge Obama fan and am saddened to see him voting in support of this (even though he said he wouldn't).]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Naked Man Arrested Following Waffle House Dispute]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5130/1/" /><id>5130</id><summary><![CDATA[Naked Man Arrested Following Waffle House Dispute]]></summary><issued>2006-11-03T19:01:21+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-03T19:01:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Waffle House is where all of the excitement happens.]]></content></entry></feed>