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That certainly carries less value, which translates into fewer options. (Maybe it was the Browns not the Lions that Jon Kitka predicted would have a 10-win season.) OK, I still applaud Jerry on the deal that he made eight months ago. It just doesnt call for as many high-fives from the media now. Will the Atlanta Falcons hire Jason Garrett as their next head coach? NEW DAWG: Not from what Falcons owner Arthur Blank saw over the last three Cowboys games of the season. New Englands Josh McDaniels has proven to be a better play-caller and has more experience than Garrett. The Falcons need a man who can inspire the players and has some credentials. I dont think Garrett is there yet. BUCK: The Cowboys can only hope youre right, Dawg. I like Garrett over anyone else in the field of hotshot-coordinators-ready-to-be-head-coaches in the NFL.
Nader Throws Support to Edwards, Blasts Clinton
Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "She has experience in the Senate, and what that experience has meant is going soft on cracking down on corporate crime, fraud, and abuse, soft on cutting tens of millions in corporate subsidies," he continued. The Clinton campaign declined to comment on Nader's criticism. Nader, a four-time presidential candidate, called Edwards a Democratic "glimmer of hope." He has long criticized Democrats as indistinguishable from Republicans, chiding both parties as slaves to corporate financing and interests. It was Nader who famously - or infamously to many Democrats - siphoned off enough liberal votes from Al Gore in 2000 to hand New Hampshire and Florida, and as a result, the presidency, to George W. Bush. Since 2004, however, Nader has been increasingly controversial within the political left.
Sick overstayer threatens suicide
An American overstayer who uses a dialysis machine 12 hours a day is threatening to stop her own treatment and die in Wellington rather than accept deportation. The Immigration Service has booked Lana Schmidt on a flight out of Auckland next Saturday, and warnedit will force her removal if she resists. But Ms Schmidt says she has nowhere to go, there are no arrangements for her continued medical care once she gets to Los Angeles, and she cannot get support from the United States Medicare system till July. Ms Schmidt came to New Zealand in 2000 to be with Zahid Jawad, an Iraqi-born New Zealand citizen whom she met in the US. But after their relationship broke down two years later, her health deteriorated and she suffered kidney failure.
Google signs on MySpace to networking platform
WEB search leader Google has signed on MySpace, the world's largest social network, to its platform for allowing outside developers to write programs for social Web sites. The addition of MySpace gives the Google platform greater strength against fast-growing Facebook, which opened up its site to developers in May and has since seen its user base grow to more than 48 million people. Google and MySpace said on Thursday they had been working together on the project for more than a year. MySpace, which is owned by News Corp, has some 110 million users worldwide. Google unveiled its OpenSocial platform earlier this week, saying it would give outside developers tools to write programs for any of its social network partners. Google had already disclosed that social networks such as LinkedIn and Friendster had joined the program, as well as some of the biggest independent developers on Facebook.
Medicaire proposes budget
BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Idaho's Medicaid director asked lawmakers on Thursday to approve a $1.4 billion budget, with just under one-third of that amount to come out of state coffers.Medical assistance services - as Medicaid and similar programs are called - make up the second-largest portion of Idaho's budget, after the support given to the public school system. And with 186,000 enrollees in Medicaid, most of them children and many with chronic illnesses or severe disabilities, perhaps it's no wonder. Still, "this remains the strictest program in terms of eligibility," Leslie Clement told members of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee.Medicaid is a state and federally funded program that provides health care for the poor and disabled. Concerned with the ever-growing costs of Medicaid, lawmakers two years ago launched a pilot project dividing Medicaid recipients into three groups, with three health care plans tailored to their needs.
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