friend friendship, money, and betrayal. what are your thoughts today on twitter exploding? can you believe they got from there to here? no way. this is a story of friendship and betrayal. the title says it. these were four founders from low-income families and one of the founders came from clarks, nebraska. 262 people. he grew up on welfare essentially. these guys went to silicon valley in search of the modern day gold rush, the tech dream. they accidentally built this company. how did they find each other? it was all an accident. noah is a big part of the story and got pushed out and made nothing while the others became billionaires. he lived in an apartment.
jump right in. i would love to see barack obama take the lead on this. teddy roosevelt in 1905 ran a white house initiative to make football safer. he has been treated kindly by doing so. i would like love to see barack obama get involved in this issue as a leader because the nfl owners are not going to be anything voluntariliment they have to be pushed. so just sticking on the safety issue, you made a point about everybody is getting bigger and stronger. the offensive line and they average 262 pounds. they had no one ha weighed over 300 pounds. an undrafted player, derrell brown for the rams, 6 10 and 377 pounds. we are turning a blind eye to the same they think happened with baseball writers. we know something is going on in
appears to have led to a massive freighter running aground along the english coast. the captain might have forgotten that england existed. the 262-foot ship got stuck on rocks while traveling from scotland to belgium last march. the b.b.c reports human error and lack of knowledge of geography led to the accident. the crew apparently did not consider that anything might actually be in their way. the crew, basically said will draw a line and go the quickest way possible without really thinking about, do i need to go that close to the farne islands. the coast guard surveyor also told the bbc the crew forgot to turn on an alarm system that would have sounded as they approached land. and the look out guy on the boat was asleep at the time of the crash. well, you can buy anything on the internet these days including positive pregnancy tests. the daily dot reports an uptick in craigslist postings offering tests indicating a woman is pregnant, most charging $20 to $25 each. one ad suggests th
last year, 262 days. that s the wait time to even hear back, even if the answer is no. veterans waiting way too long to get the benefits that we promised to them and that they earned. increased wait times in this unacceptable ginormous backlog have always been coupled with repeated assurances from the v.a., itself, that it s going to get better. that they have a plan. that they are going to someday turn the tide. it has been getting so long and been getting worse for so long that it has been hard not to feel cynical about those assurances. now, though, some overdue but much better news delivered by the commander in chief, himself. watch. today i can report that we are not where we need to be, but we re making progress. we are making progress. so after years when the backlog kept growing, finally the
families walk this earth. president obama speaking with veterans this weekend. a daughter of a u.s. civil war veteran is still, today, receiving veterans benefits that her dad earned by serving in the civil war. wow. for this president, who has ended one of the wars he inherited and who says he will end the other, the longest war in our history next year, for president obama, the issue of making good on our promises to veterans has been a huge deal for his administration and frankly has also been a huge problem that has not only been bad for most of this administration, it has been getting worse for a very long time. by the v.a. s own count, the wait time for veterans applying for disability benefits has been getting worse. the wait time has been getting longer, year by year. in 2009, the average wait time, 161 days. the next year, 165 days. the next year, 188 days. last year, 262 days. that s the wait time to even hear back, even if the answer is no. veterans waiting way too long to