Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 12/09/09
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Tonight on 360°, five American arrested and accused of terrorist ties in Pakistan. We'll have the latest.
Plus, new details on the health care fight on Capitol Hill. Do Senate Democrats have enough votes to get their new plan passed? We've got the raw politics.
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You mentioned Polar Bear are having trouble finding food but you fail to mention their numbers have greatly increased thus the available food supply is naturally trimming their numbers. This is a natural cycle of supply and demand in the wild not man-made global warming
Thank you & Good night Anderson, Erica & Team 360.
Good night fellow bloggers, especially all of the Muslims who discussed issues with us all and helped to clarify their positions.
That shot was very unusual....we still do not know everything about our world.
@Casey Jones, for the last 10 years the trend has been flat overall, up in some areas, down in others, total about the same.
People have way too much on their hands when it comes to technology sometimes.............have a good night all
Have a wonderful evening. Sweet dreams. See you tomorrow.
Good night Anderson, Erica, Ed Henry, David Gergen, Martina Ilstad, Emily and my friends Twitter/Facebook Bloggers!!!!!
See you tomorrow night!
Have a great night and sleep tight everyone!!!! 😀
Anderson,
You are so funny man I have!!! LOL!
Have a great night, good sleep at home after work!!!! See you tomorrow night!!! Have a plenty sleep! 😀
Have a great night Anderson, Erica, Megan, Martina, & Bloggers.
Hope to see you again Muzzammil, and good luck on your finals.
There is that clip!
More animals! ...who the hell is wolf! (kids) funny stuff! 🙂
WELL, who the hell IS Wolf?
Good Night Everyone! Sleep well! "It's a night light, everybody!"
I hope that we can come up with something about the Polar Bears. I don't know what we can do but maybe build a Polar Bear Zoo just for them that provides food and shelter. That would be ideal and costly, but the money can be paid back by the public by visiting the zoo in commission. Just an idea. =)
ice crystals in the air made it swirl?
@Casey Jones,
I know in general that the polar bear are.
I only saw that part of the show, did see the entire bit or hear it.
It looked awful!
@Mike...look at the past 10 years. Averaging out over 40 years avoids the more recent trend and statistics.
@Jack agard, every citizen already has a right to healhcare. But I disagree if you say they have a right to make me pay for it. There are only 8 million of us who don't have access to healthcare insurance and are eligible for taxpayer-funded benefits. Do you think it's worth the cost to our economy?
@Starr thank you, and it's hard for me to understand how young people fall into terrorist activities.
Also, wanted to respond to your question about Medicare from lst night, I saw thate there are provisions for expanding medicare to include to people btwn 55 and 65. The prvision orginally for retirees, but now for everyone btwn 55 and 65, it seems.
Seems like Health Care Reform legislation is taking shape. This is an intense deliberative process, the result could be very good. Seems also there many areas where there could be compromise.
Nice outside.... Look like light a train, I think might have too bright!!
part of that shot looked a little like northern lights... very impressive, they are.
@Emily, the bears are suffering.
Your aging fine.
Oh Anderson, you have aged well! 😛
If only women aged like you! 🙂
They were tranquilized.
Anderson, you have not aged rapidly.
That was awful!
Those polar bears looked like they were really suffering!
So what is the explanation for the increase in polar bear numbers over the last 40 years?
Can Anyone "get through" to Sarah Palin That she Does Not know Everything?
As long as we have an Obama administration, a push for a public option will never disappear. It may not "look" like what the vast majority of Americans think it should look like, but it WILL be around, somewhere in some form.
@Muzzammil.
I'm glad to see you here tonight, and that you will be back! 😛
Always good to see different people, and views of what is on! 🙂
Adopting the 55 to 65 group (the comparatively sicker group) by Medicare will help to increase the profit of health insurance company and increase the cost of Medicare. We need a public option that is open to all.
If these emails were hacked, then how do we know that they were not 'edited' by the hackers or even made up by them?
The picture of the baby polar bear was so cute
Global warming is real...it occurs in cycles, we are just pushing it faster.
Why is doing what is good for future generations wrong?
Well, I certainly will be relying on Sarah Palin's scientific expertise as opposed to an actual scientist with three times the education. It's just the sensible thing to do.
The federal government has a very clear protocol that has been used for decades to identify sensitive and endangered species and ensure that there are no significant impacts on their habitat.
We are about to pass a cap and trade bill that will cost the economy trillions. It seems like we should have accurate data before doing that, not studies that picked data that fit their preconceived answer.