WASHINGTON—In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate non-vital federal services, the U.S. government announced plans this week to cut its long-standing senator program, a move it says will help save more than $300 billion each year.

According to officials, the decision to cut the national legislative body was reached during a budget review meeting on Tuesday. After hours of deliberation, it was agreed that the cost of financing U.S. senators far outweighed the benefits they provided.

"Now more than ever, we must eliminate needless spending wherever possible," President Obama said at a press conference Wednesday. "When we sat down to go over our annual budget, we asked ourselves, where can we safely trim back? What programs can we do away with without negatively impacting the American people? Which bloated and ineffective institutions can we no longer justify having around?"

"The answer was obvious," Obama added. "The U.S. Senate just needed to go."

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April 15, 2010

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Just got out of a lunch meeting with the President of the company I work for, and a guy that works for corporate I think, I don't know his title, but he is someone important (I work for a small company that is part of a new merger that is owned by a larger corporation). I'm entertained.

Some how Facebook was brought up and the big wig from corporate wanted to say something funny about a group his son joined called like "Child Birth is nothing compared to the pain of lag" or something along that nature. His son plays alot of xbox live apparently. But that's not the funny part.

He then tells an aspect of what his son and his online friends do that he thinks is rather funny. After they kill someone, they decide to taunt the dead player by "teabagging" them. Apparently in this game you can crouch, and if you push the crouch button repeatedly you kind of bounce. They walk ontop of the dead guy and do this and shoot the corpse and its really funny because they make this big deal about it.

Meanwhile, I'm trying all I can to not just start lawling in the middle of this work lunch of about 8 people including the president, new controller, and VP of finance. I did get the feeling though that the room was pretty much ignorant of what it actually is, either that or they were silent like me.

It makes me wonder how old his kid is and if he just neglected to tell his dad what it was, or if the kid thinks that its just a gaming term for doing that.

Just thought I'd share.

Blue Waters is expected to be the most powerful supercomputer in the world for open scientific research when it comes online in 2011. It will be the first system of its kind to sustain one petaflop performance – one quadrillion calculations per second

The Boy Scouts of America...have introduced a brand new award for academic achievement in video gaming...Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts can earn their pins by spending an hour a day playing games, teaching others how to play better, and even researching the best price for games they'd like to buy....In all, the Scouts have introduced 13 new merit pins this year for a wide range of topics: Disability Awareness, Family Travel, Good Manners, Hiking, Hockey, Horseback Riding, Kickball, Nutrition, Pet Care, Photography, Reading and Writing, Skateboarding, and Video Games.