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In 2004, President Bush’s ratings were totally in the basement. John Kerry was trashing Bush in the polls, and the media was laughing at Bush’s ineptitude. John Kerry then went to war with some former Vietnam vets that he absolutely would not get over. He hounded and hounded and hounded that one [...]

Tags: bush, california, day, democrat, democrats, Education, governor, housing, iraq, john, Media, party, People, poll, Polls, president, race, republican, republicans, Senate, time, trash, vietnam, war

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Well, not exactly.  But they did drop a lawsuit against it citing "improvements to the law".  Here’s the ONLY part that was changed that appease the ACLU:
The lawsuit, filed in July 2003 on behalf of the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, Mich., and five other nonprofit groups, was the first legal challenge to Section [...]

Tags: aclu, appeasement, bush, change, communism, demand, federal, Government, lawyer, legal, muslim, patriotism, People, policy

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In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos.
In its final 287-page report, the WTO panel confirmed the preliminary ruling it issued in March in a dispute pitting the United States against the [...]

Tags: ban, caribbean, citizen, countrywide, gambling, internet, it, legal, mine, mines, mining, People, socialism, town, washington, wto

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I really can’t believe this one:
A federal jury awarded $24.2 million to two men who were severely burned by electrical wires when they trespassed onto railroad property and climbed atop a rail car.

OK, you’ve got these very large vehicles that travel very, very, fast.  You’ve got these bare wires that connect to these very large [...]

Tags: electric, federal, it, kids, law, People, railroad

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You wanna know how bad things must be getting at Rolling Stone? I cancelled our free subscription. It’s really sad, but they really do suck any more. Following the decline of Rolling Stone over the adult period of my life is like watching an addict grow old. You sense a certain [...]

Tags: addiction, day, experience, it, job, liberal, liberals, lie, magazine, phobia, time

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People have accused Google of allowing their political leanings to affect some of their content searches.  Google of course denied the allegations.  But, it was kind of obvious something was amiss.  The reason I yanked Googe AdSense was because no matter what I wrote about Bush, their "unbiased" searches would ALWAYS come up with something [...]

Tags: bias, bush, democrat, democrats, donation, donations, it, PAC, People, Politics, republican, republicans, time, washington, youtube

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Was reading a trashy New York gossip rag that was talking about Rush attacking Michael J. Fox for over-acting his Parkinson’s symptoms for political gain.  Well, here is the video in question via Claire McCaskill:

Here’s Fox circa June 2006:

The problem Rush has is just making the allegation is distasteful to just about anyone with [...]

Tags: candidates, clinic, conservative, conservatives, gossip, it, movie, owned, People, polarization, polarized, Politics, poll, Polls, race, Senate, voter, women

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Saw this on Michelle Malkin:

Now, as usual, AP goes beyond their mission statement and translates biases the news. Why can’t these organizations do what they are supposed to do and just report the news? Any more, I swear the news media is scaring more than the other two. Bush will be out [...]

Tags: bias, bush, day, dead, it, Media, polarization, polarized

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Morgan Quitno Press released this list of the “smartest states” list. Without further ado, here it is, color coded to make it more fun to play with:

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Vermont

Looks kinda grim for all those people who mocked the “Al Gore voters are smarter than Bush voters” thingy from the past. However, Morgan Quitno has kept [...]

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Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World.  Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country:

Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities;

Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery recycling, a [...]

Tags: Asia, battery, child, china, Chinese, cities, city, coal, experience, global, greenpeace, housing, leather, mine, mines, mining, nuclear, owned, russia, time, war, warming

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