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Watch the video, its linked in the first few paragraphs. Had Bush been this funny during his first term and a half, maybe I would've liked him more. naaaaah. But honestly, he is pretty funny.
i'm going to boston next week for a conference, so of course I will take photos. probably not of the conference itself, but of boston. unless of course the conference is very photogenic... i'm currently working on my very first video podcast for work. it has nothing to do with me, and is really only interesting to people who are into brand marketing, but I will post a link to it when it is done b/c i am proud of it ;)
This has to be one of the sickest, meanest things I've ever read about. what monsterous thing to do. I hope they find whoever did it and put them in jail for life. I put animal murders right there with human murders. i wish our judicial system did too. this poor girl will be scarred for life.
The federal government decided to prosecute dying people who smoke pot to alleviate their pain and stay alive. yet cigarette smoking kills more than 400,000 people every year and cigarettes are still legal. what sense does that make?
Clinton wasn't the only high ranking politician having an affair during his presidency. Newt Gingrich admitted that he was having an affair while he was pushing for Clinton's impeachment. Is he a hypocrite? As he argues in his interview, he was impeaching Clinton for lying under oath, not for having an affair. As Salon.com reported back in 1998, Gingrich's history of affairs isn't anything new. But it does seem hypocritical that he was trying to impeach Clinton for lying about something that Gingrich himself said he would've lied about given the need.
"We had oral sex," Manning revealed. "[Gingrich] prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, 'I never slept with her.'" She added that Gingrich threatened her: "If you ever tell anybody about this, I'll say you're lying."
fox news shows why it should not be allowed to be called a news network...
Fox News attacks Barack Obama
How childish can they get? "Oh no! His name is unusual and sounds like the name of someone else that is evil! He must be evil too!" Give me a break. He was named after his father. Kudos to him for using Barack as his professional name. He's still a million-billion-kagillion times more qualified to be president than dumbya. I'm currently reading his memoir 'Dreams from my Father' and its really great. If he weren't already a succesful lawyer and politician, he could easily have a career as an author.
this almost makes me regret signing up for the don't-call-list
How to screw with a telemarketer
I'm getting excited, is that the word, very interested, maybe thats the right way to put it, for the 2008 presidential elections. Mainly because it means that Dubya will be GONE, but the current selection of primary candidates is actually pretty interesting. (I'm waiting for Dick Gephardt to announce his intentions to run and add some typical blandness to the race.)
I am happy that a woman is running for the nomination. I am not happy that its Hilary Clinton. I don't know exactly what it is, but I find her very unappealing. Maybe its because she does not seem sincere. She hasn't seemed sincere since she ran for Senate in New York. Why New York? Was it just because it seemed like the easiest race to win? I've read that she has done good things for NY as a senator, but still..
Barack Obama is a candidate I can get excited about. Yes he's only a 1 term senator, but he's at least lived in the state he was a senator for over 20 years. According to his website,
Remembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment.
[...]In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases.
Yes! Good!
He has admitted to doing drugs. He didn't sugar coat it, ignore it, deny it, pretend he didn't inhale. He actually admitted to it. Like a decent person, not a politician.
For one thing, he said, "When I was a kid, I inhaled."
"That was the point," Obama told an audience of magazine editors.
Obama had written in his first book, "Dreams From My Father" (1995), before entering politics, that he had used marijuana and cocaine ("maybe a little blow"). He said he had not tried heroin because he did not like the pusher who was trying to sell it to him.
He openly criticizes the war, which anymore isn't too unheard of, but he's been saying it all along,
"I don't oppose all wars. And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
-Barack Obama Anti-War Rally, Chicago 2002
Senator Obama in his first term as a senator has co-sponsored some very important legislation with some very senior and respected senators, including Indiana's Richard Lugar. Republicans are willing to work with him too.
Senator Obama introduced legislation with Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) to require 2 billion gallons of alternative diesels, such as biodiesel, to be produced domestically by 2015. Obama also sponsored legislation requiring oil companies, that made at least $1 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2006 to invest at least 1 percent of the their total reported first quarter 2006 profits into installing E85 pumps.
Senator Obama worked with Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) to introduce the American Fuels Act that would increase the domestic production, distribution, and use of biofuels, including expanded manufacture of flexible fuel vehicles, tax credits for biofuels, and a nationwide distribution infrastructure.
Senator Obama and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), launched a Government Accountability Office investigation of large oil companies to see if they are fighting the installation of alternative fuel pumps. That investigation will be completed in April 2007.
More will come.
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