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Electoral Count (Bush 254 Kerry 242) (Ohio to Bush?)

history ryhmes electoral vote goes 269-269 first time since John Quincy Adams that the House decides the president...also the time that the son of a former president was running for reelection...Adams won against Andrew Jackson.
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- Post #431
- Nov 3, 2004
- Forum: Politics and News
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Add Dennis Hastert(R) to the Economically clueless list?

This is a structural shift in the economy and processes that firms use to get things done. As things become commoditized, firms, like water, seek the path of least resistence and jobs will flow overseas, however this not a permanent trend, as living standards increase overseas, there will...
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- Post #18
- Feb 21, 2004
- Forum: Politics and News
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ACLU plans to sue DNC over "free-speech" at the Democrat Convention

hahaha wondering if anyone saw the story during MLks bday when shrub went to visit his grace and there were hundreds of protestors nearby, the white house brought in buses to block them from site of the cameras....hahahhah...hilarity never stops with this one let me tell you
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- Post #5
- Feb 21, 2004
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why Haven't We Heard More of These Stories

I wish we would hear more of these stories to keep the war and its affects on real people down the street from us in our faces instead of having the war become part of the background noise. People and the media have the attention span of a three year old, now daily attacks and our soldiers...
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- Post #11
- Dec 30, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why Haven't We Heard More of These Stories

figures changed since the story was done even though it was published today...I saw on PBS the figure was over 2700 as of last friday or saturday
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- Post #7
- Dec 30, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Why Haven't We Heard More of These Stories

2700+ and counting <text> Jeremy Feldbusch joined the Army to travel the world. Now the only place he can go by himself is the 40 steps from his bed to the reclining chair in the living room. The stucco walls guide him, past the bathroom, kitchen and closet, past the photographs of him in...
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- Thread
- Dec 30, 2003
- Replies: 35
- Forum: Politics and News
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Jobless Count Skips Millions

krugman has an oped in the times this morning discussing the unemployment and growing income disparity. nytimes <quote> It was a merry Christmas for Sharper Image and Neiman Marcus, which reported big sales increases over last year's holiday season. It was considerably less cheery at Wal-Mart...
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- Post #36
- Dec 30, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Saddam Threatens to Expose US

Unfortunately, the US is not a party to nearly all of the major international treaties and covenants (ie International Declaration of Human Rights, International Treaty Banning Land Mines, International Criminal Court [Rome Statute], etc ,etc ,etc] thus providing it legal coverage and near...
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- Post #20
- Dec 29, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Saddam Threatens to Expose Chirac

this is most probably true, however the conservative minded Weekly Standard is quick to leave out the complicity of the Reagan Administration in providing Saddam with weapons, agricultural subsidies and other aid during the Iran Iraq War or the now infamous meeting between Rumsfeld and Saddam in...
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- Post #2
- Dec 29, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Is George Bush really a "miserable failure"?

I don?t think this makes him too different from most people however it does provide a good background on how he is prone to come to oversimplified conclusions to complex problems deriving from his evangelical ideology. This is dangerous, to say the least, when your the leader of the free world...
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- Post #13
- Dec 24, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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IS The state Department basically Irrelevant in the Bush Administration

Colin Powell has written a peice in Foreign Affairs about this recently, you can read it here
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- Post #2
- Dec 23, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Dean declares America is "unsafe now as when the planes struck the world trade center."

no she will want him charged with "slander"
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- Post #66
- Dec 22, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Dean Compared to FDR and JFK

Anne Coulter is the Al Sharpton of the right wing, I cant wait till they do an SNL peice about her.
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- Post #15
- Dec 22, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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13 of IDF elite special-operations force refuse to serve

ignore
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- Post #20
- Dec 22, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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13 of IDF elite special-operations force refuse to serve

<haaretz text> Thirteen members of a top commando unit who announced their refusal to serve in the Palestinian areas will be kicked out of the army if they do not back down on their decision, the IDF Chief of Staff said Monday. The letter - signed by Sayeret Matkal soldiers and officers - was...
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- Post #16
- Dec 22, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News

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