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Kerry and Bush Tied Among Likely Voters in Wisconsin
Wisconsin John Kerry and George W. Bush are virtually tied among likely voters in Wisconsin according to a survey by the American Research Group. A total of 46% of likely voters say they would vote for Kerry if the presidential election were being held...
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Tartan Day - About the Event
Tartan Day - About the Event Woodrow Wilson said of the Scots, "Every line of strength in American history is a line coloured with Scottish blood." The contribution of the immigrant Scots upon North America is massive and these people have remained proud...
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what color am I?
Spacefem.com Color Quiz hmmmm...always thought I was a darker blue, actually.... Laurie is light cyan Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you...
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Is spring sprung?
maybe...although I've learned to not trust these late February early March thaws. It's not quite shirtsleeves weather, even for us tough 'ole Wisconsin types. The backyard is a quagmire of melting ice and lose-your-boots mud, although the snowbanks are...
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The Myth of Job recovery
When: Monday, March 14 2005 | Tude | 01/2004 "Pay is down as much as 40% on the few jobs that are coming back, and American quality of life takes another huge hit. And it' may be permanent, so your kids and grand-kids better learn how to clean motel rooms,...
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Yeah, I wanna move to FLORIDA!!
Yahoo! News - Giant Fla. Sinkhole Swallows 4-Lane Road DELTONA, Fla. - A growing sinkhole swallowed a four-lane road Saturday and forced the evacuation of 20 central Florida homes, officials said. One house was in imminent danger of falling into the hole,...
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primary time in Wis
Interesting article on the history of primaries, specifically Wisconsin primaries..... JS Online: Wisconsin's primary: Back in the running "Primaries, such a fixture of today's political scene, for years have been taken for granted as the early hurdles...
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weekly horrorscope
This week April 4 through April 10 Libra Relationships are going through a very interesting phase this week, especially as the Solar Eclipse, in your opposite sign of Aries, takes place on Friday. You may have come to the conclusion that something was...
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Hmmmmm
ABCNews "The Note" The New York Times ' Wilgoren and Justice write, "The selection of Mr. Neel, a former telecommunications lobbyist who was an aide to Mr. Gore for nearly 20 years, on Capitol Hill and in the Clinton White House, is a stark shift for...
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quote
David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's, recently commented: "There is no difference from an economic standpoint from outsourcing manufacturing jobs, which we have been doing for 20 years, and outsourcing white-collar service jobs, except college-educated...
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off to meet with "important folks"
Just got an interesting phone call from Kevin. I, as a member of my Local's Executive Board, have been summoned to appear ( hopefully in the background!) at a press conference tomorrow with the governor of our great state of Wisconsin. Too weird, hehehehe!!!...
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Sure...Blame it on the Cheeseheads
Dean Says He'll Quit if He Doesn't Win Wisconsin By JODI WILGORENand ADAM NAGOURNEY Published: February 6, 2004 MILWAUKEE, Feb. 5 --Reeling from a string of defeats and rising disillusionment among his supporters, Howard Dean said Thursday that his presidential...
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Well, now I know who....
I guess I did expect this news, to tell the truth. Yahoo! News - Gephardt to Endorse Former Rival Kerry Gephardt to Endorse Former Rival Kerry By RON FOURNIER, AP Political Writer "NEW YORK - John Kerry (news - web sites) secured the endorsement of former...
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open thread laughs
Daily Kos || Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. Open thread by kos Sat Mar 27th, 2004 at 00:26:19 GMT I was at the Unity Dinner in DC Thursday night, and I experienced something that only a blogger would write about:...
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AWOL
Has it been awhile, or what? I guess I just have to plead "busy" or "lazy" or "distracted", not that I ever was too regular in posting anyway. Health issues. Work issues. "Other" issues. I'd almost forgotten my password to sign in here, it's been so long....
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Changes?
I'm noodling about with the idea of converting this site to a photoblog-with-an-occasional-rant. I've been sending most of my pictures to flickr lately-- but I really hate how flickr displays them. There is also the fact that I am so ticked off every...
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Dancers
"Life may not be the party you expected, but while you're here you may as well dance." Even id you've got bird poop on your face. I didn't notice that until I got home. I need to learn how to Photoshop crap--literally, in this case-- out of photos. Still...
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Okay, it's back
It turns out that I just missed making snarky smart-alacky comments on the news. I missed being able to stretch my little writing fingers, such as they are, over the daily news and daily life. I looooved being able to post pictures, but I seem to have...
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A hope for the end times
The Centenarian: Arthur Warner McNair @ AMERICAN DIGEST. "I don't know about you, but I would figure a way out and if that way out was only deeper in, that's where I'd go. I'd go deep into my palace of memories and I'd use all my energy to construct a...
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“Never Again,” Obama Style
Significantly, Barack Obama is a lot tougher on his domestic American opponents than on tyrants who threaten our values and America itself. He tells the Republicans that they’d better stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, but he doesn’t criticize Palestinians...
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Gag him. Somebody, please.
AP Newsbreak: SC gov 'crossed lines' with women. COLUMBIA, S.C.—South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that he "crossed lines" with a handful of women other than his mistress—but never had sex with them.The governor said he "never crossed the ultimate...
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This administration has officially jumped the shark
I could not believe the news reports this evening-- that the White House was apologizing for scaring the living daylights out of half of New York over what must be the STUPIDEST reason-- a photo opportunity for Air Force One... I cannot even begin to...
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They got tired of it, that's all.
For the Left, war without Bush is not war at all | Washington Examiner. Not too long ago, some observers worried that Barack Obama would come under increasing pressure from the Left to leave both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, it seems those worries were...
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Heat as I say, Not as I Do
A piece in yesterday's New York Times featured a photo of an Oval Office meeting last week during which President Obama had removed his suit jacket..... You see, the reason the president --- and others -- were jacketless was simple: "Mr. Obama, who hates...
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The Unluckiest Man on the Planet
A 93-year-old Japanese man has become the first person certified as a survivor of both U.S. atomic bombings at the end of World War II, officials said Tuesday. Tsutomu Yamaguchi had already been a certified "hibakusha," or radiation survivor, of the Aug....