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A reminder of why
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Why I felt it was really important I vote for Obama in the last general election -- just read that RB Ginsberg has early stage pancreatic cancer.
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post office closing
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so dropping one day of mail delivery will save the nation 1.9 billion dollars a year and we arent doing this because why? personally i could do without mail 6 days a week. aside from junk mail and christmas and birthday cards i dont get any mail. all the bills are electronic and nobody snail mails me anymo...
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Stuff which "really" matters.
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OK, I wrote a whole long post about this situation, and it vanished due to some "user identification" thing. I don't have the energy to recreate it once more. Long story short: I'm hooking up with an eleven year old boy tomorrow, because he feels "safe" talking with/to me -- has a...
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Trading Spaces
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I've been overwhelmed by this Apple gadget and it's ITunes and the never ending free subscriptions to podcasts from everything on how to make your own manure while churning homemade butter to the sounds of post modernist banjo and handmixer sounds playing excitedly in the background. Also, cnn...
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Holy c rap batman
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Senate OKs $15,000 tax break for homebuyersPresident lobbies for stimulus plan as price tag climbs above $900 billion 15 thousand dollars as a tax credit? if this doesnt move people to buy i dont know what will. i noticed 4 pages of home sales in the sunday paper the last week in december. those people w...
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Church and state renew marriage vows
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Not much likin' this ... Obama Creates Faith-Based OfficeBy PHILIP ELLIOTT, APWASHINGTON (Feb. 5) - Declaring that "there is a force for good greater than government," President Barack Obama on Thursday established a White House office of faith-based initiatives with a broader miss...
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Vermont Senator Sanders
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Senator Sanders is calling on Congress to begin a criminal investigation into the financial mess that is currently overtaking the country. To do so he needs to find support in both the house and senate. id urge everyone to petition their representatives to make this happen. Since many of those curre...
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dane cook
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whoa...loads of posts to catch up on....had a busy, busy, busy weekend...and one of the funnest things was going to see dane cook at the st. pete times forum...omg! what a fabulous show...and i swear, floor seats are the bestest!!!
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another take on helping
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Has anyone seen the story on the Georgia family who was auctioning off all of their belongings to cover expenses for 2 of their childrens medical bills? The items were valued at approximately 40K and when auctioned brought 20K from a couple who made one stipulation. The Peters family had to keep the it...
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license plate scanners
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I was thumbing thru newspapers at lunch today and saw an article about license plate scanner use spreading to most municipalities in ct. these scanners sit on top of the cruiser and scan the plates of passing cars and the info is run against various data bases and if a hit happens they come and getcha. in...
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indian summer
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its been an odd fall. the weather patterns are off this year, what looked to be a promising fall foliage season sort of withered on the vine. there was some color, but mostly the leaves dried green with just a tinge of yellow and many were washed away in the nor easter of last week. it was sort of like watchi...
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snarkiness and public discourse
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CULTURE No Laughing Matter A critic for The New Yorker explains how serious public conversation is being ruined by sarcastic, snide remarks. Critic David Denby was sick of the insidious, sarcastic discourse that he found online. So he did what any other New Yorker writer might do (see Malcolm Gladw...
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Sorta makes OUR political hoopla pale, in comparison
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Even though she was appointed, rather than elected, this is a very cool thing. I'd hate to think we need to go all the way to Iceland, though, to have this sort of recognition and civil rights... Lesbian to Be Iceland's First Female PMBy DAVID STRINGER, APREYKJAVIK, Iceland (Jan. 28) - Iceland's next...
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the beat goes on
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A Long-Lived Privilege? Bush lawyer directs Rove not to talk to Congressonce again By Michael Isikoff | Newsweek Web Exclusive Jan 29, 2009 Just four days before he left office, President Bush instructed former White House aide Karl Rove to refuse to cooperate with future congressional inquiri...
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pet adoptions
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allow me my moment of venting. wtf is up with the doggy social worker movement?ive been looking for a new family member dog. there is more paperwork and nebby crud involved with getting a pound puppy than one would encounter adopting a kid. i get that there are evil people in the world who dont care for...
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Obama rights a wrong
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RIGHT ON! I remember, vividly how GWB got under my hide the minute he stepped into office eight years ago, and cut all funding for ANY organization (outside of the US) which even uttered the WORD abortion either in person, or their literature as a option. I ranted about it for days on the board. LOL. This...
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Obama in hot seat
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... this time, with religious leaders: The article: Jan. 23) - Not everyone was happy with President Barack Obama's nod to nonbelievers and non-Christians in his inaugural address. And some of the stiff criticism about Obamas religious inclusiveness is coming from African-American Christians...
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chia?
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i tried to attach a photo of this but it wont stick. theyve turned obamas image into a green haired chia pet. really. im not kidding.
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Caroline Kennedy
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Has just withdrawn her name from consideration of the US Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. Well, they got bo in the white house, that was the real goal after all. I certainly hope there isn't some underlying health or other type of concern behind this decision, but I'm sure glad, if there isn't th...
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so what did you think of the day?
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so many memorable sights and sounds today. i especially enjoyed aretha franklins singing and the amazing crowds of people who braved the cold to be a part of history. i wish now that i had just jumped in the car and headed south tho im sure i had a far better view from my family room sofa:) were there any sto...
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mastercard and visa scam
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if anyone gets a text message or a phone call stating that your credit or atm account has been frozen and that you need to call a number given to reactivate it dont call. the message sounded very genuine, like what you would get from those folks who notice weird activity on your account. anyway its a natio...
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Dubai as clueless as "W"
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Refrigerated Beach in Dubai Versace, the renowned fashion house, is to create the world's first refrigerated beach so that hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. The beach will be next to the the new Palazzo Versace hotel which is being built in Dubai where summer tempe...
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the standoff
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the cable company has been eliminating channels for those of us who have the expanded basic product. thus far they have sliced 10 channels from the lineup. ive now lost the only music video channel left as well as (gasp!) cspan 1 and 2. and theyve disappeared the weather channel tho the tech people say...
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this is just wrong.....
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Snow In Tampa Bay Area? It May Happen Tuesday Night By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune Published: January 19, 2009 TAMPA - If - and that's an if in boldface, capital letters - the weather dominoes line up just right, folks from Tampa Bay to Brooksville stand a chance of seeing some snow Tuesday night...
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When religion and personal morality collide
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I was thinking about the subject line as I was reading this article about Tom Hanks' really good comments about prop 8 (IMO) and the comments of some of the LDS readers. Typically, when I think on this issue (personal morality vs. one's church's) I think about Catholicism, and pretty specifically a wo...
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"Show Me The Money!"
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http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081119_tows_bookdownload The FREE download is only available until 1/15. Suzi Ormons latest paperback has been made available as a free download, till the 15th. "The Suzi Orman 2009 Action Plan". It downloads in PDF, I printed it. Th...
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I Know It's Not Your Sport....
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But it is your city. WTG Arizona. Outstanding job against some very strong teams. Sheriff Joes got his hands full tonight. You're coming to Tampa!
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Oh, good heavens.
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I can't believe the debate now assaulting the internet over Barack Obama using his middle name when he takes the presidential oath of office. I mean, come on. People are all in a tizzy about "the message it will send to terrorists" and stuff. Forget the middle NAME -- if I were Barack Obama, I...
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top ten things to do when the mini ice age begins!!
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up here in the northeast we are the proverbial canaries in da mines. its coming im tellin you. everyone who is worried about global warming hang might want to consider instead the ice age as a gaia healing possibility. ive read that it only takes a small rise in the temperature for the ice age phenom to ki...
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Parents Right or Child Abuse?
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I suppose naming your child "Adolf Hitler Campbell" could technically be considered child abuse. Then again, if there is no other cause for the removal of these kids, other than the names their parents gave them, are we really comfortable with that kind of governmental intrusion? S...
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