Category: Politics
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Electile Disfunction
Today I voted, like many other people in Georgia. I know many people voted, because I was in line behind them for over 45 minutes …
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Everyone will ask where you were …
You know it’s going to happen today. Everyone will want to know wehere you were on September 11, 2001. It’s something I’ll never forget, since I watched the towers fall from Japan. It’s also something I don’t wait five years to remember. It’s never changed my travel plans, just made me more aware and watchful…
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The Environment: Patrick Moore says what I’ve been thinking
This Penn Jillette radio segment is jusn damn amazing … http://penn.freefm.com/episode_download.php?contentType=36&contentId=70768 (downloads a MP3 of the show, right click to save as a file) They gave Penn of Penn & Teller a radio show earlier this year, and it’s fantastic. Last week he had Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace, on for the entire show. Suzan…
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Econ 101
This is one of the best articles I’ve seen in a while on why gas prices are so high … and it has nothing to do with those damn windbags screaming “windfall profits” in Washington.
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Welcome to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport … press any key to continue
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/20/atlanta.airport/index.html Multi-hour shutdown of the world’s busiest airport caused by bad software …. *sigh* Worse yet, the software that caused the problem is designed to “test” the TSA agents. This means the people they are hiring are assumed to be incompetent and need to be poked in the [insert body part here] every few hours…
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Uncivil Rights
Yes, the recent illegal immigrant protests annoyed me … it took an NPR commentary for me to solidify the reasons why …