Category: US Politics
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Another Round For The Wolves
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/15/news/state/21-delist.txt">Wolf to go off list in Montana, not Wyoming</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Gray wolves in the western Great Lakes and Northern Rockies will be removed from the federal endangered-species list by late February under a plan announced Wednesday by the Bush administration.<br />n<br />nLeft out of the plan were wolves in Wyoming, where state officials sought…
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Innocent Mistake
I guess I don't get it. Not unusual, is it? If I failed to pay $34,000 in taxes, I would more than likely be thrown in jail, but Timothy Geithner does the same thing and President Elect Obama says it's an <a href="http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/nation/ny-usgeit155999186jan15,0,1565750.story">"innocent mistake"</a> so that the man can serve in high Government office. Innocent…
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Confusion
I'm a little confused about something. The politicians agreed to bail out the auto companies if they started to make more cars with better fuel mileage and were more "green." Now I read <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GAS_TAX?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">this</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The dilemma for Congress is that highway and transit programs are dependent for revenue on fuel taxes that are…
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Laugh Line
I thought I would bust a gut laughing when I read this news headline.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123004624819230097.html">Biden Says Stimulus Won't Include Earmarks</a><br />n<br />nThat's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
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Cow Tax
<a href="http://capwiz.com/flfb/issues/alert/?alertid=12198961">EPA Proposes "Cow Tax"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Environmental Protection Agency issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on whether it is appropriate to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from automobiles under the Clean Air Act. In order to regulate automobile emissions, the EPA would first have to make a finding that all…
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Address
I've ran into something new this year and it really gets annoying after a while. I just had to deal with the latest yesterday. Did you know that by the Patriot Act, when you "apply" to open a new bank account they have to verify your identity and your physical address to actually open the…
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Raining
Gloomy and wet. That's how I would define things around here the past few days. It's been raining here and the moisture is making it wet and muddy. Not a particularly bad thin, just miserable to deal with. It's too late in the year for the moisture to be much good but we are storing…
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Money Grab
<a href="http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?id=5081">Dems Target Private Retirement Accounts</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.</blockquote><br />n<br />n<br />nYou can wrap shit in mint leaves to make it smell better…
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No Surprise
Didn't I tell you this would happen when the wolf was first de-listed?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/07/19/news/state/30-wolf.txt">Judge puts wolf protection rules back in force</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal judge has restored endangered-species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts in the fall.<br />n<br />nU.S. District Judge…
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Will They Listen?
<a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDdJ3UTsqcN2JyaG8SKq_yCh8cpwD91E2G580">Study: Moving virus research could be costly</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new high-security research laboratory would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than from the isolated island laboratory where such research is now conducted,…