Category: US Politics
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The Budget, Jon Tester, And The Truth
<a href="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75033">Tester Would Boost Budget by $89.4 Billion, Burns by $1.2 Billion, NTUF Study of Candidates' Platforms Shows</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As Montana Senate candidates Jon Tester and Conrad Burns court voters down the final campaign stretch, taxpayers can look to their platforms for real distinctions: that's the assessment of a study released today by the non-partisan…
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How Low Can We Go
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_re_us/detained_indefinitely">1 man still locked up from 9/11 sweeps </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society.<br />n<br />nBut he has been in custody for five years.<br />n<br />nHis…
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The Pot And The Kettle
This is hilarious. Sad, but hilarious and I wonder how many other people found this inconsistency.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2006/10/07/news/wyoming/37c341aba5ff6d01872571ff0081082f.txt">Freudenthal to Idaho: Ban game farms</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In the wake of domestic elk escaping from an Idaho game farm, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal is asking the neighboring state to ban game farms and to help enact a…
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Is This Any Surprise?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/05/news/state/30-feds.txt" >Feds consider grazing ban in fire area</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The thousands of cattle that ordinarily graze on federal and private land south of Big Timber should not be there next year, because they'd be too hard on the land as it rebounds from the big Derby Mountain fire, a federal report says.<br />n<br />nIts…
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Fiscally Responsible, Not
In Montana's Senate Race, Jon Tester keeps portraying himself as fiscally conservative and wanting to balance the Federal budget. He continually blasts Sen Burns for cutting taxes and spending money that the country doesn't have. Now Tester has all kinds of ideas on how to spend money, extending CHIPS to all children, but I have…
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I Will Say it Again
The question I posed over a year ago is still not answered, what makes Gov Schweitzer and his sycophants ever believe the environmental groups are going to allow coal production of any kind in the state of Montana?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1167-Question-As-Yet-Unanswered.html" >Question As Yet Unanswered</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Every time I read a story about <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov.…
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Finally An Explanation
I have been noticing more and more advertising lately from the big auto makers on the E85 Flex Fuel vehicles they arfe selling and how they are good for the enviroment and the nation. I can't figure out how this works. E85 fuel is sold in very few places so how do these Flex Fuel…
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Just Goes To Show You
<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NEWS01/609290325/1002" >Rehberg opts out of signing House drought petition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana's lone congressman is refusing to buck Republican leaders and join with Democrats to force a vote on drought assistance for the nation's farmers and ranchers.<br />n<br />nRep. Dennis Rehberg will not sign the House Democrats' petition that seeks to bring the matter to…
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Democrats Come Out Firing
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=EBC71872-C631-3E2E-C9870F565C92DEB0" >House Democrats launch Discharge Petition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Democratic members of the House of Representatives have introduced a discharge petition in an effort to bring ag disaster relief to the floor. Minnesota representative, Collin Peterson is Ranking Minority Member of the House Ag Committee; he says the real problem is a dispute over how any…
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Interesting
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700650.html" title="Free Registration Required">Judge Rules Against Wiretaps</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A federal judge in Detroit ruled yesterday that the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program is unconstitutional, delivering the first decision that the Bush administration's effort to monitor communications without court oversight runs afoul of the Bill of Rights and federal law.<br />n<br />nU.S. District Judge…