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Four Presdential Candidates Pull Out of Michigan Primary
2007-10-10 02:20:00
Barack Obama, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, and Joe Biden have pulled out of the Michigan primary. Michigan's original primary date was February 9th, but they decided to hold their primary on January 15th instead. The candidates are angry about this because that would make Michigan's primary occur before Iowa and New Hampshire's.Yes, it's unfair that Michigan is trying to cut in the front of the line. My state was one of the first to try to do it and I must admit, it felt a little dirty. But here's the thing...Where in the Constitution does it say that Iowa and New Hampshire need to go first?Here's a hint... it's not in there. Prim ary dates are a political party thing.The reason these candidates are angry is that Michigan's primary move screws with their campaign strategies. This would hurt the guys that have invested the most money in Iowa and New Hampshire. The candidates have already started running ads there. Also, no one's been polling residents of Michigan the way th...
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Fired Blackwater Killer Hired by Another Company and Sent Back to Iraq
2007-10-09 22:42:00
During the House Oversight Committee hearing on October 2nd (watch it on C-SPAN) the founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, discussed a shooting that took place in December 2006. It was Christmas Eve and a Blackwater mercenary soldier (let's be honest -that's what he is) got hammered. In his drunken stupor, Andrew Moonan ended up shooting and killing a body guard of the Iraq i Vice President. During the testimony, Erik Prince told the committee that the murdering employee was fired, but he was not prosecuted by either the Iraqi or United States government, although the Justice Department was investigating the incident.Turns out the State Department (who has a contract with Blackwater) didn't inform the Department of Defense that this guy was a murderer. A little over two months later, in February 2007, another private military firm whose contract is with the Department of Defense hired the ex-Blackwater killer and sent him back overseas until August 2007. During this time, in April o...
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Code Pink Founder On FBI Watch List
2007-10-09 22:30:00
Medea Benjamin, the founder of Code Pink (the womans anti-war group) and retired Colonel/diplomat Ann Wright were denied access to Canada this weekend. They were at the Buffalo/Niagara Falls Bridge entrance and were detained, questioned, and denied access because they had been arrested in acts of non-violent civil disobedience.The border guards singled out these two ladies because their names appeared on a FBI watch list.Dissent is officially a criminal offense. It starts with the leaders...
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My Apologies....
2007-10-09 22:29:00
I took a "computer/information" holiday. Ignorance sure was bliss.But now I'm back...
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