Aug 31, 2009 9 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Don't even think of getting back on that show ...
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Hello all. As you may have noticed, the past two weeks have been difficult for Pat, Grey, and I here on the site. We have been the target of a series of attacks on the webfront, and as you probably have already seen, and even on a financial front as well. The cyber attacks consist ...
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Remember that time Cheney shot that guy in the face? Yeah...
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NY Daily News: A Floridian biology teacher fired after posing for racy pictures has landed a new career – in pornography. Tiffany Shepherd, 31, made headlines in April after bikini-clad pictures of her on a fishing charter got her canned from Port St. Lucie High School. She turned to doing porn, she told a Florida news outlet, ...
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IBD Editorials: North Korean arms bound for the Islamic Republic of Iran in violation of U.N. sanctions were intercepted, but Tehran will still be the first nuclear terror regime. No wonder Dick Cheney wanted to attack. The United Arab Emirates' seizure of a French-owned ship transporting 10 containers of North Korean-made explosives, rocket-launched grenades and other arms ...
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CQ Politics: Citing the current economic recession -- and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks eight years ago -- President Obama says he will use emergency powers to cut the programmed across-the-board January increase in federal employees' pay from 2.4 percent to 2.0 percent, according to a letter he sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on ...
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Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) finally faces her constituents on at a health care town hall on August 29, 2009. The event was held in a small, but heavily guarded conference room at the Norris Cotton Federal Building in Manchester, NH. Many of her constituents were turned away from the event due to the space limitations ...
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MIANPOSHTEH, Afghanistan — For seven hours, the Marine sniper team waited, crouching behind a concrete block in a dusty courtyard, at the edge of an adobe compound. They were pretty sure that a group of local Taliban militants was on the other side of the compound wall. But the snipers couldn’t strike until they had ...
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Caracas - AFP - Venezuela's top prosecutor said Saturday that recent street protests were legally tantamount to "rebellion" against President Hugo Chavez's government and that demonstrators will now be charged. The dramatic move by Attorney General Luisa Ortega capped a week of huge street protests, mostly directed against a new education law that critics say is ...
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. WashingtonExaminer: By: Mark Tapscott Want to understand why 2009 has witnessed the eruption of Tea Party and Town Hall protests of unprecedented intensity? Look no further than Rep. Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who is chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that writes tax law for the rest of us. A parade of steadily more ...
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The is from an email I received via TheVulgarTruth: Interesting how goverment programs start with great promises and strict restrictions,both of which get nibbled away (of course for the good of the country,not for the politicians). Aren't you glad the healthcare reform bill will have ironclad restrictions? ALL AMERICANS SHOULD KNOW THESE TRUTHFUL FACTS: Our Social Security ...
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Washington - AFP - Massachusetts will decide in early September whether to appoint a temporary successor to Edward Kennedy as US lawmakers gear up for fierce debates on key legislation, officials said Monday. "Within a week after Labor Day there will be a hearing... so in early September," Meghan Bartley, legislative aide of the state's committee ...
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's next leader Yukio Hatoyama, fresh from a historic election win, faced the task on Monday of forming a government to tackle challenges such as reviving the economy and steering a new course with close ally Washington. Sunday's victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) ends a half-century of almost unbroken rule ...
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BigHollywood: RANCHO SANTA FE, CA - Carrie Prejean’s attorney, Charles S. LiMandri announced today that the former Miss California USA is filing a complaint in the Superior Court of California against Miss California USA officials Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler, and publicist Roger Neal. The complaint cites damages to Miss Prejean including libel, public disclosure ...
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Rasmussen Reports: If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure how they would vote. Overall, ...
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LA Daily News: MOUNT WILSON — With flames about a half-mile away from the communications and astronomy centers on Mount Wilson, crews planned to set more backfires and planes dropped fire retardant around the mountaintop complex, which hold transmitters for more than 20 television stations, many radio stations and cell phone providers. Television stations said if the ...
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo of North Korean weapons being shipped to Iran, which would have violated a U.N. embargo on arms exports from the communist state, Western diplomats said on Friday. The weapons seized on Aug. 14 included rocket launchers, detonators, munitions and ammunition for rocket-propelled ...
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CNSNews.com: A controversial Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dredging project in the Hudson River -- originally designed to prevent cancer-causing chemicals in the riverbed from contaminating fish -- has struck “oil,†so to speak – a toxic “oil†of previously unknown pockets of liquid polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. The revelation adds to the concerns of locals near ...
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