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I am a 56 year old Electrical Engineer. I am a runner who has logged over 30,000 miles in the past 42 years. I play tennis regularly. I enjoy a good argument and like to hear others opinions. I dont engage in name calling and would appreciate the same treatment, although I do enjoy satire and irony. I also love a good pun.
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 77 votes / 7 sinks
Barack's Iraq Trip
News – Barack Obama is headed for the front - including a stop in an Iraq that would look far different had Washington adopted the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's strategic imperatives
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(nypost.com)
Voted for on July 19, 2008 10:56pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 23 votes / No sinks
Unfairness Doctrine
Politics – Nancy Pelosi blocks the vote on the Broadcaster Freedom Act. In a hardly unexpected move Pelosi blocks the democratic process once again and refuses to allow the BFA to come to the floor for a vote.
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(gazette.com)
Voted for on July 09, 2008 08:43am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 80 votes / 10 sinks
Obama rewrites Iraq plan
Politics – Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) promised primary voters a swift withdrawal from Iraq, in clear language still on his website: "Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months." Not anymore.
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(politico.com)
Voted for on July 07, 2008 10:15am
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 107 votes / 36 sinks
Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror
Do No Evil – Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are in retreat, the surge has worked in Iraq and Islamism is discredited. Not a bad haul
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(timesonline.co.uk)
Voted for on July 07, 2008 10:10am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 175 votes / 1 sink
U.S. Ice Cubes Melting At Alarming Rate
Humor – Of the 28.9 billion tons of ice cubes produced commercially in June, it is estimated that less than half remain.
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(theonion.com)
Voted for on July 07, 2008 09:53am
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 147 votes / 13 sinks
8 Ways the Bush Administration Has Caused the Oil Price Boom
Money – From fiscal policy to energy policy to foreign policy, the Bush Administration has committed one gaffe after another, and the futures markets have been quick to react, with devastating economic consequences. Read on.....
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(currencytrading.net)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 202 votes / 80 sinks
Barack Obama Vows to Disarm America
Politics – Obama made a video for a liberal pacifist organization last year, the senator called for major cuts in defense spending, slowing the development of future combat systems, and cutting investments in America's ballistic missile defense program.
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(rushlimbaugh.com)
Voted for on June 24, 2008 09:51am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 139 votes / 16 sinks
Obama's Presidental Seal Thrown Under The Bus
Politics – OK, who called it first? Obama drops the Presidential-looking seal after the press politely tells him it looks a skosh egotistical. This is what the Germans call "schadenfreude" - enjoying someone else's misfortune.
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(marcambinder.theatlantic.com)
Voted for on June 24, 2008 09:48am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 158 votes / 64 sinks
History will say that we misunderestimated George W. Bush
Politics – History may place President Bush in a far better light than he currently enjoys.
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(telegraph.co.uk)
Voted for on June 23, 2008 12:23pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 164 votes / 35 sinks
Gored: Obama could win vote, lose election
Politics – Eight years after Al Gore's bitter pill, observers warn that Obama could face his own case of the popular-vote-winners blues.
This story has mostly positive ratings. 50 votes / 8 sinks
Obama's campaign tightens control of image and access
Politics – At a rally for Senator Barack Obama... two Muslim women said they were prohibited from sitting behind the candidate... But the incident... pointed to pitfalls the campaign faces as it moves into the general election and seeks to maintain control of Obama's image by tightly managing his public appearances.
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(iht.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 119 votes / 7 sinks
Property must cut carbon footprint faster: U.N.
Real Estate – The global property industry could pay a high price for moving too slowly to shrink its colossal carbon footprint, a report to a United Nations conference on the environment said on Wednesday.
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(reuters.com)
Voted for on June 18, 2008 01:42pm
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 108 votes / 6 sinks
Muslims barred from picture at Obama event
Politics – Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
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(politico.com)
Voted for on June 18, 2008 01:40pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 161 votes / 3 sinks
McCain Vows to Campaign in All Thirteen Colonies
Humor – At a campaign stop in the Dominion of Virginia, Sen. McCain said that if his Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, takes any of the thirteen colonies for granted, "He doth so at his peril."
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(huffingtonpost.com)
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 146 votes / 4 sinks
Republicans block extra taxes on oil companies
Money – WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans blocked a proposal Tuesday to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies, despite pleas by Democratic leaders to use the measure to address America's anger over $4 a gallon gasoline.
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