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Senate panel approves railroad antitrust bill
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel approved a bill on Thursday that would repeal antitrust exemptions for freight railroads, which means it will go to the full Senate for consideration. Power companies, especially smaller ones, back the measure because they say railroads have sharply raised...
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5M unemployed
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Jobless claims top 5 million markWASHINGTON -- New jobless claims jumped unexpectedly last week to 667,000, with continuing claims topping the 5 million mark. Thursday morning's data from the Labor Department are the latest evidence that the current recession is deepening as it extends into its...
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Utah: Republicans & Mormons
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Utah is No. 1 - for online pornography consumption By Dawn House The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 03/03/2009 08:02:15 AM MST Besides its political bent, Utah's per capita appetite for online pornography makes it the nation's run-away red-light state. A study by a Harvard Business School professor...
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Kansas governor to join Obama's team as HHS director
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Governor Of Kansas Tapped to Lead HHS Sebelius Would Play Key Role In Health-Care Reform Plans By Michael A. Fletcher and Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, March 1, 2009; A01 Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius yesterday accepted President Obama's request to become his secretary of h...
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Hope? Ain't that a little town east of Vancouver, Canada?
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chicagotribune.com We need hope, not toxic assets By William M. Isaac March 1, 2009 Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson rushed to Capitol Hill last fall to request $700 billion in emergency funding to purchase "toxic" assets (e.g., mortgage-backed securities) from banks. He got...
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Ford
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Feb 26 1974 A U.S. Senate report reveals Ford Motor's involvement in Nazi Germany's war efforts, for which CEO Henry Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Adolf Hitler himself. After the war, the car company was paid nearly $1M reparation by the U.S. government to compensate for one o...
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Solis confirmed for Dept of Labor
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Just found out she was confirmed and was at the speech in front of Congress.
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Banks just don't get it
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Bank With Bailout Boost Threw Lavish Bash A lot of people are still ticked off about the taxpayer bailout of financial companies - and here's another reason - a bank that took more than $1 billion has just thrown a bunch of big parties, sparing no expense. The private party was lavish; the entertainme...
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STB’s Buttrey exits March 13
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STBs Buttrey exits March 13
(The following article by John D. Boyd was posted on the Traffic World website on February 22.) WASHINGTON -- W. Douglas Buttrey, one of two Republican appointees on the three-person Surface Transportation Board, will leave his post March 13 as a commissioner at the rai...
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reble flag
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I believe what Jet is getting that is every other president in history can be poked fun at. BUT if the Messia Presidnt Obama is poked funat you are labled a racist. Nice tactic those dems have there. For example I just recieved my CLassic Motorcyclr magazine in the mail and their was a page of editorial po...
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Angry Dick Outraged
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Ex-VP Dick Cheney outraged President Bush didn't grant 'Scooter' Libby full pardon
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Texas sized fraud
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Texas-Sized Fraud Spreads To 131 CountriesR. Allen Stanford Is Missing, And Thousands Of Investors Around The World Wonder If They'll Ever See Their $8 Billion Again(CBS) The alleged rip-off by billionaire banker R. Allen Stanford has investors scrambling. No one's sure where he is today, but in...
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Slice of stimulus package will go to faster trains
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Slice of stimulus package will go to faster trains
(The following article by Michael Cooper was posted on the New York Times website on February 20.) NEW YORK -- It may be the longest train delay in history: more than 40 years after the first bullet trains zipped through Japan, the United States still...
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We hardly saw ya...
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President Barack Obama's visit to Canada Thursday Feb.19 2009 was a really big deal for us. He has an impressively solid nearly messianic 80% approval rating from his northern neighbours, higher than his home polling and knocking P.M. Steven Harper's numbers right out of the park. Excluding tra...
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Cody who?
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Who Can Tell the Difference Between A Republican and Democrat or Left and Right? 1:29:43 PM February 19th, 2009 Permalink | Comments (26) I gotta ask - How the heck can you tell the difference between Republican and Democrat or Liberal and Cons...
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Fuck Diplomacy
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http://www.ehowa.com/liveleakmovie.shtml?movie=0a3_1233765334
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The American Civil War. The final word.
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South's first lady believed right side won war February 19, 2009 1:04 PM EST "First Lady of the Confederacy/Varina Davis's Civil War" (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 403 pages, $18.95), by Joan E. Cashin: During the four years that North and South fought the bloodiest...
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Nearly 5M unemployed
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Feb 19, 2009 10:00 am US/Eastern 627,000 New Jobless Claims; Unemployment Near 5MThe number of unemployed workers receiving unemployment benefits jumped to an all-time high near 5 million earlier this month, while new jobless claims remain well above 600,000. Both figures were worse than expec...
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Kansas Fiscal Crisis
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Kan. Suspends Income Tax Refunds, May Miss PayrollTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Related StoriesUnemployment Bills Squeezing State Budgets (1/25/2009) Kansas has suspended income tax refunds and may not be able to pay employees on time, state officials said Monday. The state doesn't have enough money in it...
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Damn, almost forgot about ol' Moamar!
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Gadhafi up to old tricks in new way February 16, 2009 12:17 PM EST CAIRO - He has stoked unrest between African nations but now heads the African Union and is pledging to tackle the Darfur crisis. Recently he urged Arab leaders allow their citizens to travel to the Gaza Strip to fight Israel, but later...
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Illinois labor leader said to be top pick for top FRA post
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Illinois labor leader said to be top pick for top FRA post (Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on February 9, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. Joseph Szabo, a former Illinois union leader, is President Barack Obamas top candidate to head the U.S. Federal Railroad Admini...
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I feel stimulated
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Stimulus Package Passes Crucial Senate TestAiling Sen. Kennedy Returns To Senate Floor To VoteWASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has returned to the Senate in the midst of his battle with brain cancer to vote for President Barack Obama's massive economic stimulus package.CBSAn $838 billion...
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It's the Republicans again
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New RNC Head Defends Payments To Sister's FirmWASHINGTON (AP) Michael S. Steele, former Lt. Gov. of Maryland, speaks after being elected Chairman during the Republican National Committee's (RNC) winter meeting on Jan. 30, 2009, in Washington, D.C. Brendan Related StoriesSteele Becomes First...
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Obama and Biden stepping up for Labor!
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What news! President Obama has started to take apart the anti labor executive orders Bush put into place. Biden is in charge of a task force for labor. God, it was great to hear such things.
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Damnit, don't take my guns, don't let fags get married and don't allow dykes to get divorced
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Judge: Pair Married In Canada Can Divorce In N.J.TRENTON (AP) Gay marriages performed outside New Jersey are recognized in the state for the purpose of divorce, according to a ruling Friday by a judge deciding whether a lesbian couple married in Canada can split. The wider implications weren't imm...
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