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Good Rolling Stone article to send to any republican friends: Make Believe Maverick: The Real John McCain

Goes to show how stupid this country still is that ~44% of voters polled support this hothead power-obsessed egomaniac.

It really annoys me that political "reporting" these days is nothing more than quotes from representatives of both campaigns. How about some fact checking instead of just spreading he-said, they-said nonsense?

I would really like to see both candidates held to a standard of honesty in their claims about each other and their political histories. Apparently that's too much work for reporters to be bothered...
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Reason has for the moment prevailed in Congress with the defeat of the $700 billion bailout bill. Sadly, I'm sure that won't last long.

So, let's see here: Two weeks ago, there was some unease in the markets, but they were generally stable. Bush and Paulson make a big announcement about how we're on the verge of financial collapse, and how we have to give...
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Any true fiscal conservative with half a brain needs to be hanging an Obama sign in their window and sending in their campaign contribution.

Bush and our poor excuse for a Fed and Treasury are in the process of trying to increase the national debt by about 1.1 trillion, or about 18%, in just 3 months. That's money that the government owes to other world...
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I love the rain. I get an ear to ear grin walking in the rain. Everyone else is head down shoulders scrunched hiding under a hat or umbrella. Me, I walk around smiling like an idiot. Makes me happy.

Tiring day. Helped a friend rip up old carpet and pergo, and tear down old wood paneling. Yeah, on a 90 degree day.

Also tried miracle fruit, which really is the strangest stuff. Particularly with vinegar where it tastes sweet like candy on your tongue, and it isn't until you swallow that you get all of the bitter when it hits the back of your...
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I am absolutely all for cyclists sharing the road, on the simple condition that they follow the same traffic laws. Critical Mass and incidents like this give cyclists a seriously negative image.

I hate trying to shop for a sofa (or any sort of furniture). I'm inevitably going to wind up with something either stylish and uncomfortable or comfortable and ugly. And spend a lot of money in either case. Or go to Ikea and get semi-comfortable and the middle stepchild between stylish and ugly.

In other words, yeah, not a lot of excitement here.

I don't like vacations because they never seem to go quite right. It's as if all that good karma also decides to take a holiday. Take this one for instance, where I spent a few days doing some camping and snowboarding, then visiting my dad. I was just heading for home, and took a turn into a parking lot a little too quick and scrapped...
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