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Amongst all the Hillary/Obama hype has been the burning question for many democrats: Will Al Gore run for president?
He has seemed pretty content making movies, writing books and enjoying the Hollywood spotlight. It’s a good alternative to other ego boosting activities like being the actual president of the United States. If anything, being a Hollywood star can be even more ego boosting because young people could actually care about you and paparazzi photos of you could actually be worth money. Of course, in Al Gore’s case, neither of these things is plausible.
It has been my belief for sometime now that Al Gore will …read more

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Yesterday we celebrated Memorial Day. Most of us took the day off to barbeque, sit around, shop or all of the above. Meanwhile, on this day of leisure for most of us, American troops were still dying in a war we are constantly being lied to about.
Many of the lies about Iraq have evolved into minor truths, like the official admission of a civil war there, but we are still being lied to on a daily basis. In the beginning, it was viewed as being un-American to not support going to war against a guy whom our president’s daddy had beef with. Yeah there was …read more

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Today, Danish rider and winner of the 1996 Tour De France, Bjarne Riis of Denmark admitted to using a cocktail of steroids during his heroic journey to victory. According to this article in the NY Times he even told cycling officials that they could come and take his yellow jersey from his home. But why?
It isn’t as if Riis is the only dude to win the tour while using steroids. Floyd Landis? Come on, what a fiasco that is. And there is even speculation that our hero Lance Armstrong may have been doping during his unprecedented 7 titles in a row. He …read more

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Good ole’ Bushie, he continues to stand behind his unqualified and deceitful bud from Texas. Today the Senate drafted a fresh clean non-binding resolution expressing no-confidence in the attorney-general.
Gonzales, who bumbled around questions at a Senate hearing last month, perhaps could have used a bit of water boarding to get some information out of him. But his dodging of questions proved his devotion to the ‘Decider’ and thus he decided to keep him.
Today Bush said “I’ve got confidence in Al Gonzales doing the job.” Good deal, one incompetent dude having faith in another one. It’s like a re-run of when Bush had Rummy’s back for …read more

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This is one of the saddest and most ridiculous things I’ve ever come across. If you are elderly, or have an elderly parent, be very careful of contests, surveys, telemarketers or anybody looking to obtain any information. Of course, most of us hang up on people who interrupt our dinner to try and re-finance our home, even if we don’t own a home. But many lonely elderly people don’t have anybody to talk to and this is part of why telemarketers are preying on them more and more.
It would be one thing if it was a simple matter of legitimate telemarketers buying lists of old …read more

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 Here we see our self described  ”Commander President” and “Decider” back in 2004 awarding ex-CIA head George Tenet the Presidential Medal of Freedom for being in charge while 9-11 occured. It has become pretty stock standard stuff for this administration to award mistakes and/or incompetence with medals and/or praise.
A few other notables here would be Bush saying “And Brownie, your doing a heck of a job” whilst people were still stranded in water in New Orleans. And Dick Cheney’s arrogant and ridiculous praise that Donald Rumsfeld “was the finest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever seen.”
Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen said that for those who really want Bush …read more

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That’s right everyone, in case you were wondering (and you probably weren’t) Bill Richardson is now officially running for King of the United States in 2008.
If you pay any attention to this sort of thing you may have thought that Bill Richardson was already running because of the fact that he was appearing on every TV show and participated in the first Democratic presidential debate. But he wasn’t officially running; now he officially is.
Richardson made his official announcement in California today so he could get as much attention as possible, before everyone forgets about him by dinner time. Speaking of food, Richardson has yet to …read more

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Illegal immigration has been a serious issue of contention over the last several years, hell maybe since all years.
A lot of Americans are upset that illegals are taking their jobs, even if they are the jobs they don’t want to do. Many Americans are upset simply at the principle that people have come here illegally and broken US laws. And others simply don’t like immigrants.
On the flip side, those that favor legal status for illegals justify it as a means to keep families together, some have been here a long time and have children or spouses that are legal. Plus …read more

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It’s no secret that Afghanistan is by far and away the world’s largest producer and exporter of opium. But until now, the US government had ignored the opium problem and even downplayed it.
But according to this article in the NY Times, the US is finally deciding to do something about it. The Taliban has regained strength in the countryside and the war isn’t going as well as many incompetent officials had previously thought.
Opium has helped the Taliban regain strength by serving as a source of financial means to continue to fight their war against the US. Of course, as usual, our government is years behind in combating an …read more

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Hey everyone, meet Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, he will be the new head honcho in our global war of terror.
Our almighty and wise Decider decided that is was a good idea to have a head dude to oversee all of our current and future wars. After several top generals turned down the position due to the feeling of a lack of competence in the administration, we finally have a guy, our Nicholas II, our Czar.
Of course, he still must be confirmed by those irrelevant dudes called the Senate.

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