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In another ordinary day for the human car wreck which is Sarah Palin, she agrees to speak at a fundraiser for a socialist Canadian hospital.

 

...St. Peter's Hospital is public, performs abortions, and offers end-of-life decision support.

 

Organizers hope to sell 1,000 tickets at $200 a plate, but raise more via photos with Palin.

 

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I guess this goes here??? I dunno. DIdnt think it was worth a new thread.

 

22 Million Missing E-mails From George W. Bush White House Recovered

Two nonprofit groups say that computer technicians have found 22 million White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush.

 

The two groups say the electronic messages were previously mislabeled and effectively lost.

 

An announcement Monday by the two groups is the latest development in a controversy that surrounded the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic recordkeeping system.

 

The two private organizations – the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington – say they are settling lawsuits that they filed against the Executive Office of the President in 2007.

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This one's for Lostfan.

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Menlo Park) wanted advertisers to hear her loud and clear. So she introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation -- or CALM -- Act, aimed at lowering the volume on televised sales pitches.

 

"In my 17 years in the House of Representatives, I've never carried a bill which has been received with so much enthusiasm," Eshoo said. "Only the do-not-call list has even come close."

 

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, who supports the legislation, said, "All of us have had the experience of enjoying a favorite program only to find ourselves scrambling to locate the remote control when, at the commercial break, the volume of the television seemingly doubles."

 

But the legislation, which recently cleared a House committee, also is generating boisterous criticism.

 

"I think there is a certain contract when one decides to watch broadcast television that you're going to be sold stuff in annoying ways," said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

 

"I just don't think it's bothering that many people that much," he said.

 

And some question whether the problem is serious enough to warrant congressional intervention.

Texas Rep. Joe L. Barton, the regulation-wary top Republican on the House committee that oversees telecommunications, asked rhetorically, "If we're going to dictate the noise level . . . what about commercials that advertise products that we don't particularly care for?"

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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 15, 2009 -> 07:16 AM)
I'm officially done with the DNC. They'll never get a penny out of me ever again. I'll only support progressive candidates for Congress and most likely Green Party candidates for President.

Well, I'll be damned, you discovered that they will lie and say anything to get elected. Go figure.

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QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 15, 2009 -> 10:54 AM)
What thread am I in?

Wa Waaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.

 

The point to BigSqwert is welcome to my world - that's why I cannot ever support one part over another. They are all idiot liars.

 

/back to crying over nothing again.

 

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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Dec 15, 2009 -> 11:55 AM)
Doesn't matter. Might as well merge the 2 threads as both parties, with very few exceptions, are nothing but corporate shills.

 

Actually, no they aren't. Not at all. There are plenty of things not to be happy about with the DNC and the Democratic leadership - but because five or six senators are holding legislation hostage and the Senate majority leader doesn't have the balls to force something through doesn't make them all corporate shills.

 

If that were the case, any health care reform bills would have never gotten through committee.

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QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Dec 15, 2009 -> 11:57 AM)
Actually, no they aren't. Not at all. There are plenty of things not to be happy about with the DNC and the Democratic leadership - but because five or six senators are holding legislation hostage and the Senate majority leader doesn't have the balls to force something through doesn't make them all corporate shills.

 

If that were the case, any health care reform bills would have never gotten through committee.

Its gray, always has been. People want to make it black and white - say things like "they're all scum". Its easier to see it that way, but its not accurate.

 

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