DULUTH, Minn. - The driver of a car that struck and killed a dog in Minnesota is suing the dog's owners for damage done to his vehicle.
Jeffery Ely was driving near Duluth, Minnesota, on January 4th when Fester, a miniature pinscher, ran into the road.
With nearly 13 million online users, the rapidly expanding virtual world Second Life is a risk for children, who could be sexually exploited, U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said Monday.
Kirk sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting a consumer-alert warning about its dangers.
Mt. Prospect Mayor Irvana Wilks said the community has been concerned about Internet predators.
"This Second Life is a new scare, unchartered territory," Wilks said at a news conference Monday with Kirk at the Mt. Prospect Police Department. "It hits home."
read moreLittle-Known But Exploited Loophole Allows Politicians To Drive, Maintain Expensive Cars, SUVs On Taxpayer Money
read moreChristopher Ruddy, NewsMax: Imagine if President Bush, after 9/11, simply declared war on oil and put the whole nation behind ending our crippling dependence on it.
read moreSen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.): America became a great nation because at key moments in our history our national leaders were willing to make sacrifices to preserve freedom and opportunity for future generations. Yet, that tradition is being abandoned today in Washington. Congressional leaders have decided that sending money home for pet projects, appeasing special interests and catering to well-heeled lobbyists are more important than giving future generations the hope and opportunity that was sacrificed for us. Politicians have found it easier to make the easy decision now and hope they do not have to deal with the difficult decision tomorrow.
read moreThe most influential US political pundits:
Telegraph.co.uk unveils the fourth installment of its list of the 50 most influential political pundits in America.With just over six months before United States citizens choose their 44th president, the 2008 election is already proving to be the most fascinating and potentially one of the closest contests in living memory.Telegraph.co.uk unveils the fourth installment of its list of the 50 most influential political pundits in America.With just over six months before United States citizens choose their 44th president, the 2008 election is already proving to be the most fascinating and potentially one of the closest contests in living memory.
www.slate.com
Stop Blaming the Insurers
Exposing three myths about the costs of private health insurance.
www.minnesotamonitor.com
Michele Bachmann uses freedom of the (taxpayer-paid) press to promote herself
www.examiner.com
Congressional junkets picking up steam
thehill.com
Pelosi buys $16K worth of flowers
www.nytimes.com
What Would You Drive, if the Taxpayers Paid?
Modest or more luxurious, the cars are all paid for by taxpayers. The use of a car -- gas included -- is one of the benefits of being a member of the House of Representatives.
There are few restrictions on what kind of car the members can choose, and there is no limit on how much they can spend. But the benefit can be politically sensitive, given the growing concerns about automobile emissions and an economy that has left many people struggling to pay for the rapidly rising cost of gas, which was averaging $3.63 a gallon nationwide earlier this week.
www.thesun.co.uk
ILLEGAL immigrants are sneaking OUT of Britain because they are sick of our weather and hospitals.
Yes Davie...
Pols and liberals.
Information Distortion and Competitive Remedies
in Government Transfer Programs:
The Case of Ethanol
Ronald N. Johnson
&
Gary D. Libecap*
March, 2000
www.mnforsustain.org
Long read ...but worth while.
online.wsj.com
Windfall Profits for Dummies
"when you tax something, you get less of it, but Mr. Obama seems to think he can repeal the laws of economics. We tried this windfall profits scheme in 1980. It backfired. The Congressional Research Service found in a 1990 analysis that the tax reduced domestic oil production by 3% to 6% and increased oil imports from OPEC by 8% to 16%. Mr. Obama nonetheless pledges to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, which he says "costs America $800 million a day." Someone should tell him that oil imports would soar if his tax plan becomes law."
Sharpton is threatening,
Old hippies ....www.recreate68.org
Obama ally Doug Wilder:
" And if you think 1968 was bad, you watch; in 2008, it will be worse."
www.nydailynews.com
Throw all these nutjobs together in Denver.Things are gonna get touchy.
So CRACK may not be far off the mark.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: We will shut down the convention! (cheers and applause) Nobody is gonna get in until Florida goes in!
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: If the Florida delegation is not seated, we will march on Denver! (cheers and applause) We'll take all the buses willing to go to Denver (cheers and applause) and we will shut that convention down before it gets started. (cheers and applause)
www.firstcoastnews.com
The major decline of the West Greenland caribou herd during the 1970s prompted a study in 197778 of caribou behaviour in relation to environmental factors associated with the decline. Quantification of caribou activity revealed behavioural responses to critically low standing crops of preferred winter forage. Caribou on poor winter range were mostly inactive with low feeding intensities and abnormal diurnal activity patterns. In addition, these animals exhibited very restricted movements, frequently occurred alone or in small groups, and were unable to maintain normal social bonds. In contrast, where fruticose lichen winter forage was available, caribou did not display these behavioural traits. After the initiation of new vegetative growth, feeding intensity increased and social tendency returned. Comparison with behavioural data from other Rangifer populations suggests that the observed responses to low forage quality are not restricted to Greenland but are a normal response of barren-ground caribou to winter ranges poor in lichen forage.
www.blackwell-synergy.com
The in 2001 or so they had to increase hunting to control the herds for fear of overpopulation.
CYCLES like SPUDER was saying.
www.americanthinker.com
Stay tuned as we figure out who created the fake tape. If it can be traced to the Obama campaign, it will probably severely damage him in Indiana and probably elsewhere.
So do you Obamaniacs suppose the Clinton's secretly created this tape to create this controversy? How Rovian.
hotair.com
Video: Clinton operative didn't call Indianans "white n*****s" in 1992 Update III: Dirty trick? Update: Character witness
newsbusters.org
The second expletive, he said, appeared to have been entirely fabricated, with new audio dubbed onto the original movie
It's Obama's Character, Stupid
With Obama's Philadelphia-speech, hedging and squirming around specifics, and now with his final, "unequivocal," outright disowning of Jeremiah Wright this week, I have more evidence than I need to conclude that Barack Obama is either one of two things:
Behind Door #1: He is a reprehensible liar, who privately still believes, and has always believed, in the philosophy espoused by his long-time pastor, spiritual mentor and "uncle" figure, Jeremiah Wright, but for opportunistic motives, now publicly disavows his own true beliefs; or
Behind Door #2: He is a man of no integrity whatsoever, who has partaken of another man's friendship and political help for nearly 20 years, who has now publicly dumped and disgraced this benefactor for personal gain. Jeremiah Wright is not some flunky that Obama hired last week out of a far-left think tank or fresh from the halls of Harvard. The two men were close, like family, by the candidate's own pronouncements.
Whether the real Obama is behind Door #1 or Door #2, only Barack Obama now knows for certain. But either way, he has disgraced himself in the eyes of many Americans, and if he offered his hand, some of us older-timers would decline to shake it.
If he truly believes the philosophy of his chosen church, and now denies it because he sees that it is a small-minority view, he defines himself as a wimpy scoundrel, unworthy of being Commander in Chief.
www.americanthinker.com


OK so now we now it isn't whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, the real question to ask when determining if someone is a scumbag (family values wise) is "are you a politician from New York?"
Posted by taxman at 2008-05-08 03:23 PM
Profound Flag
or maybe just "are you a politician "