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Who Won't You Vote for in 2008? Let's accentuate the negative in the presidential race. Brian Doherty | February 27, 2007 A Gallup/USA Today poll of 1,006 Americans conducted by phone earlier this month tested exactly how intolerant American would-be presidential voters are prepared to admit to be to some stranger on the phone. While strenuously avoiding naming names by merely asking about generic characteristics a voter would never vote for, it found that Barack Obama (black, everybody's tolerant) moves forward with far more hope for success than do Hilary Clinton (woman, 11 percent say no way), Mitt Romney (Mormon,...

16-year-old kills home intruder Police say teen ID'd masked, unarmed man as high school acquaintance By KATHY JEFCOATS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 02/21/07 Clayton County police said a 16-year-old boy was "in fear for his life" Tuesday morning when he shot and killed a masked, unarmed intruder who broke into his Riverdale home. Interim Chief Jeff Turner said the alleged shooter, identified by neighbors as Wes Stephens, has not been charged in the shooting on Camp Road, off Flat Shoals Road near the Fulton County line. Stephens told police he heard a window break about 11:30 a.m. in the...

The proposition before this august body, that Chris­tian values do not support American values, would have utterly mystified the greatest generation of polit­ical leaders in the history of Western democracy. Consider this statement from James Madison: We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government…. We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God. And this, from Thomas Jefferson: No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion...

The Math of . . . Changing Lanes Stay Patient, Stay Alive Is traffic passing you by? Relax. You may be moving faster than you think By Joshua Foer DISCOVER Vol. 26 No. 04 | April 2005 Donald Redelmeier is riding shotgun in my Chrysler Sebring rental car as I cruise down a four-lane stretch of Bayview Avenue in north Toronto. About 30 feet ahead, a white van slows down to make a left turn. Normally, I wouldn’t think twice about swerving around it. Then again, normally I wouldn’t be sitting beside a scientist who is an expert on the...

With apologies to Doug From Upland -- (Sung to the tune of "The Beverley Hillbillies" theme)Let me tell 'ya a little story'bout a Freeper named BobCould'nt buy a housethough he had a good jobthen one day he asked his wife"Do we have to stay here for the rest of our lives?""No" she said"Let's go""LA sucks"Well the next thing you know'Ol Bob is on the netScoutin' out a placethat would be a good betHis company said "If some one else quits, than to our Dallas office, you can then split."Texas that is,Bush VotersSwimming PoolsNO MOVIE STARS!

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