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All flights grounded due to a system wide failure. Thats is all they are saying. Currently stuck on the tarmac in Denver

Just Having some fun with my son's school assignment in which he is to take a current event/issue and turn it into a book/story. I thought a small book with each page starting with "You Might Be A Sh*thole Country If...." (hats off to Jeff Foxworthy) and add pics and some stats/info for each. I know that Freepers have a biting sense of humor coupled with facts to make this so much more than we can do alone. So, if you will, a little help Freepers to get us started; You Might Be A Sh*thole Country If....

Can we as a sector of the political spectrum come to a consenses on a canidate for president? I believe we have squandered our opportunity to influence this election by not actively supporting the candidate that best represented conservative positions - and so we were appointed John Mccain. Now believe me, given the alternatives of Barack/Hillery, I do hope that JM wins, but he will have to do it without my vote. I believe that with the numbers FR reaches, that we could still make a difference if we could only agree - and throw our support behind a candidate...

Poll results bode well for ballot initiative Americans don’t like discrimination much, no matter who is doing the discriminating. It’s not surprising, then, that a recent poll showed broad support in Michigan for a state constitutional amendment banning racial preferences in public institutions. Some 63 percent of 600 people polled said they will vote for the amendment if it appears on next fall’s general election ballot. Collectively, this group demonstrates considerably more common sense than the quirky U.S. Supreme Court, which last year upheld a general affirmative action program at the University of Michigan law school, while striking down the...