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I can't find my TV remote.. ....Obamas fault!!!

No clear knockout winner. I call it a draw. I believe both candidates did what they wanted to do. I thought McCain missed some chances to hit 0bama hard on the bailout and economy, but that's easy for me to say from here in my living room.

Senator Grahamnesty was just on FNC stating that 20% of the relief in the bailout was going to go to ACORN for housing.

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Change?.. What’s it cost?.. Who pays?.. We’re hearing a lot about change — and we’re sure to hear much more. Problem is, we heard a lot about change before, and look what’s happened: higher gas prices and food prices, record home foreclosures, massive bank failures and a do-nothing Congress. In fact, we often hear politicians making grand promises with other people’s money. That is, with our money. Because the issues are so serious, and the stakes so high, to cut through the clutter and spin, RightChange.com is starting a national conversation, in plain language, around key questions: Is raising taxes...

They have disrupted McCain's speech several times. I've never seen anything like this during a convention. I wonder how they managed to get in. To me this is scary. What if these people were there to do something other than shout? I'm sure these people will be the headline on MSNBC and the New York Times....

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said tax rebates will start going out Monday, earlier than previously announced, and should help Americans cope with rising gasoline and food prices, as well as aid a slumping economy. Democrats said they were glad the rebate checks were about to go out, but suggested that multinational oil companies were not among the businesses the stimulus package was originally designed to help. "Starting Monday, the effects of the stimulus will begin to reach millions of households across our country," Bush said Friday in remarks on the South Lawn of the White House. Those first rebates...

ARAPAHO, Okla. (AP) - Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail. Custer County Sheriff Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday just as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official. Burgess, the top officer in the county of 26,000 since 1994, appeared in court Wednesday was released after posting $50,000 bail. A message left at Burgess' home Thursday was not immediately...

2,000,000th thread on FR!!!

Is anyone else having their "New posts to you" always being colored in red as if there are new comments to read? Mine has been like this all day, even when there are no new posts to me.

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What happened? It's been down all day. I was going through FR withdrawal, and was feeling totally blind in the world!

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama has extended his lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% to 42%, the third consecutive Gallup Poll Daily tracking report in which he has held a statistically significant lead, and Obama's largest lead of the year so far.

An elderly man has killed himself by programming a robot to shoot him in the head after building the machine from plans downloaded from the internet. Francis Tovey, 81, who lived alone in Burleigh Heads on the Australian Gold Coast, was found dead in his driveway. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin, he had been unhappy about the demands of relatives living elsewhere in Australia that he should move out of his home and into care. Notes left by Mr Tovey — who was born in England — revealed that he had scoured the internet for plans before constructing his...

I don't know about everyone else, but it just makes me happy to watch Hillary get her ass totally kicked week after week.

Real-time Race Results: Updated February 10, 2008 - 5:50 PM (all times Eastern Standard) Precincts Reporting 58% Candidate Votes Vote % Delegates Projected Winner Obama 1,305 57% 0 Clinton 956 42% 0 Uncommitted 16 1% 0 . This report includes information from the Associated Press which may not be rewritten or retransmitted for commercial purposes without permission from the AP. The National Election Pool entrance or exit poll was conducted by Edison/Mitofsky.

In the 1960s, Dr. Peter Witt gave spiders various kinds of drugs and alcohol to observe the effects on their webs. The results were pretty interesting. Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Spider Webs

Someone pointed this site out to me, and it looks VERY interesting and useful for finding the source of anonymous edits on wikipedia.

At first it would be no more than a nuisance. No burning skyscrapers, no underground explosions, just a million electronic irritations up and down the land. Thousands of government web pages suddenly vanish to be replaced with the Internet's version of the Testcard - that dreaded screen '404 - Not Found' or, more amusingly, some pastiche or parody. Then the Labour website starts to promise a wholesale renationalisation of the railways. The popular response this generates turns to amusement then bemusement as everything from Jaguar to BT is, the sites claim, to be taken back into state hands. When conservatives.org.uk...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Three weeks ago, Dawn Zimmer became a statistic. Laid off from her job assembling trucks at Freightliner's plant in Portland, Ore., she and 800 of her colleagues joined a long line of U.S. manufacturing workers who have lost jobs in recent years. A total of 3.2 million—one in six factory jobs—have disappeared since the start of 2000. Many people believe those jobs will never come back. "They are building a multimillion-dollar plant in Mexico and they are going to build the Freightliners down there. They came in and videotaped us at work so they could train the...