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It's Oct 1, and Davis knows that he can't possibly beat the recall. He also sees in the polls that Bustamante will not be elected. He resigns, making Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante the new governor. Since the recall effort was to replace Davis, and Davis had been replaced, the courts decide to cancel the recall election. Bustamante serves out the rest of the term. Can this tactic work?

They are on the rise again.Chestertown, MD: an independent convenience store (don't know where they buy their gas) sold regular unleaded for $1.529/gallon as of Tuesday 8/19/03. As of today (Saturday 8/23) that same store charges $1.729/gallon.How much of this is attributable to the imminent Labor Day weekend, and how much is attributable to the leaky pipeline in AZ?

The markets are ar Highs for the year. The economy is in a recovery. Californication may be getting some common sense. The adults are in charge and the demoncraps are looking for an issue to run on. The deck of bad guys is being drawn down daily in Iraq and it is only a matter of time for Saddam and Osama. Sorry but I see the glass half full today.

Anyone know? Links? Thanks!

Folks coming to out home were confused seeing Hillary's Book on the bookshelf. So I did this: Hillary's Book

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) cried foul yesterday over a report that at least five of the urinals it installed in Muntinlupa City have been vandalized allegedly by city hall employees. "There should be total appreciation (by the local government units) of what we are doing. I mean, the urinals are not about politics. It is giving men the service that they need when they have to answer the call of nature," MMDA General Manager Robert Nacianceno told The STAR. According to Nacianceno, five of the eight urinals the MMDA installed on the East Service Road at the South...

Question for the Freepers: Article 1 Section 10 reads in part: "No state shall ... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debt" Can gold be used a legal tender to pay debts or obligations to the US or state governments by private citizens? Could I send a few ounces of gold to my county courthouse to pay property taxes? Or show up at the DMV counter with some gold to register my car? The Founders totally abhorred fiat currency and reluctantly allow reedemable currency. Jefferson talked about citizens being "filched" by treasury notes (not...

I will create a “Porn for Pistols” program to take handguns off the streets. Dealing with the violence and injuries associated with handguns is a huge drain on our state's resources

Please help me before this thread gets pulled! Thanks!

Sorry for the vanity, but are any other Texans experiencing brief flash power outages? We've had 4 in the last couple of hours here in DFW, 3 long enough to reset the clocks, and several minutes of slightly dimmed lights after the 2nd. In the last 3 years I can't recall any flash outages happening in this house except during storms, and there are none around Dallas this evening. Normally I wouldn't bring it up, but 4 is kinda strange...

My first post, rather than a reply, so bear with me if the HTML falls apart. The question up for grabs is "Did Mussolini go to hell when he died?" While one's instinctive answer is probably "yes", the follow-up question, then, is "why?" Mussolini didn't really do a whole lot in WWII, except spout off and generally suck at combat. If you think that Mussolini went to hell because he allied himself with Hitler and Hirohito, then would Roosevelt and Churchill have gone to hell because they allied themselves with Stalin, who was himself evil incarnate? Just curious to hear...

I'm looking to convince a liberal friend that the Wellstone memorial earlier this year was, in fact, a political rally. Anyone with a file of the video of the memorial (which apparently ran on CSPAN, though I can't find it on their site) please FReepmail me. I need to convert this guy, who's blinded by ideology.

By this I mean as a driver or a passenger. Hitchhikers will count too (though I have never done that).Here are the ones I've been on, based on memory, broken down by state:AZ: I-8, I-10 CA: I-5, I-8, I-405, I-710 (when it was CA 7), I-10, I-280, I-80, I-880 (when it was CA 17) CT: I-95, I-91, I-84 DE: I-95, I-295, I-495 DC: I-95/495, I-295, I-395 FL: I-95, I-75, I-4, I-275 GA: I-95 KY: I-71/75, I-275 ME: I-95, I-295, I-395 MD: I-68, I-70, I-270, I-81, I-83, I-95, I-195, I-295, I-395, I-495, I-695, I-795, I-895 MA: I-84, I-90, I-290, I-93, I-95,...

Can anyone help with these questions? ONE: Which laptop would likely be faster? (1) IBM Thinkpad G40 with: CPU: Pentium 4 3.0 GHz RAM: 1 Gig Graphics Card: Intel Extreme (which taps into the above RAM) Harddrive: 4200 rpm OR (2) IBM Thinkpad T40 with: CPU: Pentium M (Centrino) 1.6 GHz RAM: 512 Meg Graphics: 32M 7500 Radeon Harddrive: 5400 rmp ______________ TWO I've heard that CPUs are so fast, that anything over 1.4 GHz seems pretty much the same. The real bottleneck is harddrive speed. True? _____________ THREE: I have a Toshiba Satellite 4080XCT which I bought in March...

We are going to move to Idaho from Alaska in two weeks. I'm curious about prices of basic things for a comparison. I'm hoping to get sticker shock when we leave here. I'm sure we will.Gas here is 1.75Milk (gallon whole) 4.99bread (wonder) 2.50 to 2.99

Fellow FReepers... I have a non-news question, hopefully you can help me out. I just got a coupon in the mail from Lens Crafters for 50% off prescription sunglasses. As a general rule, how much do prescription sunglasses cost? $100-$200? Anybody have any idea? Thanks. -sdk

VANITY: My first vanity post... I'm looking for corroboration that members of the military in branches other than the Navy serve on Navy vessels. I was defending Bush's landing on the Abraham Lincoln on a political debate board and indicated that his doing so lifted the morale of sailors and airmen on the ship. A leftist whacko on the board is now claiming I cannot be a vet (which I am) because a "real veteran" wouldn't claim there would be airmen on an aircraft carrier. Any links would be appreciated. I've also attached the link to the debate forum if...

Yes it will be best to have Gray Davis out of office and have a Republican as Governor, but can any explain how having a Republican as Governor helps President Bush's chances of winning Calfornia's 55 electoral votes? Bush lost California in 2000 by a wide margin. Plus, the majority of the California state House and Senate is Democrat as is a majority of the U. S. congressional delegation and both Senators.

I was wondering since I just heard on a local radio show a top state Republican party member claim that the former Baseball commish has raise over a 1 million bucks and haves the fundrising lead.

Some liberal friends like to tell me about how the "rich" and politicians kids always escape military service/wars. I would like some examples to disprove this.