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An Illinois-based animal-rights organization is claiming that horses at this year’s Fiesta de Los Vaqueros were treated with unnecessary cruelty. An agency called SHARK, or Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, has filed a complaint Monday morning with the animal services division in Arizona’s Department of Agriculture because horses were shocked during the rodeo, said Janet Enoch, a SHARK investigator. Steve Hindi, SHARK’s president and founder, said he took video footage of horses being shocked with a prod that can deliver what he described as much 6,000 volts of painful electricity. In a video posted on the video sharing Web site...

I scored 87% Dixie

The classic New England Republican -- fiscally conservative, socially liberal -- is near death, following a long and quiet decline that began more then a decade ago when the GOP nationally began its move to the right. It is a political breed generations old. The Democratic tidal wave in Tuesday's elections claimed several victims in seats that had long been in Republican hands. Scholars say the losses may be the death knell for the traditional "rock-ribbed" New England Republican.

New $1 billion Yankee Stadium is on deckBy KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer August 16, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) -- No tears were shed Wednesday for the historic stadium where Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio played out their storied careers. Politicians and baseball officials who gathered to break ground on a new Yankee Stadium shared memories of the old ballpark but said the new one would be even better. "Yankee Stadium is an iconic stadium, a place where Ruth and (Lou) Gehrig played, where popes and presidents have spoken," Gov. George Pataki said. "But so, too, will the...

At Willow Run Airport in Belleville, Michigan. Don’t miss the largest gathering of heavy WWII bombers in the world!! Yankee Air Museum's "Thunder Over Michigan" show has been featured in Air Classics and Warbirds International magazines since 2001. In it's seventh year running it's sure to be a show that's not to be missed.

The Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who reportedly operated on Rod Stewart — and was sued by Sharon Stone for claiming he gave her a face-lift — is in trouble for allegedly whipping out more than his scalpel, The Post has learned. Dr. Renato Calabria pulled down his scrub pants and exposed his "erect penis" to a female patient on two visits, according to the Medical Board of California, which is seeking to yank his license. In June, California filed charges against Calabria accusing him of gross negligence and incompetence in treating several women. In two cases, he allegedly botched their...

To find out how much Southern blood your language shows, simply choose the words you use below, then press "Compute My Score!" at the end. The alphaDictionary will compute your score and tell you where you're coming from: are you speaking Bubbaese or are you a Yankee Doodle Dandy? http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html How do you pronounce Aunt?

Yankee or Dixie?Check on your dialect and see if you might have crossed over to the "other side"! Simply click on the correct answer. As you go, the quiz will automatically interpret each answer to show you what your answer implies about you. When you are done, press Compute My Score. Your score will be calculated as a percentage: 0% is pure Yankee and 100% is pure Dixie. Do not change your answer during the test as it will ruin the score. You may do this after scoring is calculated to see the other answers. If you make a...

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - A weekend casting call for a proposed reality TV show based on the Civil War drew potential contestants hoping for the grand prize: $1 million in gold. Producer Kevin Dolan is shopping around "Sabers and Roses" and said he is hopeful of landing a network deal. Dolan owns the historic Landon House in Maryland, where real-life Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart hosted his "Sabers and Roses" ball in 1862 before the battle of Antietam.Dolan would host the show in the guise of his alter ego, "Johnny Reb." Contestants would be divided into Yankee and Rebel teams; each contestant...

Thank you, my Southern brothers and sisters. Thank you for delivering us from evil. Time and again, I have enjoyed the warm, pleasant and invigorating breeze of your sweet judgement; your common sense; your patriotism. When I become infuriated by the MSM, I calm myself with the thought; "At least I know my Southern friends are not buying this load of..." When I witness acres and acres desks in the downtown Chicago Social Security Administration filled with sleeping patronage-hires, I comfort myself knowing that not all places are so corrupt. When I hear of American soldiers fighting and dying; I...

...Chávez has accused four Súmate leaders of treason.... Their crime, according to the president and his henchmen, is accepting funding from the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy, a bipartisan agency that promotes democracy abroad. Chávez sees the NED as an organ of his enemy, the U.S. government. For several years now Chávez has been trying to pick a fight with the Bush administration by using hateful rhetoric. The administration, perhaps wisely, has largely ignored the noises coming from Caracas. But with four brave and innocent democrats accused of conspiring with the U.S. to overthrow the Venezuelan government, it's clearly time...

CLINTON, Miss. Greetings from the heart of "red" America, that vast swath of the U.S. interior that voted for George W. Bush in 2000. (And what a wonderful irony in that designation, given the staunch anti-communism of such late Mississippi leaders as Rep. John Rankin and Sen. James O. Eastland. Could it be that calling the Republican states red is part of the vast left-wing conspiracy of the liberal media?) Mississippi is the birthplace of the blues, but in our divided nation today, it's a veritable crucible of red. This gives me and a significant minority of other Mississippians the...

Why is New England so heavily democratic? Much of it is white middle class suburban/small town types who would would vote heavily republican in much of the rest of the country. In fact New England was relatively Republican in many states as recently as 15 or 20 years ago. I understand that it is a relatively liberal place, but liberals can't be such a large percentage of the population as to explain gore's 2 to 1 victory over bush in 2000.

RE: CHENEY BOOED [KJL] I'm getting a number of these: As someone who was at the game last night, it's interesting to notice that the article fails to mention that the Vice President didn't get booed until after most of the fans cheered for him. As a frequent attendee at Yankee games, being a season ticket holder, I can speak from experience when I say that it's far easier to project more sound booing than clapping and cheering, not sure what the acoustical reasons are for this. Needless to say, the majority of the crowd was cheering first. In hindsight,...

In his article "A Class War" Victor Davis Hanson paints the picture that General William T. Sherman and his army were fighting a war of equality. He seems to think average "agrarian" men of the northern states, were so inspired they would lay down their tools, leave their families and join the Union army to invade the Southern States on a campaign of social equality. Hanson states Sherman's objective was "freeing the unfree and humiliating the arrogant." This is a nicely packaged version of history that reads well, though historically inaccurate.The Draft - Yankees RiotSupport for invading the South was...

Yankee or Dixie? Check on your dialect and see if you might have crossed over to the "other side"! Simply click on the correct answer. As you go, the quiz will automatically interpret each answer to show you what your answer implies about you. When you are done, press Compute My Score. Your score will be calculated as a percentage: 0% is pure Yankee and 100% is pure Dixie. * This test is based on results from the Harvard Computer Society Dialect Survey of 30788 respondents. http://www.chuckchamblee.com/dom/fun/yankee_dixie_quiz.htm

The Myth of the Morally Superior Yankee by Thomas J. DiLorenzo "Hillary Clinton is a museum-quality specimen of a Yankee – self-righteous, ruthless, self-aggrandizing" ~ Clyde Wilson Being born and raised in Pennsylvania, I am a northerner but not a Yankee. The same is true of my friend Lew Rockwell, a native of Massachusetts who would qualify for membership in Sons of Union Veterans. The word "Yankee" gained popularity in the early to mid nineteenth century to describe a particular brand of New Englander: arrogant, hypocritical, unfriendly, condescending, intolerant, extremely self-righteous, and believing that he and his were God’s chosen...

Not Just Whistling Dixie In South Carolina, Howard Dean Warms to His Universal Voter Message By Mark Leibovich Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, January 2, 2004; Page C01 FLORENCE, S.C. So far this morning, Howard Dean has made references to being a "Vermont Yankee," a "guy from the North" and a variation on "not from 'round here." And he's only halfway through his speech. "This is not some crackpot socialist idea from some liberal Yankee state up in the North," the former Vermont governor tells a sleepy group of breakfasters at Horne's Country Buffet. He is speaking on the topic...

Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2003 Bush Might Accept Nomination in Yankee Stadium President Bush might add another distinction to the legendary "House that Babe Ruth Built" by accepting the Republican presidential nomination at Yankee Stadium. World renowned as the arena where Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and more of baseball's greatest players broke records and won world series after world series, Yankee Stadium is being eyed by organizers of the 2004 Republican National Convention as an ideal site to host Bush's acceptance speech. According to the New York Post, the possiblity was raised to reporters by Jeff Kent, an organizer of the...

As stereotypes go, few ignite the emotions as reliably as the Southern Pickup Truck With Confederate Flag. Just ask Dr. Howard Dean. The Democrat front-runner opened ye unholy can of worms recently when he told an Iowa newspaper that he wanted "to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." Dean made the remark by way of explaining his opposition to some gun-control legislation and as part of his Southern strategy of inclusiveness. As in: "We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross section of Democrats," he explained to the Des Moines...