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Polk County, WI (PRWEB) May 16, 2008 -- Ban the Ban Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization opposing smoking bans, has officially launched their Operation Mollycoddle campaign as of this week. While still keeping with their stated policy of not encourage smoking, the campaign is taking a new direction from previous efforts by specifically targeting the general public instead of the anti-smoking organizations. Operation Mollycoddle was designed for the explicit purpose of encouraging the general public to reclaim themselves as responsible adult citizens who are capable of making their own decisions and counter the overwhelming attitude that people need to be forcibly...

Just checking to see if the election is over so I can come back in and start posting. My election black-out has been very complete.

Marisa Miller is #1

I'm surprised nobody posted this. I rarely listen to Laura, although I always enjoy when I do. Today on her show she announced she has just adopted a 3 year old Guatemalan girl. Just a little late night nice story. I'm so tired of the other ones...

It states on page 7 of the Opinion http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/072360np.pdf that the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure does not apply to Delaware District Court or BK case, therefore it does no apply to this "pro se" case.

The Left has one thing right. The oilcos are screwing America. What they have wrong is the method they allege. The Left trots out its marxist litany of greed, monopoly, speculation, oppression of the poor, etc. and inf nauseamque. That's where they're dead wrong. Here's exactly how we are being screwed, Left, Right, and Oilco: The United States is the world's third largest oil producer, pumping from established wells that were bought and paid for many times over, and operating steadily with what amounts to federal subsidy in the form of tax incentives and depletion allowances, etc. etc. That oil,...

New audio tape on old video. Comrade Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple pledge their loyalty to the Soviet Union and sing the Soviet Anthem (as they did nightly) a month before their mass suicide. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMt3nKd-QZY

UPDATE: Now with a possible, if x-rated explanation, after the jump. You have been warned. UPDATE: The New York Times report -- CNN Reporter Faces Drug Charge - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog -- omits the sex equipment and partner details. Commenters are clueless as a result.....

They're delicious, nutritious and will free you and your loved one's from Purgatory! Go ahead and indulge yourself with all new Tetzel's Pretzels! Tetzel's Pretzels are the most twisted pretzels on the market today. And at just $20 per bag, they're a real bargain. Plus with every bag you buy you'll not only get great flavor, but you'll also free a soul from Purgatory! That's right, every bag of Tetzel's Pretzels you buy comes with a "get out of purgatory free" card that can be used for any of your loved ones or saved until after you die to avoid...

Dan Mitchell requests that interested parties send in e-mail responses to his proposal to 1. pass the flat tax 2. repeal the 16th 3. pass the FairTax

Contribute to the first collaboratively authored computer game and earn Game Designer credit! The Restaurant Game is a research project at the MIT Media Lab that will algorithmically combine the gameplay experiences of thousands of players to create a new game. In a few months, we will apply machine learning algorithms to data collected through the multiplayer Restaurant Game, and produce a new single-player game that we will enter into the 2008 Independent Games Festival. Everyone who plays The Restaurant Game will be credited as a Game Designer. It's never been easier to earn Game Designer credentials! All contributions are...

The Miami Dolphins began preliminary talks Tuesday with a representative of Michigan offensive tackle Jake Long on a contract to be the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft, according to two sources close to the discussions. However, Miami’s early move could be used as leverage to put pressure on Long or one of the other top prospects to get a deal done before the draft. For now, it appears that Long, the massive left tackle, is tops on the team’s list. Long’s agent, Tom Condon, met with multiple members of the team’s staff at the Dolphins training facility...

Within this year, Kosovo expects to launch its own army, to be called the Kosovo Security Force (KSF). Compared to other military forces in Europe, the KSF will be small and lightly equipped; its size will be limited to 2,500 active troops and 800 reserves. It will be primarily responsible for crisis response, explosive ordinance disposal and civil protection. The plans are to develop the force out of a current emergency response organisation, the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC). Established eight years ago under UNMIK and KFOR supervision, it is involved in activities such as firefighting, search and rescue and medical...

St Olaf's College, Northfield, MN A debate will be held in Buntrock Hall, St Olaf's College, Northfield, MN at 8:00 PM, Thursday April 10th. The event is sponsored by the St Olaf College Republicans, but it is open to all interested parties regardless of political affiliation. David Strom, a graduate and professor at neighboring Carlton College will argue for the flat tax. Mr Strom is now President of THE FAIR MARKET INSTITUTE after a term as President of THE MN TAXPAYERS LEAGUE. He can be heard weekly on The Patriot, radio station 1280 AM, Saturdays from 9:00 am to 11:00...

This morning I was sent the following email: > In her senior thesis at Princeton, Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on crime and hatred. Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ineradicable racist. The 1985 thesis, titled 'Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community' was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson. Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to 'Whites at Princeton , it often seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first...' However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, If those 'Whites at...

Over the last few months, celebrations for Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday have drawn attention to the Kentucky native's life and his legacy as president. But the 200-year anniversary of another Kentucky president's birth, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, is receiving mixed reviews. "I'll say it this way - winners write history," said Ron Bryant, a Lexington historian writing a book on Davis. "We need heroes, we need villains. Lincoln became a hero and Davis a villain." Davis was born in what is now Todd County, Ky., in 1808, one year before Lincoln. Davis served as the only president of the 11...

NEW YORK -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released a new report. It warned that the axis between South American drug cartels and the Albanian mafia have reached "alarming proportions", while reports by several intelligence agencies show that Kosovo is a distribution center on the crossroads of global routes and pathways of drug trafficking. This presents reason for concern, primarily because of the new pathways of drug trafficking, and "inclusion of cocaine in the range of products offered by the groups that are active along the Balkan drug route", the UNODC annual report for 2007...

This is a video response to OBAMA CALLS HIS 'RACIST' GRANDMOTHER "TYPICAL WHITE PERSON"

MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - A court in Macedonia has ordered the government to pay a $3,500 fine to a local bee-keeper over a bear that had been stealing his honey, national media said on Friday. The case came about after a man from the village of Krivogastani, near the town of Bitola, appealed to a local court, claiming damage to his property. He had initially tried to keep the bear away from his beehives by playing loud Serbian turbo-folk music. "I tried to distract the bear with lights and music because I had heard that bears are afraid...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am. “Hasn’t been a good day,” Daly told The Associated Press. “This is the last thing I needed in my life. I feel like I let Arnold down.” The wild ride of golf’s most unpredictable figure took another hairpin turn when Daly said he was given wrong information that caused him to...

9:40 p.m. Guam - Air Force officials are investigating the collision of a B-1 Bomber with emergency vehicles on the taxiway up at Andersen Air Force Base. Air Force Spokesman Capt. Joel Stark confirms that the B-1 Bomber was in transit from Singapore to Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota and had landed at AAFB for an inflight emergency. Capt. Stark couldn't disclose what the emergency was but did say the B-1 Bomber apparently had rolled while on the taxiway and collided into the vehicles just after 12 p.m. Friday. Capt. Stark says there were no injuries since the crew...

All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars. A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them "actors." The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away — and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too. The state Health Department is threatening to bring the curtain down on these sham productions. But for now, it's on with the show. At The Rock, a...

They will tell you the Civil War was not about slavery. Remind them that the president and vice president of the so-called "Confederate States of America" both said it was. They will tell you that great-great grandpa Zeke fought for the South, and he never owned any slaves. Remind them that it is political leaders - not grunts - who decide whether and why a war is waged. They will tell you the flag just celebrates heritage. Remind them that "heritage" is not a synonym for "good." After all, Nazis have a heritage, too.

Now we know why, in her adult life, Michelle Obama has never been proud of America until now. As Byron York reports, her life here is such a struggle. And not because of the demands of the political campaign. As she puts it, "I don't know what I would do, even if we weren't running; I don't know what I would do as a professional without having that kind of support system [provided by her mother who lives nearby]." It is that support system, she confesses, that "keeps me sane." It's easy to see her point. The Obamas, according to...

The following are benefits ALL Americans would realize under The FairTax. 1) Taxes of current tax-payers automatically cut by 30% just due to the fact that the tax base dramatically increases. 2) $500 BILLION dollars, or 1/5 of all tax-related current expenditures would be pumped back into the American economy EACH YEAR. And that is without a SINGLE budget cut! That is easily 4 times the size of ‘the Bush Tax Cuts’ without even cutting ANYTHING. 3) Social Security and Medicare become fully-funded. BANKRUPCY is avoided. The reason is simple – the funding problem is DEMOGRAPHIC and The FairTax completely...

Larry Sinclair's drug test came back earlier than expected. He was tested for any and all chemical substances including illegal drugs that could cause an inaccurate polygraph test result. There were no traces of any such substances found. We are awaiting for the second polygraph expert to verify the original results and should have an answer by Monday. Video of the polygraph exam will be posted shortly.

More citizens are joining the millions already on the FairTax bandwagon — and should. We've all known for decades that the antiquated and overburdened U.S. tax system needs to be reformed. The FairTax is not a reform of the present 67,000 pages of tax code. It is a complete replacement tax system based totally on consumption. The first book by talk-radio show host Neal Boortz and House Rep. John Linder (GA.), "The FairTax Book," was a solid attempt to spread the word across the nation that there is a concerted and well thought out plan to replace the present system....

This is an actual letter from an Austin woman sent to American company Proctor and Gamble regarding their feminine products. She really gets rolling after the first paragraph... PC Magazine's 2007 editors' choice for best webmail-award-winning letter.... Dear Mr. Thatcher, I have been a loyal user of your 'Always' maxi pads for over 20 years and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the Leak Guard Core or Dri-Weave absorbency, I'd probably never go horseback riding or salsa dancing, and I'd certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature...

http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/unbelievable-attempt-at-ammunition-ban.html So far 10 States have bills that want to enact ammo serialization. It turns out that two Seattleites stand to make a hefty profit if the legislation goes through... Ravensforge inventors of record are Mr Steve Mace of Seattle, Washington and Mr Russel H Ford also of Seattle. As if by magic they have a patent pending for this magical system (Ravensforge is connected to the microstamping technology that California bought into recently.) It is very interesting to see that as part of their About Us mission statement they boldly state that the implementation requires legislation. Interestingly enough they...

Avoiding the Critics -- Again In order to answer one's critics, one must first face criticism honestly. Unfortunately, the authors fail to do so in their latest book. The primary criticisms of the FairTax fall within three categories: (a) the FairTax rate would need to be extremely high in order to replace our current tax system and still fund the government, (b) the burden of the FairTax will fall primarily on the middle class, and (c) the FairTax will be virtually impossible to enforce. Despite listing these criticisms among the many that they allegedly refute, the authors fail to address...

In his December 24, 2007 Tax Notes article, “Why the Fair Tax Won’t Work,” Bruce Bartlett purports to critique the FairTax, a proposal to replace almost all federal taxes with a retail sales tax plus a rebate. In fact, Barlett’s article has little to say about the FairTax and even less to say that’s accurate. Instead, most of his article misstates research on the FairTax, criticizes unnamed proponents of the FairTax, lambasts unattributed views of the FairTax, and engages in political punditry. This paper takes a close look at Bartlett’s “analysis,” exposing his repeated use of straw men for what...

Women have had a hand in aiding and abetting the consumerism that objectifies them, and it's the result of original sin, says Helen Alvare. Alvare, the former pro-life spokeswoman for the U.S. bishops' conference, and a law professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., said this today at the Vatican conference under way through Saturday on "Woman and Man, the 'Humanum' in Its Entirety." Given our environment of rampant consumerism, "it was almost inevitable that human beings would become the 'ultimate' consumer product," said Alvare. "Women's physical beauty and sexual complementarity with men make them particularly desirable...

I was an ardent Thompson supporter, a dedicated "Fred-Head", when he left the race I was a little uneasy about all the remaining canidates, (some more than others). I decided Gov. Romney was the one I "could live with". After watching his speech at the CPAC, his presentation, his emotion, his obvious conviction, I was sold. Mitt Romney is the future of the "Reagan Revolution". His sacrafice of personel gain for the good of the party, the good of the country.....then McCain couldn't even show up to support his president or his party in the senate on the stimilus package...

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Washington D.C.- Congressman Paul Broun today announced his co-sponsorship of H.R. 25, the “FairTax Act of 2007.” This bi-partisan legislation, which was introduced by Rep. John Linder (R-GA) and Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK), repeals all corporate and individual income taxes, payroll taxes, self-employment taxes, capital gains taxes, and gift taxes in favor of the simpler, consumption-based FairTax. The FairTax would be collected at the point of sale, and its adoption would allow for the elimination of the excessively bureaucratic and needlessly intrusive Internal Revenue Service. He becomes the 73rd member of Congress to cosponsor The Fair Tax. “Adopting the FairTax...

Only months after a new state law effectively banned "mom" and "dad" from California schools, a total of 600,000 students could follow because of what has been described as the "repudiation" of 2,000 years of Christian morality, according to leaders of a new campaign assembling education alternatives. The campaign is called California Exodus, and is being headed by Ron Gleason, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Yorba Linda, who said while the country excels in social, economic, scientific and political accomplishments, it "gets low grades on the education of its children." The issue is the state legislature's adoption of Senate...

What the heck is the FairTax plan? In light of all the recent Congressional support for a phony fiscal “stimulus” plan to ostensibly rescue the American economy from falling into the proverbial abyss, let’s take an honest look at an incredible, infinitely better plan - one that we hear a lot about these days. Were it to be implemented, economists project it would spark an unprecedented period of economic expansion in the United States, not to mention worldwide. It has been gaining a huge grass-roots base in recent years and is steadily gaining support in Congress, but it is also...

Man wins sex doll complaint Monday, February 4, 2008 A sex shop in Romania was fined £600 after a customer complained that an inflatable doll it sold him had lost its moan. The shop in Brasov, Transylvania (which is a real place, even though it sounds like a pun on the phrase 'bras off') was also ordered to give the man, in his 40s, a new rubber doll. He had also complained his doll deflated too quickly. Iulian Mara, of the consumer protection office, said: 'We went to the sex shop and found out he was justified.'

RFFM.org interview with FAIR TAX Volunteer Midwest Regional Director Marilyn Rickert Editor's note: In the race to see who will represent the Republican Party in this November's presidential election, the Fair Tax plan has been discussed on numerous occasions. RFFM.org feels it is important to delve into the nuts and bolts of this new tax initiative, so we decided to go to one of the leading proponents of the Fair Tax, Marilyn Rickert. BIOGRAPHY -- MARILYN RICKERT As the Volunteer Midwest Regional Director, Marilyn Rickert, became involved with Americans For Fair Taxation in the mid to late 1990's, two years...

Study finds woman have thicker skulls Jan. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. and Chinese scientists have determined women have thicker skulls than do men. Researchers from the Ford Motor Co. and Tianjin University of Science and Technology created a non-invasive method of measuring geometric characteristics of the human skull. They then examined head scan images of 3,000 patients at the Tianjin Fourth central Hospital in China. The scientists found the average thickness of women's skulls is 7.1 millimeters -- nine percent greater than the average of 6.5 millimeters for men. Men, however, have skulls that are three percent greater in front-to-back...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Two in three Australian travelers are either members of the notorious Mile High Club or would like to be a member, a survey showed Monday. Asked if they would consider a mid-air sexual encounter, almost half of 1,110 people surveyed wanted an adventure, while 12 percent already had mile-high membership wings. "People are obviously looking for more stimulating entertainment than a movie or a CD when traveling by plane," Totaltravel.com global marketing manager Paul Fisher said. A flight attendant for Australia's flag carrier Qantas was sacked last year after claiming to have had a tryst with actor...

Rant Time!!!

Paraplegic man dumped in LA gutter sues hospital Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:35pm EST By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A mentally ill paraplegic man filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a hospital that dumped him in a gutter on Los Angeles' "Skid Row" -- a case that highlighted the plight of the city's vast homeless population. Gabino Olvera, 42, sued the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center for negligence and elder abuse after it discharged him in February 2007, took him across town in a van and left him in a soiled hospital gown without a wheelchair in the heart...

State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a bill Tuesday to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles, calling it a safety issue because it could distract other drivers. Under his measure, displaying the ornamentation on a motor vehicle would be a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $250.

Having come to Fox's rescue on more than one occasion, "American Idol" this year faces a far tougher mission: keeping the lights on in TV land during one of the medium's darkest hours.

Sex and the MLA by: Bethany Stotts, January 11, 2008 Chicago, Ill— It seems like some professors simply can’t get their mind off sexuality and have allowed this fixation to the color their professional work. A teacher of Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender Queer (LBGTQ) studies at Santa Clara University, Professor Linda Garber asserts that she had, as an untenured professor, been nervous about teaching sex in class “and I decided, well, maybe for just a few years I could teach sexuality not sex.” She added “It didn’t work that way, partly because you find that it’s so normalized you forget;...

I can't take it anymore and I am closing my Bank of America accounts (Mortgage,Checking). I'm tired of pressing one for english when conducting business on the phone and at the versateller. I'm tired of walking into a branch and seeing all the in your face marketing materials in spanish. Its like banking in Tijuana. I'm tired of the catering to non citizens, an affront to customers that built their franchise. Lastly, the final straw might well be their new add that takes you to the heavens looking down on the ENTIRE north american continent, sending a message that they...

The president of the western York County NAACP chapter wants a flag that pays homage to the Confederate flag removed from in front of a downtown business...A flag that is half South Carolina state flag and half Confederate flag flying next to the U.S. flag at Exchange Publishers in downtown York.

Here is thread so far: Jacquerie 01/08/2008 6:55:22 PM EST This morning I asked a simple question regarding the morality of taxing long time residents at a much lower rate than newlyweds. A few replies were thoughtful (thank you), most were laced with schoolyard quality insults (straps) accusing me of being a liberal, of wanting to raise taxes on the elderly, etc. No one could justly rationalize the differential in tax rates. A recent Wall St Journal article noted the statewide decline in school enrollments because families were leaving due in large part to high RE taxes. Our once friendly...

A Westmoreland County man who mailed a bloody cow's head to his wife's lover has been admitted to probation and community service. Jason Michael Fife "understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow's head to anybody," said his defense lawyer, Henry Hilles. "My client did step over the line here, but one can certainly understand his frustration, given that the victim was carrying on an affair with my client's wife," Mr. Hilles said. Authorities in Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, arrested Mr. Fife and charged him with stalking, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassment after he...