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I've been here long enough to know that blogpimping is frowned up. But then I looks up after x number of years and see the 'Bloggers and Personal' section of FR. Is it ok to post self-blogged content to this area?

This is a complete vanity. Isn't today the day that the Anonmyous Hackers are going to make Wall Street disappear?

PEORIA — A "major incident" involving a large group of people shooting fireworks at police and firefighters occurred near the Taft Homes just before 10 p.m. Monday, about the same time the fireworks show on the riverfront was ending. Police had to briefly shut down Adams and Eaton streets, near Taft, as they dispersed the large crowds. No officers or firefighters were injured, dispatchers said on the radio. At one point, police were ordered to tell those in the crowd to go into their apartments, leave or be arrested for unlawful assembly.

Teenagers are better than Congress because. . . 1. Teens can be forced to take care of their own dirty laundry. 2. When caught in a lie, teens will admit it. 3. No one forces us to give teens more money to waste. 4. Most teens are smart enough to read something before they sign it. 5. Teens do not cuss as much when they think nobody else is listening. 6. It's easier to find out who teens are talking to on their cell phones. 7. When we get tired of hearing it, teens can be sent to their rooms....

CHICAGO (CBS) ― Chicagoans are so frustrated with broken parking meters and high costs, some are vandalizing the meters. They are taking more of your quarters every day. And Chicagoans are in revolt. While some are saying enough by avoiding them, others are taking out their frustrations on the parking meters - literally! CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports with the anger behind the new meter rate increases. You think eight is enough? How about 12? That's how many quarters buy an hour of parking time in some places now. And its why some people have had enough. Near...

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that he will try to chance national policy by “coming after” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) if he is elected president. The pastor also insisted Obama “didn’t denounce” him and “didn’t distance himself” from Wright’s controversial remarks, but “did what politicians do.” Wright implied Obama still agrees with him by saying: “He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was [portrayed as] anti-American.” Wright, who was Obama’s pastor for 20 years and performed his wedding, made the explosive comment during a chaotic question-and-answer session...

HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK: 1. Open a new folder on your computer. 2. Name it "Hillary Clinton" 3. Send it to the trash. 4. Empty the trash. 5. Your PC will ask you, "Do you really want to get rid of "Hillary Clinton?" 6. Firmly Click "Yes." Feel better? Tomorrow do Barrack Obama!

April 10, 2007 — The office of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper will announce that he is dismissing all charges against three Duke Lacrosse players, ABC News has learned from sources close to the case. The three players, Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty, were facing charges of first degree kidnapping and first degree forcible sexual offense. The charges stem from an off-campus party on the night of March 13, 2006. In the hours after the party, one of two dancers hired to perform for the players claimed she had been violently raped in a bathroom by members...

According to a source at Disney who requested anonymity Prince Caspian, the second story in the Chronicles of Narnia, has been greenlit for a December 2007 theatrical release. Disney was hoping for a $60 million opening weekend for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and since the film’s opening exceeded their expectation they are moving forward. Don’t expect an official announcement until later in the week or possibly as late as January. Adamson hasn’t decided whether he will direct the new film, but most think he will be back. The script is very nearly finished, and the general feeling...

Below is a list of names. Everyone in the list has a few things in common. As you read try to guess what those things are. Ready? Here we go: Robin Gialanella, Stephanie Burleson, Shelley Allen, Sandra “Beth” Geisel, Maria Saco, Amber Marshall, Elisa Kawasaki, Nicola Prentice, Elizabeth Miklosovic, Rhianna Ellis, Samantha Solomon, Gwen Ann Cardozo, Elizabeth Stow, Lynn Samuels, Nicole Andrea Barnhart, . Laura Lynn Findlay, Kelly Lynn Dalecki, Lakina Stutts, Rachelle Vantucci, Donna Carr Galloway, Carol Flannigan, Toni Lynn Woods, Amber S. Jennings, Debra Lafave, Kim Alexander, Kathy Denise White, Susanne Eble, Rebecca Boicelli, Angela M. Stellwag, Bethany...

Now journalism has become an offshoot of the welfare state. Every last cigar-smoking fraud of a middle-aged reporter, pale with prison pallor, deep lines in his cheeks, writing daily pietisms for the sheet back home about free enterprise, is himself the first captive. It is the best free ride anyone will find since he left his family’s chest. Your room is paid for by the newspaper, your trips to the particular sports attached to the event ...are by chartered limousine. Who but a Soviet bureaucrat, a British businessman, a movie star, or an American reporter would ride in a chartered...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (July 21) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a congratulatory round of meetings with officials of the new unified Sudanese government Thursday, but expressed outrage after security forces manhandled aides and reporters accompanying her. ''It makes me very angry to be sitting there with their president and have this happen,'' she said. ''They have no right to push and shove.'' Rice made her remarks to reporters after she and her entourage were aboard an airplane preparing to leave the Sudanese capital. ''Diplomacy 101 says you don't rough your guests up,'' Rice senior adviser Jim Wilkinson had said...

KERRY CRITICIZES 'GAY MARRIAGE' -- Former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry is criticizing his home state's party for embracing "gay marriage" in its platform. The Massachusetts Democratic Party is expected soon to approve an addition to the platform supporting "gay marriage." "I'm opposed to it being in a platform. I think it's a mistake," Kerry, a Democratic senator, told The Boston Globe. "I think it's the wrong thing, and I'm not sure it reflects the broad view of the Democratic Party in our state." Kerry supports Vermont-style civil unions and opposes a marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Former Clinton adviser put the nation at risk July 23, 2004 What is this country coming to? It's getting to the point where a guy can't even inadvertently and accidentally drop 80 to 90 pages of highly classified documents into his socks and pants, take them out of the National Archives, then destroy some of them and lose some others in a time of war. I say leave poor Sandy Berger alone. Just the other day my wife said, "How many times do I have to ask you to check your socks for top-secret memos before you put them in...

Gibson movie an alternative to mindless violence February 19, 2004 I watched Diane Sawyer interview Mel Gibson Feb. 16 concerning the new movie he's produced, "The Passion of the Christ." From what I saw and have been reading, some are concerned about the movie and the impact it might have. I think the announcer for ABC called it "possibly the most controversial film ever." These things leave me almost speechless. This movie is about the last hours of Jesus Christ, and yet is it more controversial and worthy of scrutiny than "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Kill Bill"? Pundits and Hollywood...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. (BP)--"When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often," author John B. Bogart observed. "But if a man bites a dog, that is news." If Bogart's assertion is correct and uncommon events at least qualify as newsworthy, then why has most of America not heard about two recent hate crimes, one aimed at a church and the other leveled at a Christian school? The mainstream media is constantly presenting stories of "harassed" homosexuals. My files are full of news stories of gays alleging bias of various shapes, forms and fashions. So prolific...

Thank you for writing to Amazon.com with your concern. We'd like to assure you, Amazon.com does not endorse "Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers." Simply because we sell a book does not mean we agree with the ideas it contains. If you will look at our site,you will see that we have posted a review of the book by one of our editors which is highly critical of the ideas expressed in Mr. Riegel's book. Please know that, contrary to rumors that have been circulating around the Internet, this book is not a "how-to" manual for molesting children. The author simply...

THE MEANING OF "IS" By J. Christoph Amberger Remember the 90s? An era in which complex philososophical conundrums were pondered in public, if there ever was one. Like: Is oral sex covered under "Sexual Relations"? Or: What is the meaning of "is"? Paradigms shifted without clutch and investors poured money into start-ups whose CEOs sported Maynard Crabbe goatees and ugly shoes as proud statements of perma-adolescent rebelliousness. New Economy math supplanted earnings (let alone profits) with razor scooters and nose piercings. GNP grew, bolstered by unholy amounts of stock transactions and investment "gains." Watching the President of the greatest nation...

"The fundamentals are in place for a return to sustained healthy growth," Greenspan told Congress. Following the testimony, journalists and analysts trying to read the tea leaves were reasonably certain the Fed will not raise rates. Mostly, "the Fed Chairman came out in favor of trust and against greed," wrote Rob Peebles at the Prudent Bear. The creatively ambiguous Greenspan suggested to senators that "even a small increase in the likelihood of large, possibly criminal penalties for egregious behavior of CEOs can have profoundly important effects" on corporate behavior. The fact that his audience routinely ignore laws requiring their own...

Thomas Jefferson on Separation of Church and State The Danbury Baptist Association, concerned about religious liberty in the new nation wrote to President Thomas Jefferson, Oct. 7, 1801. Sir, Among the many millions in America and Europe who rejoice in your Election to office; we embrace the first opportunity which we have enjoyd in our collective capacity, since your Inauguration, to express our great satisfaction, in your appointment to the chief Majestracy in the United States; And though our mode of expression may be less courtly and pompious than what many others clothe their addresses with, we beg you, Sir...