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Altogether around seven million tickets were up for sale for the Games, with around 75 percent going to China’s vast domestic audience, with the rest made available overseas through each country’s National Olympic Committee.

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and only 5 million were issued................

By the way, I didn’t want to single out just the cracker, so I nailed it to a few ripped-out pages from the Qur’an and The God Delusion.

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At least he holds more than one thing in contempt.

Rush is aware that Barack Obama is not the messiah ... he’s being facetious. He’s making fun of Barack, the media, and Barack’s minions who speak of him as if he’s the messiah. It is a joke at Obama’s expense.

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You can't push a log chain. Another joke that needs frequent explanation...............

We all forget...while Clinton Inc. has lost the fawning Drive-Bys, they still have lots of friends in very high places.

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These are positional friends, not real friends. The Clintons without their position, have no friends.

Planned Parenthood employs only the ones who've ceremonially trampled the Hippocratic Oath under their feet.

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I don't think doctors take the Hippocratic oath anymore but am willing to be corrected.

I remember when the goal of Iowa State University was excellence, now it is diversity.

“I think he should resign,” Mayor Tom Menino

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Maybe the mayor should FIRE him...................

I could argue a bit.

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Don't see where you are arguing with the statement. Time and discipline takes many different forms.

As I said, the true test is time...............

but knowing them - they’ll be fine.

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Time will tell, my friend. There is a whole lot of living ahead of you. The odds are against them.

It is like the bully in school.......... a face to face is going to happen no matter what you do. Might as well pick YOUR timing.

This is not much different from the blockade against the Japanese in 1941. Are we trying to induce Iran into attacking our fleet first?

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There things called NO WIN SITUATIONS. This appears to be one of them. Dammed if we do and dammed if we don’t.

The bottom line is that what Savage said is insensitive, harsh and lacking in any compassion. But he’s essentially correct. All autistic kids need extra attention, but most of it is the attention of time and disclipline which a loving parent or caring teacher could deliver. A minimal amount of medication can also be helpful, but not in the frequencies and quantities pushed by the “funky kid” industry.

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Can’t argue with that..............

I support my friends by warning them when their actions are going to ruin their lives.

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Your comments deserve the WELL SAID AWARD as well as the REPEAT LOUD AND OFTEN AWARD.

I’m 13 and a half. Now, what does that matter? I do have a few gay friends - and I support them. I know you people are HAPPY that Brandon killed Larry, but I am not.

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A little over the top, I would say. Being gay is a behavior, it is not an identity. The fashion now is that homosexuality is cool and you have bitten into the social agenda. Pay attention to the consequences of that behavior as your friends get older.

That would take a lot of limestone, and a lot of capital.

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Plus the cost of unintended consequences.

Actions speak louder than words

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Only to conservatives, not liberals.

Citizenship?

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Maybe to make him stop singing?

the Fed is reluctant to raise rates while so many large financial institutions are reeling from bad housing loans and loan bundlings and derivatives write offs.

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and who benefits most from low interest rates? Our govt.

I am so sick of the word carbon already.

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at lease it is easier to spell than tsunami........... don't worry, there is be a new fashion word in the near future.

Gentlemen, we are surrounded by morons.

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We’re surrounded————that simplifies our problem
Chesty Puller.

If that’s the case why can’t hate crimes be charged like they would be if the roles were reversed?

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I think you have to call them a name before it is a hate crime.......................

Maybe I am missing something here. If the loans are guaranteed by the federal government, why would they stocks drop? I realize not all loans are guaranteed but many of these loans were also sold at a discount. Some one is still buying these loans and there is a reason for that..................................... The lower the price, the better. Maybe I need to become a specialist is collecting on the federal guarantees.

The claims of healing range from disappeared tumors to a man who says he can now see out of a glass eye.

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Seeing out of a glass eye is quite a miracle. But all things are possible.

High overhead costs are the norm in the direct-mail business............. There is no question the firm is good at what it does.

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Another scam to ruin in for the rest.

Mr. Rangel, who has a net worth of $566,000 to $1.2 million

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How many believe that?

When my ex and I owned our home, we never once refinanced it for a car, vacations etc..he and I were definately on the same page there. The only way I would do that is to upgrade the house.

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And then congress in their wisdom decided to make only interest from mortgages deductible on tax returns........ so everyone borrowed against their house.

Homosexuality is defined by behavior

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Repeat LOUD and OFTEN.

He has been in politics far too long to not understand how his words would be used against his candidate.

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Yep, Reagan did have a way of saying it in a more positive yet truthful way. But this is better than nothing.

It is expected to completely power the three schools with energy left to sell. Sounds like a plan.

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That is what you wer sold, what will you actually get?

In fact, what appears to be the case is that a country’s laws, its drug policy, has very little to do with per capita drug use.

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I would propose to you that MOST of the drug charges are related to other criminal activities.

Anyone can be a genius when everything is going their way. The rubber meets the road when the worst happens.

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It ain’t a problem tell the cashflow stops. When will we get good management in Govt?

Obama has raised an impressive $296 million to date — dwarfing John McCain's $122 million.

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Some one correct me but those are gross dollars and presents one view of the situation. What are the net dollars each has at this point?

Obama has spent a lot of money. Thought I saw an article that they both have about the same net dollars.

Her insurance won't cover the installation of railings in her home, so she has to crawl from room to room ‘’like a dog,’’ she said.

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And she has no friends or family who could solve this problem. Of course this sounds better in her law suit.

hiking in nothing but their shoes.......

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Evidently, not purists, might as well go all the way boys...........

I can tell you the kind of person who would do that. A small minded petty bureaucrat, a government lackey whose statist mind cannot bear the thought that someone can live happily and successfully in this world without a government to protect him, provide his every need, and to tell him what to do.
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I will tell you who would do this:

Communist Christian haters!

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A more simple explanation is the Peter Principle. We have a bureaucrat who is way past their level of competence so is trying to appear competent. On the other hand, maybe you are right.......................

For a socialist, that is an ideal.

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You would think so but in a socialist mind, they are still not controlled.

I really could go on and on with this, but I am getting to depressed.

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Don’t worry, the gov’t will take care of that problem for you also.......................

History is more complicated than good guys v. bad guys. People need to understand that Judaism is by no means homogeneous, but deeply divided between Orthodox and the Sabbatean left, inventors of communism in the first place.

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Good points. I never understood the Jewish alignment with communism during the 30’s.

WHATS MY MOTIVATION?

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Good question. According to his press release, he orginally wanted obama to acknowledge the drug use, not the homosexual encounter.

He might be in fear for his life since the other homo was killed in an accident. Going public would be a good strategy. This would be my guess.

Any man letting someone perform a lewenski on him is lewd not gay.

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In my book that is homosexual perversion.

The allegation that he ( Sinclair ) asked a Limo driver to hook him up with a gay escort, and that State Senator Barack Obama showed up in this capacity and performed as such, is completely and utterly incredible.

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That is how the system works for homosexual perverts. A little more discreet than tapping toes........

Reminds me of the old Hot Rod Comic Books. Guy would show up, fill his tank with water and throw in a pill, then start the engine. All the locals would be interested and buy the pill. Didn't know the car was running on the 2nd gas tank in the trunk.

We just had a discussion about how in Des Moines Iowa it was tree huggers who caused the delay on repairing some dikes that broke and caused part of the flooding. They got the neighborhood riled up that trees were going to be destroyed to fix the dike. Doubt you will see this in the msm.

good bumper sticker. Where do you get them?

“I did not think for one moment - and no one ever suggested to me - that I was getting preferential treatment.”

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You and I call it bribery, but the problem is that he doesn’t. It is part of his “kingly” status.

I have been told by a social worker

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They cause the problem and then provide the “solution”. Can’t beat a racket like that...............

at least that party reaches out to them.

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Hell, the Republican party doesn’t even reach out to conservatives................

Here in East Texas they are EVERYWHERE.

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You would think we would have a few wild ones in Iowa but we don’t. Never saw one or heard of one.

Interesting that there were a total of 4 nuclear powered commercial ships:

NS Mutsu, Japan, 1990 - 1995. It never carried any commercial cargo.

NS Otto Hahn, Germany, 1968 - 1979 (re-powered with diesel engine in 1979)

NS Savannah, United States, 1962 - 1972

NS Sevmorput, Russia (former Soviet Union), 1988 - (still in operation).