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| White In America! |
| 2008-07-20 22:33:53 |
White In America!
For those of you that watched “Black in America” on CNN, you might be interested in how it is to be White in America
1. We are racists. WE can not use the “I have a black friend” excuse, it doesn’t work. WE have either owned a black person or OUR family has, and [...]...
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| Oil Prices Tumble in Biggest Weekly Drop Ever |
| 2008-07-19 20:20:36 |
NEW YORK — The price of oil recorded its biggest weekly drop ever, and a gallon of gas finally pulled back from its record high. So is it time to declare the energy bubble popped?
Experts won’t go that far just yet.
“It’s too early to say we’ve seen the worst of it,” said Tom Kloza, publisher [...]...
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| Guns ruling spawns legal challenges by felons |
| 2008-07-19 11:54:10 |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home south of Pittsburgh.
As a defense, Barton and several other defendants in federal gun cases argue that last month’s Supreme [...]...
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| An Explanation regarding the Blogrolls |
| 2008-07-19 10:37:01 |
I sent out an email last night, to all the folks that are on blog rolls, letting them know that I am dropping 4 of the rolls.
I have dropped rolls Denny Crane, Boycott Citgo, Don’t Tread on Me and None of the Above, they are history.
I am still maintaining these blogrolls: The Texas Connection, The [...]...
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| The necessity of a Well-Regulated Militia |
| 2008-07-18 15:39:31 |
Ladies and Gentlemen, recently a man named Steve Herr made a comment that went like this:
I have a simple message to everyone who is applauding the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the 2nd Amendment: I am perfectly willing to not only let you have a gun but as many guns as you want. There’s just [...]...
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| Pope: All faiths must unite against violence |
| 2008-07-18 12:46:57 |
SYDNEY, Australia - Pope Benedict XVI told representatives of Islam and other faiths that they must unite to combat religion’s role in “sinister and indiscriminate” violence.
Without mentioning terrorism directly, the pontiff said there were those in who were using religion “as a cause of division rather than a force for unity” in a 40-minute exchange [...]...
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| House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush *a total failure* |
| 2008-07-17 21:25:16 |
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days [...]...
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| Springfield XD-45 Tactical - Love at 1st Blast |
| 2008-07-17 15:09:06 |
I have been a serious hand-gunner since I was about 15 years old, that’s nearly 40 years ago. I have owned many different handguns over the years and a .45ACP has always been my favorite.
I have had Colt 1911 Govt Models, Colt Mark IV Series-70’s and a Jim Clark Custom, built by Jim, not Jimmy, [...]...
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| Feds may tighten English fluency law for truckers |
| 2008-07-17 10:38:09 |
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Manuel Castillo was driving a truck through Alabama hauling onions and left with a $500 ticket for something he didn’t think he was doing: speaking English poorly.
Castillo, who was stopped on his way back to California, said he knows federal law requires him to be able to converse in English with [...]...
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| Democrats try to spur more oil exploration |
| 2008-07-17 09:36:45 |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Seeking to blunt GOP efforts to permit oil exploration off Atlantic and Pacific coasts, House Democrats are pushing legislation they say would spur oil drilling on already available lands in Alaska, the West and the western Gulf of Mexico.
Republicans scoffed that the so-called Drill Act - imposing a tougher “use it or [...]...
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| NAACP leaders will push Confederate flag opposition |
| 2008-07-15 16:14:33 |
Oh, like say the drop out rate? The high birth rate to unmarried teens? Black on black crime? You know, ‘little’ things like that. No, the NAACP must focus it’s energy on a flag. Not just any ol’ flag, but the flag that was used during the “War of Northern Aggression”.
NAACP leaders will push Confederate [...]...
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| The Best YouTube of the Day. |
| 2008-07-15 15:05:14 |
Proudly Stolen from:
American and Proud
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| Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling |
| 2008-07-14 15:17:49 |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting pressure on congressional Democrats to back more exploration for oil, President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling that has stood since his father was president. But the move, by itself, will do nothing unless Congress acts as well.
There are two prohibitions on offshore drilling, one imposed by [...]...
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| Anheuser-Busch being sold to InBev for $52B |
| 2008-07-14 11:00:41 |
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The maker of the King of Beers has agreed to go to work for the Belgian brewer InBev SA. Anheuser Busch Cos. said early Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $52 billion takeover bid from InBev, creating the world’s largest brewer and heading off what was shaping up as an [...]...
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| Top 10 reasons a gun is favored over a woman |
| 2008-07-13 13:55:24 |
Top 10 reasons a gun is favored over a woman (sorry Ladies hehe)
#10. You can trade an old 44 for a new 22.
# 9. You can keep one gun at home and have another for when you’re on the road.
# 8. If you admire a friend’s gun and tell him so, he will probably let [...]...
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| Newfound Iraqi confidence pleases, worries US |
| 2008-07-13 11:49:44 |
BAGHDAD (AP) - Wajih Hameed is an Iraqi general with an attitude.
His swagger sometimes grates on American officers. But Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond sees it as a hopeful sign the Iraqi army - generals and soldiers alike - has reached a new level of self-confidence, pointing the way toward truly independent Iraqi forces and, eventually, [...]...
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| Convicted murderer Wesley Ruiz sentenced to death |
| 2008-07-12 13:02:47 |
Convicted capital murderer Wesley Lynn Ruiz was sentenced to death late Friday for the fatal shooting of a Dallas police officer.
The Dallas County jury deliberated for more than 10 hours before sentencing him to death for capital murder in the killing of Dallas police Senior Cpl. Mark Nix.
As the verdict was read Mr. Ruiz’s mother, [...]...
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| Bush tries to blame Congress for high energy costs |
| 2008-07-12 11:56:33 |
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Saturday tried to pin the blame on Congress for soaring energy prices and said lawmakers need to lift long-standing restrictions on drilling for oil in pristine lands and offshore tracts believed to hold huge reserves of fuel.
“It’s time for members of Congress to address the pain that high gas [...]...
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| McCain breaks with economic adviser over *whiners* remark |
| 2008-07-11 10:26:08 |
WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain rebuked his friend and adviser Phil Gramm on Thursday for saying the U.S. has become a “nation of whiners” about the economy and that the nation is in a “mental recession.”
“Phil Gramm does not speak for me,” the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said. “I speak for me.”
Gramm, a former Texas [...]...
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| Ex-Diplomat: Sex With Teens OK in Brazil, Congo |
| 2008-07-11 07:55:13 |
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — An ex-diplomat convicted of having sex with teenage girls in the Congo and Brazil and taping the encounters is asking a judge for leniency, claiming that cultural differences in those countries make sex with girls more acceptable.
Gons G. Nachman, 42, pleaded guilty in April to possessing child pornography after admitting that he [...]...
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| StartLogic Web Hosting SUCKS! |
| 2008-07-10 07:48:48 |
This is a copy of the complaint I filed last night with a site dedicated to the documentation of StartLogic errors and customer service faux pas, StartLogic Sucks - REAL StartLogic Reviews
I have been a StartLogic customer for 2 years, the service was really great at 1st, no real complaints, but since the transition [...]...
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| Rev. Jesse Jackson Caught Bad-Mouthing Obama |
| 2008-07-09 18:51:54 |
Reverend Apologizes For Remarks Caught On Microphone During Fox Interview
CHICAGO (CBS) The Rev. Jesse Jackson was caught on a live microphone disparaging Barack Obama’s relationship with African American church-goers.
Jackson, during a break in a Fox News interview, made a very crude statement regarding Obama’s relationship with African Americans after the presidential candidate made several speeches [...]...
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| Iran test-fires missiles in Persian Gulf |
| 2008-07-09 11:16:01 |
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran test-fired nine long- and medium-range missiles Wednesday during war games that officials said aimed to show the country can retaliate against any U.S. and Israeli attack, state television reported.
Gen. Hossein Salami, the air force commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, said the exercise would “demonstrate our resolve and might against [...]...
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| Vets ethics crusade targets Texas lawmakers, judges |
| 2008-07-08 14:15:32 |
AUSTIN — A California disabled veteran who spends six days a week sifting through campaign finance reports has filed complaints against 10 Texas legislators and 15 judges with the Texas Ethics Commission, ranging from failing to identify campaign donors to using campaign money for personal use.
One of the complaints takes aim at state Sen. John [...]...
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| Border Patrol assault suspect in Canadian custody |
| 2008-07-08 12:52:40 |
DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) — A man suspected of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Vermont-Quebec line has been arrested in Canada, an agency spokesman said Tuesday.
The suspect was taken into custody Monday night in Stanstead, Quebec, hours after a Border Patrol agent shot at four people after being assaulted in Derby Line, [...]...
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| A Sign of the Times? |
| 2008-07-08 10:03:50 |
A sign of the times maybe?? I have got to get me one of these.
And if any of you want to use this image, please do, just link back, and I have to say thanks to my neighbor, he reads the blog and will see this, thanks man, this is a good one.
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| At least 40 killed in Kabul blast |
| 2008-07-07 13:00:27 |
KABUL, Afghanistan - A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 40 people in what appeared to be the deadliest attack in Afghanistan’s capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said.
The massive explosion detonated by a suicide bomber damaged two embassy vehicles entering the [...]...
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| I Am Your Worst Nightmare. I am a BAD American. |
| 2008-07-06 16:32:56 |
I posted this a while back and several libtards sent me nasty emails when I wouldn’t let them turn my blog into a *flame-fest*, I feel it’s worth reposting, enjoy.
I Am Your Worst Nightmare. I am a BAD American.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid level [...]...
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| Racism in America: The Hyphenated American |
| 2008-07-06 11:39:22 |
Racism in America: The Hyphenated American
There are African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asian-Americans, Arab-Americans, Native-Americans, etc.
And then there are just - Americans.
Some of you pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.
You call me ‘White boy’, ‘Cracker’, ‘Honky’, ‘Whitey’, ‘Gringo’ or ‘Caveman’, and as far as you are concerned, that’s OK, but [...]...
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| Sen. Jesse Helms Dies at 86 |
| 2008-07-04 18:03:04 |
October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008
Rest In Peace
HELMS, Jesse, a Senator from North Carolina; born in Monroe, Union County, N.C., October 18, 1921; educated in the public schools of Monroe, Wingate Junior College, and Wake Forest College; served in the United States Navy 1942-1945; city editor, Raleigh Times; administrative assistant to United States Senators [...]...
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| Death penalty possible in Vermont kidnap case |
| 2008-07-03 12:06:18 |
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have filed kidnapping charges that carry the death penalty against a Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home.
The federal charges against Michael Jacques provide for the death penalty in kidnappings resulting in a child’s death.
State and federal prosecutors spoke in Burlington on Thursday as 42-year-old [...]...
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| Jazz Singer Opts for *Black National Anthem* |
| 2008-07-02 23:09:16 |
A jazz singer shocked some Denver residents after replacing the words to the national anthem with those of the “Black National Anthem” during the annual State of the City address this week.
Rene Marie was asked to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper delivered the annual address on Tuesday. Instead, she sang the [...]...
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| Thoughts on fighting, winning and the 2nd amendment.. |
| 2008-07-01 10:48:29 |
I received this from my neighbor and fellow gun nut and thought it was really great, I sent it email to all of my contacts and am making this post on the blog as well, please feel free to send it out if you like, or use it on your blogs too…
The purpose of [...]...
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| Joe Horn cleared by grand jury in Pasadena shootings |
| 2008-06-30 16:56:21 |
A Harris County grand jury decided today that Joe Horn should not be charged with a crime for shooting two suspected burglars he confronted outside his neighbor’s home in Pasadena last fall.
The decision to clear Horn of wrongdoing came two weeks after the grand jury began considering evidence in the case, including Horn’s testimony last [...]...
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| Bush signs $162 billion war spending bill |
| 2008-06-30 14:51:41 |
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan cooperation.
“This bill shows the American people that even in an election year, Republicans and Democrats can come [...]...
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| Medicare fees to doctors to fall starting Tuesday |
| 2008-06-30 08:45:28 |
WASHINGTON (AP) - One unpleasant task lawmakers will have over the July 4 recess is explaining to seniors why they didn’t stop a 10 percent fee cut, going into effect Tuesday, for doctors who treat Medicare patients.
Physicians have been running ads hinting that patients may find doctors less willing to treat them.
In a particularly vitriolic [...]...
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