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Wednesday October 24, 2012 · 11:29 AM PDT

2012/10/24 · 11:29

On Iowa Public Radio I heard a story about satellite voting in Iowa. It's a wonderful thing where citizens get more and easier opportunities to vote.

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Sunday October 14, 2012 · 6:56 AM PDT

2012/10/14 · 06:56

This morning's Des Moines Register has an entire section about the challenges facing Iowa's children.

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Monday August 16, 2010 · 12:02 PM PDT

2010/08/16 · 12:02

Did you see Sen. John Cornyn (R-Fox) on tv Sunday. Cornyn claimed that President Obama's comments about the legality of building Cordoba Center in Lower Manhattan is an example of Obama and the rest of the Democrats in Washington being "out of touch" with the rest of America.

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 10:45 AM PDT

2010/04/13 · 10:45

In this morning's Alexandria (LA) Town Talk, a letter writer explained how the country would have been a better place had the South won the Civil War.

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Wednesday May 20, 2009 · 3:58 PM PDT

2009/05/20 · 15:58

Sen. David Vitter sent me an email today crowing about the Senate's failure to provide money to transfer the prisoners at GITMO to prisons in the US.

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Should the US transfer some of the GITMO prisoners into prisoners in the US?

43 votes Vote Now!

Should the US transfer some of the GITMO prisoners into prisoners in the US?

Yes

36 votes

7 votes

Need help with teabagging

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Sunday April 19, 2009 · 7:16 AM PDT

2009/04/19 · 07:16

My brother just reamed me for sending out a link to the urbandictionary.com definition of teabagging and saying that I was aghast that the conservative organizers of the Tea Bag Parties didn't have the foresight to avoid "touchy" terms.

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 10:40 AM PDT

2008/10/17 · 10:40

Wouldn't it nice to measure and compare the physiological attributes of candidates during the debates?

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What should we monitor during the debates? Candidate's

40 votes Vote Now!

What should we monitor during the debates? Candidate's

heart rate

2 votes

blood pressure

1 vote

blink rate

7 votes

respiration rate

0 votes

tally tongue thrusts

6 votes

tally grimaces

4 votes

urge to sh*t in one's pants

20 votes

Bye Fox News. Thanks Cedric Glover

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 4:24 AM PDT

2008/10/14 · 04:24

Round 1: I found Fox News on at a state-funded rest stop on Interstate 49. I contacted my representative in the Louisiana Legislature and he changed the channel.

Round 2: Last week I participated in a two-day seminar at the Shreveport Convention Center. Uh-oh! Again . . . Fox News

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Fox News makes me want to

428 votes Vote Now!

Fox News makes me want to

puke

56 votes

scream

21 votes

throw something

53 votes

get drunk

9 votes

all of the above.

288 votes

No passport . . . you snarky little class warrior!

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 6:59 PM PDT

2008/09/25 · 18:59

In tonight's installment of the Katie and Sarah tete-a-tete, Katie confronted Sarah on her lack of a passport for the first forty-something years of her life. Snarky Sarah said she had not grown up in a family where the parents gave their kid a passport and a backpack upon graduation and that she had had to work two jobs until the kids came along.

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Have you ever been outside the US?

102 votes Vote Now!

Have you ever been outside the US?

vacation

36 votes

working

3 votes

missionary

1 vote

volunteer

0 votes

more than one of the above

49 votes

other

13 votes

Civics lesson needed

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Thursday July 17, 2008 · 12:18 PM PDT

2008/07/17 · 12:18

While driving in Waterloo, IA, I saw on a roadside sign "Responsibility Comes Before Rights". The sign was at the chiropractic clinic of Dr. Lance Vanderloo.

I'm appalled and hope that the DK community is too. I will send (vanderloochiropractic@mchsi.com) him an email lesson explaining that our forefathers risked life and liberty to secure rights not granted them by the English monarch. It's this anti-rights attitude that gives cover to the Congress to pass W's FISA bill. It's this anti-rights attitude that provide cover for W's ICE to tear families apart. It's this attitude that wrecks the America in which many of us grew up.

I will tell Dr. Vanderloo that his view of our rights is pig-headed.

AARP+leadership+everlasting debt

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 3:49 PM PDT

2008/07/10 · 15:49

My July/August 2008 AARP Bulletin just arrived. In a timely Opinion Section/book excerpt, Andrew Yarrow writes about the explosion of public debt during the Bush years. Just above Yarrow's piece is Lee Iacocca's cry for leadership in Washington.

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How could McCain use Dr. Phil Gramm's talents/knowledge?

45 votes Vote Now!

How could McCain use Dr. Phil Gramm's talents/knowledge?

Treasury

2 votes

U.N.

0 votes

World Bank

1 vote

Dog pound

6 votes

warden/interrogastor-in-chief at Guantanamo

2 votes

ambassador to Cuba

1 vote

ambassador to Texas

8 votes

golf caddie

24 votes

Give War a Chance

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Friday July 04, 2008 · 6:59 AM PDT

2008/07/04 · 06:59

After five relaxing days on the beach with our artist friends, we drove back to Central Louisiana yesterday. Gas prices ranged from $3.93 to $4.09 for the lowest grade. Most drivers exceeded the speed limit by 5-8 miles per hour. Eastbound traffic on I-12, especially between Exit 10 and the merge with I-12 was terribly backed up. And . . . I read an odd bumper sticker in SW Mississippi. It read

Give War a Chance

I'll bet he supports the candidacy of John S. McCain.

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