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Knowing you are voting for slowed progress in science.
Knowing that you are doing a disservice to gays and lesbians all around the country.
Knowing you are opposing safe and legal abortion.
Knowing you are doing a disservice to the separation of church and state.
Knowing you are voting for privatized health care and more people dieing and suffering due to a lack of coverage.
Knowing you are voting for a conservative meaning many facts will be distorted and agendas will be pushed.
Knowing you are spitting in the face of the poor and handing your money over to the wealthy.
Knowing you are voting for less environmental responsibility.
Knowing you are putting someone in office that is likely more pro war and has a religious agenda.
Knowing you are making the younger generation question how smart you are.
Also you are spitting in the face of minority religions and minorities and working for the decimation of free speech and thought

Yeah!! Good questions and good for you, Indigo Nation, whoever you are. Republicans are smug, ignorant and selfish. The USA is falling apart, but the right wing wackos are so busy waving their flags and thumping their bibles that they don’t see that this country is in decline. I can just imagine all the hateful and ignorant replies you’re going to get to this, and I guarantee, most of them will be full of bad spelling and bad grammar.

Putin’s poodles in the doghouse for failing to turn up

They are often dismissed as Vladimir Putin’s political poodles, but now deputies in the Russian parliament apparently cannot even muster the will to turn up to do as they are told.

When they voted 449-0 to pass a tough new drink-driving law it seemed like just another rubber-stamp decision from a Duma renowned for its slavish obedience to Mr Putin, the Prime Minister.

That was until a television report disclosed that only 88 members had actually voted. Deputies were shown scurrying around rows of empty seats in the chamber, pressing the voting buttons of absent MPs during the 20 seconds allowed for voting.

“One physically fit deputy has time to press nine buttons,” Ren TV reported sardonically, as an MP was shown rushing from desk to desk.
The video, now an internet hit with Russians, provoked anger in Mr Putin’s ruling United Russia party, which holds two thirds of the seats in the 450-member Duma. Sergei Neverov, a senior party official, said “truant” deputies should be kicked out. The TV film also drew a sarcastic reaction in Russian newspapers, with Komsomolskaya Pravda commenting: “We suspected that our people’s deputies do not sit around in the State Duma all day long, but come on, 88 out of 450 is too much.”

President Medvedev suggested that this might actually have been a good day in the Duma. He threatened last month to have absent deputies expelled. “I am amazed myself by the picture in the parliament when only 10 to 15 per cent of the members are present,” he said. “As for those who don’t go, let’s change the legislation and let them go somewhere else.”

During last week’s vote the acting Speaker, Oleg Morozov, appeared less concerned by the voting sham than by those present missing one of the voting buttons. He demanded to know who had “gone out of the hall”. When deputies shouted back ironically that the missing vote belonged to the absent Speaker, Boris Gryzlov, one of Mr Putin’s top lieutenants, Mr Morozov retorted: “Stop it. Gryzlov always votes!”

United Russia deputies include celebrities, many of whom rarely attend. They also include Josef Kobzon “Russia’s Frank Sinatra” and former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, erroneously alleged to be Mr Putin’s mistress in 2008 by a Moscow newspaper owned by Alexander Lebedev, who owns Britain’s The Independent and Evening Standard.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7137684.ece

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I’m in grade eight and I’ve been nominated for valedictorian. The nominees have to give a nomination speech on why they think that they should be valedictorian, and the students vote. I know that a lot of you are going to say that it’s ridiculous that the school is allowing the students to vote and that it should be based on grades, but that’s not how it is so commenting on that isn’t going to get me any closer to my answer. Anyway, I’m running against some people who are more popular than I am, but I get better grades (I have the second highest average in my class) than them. I really want to be valedictorian, but I don’t know how to explain why I should be valedictorian. I feel like I’ll either come across as overly obnoxious or not persuasive enough. If anybody could give me some reasons as to why I would be the best candidate for valedictorian, I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Okay, I won’t say anything about how that has nothing to do with being valedictorian and that you can’t be in 8th grade..
So to answer your question..
You could either say something totally cliche` and how you are going to give the whole school recess all day, or you could tell them why you actually deserve to be it.
Tell them you have worked hard for your grades. They should grow up and vote for the right thing and not for popularity. Which is completely meaningless.
And if the vote is anonymous, it really doesn’t matter.

For example, someone brings up banning abortion, so it goes to a vote.
Yes, this is exactly what Michael Moore (and his rhetoric) is pushing–a land where the majority decides how the majority is going to live!

Think about it liberals…

The population of Canada would quintuple within the first 30 minutes.

Obama’s Aunt Zeituni didn’t care about WORK laws…she was on welfare and didn’t work?

How many illegals get free educations, housing, food, and healthcare…think about that.

I had heard that in San Francisco they now want to give them the right to VOTE…WTH?

No it wont enforcing our current laws and deporting them would make a big difference however

Inspired by Susan Hilferty’s Elphaba costume, Corinne and Rob show you how to make a fantastic wicked witch ensemble. We’ll get you my pretty!!

Links in this episode:
www.wickedthemusical.com
www.susanhilferty.com
How to make Shirred Fabric: http://www.threadbanger.com/episode/THR_20080801

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In some speech someone posted, JFK was saying how no Catholic fellow was to tell him what to do like no Protestant candidate should tell his minister how to vote. And he said he believes that a public official should keep their religious opinions to themselves, but only go by the opinions one believes is good for the country.

Anyway, was JFK being a good catholic? Because he flat out said he wasn’t going to listen to any pope on political issues, and to Catholics, the Pope is supposed to tell them what to do in all issues if he so deems.

He may not have been a good Catholic, but he was being a good American.

Orrin Hatch’s legal corruption. Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com.

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** Special Thanks: Max T. Stever **

Ingredients for Vegetable Tofu Nimono
(serves 3)

100g Carrot (3.53 oz)
100g Boiled Bamboo Shoot (3.53 oz)
30g Kombu Kelp that was used for making Dashi Stock (1.06 oz)
100g Renkon – Lotus Root (3.53 oz)
200g Satoimo Potatoes (0.441 lb)

100g Konnyaku – Konjac (3.53 oz)
75g Gobo – Edible Burdock (2.66 oz)
100g Atsuage – Deep-Fried Tofu (3.53 oz)
Snap Peas
4 Dried Shiitake Mushrooms

400cc Dashi Stock (1.69 u.s. cup)
Shiitake Liquid+Premade Dashi Stock*
* See our “How to Make Ozoni” video or use 1 tbs Granulated Dashi+Water

2 tbsp Sugar
2 tbsp Sake
2 tbsp Soy Sauce
2 tbsp Hon-Mirin

About Music:
Frederic Chopin – Valse in D-flat major “Minute Waltz” – Op. 64 No. 1 Play by Muriel Nguyen Xuan, recording by Stephane Magnenat Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Hey guys! Here’s the link to vote using the Facebook application: http://apps.facebook.com/lilithlocalsearch/
I need your help, every day, if we’re going to win this! When we all voted last week I ended up at #1, so let’s make it happen. Unfortunately, it requires daily voting, but it’s only for a few more days, so I hope you guys can help put me on that stage! If I win I will fill my guest list with some of the people who voted – not my friends, not my family or the people I work with – YOU. Thank you!! xoxoxoxox

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