A Good Year for the Outlaw

I know it’s old news by now, but it’s still fun to watch Larry King ask Jesse Ventura about Dick Cheney and hear Cheney called exactly what he is: a coward.
Jesse was also 100% dead nuts correct when he called Norm Coleman a hypocrite (Coleman called for Al Franken to concede and not do [...]

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NOTE: please insert rimshots in your mind where you see this: (!)
- I’ve been reading a lot lately. Clive Cussler and John Grisham novels are my favorites, plus I read a lot of automotive stuff. I’ve turned more pages lately than Congressman Mark Foley. (!)
- A co-manager in our company gave me a great gift [...]

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When a wacko neo-con who is best buddies and a long time associate of Jack Abramoff, a guy who authored Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America”, a guy who lobbied for the NRA and is now on their board of directors, a guy who believes in the total deregulation of corporate America (see where that has [...]

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The highest gas prices in the state as of 3:15 Sunday afternoon are anywhere from $4.49 to $4.69 per gallon, and anywhere from Carbondale to Mattoon to Sycamore.
The State Police need to be ordered by the Governor to be pulled out of their speed traps and sent to these stations immediately and start questioning [...]

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I saw a letter to the Journal Star bemoaning all of the road kill being allowed to rot on the sides of our Illinois highways last week. I agree, btw, it is sad to see that we have to do this. With the price of gas, the powers that be are making the pickup crews [...]

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Billy Dennis wrote this:
I don’t know whether or not Ali al-Marri is a terrorist or an enemy combatant or not. Some of the evidence the U.S. government says it has against the guy is pretty damning. But I know one thing: The United States is a nation that should operate under the rule or law. [...]

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This doesn’t amaze me anymore. Nothing this bozo says surprises me in the least. What surprises me is that we as a country have let this Dr. Evil-wannabe run the world for the last five years solely to help himself and his oil buddies make obscene profits at our expense. It’s beyond [...]

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