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I've opened a thread in the Monkey Lounge for those who would like to give a prayer or thank you for our Veterans: http://scaredmonkeys.net/index.php?topic=4064.0

Quote Michelle Obama's Diamond Earrings Much has been made of the black and red Narcisco Rodriguez dress Michelle Obama wore when Barack Obama made his victory speech on election night but what about those sparklers in her ears? Vogue UK reports that the big dangling earrings are 18K white gold triple dangle earrings in pear, oval and marquee shapes covered with small diamonds. ...

Help as well as honor vets . . . America’s treatment of those who serve should get some high-priority reforms Updated: 11/11/08 7:04 AM Veterans Day prompts not just gratitude for the service many men and women have provided to their country and to the cause of liberty throughout the world, but reflection on the way those veterans are treated when they return home. Barack Obama, ...

Quote The strange behavior of Philadelphia lawyer Philip J. Berg Andy Martin on the antics of an attorney who could be an Obama double agent Andy Martin 2008-11-11 04:53:38 - Why would a Philadelphia lawyer file frivolous claims in federal courts about Barack Obama? Is it possible the lawyer is trying to divert attention from serious questions that exist about Obama's birth ...

How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.' 'A democracy ...

Quote In many areas, such as agriculture, social policy, and diplomacy, Brazil now serves as model to other countries, especially in Africa. Poor Brazilian families, for instance, are given welfare cash, but only if they keep their children in school – an innovative policy that unites politicians of the left and right. Incentives? Any incentives in the US planned? Quote Just...

Farming superpower Brazil spreads its know-how It is bringing the technologies of tropical farming to other parts of Latin America, and to Africa and Asia. By Sara Miller Llana Quote His friends and family urged him to take his agronomy degree elsewhere, somewhere it would make a difference. But he joined Brazil's agricultural and livestock research agency (Embrapa) and relocated...

From the wiki - Quote During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels, committees and agencies. The primary targets of such suspicions were government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators and ...

Quote Don't have voter ID? Passport, PAN card will do Delhi residents, who don't have photo identity cards, can show their arms license, passport or driving license to cast their ballots at the assembly polls later this month, an Election Commission official said on Tuesday. However, ration cards will not be acceptable. "Around 20 per cent of our voters still don't have photo ID ...

He may be the greatest bomfogger in history, but at some point he'll have to come down. Quote What is a strong way of saying "ecstatic enthusiasm"? No President has ever had such a hyperbolic welcome. The Second Coming would have been greeted in more measured terms. Then again, much of the reportage assumed that this was a secular Second Coming: a rebirth of America... Quote We...

How are the political Monkeys tonight? As for me, I can't breathe. I don't think I can sleep. How do you feel?

Quote Michelle Obama's Diamond Earrings Much has been made of the black and red Narcisco Rodriguez dress Michelle Obama wore when Barack Obama made his victory speech on election night but what about those sparklers in her ears? Vogue UK reports that the big dangling earrings are 18K white gold triple dangle earrings in pear, oval and marquee shapes covered with small diamonds. ...

I guess caseau can't sweep this one under with Snopes. The expanded article by Deborah Howell in the print edition of the Washington Post even included a photo of Obama in a superman get-up?????????????? It never ends....... Obama calls Bush's administration the most "secretive" in history. he must think we can't read now? TONY REZKO, JEREMIAH WRIGHT, WILLIAM AYERS.......actually mr...

I am friends with a young man who immigrated to the US in 2000 from Paris, but he is orginally from Lebanon. His family is still there and he was recently engaged to a lovely and young lebanese woman living in Lebanon. He has been very successful here, he has his own services business and he values his clients and serves them well. As a result, the american dream lives for him, he is ...

Unlike in Canada, voting fraud widespread in U.S. states Quote Canadians have trouble understanding this -- because we're used to the federal government conducting national elections in a coherent and fair way -- uniform across the country. That's not at all the case in the U.S. In the U.S. individual states are in charge of voting. And the officials who run polling stations are...

Help as well as honor vets . . . America’s treatment of those who serve should get some high-priority reforms Updated: 11/11/08 7:04 AM Veterans Day prompts not just gratitude for the service many men and women have provided to their country and to the cause of liberty throughout the world, but reflection on the way those veterans are treated when they return home. Barack Obama, ...

How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.' 'A democracy ...

Quote Don't have voter ID? Passport, PAN card will do Delhi residents, who don't have photo identity cards, can show their arms license, passport or driving license to cast their ballots at the assembly polls later this month, an Election Commission official said on Tuesday. However, ration cards will not be acceptable. "Around 20 per cent of our voters still don't have photo ID ...

From the wiki - Quote During this time many thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government or private-industry panels, committees and agencies. The primary targets of such suspicions were government employees, those in the entertainment industry, educators and ...

Quote Crime needs more than black pride Phillip Adams | November 11, 2008 Article from: The Australian EVERY time Muhammad Ali won a fight a strange and welcome phenomenon could be observed in US ghettoes. For at least a few days, from Harlem to Watts, a surge of pride among black youth sent the crime rate to the mat. Quote ...the US has the largest prison population in the...