Look, I'm a Democrat, but I find all this bitching about the percentage of tax that Romney pays ridiculous. Why? Because MY effective tax rate for 2011 is 14.68%. That's right.
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Day One: The dogs are at sissy's. Bald Jimmy is under the bed. I lie down on the floor with him and he lets me pet him. He is purring like an Evinrude and I feel good about that! Day Two: The dogs are still gone. Bald Jimmy is still under the bed.
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Wow. This is one amazing young man. He passed away on Christmas day, and his parents found this YouTube video that he posted a week before his death.
i hate you i love you i hate you all over againi see you with your paper skingasping for air like some sallow hagfish chained to a blasted heaththere is uneasy, aimless talk you shuffle back to your bubbleback to your safe haveni find you curled up within your …
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I've become hooked on zombies lately, what with "Walking Dead" on AMC and the "Dead Island" game. Zombies friggin' rock! As long as they don't try to eat me and stuff. Since I just got "Dead Island", I've been playing it a lot this weekend.
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KOBLENZ, Germany — Officials in Germany's western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated as officials try to defuse a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river.
It was 3 am and I was not happy. I had been wheeled up to 5-E and I was waiting for the on-duty PA to come and talk to me with the nurse. I was tired. I was hungry. I had no shoes. The tired and hungry thing I could deal with. Not having my shoes was really, REALLY pissing me off.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — A mother and a nurse were charged Thursday in the death of the woman's 14-year-old daughter, who had cerebral palsy and weighed only 28 pounds, a prosecutor said.
I was thinking about this all day yesterday and most of the day today. Why? Because what I had for supper on Wednesday night defied common decency!! See, I've been craving sugar in the most horrible way. But, I've also been craving crispy, thick-cut, hickory-smoked bacon.
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I was in a small room, lying on a narrow bed covered with strange sheets that crackled.
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I don't remember a lot, but I do remember some. The pieces that I'm filling in for this particular part of the story, come from what has been told to me by family members.
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To the men of the Edmund Fitzgerald....
So, I'm standing in the shower a couple of mornings ago, minding my own dang business when suddenly I hear a *shuffleshuffleshuffle*, and then a *rustlerustleruste*. I turn around and there she was. My dog. In the shower.
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I work in a company with 350+ employees on two shifts. And the one thing that I have noticed is that I have not seen one single, solitary black person working at this company in any capacity. I suppose they could all be on 2nd shift, but I don't think so.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police say a man who shot and killed an armed robber who was attacking a woman has been released. Officers detained the man for questioning following the fatal shooting of the 23-year-old robber Thursday night.
I say yes. Just recently, a woman in Minnesota who killed 3 people and injured 2 because she wasn't paying attention, walked away with a misdemeanor careless driving.
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I can't find the link to this thing, but those of you who read the St. Paul Pioneer Press and read the Parade on Sunday may have seen this. I tore it out and am now typing this word-for-word from the little blurbie-deal. Here goes...
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The way to go down in history is NOT to be the ONLY team in NFL history to lose the first 3 games of the season with a double-digit lead at the half! You know what sucks even harder than watching them blow a commanding lead 3 weeks in a row? I don't even have that stupid B …
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Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection late Wednesday for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer, maintaining his innocence until the end after convincing thousands of it, but not the justice system. Davis was declared dead at 11:08 p.m.
A white supremacist gang member was executed Wednesday for the infamous murder 13 years ago of a black man who was chained to the back of a pickup truck and dragged to death along a bumpy asphalt road. The death of James Byrd Jr., 49, in Jasper in East Texas, was one of the mo …
Prosecutors charged one police officer with murder and another with manslaughter Wednesday in the killing of a defenseless, mentally ill homeless man who was pummeled, shocked with a Taser and beaten with the butt of a stun gun.
During the Bears season opener, Fox Sports wanted to reference some headlines that questioned Jay Cutler’s toughness in last year’s NFC Championship game. Since no headlines actually existed in any newspaper, Fox decided to make them up.
The trial of a Connecticut man charged with killing a woman and her two daughters during a gruesome home invasion opened Monday with a defense attorney telling the jury that the evidence will "shake your confidence in humanity" but blaming his co-defendant for the slayings. Jo …
RENO, Nev. — A World War II-era plane crashed into a seating area at the annual Reno air races on Friday, killing the pilot and an unknown number of others and injuring at least 75 people. One official described the scene as a "mass-casualty situation."
Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991.
Yo Yadda Yadda - thanks for accepting my FR. See you around the Vine, I hope. :-)
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Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year's Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek.
Gaskins was suspended from Madison Academy for having hair that did not comply with the school's rules for how long boys can grow their hair. But Gaskins is sporting the shaggy hairdo for a very specific reason.
When the jet liners destroyed the twin towers, devastated the Pentagon, and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, our country was stunned.
An article by Winona La Duke of the White Earth Ojibwe who is one of the authors that had a book she had written banned.
" Residents of the North Dakota town of Wimbledon are at odds with a pair of brothers who some say are cultivating an atmosphere of fear in the community."
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