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April 15th, our national tax day, comes this year just as Congress prepares to pass the 2007 federal budget. If you think paying taxes was painful this year, I’ve got some bad news: the new budget is a grotesque illustration of everything wrong with the federal government. At $2.7 trillion, it’s the largest budget in U.S. history by a long shot. ( Read more... )

I rocked the vote. It took me 35 minutes. I blame you democrats because y'all got whiny when you couldn't figure out the punch cards, so we had to spend all those millions on the electronic machines which y'all are now bitching about because you think they can be hacked by the 'evil' secretary of state and of which the 97 year-old farmers in my ( Read more... )

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Great article on why the minimum wage is stupid:

http://foxnews.smartmoney.com/aheadofthecurve/index.cfm?story=20060714

During lunch break I walked down to the riverfront where they have "red, white and boom". It's Columbus' big Independence Day celebration, which includes a huge fireworks show. People are already staking out their spots, like this bonnie lass:


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There were 8 Doritos in the bag I bought out of the vending machine.

Net Weight- 1 oz.
Fat- 8 grams
Calories- 140

That's 9.375 cents, 1 gram of fat and 17.5 calories per Dorito... crazy.

Some days I just need more work to do.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, orbirthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's ( Read more... )

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The day my fiancé fell to his death, it started to snow, just like any November day, just like the bottom hadn't fallen out of my world when he freefell off the roof. His body, when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it pile up ( Read more... )