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Archive for April, 2008

Hillary plays on fears

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Support who you will, but her constant fear-mongering only gives me more reason to choose Obama over Hillary.  Here are 3 examples: 1) The 3:00 a.m. commercial.  We are all familiar with that. 2) Hillary continually bringing up Farrakhan’s endorsement of Obama.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702825.html  3) She just put out a new commercial with our friend Osama bin […]

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Waterboarding Fun in Provo

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Don’t try this at home- Hyrum I’m talking to you.
A Provo telemarketing company, Prosper Inc., waterboarded one of its employees, Chad Hudgens, as a “team-building exercise” last May. The boss who conducted the waterboarding told his staff, “You saw how hard Chad fought for air right there. I want you to go back inside and […]

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A year later: Cheney Protest

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, or revive one back from the dead, but browsing the Salt Lake City Weekly “Best of Utah 2008″, guess what was listed as BEST BYU EVENT… that’s right, they’re still talking about the change we made. You can check out the full article here, or just read […]

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Dems,
As time rushes on towards finals and due dates for all those too-long-procrastinated projects, a happy thought from  a Calvin and Hobbes  comic strip:
Calvin:  In the short run, playing instead of doing my homework will bring me greater happiness.  In the long run, doing my homework now would probably bring me greater happiness.  But in […]

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10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, […]

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Some great songs, especially anti-Vietnam War and civil rights songs, classic cultural critiques from the left of the 1960s.

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