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A side note Arafat Bio for anyone who is interested

And it doesn't fit their pattern at all. They will try to wrap up Radke first no doubt, but then they will try to catch lightning in a bottle like they always do.

For the Edwards family

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6399341/ Now for some actual data instead of just conjecture. The only educational brackets that went for Kerry were "little high school" and "post-graduate". Bush won "high school", "some college", and "college grad". So the "uneducated" that you said voted for Bush, voted for Kerry by a small margin (50-49). Depending on what you meant by "educated", Bush won out by small margins in 2 of those 3 brackets, with Kerry winning the post graduates by a decent margin.

I know people are denying it, and it makes total sense. If you have no successor set up, you want to keep order and prevent a big power struggle. So right now you deny everything, until you figure out who is taking over.

#1 Sam Adams-Not a big fan, but I do love the seasonals #2 Dos Equis- My fav Mexican beer #3 Heiny- Definately in my top 3 #4 Bass- Meh, ok #5 Amber Bock- ok, but I definately love Shiner boch much better.

Even funnier----> #33 Texas

Arafat braindead? There is probably a crude joke in there somewhere but I will let it go. If this is true, hopefully some way it works out where it pushes these two back to the peace table.

I gotta say it is pretty shocking to me to see Beltran's name mentioned after the rumors about payroll staying the same just came out of the same newspaper. I really doubt we have a chance at the guy, but who knows.

Fleeing to Canada? Not so fast...

Yes he is.

To me, Radke it worth 6-7 mil a year, and getting him off of the Twins is worth the extra couple million a year. We can't forget the robbing the Twins factor when looking at the worth of Radke.

Indiana is #17, and Illinois is #24 Ha-ha we're smarter than you are :finger

That would have been my guess too. If Edwards had any connection to that stuff, you know it would have been publicized, big time.

What media said that? I haven't seen any links or news shows that have said the uneducated have voted republican.

Kerry was a terrible choice to run. Or at least the people who ran his campaign did a terrible job, I am not sure which honestly. All John Kerry had to do is establish himself as an option, instead of "not Bush", and he would have trounced Bush in the election. He spent so much time on what Bush did wrong, and what was wrong, instead of what he was going to do, and what he stood for. Even with the apathy I have towards Bush, I have to say, they had him on stage saying what he had done, and what he was going to do. Hopefully he can deliver on some of the more intelligent ideas they have had. Social security and the tax systems need big overhauls. Its not a popular opinion, but I agree 100% with the sentiment that at least a part of SS sould be privatized. The government should not be providing peoples retirement funds. People need to give up some of the consumerism they do, and save for it themselves. Up until the early 20th century, that is what people did. Social Security wasn't around for the first 150 years that the US was here, and if people actually planned their finances and took care of their own pocketbooks, it wouldn't be necesary now. Reforming the tax code is as simple as closing loopholes, both on the corporate and private sides. The system itself is fine, the progressive nature of it is perfect. To switch to national sales tax would be to become instantly regressive. Right now the lowest 20% of people actually pay a negative tax rate. Because of tax credits and the like, they actually receive tax money from the government on an annual basis. A national sales tax would crush this. There are other issues, but these are the two that jump off of the map at me.

I watched MSNBC mostly. It was all right. I got better info by reading the election thread, and checking on the internet. And whoever said the stations were afraid, was dead on right.

Where did you get the info that the uneducated voted for Bush? Most republicians are uneducated? If the repubs are the party of the rich, how do you get rich and uneducated at the sametime? What you are saying is completely contradictary. You need to get on your meds or something.

Rudy would be an interesting choice to say the least. It also prepares him for a run at the White House in '08.

Fed Funds are at 1.5% right now, which is at historically unheard of numbers, even after two .25% rate increases by the federal reserve bank. More than anything I really believe it is an intentional devaluing to make imports more expensive, and to make our good cheaper overseas. They really want to protect the American worker, and since the WTO keeps ruling against all the US protection methods, this is the easiest legal way that the US sees to keep competitive against the flood of cheaper products.

:rolly

It didn't increase as a percentage of the voters as a whole. That number stayed steady at 17% according to Brian Williams of NBC. But as a raw number all of the age brackets had huge increases in the number of people who voted.

Thats a long term trend. That is completely different than one day of trading. The US has been devaluing for quite a while to cheapen their exports and make domestic good cheaper here as compared to imports. My assessment of today's trading is dead on. I work on a desk that has accounts worth millions of dollars that trade forgein currencies. Not to sound like a jerk, but I talked to a couple of guys today who trade this stuff. The rise in the markets was a direct result of the monies flowing in from saftey nets such as bonds and currencies.

Who wouldn't want Tim Hudson at $6.5 million? Maybe a team with big budget problems, but any GM with a spit would kill for Hudson.