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If you are a US citizen, today is the day to make your rights matter. No matter who you want to vote for, just go and vote!

As if it wasn't bad enough already, Schumer (the schmuck from NY-D) and Graham (the moron from SC-R) want to add in a national ID card to an immigration bill. This is how it starts, people! We have never, ever, been a nation of "let me see your papers" and this just flies in the face of that.

Schumer and Graham are both progressives, regardless of the party you see them in. Instead of fixing the problem (like not having wide open borders so illegal aliens come in), they try to put a bandage on it by throwing more government at the problem.

Do you honestly think that this ID card will stop at workers? There aren't many times I agree with the ACLU, but this is one of them. It is completely un-American and I hope the voters in NY and SC get rid of these two losers.

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A person familiar with the legislative planning said the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand. It would be required of all workers, including teenagers, but would be phased in, with current workers needing to obtain the card only when they next changed jobs, the person said.

The card requirement also would be phased in among employers, beginning with industries that typically rely on illegal-immigrant labor.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn't have a position on the proposal, but it is concerned that employers would find it expensive and complicated to properly check the biometrics.

Mr. Schumer said employers would be able to buy a scanner to check the IDs for as much as $800. Small employers, he said, could take their applicants to a government office to like the Department of Motor Vehicles and have their hands scanned there.

See. Now the government is in control of all the jobs in the private economy. That doesn't sound like a free market to me. Don't get me wrong, I don't want American jobs going to illegal aliens, period. Fix the problem, not the symptom.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954904575110124037066854.html

Go out and be an American today. Remember, nothing gets changed unless you vote.

And who's to blame? BANKS. And what do people want now? A huge world bank. Surprise! Deep recessions and depressions cause banks to become more powerful. In 1929, the US banking system grew out of that problem (artificially created by the bankers themselves). I can't believe that people are so blinded by the fact that banks WANT this. Why do you think they are hording all the capital they get? Every action screws people more and more.

This Emergency Economic Stabilization Act did absolutely nothing except give banks more power over the government (or I should say give the corruption in government grant more power to the banks). What a surprise that the markets went way down after the bill was passed.

If this whole situation isn't a farce, I don't know what is. Banks are taking over. It is time to step up and DEMAND that we take back control of our own currency!

After OPEC's announcement that they were going to essentially force gasoline prices back up after the drops they have been having, Saudi Arabia (the most powerful member of the group) pulled out of the organization.

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Saudi Arabia walked out on OPEC yesterday. It said it would not honor the cartel's production cut. It was tired of rants from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the well-dressed oil minister from Iran.

As the world's largest crude exporter, the kingdom in the desert took its ball and went home.

As the Saudis left the building the message was shockingly clear. According to The New York Times, “Saudi Arabia will meet the market’s demand,” a senior OPEC delegate said. “We will see what the market requires and we will not leave a customer without oil."

Linky.

This is huge for a couple of reasons. Not only does the announcement show that gas prices weren't being subsidized to garner support for the November elections like many thought, but it also means that the group that held a stranglehold over oil production since the 1970s may be done for.

I do wonder, however, if there is more to this than it seems.

I don't know what's so super about it. Today is the rather large primary day for the USA. If you're in a state that allows you to vote in the primary without declaring a party, go for it.

In NJ, you must declare a party to vote in the primary. I think I'll bow out of this one. I'm not going to throw my allegiance to either party. They both aren't great.

It seems McCain (who is not Ron Paul, but is closest to being Ron Paul in the party) has a little lead over Romney (who is the opposite of Ron Paul) according to a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey. Ron Paul (who, ironically, is Ron Paul) is a distant third, and recent caucus winner Huckabee is down in 4th.

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The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in New Hampshire shows John McCain leading Mitt Romney by five percentage points. It’s McCain 31% Romney 26%. The survey was conducted Friday night, the night following the Iowa caucuses. As noted yesterday on Rasmussen Reports, McCain was one of the big winners on Thursday in Iowa. The current poll is a reversal from a pre-Christmas survey when Romney had a slight advantage.

Ron Paul earns 14% of the vote and Mike Huckabee gets 11% as the only other candidates in double digits. Rudy Giuliani attracts 8% of the vote, Fred Thompson 5%, some other candidate 2%, and 3% are not sure.

McCain and Romney are tied among Republicans likely to vote in the Primary but McCain has an advantage among Independent voters. Independents are still more likely to participate in the Democratic Primary. Still, the survey suggests that 32% of voters in the GOP Primary will be unaffiliated with either major party.

Considering Ron Paul has no chance in hell of winning the Presidency, McCain would be a decent Republican alternative. Just be glad Rudy Guiliani and Air Traffic Controller Trudeau are also very far away from winning anything.

What a surprise! Patriot Act being misused. Who saw such a revolutionary scandal coming?

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Said By CNet

The FBI has repeatedly misused the Patriot Act's extraordinary surveillance powers by obtaining information on Americans unlawfully, the Justice Department's inspector general said Friday in a report that already has drawn promises of a congressional investigation.

More and more people in America are going to the Internet for their news of politics. Browsing sites can give you the entire story on both sides. It is pretty easy to read bias.

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Additionally, the number of Americans who said the Internet was their primary political news source doubled: it was 15 percent during the 2006 midterm election campaigns, compared with 7 percent during the 2002 midterms. Compared with the last presidential election year, however, 2006 numbers were down slightly, the study found (click for PDF). About 18 percent of Americans used the Internet as a primary source during the 2004 presidential election campaign, according to Pew Internet, the nonprofit research arm of the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center. "All of this is a harbinger in what will happen in a very interesting and highly contested presidential election in 2008. It's the first time since 1952 that we have had both parties wide open--no VPs or presidents running for re-election or higher office," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

The midterm results may prompt some real pushes for science. Stem-cell research should get a boost. This is good for everyone.

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The Missouri constitutional amendment is important because it ensures that lawmakers cannot pass future laws that prohibit human stem-cell research in the state. �There was a great deal of concern that they could put random restrictions on the type of stem-cell research we could do in Missouri,� says Michael Howard at the Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine. Howard conducts research on spinal-cord injury using mouse embryonic stem cells.

If you haven't voted yet, be sure to vote TODAY. The polls are closing in a few hours in most locations. Voting is the one major thing you can do to change the country. Your vote DOES matter.

Tomorrow is the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November and it is an even year. Time to get out and vote tomorrow. Regardless of what candidate you are leaning to, GET OUT AND VOTE. Only you as a US citizen can change the country for good.

Make your vote count, encourage others to vote as well.

I'm sick of these stupid political ads that ATTACK the other person. Why do you think people are sick of seeing them? I want to see what YOU'RE going todo, not what the OTHER person did.

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But some experts think political advertisers should at least be thinking about the power of the fast-forward button. "In general, advertisers have started to be concerned as adoption of DVRs increases," said Bruce McGregor, a senior digital home services analyst at Current Analysis. "Election ads would fall into that category if (voters have) seen the same political ads the last month and want to fast-forward through them." Ditty is hardly alone, of course, in his bid to skip through what he sees as a worsening environment of negative political ad campaigning, even while continuing to watch a significant amount of television.

Another stupid case makes its way into the court system. Three family members of a 14 year old killed is suing, not the person that killed him, but GTA maker Take-Two. Even if GTA can 'train' you to kill, where did he get the gun? How about guns being able to kill, yet gun producers are not liable. These suits are stupid.

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Family members of three people slain by a 14-year-old on newsman Sam Donaldson's New Mexico ranch sued the makers of the video game ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' on Monday, claiming the crimes would not have occurred had the teenager never played the violent game. The $600 million lawsuit names several companies and Cody Posey, who it alleges played the game ''obsessively'' for several months before he shot his father, stepmother and stepsister in July 2004. Posey, now 16, was sentenced earlier this year to state custody until he is 21.

Jack Thompson is an idiot and a moron.