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To: bentway who wrote (491978)	7/1/2009 1:40:57 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

RE:"Now that Obama has total control, he needs to set a more ambitious agenda: 1. Make housing a right, with the wealthy providing it for the poor. 2. Eliminate all registered guns in private hands. 3. Make all education free." That's all you can come up with? Come on man, you can do better than that. How about free gasoline? Free beer?

To: bentway who wrote (491978)	7/1/2009 10:28:06 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573857

what no free hookers ?

To: bentway who wrote (491978)	7/1/2009 11:03:06 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573857

Competence and fairplay are no longer necessary in order to feed at the public trough. These little snippets from the Wall Street Journal leads me to despair for the future of this country. “The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year's disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don't need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact. Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman. ... This is now the second time Republicans have been beaten in this kind of legal street fight. In 2004, Dino Rossi was ahead in the election-night count for Washington Governor against Democrat Christine Gregoire. Ms. Gregoire's team demanded the right to rifle through a list of provisional votes that hadn't been counted, setting off a hunt for "new" Gregoire votes. By the third recount, she'd discovered enough to win. This was the model for the Franken team. Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them. And what seemed remote possibility in 1960, as voiced by none other than the honoree of a dome held up by (hot) air in the referenced state, now appears to be altogether too possible. "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible." Hubert H. Humphrey, 1960 ”

To: bentway who wrote (491978)	7/1/2009 12:18:48 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573857

Your stimulus money at work. Utah buyers get housing grants (AP:SALT LAKE CITY) More than 1,650 grants have been issued to homebuyers in the first three months of a program designed to stimulate Utah's economy. Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert says the program has been a successful early step in economic recovery. According to the Utah Housing Corporation, the grants have led to home sales of $376.7 million, creating thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in wages. The Home Run Grants come from a $10 million program initiated through federal stimulus funds.

To: bentway who wrote (491978)	7/1/2009 12:20:07 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

Franken will prove to be a great Senator. I don't like Franken......but I know he's smart and I suspect you may well be right. He really wanted this position badly.