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Dominos Delivery Marketing Scam, You Got 30 Minutes

Not sure about the rest of the world where Dominos is located, but in the USA, Dominos has started a whole new marketing campaign around the whole "You Got 30 Minutes" idea. I was curious as to what they meant. I knew that in the past, they had an offer where if your pizza was delivered in over 30 minutes, you get it for free. So, is this another one of these deals? Well, their website has a disclaimer about this. On [url="http://www.dominos.com/home/index.jsp"]http://www.dominos.com/

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I'm A Christian...

Hey, I was wondering if there were other Christians on this forum from the US. If so, please post here so I can get a general feel of how many there are. Also, I'm surprised no on else has posted this under United States topic.... but oh well.

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Obama Saya Us Doesn't Like Second Place

This news might sound like a continuation to my earlier thread about China becoming the world's second largest economy, but it's not. It's actually a more general sort of news coming from US President Mr.Obama. Like most of the news I post here, I read this in the newspaper too, so I don't remember all of the details, but Obama said that European and Asian countries are trying to overtake the US in many fields and they're even succeeding in a few of them, and the USA doesn

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U.s. Teens Send 100 Texts A Day

I agree fully. When ones communication is limited, I think people are a little bit more sincere. Firing off many text messages in a day just waters down this sincerity considerably. Definitly a case of people letting the machines do all of their work for them in every way.

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Why Is The Rmb-Us Dollar Exchange Rate Regulated By China?

The Chinese currency, Renminbi or RMB, is not freely exchangeable. I know that. But, I simply don't understand why its exchange rate with the world's major currencies, including the US dollar, is set/regulated by China. The US has wanted China to allow the RMB to appreciate in value more quickly but has failed so far. Any foreign exchange transaction involves two currencies. I just don't understand why the rate is set/regulated by one side, not negociated. Would you think that

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Us Troops Pull Out Of Iraq

A while ago, we were informed that the US Army will [i]finally[/i] pull out from Iraq. Most of the forces will leave by the end of August and about 50,000 will stay behind to train Iraqi soldiers/personnel until the end of 2011. This came as a huge relief to many Americans and I think after nearly 10 years in Iraq, its about time the United States took off from Iraq. But Barack Obama give NO word about the almost 100,000 paid mercenaries who are in Iraq fighting for the US. Although a outcry f

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College Students Create Wooden Car

Yes, it is true. Students at North Carolina State University were able to or are in the process of creating a wooden sports car called the Splinter. No they are not planning on selling it and mass producing it, at least not yet. The initial plan was to just build it to see if it was possible but now that they have achieved success then they may start towards new plans. The car is made for the most part out of wood, even the tires. With a modified V8 engine the heat is reduced as to prevent f

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Teacher Fired For Getting Pregnant

[url="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-preg1122,0,4479481.story?coll=ny-top-headlines"]http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/...y-top-headlines[/url] A teacher was fired from her job at a Catholic school for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. The school bans premarital sex because it's one of the values of Catholicism, so they fired the teacher for being a bad role model. She says that it's discrimination against women because it's much harder to prove if a male teac

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2010 Us Health Care Reform Legislation: Is It Good Or Bad?

Do you think the new law that has just been enacted for the US health care reform is going to help the country or hurt it? Why?

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Does Michael Jackson Love Young Boys?

what do u think about the michael jackson trail do u think he loves boys???? i aint sure lol.

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American Al Qaeda Spokesman Arrested

Today is a good day in the fight against terrorism: [quote]a man indicted on charges of treason and providing material support to terrorists in 2006 has been arrested today. Since 2004, he has been appearing in al Qaeda videos posted on islamist forums. The FBI identified him as part of an al Qaeda terrorist cell that was planning attacks for disrupting the 2004 presidential election in the United States.[/quote] Hopefully his arrest will prevent terrorism in the long run. This is a great pro

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Increaseing Number Of Failed Banks In The Us.

Firstly I am not from the states, but since I heard of the global recession and that it started in the US and trickled down to other countries. I have heard rumours or people saying the recession is over and recover should be starting. However upon looking at this website i have some doubts. Based on the list of failed banks in the US. It does not look like it is improving. Or is there other reasons for this list to becoming longer and longer? Just take a look at how many banks closed in Jan 2

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Some Men Don't Want To Pay Child Support

[url="http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/08/fatherhood.suit.ap/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/08/fatherho...t.ap/index.html[/url] So it seems that some men think it's unfair to pay a woman child support for a child he didn't want. Does that seem right? Isn't the child still his child? That's just selfish and irresponsible. How much freedom does a man want? No one is asking him to get pregnant for 9 months and take care of the child, his child. If everyone in society gets

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Difference Between Canadians And Americans

I AM AMERICAN Wassup... I'm not particularly intelligent, open-minded, or well-liked. And I don't live in a safe place, eat a balanced diet, or drive very well. I don't know Shakespeare, Da Vinci or Gutenberg,although I'm pretty sure they were American. I drink beer, not water, I am outspoken, not opinionated, Guns settle disputes, not discussions. Winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing, And it's pronounced RUFF, not ROOF. I can proudly sew my country's

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What Us Got After Iraq War?

After alot of death (in millions) of civilians. Actual reason for war was found lie and now it has become completly a joke that US is saving Iraqi nation's life as many iraqis are dying every day. Why nation become so selfish? just for oil millions of life?

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Red Cross Haiti Text Message Donation

[url="http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/14/technology/haiti_text_donation/index.htm"]Red Cross Haiti text message donation raise $7M for Red Cross Haiti effort as of 11pm, January 14, 2010[/url] You can text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts Amazing are the human spirit; willing to give to those who are in need, so quickly and so many. It is in this we find additional strength, and faith in humanity. It is this the reason we fight to survive another day

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Obama Bowed To Empereor Akihito

[quote][b]President Obama bowed to Japan’s Emperor Akihito[/b], much to the dismay of America’s Republicans! President Barack Obama is on a week-long tour of Asia, meeting with national leaders and discussing international policies. He spent Saturday meeting with Japan’s Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Upon arriving at a private lunch with the couple at the Imperial Palace, Obama did what some are considering the unthinkable: bow. Obama critics are up in arms over

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What Is...going On With Our Country?

i think i figured out where everything is leading with our country.... we start losing alot of soldiers in iraq, followed by bush abusing his power to put bolton in, it follwed by him not talking with the women in front of his home as hes on a 5 week vacation, Katrina hits, new orleans devastated, gas goes up to 3.00 a gallon..., now im hearing the truckers are going to strike b/c of gas, which will lead to costs going up in food and other everyday objects. i think whats really going on is wer

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Us Abolishes Teen Death Penalty

Saw [url="http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050302/D88IJKK00.html"]this article[/url] today, and was wondering what the views on this board were about this kind of subject. Do you agree/disagree with the death penalty for teenagers? Do you agree/disagree with the death penalty as it stands in the US at all? Would love to hear some feedback on this topic.

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Brittany Murphy Untimely Passing At Age 32

Brittany Murphy! Her passing was shockingly plastered over Yahoo's website. I was taking a break from backache all day, so I was not near any sitting area (not even by my computer) all day until just now. She died of sudden cardiac arrest Sunday about 10am. Los Angeles Fire Department responded to her place around 8am. I saw Brittany Murphy while I was in California some years ago. I was sitting by a cafe place and she was just walking down the busy street. Everyone noticed her and sh

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Barack Obama- Non Corporate President?

[quote]By Martin Crutsinger, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, cp.org, Updated: October 21, 2009 3:46 PM U.S. to order pay cuts for executives at big bailout companies: AP sources WASHINGTON - The Obama administration plans to order companies that received huge U.S. government bailouts last year to sharply cut the compensation of their highest paid executives. A person familiar with the decision, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it has not been announced, says the seven companies that received

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Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[img]http://imgur.com/iFm5M.jpg[/img] [b]Obama awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize[/b] [url="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09/nobel.peace.prize/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/09...rize/index.html[/url] Congratulations, President Obama! i'll make further comments later. i just wanna post it this early.

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Partial Birth Abortion

[b]Based on articles:[/b] [url="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/25/national/25beliefs.html"]Abortion Returns to Center Stage[/url] [url="http://womensissues.about.com/od/partialbirthabortion/i/ispartialbirth.htm"]Partial Birth Abortion - Abortion Ban Issue[/url] 3 years ago, in 2003, the U.S. congress overwhelmingly passed a law banning partial birth abortion, in which a fetus over 20 weeks in age (~5 months) and up to around the 6-7th month is aborted. Supporters of the law stated then that it

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Wilson Calls Obama A Liar During His Address To Congress

[url="http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-apologizes-for-screaming-liar-during-obama-speech-2009-9"]http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-...a-speech-2009-9[/url] And a video is: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2doQ-uGkM&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U2doQ-uGkM...feature=related[/url] I thought that this was quite funny, and Pelosi (the woman in red on the right)'s reaction was even better. You can tell that most of congress are liberals, from the co

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Noaa Lowers 09 Hurricanes Season

Well good news my friends. NOAA has now lowered there 2009 hurricane predection for the Atlantic. Now saying near to below normal. Full story here [url="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090806_hurricaneupdate.html"]Click Me[/url] All I say to it is this though. it only will take 1 hurricane to be a bad year. remember Katrina, Ike Andrew and Camellie?

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Asking Someone To Homecoming

Don't know if other countries have Homecoming, but basically it's when some alumni come back to the school to visit and there's a big football (American football) game and a dance and etc. In my school, everybody asks with flowers, makes some gigantic sign, hides clues as to who's asking, or something else rather ornate. It's a big deal at my school but at others around here I've noticed that nobody really gets into it (especially the asking). It's more like [quote]

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My Daughter Made The Front Page -

This very, very, very proud mother thinks this is [color="#ff0000"][b][i]extremely[/i] [size=3]HOT[/size][/b][/color] news, so I have to share it with all of you! [url="http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090616/NEWS/906160313"][img]http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss207/Fractured-Logic/dezi_pottsville.jpg[/img][/url] [Edit] (click on the image to visit the news article, btw) [/Edit] Part of the story behind the picture: My mother is one of three trustees who took ov

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Us Needs 'digital Warfare Force'

Well this is an article that caught my eye. [quote][img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45736000/jpg/_45736318_960thnetworksecuritysquadron.jpg[/img] The head of America's National Security Agency says that America needs to build a digital warfare force for the future, according to reports. Lt Gen Keith Alexander, who also heads the Pentagon's new Cyber Command, outlined his views in a report for the House Armed Services subcommittee. In it, he stated that the US needed to reorga

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Barack Obama, Baby Killer?

Barack Obama, Baby Killer Abortion is a controversial topic these days. Some can’t agree that children are truly human beings before leaving the womb. Some believe there should be exceptions when the mother’s life is in danger or when rape has occurred. However, until 2007 it was legal for children to survive abortions… and be left to starve to death on hospital beds. There’s a lot the average American doesn’t know about Mr. Barack Obama. The silver-tongued demagogue is to many just a prom

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Us Captain Freed

[quote]NAIROBI, Kenya – Three flawless shots. Three pirates killed. Bracing themselves on a rolling warship in choppy seas, U.S. Navy snipers took down three Somali pirates with three single shots, freeing the American sea captain being held at gunpoint, a Navy commander said Monday. Angry pirates vowed retaliation for the deaths, raising fears for the safety of some 230 foreign sailors still held hostage in more than a dozen ships anchored off the coast of lawless Somalia. "From now on,

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Foreign Spies Hacked Into The U.s. Electricity Grid

News Title: Foreign Spies Hacked into the U.S. Electricity Grid News Description: This allegde foreign spies hacked the US electricity grid could be in fact foreign, but they could have been domestic too, us citizens i mean, if not, we are looking to a highly possible threat against the security status of the United States of America. Day of the Event: Last wednesday Source Link: [url="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10214898-54.html?tag=nl.e703"]http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10214898..

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Man Hacks Into Government Searching For Ufos

[u]Summary[/u] This young man, interested in UFO’s and aliens was watching a movie of a teenage boy that hacked into the U.S government system and almost started World War 3. This got this man started on hacking computers. After he bought a book he found out how to hack into the government security system. Using the username of Solo he was able to get right in. It turns out the government use an insecure Microsoft Windows program that didn’t require a password. Still burning. This caus

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Govt Paid $6 Mn To Taliban To Agree To Ceasefire

Ok. Some interesting news after some time. One of my friends recently passed a link that had information about the peace deal signed between the Pakistan government and the Taliban forces. I was a bit shocked initially and thought this is not possible. But after going through some of the links from reliable new reporting sites, I had no choice. It has indeed happened. I also believe that without even a small trigger, there could not be so much fuzz. So something has indeed happened... The Tali

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Obama To Fix The Economy?

[quote]When it comes to priorities, many polls suggest Americans want President-elect Barack Obama to fix the economy first when he enters the Oval Office in a little more than two months. A poster this week in Los Angeles, California, depicts President-elect Barack Obama as Superman. A poster this week in Los Angeles, California, depicts President-elect Barack Obama as Superman. Getting Congress to approve tax cuts promised on the campaign trail may be a good start toward tackling the problem

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Iran Nuclear Testing And What The Us Cannot Afford

According to CNN, and The Associated Press, which I happen to get new snips every hour thanks to my job, The United Nations has Passed a resolution that requires Iran to put an imediate end to its Nuclear Development Program. Now I somewhat agree with this. I dont beleive that any Power should have the ability to conduct unregulated testing of any Nuclear property, be it for Arms or Energy. I do not, however, agree with the way things are going with this. I have my gut feeling that this will b

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President Barack Obama Become 44th President Of The United States Of America

13 Minutes aog President-Elect Obama has become President Barack Obama the United States of America. The first African-American to hold the most powerful position in the free world, and now this President now begins the process of fixing this country and bring it back to its glory. As to how long it will take President Obama to fix all the problem Bush has made, who knows, but I say this, his first 100 days of office will be the most critical not only to the US but across the world, Hopefully

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Alaska Gov. Palin's Daughter, Fiance Break Up

OMG WHO DID NOT SEE THIS COMING!! i wonder how Sarah Palin is going to live that up in 2012. Although it maybe early who knows they might get back together, ahaha who am I kidding, unwed teenage mother is the capstone for Sarah Palin and her political career and so we won't have to worry about seeing her in 4 years. Yes I am gloating because its just another sore eye for the republicans to deal with and I bet they will try to distance themselves as soon as possible from her. This

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Abraham Lincoln's 200th Birthday

Today, we American's of the United States celebrate the 200th birthday of one of our greatest U.S. Presidents and most famous political icon, Abraham Lincoln. We remember what he has done, young or old, that help save a country not even 100 years old, he freed the slaves after nearly 3 centuries of slavery, and would set the standards of what it is to be a true leader and role model to a country still in its infancy. I would put him in the 10 top of great leaders of human history, such as

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Obama Will Invest In The It Sector In The Usa

The newest news says that Obama will invest great part from the 787 Billion Dollars for the IT Sector. He will invest the biggest part for the IT Sector. Exactly that are 19 Billion Dollars. That money will be invested for E-documents for prevence and for computerization to all medicine documents in the next 5 years. With this computerization, as he says, will be reduced the costs of money for the medicine sector. This money will be used for prevence of the health, and prevention of medical mist

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Another Fireball

Well 1st it was a fireball over Scandanavia I know bad spelling. Now it is one over texas in the us. I head of this on CNN Full story here [url="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/16/texas.sky.debris/index.html"]http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/16/texas.sky.debris/index.html[/url]

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Us Okays Spaceport

I was looking around for some sports news tonight and happen to come across this. US has okayed spaceport. Here the usa is so bad in debt and they have okayed this? Oh well Beam me up Scotty. [url="http://article.wn.com/view/2009/02/16/US_gives_green_light_for_first_commercial_spaceport/"]Full Story [/url]

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Obama To Deploy More Troops?

[quote]WASHINGTON — [url="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per"]President Obama[/url] is facing a choice on whether to grant commanders’ requests for additional troops in [url="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/afghanistan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"]Afghanistan[/url] before he has decided on his new strategy there.[/quote] [url="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/world/asia/12prexy.html?ref=worl

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Big Hurricane

WOW another big hurricane is going to hit the gulf coast i feel real bad for them. I mean they are just recovering form 2 huge hurricanes the another one comes around and screws them over again. This may be the biggest hurricane on record. i really cant wait till they start going into the freek alphabet. That will be real cool the most hurricanes in one season. If anyone elce has some thoughts please feel free to share them with me.

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Quake Rattles New Jersey

Well New Jersey had a small Earth Quake Last nite, Not too far from where I live. Did not feel anything from it though. Said it once will say it again. Be Prepard. see full story [url="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g_E-_J6MarTItmTlRtfp6z-aHDdAD963SSIO0"]Here[/url]

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Economic Recovery Plan

Read this Yahoo! News report. [url="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090203/oddities/us_economy_finance_politics_trillion_offbeat"]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090203/oddi...rillion_offbeat[/url] A Trillion Dollars is a whole lot of money! I hope it works to do as they think it will. Not just the United States is bothered by this Recession. It affects the entire world. God Speed with the recovery plan.

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Circuit City

I was reading the news and found that "Circuit City" is in Bankruptcy, is going to close 567 stores and 30.000 employees are going to be fired, that's quite a surprise, it looks like the situation is not getting any better. I really feel for those families, I hope the situation start improving as soon as possible...

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Mount Redoubt About To Blow

Mt Redoubt in Alaska is about to blow it's top. [url="http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/volcano.php"]http://pafc.arh.noaa.gov/volcano.php[/url] if anyone is interested in this. The Volcano has not Erupted yes. the Ak NWS National Weather Service is still getting the above page in order, so some links may not work as of yet. There is also a webcame of the Mt Reboubt Volcano on the site.

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Telemarketing Block List - Canada

Link: [url="http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/index-eng.html"]http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/index-eng.html[/url] FINALLY!!! Something good from the Government in Canada... Effective Sept 30th, 2008, you will be able to place your phone number on a Block list for telemarketers. Fact Sheet here: [url="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/dncl_info.htm#tel"]http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/dncl_info.htm#tel[/url] CRTC Decision information here: [url="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/eng/decisions/2007/dt2007-48

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Michelle Obama

I have notice that there has been a lot of posts of Barack Obama but none on his wife Michelle.How do you think she will handle being the our first lady? Being the first lady is not just a titel but a lot more. she is the spokeperson for a lot of matters and also has her husbands ear. Myself I feel as she will have a very hard time not only in Washington but worldwide. Yes she is a very smart woman who knows her stuff. But the only thing that worries me of her is. well when her husband was run

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Obama As President Of The Usa

Barack H Obama, 44th President of the United States, has been inaugurated as the 44th President of the USA. In light of the demands on the States as the "World leader", and their current economic condition, what do you as an individual think will be the first major program for his government to implement? Personally, I think the Pres should focus on the unemployment issue. Getting the population back to work needs to be the first thing he does. With full employment, many other issues

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Presidential Inauguration Parade

Well after watching the Presidential Inauguration Parade today, I have to say and I know this is gonna make me sound bad but it is My feelings only and mine alone. I hated it. Reminded me of a new years day parade with a bunch of stupid floats that had no reason even being there. If you watched it you know what I mean. Yes some of the bands that they had was very nice. Most of the people there did look as they was having a good time. But my problem with it all was one thing and one thing only.

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The Big Chill

Well Mid america is in the deep freeze. Temps are near Zero with wind chills anywhere from -10 to 40 below Zero Farenhite. It's not just the US that is having a cold snap too. Places in the UK and Asia too have had this too of late. Such as Leyte in the Philippines. Had a E mail the other day telling me a high of 18C about 65F in Ormoc which is on the sothern most part of Leyte. As for dealing with the cold. myself I am staying indoors, only going outside when needed for as short of a tim

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Jan 20th Will You Be Watching

Well it will sone be Jan 20th and Obama will be sworn in as our new prez. Honestly I find it rather fitting that it will be the day after what would have been MLK 80th Bday. Some of you work and some go to school and some of you do not even live in the US but I know this will be carried live all throught the world. Will you be watching? and what are your thoughts as America has it's first African American as our leader? Myself even though I did not vote for him I wish him all the luck in t

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Should all residents of the US be obligated to speak English?

[b]Should all residents of the US be obligated to speak English?[/b]What Is The Main World Language?Should all residents of the US be obligated to speak English?I'm doing a college research essay. I've decided to write about this topic because there are so many people who come to live in America and don't learn how to speak English. Some have lived here for many years, and because there are services like ESL or groups of other people who speak the same language, they NEVER learn English or know

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Man Goes On A Shooting Spree In A Montreal College Campus.

This was in the papers day here in Ottawa Ontario Canada. Yesterday some guy dressed in black went into a college with a bunch of guns and started shooting at people. And from what I read he had a stone cold face on him and he wounded 19 students and killed at least one person. [quote]Sun Media sources identified Gill as the gunman who turned a Montreal college cafeteria into a combat zone yesterday, killing one young woman and wounding 19 before he was shot dead by police.[/quote] Here's

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Apple Sues Three Jounalist For Emails

[quote]EFF Asks Court to Protect Online Journalists Seeks to Stop Apple From Undermining Reporter's Privilege Santa Clara County, CA - Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a California Superior Court for a protective order that would prevent Apple Computer from forcing three online journalists to identify their confidential sources and hand over unpublished materials. EFF, serving as co-counsel for the journalists, argues that online journalists are protected by the same &q

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The North American Union

So I am not a very political person, but I try my best to stay up to date with the politics of my country, Canada. And recently, it has come to my attention that certain things within the governement is taking place in which I very much disagree. I don't disagree on the certain benefits that some of these changes may help, however, the WAY it is being implemented and imposed is NOT acceptible: [b]The North American Union[/b] This means different things to Canadians, Americans and Mexicans

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Blagojevich Impeachment Vote

this has been all over the news here in the usa for going on a month now. [url="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6601973&page=1"]Draft Report Recommends Blagojevich Impeachment Vote[/url] An Illinois legislative panel has drafted a proposed report recommending that the state's House of Representatives vote on whether to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich. It seems to me that when a goverment officer get's into any kind of trouble for the slightiest thing everone one calls f

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Woman Sued For Rescue Effort In Car Crash

I just [url="http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6498405&page=1"]saw this article today[/url] and it is really sad and that all the blame is going to the wrong person in this case. It should be the driver who was most likely drinking as well that caused the accident but odds are this woman needs someone to blame and so she is blaming someone who rescued her. I know I wasn't there and didn't know what happen besides what was told the article but whatever the outcome a lot more peo

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Online Divorcee Jailed After Killing Virtual Hubby

Ok that title says it all and I nearly had a stroke thinking that was the reason for being arrested, but alas, she got busted for illegal computer use. Of course, this shows you how the internet has made people become stupid, first the guy for wasting police department time saying his digital character was murdered, second the cops actually listening to him and then dragging a women 620 miles because she did this. As for the women, get a life, if you can't handle an online divorce then you

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Fla. Teen Commits Suicide With Live Web Audience

[quote]MIAMI – A college student committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live webcam as some computer users egged him on, others tried to talk him out of it, and another messaged OMG in horror when it became clear it was no joke. Some watchers contacted the Web site to notify police, but by the time officers entered Abraham Biggs' home — a scene also captured on the Internet — it was too late.[/quote] Biggs, a 19-year-old Broward College student who suffe

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O.j. Simpson Sentenced To At Least 15 Years

When I read this story of OJ Simson getting 15yrs, I honestly was so happy. Full story [url="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/oj_simpson"]here[/url] he could have gotten life for this.

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Walmart Employee Trampled To Death On Black Friday.

For those of you who don't live in america and are not aware, today was somewhat of a holiday known as black friday: It is the day after thanksgiving here and it is best known for being an amazing marketing gimmick for large retail chains. Most stores open at 5 am to be greeted by lines and lines of shoppers who have been camping outside for days waiting for the great deals. First off I'm not even sure why people go so crazy for this holiday. The deals are pretty good (I got some pre

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Canadian Government Gets A Reprieve

The Canadian Government, lead by the Conservative Party, (much like the American Republicans), has been given a time frame of 6 weeks to shape-up or ship-out. Although the Election in mid-October increased their representation in parliament, the Conservatives are a Minority Government, which means they have more seats than any other Party, but not a Majority of the seats. In a Minority Government, it is critical that the ruling party does not lose sight of the wants/needs of the rest of the Pa

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Pentagon Ban's Flash Drives

Well it would seem that the Pentagon got itself a juicy computer virus and banning all flash drives from entering the building and of course confiscating flash drives that do come in. Well that is what you get for letting people bring in their own computers or bring those flash drives outside a building. Of course, if it was an outside source and what they say that it goes after storage specifically then ok, but still you think they would be replacing the hard drives as well because of such a

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Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 To Nigerian E-mail Scam

Well the title says it all and the thing is I don't feel sorry for her because she had ample warnings from her friends, family and of course if your living under a rock the news, internet, websites, magazines etc etc. So really how are these people still falling for this and you would think red flags would get waved when your getting emails from the United Nations and President Bush to help them out and that my friends is really baffling. The sad thing though is that as long as you have p

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Missing Canadian Teen's Body Was Found

News: Missing Canadian Teen's Body Was Found Source Link: [url="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0530963720081105"]http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews...530963720081105[/url] A canadian tenn run of his home when his parents took away his Xbox 360 video game console, now his body was found by hunters in a wooded area at northeast of Barrie-Ontario, where the canadian kid of 15 years old lived with his family, his body was found wednesday, and he was missing since 13 of

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Pondering On The Current Wall Street Crisis

[acronym="American International Group"]AIG[/acronym], Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac. Yes, even down here in New Zealand, the ripples of the crisis unfolding on Wall Street and in the financial institutions of the United States are being felt. Like an earthquake, or a series of explosions, we down here, thousands of miles away, are affected by what is happening there. The New Zealand sharemarket NZX suffered a 3.395 percent drop today, and this was attributed m

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Politics In Usa

[size=2][b][color="green"]I am so relieved that this election is over with. Before the election our household was pelted with campaign propoganda mail and phone calls. Some of the negative stuff was apalling. Accusations of "radical homosexual agendas", racial inuendos, bad political jokes and On and On and On. We thought it would never end. Now that the election is over, the propoganda and phone calls have ceased. BUT, we find the local newspapers are still at it. One newspaper

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Women Sues Nasa Over Comet Event

i think this is the funnies news in the world when i first read the headline i thought hmm didn't get paid but when i read it [quote]MOSCOW -    NASA's mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust — it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer. ADVERTISEMENT Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forc

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Barack Obama The Next President Of The Us

It is Official Barack Obama has become the 44th President of the United States of America and also is the first African-American President as well and just like Abraham Lincoln, Obama has made history not only in the United States of American but the world. Now the question will be what will the first African-American President be like in the first 100 days in office and of course his first four years as president. Projections are projections but when you have big lead like Obama does, especia

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Republicans Or Democrats

who would you vote for? the republicans or demcrats. i would vote for the republicans personally.

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"just When Is A Cartoon Too Offensive?"

[url="http://newsbusters.org/node/3893"]Click[/url] I'm really just caught between this...Tom Toles obviously took this cartoon [i]way[/i] too far by dishonoring crippled troops. I don't support this war in any way, but isn't that a bit arrogant? There are so many ways to get your opinion out and your voice heard; I just don't see why some people feel the need to do it at the emotional expense of others. I'm really interested in hearing other people's thoughts about this

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Hands Off Our Internet!

[b]Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality[/b] [quote]A hotly contested Democratic bid to enshrine extensive Net neutrality regulations in the law books failed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. [url="http://news.com.com/Democrats+lose+House+vote+on+Net+neutrality/2100-1028_3-6065465.html?tag=nefd.top"]By a 34-22 vote, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected a Democratic-backed Net neutrality amendment that also enjoyed support from Internet and software co

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United States: "we Own Outer Space!"

[url="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061018.wusspace1019/BNStory/International/home"]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ernational/home[/url] Basically the president signed something that said that we won't allow people into space for "hostile purposes." Normal space systems would be allowed, but any attempt to interfere with our systems would warrant response. I think this is pretty stupid. As a hippie might say, "You can't, like, [i]own[

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Unions

Yes they are to protect the workers of America. But it is getting to the point that even those of us who don't need to be unionized are lacking in the ability to retain or even get a job because of unions. Bush is unionizing the construction worker because he is telling us he loves the worker force. One of my friends, James who is 40 yrs old, has 3 children to feed and is a single parent, is on the verge of losing his home after a divorce and because he can't get any construction work

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Sarah Palin Called Iraq War A Task From God

Question is What is the most stupidest thing a politician can do to connect government and religion together? Well there is your answer. On that note, COME ON! her political skills are as experienced as mine and I tell this if if McCain wins this election because of her stupidity I am going to be voting Democrat for life. Let see what else, oh I have a pregnant teenage daughter who is unmarried, likes to ban books (Harry potter most likely), lwe need a pipeline because God wills it, no se

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Fired For Internet Browsing

[url="http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060424/D8H6CTO80.html"]http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060424/D8H6CTO80.html[/url] In short, a New York judge has ruled that a Department of Education employee could not be fired for using the Internet while at work. It could set precedent for further rulings and even save some jobs. A lot of people do waste their time browsing the web when they should be productive - there's no denying that. But some employees do use (not abuse) their Internet ac

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9/11 5th Anniversary

Yes, the time has passed by very quickly. It has been five years since the September 11 attacks on America. Thoughts are to all the people who died that day.

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Happy Halloween! 2008

Well, the day has finally come. I used to love Halloween so much when I was little, it was a great time for playing around. Eating candy all day, hah. Just going to go out with friends tonight for a party or something How are you going to spend your day?

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Discussing George Bush

Just wondering thoughts on George Bush.... not too big on him myself. Do you all think he is some power hungry, foolish, reckless dictator or a kind, considerate, thoughtful and good man?? Just wondering. [note=BuffaloHELP]Please post topics in the correct forum section. Moving.[/note]

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Amish School Girls Killed

Even though Cerebral Stasis, mentioned this in another topic about a hostage situation, I thought this needed it's own topic. As you have probably heard, 5 Amish school girls have been shot by a milkman. This is pretty bad. The Amish people are very nice people that would never cause harm to anyone. I visted this area just this summer. The Amish were really nice and mainly just minded there ways. They were off on their own doing whatever they might be doing. What really surprised me was tha

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Woman Grows 6 Foot Long Zuchinni!

Seriously, how can it grow that long! That's amazing! She just kept growing and touching it, and it kept getting longer and harder, until it became 6 feet long! Heres the news story from New York Daily News [url="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2008/09/03/2008-09-03_woman_in_shock_over_giant_zucchini_.html"]http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens..._zucchini_.html[/url][quote]It would make one hell of a salad. A Queens woman has taken homegrown fruits and vegetable

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Sarah Palin Money Scandel

Well it would seem that Sarah Palin is not the dummy we all thought she was, this week an interesting one article came out about her love for money. The first one mention the fact that not only was spending money for her family to come along on her trips but she was making the Alaskan government pay her back and we are not taking about couple hundred dollars we are talking thousands of dollars she made the government pay back to her. Now I can understand if it was you and few aides coming alon

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Crazy State Laws

[b][size=2][color="green"]I was just watching one of those cop programs where they show you the tape from inside the squad car. It was out of one of the southeastern states of the USA. Some cop stopped a guy for suspected drunk diving. Now this guy is in his own private vehicle. The cop tells him to step out of the car and the guy is nude. The driver flunks the sobriety test and the cop arrests him for DUI and public indecency; puts him in his squad car. Then the cop asks the passenger to

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US Court Rules That Google Must Divulge All Youtube Users' Browsing Habits

As part of their battle with Google, a US court has ruled that Google must hand over the viewing habits of every user of YouTube to Viacom. This will include the log-in ID of users, IP addresses and video-clip details. Whilst the two companies involved are based in the USA, it is believed that details of users from all over the world will be divulged. Considering that there are over 83 million videos on YouTube and about 500,000 users, I wish the person in charge of sifting through this inform

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Teacher Accused Of Wizardry?!

[url="http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=79533"]http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/arti...x?storyid=79533[/url] [quote] Land O' Lakes, Florida -- The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming. There was even a substitute teacher in New Port Richey who got in trouble after investigators say she had a relationship with an underage student. Well, another Pasco County substitute teacher's job is on

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Broken Tv Leads To Charges

[quote]NEW PORT RICHEY - The Best Buy repairman had come several times to fix the woman's television. But still on Friday he could not get it to work. So, officials say, the woman pulled out a .38-caliber handgun loaded with hollow-point rounds and told him: "You're not leaving until the TV is fixed." Marlene Anne Bagnall, 44, of 1523 Davenport Drive was later arrested on charges of aggravated assault and false imprisonment. Bagnall's husband told a sheriff's deputy

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Sex Scandal Brings Up Racial Tensions

[url="http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/teachers-sex-charges-bring-cries-of/20070329101609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001"]http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/te...S00010000000001[/url] This is stupid, the report right there even says that the sentences given to the female teachers aren't unusual for other cases, so I don't see the basis for any discrimination accusation other then this: "State NAACP president Lonnie Randolph said that if the same offenses were committed

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Comcast Sets Monthly Bandwidth Limit For Customers

Well everyone was expecting this to happen and not just for Comcast but all of US ISP companies and what not, but with Comcast striking the first blow the question is what will 250GB bring to it's customers? Well, 50 million emails, over 60,000 songs downloaded and 125 movies and if you hit one of those marks well expect Comcast to send you a nasty letter or a give you a nasty phone call to stop doing illegal stuff on your computer . Of course the only people that would break the 250GB mark

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Beheading Suspect Makes Court Appearance.

This was on the news last night and it's also in the papers today. Some lunatic on a Greyhound bus, which is what some people in Canada use on their travels. In the papers and in the news last night they said the suspect started stabbing a fellow passenger for no reason what's so ever. People heard the poor man's blood curdling screams. The bus driver and a few other passengers managed to barricade the Murderer inside the bus and disabled to bus so that he couldn't go anywhere. I

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Going To Canada For About A Week..

I'm know I'm not really active here anymore, but I thought I might as well post for the credits just in case I ever need them later, plus I am planning on coming on here more often for insight. -- Hey there, I will be in Toronto and Niagara Falls with one of my friends in real, so I will not be on a lot if at all. My trip will be from August 3rd to August 8th. I won't be going to bed Saturday night (really Sunday morning) since I have to be at the Train station by 4am something..

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Magnitude 5.4 Earthquake Hits Los Angeles Area Today

It was a 5.4, and I was right in the middle of it. Everything was shaking, and it was pretty fun in my swivel chair. There weren't any injuries or damage though, and that's great! It was just a scare for everyone. I wasnt scared though.

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Why Does Hillary Get More Press Than Ron Paul?

Ron Paul needs an act of God to win the nomination, and receives no press coverage. Hillary also needs an act of God to win the nomination, yet she gets the most press of all candidates. Obviously, Hillary is owned by the right people. What say you?

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Power Outage In San Fransisco Today

There was a power outage in San Francisco that knocked out some Craigslist servers as well as other websites. Read all about it [url="http://blog.planetc1.com/2007/07/25/san-francisco-power-outage-darkens-colo-facility/"]HERE![/url]

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Forum Member's Town Suffers Tornado

[size=2][b][color="green"]Just got back on line. Things have been quite a mess here for the last few days. On Thursday night June 12th we had a tornado and 80+ mile-an-hour winds in my town. The tornado evidently didn't touch all the way down to ground level as only very old, tall trees were toppled or uprooted. Falling trees caused much damage to houses, cars, power lines and telephone lines. Lost electric power for over 20 hours at my house and others still don't have power. Than

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Canadian Dcma-type Bill Introduced

Today on June 12, 2008, Industry Canada Minister Jim Prentice introduces the Canadian version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This means that Canada will also seek to prosecute and sue average citizens through the monitoring of bit torrent and p2p sharing clients and tracking IP addresses with fake trackers. In 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has be passed in the United States, causing over tens of thousands of downloaders their lifetime's savings, due to the high lawyer

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The Fight For Net-neautrality Has Begun

If you live in some places such as Warrenton, Va., Chambersburg, Pa., or Beaumont, Tex, and many other places, you will soon be limited of your bandwith. That's right, the fight for net neautrality has begun! First of all if you don't know what net neautrality is, you better learn here -> [url="http://www.savetheinternet.com/"]http://www.savetheinternet.com/[/url] So this new thing comcast is doing is that they are going limit your bandwith to the highest tear of 40GB (Gigabyte)

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Thieves Leave Note At Crime Scene: “(expletive) You And Your Safe”

Thieves broke into the Des Moines Golf and Country Club on Monday morning. They used a reciprocating saw to attempt to cut into the safe but couldn’t get in. In staid they stole some tennis rackets and shoes and left a note to the people who owned the place. The note was scribbled on plain white paper in large ink letters saying “(Expletive) you and your safe” The 2 thieves then attempted to escape in their vehicle when a security officer saw some of the stolen good fall out of the back and to

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When Flying In Or Out Of The Tamiami Airport In Kendall Fla Make Sure To Watch For Snipers?!?!?

As if learning to fly a plane wasn't easy enough now some students (and other pilots) are possibly being shot at. Two planes so far have been found with bullet holes while flying out of Tamiami Airport in Kendall Florida and the FBI have no clue where they are from. Federal Aviation Administration has told airmen at Tamiami to make a steep approach when landing to cut down on the chance of becomming a target. Pilots such as Robert Dean, who also runs a flight school out of the airport, ar

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