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DON’T FORGET!

Spring yourselves forward tonight. Er, or is it early tomorrow morning? Who the hell gets up at 2am to change their clocks??

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What’s your favorite American city?

Denver? New York? Boston? Chicago? Miami? Los Angeles?

Here’s where you can vote for your choice, and you get to make the choice too.

My favorite city HAS to be in Maine- Portland. It’s not really a city when compared to the ones we all think of, but to me, it’s just the right size; has the right economy and peoples that make it perfect.

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Some advice for John McCain?

NEW ORLEANS — John McCain got mixed reviews today from some of the conservative movement’s top donors and leaders after he addressed — then took questions from — members of the secretive Council for National Policy.

Secretive? Who are these people???

Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America said she asked him about the nearly 40 percent of women in America who bear children out of wedlock and how he would address that problem.

“His response was to say his pro-life record [in Congress] answered that,” Mrs. Crouse said. “Well, I’m proud of his pro-life record, but this is not a pro-life issue but of promoting marriage and the idea that children belong within marriage, so I was not happy with his response.”

She has a point…but I don’t necessarily agree with her.

“On the other hand, he will not find an electorate that is inspired, that will plant signs in their yards, that will mobilize their neighbors and do everything they can to get him elected. They will go to the polls, and that is about it,” she said.

That about sums up the spirit of so many who will back McCain…they will do so without any cheering.

Unless, she added, “he chooses a strong social conservative vice presidential candidate.” Because she represents a nonprofit organization, she could not mention anyone specifically to fill that bill.

However, she has been known to admire former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, both of whom also sought the Republican nomination this year.

AHHH! NO…not the Huckster, puLEEze. I could stand Fred, and his presence in this would ignite the fires of A LOT of people.

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Ruling by politics isn’t a good thing. It never has been and is extremely anti American.

A California judge rejected a foster teen’s request for early enlistment with the Marine Corps — and a $10,000 signing bonus — reportedly on the grounds that the judge didn’t approve of the Iraq war.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel denied 17-year-old Shawn Sage’s request to join the military last October, according to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News.

“The judge said she didn’t support the Iraq war for any reason we’re over there,” Marine recruiter Sgt. Guillermo Medrano of the Simi Valley U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office told the paper.

“She just said all recruiters were the same — that they ‘all tap dance and tell me what I want to hear.’ She said she didn’t want him to fight in it.”

The kid is going to join the Marines in June- so the judge here had little impact.

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