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The Eagles Farewell Tour
All She Wants to do is Dance
I’m dancing in the New Year (with one bad knee) in hopes the world will become a better place for all of us. It’s up to us to make it so. High hopes for our new Democratic congress here in the states [...]

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The New York Times has a data base of faces of the fallen U.S. soldiers in Iraq. We talk about the numbers, and try to post names of the fallen on this site often, but the Times has put together the “faces” of the fallen. Check it out. You can search by [...]

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Coffins of U.S. military personnel are offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware in this undated file photo. The U.S. military death toll in Iraq has reached 3,000 on December 31, 2006, an unwelcome milestone for President George W. Bush who is searching for a way to turn around the unpopular war even [...]

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The year in review: From Pelosi to Pitt, perverts to Paris, Dave Barry offers a last laugh

It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor. Decades from now, our grandchildren will [...]

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 2988
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 12
Total 3000 U.S. Deaths in Iraq
What a way to end the year……..
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Since 2000, private organizations have spent more than $21 million to fly members of Congress around the world. A breakdown of the number of trips and how much was spent by private groups in the past six years:
2000 — 1,018 trips at $2.5 million
2001 — 1,303 trips at $3.8 million
2002 — 781 trips at $2.5 [...]

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One of my New Year’s wishes is for the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to be resolved and for peace and prosperity for the Palestinians and the return of their land. If there is a God…….I wish he’d help these people.
This is from Rami Almeghari who resides in the Gaza Strip and writes for International [...]

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U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: 2987
Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 12
Total 2999 U.S. Deaths in Iraq
But what are probably 9 out of 10 people googling today? (if our stats are any indication, which I believe they are) Video of Saddam’s hanging. What’s that say about Americans? The European [...]

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AP poll: Americans optimistic for 2007
WASHINGTON - The news from Iraq and other national headlines may be grim, but in Greenville, N.C., John Given has a new baby and his first home, and life is good.
So, too, for Sandra Trowbridge in tiny Magnet Cove, Ark. The situation in Iraq makes her feel pessimistic about the [...]

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Maybe we should spend some time looking for the missing billions of U.S. dollars that were lost in Iraq, and that the Pentagon couldn’t account for. Oh wait……we probably already KNOW where that is.

The dictator is dead, and now the hunt for his illicit fortune is intensifying. Officials from the FBI and [...]

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Just how two-faced can people get, you ask? Fox News hasn’t got the room to demand fuck!

At the Capitol, VIP Roll Call Has Many No-Shows
The military band drilled. Wreaths with white roses hung outside the House and Senate chambers. In the Capitol Rotunda rested the black velvet catafalque that once bore the remains of Abraham [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal investigators are looking at whether Interior Department officials played favorites or took money from companies vying for big oil and gas contracts.
The probe is the latest in a series of investigations into Interior’s handling of $10 billion a year in royalties paid by companies on the $60 billion in oil and [...]

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