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    CNNMoney.com: GM to pull the plug on Pontiac

    I can't say I'm terribly surprised. That line has been without a hit in so many years that I don't know how it's lasted this long. The entire line has consisted of as many variations of unreliable and ugly as they could think up.
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    Three NYPD officers have been acquitted of all charges in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed man on his wedding day.

    CNN.com has a banner up saying all three cops have been acquitted on all charges... and this is in a non-jury trial, with only a lone judge presiding. I obviously didn't hear all the facts that the judge did... but with what little they've given us to go on, and with yet another case where NYC...
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    CNNMoney.com: "Jobs post biggest drop in 5 years"

    What I found just as troubling as the loss of jobs is the fact that is pointed out in subtitle of the article. Every time a large enough group of unemployed workers' benefits runs out, we hear from people who would use a drop in the unemployment rate as an indicator of an improved and/or...
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    "U.S. Marines Unlikely to Report Civilian Abuse, Report Finds" (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

    Well this is pretty disheartening... I have always believed that the majority of soldiers are good, brave men and women who are there to bravely serve their country. But if this article, and the Pentagon report it cites, are correct, then something has gone terribly wrong. This type of mentality...
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    UPDATE: Ex-soldier charged in Iraq rape, killing (was: AP: "GIs accused of raping woman, killing family")

    There have been more and more reports like these coming out... and this one time the "accusation" comes from one of the accused, who admitted his role, feeling guilty about it after some soldiers from the same regiment were kidnapped and killed. So while the official line is that it's not...
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    CNN: White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan announces resignation

    Wow... I guess it's begun. The admin said 'if you want to go, go now;' and now we find out who wants to go. More details coming... right now, CNN just has the headline. ------------------------------------------------- There were two threads on this subject that were created at the same...
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    Wal-Mart Deals with Pair of Snafus to Start 2006 (CNNMoney.com)

    This can't be as simple as just coincidence or a mistake... Someone must have set up the system to offer suggestions based on keywords and/or products being searched or purchased. Will they take this seriously and deal with the persons involved? I'm curious to see what the resolution will...
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    "Rumsfeld Says He Did Not 'Advocate' Invading Iraq" (Yahoo! News / AFP)

    Orwell, it seems, has put Nostradamus to shame. The current administration has managed to make real such things as previously seemed possible only in such works as 1984 and Animal Farm. They accuse others of "revisionist history" as they themselves actively seek to rewrite our present, our...
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    Bush Reportedly to Appoint Bolton Today

    Yes, presidents of both parties have done it, and will likely continue to. But whichever side does it, it's a scummy exploitation of a loophole that should be used only in emergency situations; not for political expediency. Bush Reportedly to Appoint Bolton Today Link to the AP article at...
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    L.A. Times Suspends 'Wikitorials'

    Poster after poster, in this forum, uses "mainstream media" as a pejorative term, of late, and writes as if blogs and wikis are the best sources of news information. Well here's an example of an MSM news source trying to give you some of what you seem to want... and ending up demonstrating that...
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    Israeli Companies Suspected of Spying

    I wonder how often something like this happens here in the US, and just doesn't get caught and/or make the news...
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    Principal Sorry for 'School Prayer' Poem

    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._us/school_prayer_poem ATHENS, Ga. - A high school principal apologized Monday for reading a poem called "The New School Prayer" over the school's intercom, which brought complaints from some parents who said it violated the principle of separation of church...
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    AP: CBS News' Dan Rather to Step Down in March

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne.../ap_on_en_tv/tv_rather By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK - Dan Rather, embattled anchor of the "CBS Evening News," announced Tuesday that he will step down in March, on the 24th anniversary of taking over the job from Walter Cronkite. The...
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    Reuters: Americans Flock to Canada's Immigration Web Site

    Reuters: Americans Flock to Canada's Immigration Web Site Fri 5 November, 2004 18:30 By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site has shot up six-fold as Americans flirt with the idea of abandoning their homeland after...
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    Earthquake Shakes Central California (CNN.Com)

    Earthquake Shakes Central California Preliminary magnitude of 5.9 Tuesday, September 28, 2004 Posted: 1:50 PM EDT (1750 GMT) PARKFIELD, California (AP) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 struck central California on Tuesday and was felt as far north as San Francisco...
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    Rumsfeld Ordered Secret Arrest in Iraq (was: Pentagon Admits Holding Iraqi in Secret)

    Pentagon Admits Holding Iraqi in Secret By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - In a rare admission of violating the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war, the Pentagon has acknowledged it improperly held an Iraqi prisoner in secret for more than seven months. The military has...
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    'Buffalo Spammer' Sentenced to 3-1/2 to 7 Years

    'Buffalo Spammer' Sentenced to 3-1/2 to 7 Years WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York state man who sent out millions of "spam" e-mails was sentenced to 3-1/2 to seven years in prison, the state attorney general's office said on Thursday. Howard Carmack, known as the "Buffalo Spammer," received...
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    Soldier Sentenced to 1 Year in Iraq Prisoner Abuse

    Soldier Sentenced to 1 Year in Iraq Prisoner Abuse Three soldiers defer pleas at arraignment Wednesday, May 19, 2004 Posted: 8:49 AM EDT (1249 GMT) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Spc. Jeremy Sivits on Wednesday pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal and was sentenced...
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    UNINTENDED REPOST. PLEASE LOCK

    Article on CNN.com: "Rumsfeld: Unreleased images 'cruel and inhuman'" Rumsfeld: Unreleased images 'cruel and inhuman' Defense secretary outlines panel to probe prisoner abuse Saturday, May 8, 2004 Posted: 8:47 AM EDT (1247 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
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    "Marines Investigate Photo Posted on Web"

    Marines Investigate Photo Posted on Web By DOUG SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS - The Marines are investigating a photograph circulating on the Internet that depicts a soldier with two Iraqi boys and a sign, in English, proclaiming the soldier had killed one boy's father and...
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    "G.I.'s Padlock Baghdad Paper Accused of Lies"

    G.I.'s Padlock Baghdad Paper Accused of Lies By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: March 29, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 28 ? American soldiers shut down a popular Baghdad newspaper on Sunday and tightened chains across the doors after the occupation authorities accused it of printing lies that...
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    "Soldiers Put Iraq 'War Trophies' on eBay"

    Soldiers Put Iraq 'War Trophies' on eBay By Matt Smith CNN ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A year after the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq, items touted as having come from Saddam's palaces have turned up for sale on the auction Web site eBay. The seller of one...
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    "Court Upholds Do Not Call Registry"

    Court Upholds Do Not Call Registry http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=4&u=/ap/20040217/ap_on_re_us/do_not_call DENVER - A federal appeals court upheld the government's do-not-call registry Tuesday, rejecting claims by telemarketers that it crushes free speech rights. "We...
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    Report Says Iraq Didn't Have WMD

    "Report says Iraq didn't have WMD" Author: Political pressure influenced intelligence before war Thursday, January 8, 2004 Posted: 12:52 PM EST (1752 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Iraq had ended its weapons of mass destruction programs by the mid-1990s and did not pose an immediate threat to the...
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    Palestinians Forced to Apply for Permits

    Palestinians Forced to Apply for Permits cumhail
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    REPOST - PLEASE DELETE

    ** SORRY - I thought I was in P&N, where I hadn't seen it posted. Afterwards, I realized I had reposted something already in OT, which I don't usually read.