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Here’s wishing everyone a happy New Year’s Eve and a great year thereafter.

In the next year, I sincerely hope to complete building my website and writing a template for this blog.

Shocking news!

• Bhutto killed in suicide attack
• Benazir Bhutto Assassinated – Times of India
• Suicide Attack on Rally May Have Killed Bhutto – NYTimes
• Benazir Bhutto ‘killed in blast’ – BBC

Can’t say I loved the woman, but no one deserves this.

Update: You can track the story as it develops here.

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As an unfortunate consequence of the so-called war against terror, the common man has had to give up more and more. The government is doing it’s part in keeping the FUD going.

• CNN Video – Mouse click could plunge city in to darkness
• The Guardian – Charred chilli dip causes terror alert
  

  If we can’t enjoy spicy dips then the terrorists have already won! They hate us for our spicy Thai cuisine!

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Full transcript

Ron Paul is the only guy who makes any kind of sense among the Republicans.

Observations about this debate

1. Nobody except Ron Paul wants to stop spending money on the war or the military in general. They want to solve the budget deficit problem by limiting civilian expenditure. Guiliani believes cutting corporate taxes will help (Good thinking). Keyes wants to abolish income tax 100% (keep going).
2. Everyone should keep working so they won’t need retirement benefits.
3. They keep saying that saving money by limiting civilian expenditure will increase the funds available for Social Security and Medicare. That is supposed to be some solution. Somehow no body asks the Republicans all the hard questions that the Democrats get on Universal health care.
4. Health care is expensive in America because enough people haven’t bought it. Economies of scale will bring the price down. It’s the people’s fault that health care is so expensive.
5. Huckabee makes a good point about preventive medicine rather than reactive, but that would never make sense to the HMOs.
6. You can save the government money if people don’t ask for “womb-to-tomb” protection.
7. High paying manufacturing jobs need to be brought back to this country, so that the social security funds increase (yada yada). Presumably the low paying ones can stay in China.
8. The border fence can be finished in 6 months.
9. Companies outsource jobs because of too much corporate taxation.
10. The billions that Americans spend on foreign oil is used against them.
11. It’s global warming, not America warming. (I have to give it to this. Best line!)
12. The major export of the US is “our jobs”. (No, if you thought weapons you’re wrong)
13. “The most important emission we need to control is hot air” (LOL)
14. The problem with American education today is that we allowed the judges to drive God out of our schools.
15. “a war is not going on in Iraq; that’s a battle” (uh?)
16. The CIA report that states Iran stopped working on nuclear weapons in 2003, one that cites over one thousand sources, is “a piece of paper by a bureacrat.”

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