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Hat tip Race42008 on Iowa Huckabee vs Romney spending.

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http://www.10news.com/video/13963189/index.html?taf=sand

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evangelicaloutpost.com has noticed the silence from Clinton and Obama on the recent stem cell break though.

I personally don’t think stem cells are going to be the key to a cure for all timers. We no doubt will learn a lot from stem cells and it may cure some chronic conditions. But all timers seems to be cause by a missing protein, ya stem cells would the concept goes replace old brain cells when they die with new cells that may produce the protein (or may not) but brain cells live for something like 7 years so treatment with stem cells by these facts take 7 plus years. An alternative may be a virus that changes the DNA of the cells in a way such as AIDS virus does but instead of causing people to get sick it cures them.

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Get details from their site.

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This seems to be the latest schedule

• 1/3 - Iowa
• 1/5 - Wyoming
• 1/8 - New Hampshire
• 1/15 - Michigan
• 1/19 - South Carolina
• 1/19 - Nevada
• 1/29 - Florida

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Gratitude: It seems we have a habit of saying we are grateful when we receive things … and at this particular moment I don’t think it completely descriptives gratitude; even more so when considering that this is a free country where most of the time poor people get enough to eat. We don’t actually need to be hungry to be thankful that there are people who will feed the hungry just because they are - we don’t actually need to have no money and receive free food in a park to be thankful.

I think my best metaphor would be to describe how children by nature understand how to love. My daughter at the age of five at a Christmas festival saw her first Lama - to say she liked it would be an understatement; love filled every part of her being, she hugged it, she walked it, she fed it. The Lama did not mind, it liked being fed, was fairly indifferent to being walked, and accepted being hugged; But, it did not return the affect. The feeling that was born in my daughter’s heart and completely filled her was not created by receiving - it was created by giving.

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Michael of race42008.com has decided on somebody he believes he can back, and is forthcoming about having a possible bias on his blog, I have read his blog many times and don’t think he will show much of any bias.

His article makes a good impetus for me for me to state any bias I may have. I am non-partisan I have never been registered as a Republican or a Democrat. I have equal distrust for both parties. I am strictly interested in the issues. The most important thing for me is personal freedom so in regards to a political party I line up more with libertarians. I would rather see the white house and the congress at odds with each other than any party able to accomplish major changes without a hard fight. If I find a horse, you will be the first to know about it.

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Was arrested Thursday at the Ysleta port of entry, an El Paso border crossing, for smuggling drugs into the US.

Davila claim to infamy was being shot by Compean and Ramos (feb 2005) — was given immunity by US Attorney Johnny Sutton to testify against Border Patrol Agents. Many believe — the fact that Ramos and Compean remain in jail while a known illegal alien drug smuggler was free to continue smuggling drugs was outrageous

Aldrete and his co-defendant, Cipriano Ortiz Hernandez, conspired to import and distribute more than 100 kilograms of marijuana on Sept. 24, 2005, and again on Oct. 22 and 23 that same year, according to the charges.

Hat tip: heavy Handed
Read more: CNS news

It is worth noting that walking away from a policeman in the city of San Diego is justification for them to use fire arms. Stop means stop, not run away or take something out of your pocket (perhaps later I will post the story of the NFL player who was shot by police for walking away)

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I checked judicialwatch.org watch to see if they have picked up the story as a google news search shows the main stream media has not yet covered the story (Judicial Watch had covered the feb. 5th, 2005 trial of the agents). Yes, Judicial watch has the story.

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Obama is in the lead in Iowa … while Blue Crab Boulevard is following the story reported first by Robert Novak that Clinton campaign is spreading the word that it’s holding back … The Clinton campaign is saying the Report by Robert Novak is not true.

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When I design a site I want it to be successful. That lines up with my personal values, I really don’t want to create a site that the owner dreams will bring in business and I know that it will not. To get a site rolling is normally going to take a little time; that would not be the case if after the site is created they include information about it in a flier to their customers; But if, the site is to get traffic for free from search engines - it must be promoted. That is what I include in the maintenance; But, it is not free - although it is cheaper than how much other companies charge for SEO.

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