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NBC and CW networks have refused to run ads promoting the Dixie Chicks movie, Shut up &Sing.
The movie is about the Dixie Chicks' controversial statement against the U.S. president and the invasion of Iraq, according to the company that is distributing the film. You can view the ad here.
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Newsweek, via MSNBC, has an online article up about other issues which are playing a big part in this election season in other states. Its a fairly long article, 4 pages, but it was interesting. The issues being addressed in other parts of the country are:
Stem Cell Research
Gay Marriage
The...
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The Chicken hawk continues to rant..
In his mind. To list the facts. Is traitorous. He claims that remarks that I made. The type of remark that would be acknowledged by any American War time leader.
Are traitorous.
He is a chicken hawk that would blog instead of fight.
The simple facts are...
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Being anti Iraq war is not being a traitor.
Whether you are a veteran or homemaker. Using such vulgarity against those of an opposing view should be denounced by all Americans.. Democrat, Republican or independent..
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Cheney says, Elections cause deaths in Iraq..
WHAT???
What’s his solution? Cancel the elections?
Is that the Republican plan to win the war?
The Guy hasn’t a decent thought in his head.. He is wrong every time he has a thought..
The Deaths are caused by Americans involvement in...
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Many extreme liberals love to equate the war in Iraq to the war in Vietnam. When they do ask them if they support the troops. Most of them (unless they have a death wish by the rest of America) will say they do. A common mistake among conservatives is to ask how they support...
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Bono's always been a man with a plan, and when it comes to fighting AIDS in Africa, I've found Bono's plan to be better than any I've seen yet. It's a program called RED and it has to do with merchants banding together to relieve the immense suffering of the people of Africa---suffering...
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Americans Die in Iraq in October
From:
http://my.yahoo.com/index.h...
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The Naval Aviator
Anonymous
He has been called: "The boy who never grew up"; "A size nine head in a size seven cap"; "A dirty shirt, a fifth of whiskey, and an uncontrollable sex urge"; "One of those idiots who fly off a postage stamp"; and on rare...
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My heart hurts tonight. Everything will be ok, but I needed to replace one of my actors today. The exceptionally good news was I recruited an actor who started acting as an adult in “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress” so once again, it’s a returning...
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We're a Bakersfield girls club soccer team looking for a new coach. We've been playing Coastal and the league season just ended. We're mostly high school 11th graders on various high school varsity teams. We've been together a few years and know each other, like each...
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The Rovenistic/Republican standard form of the truth..
Doonesbury
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The atmosphere in the Bakersfield City Council chambers was almost festive Wednesday night as council members unanimously voted to approve the hillside ordinance that will ensure the orderly development of the hills in northeast Bakersfield.
Not that council members swapped high fives, mind...
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It was a real treat this morning awakening to AMC playing The Wolf Man, Dracula, The Mummy, and Frankenstein one after the other. While I have enjoyed some of the remakes of these old classics nothing can ever take their place. Nor can anything take the place of seeing them for the first time as...
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Just when you thought it was safe to get out for the mid-term elections, and begin setting your sites on the '08 election, rumors of a John Kerry vote have begun to take float. Republicans, are you afraid of another Kerry run in '08? Vets, are you afraid he would win? Are...
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Anyone read the article in todays paper about the young man who volunteered for military service? If not..you should.
http://www.bakersfield.com/...
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I watch a documentary tonight on HBO about Goldwater. I became very interested in his political life and views around the time he died. His libertarian streak is what I admire most about Goldwater. He seemed to combine the best of both the libertarian beliefs and the conservative beliefs. One of...
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Pentagon Cites Spike In Violence in Iraq
Averting Civil War Called Main Goal
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Direct quote from tkozy
"Anglo
It makes no difference how many shouts or rants. The trooper is trained to do his duty.
Morale is the responsibility of the chain of command. Not the civilian.. Whether they be pro war or anti war.. Chicken hawk or dove..
If you think the trooper gets...
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The Pope was excited to visit Montana. He was cruising on a seldom
used mountain road in the Pope Mobile when there was a frantic
commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless tree-hugger,
wearing sandals, shorts, and a "Bush Lied" T-shirt was screaming while
struggling...
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Sheriff Uses Pink to Deter Prisoners From Coming Back
Sheriff Uses Pink to Deter Prisoners From Coming Back
"Most Texas males have an aversion to wearing pink, so obviously already they don't want to come back," Sheriff...
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_a near-epidemic rise in the use of Ritalin and other stimulants to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Potential recruits are ineligible for military service if they have taken such a drug in the previous year.
Mar 12 2006, 02:03 PM
K6 Ritalin is no longer a military...
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I am a Bakersfield College student I am doing a short Survey to help the Smart Growth Coalition of Kern County figure out what young people would like to do for fun and I need anyone under 30's opinion on what would make Bakersfield or the community you live in...
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“Now I lay me down to sleep.” Many of us were taught the prayer as children and in turn taught it to our children. One couple bought a Sampler with the prayer embroidered, and wanting to surprise their little boy hung it on the wall above his bed. That night as he knelt to say the...
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In the early 70s, nobody thought pop music could become any more vacuous. Then came disco. And it came on strong. Notwithstanding the Beatles, and the British invasion of the 60s, can a phenomenon possibly get any bigger than Saturday Night Fever? Records were selling like they...
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I was poking through some of our site stats today, and I continue to be overwhelmed by the growing traffic we're getting through RSS feeds.
We've offered RSS feeds (also known as web feeds) for many of our news features for awhile but will be spending more time developing these in the coming...
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PUBLISHED 10/29/2006
Propositions 1A through 1E are a series of bond measures placed on the ballot by a two-thirds vote of each house of the Legislature and signed by the governor. We urge a yes vote on each — both because of their worth and their history.
These...
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PUBLISHED 10/29/2006
Voters should sink Proposition 84, a water bond floated by special interests.
Aside from the costs of more than $10 billion in principal and interest, millions of dollars in property tax revenue will be lost as a result of private property purchased for public purposes....
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PUBLISHED 10/29/2006
The following is a partial listing of The Californian’s recommendations regarding candidates and initiatives on today’s ballot. To read the published editorial on these races, go to www.bakersfield.com.
Statewide offices:
U.S. Senate: Dianne...
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Prayer changes things. Where and how? It doesn’t save women and children from the monsters in human guise preying on them, it doesn’t prevent tyrants and despots from rising to power, and it doesn’t give us good people of virtue as leaders in America or anywhere else in the...
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Several of us in the office just had this disucssion.
The correct answer is no.
But some thought it would be "hot" to get flowers from a woman.
I'm okay with getting plants. I have one on my desk from my bride. Some years ago, my son's girlfriend gave me a $1 plant when I...
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"The Donald" got a little heated yesterday in his press conference. I did watch some of it. Here is a writeup about his little temper tantrum regarding the timetables set for Iraq to take over the security of their own country. Did He miss the part where the Pres. said there were...
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Does it make a difference to where you shop that Wal-mart donates 78 percent of its campaign contributions to Republicans while Costco sent 99 percent of its political money to Democrats?
Increasing, shoppers are making those distinctions in where they decide to roll their shopping cart,...
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The spinach and carrot juice debacles have led many to think twice before eating up their greens, veggie fan or not.
The following article helps with those food fears, albeit the headline is a little sensational.
A colleague sent me the link to a story from Ediets.com headlined...
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PUBLISHED 10/30/2006
If you were hiring a chief financial officer for your company, who would you pick?
• Someone who has an extensive financial background, years of on-the-job experience, and additional training and experience as an attorney specializing in tax law.
• Or a...
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PUBLISHED 10/30/2006
The race for the District 2 seat on the state Board of Equalization offers Kern voters an interesting choice this year.
The usually obscure agency administers dozens of fee and tax programs, including sales taxes; hears appeals of income tax cases decided by the...
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Come on Adults! Show us your halloween costume and you can win a $49.99 gift certificate to Whitewater Car Wash & Lube if we at Bakersfield.com choose your costume as our favorite! There will be one winner and the winner will be announced 11/1/2006. Entries will be accepted until...
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Fans apologize for Afro wigs, blackface
Hudson fans also accused of using racial slurs against Shaker Heights team
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:34 p.m. PT Oct 26, 2006
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Bono is, without a doubt, one of the greatest humanitarians of our time. He's one of those rare individuals I like to call a true "rock 'n' role model." But there's a woman I'm sure he holds in high esteem, that started out with much more humble beginnings, and left an immense,...
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It's really hard to believe we're this far into the season. Next week should be great and then we all know how much playoff time is.
Bakersfield (5-3) at Highland (0-8)
Bakersfield, trying to get healthy for the playoffs, should still handle Highland with ease. BHS...
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The incident with the golden empire player and the referee, SICK. The referee had no right grabbing a child in such a manner. If that were my child I would have been in the referees face also. To the parents of this child, you should hire an attorney and sue Golden Empire and the referee. I hear...
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I am the curent President of the Kiwanis Club of Kern (Kern Kiwanis). Wesley Crawford Sr. has incorrectly claimed that he is a member of our club. He makes this claim in the Bakersfield Californian and on his "vote for me" website. Wesley Crawford Sr. is NOT a member of the Kern...
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Women are wearing sexy Halloween costumes this year.
Kathryn Brinkley of Fantasy Frocks in Bakersfield said costumes by Playboy sold out in a week. The store's owner, Jennifer Keller, said Playboy doesn't have enough costumes for the demand.
Some are making Mother Goose sexy -- grown up...
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Wow, I've seen bad perl and java scripting before, but yours just keeps getting worse. Is your site hosted by Yahoo?
[from http://www.bakersfield.com/...
...'yahoo/YAHOO', 'yahoo/dom', 'yahoo/event', 'yahoo/calendar'...
What the hell are you doing? Using Yahoo...
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VoteVets.org has released a new ad today which will run in CA. District 4, home of incumbent John Doolittle. You can watch the ad here. Senator Barack Obama, who sits on the Vet.Affairs Committee, understands the need for increasing the monies for the Dept of Veterans Affairs and has co-sponsored...
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As a product of an all-boys high school, the thought of people willingly signing up for single-sex education — without being ordered by a Catholic mom — strikes me as counter-productive.
Whatever more I would learn in class would be counter-balanced by learning less about the other...
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Did our Vice President actually say that? According to this write up, he did:
"The radio interview Tuesday was the first time that a senior Bush administration official has confirmed that U.S. interrogators used water-boarding against important al-Qaida suspects, including Khalid Sheikh...
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So you send a co-worker an e-mail praising him, and he thinks you're mocking him.
What's with that?
According to a story written by Dana Knight of the Indianapolis Star, your e-mail has a 50 percent of being misinterpreted.
Who knew?
The story's example is a worker sends the...
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PUBLISHED 10-27-06
Californians have a clear choice for lieutenant governor between Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi, a Democrat from Walnut Grove, and Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks.
Garamendi is the better choice.
Although the lieutenant governorship itself is not a powerful...
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PUBLISHED 10-27-06
If Proposition 90 actually did what its out-of-state sponsor promised it would do, it would be worth considering.
But it is so broad, poorly written and confusing that it is dangerous for taxpayers and property owners, alike.
Proposition 90 seeks to limit the reach of...
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