The Market Ticker - AI Credit Insanity, Part 465
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Softbank is reportedly trying to float an $11 billion junk rated bond issue to pour into OpenAI.
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05 June 2007
cenlaugh: alexandria city government playing word games again?
cenlaugh snip:
The Council meeting was drama free. But I have a question and I think I may have already answered it for myself. What exactly would this “Louisiana Legislative Caucus” be? Would this be the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus ? After searching google here I cannot find a Louisiana Legislative Caucus anywhere. Did they just omit the word black or does it go by Louisiana Legislative Caucus?click link to read more
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From the City Council Agenda
25) To consider final adoption of an ordinance authorizing the City to co-sponsor along with GAEDA Board and the England Authority the 30th anniversary celebration of the Louisiana Legislative Caucus and local delegates.
After researching a bit I still have not found a Louisiana Legislative Caucus but only the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus....
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nutty mary matalin's scooter libby love letter
the smoking gun has posted copies of the letters various republicans wrote to judge reggie b. walton to consider when the judge was deciding the appropriate sentence for lewis "scooter" libby. one letter that caught our eye is from republican party apparatchik mary matalin who must have been off her meds or on some really good ones, the day she composed this ditty.
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====hmmm okay.
it seems like ms. matalin has totally forgotten about (or choose to gloss over) mr. libby's homoerotic/bestiality/incest book called "the apprentice."
one reviewer "chris" over on amazon.com had this to say:
By chris (USA)is scooter libby really the kind of person that you want influencing your kids?
I couldn't even get through this whole book, it was just... so... bad...Really it was just Lewis Libby writing his own masturbation material, no joke. I stopped reading when he talked, among other things, about bears having sex with ten year old girls. Beyond being constantly creepy, it's just really poorly written and completely pointless. Don't waste your time, money, etc.
do you understand yet the sorts of imbeciles, hypocrites, liars, freaks and creeps that make up the republican party leadership?
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j ogden middleton disciplinary hearing continued
sam eakin writes:
Sam Eakin has asked me to send you notification that the disciplinary hearing regarding J. Ogden Middleton which was scheduled for June 6, 2007 has been continued. A new date has not been set as of yet, but it is anticipated to be sometime in October/November 2007.
Sam will send you an update in the near future and would like to thank all of you for your support.
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04 June 2007
hcr 20 rep shirley bowler repealing the real id act of 2005
Opposition to National ID Continues to Grow
Five states, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Arkansas and Maine, have enacted legislation informing the federal government that their states will not comply with the Real ID Act, a law passed by Congress in 2005 which will essentially transform driver’s licenses into a national ID Card.
The Act requires each state to change their driver’s license system to meet national standards and ensure that their databases are linked with other states and is set to take effect by May, 2008.
Under the Act, states and federal government would share access to a vast national database that could include images of birth certificates, marriage licenses, divorce papers, curt ordered separations, medical records, and detailed information on the name, date of birth, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, and Social Security Number for more than 240 million with no requirements or controls on how this database might be used. Many Americans may not have the documents required to obtain a REAL ID, or they may face added requirements based on arbitrary and capricious decisions made by DMV employees.
States are in revolt primarily because they simply cannot afford to comply. Estimated costs for full implementation are as high as $14.6 billion (or $292 million per state. Moreover, individuals will have to cover an additional $7.8 billion in additional fees, raising the price tag for the Real ID Act to $23 billion. In many cases the technology necessary for compliance actually does not exist. Moreover, in March, 2007, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released 162 pages of proposed regulations which States are supposed to implement as part of the Real ID Act.
Under the DHS dictates, the Real I D Act is nothing more than a federal take over of state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMVs). Everything for the color of the card backgrounds to the fonts used must conform to federal standards. States will have to completely overhaul their systems to comply.
The DHS requires states to set up information databases that are shared by all states, to allow information verification for driver’s licenses, passports and foreign documents, yet the technology to do that doesn’t yet exist. There isn’t even a national database system yet in place to verify birth certificates.
The DHS regulations do nothing to protect individual privacy in its proposed data bases. It conveniently says it "would be outside its authority to address this issue (privacy)." It simply leaves the issue for states to work out.
The DHS regulations require that every citizen applying for a driver’s license must present two verifiable documents to prove identity. That requirement alone will create massive lines and backups in DMVs across the nation as every single American will have to provide such information. Worse, the same documentation will be required for RENEWAL as well. Some estimate the time required to get a new driver’s license will be at least four months. Proof of address must be shown with not just one document, but two. Birth certificates must be verified with state vital records offices, even though, as stated, there is no database from which to access such information.
And the new system will do absolutely nothing to stop terrorists or illegals from acquiring driver’s licenses, nor will it protect us from identity theft. Because the DHS acknowledges that it needs an exemption allowing individuals to bypass many of the states’ verification and document requirements, identity thieves and terrorists will have huge loopholes to exploit to obtain Real IDs.
These are the reasons why the five states mentioned above have passed legislation refusing to comply. They simply can’t.
In addition to those five states, thirteen more states have passed legislation in one chamber of their legislatures to refuse compliance, including; Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Nine states have introduced legislation that is still waiting action including; Oregon, Texas, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Massachusetts.
The federal government overstepped its Constitutional bounds when it tried to force the creation of a National ID on Americas. Now the states are what they should always when faced with that situation – they are saying no. Hopefully that will become a habit.
http://www.americanpolicy.org/more/opposition.htm
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h.r. 418 united states house of representatives
final vote results for roll call 31
aye - piyush "bobby" jindal
aye - rodney alexander
aye - charles boustany
aye - charles melancon
aye - jim mccrery
aye - richard baker
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nay - william jefferson
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united states senate voted 100 - 0
vote number 117 10 may 2005
aye - katrina mary landrieu
aye - doofy david vitter
william jefferson was the only one of louisiana's congressional delegation who voted against springing a national identification card on the people.====
h.r. 418 united states house of representatives
final vote results for roll call 31
aye - piyush "bobby" jindal
aye - rodney alexander
aye - charles boustany
aye - charles melancon
aye - jim mccrery
aye - richard baker
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nay - william jefferson
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united states senate voted 100 - 0
vote number 117 10 may 2005
aye - katrina mary landrieu
aye - doofy david vitter
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kudos to representative shirley bowler for introducing a resolution calling on congress to rescind this garbage. please contact your state senator and representative and ask them to vote for hcr20 which is currently pending senate floor action.====
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wm jefferson indictment .pdf
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**updated** the politico: jefferson 'indictmented'
Boehner to call for ethics review of Jefferson
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will ask the ethics committee to review the federal indictment filed Monday against Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) in order to seek his expulsion from Congress.
Boehner will offer a priviledged resolution on the House floor as early as Tuesday calling for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to review the 94-page investigation filed against Jefferson Monday, according to the Republican leader's office.
The Justice Department indictmented the Louisiana Democrat Monday on federal charges of racketeering, soliciting bribes and money laundering.
Boehner's resolution is intended to "jump start" a previous investigation into Jefferson's alleged misdeeds that expired last year.
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the most telling part of the indictment is found near the beginning on page three. they make reference to and even go so far as to print the oath of office. notice that nowhere at this page nor anywhere else in the indictment did they state that the oath of office is federal law. see 5 usc section 3331 the reason they didnt reference the specific statute, mention it or charge congressman jefferson with violating it is because it would make we the people think. it would also make the people wonder why all the rest of the congress, including the president and vice president, etc. isnt charged under 5 usc sec. 3331 when they violate the oath of office by including but not limited to voting for or introducing legislation that is unconstitutional or doing anything that weakens or is against the constitution.
paragraph eight is a lie when they say that congressman jefferson "owed"
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the most telling part of the indictment is found near the beginning on page three. they make reference to and even go so far as to print the oath of office. notice that nowhere at this page nor anywhere else in the indictment did they state that the oath of office is federal law. see 5 usc section 3331 the reason they didnt reference the specific statute, mention it or charge congressman jefferson with violating it is because it would make we the people think. it would also make the people wonder why all the rest of the congress, including the president and vice president, etc. isnt charged under 5 usc sec. 3331 when they violate the oath of office by including but not limited to voting for or introducing legislation that is unconstitutional or doing anything that weakens or is against the constitution.paragraph eight is a lie when they say that congressman jefferson "owed"
the citizens of the united states and the united states house of representatives a duty to perform the responsibilities of his office free from deceit, fraud, concealment, bias, conflict of interest, self-enrichment and self-dealing.while its true that american citizens elected congressman jefferson to office, his oath of office is to the constitution and nothing else. so dont be a sucker -- this indictment starts off with deliberate lies, how true can the rest of it be?
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02 June 2007
h.r.743 permanent internet tax freedom act of 2007
h.r.743 is a bill by california congresswoman anna g. eshoo that will "make the moratorium on internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent." this is certainly a worthy bill to support and the record shows that it has seventy-three co-sponsors.
alarmingly however, perusing the co-sponsor list here the names that are not on this list are troublesome yet telling. for instance, we dont see piyush "bobby" jindal's name on this list, nor ratney salamander errr turn-coat rodney alexander, we dont see jim mccrery there either. richard hugh baker's name is noticeably absent. louisiana's coonass caucus charles boustany (actually rep. boustany is part lebanese so he just might be a terrist or a cross-dresser like klinger) and charlie melancon is nowhere to be found. why?
william jefferson's name is there as a cosponsor though...so is ron paul.
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cnet news.com
net taxes could arrive by this fall
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google buys feedburner
via rense.com
www.feedburner.comwe've been using feed burner for about six months or so and its a really well designed program. thanks to feedburner's excellent management of our site feed we have been linked from some really strange places like cnn.com for example. we like feedburners site statistics the best. they seem to be really accurate moreso than even stat counter which provides pretty good stats itself. the downside of feedburner's site stats is that there is no way to set them to public view like stat counter. maybe google will eventually change that.
so now feedburner has been bought out by google for a reported $100 million [74.4eur] dollars. not a bad payday.
forbes snip:
so now feedburner has been bought out by google for a reported $100 million [74.4eur] dollars. not a bad payday.
forbes snip:
Google Inc. on Friday announced its acquisition of FeedBurner Inc., a service focused on making money from the steady stream of information flowing from blogs, podcasts and traditional news sites.click link to read more
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Google shares gained $2.49 to close at $500.40 Friday.
With just 30 employees, privately held FeedBurner had been subsisting on $10 million in venture capital raised since its inception four years ago. Google will allow FeedBurner to remain based in its current Chicago headquarters, but hasn't made a decision on whether the brand will be retained.
Although FeedBurner is a small company, the buzz about its service has been steadily building as it helped distribute ads through the rapidly expanding universe of bloggers, podcasters and other sites that send out headlines and links through Really Simple Syndication, or RSS.
More than 431,000 Web publishers currently belong to FeedBurner's network and the company says it delivers about 67 million feeds to its subscribers each day.
screen grab of feedburner stats
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its true-gle!
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google has acquired feedburner
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01 June 2007
john kennedy: truth teller
governor blanco needs to sit down and shut the hell up and ride out the few remaining months of her soiled governorship in her comfy mansion.
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State Treasurer John Kennedy rejected a request from Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Friday asking him to "cease and desist" his opposition to her plan to sell what remains of Louisiana's 1998 financial settlement with cigarette companies.click the link to read the story
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Kennedy rejected that plea, saying he'll continue lobbying lawmakers because he considers it part of his job to advise them of the details of the proposal and where he sees flaws in it. Kennedy said Blanco's plan — set forth in a House resolution — is too vague and spells out none of the financial details.
"I can't cease and desist from doing my job, and I can't cease and desist from telling the truth. And the truth is, this is a sucker play for Louisiana," Kennedy said.
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word to brad drell
we noticed that local attorney and blogger, brad drell arrived on our blog today from googling "wylie cavin" for what reason we dont have a clue but you can bet its not good. anyway, as a result of mr. drell's good googling ability and because mr. cavin is listed there, mr. drell dropped in at our post "piyush "bobby" jindal campaign contributors."
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====so whats all this got to do with anything? well if you look over there in the comments sidebar (at the time of this writing and if its not there now, its in the comment thread of this post) theres a comment by "jindal supporter" this comment was left by brad drell, esq. using a gold firm computer.
now this is what a genius mr. drell is ~ he leaves a snide comment then places the hyperlink to his website in it LOL and uses a fake email address although its really a telling freudian slip on mr. drell's part cos if anyone knows about sin -- its him. oh now, we noticed that mr. drell likes to write on his blog a load of horseshit about how religious his daddy-o the federal judge is and how they had a big prayer service at his installation and the holy ghost was there and all that. lol that wasnt the holy ghost that was the devil. you didnt actually think that the holy ghost is going to be in a federal courthouse in this day and age did ya? like we said this is all just a load of horse shit and a marketing ploy. larry wayne prestridge is one of the biggest crooks around and his cover is being a deacon of the philadelphia baptist church.
====bradley drell's daddy-o and george dubya bush appointee (which that in itself should tell you everything you need to know) the federal judge dee drell also came from the gold weems law firm. this means that over twenty-five years this cadre of lawyers knows about everyone thats under federal investigation and they can kill these investigations (provided of course the target are their clients) just by refusing to sign search warrants or arrest warrants or by the easiest and preferred method: tipping off whomever is under investigation.
if one of their clients business competitors is getting a little too uppity, they can club them down by calling in the irs, osha, fbi, epa, eeoc or any other practically endless puddle of alphabet soup agencies; at their disposal, within the federal government.
the whole lot of them ought to be locked up. the last thing honest citizens need is for this crew to be elevated to federal judges or lauded as some kind of prestigious top drawer lawyers and law firm(s) their not!
anyhooo, if you want to find out who "they" think "we" are, then the next time you see brad drell, charlie weems, j ogden middleton ii, f.a. little, jr., aaron siebeneicher, larry wayne prestridge, jack hodnett or nola mcfalls then ask them. first though qualify your question by inquiring how they can sleep at night, these past thirteen or so years, knowing that they swindled and help to swindle an old man out of his life's savings and are continuing the swindle against his widow.
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piyush "bobby" jindal wst links page
PIYUSH "BOBBY" JINDAL WST... LINKS
the piyush metamophosis john maginnis: media whoring for piyush
walter boasso commercial hcr20 rep bowler repealing the real id act hr743 permanent internet tax freedom act word to brad drell
jindal is good & bad interview video: indian kids playing with cobras
louisiana's nutty professor jeff sadow plays the piyush race card republican mouthpiece moon griffon plays the piyush race card he is piyush not bobby another day another piyush "bobby" jindal msm lie kooky cooksey whoring for piyush fast talking bullshit artist piyush "bobby" jindal exposed by barney frank more on rhodes scholar communists senator vitter endorses rudy giuliani piyush "bobby" jindal's campaign contributors is the ouachita citizen a racist agenda driven rag? media whoring for piyush more quinn family nonsense dead pelican dirty tricks fast talking bullshit artist to run for governor shame on louisiana jindal the weasel's worm has turned can moon griffon be trusted? h.r.4844 nazification of amerika la congressional delegation favors extending iraqnam house usa patriot act vote piyush "bobby" jindal.mp3 piyush "bobby" jindal busted goofing in church piyush "bobby" jindal subliminal propaganda piece the piyush rats nest
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/06/more-piyush-george-bush-rubber-stampery.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/07/piyush-scrubs-david-vitter-from-his.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/07/piyush-rat-deserts-sinking-vitter-ship.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/07/piyush-inveils-his-ethics-plan.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/forgotston-piyush-does-tap-dance-on.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/daily-kingfish-exposes-piyushs-campaign.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/piyushs-base-said-at-38.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/kalb-media-lies-piyush-bobby-jindal.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/piyush-mr-ethics-bobby-jindal-steals.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/did-kalb-unethically-tout-video-news.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/ull-demands-that-piyush-mr-ethics-bobby.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/ksla-gives-us-yet-another-reason-to.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/jindalonreligioncom_21.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/piyush-scam-calls-in-lawyers-to-stifle.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/piyush-bobby-jindal-scam-on-hannity.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/08/piyush-bobby-jindal-scam-wants-to.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/09/piyush-anti-christ.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/09/baton-rouge-morning-advocate-piyush.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/09/piyush-mr-ethics-bobby-jindal-caught.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/09/shame-shame-shame-on-piyush.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/09/louisiana-media-getting-hip-to-piyush.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/09/video-louisiana-governor-debate.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/hats-off-to-bayou-buzz-and-stephen.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/town-talk-sells-out-its-readers.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/snake-charmed-central-la-politics-blog.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/charlie-dewitt-has-chemo-moment.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/37-reasons-to-reject-piyush-bobby.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/saturday-20-october-2007-ballot.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/snake-charmed-louisianians-elect-piyush.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/governor-piyush-scams-first-assignment.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-jindal-watch-website-blog-launches.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/gov-elect-piyush-scam-already-stabbing.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/town-talk-editorial-goofs-still-pushing.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/little-piyush-payback.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/pro-piyushers-squeal-like-bobby-trippe.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-debunking-piyush-mandate-hoax.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/10/gov-elect-piyush-scam-appoints-more-lra.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/11/jim-beam-freaking-over-piyush-scams.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/11/jim-mccrery-is-pro-homosexual.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/11/real-id-real-nightmare.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/11/local-rats-get-some-piyush-payback.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-piyush-freshness.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/ball-mayor-roy-hebron-named-to-piyush.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/arrogant-rino-tom-schedler-tapped-as.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/forgotstons-getting-hip-to-piyush-scam.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/did-wizard-conjure-up-appointment-in.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/piyush-see-piyush-do.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-piyush-freshness-scammery-robert.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/master-piyush-sez-wizardcan-only-be-his.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2007/12/hr1955-violent-radicalization-and.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/01/its-official-louisianaians-inaugurate.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/01/piyush-scammed-cb-forgotston-on-jindal.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/01/first-casualty-in-piyush-scams-war-on.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-house-bills-finally-filed-for.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/02/piyush-bobby-jindals-address-to-joint.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/02/timmy-teepel-got-free-tickets-to-hannah.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/02/john-alario-jeff-arnold-jim-tucker.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-hb41-redux.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/02/neil-kavanagh-is-mental-patient-midget.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/03/cb-forgotston-keeping-pressure-on.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/03/cleco-ceo-mike-madison-is-hypocrit.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/03/c-b-forgotston-schools-state-rep-hunter.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/03/piyush-scammed-higher-property-tax.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-piyush-scammery-gary-chouest.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/03/commenter-piyush-bobbyjindals-tax.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/03/video-gov-piyush-bobby-jindal-opens.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-local-rat-gets-some-piyush.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-facebook-group-indians-against.html
http://wesawthat.blogspot.com/2008/04/louisiana-1st-and-6th-congressional.html
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hb1 state appropriations bill house final passage vote
house bill 1 with its orgy of wasteful and unaccounted for state spending, passed the state house yesterday. all central louisiana representatives voted for this obscenity.
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