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2008 in a nut shell! Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter By NRA News, 12/31/2008 9:09:31 AM Here are some of the top stories we brought you in the NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert in 2008. With what will no doubt be a very busy 2009, we must redouble our efforts to ensure we are prepared to meet the opportunities and challenges we will face next year. We will continue to provide you with information in future Alerts to ensure our mutual success. JANUARY: The District of Columbia files its br
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Yesterday, I talked about where the bailout money might have gone. Bloomberg had some more thoughts on that topic in “Paulson Steals Show From The Grinch:”‘Tis the season to be jolly, but I’m rarely jolly under the best of circumstances. Just ask my family.This year, I don’t see there’s a lot to be jolly about. At first, I thought President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren, the most open-minded of evangelicals, to give the inaugural invocation was OK, even
Dec
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2009 will be a year of major uncertainty. The doom and gloom of the economic downturn, the deterioration of mass markets, the pervasiveness of the digital lifestyle, a host of explosive political conflicts, and the fragmentation of traditional societal institutions are causing anxiety and propel a new search for simplicity and non-economic value systems. Consumption-driven wealth and status are being replaced by identity, belonging, and a strong desire to contribute and do something "meaningfu
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Remember these quotes? Take a stroll down Memory Lane: "Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting four dollar a gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." - George Dubya Bush, at a press conference (February 28th, 2008) "Now, you want me to tell you my opinion on autism, since I'm not talking about autism? A fraud, a racket. ... You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out.
Dec
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President-Elect Barack Obama made only one visit to Memphis in 2008 -- a quick stop en route to the presidential debate at the University of Mississippi. He did not deliver a single campaign speech in the nation's 18th-largest city during his presidential run. Despite this conspicuous absence, Obama's footprints cover Memphis.
Dec
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President-Elect Barack Obama made only one visit to Memphis in 2008 -- a quick stop en route to the presidential debate at the University of Mississippi. He did not deliver a single campaign speech in the nation's 18th-largest city during his presidential run. Despite this conspicuous absence, Obama's footprints cover Memphis.
Dec
31
President-Elect Barack Obama made only one visit to Memphis in 2008 -- a quick stop en route to the presidential debate at the University of Mississippi. He did not deliver a single campaign speech in the nation's 18th-largest city during his presidential run. Despite this conspicuous absence, Obama's footprints cover Memphis.
Dec
31
A lot to change If I was the mayor of Toledo, a lot would be changed. I would fix all of these messed-up streets. We also need to put more shopping stores Downtown and parking spaces for the shopping centers. I think we need more places for kids to go so they would stay out of trouble. We also need to have more jobs for the young kids that would also keep them out of trouble. I also would make people with abandoned houses fix them up or sell them. We have too many abandoned buildings that mak
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