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How come no coverage on SS's Annie Oakley look-alike stunt turning purchasing a rifle for her 13 year old into a photo op? 

"That's how I'm gonna handle problems of state...arm the children!"
 

I have a dear friend of mixed ethnic heritage-- white, black, and American Indian. Notice, I said "ethnic" and not racial, as I sincerely believe there is only one race (human). She was raised Catholic, in a solid working class neighborhood, is married to a wonderful man, has  grown sons and a number of grandchildren. 

Yet, I observed as her co-worker, everyone else ignored her mixed background, and pegged her as "black" and expected her to fit their cultural stereotype of the "black American" which she most assuredly does not.

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Anyone else notice that Shrove Tuesday (aka Fat Tuesday) is February 5th which is also primary mania Super Tuesday? 

 How are we going to have Mardi Gras and elections on the same day? The bar and tavern owners must be spinning about over this.
 

Amongst the items prefiled for the 2008 legislative session is SB 716 by  Sen. John Loudon (R) 7th District with a rerun of a bill from last year:

 
SB 716 - This act provides that the official dating standard used by the state of Missouri shall be A.D., or Anno Domini, and B.C., or Before Christ. Neither the state, nor any political subdivision, shall use any other designation.

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Anyone know anything about the Legislature failing to pass a capital improvements section to the 2007-2008 budget? 

A fairly substantial rumor holds this to be true.  

Fourteen months ago, the citizenry was up in arms over the destruction of Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park by the failure of the Upper Taum Sauk reservoir. On the 5th of February, Ameren made official what some have suspected for some time--they intend to rebuild the reservoir.Ameren news release
Instead of focusing attention on the engineering of this project, the media is spilling all their ink on the Jefferson City sideshow of Blunt-Nixon et al and changes of venue for the lawsuit (lawsuits?) and what the state wants from Ameren, and what they are likely to get--while little to no progress is being made at remediating the park, informing the public about the specifics of the rebuild proposal. Local Reynolds county sources are doing a better job of reporting what is happening on the ground than the big city dailies.
Black River News
How do we refocus the major media on the important part of this story, and off of the fellows in clown suits? After all, even if the campground is moved, people are still going to (hopefully someday) be picnicking and swimming in that East Fork valley again.

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A rose by any other name??

Willard Romney?  I went looking to find out what sort of a person would name their kid, or prefer for themselves, Mitt. The only Mitt I know is a catcher's mitt. And that's when I found out his name really was Willard.

So we have Matt and Mitt. Is there a Mutt out there, too? Nah. Only Willard.

TeresaJ