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George W. Bush is listed, through 1999, as a donor to the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, having raised money for their annual ball. The event is held in a former slave hall, where slaves were forced to build war material for the Confederate army.

(Source: The Book on Bush, Eric Alterman and Mark Green, Viking, 2004)

as much as it sounds like horse shit, i have to admitt, BioRhythms are usually pretty on target for me. i'm in an incredible funk, and hark, my rhythm doth concur...

"I Doth"

went to a party up in plymouth tonight... hope the SGNH meet-up was more eventful. if not... s'pose you could try this...

www.thehun.net

goign to the chrsta mcauliffe <sp?> planet-arium tomorrow... because i haven't been since i was about eight... hopefully that will be slightly more interesting as well...

oh, and adamandeve.com is having some sort of sale... picked up 75 assorted condoms for 9.95$ and if you buy two packs of those, you qualify for a free DVD and if you've never ordered with them before (or i guess even if you have and you lie) you get a free VHS... i made out like a bandit... and you can too!

yukyuk

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There is no evidence to support the claim that Daddy long-legs spiders have the most deadly venom of any spider, despite having fangs too small to puncture human skin. In Fact, what we NHers commonly know as a Harverster or Daddy Long-legs is not a spider at all - an arachnid, but not a spider. They have only two eyes, and only one body section,...
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from mcsweeny's again, this one is intersting... in abible thumping sort of way...

In 2002, President Bush appointed Dr. W. David Hager to a Food and Drug Administration panel on women's health; this June, Bush renewed the appointment. Hager is the author of As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now and (with his wife, Linda) Stress and the Woman's Body, which recommends...
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Last week, the Bush administration issued a report acknowledging that carbon dioxide emissions were the only likely explanation for global warming. Dr. James R. Mahoney, the director of the Bush administration's climate-change-science program, delivered the report to Congress; he said that it reflected "the best possible scientific information" on climate change. But this report, according to the administration, does not indicate a shift in...
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In the summer of 2003, the Bush administration passed a bill that added a $400-per-child tax credit to middle- and upper-income families. However, in a last-minute change to the bill, the tax break was denied to families who earn just above minimum wage.

Over 6.5 million families, and 12 million children in households earning less than $26,625 a year, did not benefit from the administration's...
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http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/bush/

DAY 103:

On October 12, 2001, the FBI requested $1.5 billion to fund its counterterrorism efforts. The Bush White House cut that request by two-thirds, to $531 million. Attorney General John Ashcroft cut the FBI's request for items including computer-networking and foreign-language intercepts by half, a cyber-security request by three-quarters, and eliminated altogether a request for "collaborative capabilities."

Before September 11, the FBI requested...
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