from the SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW: A great opportunity to integrate the construction unions by Harry C. Alford, NNPA columnist Harry Alford One of the most curious situations going on in the political arena is the strong support construction unions get from Black elected officials and traditional civil rights organizations. This blind and unconditional love affair going on even though construction unions are the most racist organizations in the nation defies all common sense. It is more than 4

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Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech (9-4) vs. Cincinnati (11-2) The final bowl game on New Year’s Day is the only one to pit conference champions as ACC king Virginia Tech, a BCS bowl regular, faces… [Read the full story] Casino Robin Hood 702: Giving gambling a good name A modern-day “Robin Hood” is taking on Las Vegas’ mega-casinos to help those affected by the rocky U.S. economy. Calling himself… [Read the full story] World Politics Rod Blagojevich says ‘f*ck you’, appoints Ro

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Orange Bowl: Virginia Tech (9-4) vs. Cincinnati (11-2)

(Activerain Blog of the week) What are your “New Year” resolutions or business plans for 2009? (Activerain Blog of the week) What are your “New Year” resolutions or business plans for 2009? There are going to be many blogs being posted to “The Rain” about “New Year” resolutions and that’s why my post is already out there. I want everyone to really think before you comment, and try to only write down (1 to 3) resolutions that you really think you can achieve. 2008 will be over in the ne

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In other words, if you are playing this weekend, your team likely doesn’t deserve a bowl and all of 10 people are watching. The last time I saw so many shitty bowls, I was watching 2 Girls 1 Cup. Oh well, 34 bowl games and 68 teams later the college football season will be over. Enjoy the ones you can.From BCO pixBorat certainly enjoys the shitty bowls and the morally liberal college coeds that go with them, BCO would guess the Souf Florida vs Memphis game would have the most of the latter.Get

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The Week Before Christmas Bowls

Las Vegas, NV 12/6/08  One of the most interesting post-replies I have received on the problems with the Dodge 6.7 Cummins 2500/3500 Ram since the creation of the new engine with the EPA modifications of the DPF and EGR was recently sent in by reader: David.  With credit to his email, I share it with you today. Take heart, you are not alone in your frustration, anger and hostility toward Chrysler/Dodge over the nightmare of the Dodge Ram 2500 and 3500 DPF problems. Everything from lousy fuel eco

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Ed. Note: AAA-Fund congratulates Republican Stephen Austria on becoming the first Asian American member of Congress to be elected from Ohio. JOSEPH G. LARIOSA, GMANews.TV Fil-Am elected to US Congress; 8 others lose CHICAGO, Illinois – Ohio state senior Sen. Stephen C. Austria was elected to the US Congress in last Tuesday’s election, becoming only two of the Filipino-Americans to win in the elections across the United States. The only other member of the US Congress to claim Filipino pare

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By Laura Melcher, REALTOR.org Staff Friday’s Member Services Information Forum (“Your World – One Click Away”) at the 2008 REALTORS® Conference and Expo was chock-full of information to help REALTOR® members understand and use social media. The session began with a Second Life presentation featuring a virtual Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist, providing an update on market conditions. According to Yun, we are “near the bottom” of the market, and the stabilization of the economy overall is

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“The weed of crime bears bitter fruit”-The ShadowOrganized crime, they say, is recession-proof. Gambling, prostitution, drugs, smuggling, buying black market goods all will do well regardless of the economy - and in some cases do better. Yet traditional organized crime endeavors are actually seeing hard times recently.Prostitution, for example, struggled a great deal during the gas crunch over summer. Thanks to President Bush’s leadership and congress finally getting a clue, drilling is permi

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In the end, Barack Obama didn’t need the 19 electoral votes represented by Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, three states won by George W. Bush in 2004, to make it to the White House. But he won all three, two with double-digit margins. Early analysis of the blue shift in western states credits a range of factors including high support among first time voters, the energy of volunteers as part of the Obama political machine, Latino voters, and changing priorities in the suburbs. The blue tide

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Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Fox News reporting yesterday on the intellectual unpreparedness of Sarah Palin. Among other things, she thought that Africa was a country rather than a continent. THE REPUBLICAN RIGHT IN CRISIS. When you lose one big national election, and pretend it was a fluke, that’s a problem. When you lose two big national elections in a row, and pretend there’s nothing wrong with your analysis and ideas, there’s another name for that. The Republican right is in c

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