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Crazy Politics
Is the political world completely crazy?
* Nut Butter Inc, a food supplier in New York, was forced to recall a number of their products including peanut butter, cashew butter, and hazelnut butter because the labels do not contain the required warnings the butters contain roasted nuts.
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* Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr were named "Time" magazine's "Men of the Year". "Time" managing editor Walter Isaacson confirmed speculation Hillary Rodham Clinton had indeed been a leading contender for the magazine's honor.
Does anyone else find that a LOT more scary than funny ?
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* Returning to work for a few hours, Boris Yeltsin fired most of his top aides saying he was assuming control of two agencies. The shakeup removed aides who questioned the Russian President's health. Afterward, Yeltsin went back to the government hospital where he's been staying. "You can see how vigorous I am" Yeltsin was quoted as saying by the paramedics in his private ambulance.
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* A $206 billion tobacco deal was signed by state legislators & governors. They are preparing for a debate all politicians love -- how to handle the money; tax cuts, health programs or budget balancing. If the Clinton administration has its way, the federal government plans to use its muscle to force states to spend the tobacco money.
I mean the very idea that any state would want to do anything with a windfall other than spend it sent chills thru the Capitol.
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* After a 9 month study of the 1994 genocidal bloodbath in Rwanda French lawmakers declared the UN, the US & the rest of the world were to blame. The study concluded "France was not implicated at all in the unleashing of the violence." It blamed the US for not taking aggressive military action at the onset.
The following week, French Defense Minister Richard deplored the wave of US attacks on Iraq saying that aggressive military action will result in "grave human consequences on the Iraqi population."
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* Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr were named "Time" magazine's "Men of the Year". "Time" managing editor Walter Isaacson confirmed speculation Hillary Rodham Clinton had indeed been a leading contender for the magazine's honor.
Does anyone else find that a LOT more scary than funny ?
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* Returning to work for a few hours, Boris Yeltsin fired most of his top aides saying he was assuming control of two agencies. The shakeup removed aides who questioned the Russian President's health. Afterward, Yeltsin went back to the government hospital where he's been staying. "You can see how vigorous I am" Yeltsin was quoted as saying by the paramedics in his private ambulance.
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* A $206 billion tobacco deal was signed by state legislators & governors. They are preparing for a debate all politicians love -- how to handle the money; tax cuts, health programs or budget balancing. If the Clinton administration has its way, the federal government plans to use its muscle to force states to spend the tobacco money.
I mean the very idea that any state would want to do anything with a windfall other than spend it sent chills thru the Capitol.
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* After a 9 month study of the 1994 genocidal bloodbath in Rwanda French lawmakers declared the UN, the US & the rest of the world were to blame. The study concluded "France was not implicated at all in the unleashing of the violence." It blamed the US for not taking aggressive military action at the onset.
The following week, French Defense Minister Richard deplored the wave of US attacks on Iraq saying that aggressive military action will result in "grave human consequences on the Iraqi population."
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