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| Polls: Obama hits 50%; but luck may smile this week for McCain | | Latest Poll of polls:Obama: 50%
McCain: 42%
Barr: 5%
Nader: 2%
McKinney: 0% (less than 0.5%)
(1% spread through approximation)1 to 1 polls
Obama: 52%
McCain: 42%Latest states polls States for McCain (% for McCain:% for Obama| (+/-)%Margin of error)Alaska ( 55: 34| 4)
Montana ( 50: 46| 4)
Idaho ( 69: 26| 4)
Wyoming ( 66: 28| 4)
Utah ( 65: 29| 4)
Arizona ( 45: 38| 3)
North Dakota ( 52: 43| 4)
South Dakota ( 55: 39| 4)
Nebraska ( 60: 34| 4)
Kansas ( 66: 31| 4)
Oklahoma ( 61: 34| 4)
Texas ( 57: 38| 4)
Missouri ( 49: 46| 4)
Arkansas ( 53: 41| 4)
Louisiana ( 50: 43| 4)
Indiana ( 50: 46| 4)
Kentucky ( 53: 41| 3.5)
Tennessee ( 55: 39| 4)
Mississippi ( 55: 39| 4)
Alabama ( 58: 36| 4)
Georgia ( 57: 39| 4)
South Carolina ( 59: 37| 4)Total electoral votes: 180Risky states: Indiana, MontanaStates being visited: Virigia, Indiana, North CarolinaState for Obama (% for Obama:% for McCain| (+/-)% magin of error)Hawaii ( 63: 32| 4)
Washington ( 50: 44| 4)
Oregon ( 52: 41| 4)
California ( 53: 39| 4)
Nevada ( 47: 45| 4)
Colorado ( 44: 44| 4)
New... | |
| | Houseflies can transmit bird flu | | Reports have shown that in an average farm, houseflies constantly shuttle between dirty areas with pathogens and clean areas such as feed storage and animal housing.Due to this nature of movement,houseflies have over the years been implicated in the transmission of over 30 different types of diseases caused by bacteria,protozoan,and viral parasites.And the deadly Avian flu has not being an exemption.A recent research at the north carolina state university has revealed that common houseflies can indeed transmit the A1 virus within a farm.ntanaStates being visited: Virigia, Indiana, North CarolinaState for Obama (% for Obama:% for McCain| (+/-)% magin of error)Hawaii ( 63: 32| 4)
Washington ( 50: 44| 4)
Oregon ( 52: 41| 4)
California ( 53: 39| 4)
Nevada ( 47: 45| 4)
Colorado ( 44: 44| 4)
New Mexico ( 45: 40| 4)
Minnesota ( 47: 46| 4)
Iowa ( 55: 39| 4)
Wisconsin ( 51: 45| 3.5)
Illinois ( 56: 36| 3.5)
Michigan ( 51: 38| 4)
Ohio ( 49: 46| 3.5)
Florida ( 49: 44| 4)
North Carolina ( 49: 49| 4)
Virginia ( 51: 47| 4)
West Virgina ( 50: 42| 4)
Maryland ( 54: 39| 4)
Delaware... | |
| | Rights of a man with a known diagonosed heart condition previously had a stroke | | who has been arrested, is in prison, is suddenly denied his heart medication and then dies of a heart attack is there a way to file criminal charges against the North carolina state Corrections, the Warden of that prison, and the medical staff and guard staff responsible?ntanaStates being visited: Virigia, Indiana, North CarolinaState for Obama (% for Obama:% for McCain| (+/-)% magin of error)Hawaii ( 63: 32| 4)
Washington ( 50: 44| 4)
Oregon ( 52: 41| 4)
California ( 53: 39| 4)
Nevada ( 47: 45| 4)
Colorado ( 44: 44| 4)
New Mexico ( 45: 40| 4)
Minnesota ( 47: 46| 4)
Iowa ( 55: 39| 4)
Wisconsin ( 51: 45| 3.5)
Illinois ( 56: 36| 3.5)
Michigan ( 51: 38| 4)
Ohio ( 49: 46| 3.5)
Florida ( 49: 44| 4)
North Carolina ( 49: 49| 4)
Virginia ( 51: 47| 4)
West Virgina ( 50: 42| 4)
Maryland ( 54: 39| 4)
Delaware ( 56: 38| 4)
Pennsylvania ( 51: 38| 4)
New Jersey ( 50: 37| 3.5)
New York ( 58: 36| 4)
Connecticut ( 47: 30| 4.5)
Rhode Island ( 45: 41| 3.5)
Massachusetts ( 55: 39| 4)
Vermont ( 55: 38| 4)
New Hampshire ( 52: 43| 4)
Maine ( 51: 42|... | |
| | Very Funny Sports Quotes | | Hilarious Sports Quotes!New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season: "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the Skins say: "I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said, "To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."Football commentator, and former player Joe Theismann: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." (1996)Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up alphabetically by height." and "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements: "I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school."Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for... | |
| | Bush administration calling for boost in Pell grants | | RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- President Bush's 2008 budget will include a proposal for the biggest hike in Pell grants for low-income college students in three decades.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Thursday that the budget will contain a proposed increase of $550, to a maximum award of $4,600. That would exceed the $260 increase passed Wednesday by the House.
Democrats have introduced a proposal in the Senate, currently before committee, that calls for an immediate increase to $5,100.
All told, low-income students seem likely to get their first increase in maximum Pell awards in five years. But education advocates warned that they're unsure how the increase would be funded, and caution it could come at the expense of other financial aid programs."If this represents an actual increase in total need-based student aid, it will be great news," said Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, an umbrella group of colleges and universities. But if supplemental grant programs are cut, "it's quite possible ... individual students could be less well off."Spellings, after announcing the proposal at an education conference at North Carolina... | |
| | State Lotteries | | I'm not sure what most state lotteries are like, but the payout of the North Carolina state lottery is 50%. I think this is a bit ridiculous for a number of reasons, but I'd like to focus on the fact that this is a worse payout than any of the games in Las Vegas, and I'd like to give you an example to show just how bad of a payout it is.Suppose we play a game where we flip a fair coin. If it lands on heads you pay me $5, and if it lands on tails, I'll pay you $1. Pretty darn unfair, correct?Well, on average after two throws of the coin, there will be one heads and one tails. You will have a net loss of $4, or an average loss of $2 per coinflip. This means that you are keeping $3 of your $5 bet, or that this game has a 60% payout. This is still a 10% higher payout than the NC lottery.While on one hand the lottery isn't supposed to be a winning proposition (in the long run) for people who play it, I think it's very hypocritical to run this bad of a game while all other forms of gambling in North Carolina are illegal. Discuss. | |
| | How a STAR dies?? | | Source- Stephen Reynolds of North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
About 400 years ago people on Earth, including the famous German astronomer Johannes Kepler, saw the light from a supernova. The explosion was so bright that it was visible with the naked eye even though it occurred about 13,000 light-years away. For about 30 years scientists have been studying what became known as the ‘Kepler supernova remnant’, but the formation had left them baffled about the type of explosion that created it. A supernova remnant refers to the debris cloud created when a massive star explodes. So far, scientists know of two types of supernovas: core-collapse and thermonuclear. The x-ray image, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown below. Previous images suggested that the Kepler remnant is surrounded by dense material, as expected from a core collapse. This image clearly shows abundant iron (yellow) and sparse oxygen, a signature of a thermonuclear explosion, proving the Kepler blast was thermonuclear. But at the same time the presence of circumstellar material (red), which is normally a telltale sign of core collapse. Thus the finding could mean that Kepler belongs to a new... | |
| | Is there a bigger debacle than the current Clemson Football Season? | | Clemson started the season as a favorite to win the Atlantic division of the ACC. With an early season setback to BC the tigers were on the ropes. On a gorgeous night in tigertown Clemson demolished the Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech. The ascent to a #10 national ranking followed.Then it was all downhill. As if they had played the National championship game that Sat night. They just failed to show up against Virginia Tech. Then inexplicably lost to Maryland. Hanging on with finger nails they scraped out a win against North Carolina State.The to add salt to the wounds they lost to South Carolina a college football doormat institution if there ever was one.To finish the season they played an uninspired Bowl game against another perenial dormat Kentucky and lost.So who else flamed out bigger than my tigers any input? | |
| | It's okay for illegal immigrants to steal your identity... | | With all the databases our government has merged with all the data they collect on us (DHS/DMV/IRS/SS/and so on), there is no way you can convince me the government doesn't know this is going on and exactly who is doing it and where. They know. And they really just don't appear to care. IT'S OKAY FOR ILLEGALS TO STEAL YOUR IDENTITY!By: Devvy Kidd
December 14, 2006
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The recent raids on meat packing giant, Swift & Company, is a positive step in the war against the invasion by illegal aliens flooding across our border daily. And, for the factually challenged lackeys in the MSM (Mainstream media, including cable), these are NOT immigrants. Their LEGAL status is illegal aliens. On December 12, 2006, Lou Dobbs had another segment on this national security issue which produced an interview that once again clearly shows that illegals have no respect for our laws or American citizens. This crisis nothing to do with country of origin, it's about the law. Like millions of Americans, I want to puke every time I hear these bleeding hearts out there spew their rhetoric about how illegals will do work Americans won't (another big, fat lie) and... | |
| | Steelers' Ward to miss at least one game following knee surgery | | Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Monday and will miss at least one game. Ward, a four-time Pro Bowl receiver, first hurt the knee Nov. 19 against Cleveland -- an injury initially called a hyperextension. He took painkilling shots to play in a 27-0 loss Sunday at Baltimore, but the injury flared up again during the third quarter and he left the game.
"I tried to play through it," he said. When an MRI exam Monday revealed a broken bone, Ward immediately underwent arthroscopic surgery. He said the operation was much like that which sidelined quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for three games last season. The Steelers normally don't disclose injury updates until coach Bill Cowher's press conference Tuesday, but Ward revealed the injury during his weekly paid appearance on KDKA-TV. Ward hopes to return as early as Pittsburgh's home game against Cleveland on Dec. 7, though the schedule could work against him. The Steelers play two games in five games, with a Sunday home game against Tampa Bay followed by the Cleveland game. "It's going to be at least one week," said Ward, who has missed only one... | |
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