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Granite Construction asked the Fallbrook Community Planning Group for a 20 year extension on the Rosemary's Mountain Quarry site. Seems there isn't all that much call for aggregate in this economy. Leads to the question of why they pushed so hard for the Liberty Quarry this year. Group granted the request by a 13-1 vote. Bravo for the dissenter.
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House Republicans voted today to get rid of the AmeriCorps national service corps, defund National Public Radio, Planned Parenthood, public television and defund Obama's Health Care program.
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The House also voted to make abortions illegal in the District of Columbia, after 20 weeks, even in cases of incest and rape. Arizona Rep. Trent Franks said that people would just use those lame excuses as an out in order to get abortions. Franks said the health exception "would allow for easy circumvention by abortionists." He may have a point, you just can't trust women.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) complained after the vote that the District was being treated as a pawn. “We are not puppets to be used by the right-to-life forces, who are parading this same bill through the states to work up a head of steam against Roe v. Wade,” Norton said.
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Iowa Rep. Steve King thinks that we need to institute McCarthy hearings to root out the marxist and muslim infiltrators in congress. So does Michelle Bachmann.
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Rushbo thinks that the new villain in the Batman Dark Night series was a democratic plant. His name - Bane. Of course this character was created 10 years ago, the author knowing full well what was in store for Mitt Romney. On the same lines of logic, the Mariposa Posse has definitively ruled our President's birth certificate a fake. These people never stop.