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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:48 PM
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Congrats to Haley Barber and The GOP! Mississippi no longer poorest state!
Mississippi... for the first time ever is not the poorest state in the country!

And the Republicans deserve all the credit for that!

That's right... the Republicans and The pResident deserve 100% of the credit for the fact that Mississippi is no longer the most impoverished state in the entire country... for the first time ever!

Governor Haley Barber... because you and your fellow Republicans deliberately drowned New Orleans, the state of Louisiana is now the most devastatingly poor state in the entire country!

Congratulations, Haley Barber and The GOP! Mississippi is now Number Forty-Nine!




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Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina knocked $4,032, or 14%, off income, pushing the state to the bottom. It was the first time Mississippi was not ranked the nation's poorest state.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-03-energy-s...





(Pssst... New Orleans... listen-up... Mississippi has levees too! Hang in there! Hurricane season is only weeks away!)
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Daphne08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:50 PM
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1. I was born in Louisiana.
This makes me very sad. :-(

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:55 PM
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6. Well, when the Dems re-take the house in 2006...
Edited on Thu May-04-06 06:55 PM by IanDB1
we'll just de-fund the levees in Mississippi and drown the Republicans.

Louisiana might even make 48th next year.

And if we let Mississippi flood, that gives us more time to re-build New Orleans.

Instead of re-building the flooded parts of Mississippi, we can use that real estate to grow switch grass for ethanol!

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:51 PM
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2. Talk about dubious distinctions!!
:+
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:52 PM
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3. As a Mississippi resident, I'm proud that we're richer
......by virtue of somebody else becoming even poorer than we are in the Union. :sarcasm: Too bad there isn't a few extra dollars in my pocket for gas.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:52 PM
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4. There is hope for Mississippi and Lousiana....
If Blackwell get's his self elected here in Ohio...

Well, there ain't no tellin' how far below them two places Ohio will be....

But remember this, God is God and the Government is not...

Blackwell slogan.....
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 06:54 PM
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5. Did he achieve it by jamming phones?
http://www.senatemajority.com/node/257

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Among Owners of Phone Jamming Company
Submitted by Christy Setzer on April 28, 2006 - 8:12am.
According to a GOP Marketplace operating agreement from 2000, Allen Raymond only owned 66.5% of the company.

Documents obtained by Senate Majority Project reveal that the company hired by the New Hampshire Republican State Committee to jam Democrat phone lines on Election Day 2002 was financially backed by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Carlyle Group co-founder Ed Mathias, Washington lobbyists Ed Rogers and Lanny Griffith, and former Tennessee Republican Party Chair Tommy Hopper.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 07:11 PM
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7. We should call and congratulate him on his success...
Contact



Your input is considered valuable and important, so please contact us by phone at 1-877-405-0733, or by mail at: P.O. Box 139, Jackson, Mississippi 39205.

http://www.mississippi.gov/frameset.jsp?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.governor.state.ms.us%2F
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 07:20 PM
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8. You do realize that on a divided sinking ship some parts sink faster.
Take the Titanic, for example. After the ship divided, the front sank quickly while the rear floated for a while.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 07:23 PM
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9. This administration is NOT sinking...
it's SOARING!

If anything, Mississippi is on the non-flaming end of The Hindenberg.

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