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Why not? They are probably registered voters...

"Judge Thomas Barland, a GAB board member, asked what was being done to prevent the temporary workers being hired to review the petitions from attempting to sabotage one side or the other. All people hired will be subject to the same background check that GAB staff are to ensure they don’t have a partisan background, Buerger said.

“Our overarching priority for the staff we are hiring is that they are coming at this from a nonpartisan basis,” he said. "

Uh... Yeah.... I wonder to which non-party Mickey and Adolph belong...

Amazone.de, the largest online retail portal of Germany, has announced the latest two smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Motorola Droid RAZR, according to Amazon German website.

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A time line from 1950's since the inception of the EEC, European economic community to the present day Euro crisis

I sold another Saw Whet Owl design on Zazzle the other day. I find it so gratifying that out of all the zillions of products there someone found one of mine and loved it enough to buy it. I'm so pleased that this design is so popular. I think it's one of my better drawings for 2011.

The impact from yesterday’s S&P release had largely dissipated by the time the clock rolled around to the NA open.

The euro fell against the yen after Standard & Poor’s warned it may downgrade the European Financial Stability Fund increasing any concerns that policy makers haven’t acted sufficiently to avoid the region’s debt crisis

Market sentiment was buoyant into the NA session and remained so until late in the session when the stability of credit ratings not only in the EU periphery, but also among the core EU nations

This upturned the market’s optimism that was earlier fuelled by tumbling Italian bond yields and Merkozy’s statements. Italy revealed a EUR 30 billion austerity plan, which was well received by the markets.

The US dollar and the yen rose against its major counterparts as Asian stocks declined after Standard & Poor’s put 15 European nations on watch for potential downgrades, boosting demand for the currencies as a safe haven refuge