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mdklatt
1/10/2006, 05:22 PM
Poll: Americans favor Alito confirmation (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-060110gallupalito,1,267063.story?coll=chi-news-hed)


The poll, released today, shows 49 percent of Americans want the Senate to vote to confirm Alito while 30 percent do not and 21 percent have no opinion on the matter, according to Gallup News Service analyst Jeffrey M. Jones.


America gets dumber every day.
Czar Soonerov
1/10/2006, 05:23 PM
I've got another one:


Headline Writers are Stupid
mdklatt
1/10/2006, 05:25 PM
I've got another one:

D'oh!
yermom
1/10/2006, 05:27 PM
i liked this one on the front page of Yahoo!:


Turkey races to contain bird flu outbreak (http://www.yahoo.com/s/257529)

i'm thinking how are turkey races going to help with that?
yermom
1/10/2006, 05:27 PM
oh and math is hard :D
Czar Soonerov
1/10/2006, 05:30 PM
The best headline writers work for fark.com.
Example:

Looks like Noah was right: Massive flood 8,000 years ago now proven. Here comes the science (http://suvalleynews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=248)
KABOOKIE
1/10/2006, 05:30 PM
Hey that's 62% of the people that care.
colleyvillesooner
1/10/2006, 05:42 PM
Sixty percent of the time it works every time.
Ike
1/10/2006, 05:54 PM
I can't remember having ever forgotten anything.
handcrafted
1/10/2006, 05:57 PM
Poll: Americans favor Alito confirmation (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-060110gallupalito,1,267063.story?coll=chi-news-hed)



America gets dumber every day.

I'd say that's 51% true, from the looks of things.