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...campaign is saying it expects to raise in the neighborhood of the $25.7 million it brought in for the first quarter, a figure that is almost certainly low-balled. But Obama aides are also insisting that the $40 million number that some of his competitors are throwing around is absurd. "The only people talking about our numbers are people who don't know," insists Obama spokesman Bill Burton...
Some of Florida's recent fixes have only exacerbated the frustration. In the 1990s the state adopted a "homestead" provision that eventually caps a homeowner's property tax increases at 3% a year. But when the house is sold, the cap no longer applies - creating absurd situations in which neighbors with similar homes pay wildly disparate property taxes. As a result, "there is now absolute consensus that local property taxes are out of control," says Republican state Senator Mike Haridopolos, co-chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Property Tax Reform and Relief...
...Garden of Eden was in Missouri without objecting to the beliefs that men turned the Nile into blood, parted the Red Sea, walked on water, turned water into wine and rose from the dead? To the unbelieving, the tenets and traditions of any religion may seem strange or even absurd. Believers understand those teachings on a spiritual level that transcends scientific fact. That's why it's called faith. Condemning one religion's inherently unverifiable beliefs without subjecting other religions' equally unverifiable beliefs to the same scrutiny is nothing less than bigotry. Jeff Mangum, Poway, California...
...part of it was from a clash with the prevailing culture of college itself. As your study group sits in a dining hall, slogging through the sixth of eight absurd quantum chemistry problems at 4 o’clock on a Friday morning—trying to remember how to complete the square within an exponent inside an integrand so you can solve the damned integral already—the two most depressing sights are, one, the inevitably ravaged state of brain break, and two, tipsy classmates coming back from lord-knows-where in search of the same non-existent...
...Absurd!"; "Degrading!"; "An attack on our people and way of life," are just some of the responses heard in La Paz from President Evo Morales and local soccer officials all the way down to street vendors. Within hours of the ruling, Bolivia had mobilized, holding emergency cabinet meetings and press conferences, and launching mass letter-writing campaigns...