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...very different being a politician," says Chiongbian, who soft-launched his campaign by celebrating his 61st birthday at his family's 2,718-acre (1,100 hectare) plantation near Kiamba. "Tiger Woods is the No. 1 golfer, but he can't be, let's say, a race-car driver. We have our limitations and our skills." He believes Pacquiao's popularity plays against him: many voters don't want their national hero dirtying his hands in politics. "People like to see him as a boxer, not a politician," says Chiongbian, who has never run for public office before...
...envelope calculations ... suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems ... your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years [are] 2.8 in a million ... Driving one of these suspect Toyotas raises your chances of dying in a car crash over the next two years from .01907% ... to .01935% ... It's not worth losing sleep over...
Last September, for instance, three men driving a Saturn were stopped in Fowlerville, Michigan, by a police officer after their vehicle crossed the center line. According to the town's police chief, Gary Krause, an officer found the car packed with weapons, including a .357-cal. revolver, three assault rifles, three 9-mm semiautomatic pistols and 700 rounds of ammunition. The three men identified themselves as bodyguards of Mark Koernke, the self-promoting militia propagandist. "They said they had just completed maneuvers," Krause recalls. While those three men didn't show up for their arraignment six days later, dozens...
...call that noise?” the police broadcasted from their car as the crowd cheered. “They want to hear you in Central Square. Let’s hear some noise...
...Florida's budget, Crist stumped not for new taxes but for new user fees - for example, higher costs for driver's licenses and annual motor-vehicle-tag renewals, not a popular proposition during a recession in a state where public transportation is thin and almost everyone drives. (Granted, the car-fee hike theoretically could be used to enhance public transit.) Rubio, meanwhile, touted his effort as speaker to eliminate property taxes and replace that lost revenue with increased sales taxes - an especially regressive idea in a low-wage state like Florida...