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...word yet on how soon we can expect sliced lemons to be made available at the taps, but freshmen across the yard should keep their fingers crossed...
Kentuckians have come to expect outrageous statements from Bunning. When the Ohio River flooded parts of Louisville in 1997, Bunning, then a state representatitve from Northern Kentucky, blamed the devastation on the city's failure to raise its flood walls, only to have to apologize when the storm-weary city leaders pointed out that the walls had been up for days. In 2004, he claimed, without any support, that an opponent's staffer had beaten his wife and he at a political event; during that same campaign he reminded voters he had run before with George Bush on the ticket...
...million Bunning raised in 2004, and by the time the votes were counted found himself more than $2 million in debt. There's no reason to suspect that a race in 2010 will be any cheaper, Jennings said. With Democrats in power in Washington, competitive candidates like Mongiardo can expect a torrent of money, while Bunning's campaign war chest is lacking. With less than $200,000 raised for the 2010 race, even Bunning's supporters are concerned, according to Jennings. Experts say Bunning could still raise enough money; since McConnell's famed money machine was working overtime...
This potential flood of ex-convicts re-entering society, on top of the more than 700,000 inmates who return each year, poses major challenges for government agencies and nonprofit organizations struggling with budget crises. Even without the expected surge of prisoners coming home, their efforts haven't proved particularly successful at stopping the revolving door of recidivism. Until recently, "most people got 50 bucks, a bus ticket and let out the door without any preparation - they land back in their old neighborhoods at four in the morning where there's drugs - so what would we expect in terms...
...Some economists argue it is unrealistic to expect that China, which saw its slowest growth in seven years last quarter, will be able to boost its domestic demand through short-term spending enough to mitigate steep declines in global trade. "The idea that China will be helping the rest of the world is a myth," says Ben Simpfendorfer, a Hong Kong-based China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Almost half of what it imports is related to export processing. A large share of the remainder is commodities. It imports little for its own consumption. That befits its status...