Word: jimming
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...quarter-million animals to slaughter each year and houses, on any given day, about 13,500 pregnant sows. The gestation crates, according to a spokesman for Pigs for Farmer John, keep the sows safe from other pigs and allow individual feeding and care. Prop 204 opponents, led by Jim Klinker of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, have erected billboards around the state dissing the initiative as "hogwash." Outside activists, Klinker contends, have "a mission... to end meat production, and, ultimately force their vegan agenda down the throats of American consumers...
Virginia: George Allen (R) v. Jim Webb...
...Back in June, when former Secretary of the Navy and Republican-turned-Democrat Jim Webb won his party's nomination to take on Virginia Senator George Allen, it seemed he had no chance to win. Webb, who had never run for office before and had almost no money, was taking on a popular, well-funded incumbent in Allen, who had already been elected as both governor and senator in the state. Allen was in fact starting to prepare for a run for the G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...weekend before Halloween, 50 people crowded into a community forum in Florence with Colorado's Democratic Senator Ken Salazar, who had just toured ADX to investigate the security situation. A few days later, Republican Senator Wayne Allard made the same trip. Fremont County sheriff Jim Beicker, who is still waiting for a Homeland Security grant to upgrade his department's radio system, expressed his concerns about the flimsy fence surrounding the prison complex and staffing shortages at ADX. "I want to see these issues fixed," he said. "I don't want to have to lay awake at night and worry...
...While steamy fiction has briefly become the latest battlefield in the Virginia Senate race-with Republican incumbent George Allen accusing his opponent Jim Webb of demeaning women in various sex scenes from his best-selling novels-Head's equating romance novels with pornography has become the flashpoint of the race. The Democrat's description of Republican opponent Susan Combs as a "pornographic book writer" because she wrote one romance novel 26 years ago has set off an outcry not just in Texas, but throughout the vast community of writers and readers who have been quick to come to the defense...