One Change In the Openness of Government Found Today


	One Change In the Openness of Government Found Today

BartendingBear

1-21-2009 1:53 AM

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BartendingBear says:

What should we let the search engines read - BushCo compared to Obama?

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1-22-2009 11:26 AM

polymath22

Disallow 911? But why?

1-22-2009 3:55 PM

BartendingBear

Paranoia comes to mind.

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