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In a shameful move, one that clearly shows their utter contempt for women and minorities in this country, Republicans in the Senate try to block the minimum wage increase.

Senator Kennedy expressed his disdain toward the other side of the aisle in his statement shown below:

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Some of these amendments are in the form of tax breaks for small businesses whom Republicans charge will bear the brunt of the bill for the increase.
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I’m trying to go back and listen to all the music I’ve bought/acquired during 2006.

It’s more a list for me so that in a few years if an artist comes out with something I can recall whether or not I liked him. So, without further ado.

• Tom Waits - didn’t like at all. I couldn’t get past his raspy voice.
• Neko Case - I love her in the New Pornographers, her solo work is nothing like it. It’s country and it’s good.
• The Decemberists - The Crane Wife. It got past the first listen test. Time will tell if it stays in rotation. It reminds me a bit of Jethro Tull.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

M3U (Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator, MP3 URL) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It was originally implemented in Winamp, although it is now supported by many applications.

An M3U file is a plain text file that contains the locations of one or more media files that the mediaplayer should play. Each location is placed on a new line. The locations can be either absolute or relative local pathnames (e.g., “C:\My Music\Chanson.mp3″ or “Chanson.mp3″) or they can be URLs. The file can also include comments, prefaced by the “#” character. In extended M3U, “#” also introduces extended M3U directives.

One common use of the M3U file format is creating a playlist file that contains a single entry pointing to a stream on the Internet. The created file provides easy access to that stream and can be used for things like downloading from a website or for emailing, or for Internet radio listening.

The file is saved with the “M3U” or “m3u” filename extension.

“m3u” files use the Latin-1 charset, the unicode version of “m3u” is “m3u8″, it can include UTF-8 unicode characters.