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Looking for some good rechargeable batteries I can buy that I can use for my 360 and Wii, anyone know any good ones on amazon that I can buy? I'm also looking for the charger too to recharge the batteries, help would be appreciated.
A lot of people are going to recommend Energizer/Duracell rechargeables that come with their own charger you can pick up at the grocery store or Target/Walmart. They're good, they'll get the job done no question, gotta trust Energizer/Duracell.
I'm going to recommend Eneloops because that's what I bought. Eneloops are made by Sanyo, and are low-self-discharge (LSD) batteries which hold their charge for a really long time and have great reviews. The drawback is they cost a little bit more than others, but the reviews tell you it's worth the price. If you're going to invest in Eneloops then you might as well invest in a good battery charger. Good meaning a charger that has different charge/discharge modes and can charge odd numbers of batteries as opposed to most vanilla chargers that can only charge in pairs. From the research I did, there were two high quality chargers to buy, Lacrosse and Maha. I purchased a Lacrosse BC-700 for about $35 to go with my Eneloops battery pack which included 8 AA and 4 AAA cells for $40. Recently I purchased another 4 AAA cells to power various remotes and flashlights around my house. From my experience they work very well and I'm happy with everything so far.
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A lot of people are going to recommend Energizer/Duracell rechargeables that come with their own charger you can pick up at the grocery store or Target/Walmart. They're good, they'll get the job done no question, gotta trust Energizer/Duracell.
What about the eneloop XX 2500mAh Typical / 2400 mAh Minimum, High Capacity, 4 Pack AA Ni-MH Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries with 4 Position Charger?
I've been thinking of purchasing the XX that comes with a charger, would this worth purchasing? Sorry, I'm kind of a newb when it comes to good rechargeable batteries but seems the XX suppose to be the better one than the original enelope, correct?
yeah so here's what I know, those Eneloops with the XXX are for high-drain electronics such as flash cameras and camcorders. These types of electronics typically don't jive well with rechargeables because they don't usually pack enough oomph and then even with fresh rechargeables the device will think they're dead and not work. Brand new alkalines have 1.5 amps of power, and most rechargeables including Eneloops have 1.2 amps fresh off the charger. The XXX cells are Eneloops' entry for 1.5 amp cells and still be recharageable. I did not buy them however because remote controls, flashlights, and controllers are not high drain devices and normal eneloops have longer lifecycles than the XXX cells, and I was really looking for longevity. I can game for about 10-14 days before swapping out my Eneloops in my controller and I usually have a mic plugged in.
Edit: so disregard what I said about XX's having 1.5 amps, it's 2400 milliamp hours, I never claimed to being a battery know it all, just sharing whatI learned from my research online.
Also while we're on the subject, Eneloops come in 3 generations. Gen1 Eneloops are good for 1000 recharge cycles and held 75% of their charge on the shelf for 2 years. Generation 2 (the ones I bought) hold 75% of their charge for 3 years and the lifespan was raised to 1500 cycles. Now I hear there's a generation 3 Eneloop available butr I haven't seen them yet, and their price I'm sure has gone up along with the lifespan and recharge cycles.
Ah, kind of confuse which battery to go with then, what would you say I should go with in your opinion? The eneloop NEW 2000mAh Typical, 1900mAh Minimum, 1500 cycle or the one with the XX? These will just be mainly use for the 360 and the Wii.
One last time guys, should I go with the eneloop NEW 2000mAh Typical, 1900mAh Minimum, 1500 cycle or eneloop XX 2500mAh Typical / 2400 mAh Minimum, High Capacity for the 360 and Wii controller?


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SAN JOSE, Calif., July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) announced today a nationwide advertising campaign to spread the word about Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) is underway in an untraditional setting – on the nation's interstates. Together, a billboard ad and truck ads are part of a nationwide campaign to raise eyebrows and awareness of the deadly lung disease.
The billboard ad that has the potential to reach millions of people each week delivers a message about PF as more than 130,000 people pass a jumbotron (electronic advertising billboard) billboard on Northern California's Interstate 80 each day.
The jumbotron ad copy asks "How Long Have You Had That Cough?" and then lists the CPF name followed by the web address, www.cough-cough.org . The ad space was donated by Terry Long and Bruce Seidel in honor of Seidel's friend, Bob O'Rourke, who is suffering from PF and currently awaiting a life-saving lung transplant for the disease. Transplant is the only known cure for the disease, however less than one percent of the 128,000 who suffer from it in the U.S. qualify. O'Rourke has been featured in national media coverage over the last several weeks including a story that appeared on NBC's The TODAY Show.
"I am pleased I could share the message with people traveling the highway in California to try and increase awareness of this horrible lung disease," said Terry Long, owner of the Jumbotron billboard on Interstate 80.
Millions of drivers and passengers see Inman Trucking's more than 30 tractor trailer rigs driving roundtrip from North Carolina to California. The ad on the trucks of national carrier says simply "Stop Pulmonary Fibrosis" and includes the CPF name and a different web address, www.gaspingforbreath.org.
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"We admit this is not a typical advertising campaign," says CPF CEO Mishka Michon. "We think it's just different enough, though, that it may get some traction in helping build awareness of PF across the country. We also hope that other companies with media to donate will want to help spread the word. It's literally a life-or-death story, but we need a larger forum in which to tell it."
The founder and President of Inman Trucking, Tommy Spivey, also suffers from PF and wanted to get the word out to all who see his trucks on the road. "I want everyone to know about this disease so that we can do something about it," he said. "It may not be soon enough to save my life, but hopefully building awareness will lead to increased funding for the disease and others will be saved," he said. Spivey donated the ads in memory of PF patient Anita Burgin who became friends with Spivey through the CPF and died recently as well as other patients who have lost their fights to the disease.
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About Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF)
Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) is a lung disorder characterized by a progressive scarring – known as fibrosis – and deterioration of the lungs, which slowly robs its victims of their ability to breathe. Approximately 128,000 Americans suffer from PF, and there is currently no known cause or cure. An estimated 48,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. PF is difficult to diagnose and an estimated two-thirds of patients die within five years of diagnosis. Sometimes PF can be linked to a particular cause, such as certain environmental exposures, chemotherapy or radiation therapy, residual infection, or autoimmune diseases such as scleroderma or rheumatoid arthritis. However, in many instances, no known cause can be established. When this is the case, it is called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
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TOYOTA CITY, Japan (REUTERS) - Toyota Motor Corp said it will give its Japan-based workers their biggest pay raise in 21 years in the year starting in April, heeding a government call to bolster the economy by sharing its surging profit with workers.
Toyota will raise its monthly base pay for workers by 2,700 yen (S$33.10) on average, or about 0.8 per cent of total monthly pay, marking the first increase in base wages in six years but falling short of its union's demand for a 4,000 yen increase.
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A proposal by the Obama administration that would grant Mexican truckers greater access to Texas roadways and far beyond would be a boon to businesses in the state, supporters say. But unions, the Teamsters in particular, say the plan would cost American jobs.
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A provision in the original 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement would have allowed long-haul truckers from Mexico to move about the United States without mileage restrictions, but it was never put into effect. Today, tractor-trailers entering the United States from Mexico (and vice versa) are limited to traveling within a 20-mile to 25-mile radius of ports of entry. There, Mexican truckers must drop their goods, which are then picked up by American truckers to be transported to their final destinations.
This month, the Obama administration issued what it called a concept document addressing many of the concerns that have blocked full carrying out of the provision.
In 2009, Congress and the administration ended a two-year-old long-haul pilot program. Labor unions, especially the Teamsters, and other critics have long opposed allowing Mexican truckers access to American roads out of concern that trucking jobs in the United States would be lost and roadways made unsafe because of differences in safety standards between the two countries. (A status report published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2009 stated that American carriers had a higher out-of-service rate than other participants in the program.)
After the pilot program ended, Mexico said the United States was in violation of NAFTA and put more than $2 billion in tariffs on nearly 100 American products including agricultural products like onions and peanuts in retaliation.
The U.S. Department of Transportation s preliminary proposal includes a requirement that participating vehicles be equipped with electronic recording devices to allow monitoring of the drivers hours of service and compliance with American trucking laws. Drivers will also have their combined American and Mexican driving records checked to ensure that they have no history of unsafe driving that would disqualify them under U.S. standards.
The cross-border trucking program boosts trade opportunities for the U.S. and creates jobs here in Texas. Mexican trucks must be held to stringent safety requirements just like any carrier on U.S. highways, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in a statement after the Transportation Department issued its proposal. It is time to take the breaks off this program, that represents a significant trade opportunity for the U.S. and a new way to create jobs and drive revenue for my home state of Texas.
Other Texas politicians have clamored to lift the ban on Mexican trucks, saying it damages the state s economic interests.
U.S. farmers should not have to pay the price for broken diplomatic relationships, Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples wrote to President Obama when the pilot program ended. Staples estimated that before the tariffs were imposed, Mexico was the top purchaser of Texas agricultural products, buying an estimated $3.1 billion in goods in 2008. Staples restated his support for beginning negotiations to restart the program.
Texas agriculture should not be penalized because Congress broke a 17-year-old agreement, he said. I hope our trade negotiators cut a fair deal soon so Texas agriculture can continue to provide a safe, affordable food supply and good jobs for our citizens.
Mexican officials have said the tariffs would be lifted if a long- haul trucking agreement were reached. Negotiations are expected to take several months.
An official with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said NAFTA provisions required reciprocity across the border, meaning that American trucks would be able to travel farther into Mexico under the plan. But union leaders in Texas and elsewhere still say the proposal would take away jobs only from Americans.
If the U.S. doesn t have the capacity to seal our borders now, why should we have confidence that a long-haul trucking program will maintain safety at our borders, on our roads and in the interior of our nation? asks Ed Sills, a spokesman for the Texas AFL-CIO. This cheap-labor program comes at too high a risk and at too large a cost to middle-class American workers who work long, hard hours to help maintain a safe commerce system in our nation.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has not weighed in on the trucking program, but it dismissed the notion that it would lead to an increase in human, drug, illicit cash or weapons smuggling.
The Texas DPS has significantly enhanced commercial vehicle enforcement activity along the U.S.-Mexico border since 2003-2004 through border staffing grants from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in anticipation of the full implementation of NAFTA at some future date, said Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the Texas DPS. All commercial vehicles, including commercial vehicles operated by Mexican-based carriers, entering the U.S. through commercial border crossings from Mexico are already subject to various types of inspections by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, as well as the Texas DPS
Under the Transportation Department proposal, which the administration emphasizes is only a starting point for negotiations, Mexican carriers applying to the program would have their information vetted by the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice. And for an agreed-upon period of time, Mexican drivers and vehicles would be inspected by American officials every time a tractor-trailer entered the United States.
Mange said the public safety department was not convinced that allowing the long-haul program would cause a meaningful change in the amount of traffic on Texas highways. That is because the goods coming across the border are currently transported by trucks, though ones driven by Americans, to destinations throughout the United States and Canada.
The net volume of commercial traffic entering the U.S. is not expected to increase significantly, if at all, she said. In many cases, cross-border operations will simply be replaced with some long-haul operations.
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40 Years After the Munich Massacre
On this date, an attempt to save the Israeli athletes failed
On this date 40 years ago, the botched rescue attempt of the remaining nine kidnapped Israeli athletes at Fürstenfeldbruck, a NATO airbase outside of Munich, ended the episode known informally as the Munich Massacre. Perpetrated by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, the events of 1972 left 11 Israeli athletes and coaches dead.
We've learned a surprising number of things about the Munich Massacre in the last few months alone. Among them, the revelation that Willi Pohl, a German neo-Nazi collaborated with Black September, introducing the group's leader to expert document forgers, to the knowledge of local German police.
The release of dozens of previously classified documents by the Israeli State Archives last month yielded awful morsels like this:
"…one of the two reasons for Olympic officials' and West German authorities' refusal to abort the Games as soon as the attack on the Israelis became known — "German television has no alternative program."
Perhaps, most damning of all (as far as the tragedy is concerned), the German Foreign Ministry had been tipped off by a Palestinian informant three weeks before the attack, which Munich officials failed to heed.
These nasty discoveries were made all the more raw by the International Olympic Committee's refusal to pause for a moment of silence at this year's Olympics, insulting the memory of the slain athletes at the very moment that might have had the most palliative effect.
Despite this, the summer had its share of earnest tributes from government bodies, political leaders, religious and civic organizations of all stripes, and by the honorable actions of individuals. Regardless of the clumsy and unfeeling responses from institutions like the IOC, the summer was saturated with news of goodwill. While total closure for a tragedy like this remains beyond grasp for some, the battle for memory continues to be waged.
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David L. Mahoney, 46, of 41 West Cardott St., Ridgway, died Saturday morning at Elk Haven Nursing Home following a lengthy illness.
He was born July 9, 1966 in Ridgway, son of J. Leo and Betty A. (Pavlock) Mahoney.
He married Wendy S. Gardner on August 21, 1993, and she survives.
He had resided in Ridgway for the last 20 years and was a former Johnsonburg resident. He was a member of the Hallton Church. He was a 1986 graduate of the Johnsonburg High School. He enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing, the Steelers, and vacations to the Outer Banks.
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Sex/orgasm, nipple stimulation and castor oil are very popular DIY induction methods. If you take castor oil, take it in the morning so it doesn't keep you from sleeping at night. It can be mixed in an omelet or smoothie to make it taste better. I would do some research on the second 2 options before you start.
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I can certainly understand the wish to induce labor and get things going, but even natural DIY induction methods are not guaranteed to work. I gave birth unassisted to my third child a month ago and when I delivered him I was 43 weeks and 2 days pregnant. I had tried castor oil a week before with no results (well yes, I spent a lot of time in the bathroom and had some contractions that went nowhere), and sex (doggie-style since you get the sperm closest to your cervix that way). Neither worked even though I was very far along.
In the end my son weighed only 7 lbs 10 oz which is average size and surprised us (we thought we would be much bigger). Next time I will definitely just wait the baby out. Nothing will happen to you when you go past your due date. Your baby is fine in the uterus and labor will start whenever you are ready.
By the way, you are not really late until you go past 42 weeks (most births happen between 38 and 42). But every baby and every pregnancy is different. Some just "cook" longer and there is nothing wrong with that.
That said, other methods I had heard but did not try are: spicy foods (which probably won't work if castor oil doesn't since the premise is the same: to irritate your bowels), accupressure (there are pressure points that are supposed to help induce labor: webbing between your thumb and index finger and one on your lower leg), Primrose oil (supposed to get the cervix ready, taken either orally or vaginally).
I wish you all the best with your pregnancy and hope you are more patient than me. Try to distract yourself by planning an activity that gets you out of the house every day. Your baby will come. Until then try to enjoy him or her where he is.
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I don't recommend inducing unless you have a real need for it. Another idea is to take a Red Raspberry leaf tincture. Basically reallllly strong tea. There's info online about it. I went to 41 weeks with my third after giving birth at 38 and 39.5 weeks with my previous two.
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I feel really strongly that spontaneous labor generally has the best outcome, as it won't really kick in as often without baby in the right position and cervix ready to go, and baby mature enough to come out. At home, natural methods can still be too drastic and make for bad labors. Natural prep methods like sex, exercise, evening primrose oil, red raspberry leaf, partridgeberry, that stuff gets you closer to birth very gently so it's harmless. But castor oil or an herbal tincture with cohosh, walking, and breast pumping might get labor to kick in if you're way overdue (over 42 wks) or waters have broken, something like that. I've used 2 Tablespoons castor oil before, at 42 weeks, because I was constipated so it could help that and to see if it would kick in labor. That's a low dose so if you are very due maybe that's harmless too. I got irregular contractions for a while then started early labor about 6hrs later.
I don't think there's ever any reason to induce. Your baby will come when it's the right time for him/her to make an appearance. I find inducing to be like the whole cesaeran to make time for thanksgiving or christmas.
sex is probably your best bet if your insistant on it. google evening primrose oil.
If you have to induce then baby isn't ready to come which means you and baby are probably going to have serious problems. Don't induce. Just wait for labor to start. Happy birthing! :)
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Providence Presbyterian Church Presents Mary Mozelle and Dennis Owens in "Sights and Sounds of the Pipe Organ"
Providence Presbyterian Church (9019 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, VA 22031), "Where Life and Faith Connect," today announced its concert season's opening performance, "Sights and Sounds of the Pipe Organ." Nationally recognized performers, Mary Mozelle, organist, and Dennis Owens, retired WGMS morning host, will combine their talents to demonstrate the magnificence of Providence's new Lively-Fulcher pipe organ. The performance will be presented on Sunday, October 5 at 7:00 P.M. and will be followed by a reception featuring refreshments and a time to meet the artists.
This event is the first of six concerts in the 2008-2009 Music and Arts Series sponsored by Providence Presbyterian Church. "The word is out about Music and Arts at Providence," states Jane Kaye, organist at Providence. "We are thrilled to showcase our new pipe organ and the fine acoustics of our beautiful sanctuary in this opening concert." Mary Mozelle, with narration provided by Dennis Owens, has performed this concert in various venues with first class pipe organs. The concert is not only entertaining, but gives the audience vast knowledge of the workings of a pipe organ.
"Music and Arts at Providence is a ministry of music and drama to uplift the spirit, inform the mind, and warm the heart," says Roger Shoup, interim pastor of Providence Presbyterian Church. More and more people are hearing about this growing ministry of first class performances in Fairfax.
Tickets are required for admission, and may be purchased in advance by calling the church office at 703-978-3934. Adult tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door; student and senior tickets are $10, and $15 at the door. Additional information may be obtained by contacting Linda Kiemel, 703-256-2362 – firstname.lastname@example.com.
This concert is the first of six in the season series. The next offering will be a free concert on October 26, featuring the choral ensembles of George Mason University. On January 25, 2009, Duo Con Brio, Kevin and Barbara Vigil on guitar and flute, will perform. Puccini's beloved opera, La Boheme, will be performed in concert on March 15. On May 17, the Washington Sax Quartet will grace the stage at Providence. The final performance of the season will be an American Guild of Organists organ concert on June 12, and this performance will also be free. Season tickets to Music and Arts at Providence, which include tickets to the two free concerts, are $80 for adults and $40 for students and seniors.


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Witnesses said the tricycle taxi was driven into the outdoor area in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state, soon after the Brazil—Mexico match started on Tuesday night.
Hours after a suicide bomber detonated explosives packed into a tricycle taxi at an outdoor World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigeria, police said the death toll was 14 with 26 people wounded.
Witnesses said the tricycle taxi was driven into the outdoor area in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state, soon after the Brazil—Mexico match started on Tuesday night.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Boko Haram, an armed Islamic group that wants to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state, was suspected.
Police Assistant Superintendent Nathan Cheghan said Wednesday that 14 people were killed and 26 were wounded in the attack. He said rescue workers had been careful about rushing to the scene for fear of secondary explosions. Boko Haram group frequently detonates secondary explosions to kill those who help victims from the first bomb.
Security experts have warned that Islamic militants might attack crowds watching the World Cup in public places in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, as they did in 2010 in Uganda. The explosions in Kampala, Uganda, at two sites where people watched the 2010 World Cup final on TV killed 74 people. Al—Shabab, a Somali insurgent group, set off those bombs.
Boko Haram wants to Shariah, or Islamic law, to be applied in all of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation whose people are almost equally divided between Christians in the south and Muslims in the north.
Keywords: Nigeria violence, Boko Haram, Damaturu, Yobe state, football World Cup


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Oct 4, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 03 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES
Thune is a tough critic of the president. He says Obama is "out of his element" on national security issues and the war on terror, and "doesn't get" America's history of economic freedom. "I think that is why a lot of Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical about his leadership and his overall philosophy of what America could and should be in the next decade and this century."
I spent time with Thune in a variety of settings over the course of several weeks this summer, both in Washington and in South Dakota. And regardless of the situation—in meetings with the military on Capitol Hill, at a political fundraiser in a wealthy Washington suburb, eating French toast at his home in Sioux Falls, touring jails on an Indian reservation, talking to farmers at Dakota-Fest, chatting with his staff over dinner, meeting with GOP activists at a county fair—he was always the same guy. That is a rare quality in today's crop of national elected officials. He does not appeal to blue collar voters one day and disparage them the next as clinging to their guns and their religion.
On July 28, Thune made the short trip from Capitol Hill to suburban McLean, where he was the speaker at a fundraiser for the Virginia Republican party. Prospective presidential candidates spend a lot of their time doing precisely this kind of event, and Thune's calendar over the late summer was filled with them. He went to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Arkansas, and California, among others.
The senator arrived in a tan Ford explorer at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner a few minutes before his scheduled appearance. He walked into the lobby wearing a black pinstriped suit, a crisply pressed white shirt, and a solid red tie. His hair, parted on the right, was neatly combed to the side, held in place by a hair product that keeps it looking slightly wet for hours.
After some small talk about football in the lobby, he heads to the reception. Dave Rexrode, the executive director of the Virginia GOP, greets him outside the small meeting room and introduces himself. The two men chit-chat—Thune once served as the executive director of the South Dakota Republican party—and then the senator joins the growing beer-and-wine reception.
He is masterful in such settings, greeting contributors with exactly the right level of enthusiasm—conveying interest in the new acquaintance but without the cloying obsequiousness of overeager vote-seekers. Thune is smooth, but not slick. He's the Ernie Els of politics, the Big Easy.
Thune slips into the middle of a conversation, introducing himself unobtrusively. "I'm John," he says and then listens for a couple of minutes as the discussants explain what's wrong with politics today. When another man approaches to greet him, Thune steps back, extends an arm to guide him into the previously closed circle, and glances at his nametag. "Daniel, how are you?" It doesn't come off as forced or fake, but easy and natural.
After 20 minutes mingling with Virginia Republicans—who paid $500 each for the opportunity—it is Thune's turn to speak. "Can you all hear me if I stand right here?" Thune says, positioning himself in front of the podium. He slides his hands in his pockets and begins his speech with a story about his greatest political triumph.
It was 2003, shortly after he had lost his challenge to South Dakota senator Tim Johnson by 524 votes and at a time when he was contemplating a challenge to then-Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. "I was sitting with my wife, Kimberley, and I told her that I'm not going to go through another campaign unless God himself walks through that door," he said. "And that's not likely."
God, he explained, did not show up. "But George Allen walked through that door," he said to laughter, and the former Virginia senator worked hard to convince Thune to take on Daschle. After a family vote—it was 3-to-1 with the prospective candidate casting the no vote—he agreed to run. Thune took the audience through his David-and-Goliath battle against Daschle and the Washington establishment, concluding with a paean to grassroots activism.
He transitioned to last year's race for governor in Virginia and suggested that by focusing on a narrow agenda—jobs and the economy—Bob McDonnell's successful campaign gave Republicans a "good page for us to read for November. We need to stay focused."
Thune spoke without notes for another 15 minutes on the Republican economic agenda. The first issue: jobs. "We need to be creating jobs. And you don't do that by expanding government, you do that by expanding the economy." He decried government ownership of auto manufacturers, insurance companies, and banks.
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