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I wonder what a presidential election will look like 35 years from now when people will be pulling up a candidate’s MySpace or Facebook page about posts that candidate made while in college.

I wonder if there are people that think about what they post on those respective pages today while in their college years not thinking about how it might haunt them in the future.  I know of the stories of how college graduates are not hired because of how hiring companies include a research of these sites in a background search, but I wonder exactly how long those posts might haunt them. 

I wonder if they will be smart enough to delete those pages one day, and I wonder if those page will eventually expire in one fashion or another.

I am also a little ashamed of starting every sentence in this post with an I.

DALLAS, Texas (AP) — — A man imprisoned since 1981 for sexual assault was freed after a judge recommended overturning his conviction.

Charles Chatman, 47, was released on his recognizance after serving nearly 27 years of a 99-year sentence. He was freed on the basis of new DNA testing that lawyers say proves his innocence and adds to Dallas County’s nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates.

Chatman became the 15th inmate from Dallas County since 2001 to be freed by DNA testing. That is more than any other county nationwide, said Natalie Roetzel of the Innocence Project of Texas, an organization of volunteers who investigate claims of wrongful conviction.

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Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Wednesday that 2008 will be a year of violence worldwide and a recession in the United States, followed by a major stock-market crash by 2010.

“The Lord was saying that there’s going to be violence and chaos in the world,” Robertson said on his “700 Club” news-and-talk show.

“We’ve just begun to see what’s going to happen, and the nations are going to be convulsed with violence,” he said, citing as an example unrest in Pakistan after the death of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Evangelism will increase because more people are going to be seeking God as the chaos develops, he said.

“We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world, which I think is going to be a wonderful thing,” he said.

He also predicted that there will be a recession, oil will reach $150 a barrel and the U.S. dollar will continue to fall. He added that there will be a major stock-market crash in 2009 or 2010.

Robertson’s past predictions have included presidential politics; in 2004 he said God told him President Bush would be re-elected in a blowout. He declined Wednesday to say who will win the 2008 race.

“I’ll just keep that to myself and look with horror at what may be happening,” he said with a laugh.

Robertson also noted that one especially horrible prediction he made last year — that a terrorist act, possibly involving a nuclear weapon, would result in a mass killing in the United States — did not come to pass.

“All I can think is that somehow the people of God prayed and God in his mercy spared us,” Robertson said.

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Other than being an incumbent president and running unopposed, only Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush have won the Iowa Caucus and made it to the White House.

Past Winners Wikipedia

And they both had horrible presidencies.