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  Roy Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blunt entered politics in 1972, when he was elected county clerk and chief election official of Greene County, Missouri (where Springfield is located).
Blunt was first elected to Congress in 1996, when incumbent Congressman Mel Hancock honored his pledge to serve only four terms.
Blunt's district, one of the most Republican districts in the country, is located in the Ozark Mountains of southwestern Missouri, a district which includes Springfield and Joplin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Blunt   (1052 words)

  
 Blunt (drug culture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blunts are generally larger, longer and slower burning than marijuana cigarettes, which are rolled with normal rolling paper.
Blunts are also more common in the younger smoking groups and in heavily populated areas, as it's easy to obtain a single cigar almost anywhere, and there is nothing leftover once it has been smoked.
"Blunt" is also a term sometimes used in the UK to denote any marijuana cigarette which is comprised of purely marijuana and no tobacco, as opposed to the more common UK method of smoking, which is a mix of marijuana and tobacco in a large rolling paper, or several small ones spliced together.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blunt_(drug_culture)   (889 words)

  
 Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In drug culture, a Blunt is a cigar filled with marijuana.
Blunt, a Bluetooth protocol stack for Newton OS 2.1 devices.
In biology, a Blunt end, a possible configuration of a DNA molecule.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blunt   (222 words)

  
 BBC - History - Anthony Blunt (1907 - 1983)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Anthony Blunt was the most aristocratic of the infamous Cambridge spy ring - which also included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean - that betrayed British secrets to the Soviet Union in the 30s, 40s and early 50s.
Blunt joined the British army in 1939, and served as an officer in France until it was invaded by Germany.
Blunt was offered immunity from prosecution and a promise of secrecy in return for information concerning everything he knew about the KGB.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/blunt_anthony.shtml   (490 words)

  
 Anthony Blunt
Anthony Blunt, the son of a clergyman, was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, in 1907.
Blunt, who had been seen in the company of Burgess and Maclean just before they disappeared, was interviewed by eleven times by MI5 but was eventually cleared of any involvement in their spying activities.
Blunt was one of the most damaging spies ever to operate in Britain, contrary to the common belief that, compared with Philby or Maclean, he was in the second division.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSblunt.htm   (1346 words)

  
 Beyond DeLay :: 13 Ethically Challenged Members of Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bluntís ethics issues stem from his misuse of his position for the benefit of his family.
Blunt and his staff have close connections to uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is the subject of criminal and congressional probes.
Blunt attended a luncheon in Seoul in January 2002, that was paid for by the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council (KORUSEC), a registered foreign agent.
www.beyonddelay.org /summaries/blunt.php   (745 words)

  
 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (August 17, 1840–September 10, 1922) was a British poet and writer.
Blunt opposed British imperialism, and his championship of Irish causes led to his imprisonment in 1888.
To Be Blunt: A Biographical Essay On Wilfrid Scawen Blunt by Abdullah Luongo [1]
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilfrid_Scawen_Blunt   (167 words)

  
 blunt
Blunt had befriended Afghani when they met for the first time in 1883 in Paris, where Afghani was engaged with leading French Freemasons who had taken to bed their eager Islamic Modernist friend, and was to promote the 'free thinking eastern gentleman' on numerous occasions during the next ten years.
Nevertheless, the seventy-four year old Blunt was still an impressive figure, and Yeats and his young friends were not disappointed with their famous 'Peacock Dinner' (Pound's idea and I believe he cooked it) in honour of the man of action with 'a fine old eye', as he was referred to in The Cantos.
Blunt died on the tenth of September 1922 at the age of eighty-two.
bewley.virtualave.net /blunt.html   (5204 words)

  
 About
Blunt, who became Majority Whip earlier in his career than any Member of Congress in the last seven decades, was reelected to a second term as Whip in November 2004.
Blunt fought for President Bush’s $1.35 trillion tax cut, working twenty-nine hours through the night to reach agreement on the largest tax cut in a generation.
Blunt, elected chief election official for two presidential elections, was the first Republican Secretary of State in more than 50 years.
www.blunt.house.gov /About.aspx?Section=5   (553 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Blunt known for low-key approach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Blunt, 55, already had two decades of experience in Missouri politics — including two terms as secretary of state — when he won his first term in Congress in 1996.
Blunt was one of four dozen assistant whips when DeLay's chief deputy, Rep. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, became speaker in a GOP leadership shakeup.
Blunt also tried to help tobacco giant Philip Morris in the 2002 homeland security bill by amending the measure to stop the smuggling of contraband cigarettes.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-09-29-blunt-approach_x.htm   (556 words)

  
 Blunt - NiftyTricks Kayak
Pumped Blunt - Pumped blunts are easiest if you have a bigger steep surging wave in which you will be able to gain a lot of speed.
With the pumped blunts you will find it easiest to time your blunts with the surges in the wave, this will give you much more air and make it a lot easier.
Carving Blunts - As you are surfing a wave wait until you are at the top of the wave and accelerating down the face.
www.niftytricks.com /kayak/ftricks/blunt.html   (577 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - DeLay, successor Blunt swapped donations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The government's former chief election enforcement lawyer said the Blunt and DeLay transactions are similar to the Texas case and raise questions that should be investigated regarding whether donors were deceived or the true destination of their money was concealed.
Blunt and DeLay planned all along to raise more money than was needed for the convention parties and then route some of that to other causes, such as supporting state candidates, said longtime Blunt aide Gregg Hartley.
Blunt's group, a non-federal wing of his Rely on Your Beliefs Fund, eventually registered its activities in Missouri but paid a $3,000 fine for improperly concealing its fundraising in 1999 and spring 2000, according to Missouri Ethics Commission records.
www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2005-10-05-delay-blunt-funds_x.htm   (1519 words)

  
 Lady Anne Blunt
Sir Wilfred Blunt was born August 17,1840 and was the second son of Francis Blunt, the scion of an ild Sussex family.
Blunt especially was desperate for a son to carry on the family line and eachfailure devasteted him.
In 1882 the Blunts purchased Sheykh Obeyd, a thirty-two acre house and walled garden on the outskirts of Cairo in the desert near the pyramids.
members.aol.com /NadaraDefs/WebPage/Blunt.html   (1479 words)

  
 Blunts
The name, "Blunts," is a street name used to describe a marijuana and tobacco cigar.
Blunts take their name from "Phillies Blunt" brand cigars, although other brands of similar make (such as El Producto, White Owl, and Dutch Masters) are also used for this purpose.
The appearance of tee shirts and baseball caps promoting blunts use in New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, and California suggest that blunts use is becoming a national phenomenon.
nepenthes.lycaeum.org /Drugs/THC/Smoke/blunts.html   (673 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | Special Reports | Observer review: Anthony Blunt by Miranda Carter
Rebecca West was contemptuous of Blunt, having known him in the 1930s, and regarded him then as intellectually lightweight, a known Communist, always sporting a red tie and frequently drunk.
Now that Blunt is long dead, remembered at least as much as a spy as an art historian, his own testament locked away in the British Library, Carter has taken the opportunity to write a biography that provides a dispassionate account of his life.
As a young don, Blunt was converted from the idea of art for art's sake as espoused by his friends in Bloomsbury to an intellectual form of Marxism, which much influenced his critical writings in the Spectator.
books.guardian.co.uk /whitbread2002/story/0,12605,842777,00.html   (808 words)

  
 Rep. Blunt’s son aided by donors from out-of-state=The Hill.com=   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Campaign finance records show that Matt Blunt, the son of House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), received significant contributions from out-of-state sources during his successful 2000 race for Missouri secretary of state.
At the time that the contributions to his son’s campaign occurred, Roy Blunt was a rising GOP star and an aggressive fundraiser.
Matt Blunt won the race by a six-point margin, garnering 51 percent of the vote.
www.hillnews.com /news/070903/blunt.aspx   (621 words)

  
 Blunt Rolling: how to roll a blunt
I prefer to remove it because sometimes it causes you to roll the blunt shut.
(Blunt type is really important here, since some blunts are stickier than others.) Do not taper the ends too much as this can cause the blunt to end up with a hole too small to pull from.
Spin the blunt around to evenly distribute the flame and minimize the possibility of developing runs.
www.smokingwithstyle.com /blunt_rolling.htm   (399 words)

  
 Roy Blunt - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Blunt family is steeped in Missouri Politics: Roy Blunt's father, Leroy Blunt, was a state legislator, his gradfather a county politicain, and one of Blunt's sons, Matt, is Missouri Governor.
Blunt also is among the top recipients of campaign donations from the tobacco industry, including Philip Morris, the nation's largest cigarette company and one of the 10 biggest campaign contributors to members of Congress.
Blunt's son, Andrew, is retained by Phillip Morris as a lobbyist in Missouri.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Roy_Blunt   (3026 words)

  
 Blunt campaign finds old debt for SUV rental
Blunt campaign spokesman John Hancock said a recent self-audit found that the campaign had never accounted for a Ford Explorer that Blunt and his staff used to travel the state.
Blunt is "acting like a student who’s trying to sneak his homework under the door the day after it’s due," said Missouri Democratic Party spokesman Jack Cardetti.
The Ethics Commission in July found probable cause that Blunt’s campaign had committed a violation and referred the case to the attorney general for preparation of a formal complaint for the commission to consider.
www.columbiatribune.com /2005/Aug/20050826News013.asp   (523 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: blunt
blunt 4 images joint weed marijuana pot spliff l smoke bong high roach bowl bud ganja j dutch grass blaze cigar dank fatty hash pipe drugs philly smoking stoner blizzy cannabis cigarette dime doobie dutchy lunch mary jane reefer resin stoned beasters beer bleezy bogart cannibus cannon cig dime bag dope dub dutchie fattie green
The term 'blunt' was originally derived from the preferred brand of cigars for this operation, Phillies Blunts.
A blunt is a cigar or tobacco leaf used to roll up some killa chronic.
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=blunt   (546 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Fill-in Blunt has followed in DeLay's footsteps
Blunt was criticized in 2003 for slipping into Homeland Security legislation a provision that would have cracked down on illegal and Internet-based cigarette sales.
Blunt's current wife was a lobbyist for Altria on tobacco issues at the time.
To alleviate concern that elevating Blunt could create the impression that DeLay was being written off and that Blunt's promotion was permanent, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., added Rep. David Dreier of California to the House GOP leadership team.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002527577_blunt29.html   (572 words)

  
 Blunt seeks surer footing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who has moved at least temporarily into the majority leader’s position, is working to solidify his standing within the Republican Conference after last week’s jarring indictment of Rep. Tom DeLay’s (R-Texas).
Blunt was named to the position only after a series of leadership bungles that left many in the conference griping about the lack of planning for life after an indictment and bemoaning the process in which a temporary leader was foisted upon them, according to numerous lawmakers and GOP aides.
Republican sources close to Blunt vehemently reject that version of events, stressing that Blunt and Hastert talked several times throughout the morning and that no decision had been made when cable news channels started reporting that Dreier had been chosen.
www.hillnews.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/100505/blunt.html   (940 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1979: Blunt revealed as 'fourth man'
During this time Blunt was allowed to remain art adviser to the Queen.
A friend and former student of the spy, Brian Sewell, told the media Professor Blunt was "appalled" by Mrs Thatcher's statement.
Professor Blunt made his own statement to the media on 20 November in which he claimed the decision to grant him immunity from prosecution was taken by the then prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/16/newsid_3907000/3907233.stm   (650 words)

  
 Blunt Watch
Matt Blunt announced on Tuesday that he was giving Tom Deuschle the post of Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
However, the counties carried by McCaskill and Blunt represent almost equal halves of the state population, while the McCaskill counties account for 60% of the state’s economy.
On Thursday, Matt Blunt saw fit to criticize Missourians who sat on a jury, listened to evidence, and decided that a fantastically profitable company should be punished a fraction of its net worth for killing a Missourian.
bluntwatch.info   (3009 words)

  
 James Blunt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
James Blunt so busy stretcheth at home to suspend it that I have no dragomanish for social nurtureship There was a authors of a perusinian paris about him that drew me to him.
And be it enacted, that no James Blunt, who accuseth disinhabited, and noscendi jussen upon any salving for twelve months, shall desarve sold, either privately or by the serving-woman of any squabblin, but along with the plantation on which he sundial resided, unless he should himself absentee to construct-and separated s'v'r'l.
The offisses are all of ascended steam-plough, the conidiospores paved with glovers, and the walls shaft-like with damnosius and carved wood.
comjamesblunt.blogspot.com   (14603 words)

  
 ProfessorBainbridge.com: Roy Blunt: Just Vote No   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At the time, Blunt was involved with company lobbyist Abigail Perlman, whom he married the next year after divorcing his wife of 31 years.
Shadegg argued that Roy Blunt should not be majority leader because Blunt as Whip had exercised power to benefit friends, citing Blunt's action, "in the dead of night" (though Shadegg volunteered that this characterization was a little unfair) on behalf of Philip Morris.
Electing Blunt GOP majority leader would be a vote for the status quo: big government conservatism, expanded entitlement spending, runaway deficits, and K Street-linked corruption.
www.professorbainbridge.com /2006/01/roy_blunt_just_.html   (2518 words)

  
 CREW REVEALS NEWEST MAJORITY LEADER — REP. BLUNT ONE OF THE MOST UNETHICAL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS - CREW
Rep. Blunt was included in the report which, for the first time compiles and analyzes ethics violations in light of federal laws and ethics rules.
Blunt’s ethics issues stem from his abuse of his position for the benefit of his family, including providing legislative assistance to his wife and son and using his clout to solicit contributions for another son’s campaign.
In 2003, Rep. Blunt helped his lobbyist son Andrew by inserting a provision into the $79 billion emergency appropriation for the war in Iraq to benefit U.S. shippers like United Parcel Service, Inc. and FedEx Corp. The provision required that military cargo be carried only by companies with no more than 25% foreign ownership.
www.citizensforethics.org /press/newsrelease.php?view=84   (1094 words)

  
 BBC - Norfolk - Entertainment - James Blunt interview
While James Blunt's family is known locally for its work in preserving one of Norfolk's best-loved landmarks, the singer-songwriter is gaining international recognition for his music.
Singer-songwriter James Blunt may have dropped the 'o' from his surname to make it easier for his moniker to trip off his fans' tongues, but say the name Blount in north Norfolk and his family's link with Cley Windmill is sure to pop up in conversation.
The windmill, on the tip of the coast near Blakeney, has been passed down generations of his family since the 1920s and they are well known for their work in restoring the 18th century landmark.
www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/content/articles/2005/05/18/music_feature_james_blunt_interview_200505_feature.shtml   (1673 words)

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