Fareed Zakaria 039306235X
There are few commentators, "speaking
heads," who I respect more than Fareed
Zakaria. Most have little of value to
add to the so called "news" of the day
and ask what seems to me to be pretty
inane questions much of the time.
Zakaria digs in; and this book is no
exception to his profes...
$25.95 : american
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2008-10-31 09:24:27 Healthnews.com - More Natural Health | Health News RSS
To help Americans make smarter choices
when it comes to nutrition and improve
the health of the public, a divers group
of health organizations, scientists,
food and beverage manufacturers,
academicians, and retailers have created
a new, voluntary front-of-pack nutrition
labeling system...
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2008-10-31 09:22:51 AP Top Headlines At 5:07 p.m. EDT
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) -- The election
in sight and the economy reeling, Barack
Obama and John McCain fought over
causes, cures and the final votes that
will make one of them president. Obama
tied McCain to President Bush and said
Americans are paying a steep price for
the partnership...
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2008-10-31 09:04:27 University of Connecticut Libraries News
An opening reception for the new
exhibits in the University Libraries
will be held on Thursday at 4 p.m. in
the Stevens Gallery of Homer Babbidge
Library. The exhibits include: Carolanne
Markowitz's photographs of
nature;artwork and crafts by the UConn
Libraries' staff; AP news photos...
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2008-10-31 08:48:04 the Literary Saloon
Katie Couric gets the scoop on the
American presidential candidates'
favourite books: Barack Obama goes for
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (with a
nod to the Bible and Shakespeare), while
John McCain picks Hemingway.
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2008-10-31 GoozNews
Today's New York Times carries more
evidence of dysfunction in the
individual insurance market, where many
more Americans are being forced as they
lose jobs and where John McCain would
send them if his health care plan were
enacted. The...
, Health
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2008-10-30 The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog
"Minnesota is ahead of the curve when it
comes to making concessions for veteran
offenders. With help from veterans’
advocate Guy Gambill, the state
Legislature this year amended a state
statute to take into account the mental
health status of veterans during the
sentencing phase of ...
, Alternatives
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2008-10-30 Observations on film art and FILM ART
How do you get people to
believe that if you can’t get the
press to make an honest assessment of
it? You tell a story. “When it came
down to a choice between my very life
and my country, I chose my country.”
That’s why the story’s important.
Just as Obama’s story...
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We all know what we see in them: from
Pepé Le Pew to Marge Simpson’s randy
French bowling coach, Jacques, we’ve
grown up with this stereotype of the
French man being romantic, sexy,
intellectual and an excellent cook.
It’s not until you actually move in
with a French man (and th...
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2008-10-30 TakePart Blog Network
Here’s a new “don’t
vote” video featuring more of your
favorite celebrities. The second in a
series of public service announcements,
this video encourages American youth to
vote in partnership with Google,
YouTube, Declare Yourself, and MySpace.
The non-partisan...
, Uncategorized , along , Ben , Cameron , Colin , Harrison , Jason , Julia , Justin , Leonardo , Neil , Ryan , Scarlett , Shia , Snoop , Steven , Tobey , Tom , Will , Zach
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I have a strong distaste for companies
or individuals who overpromise and
underdeliver. Changing World
Technologies (CWT) and their thermal
depolymerization (TDP) technology is
probably the poster child for companies
that promised lots and delivered little.
The hype was that they had t...
, main , Alternative , biomass , cellulosic , Coskata , ethanol , membrane , plasma , vinod
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These tops are made of a very soft
cotton. I love how they feel! Also, they
fit great on my little one!! I ordered
several white ones for winter layering
and colored ones to wear alone. Love
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Apparel $5.99 : American
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2008-10-30 beauty and depravity
Every presidential
election, abortion becomes a tense
issue and I suspect that will never
change. Let me first say I respect
those whose commitment to the unborn
extends beyond the election rhetoric.
I have a friend whose life long calling
and job is to fight for the
unborn...
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2008-10-30 WSJ.com: What's News US
Stocks clung to a gain as investors
shrugged off the report that the U.S.
economy contracted. American Express
shares rose but Exxon Mobil fell even
amid the oil giant's strong earnings.
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2008-10-30 Eh-Lee-Hee-Oh
On Wednesday night, Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama
aired a multi-network ad, asking the
American people for their votes in the
last days of the historic presidential
campaign..
More Story at Inside Obama's
30 minutes ad
Obama's 30 minutes Ad
Commercial
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2008-10-30 All Spin Zone
So much for Joe the Plumber! Now that
Joe is busy turning his fifteen minutes
of fame into a book deal or a country
music recording contract…or some
other means to capitalize on his
notoriety so he can actually earn the
250K he told Barack Obama he planned to
make when he bought ...
, 2008 , Barack , John , Politics , sarah , 2008 , George , joe , socialism
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2008-10-30 The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Nearly two years of presidential
politics are finally coming to an end
and it appears John McCain--out of
"gimmicks du jour"--has decided to spend
much of the final stretch blaming his
failing bid on the Republicans' favorite
whipping post: the media.
The campaign
this week accused t...
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2008-10-30 Brilliant at Breakfast
Last night Jon Stewart interviewed a
relaxed and happy looking Barack Obama.
What has struck me this past week
besides my PTSD from the Bush
Administration, and fretting over the
reports coming out of our good friend
Brad's blog about the voting situation,
is that there is a certain so...
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2008-10-30 Firedoglake
Bob Dylan "Like A Rolling Stone"
Jefferson Airplane "Volunteers"
As an
American citizen born in 1965, I often
find myself conflicted between wanting
to praise you old DFH's for what you did
in the 60's or wanting to criticize you
for dropping the ball too soon. So I
generally do b...
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2008-10-30 The House Next Door
By Matt Zoller SeitzSo many truths only
become clear with hindsight. Here’s
one of them: Unbeknownst to nearly
everybody, even those closest to him,
Andrew Johnston was a superhero. His
influence was as profound as it was
largely unseen. Like the hero of
Miller's Crossing, Tom Regan...
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2008-10-30 Creative Weblogging
The most popular entries for
10/29/2008 out of 79 entries made in 152
blogs in the Creative Weblogging network
yesterday.
Dori Csengeri Designer
JewelryThe Jewelry Weblog
Beauty &
StyleDori Csengeri's universe is
inspired by fashion and art. Dori's
unique jewelry is enti...
, Daily
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2008-10-30 TomDispatch
Even as the Bush presidency wears down,
the Global War on Terror only expands.
Perhaps the word should be
"metastasizes." Just this week, the
U.S. military, using SOFA-less Iraq as
its launching pad, sent four helicopters
with U.S. special forces soldiers across
the Syrian border in...
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The music on the CD is very good, but
the copy I received had a scratch on it.
$31.98 : American
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2008-10-30 Blurred Clarity
I come back from Lincoln after two great
shows (although, once again, the venue
couldn't sell tickets for shit) and I
discover that Obama has been running
half-hour ads on US television, with the
seemingly sole purpose of making honky's
feel comfortable having a Negro running
their cou...
, Barack , news , US , daft , funny , comedy , zero , media , theatre , Republicans , politics , GOP
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2008-10-30 td blog
Jewish Backlash: 76% voted for
McCain-Palin!
PUMA Backlash: 46%
crossed party lines!
This report from
NRO could be the first serious indicator
of a backlash from Jewish Democrats
against Barack Obama.
Within the last
hour, the first exit poll of 817
Americans in Israel, who attended U...
, Uncategorized , democrats , jewish , mccain , obama , puma , voters
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2008-10-30 Salon: Glenn Greenwald
(updated below)
(1)In The
WallSt. Journal today, Karl Rove -- for
obvious reasons -- warns that polls are
profoundly unreliable and mocks those
who, in the past, have been wrong in
relying on them to predict election
outcomes. Rove singles out for derision
a group of "academ...
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2008-10-30 Weapons of Mass Discussion
From an email sent in by the Federalist
Society:A recent poll released by the
American Bar Association (PDF) regarding
judicial selection that contains data
that is similar to previous polling
conducted by The Polling Company on
behalf of The Federalist Society. (See
Federalist Society...
, Law
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2008-10-30 patrickmead.net
Scripture says that David played the
harp to soothe Saul when he was in a
difficult state. Some believe that Saul
suffered from vascular headaches or back
pain; something so bad as to affect his
mood and decision making skills. Music
has been used to move every major social
movement in...
, Uncategorized
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2008-10-30 Direct Magazine Most Recent
While e-mail is increasingly blurring
the lines between Americans’ work and
home lives, it has also led to more
flexibility and most workers don’t
believe it has added significantly to
their overall workload
, email
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2008-10-30 The BIG Kahuna
Gosh there is just something so
un-American about taking from those who
have become financially successful and
giving it to those who haven’t. I
just can’t get by it.
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2008-10-30 On My Way Home
American StoriesBy ROGER COHENOf the
countless words Barack Obama has uttered
since he opened his campaign for
president on an icy Illinois morning in
February 2007, a handful have kept
reverberating in my mind:“For as long
as I live, I will never forget that in
no other country on e...
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It is not "fitted" at all. It is square
cut. I put it on and it was too small in
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2008-10-30 / HAMMER TO NAIL
Martin Scorsese once said The Thin Red
Line was an endless movie of sorts, the
type of picture he could come across on
TV at any point and become completely
enraptured with; like an ever propulsive
river, it organically sucks you down
into its path. Even Terrence Malick’s
compromise...
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2008-10-30 The Morning News
The penultimate paragraph of your last
missive reminded me of something
I’ve been wanting to talk about
ever since I read this post by the dean
of liberal blogdom, Markos Moulitsas,
titled “Crush their their
spirits.”
He said:
[W]e have an
imperative to take advanta...
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2008-10-30 Capital Eye
Widely perceived to be one of the
nation's biggest challenges, health care
reform will be at the top of the next
administration's agenda, and a battle
over proposed changes is certain. For
the past 15 years, the health sector,
which is already gearing up for next
year's fight, has give...
, Congressional , Health , Health , Hospitals/nursing , Influence , Insurance , Lobbying , Lobbyists , Pharmaceutical/Health , Presidential , barackobama , johnmccain
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2008-10-30 Colorado Health Insurance Insider
A new poll by Harris Interactive
surveyed 2119 US adults about their
views on who’s to blame for
spiraling health care costs. Not
surprisingly, health insurance companies
took the brunt of it, with 41% of the
respondents pegging health insurance
carriers as the root of the prob...
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2008-10-30 the skeptical alchemist
As somebody who is not American... I
thought it was so American. It had just
the right amount of cheesiness to fly
and be received well by the American
people. It also reiterated some of the
major points of the Obama campaign, and
boasted support from people in charge in
some of the sw...
, usa , obama , infomercial , elections , political
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2008-10-30 The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
WASHINGTON — With the presidential
race in its final days, Republican John
McCain campaigned across Ohio,
struggling to gain ground against
Democrat Barack Obama in a state that
the Republican must win to have a chance
of capturing the White House.
With just
five days to go befo...
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2008-10-30 Sequenza21/
David Lang, who you will recall won this
year’s Pulitzer with his piece
“The Little Match Girl
Passion,” will be submitting
himself to the hard-hitting S21
interview next week. I’ll be
asking him what he plans to do about the
financial meltdown, the war in Ira...
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2008-10-30 Group News Blog
Obama Yard Sign VictoriesOver the last
month, there have been a number of local
news stories here in Austin, Texas about
Presidential campaign signs as a symbol
of free speech. The first one to break
concerned University of Texas students
Connor and Blake Kincaid (cousins) who
shared a...
, University , Shannon , Obama , free
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American Apparel B000002O81
Don't be fooled! This is not the motion
picture soundtrack album. It is, true
to its name, a presentation of all of
the songs used in the movie and in the
order of their appearance. Anyone who
has heard the original soundtrack
however will quickly realize that this
album is missing ...
$31.98 : american
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2008-10-30 Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
The Maverick-iest candidate has
hip-hop support from R.A. the Rugged Man
Four tracks into his Monday Monster
Jam performance, Brooklyn rap czar Jay-Z
stops the music and points to a
freeze-frame image of George W. Bush on
the titanic screen above the TD
Banknorth Garden stage. Fo...
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2008-10-30 This Recording
Five Hours of Sleep
by David
Noriega
When I was fourteen I would stay
up late every night numbing my brain at
the family computer. Not unusual, of
course, but it caused my mother great
distress — not because of the
brain-numbing, or out of any fear of
cyber-debasement or indoct...
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2008-10-30 Practically Speaking
Obama wants you to spread your wealth
around, but doesn't do it himself.
His charitable donations are abysmal,
amounting to less than 2% on average.
He wants you to contribute $845 billion
to his Global Poverty Act, but he
doesn't even help his own
half-brother in Kenya. Guess...
, TAXES , Charity , Elections , Government , Obama , Religion , Politics , Socialism
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2008-10-30 How This Old Brit Sees It ...
What's wrong with these pictures people
plonkers prats whatever/whoever?
What
a way to run a railroad.
Or, indeed,
absolutely anything else.
We wonder why
ye olde English exclamation "Couldn't
run a ruddy piss-up in a brewery," so
readily springs to mind?
McCain camp
trying to sc...
, American , John , Sarah , conservatism , America , presidential
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2008-10-30 Respectful Workplace Blog
With the purpose of creating a
community of diverse perspectives and
encouraging a fresh dialogue on respect,
the Respectful Workplace blog team is
pleased to announce a new monthly
feature written by a guest blogger. This
month our contributor is Ruth Ramos, a
Cleveland, Ohio based c...
, Guest , diversity , equality , politics
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2008-10-30 ES2PIDO|Estudyanteng Pinoy Dormitorian
If you are looking for an ergonomic
website that offers guides, games, and
other miscellaneous features that you
think an online casino goer would need,
then Online.De is the right place for
you.
Most of our online casino websites
here cater the same, conventional
features to American,...
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2008-10-30 My Left Wing - Recent Diaries
I have been and remain very skeptical of
Barack Obama's prospects in next
Tuesday's election. The polls, while
showing McCain behind also contain
enough wiggle room for an unforeseen
victory. Up to 8% of voters have
remained stubbornly "undecided" and I
have my own thoughts about what ...
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2008-10-30 Open Culture
This week, CNN announced the winners of
the iReport Film Festival, the
network’s first user-generated short
film competition. The festival
“challenged filmmakers to document
this year’s presidential campaign from
their personal vantage point, whether
they were volunteering fo...
, Current , Film
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2008-10-30 tumblyday.com
With the United States’
presidential election less than a week
away, the airways and internet tubes are
clogged with polls, pundits, and
speculation. Both candidates talk
about “change” and
“bringing this country
together,” while everyone else is
talki...
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2008-10-30 A Caveman In A Spaceship.
Attention People Of London (Or People
Who Might Totally Know People Of London
And Could Tell Them About All
This):Hello. This is your man Dave Hill
writing to let you know that- as
rumoured (please note my embrace of the
British spelling- I am on your side) in
the Scandinavian press- ...
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2008-10-30 Wise Bread
By Andrea DicksonRight now is actually
the perfect time to take a second job.
The holiday season is gearing up in most
retail stores, and chains everywhere are
hiring seasonal workers. Whether
it's stocking shelves, mopping
floors, filling displays, or selling
goods, the shopping s...
, Career , Making , extra , extra , extra , holiday , holiday , part-time , second , swing , tax , temp , temporary
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2008-10-30 Health Beat
Hat tip to Kevin M.D. for calling my
attention to “The Covert Rationing
Blog,” where Dr. Rich offers a
concise summary of the dilemma we face
as we move toward a consensus that
healthcare is not a privilege, but
something that every human being should
have. (One can call t...
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2008-10-30 Dr Shock MD PhD
This is Dorothy’s Gallery but
at the moment it looks more like the
headquarter of Barack Obama’s fan
club. And it’s not even in America
- this is Paris - the art ,and it seems
Obama, -loving capital of France.
Dorothy Polley is an American.
She’s organised ...
, Media , Art , Barack , Paris
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2008-10-30 Intute: Social Sciences Blog
What’s unusual about this
photo?
Not an awful lot at first glance
- seeing an Obama 08 sticker on a lamp
post is probably a very common
site.
Except this photo was taken a
couple of streets away from where I live
(by me).
Unless Barack is running for
Bristol City Council as a ba...
, US
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2008-10-30 John & Belle Have A Blog
I got this link (via Protein Wisdom)
from The Modesto Kid in comments. This
is a freak-out the likes of which
haven't been seen since Pam of
Altas Shrugs opened the medicine cabinet
one morning and realized she was out of
Librium and Xanax. There is a scene in
Flannery O'Conn...
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2008-10-30 The DSIB Blog
Vitamin E is has a well earned
reputation as an aid for heart health.
With its ability to reduce the risk of
heart attacks and blood clots, it is
rightly elevated to the status of an
essential in the diet of millions of
Americans. But like many other
incredibly useful supplements, the...
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I am going to share with you an
incredible real-life story that happened
to me earlier this year.
A good friend
of mine called me and said: “Dean,
can I take you to lunch?”
Never
one to shy away from spending time with
close friends, nor a fantastic meal for
free…
I ...
, Affiliate
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2008-10-30 The Wisdom Journal
We so quickly forget how good we have
it. Between instant communications via
cell phone or “push to
talk,” big screen hi-def
televisions, the latest in
pharmaceutical advancements, more
leisure time than we can use, houses
that are 3 times the size of our
grandparent...
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Eugene Jarecki 1416544569
Eugene Jarecki, director of the
powerful film Why We Fight, has now
given us a written account of American
militarism in The American Way of War.
There is substantial overlap between the
film and the book--they may be viewed as
telling the same story. It is, however,
a story well wort...
$26.00 : American
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2008-10-30 Liberally Conservative
A Prebuttal to Obama’s
Infomercial by Rush Limbaugh
….
Barack Obama with his preinaugural
address, a 30-minute television buy on
some networks. I thought, ladies and
gentlemen, I would precede this with a
prebuttal to Obama, my own version of an
inaugural address, if you w...
, Politics , Foreign , Elections , Taxes , Economics , Pork , War , Military , United , Media , Govt. , U.S. , Immigration , Religion , Law , Education , Abortion , Global , Environment , Health , Business , Family , Tort , Race , Energy , Social , Retirement , Law
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2008-10-30 Thurber's Thoughts
I've written about Ballotpedia and I
hope you've been able to take advantage
of the Ohio Issues page and the listing
of endorsements. Their Voter Integrity
Project is hosting an Election Day
Contest:Election Day is fast
approaching. With 130 million voters, we
can expect potential chao...
, video , Sam , ballotpedia
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2008-10-30 William K. Wolfrum Chronicles
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Exxon
Mobil Corp. set a quarterly profit
record for a U.S. company Thursday,
surging past analyst estimates. The
leading U.S. oil company said its
third-quarter net profit was $14.83
billion.
In a move that shocked industry
analysts, however, Exxon-Mobil...
, Politics , satire , economy
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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:37:03 PDT www.ebay.com
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Greg Mitchell: Think This Year's Campaign Is Dirty? Check Out 1934--And the Birth of Modern Politics
2008-10-30 The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Forgive me, but when pundits label this
year's presidential campaign "divisive"
and "dirty," I have to laugh. After
writing books about the 1950 contest for
the U.S. Senate between Richard Nixon
and Helen Gahagan Douglas and,
especially, Upton Sinclair's race for
governor of California...
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2008-10-30 Parenting Solved
The FDA, which had concluded this summer
that bisphenol-A (BPA) was safe
for our
kids, is now reconsidering its position
and wants to look at the issue a
little
further. An independent expert
panel yesterday
concluded that the FDA
had ignored some key studies regarding
the effects of...
, Bisphenol , American , bisphenol-A , BPA , FDA , NIH , NTP
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2008-10-30 The Covert Rationing Blog
In recent posts (here, here and here),
DrRich has considered the legitimacy and
the implications of our
recently-announced right to
healthcare.
In one of those
“meditations” DrRich decided
that declaring healthcare to be a right
is indeed legitimate, but not because it
is...
, A
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2008-10-30 Shadow of the Hegemon
Hullabaloo preferred the policy, as did
PZ Meyers; Erv cried. And had the best
line: "Because the status quo is not
quo."(Though the one on Wonkette I saw
saying "Bottom line: From Day One, this
guy’s had the smarts to surround
himself with genius. The campaign has
reflected it, his ...
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2008-10-30 Vagabond Scholar
I like these "real" Americans more,
somehow. (Via Digby.)
(Cross-posted
at The Blue Herald)
, Elections
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2008-10-30 YID With LID
OK Here's a quiz How do you give a Tax
Cut to Non-Income Taxpayers? That was
just ONE of the falsehoods on Barack
Obama's infomercial last night.
Americans for Tax Reform is an
organization dedicated to changing our
tax system to create taxes that are
simpler, fairer, ...
, Obama
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2008-10-30 I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS
It isn't very often I get to apply
Moore's Law to a non-Information
Technology business and rarer still that
I can then relate the whole thing back
to Microsoft, so I'm going for it.
Here's what the solar power industry can
teach us about Microsoft:
The wonderful
thing about Moore's L...
,
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Universal 078322737X
This is a great DVD. It is the regular
full length movie with additional
features at the end explaining how,
where and when the movie was filmed.
There were funny stories about the
process you wouldn't have known without
this.
$19.98 : American
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Barack Obama and John McCain are
embarking on a frenzied, multi-state
blitz over the final days of the
election campaign as the Republican
candidate claimed the polls are
tightening in his favour.McCain's
campaign manager, Rick Davis, told
reporters in a conference call today:
"We're...
, US , John , Barack , Florida , Republicans , Democrats
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2008-10-30 Ocular Fusion
“A full 67 percent of Americans say
they’ve seen enough and they don’t
want any more presidential debates. The
other 33 percent are plumbers who want
to hear their name on television.” -
Conan O’Brien
McCain front man and
pseudo-plumber “Joe” Samuel
Wurzelbacher ...
, Current , Culture , Politics , Southern , Humor , Family
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2008-10-30 Gizmodo
The U.S. is injecting a good $1.25
million into a new “virtual training
ground” for American diplomats who
plan on working in China called “The
Second China Project.” It's a pretend
city in Linden Lab's Second Life that
purportedly will help almost-expatriots
get used to the e...
, Second , China , Diplomat , Expatriot , Feature , Fish , Linden , prc , Second , Training , virtual
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2008-10-30 On Faith
Ignorance and intolerance of the faiths
or lack of faith of others is a huge
problem in a world where religion is the
main motivating force for most people.
As Americans we must try to understand
and respect beliefs we do not share as
long as they are not imposed on us and
do not infri...
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2008-10-30 Austinist
TBF Poster - Painting by David Bates,
Design by Sibley/Peteet Texas Book
FestivalSaturday & Sunday, November
1-2Texas State Capitol (1100 Congress
Ave)Sessions are FREE and open to
public[info]Austinist loves Texas.
Austinist loves Books. Austinist loves
math. And even though Austin...
, Arts
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2008-10-30 denialism blog
When those of us who practice real
medicine write about implausible medical
claims, we are often accused of lacking
compassion, as if offering false hope is
the same as compassion. We are also
accused of turning away from therapies
that "couldn't hurt". After all, if
someone wants to...
, Altie
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2008-10-30 Furious Seasons
Paul Rubin, an economist at Emory
University, had a very weird op-ed
published in the Atlanta Journal
Constitution the other day. In it, he
decried attacks upon psych researchers
and their conflicts of interest wherein
the docs take money from pharma
companies and NIH at the same time ...
, American
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2008-10-30 Bigthink - Site Features Feed
Silicon Valley oracle Peter Thiel on the
history of American bubble economics.
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2008-10-29 Scholars and Rogues
by Michael Tracey
It isn’t just that
there is an appetite for scandal, sex,
sleaze, death narratives, it is also
that feeding such appetites can be very
profitable. The fact is that an
essential problem with today’s media,
one that has been gestating for many
years, even decades, ...
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American Apparel B0011UMTX4
It was more than I expected. Good
material, nice and warm on these chilly
days. But light enough that you still
move around it it. Not only does it feel
good, but it also looks good. Definitely
worth my money.
Apparel $28.99 : American
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2008-10-29 CheapThrills
About a week ago, I woke from my nightly
slumber with a start. At the moment I
couldn’t quite place my finger on the
problem, but then over the next week it
all became clear - in the form of a
question:What will happen if Obama
loses?The question hangs over my head
every day. Outward...
, Obama , Politics
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2008-10-29 Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
Every corporate shake-up has its winners
and its losers. So who got the worst of
yesterday's massive reorganization at
Time Inc. -- aside, that is, from the
600 people who are losing their
jobs?
That, according to various Time
Inc. insiders, would be John Squires,
the executive vice p...
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2008-10-29 Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
The War on Drugs meets the War on
Terror, and the result, inevitably, is
stone-cold murder: Colombia Killings
Cast Doubt on War Against Insurgents
(NYT):Colombia’s government, the Bush
administration’s top ally in Latin
America, has been buffeted by the
disappearance of ...dozens o...
, frontpage
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2008-10-29 Uploads from richardmasoner
richardmasoner posted a photo:
Near
San Francisco Pier 39 -- this is that
pedestrian bridge that goes across the
Embarcadero from a parking
garage.
Yeah, I bumped up the
saturation just a little :-)
, sanfrancisco , blue , red , usa , white , flag , american , starsandstripes
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2008-10-29 Open Source
What does a real historian make of this
2008 election that we all (reflexively
now) call “historic”?
Gordon Wood:
a lot of Lincoln in Obama
This is our
opportunity with Gordon Wood – ace
historian of 18th Century America at
Brown, the trump card that Matt Damon
and Ben Affleck ...
, Aired , Podcast , Shows
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2008-10-29 The Amateur Gourmet
The Key Food across the street is not
a farmer's market. The produce is
wrapped in plastic; sometimes the lemons
are moldy. The chickens are mostly
Perdue, though I'm lucky they also carry
Belle & Evans and D'Artagnan. The lines
can be long, though self-checkout is
helping. It's hard...
, Essays
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2008-10-29 The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog
By Steven Zeitchik
Get ready to read
a lot of favorable pieces about
"Frost/Nixon." That's not because the
movie is flawless (it's good, with
strong performances and cultural
tonalities and a powerful sense of
justice, but not flawless), but because
no movie flatters the press like ...
, Universal
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2008-10-29 The Situationist
Earlier this year, Jeffrey Rosen wrote
an interesting piece in the New York
Times Magazine on how the increase in
business-related cases heard before the
U.S. Supreme Court appears to correspond
to ideological changes among members of
the Court and in the country. We
excerpt the piece...
, Deep , Law , commercial , Supreme
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2008-10-29 Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress
Obama saved the most important words of
his rousing speech in Florida at
midnight, with Bill Clinton at his side,
for the end: "Power concedes nothing
without a fight." In other words, don't
rest confident in the polls. If you
Obama to be President, make sure you
vote, and encourage ...
, John , The , John , Barack , Larry , Dexter , Bill , television , Frederick , politics , Jimmy
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2008-10-29 The Reading Experience
By now, everyone attuned to the literary
news is no doubt aware of Horace
Engdahl's comments that "Europe still is
the center of the literary world" when
it comes to the awarding of the Nobel
Prize, that "The U.S. is too isolated,
too insular. They don't translate enough
and don't real...
, Aesthetics
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Universal B001EIOOVS
This movie is great! The wait was worth
it. It took so long for the Blu-ray
release but everything about it is top
notch!
$29.98 : american
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2008-10-29 scott goodson's writings
I recently came across a new Cultural
Movement: tokidoki (small t).
Not
since the long lines in front of stores
waiting to buy Michael Jordan sneakers
have so many taste-makers lined up for
tokidoki merchandise - shoes, clothes,
toys - when a tokidoki item is launched
in subcultural...
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2008-10-29 Filipina Images
(the women power to changing the world
into a safer, greener and healthier
place to live in)
What is the role of
a 21st century Filipina in the injuring
and failing environment, in the midst of
global warming, economic failure(s),
wars and other extreme privation ? How
can a Filip...
, The
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2008-10-29 CatalystSpace | Catablog
The right to vote is a calling card of
American life, one that we often -
usually - neglect to extol when it comes
to listing ways in which we have it so
good. But it's hard to think in terms of
rights when much of the world doesn't
have the "right" to vote. The beautiful
thing about o...
,
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2008-10-29 clapclap.org is serially monomaniacal
I wrote a post for Idolator this week
about "the BoingBoing effect." It
attracted some attention and caused a
bit of a kerfuffle[1], but the post
didn't really get across the theory so
well, so let me take to this wonderful
place of no word limits and indulgent
readers to try and hash...
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2008-10-29 The HR Capitalist
So, here we are - a week away, and
regardless of what happens in the
presidential election, change of a
historic nature is going to happen.
Many of the proposed legislative changes
that may result (the Paycheck Fairness
Act, the ENDA, etc.) give me cause for
pause as a business pers...
, Economics , Employee
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2008-10-29 Sustainablog
My family and I awoke, greeted by a
spectacular show of autumn colors while
our Capitol Limited Amtrak train coasted
alongside a meandering river somewhere
outside Martinsburg, West Virginia. We
headed to the glass enclosed lounge car
to join a convivial community of train
travelers, ...
, Climate , Transport , Travel , Amtrak , Department , ECOpreneuring , ecotourism , McCain , Oak , Obama , rail , train , transportation
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2008-10-29 IHEARTCOMIX! -
I'd like to welcome myself to the
iheartcomix blog. For those of you I
haven't yet met, I'm Clayton and
I do that awesome party pix site out of
Chicago called everyoneisfamous.com.
;)
I'm tagging along with Franki &
Toxic on our crazy US tour adventure and
will be posti...
, diamonds , everyoneisfamous , franki , juiceboxxx , the , us , vyle
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2008-10-29 THINKing
OK, by now you know that I believe the
media is biased beyond belief and that
is a primary reason that print
journalism is in the tank from a
circulation perspective. The last time I
brought this up, the liberals came out
of the woodwork to skewer me.
That’s OK. I’m a big b...
, Newspapers , Politics , News , Media , Journalism
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2008-10-29 Baby Got Books
My decision to read The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson started
with a lukewarm review. Michiko
Kakutani’s notice for The New York
Times includes one-liners like this
one: “it’s clear as the story
progresses that Mr. Larsson has no idea
how to create a cr...
, Books , Fiction , Review
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2008-10-29 Vulpes Libris
This is the time of year when we return
to our ancestors. Our mindset suddenly
goes back about 6 or 7 centuries to
preoccupation with death, the afterlife
and all those mysteries that we still
haven’t figured out. Deep within our
shiny metal carapaces and electronic
swaddling we dis...
, Entries , Thursday , Halloween , horror , symbols
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American Apparel B000YVKRLW
The american apparel karate pants are of
a good quality, although they are a bit
transparent (I understand that, as the
pants are white).
I am giving it a
lower rating because it shipped much
later than another item I ordered at the
same time, and I was not notified of any
backorder ...
Apparel $5.99 : American
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2008-10-29 Swedesplease
No matter what Sebastian Fors calls his
latest band du jour it’s still
Sebastian Fors. And that’s a good
thing. He writes songs that are as hook
laden and rooted in real rock n roll as
some of the best of the early Ryan Adams
stuff. If you were going to compare his
stuf...
, Let's , Rock
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2008-10-29 Mind Hacks
Scientific American has a slide show of
classic photos from converted prison in
1950s Kentucky which was used as a
massive addiction rehabilitation and
research centre.
The pictures have a
slightly surreal B-movie quality to them
and I can't help thinking of Philip K.
Dick's book A Sc...
, News
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2008-10-29 FOX Embeds
SUNRISE, FL - In a word, Obama’s
30 minute buy on national TV was
“seamless.” The Democratic
nominee’s special -
“infomercial” as described
by the GOP - concluded with Obama live
from his South Florida rally in front of
22,000.
So how did they do it?...
, Uncategorized
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2008-10-29 asa WordPress.com Tag Feed
The kerfuffle over adverts for Horlicks
and Maggi Noodles that were
inadvertently broadcast in the UK has
been illuminating for more reasons that
any one article can describe: Row over
ad for Horlicks 'that makes children
tall'.
Adverts for GlaxoSmithKline,
producers of Horlicks, and ...
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2008-10-29 ShortWoman
What would you suppose is the greatest
breakthrough in public health? The
discovery of germs, perhaps? Vaccines?
Doctors washing their hands?
Pasteurization? Nope. The
Toilet!
It’s (not) all in your
head: If a modern preacher in a
mainline demonination suggested that y...
, Shorties
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2008-10-29 Living Room Candidate
The Conservative 527 group Let Freedom
Ring uses an African-American, and cites
the words of Martin Luther King, to
argue that blacks should not vote for
Obama simply because he is black.Let
Freedom Ring ad "Not This Time:"
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2008-10-29 Reflections of Time
First Obama is the Messiah and now he's
got his own constitution which dates
back perhaps to his radical left wing
associations to Bill Ayers, Farrakhan,
Wright and Khallidi. I guess people are
flocking to live in Chicago given the
leadership of this town and it's
influence from the fa...
, United , obama , Election , khalidi , ayers , john
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2008-10-29 Mama Lisa's World Blog
Heather sent me these Halloween songs
and the following note:
Hi,
When I was
little my Mom taught my sisters and me
several Halloween songs. You have one on
your website called “Five Little
Pumpkins” and “Trick or
Treat” that we know. Here is some
others I tho...
, American , Australia , Canada , Children's , Countries , Drawing , England , English , Great , Halloween , Halloween , Holiday , Holidays , Languages , Mama , USA
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2008-10-29 CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion
Welcome to the course website for
CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public
Opinion. This course is being offered
at Harvard Law School in Fall 2008.
This
year’s CyberOne course began with
empathic argument and programming from
scratch, and has segued into a series of
working group...
, General
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2008-10-29 Working Group on Extreme Inequality
By Sam Pizzigati
Back in 2005, IRS
officials released a major new report on
the “tax gap,” the difference
between what Americans owe in federal
income tax and what they actually pay.
The next year, an IRS update to the data
in the original analysis put that gap
at a stunning $345...
, Articles , article-sidebar
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Steven Rinella B001MYA396
a fascinating mix of natural history,
biology and outdoor adventure. in one
fell swoop, the author takes us from
prehistoric migrations, t carbon dating
his found buffalo skull in london, to
his own buffalo hunt in the wilds of
alaska. i was only too happy to be
along for the ride.
a...
$24.95 : American
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2008-10-29 Hireko Golf Blog
You don’t have to be Warren
Buffett to know that our economy is
going through some serious gyrations.
Most Americans are feeling the pinch of
higher costs in gas and food, and the
simultaneous devaluing of housing,
retirement accounts and other
investments. Surely all this...
, Hireko
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2008-10-29 Los Angeles Times - Opinion
'I was born with an itch to be in
political office,' Alaska's convicted
senator once said.
Ted Stevens has
had remarkable energy and remarkable
ambition, and that has brought him
remarkable success...
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2008-10-29 One Utah
Tonight Barack Obama spent 30 minutes on
television to tell us what we can expect
when he is elected. His message tonight
was not about McCain or Palin, nor about
any of the distractions that amount to
not much more than static. His message
tonight was about us. About jobs,
health c...
, 2008 , American , Barack , Elections , campaign
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2008-10-29 Signal vs. Noise
From 1973-1983, Harley-Davidson’s
market share went from 78% to 23% as
Japanese manufacturers flooded the
market with high quality, low priced
bikes. Unable to compete on price
against the Japanese producers, Harley
had to establish other market values and
improve quality. A Case...
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For you Americans: GO VOTE if you have
not yet, SEND YOUR BALLOT IN!!! Don’t
think anything is decided, so REMIND ALL
YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE, TOO : It does
count!!!!I remind you: Check back here
for occasional updates to Novembers
readings list.++++++++++READINGS LIST
ORDER:PART I) Rea...
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2008-10-29 Andrew Patner: The View from Here
“I turned a negative into a positive.
I’ve always done that.”
A tireless
fighter for the Joffrey Ballet and for
American dance. A unique soul. An
enthusiastic transplant to Chicago. A
dear friend and mentor.(Photo: M.
Spencer Green/Associated Press -- Gerald
Arpino in Chi...
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2008-10-29 Political Cartel
Even though this election isn’t
over, a lot of people are more than
ready for it to be. So it’s
already time for some of them to start
looking back. This article from
Politico has the top ten best (worst)
ads of the election. Most of them are
from lower-level candidates...
, 2008 , Politics , Ads , advertisements , barack , campaigning , John , political
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What happened to Halloween day? Why is
Trick or Treat celebrated way earlier
than October 31? Where is the fun in
moving it to an earlier date? Those are
the questions my kids are asking me. My
three children celebrated Trick or Treat
only on October 31 whether it was a
weekday or wee...
, Celebrations , Kids , Memory , halloween , trick
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2008-10-29 Poets.org
The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book
publication, a cash prize of $5,000, and
a one-month residency at the Vermont
Studio Center to an American who has
never before published a book of poetry.
The winning manuscript, chosen by an
eminent poet, is published by Louisiana
State Univer...
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US $7.99
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2008-10-29 Wired: Listening Post
"It's not easy getting visas to the
United States when you're from the Axis
of Evil," confesses Raam, vocalist for
Hypernova, which broke out of the
Iranian underground in 2004 and set
about making its fortune in the already
packed American soundscape. No easy
feat, for sure, but it...
, Interviews , Music , People
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Lions Gate B0009A40ES
Because I enjoy Christian Bale's work
very much, I was anxious to see this
film. It is admittedly violent and edgy,
but if you focus on the nuances that
make up an actor's craft, you will see
this young man is extraordinarily
talented. He worked very hard to get
this role and is ideall...
$14.98 : american
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2008-10-29 critics WordPress.com Tag Feed
Yeah, yeah. I know I said I wasn't going
to write about politics anymore. Did
anyone really believe me? This close to
the election? I promise that one of
these days it will all be over. And that
is a promise from me and not a political
promise! I (almost) always keep mine...
And I have...
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2008-10-29 The Last Psychiatrist
Hold on-- not in all college students,
and not all in college students, and not
in all college students in all times...
From the Journal of Personality,
Egos Inflating Over Time: A
cross-temporal meta-analysis of the
Narcissistic Personality Inventory--
which the blogger from f...
, Narcissism
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2008-10-29 life from here: musings from the edge
There is so much at stake in this U.S.
election. My dear American friends, I
know you’re tired of all the ads
and the nastiness. I am certainly tired
of the politics of division. But this
one is almost over.
Please get out and
exercise your right to VOTE. EARLY if
you can. In...
, random
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2008-10-29 i hate so much...
In honor of my blog (who is still giving
me the cold shoulder and NOT putting
out) I will ask a blog related question
today. It’s not a would you rather
because as I said in last week’s
vlog, I am a cheater. My rules = I can
break them.
How much would someone have
to pay yo...
, Would
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2008-10-29 Google Public Policy Blog
Posted by Andy Berndt, Managing
Director, Google Creative Lab, and Katie
Jacobs Stanton, Elections
Team(Cross-posted from the Official
Google Blog)In less than two weeks,
every vote will count as Americans
decide who will become the next U.S.
president. During the last national
elect...
, Elections
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2008-10-29 mongster's nest
Links: Save Boeung Kak Lake in central
Phnom Penh. Gathering of Twitter Saigon.
Indonesia-made aircraft. Situation in
Myanmar a year after the crackdown on
the monk-led Saffron Revolution.
During the Great Depression a number
of ordinary Americans initiated
campaigns to restore conf...
, workers
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2008-10-29 Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip » top
Hello people of the Western States. To
keep things “pure,” your
editor has not read the previous
liveblogs, so this whole song-and-dance
will be new. We missed John McCain on
the Larry King Show,, too. But we saw
Ron Paul on Rachel Maddow’s show!
Let’s see what&...
, 1 , 2008 , barack , important , infomercials , networks , prime , Westing , ron , teevee , that , the , top
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Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:43:37 PDT www.ebay.com
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It has no direct legal bearing on us
here in Canada, but still, the existence
of California's Proposition 8, which
asks the state's voters to ban same-sex
marriage in the state's constitution
next week, depresses me. Here in
northern commie land, gays and lesbians
have had the explicit...
, sex , americas , family , politics
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2008-10-28 PostClassic
We in American music owe a great debt to
John McCain and Sarah Palin. Those two
have so cheapened and tainted the word
"maverick" that it will be at least a
generation, maybe two, before anyone
will be able to use the word
non-ironically again. And that means,
surely, that there will b...
, main
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2008-10-28 OUVYT
Whenever I hear the phrase “this is
for your own good”, I instinctively
wonder, whose good? I had this in the
back of my mind as I read an article
about how China is treating internet
addiction (via Washingtronpost.com).
Internet addiction has long since been
associated with substa...
, Conversations , addiction , internet , tc820
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Jon Meacham B00005LMZU
The title about sums it up. The
composers did a magnificent job, the
pieces are great. But the musicians! Oh,
they are inspired!
$1.99 : American
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2008-10-28 The Highlight HEALTH Network
The Internet is used by 75% of American
adults to search for health or medical
information online; 1 in 10 are
searching for health information right
now as you read this [1]. Indeed, the
amount of information available on the
Internet related to health and medicine
is staggering. Whil...
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2008-10-28 Newsletter RSS
A History of Halloween, Witchcraft
and
Other Things That Go Bump in the
Night
by www.SixWise.com
October has
arrived once again, and just like they
do every year at this time, people's
thoughts turn, just like the colors of
the leaves, to Halloween -- and all the
fun and spooky thing...
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2008-10-28 Pimps of Gore
Halloween is one of my favorite
holidays, if only because it gives me an
excuse to sit down with a bowl of candy
and watch Horror movies all month. I
like to spend Halloween night proper
taking in as many flicks as possible,
but since I have the displeasure of
having to work Halloween ...
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2008-10-28 Brandon Tucker
In the roughly eight weeks of my life
I’ve spent in Great Britain &
Ireland, not one observation or
conversation has led me to believe the
NFL could ever be successful there.
Yet here the NFL is on Sunday,
storming into London’s Wembley
Stadium. After repeated failings i...
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2008-10-28 SuperFrenchie
Where does a lot of that earmark money
end up anyway? […] You’ve heard
about some of these pet projects they
really don’t make a whole lot of
sense and sometimes these dollars go to
projects that have little or nothing to
do with the public good. Things like
fruit fly re...
, Bashed , Can-do , Life , 2008 , Bush , France , Sarah , science
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The default reason to listen and follow
Blogs when all other convincing fails is
that Blogs rank high in natural search
engine results. If someone says
something bad, it could well be that
this highly ranked search engine result
will provide the final layer of
influence and decision fo...
, are , blog , blogger , blogging , btob , buzzlogic , consumer , digital , gamers , gen , ign , influence , internet , ipsos , jupiter , marketer , marketing , marketing , mass , media , natural , persuasion , pop , search , seo , social , technology , video , videogamers
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2008-10-28 Little Happy
I know I haven't written in way too
long. I've been totally preoccupied with
life. I successfully completed my walk,
then my mother came to stay with me for
a week. October was the month of
birthday parties and Longhorn Football
victories. At work, I was busy trying to
hire someone, an...
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2008-10-28 distributorcap NY
The measure of a society is not just
about how big the economy is or how many
countries it can bully. It also
encompasses health, life expectancy,
education, freedom, government,
happiness and general demeanor.
Statisticians, who love statistics (duh)
have come up with several differ...
, Presidential , socialism , economy
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2008-10-28 edwinleap.com
Here is my column from this
week’s Greenville News. I rarely
write about politics, so I hope you
either enjoy, or are angered by, this
departure. Edwin
Someone recently
asked me if I watched the debates.
‘No,’ I said, ‘debates make my
stomach hurt.’ I don’t w...
, Uncategorized
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2008-10-28 The Ostroy Report
These days, its hard to tell the
difference between Sen. John McCain's
presidential campaign and Sesame Street.
The award winning children's educational
television program has a colorful cast
of imaginative characters like Big Bird,
Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit
the Frog, Wo...
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American Apparel B000YVIXIQ
These shirts are soft, comfortable, easy
to slip over the head and they wash
WONDERFULLY - great quality!
Apparel $5.99 : American
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2008-10-28 Maitresse
We have transcended "sick" and have
achieved "procrastinating." Welcome back
to Tuesday links!Pierre Assouline on
Montaigne ("We haven't produced
anything better since 1595"), whose
essays have now been translated into a
more daring modern French translation.
Apparently the or...
, Books , Paris
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