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2008-11-12 Top News
NEW YORK - Disheartening news from some
of the nation's biggest retailers sent
stocks falling for a third straight
session Wednesday, as investors feared
that Americans would be unable to help
the economy avoid a protracted slump.
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2008-11-11 Dialog International
What the hell is happening in
Austria? First the entire nation
collapses in paroxysms of uncontrollable
grief when its neo-fascist national joke
Joerg Haider - drunk and speeding -
fatally crashes after a night of
debauchery. Now, while the rest of the
world celebrates the histor...
, US
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2008-11-11 Google News
Wall Street Journal BlogsSenator Takes
Initiative on Health CareNew York
Times- 31 minutes agoBy ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON - Without waiting for
President-elect Barack Obama, Senator
Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance
Committee, will unveil a detailed
blueprint on Wednesday to guara...
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2008-11-11 AFP - Wire stories
DALLAS, Texas, (AFP) - A Texas jury was
to begin deliberations Wednesday in the
re-trial of a Muslim charity accused of
being a front for Palestinian militants,
in the largest terrorism financing
prosecution in American history.
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2008-11-11 Musings of a Distractible Mind
You may have missed it. It was kind of
buried in all the news about the start
of the NBA season, but there was an
election last week. Yes, an election
in the good ol’ United
States.
Obama Won. He ran for
president.
Interestingly, on Wednesday I
got the following email:
Dear...
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2008-11-11 Angry African on the Loose™
This might be a bit tricky. It cuts a
little bit too close to the work bone.
Let’s see if I can avoid stepping
on any landmines…
A few days ago I
wrote about being a liberal. And being
proud of it. Part of the definition of
liberalism (according to the Webster
dictionary) ...
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2008-11-11 Blogometer
It feels like the summer of '06 all over
again in the liberal blogosphere.
Ex-John McCain surrogate/CT Sen. Joe
Lieberman is finding himself under heavy
fire from the netroots, who are urging
Dem Senators to remove Lieberman as
chair of the Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Co...
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2008-11-11 Google News
Wall Street Journal BlogsSenator Takes
Initiative on Health CareNew York
Times- 31 minutes agoBy ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON - Without waiting for
President-elect Barack Obama, Senator
Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance
Committee, will unveil a detailed
blueprint on Wednesday to guara...
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2008-11-10 Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills
I had zero plans to goto the Webmaster
World Pubcon this year (which is this
week Nov 11-14). It would have been the
first time in 5 years I am not
attending. The value of attending any
conference for me to hear people speak
has drastically decreased. Most of it
is not only the same...
, shoemoney
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2008-11-10 Jesus Was Not a Republican
My fingerprints are going to expire
(again) at the end of the month, and
it's pretty clear our process will not
be done by then. I knew I was going to
have to get them redone*, but I dreaded
going to the Embassy because I knew I
was going to have to argue and pay a lot
of money for t...
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2008-11-09 A Field Journal
I realized it's been quite some time
since I posted any drawings, and even
worse, quite some time since I've drawn.
During the school year, I find that I'm
never quite as prolific as I'd like to
be, but it isn't for want of ideas.
Every Monday and Wednesday afternoon,
Professor Corey a...
, Drawing , Art , Design , History
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2008-11-12 Minstrel Boy
(CBS/AP) Suspected Taliban
fighters
hijacked trucks carrying
Humvees and other supplies for U.S.-led
troops
in Afghanistan this week,
authorities said, in a brazen attack
near the
Khyber Pass that underscored
the militants' grip across key
mountain
strongholds.
The assault
highlig...
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2008-11-11 Watching Those We Chose
Heh. All the wingnut hand-wringing
aside, it turns out that an overwhelming
majority (62%) of Americans like the
idea of Democrats having both chambers
and the White House. While the
Democratic party has a 62% favorable
rating and a 31% unfavorable. The GOP,
on the other hand, does ...
, Nightowl
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2008-11-11 They gave us a republic... - Front Page
Heh. All the wingnut hand-wringing
aside, it turns out that an overwhelming
majority (62%) of Americans like the
idea of Democrats having both chambers
and the White House. While the
Democratic party has a 62% favorable
rating and a 31% unfavorable. The GOP,
on the other hand, does ...
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2008-11-12 Docudharma - Recent Diaries
The Morning News is an Open Thread
Our
Top Story Tonight-
World marks 90th
anniversary of Great War
by Philippe
Alfroy, AFP
Tue Nov 11, 1:29 pm
ET
DOUAUMONT, France (AFP) - Europe on
Tuesday marked the 90th anniversary of
the end of World War I, with the handful
of surviving veterans a...
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2008-11-11 BlueGrassRoots - Front Page
Before the euphoria of this election
wears off, before the rush of events
subsumes the incredulous joy, let's
consider what it means.
"Obama Makes
History," said the headline in this
newspaper on Wednesday, a statement of
the obvious, but no less momentous for
that. Everybody knows it'...
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2008-11-11 Gates of Vienna
Notice all the news stories tonight
about the flood of immigrants crossing
the Mediterranean to land on Lampedusa
or in Spain. It’s like launching a
Mariel boatlift every day.Thanks to Abu
Elvis, Amil Imani, C. Cantoni, Diana
West, DS, Insubria, JD, Nilk, TB,
Zenster, ZZMike, and all...
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2008-11-11 Web Scout
Magic Johnson went on Larry King last
Wednesday evening. King asked him what
he thought of the election.
“Oh man.
Last night I cried like a baby,
Larry.”
Magic? Crying? Is Mercury in
retrograde or something?
Then Will
Smith went on Oprah. “Did you cry?”
Oprah asked. “Di...
, Entertainment , Online , Politics , PrintColumns , Science , Web/Tech
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2008-11-11 The Common Ills
Tuesday, November 11. 2008.
Chaos and violence continue, attempted
land-grabs continue, the treaty is still
in a holding pattern, and Katrina vanden
Heuvel preps her comedy act. Today
Iraq's cabinet met for six hours during
which they were to address the issue of
the treaty m...
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2008-11-10 Jewels in the Jungle
How do you write about something as
monumental as the election of the first
African American president of the United
States of America? As the noted author
and biographer Robert Caro said during a
roundtable discussion with Fareed
Zakaria, “This is an epic moment in
American history...
, American , Black , African-American , elections , America , politics , History , democracy
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