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2008-10-22 09:48:28 10 Zen Monkeys
A lot of people have said "I don't know if it's fair to look at Sarah Palin's sexuality the way people are — I just don't know if it's sexist or appropriate. Why can't we just treat her like a human being?" Okay, I'm going to tell you why ...
2008-10-22 05:51:16 The Credit Card Blog
Bank of America has apparently signed up to a 3 year sponsorship deal with the National Football League. This is an expansion on a previous agreement that incorporated NFL and team identified credit cards as well as ...
Obama Picks Biden as VP Running Mate. Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues. Presidential candidate Barack Obama sa...
2008-10-13  All True
If you get a vote in the upcoming US election, please use it wisely - the world can't afford for Sarah Palin to become Vice President (or worse, President).She thinks being able to see Russia from Alaska counts as "foreign policy experience" and she thinks dinosaurs co-existed with hum...
, usa , obama , president , mccain , election , sarah , politics , america
2008-10-06 12:33:10 NFL FanHouse
Filed under: NFL FansSorting the Sunday Pile looks back at the NFL weekend that was. It's also an unofficial Mittens blog.Two months ago, the plan was to bring Joe Flacco along slowly; let him watch-by-learning this season -- or at least until head coach John Harbaugh couldn't stomach ...
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2008-10-06 12:29:10 Wolfram Blog
The 2008 United States presidential election is arguably the most interesting U.S. presidential election in my lifetime. Already, millions of Americans have registered to vote for the first time in their lives. Regardless of the outcome, America is going to elect either its fir...
2008-10-06 11:37:35 Real Estate Investing
I grew up a military brat moving from place to place in what was mostly middle America.  Like the hobbits of middle Earth who were amazed at the new sites they saw as they returned the ring to the fires of Mount Doom, I am constantly astonished when I hear what people pay for real [.....
Innerpartysystem release their self titled debut album. Hailing from America I could detect new meta
2008-10-06  Stop The ACLU
-By Warner Todd Huston So, instead of merely reporting the news, now reporters are the news? Apparently Charlie Gibson thinks he is, anyway. He gave an interview to the Toledo Blade on October 5 as if his opinions of the race for the White House are somehow more important than the news...
, Elections , Liberal , News , Sarah
Okay we're going out for the long one on this. New information is in according to Religion News Blog which says that so-called prosperity teaching and word of faith heresy have lured many a people into the current American financial disaster. Many have warned, but greed is a power...
Oh. Muh. Gaw! Someone find this kid and give him an Oscar! Quick!This video made me laugh so hard I began to scream.It's Little Bill O'Reilly giving his talking points on the Left, the Gays, and America. And it's pure gold. Okay...not pure gold, rather it's dirty, stinking rotten ...
, Bill , funny , television
The 41 km road from the airport in Entebbe to Kampala is an endlessly spreading slum, the road choked with traffic and with boda-bodas and minibuses that serve as public transportation and which obey a vague set of driving rules. The banks of the road are littered with broken-down ve...
The 41 km road from the airport in Entebbe to Kampala is an endlessly spreading slum, the road choked with traffic and with boda-bodas and minibuses that serve as public transportation and which obey a vague set of driving rules. The banks of the road are littered with broken-down ve...
, BRAC , KF6 , Uganda , bill , BRAC , KF6
GENERAL 1)It's all about an India focus at Air France's headquarters in Paris.  The Indian welcome, "nasmaste," newspapers, vegetarian food and  films on board its flights make up the current agenda.  More destinations in  India and more services to Chennai are in the list of long ...
Although Professor Obama is usually seen as the intellectual in the presidential race, John McCain is no slouch in the study of history. However, unfortunately, through his reading, he has come to see himself as the second coming of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. Is it any wond...
, Rough , neoconservatives , Barack , collectivism , constitution , John , liberatrian , statism , Theodore , welfare , gay , liberty , Republicans , freedom
2008-10-06  Liberal Conspiracy
I’m sure the readers here are all savvy enough to know that rapper/actor/entrepreneur/wannabe Alan Sugar Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs ain’t scared of shit. A veteran of the mid-nineties Rap Wars, the onetime Puff Daddy made millions from reminding us that he’s a Bad Boy For Life, and...
, Blog , Feminism , United
Last week I was schoolin' y'all on the connections between banks and all those who do business with them.  I also hipped you to the lame nature of this 'bailout'. Today, those two ideas have reared their ugly heads as markets all around the world are falling steeply.  Why?  First, W...
1683 - William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first German people to immigrate to America. 1939 - Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem, denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain. One truth, one lie. And t...
, History
2008-10-06  Top of the Ticket
You know how you watch these presidential and vice presidential debates on television, as a near record number of us did last Thursday with Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, and millions more will tomorrow night from Nashville with John McCain and Barack Obama? And then afterward the network...
, Debates , Democratic , Media , Personal , Presidential , Republican , Television , Twitter , Vice , Web/Tech
"All men having power ought to be mistrusted."--James Madison America's next president will inherit more than a financial catastrophe when he assumes office. He will also inherit a shadow government--one that is fully staffed by unelected officials, fully operational and ready to take...
2008-10-06  O'Reilly Radar
I talk a lot to people who don't quite understand the scale of the media shift from bits to atoms, so I always have my eyes open for numbers and anecdotes that illustrate the point. The latest I found are from an article on Apple's threat to shut the iTunes store if it has to pay more...
, hard , media , music
2008-10-06  MY RIGHT MIND!
What is the Alaskan Independence Party?"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."- Joe Vogler, FounderDeveloping...
, INDEPenDENCE
U.S. stock futures tumbled Monday as the world’s financial crisis didn’t appear to be repaired by the $700 billion troubled rescue plan, with Germany seeing the need to guarantee its retail deposits and Bank of America settling a regulatory dispute by cutting mortgages by $8.4 bill...
SURE TO SELL OUT - TONIGHT The Headliner for tonight's big show at TT the Bears in Cambridge is the seriously amazing Catfish Haven, but it's the inclusion of the stellar Dead Confederate that has us the most excited. The Georgia rockers have an important new album called "Wrecking Bal...
, Wrecking , Dead , Best , Boston
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, takes a critical look at the financial crisis, the multi-billion dollar bailout, and its wider implications in terms of America's position and influence in the world. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
2008-10-06  Ezra Klein
Elections have life cycles. They have beginnings, middles, and ends. The beginnings tend to be exciting. The middles tend to be exhausting. And the ends tend to be ugly. The ends are ugly because the candidates are desperate and their teams are scared. They are ugly because the echo ...
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2008-10-06  BizzyBlog
Business and other writing commitments will keeps things semi-quiet (NOT totally quiet) around here until Wednesday morning. In the meantime ….. I want to make readers aware of this interesting proposal I received via e-mail over the weekend. It came to me in all caps, but I revi...
, General , Scams , Taxes
2008-10-06  Credit Slips
Bank of America has agreed to settle a deceptive mortgage practices lawsuit on behalf of its relatively new subsidiary, Countrywide Financial, the notoriously aggressive mortgage lender. The attorneys general of Illinois and California negotiated the settlement on behalf of their stat...
, Mortgage
2008-10-06  The Swamp
by Frank James Sen. John McCain has a new anti-Obama ad out called "Dangerous" which tries to work on at least two perceived voter concerns -- the X factor which Sen. Barack Obama still represents for many voters and the thought of Democrats controlling two branches of government. ...
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2008-10-06  K3N's bLOG
‘america the gift shop’ is a new series of products by artist phillip toleando. the premise behind the collection is ‘if american foreign policy had a gift shop, what would it sell?’. the project speaks to the current foreign policy in america and adds some h...
, Art , Design
2008-10-06  Dealbreaker
Editor's Note: My name is Daniel Harrison, and I'm the new Opening Bell writer here at Dealbreaker. Those of you who are readers of the TheStreet.com may remember my daily Asia markets column over there; others may have stopped by my personal blog, which is on the blogroll here. Either...
, Opening
Greed is, of course, good. Uncontrolled greed ends in disaster. Just that simple. Two and a half years ago, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne penned an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, warning that widespread stock manipulation schemes - including abusive naked short selling - wer...
Well I feel a little like Eddie Murphy in Coming to America (PS - I love that film). It's all so exciting right now, I've got a little under 5 hours until we leave for the airport and am still yet to get onto my tax return. I've killed at least 30,000 trees printing off itineraries and...
The American Spectator:Five weeks and one vice-presidential debate after joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin is not going away. As she proved Thursday night in St. Louis, for those who hoped to make her Dan Quayle, she is not obliging. Already she is rewriting the conventional w...
2008-10-06  medinnovationblog
Richard L. Reece, MD, and Brian Klepper, PhD, September 25, 2008 Prelude: The following appeared on September 25, 2008 in Healthleaders.media.comFor some time, we have speculated that America's health system is sliding towards a financial crisis that could spill over into the general e...
2008-10-06  Advice Goddess Blog
He Was Against Fannie Mae Before He Was For It It's a rare and beautiful thing -- a politician who does the unpopular thing because he believes it's the right thing to do. The guy is Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan -- who, per a WSJ op-ed, is not one of the many Republicans who, fo...
2008-10-06  Big Think Blog
On Saturday, Uganda’s Daily Monitor speculated on America’s impending fall from the throne of world power and the path we have followed to get there. Journalist Timothy Kalyegira wonders in a three-part series if the current financial crisis was precipitated by a myopic hig...
, The , General
Jamaica's Abeng News Magazine reports that schools in hurricane-ravaged areas of Haiti are struggling to re-open after the storms.
, Americas , Children , Cyber-Activism , Disaster , Economics , Education , English , Environment , Haiti , Jamaica , Roundups , Video , Youth
2008-10-06  City Desk
Leonard Downie Jr. said he’d still be a busy fellow once he stepped down as Washington Post executive editor in early September. And here he is, just weeks later, in the prime spot in the Sunday Outlook section. Not reminiscing about his years atop the Post; not talking journo-et...
, Bloggers , Media , New , Washington , Washington
does anyone have any recent experience with or information on this school? I'm aware of the problems in regards to their extremely low passing rates on the nclex, but was hoping anyone knew of the changes being made and if its been of any help? this is from the azbn website, but ...
, Arizona
2008-10-06  Joanne Jacobs
I’ve signed up for the Bloggers’ Challenge at Donors Choose. Go here to find teachers who need funding to teach immigrant students about America, buy books for a classroom library or pay for educational games. Donors have given enough to fund Mrs. W’s request for math...
, Education
TB’s Quote of the day: ”Who am I?...why am I hear?”…Admiral  James Stockdale when he was a running mate with Ross Perot. The statement was met  by laughter but TB worried that he might have Alzheimer’s. But it was just a statement to introduce himself that fell flat. TB alw...
2008-10-06  What About Clients?
Today I'm in hard-working heavily-German southwestern Ohio, where it's always German-American day. And this morning from Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate--the area thousands of west Germans (including a few Hohl families) left for America in the 17th and 18th centuries, and where more...
, International
2008-10-06  Google News
AFPBank of America blows billions on Countrywide litigationBloggingStocks- 33 minutes agoGiven the continued deterioration in the financial markets and mortgage industry, it seems likely that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) badly overpaid for Countrywide Financial -- if the company's...
, Business
2008-10-06  Celebslam.com
O.J. Simpson is guilty In case you didn’t hear over the weekend, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of 12 charges related to the September 2007 robbery of a sports memorabilia dealer in Las Vegas. CNN says: The Las Vegas jury reached its verdict after about 13 hours of deliberations ...
, O.J. , legal , o , simpson , innocent , football , las , vegas
2008-10-06  MauledAgain
To say that what Congress did on Friday was disappointing would be an understatement. What Congress did was, and remains, downright dangerous. A huge sum of money has been thrown in the direction of institutions and people who are either malevolent or ignorant. Banks and other institut...
Jonathan Gruber (2008) has a nice review article in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Literature.  This article is especially good for those who are not schooled in the basic issues of the uninsured.  It is also useful for professors wishing to teach students about t...
, HC , Uninsured
2008-10-06  Legal Theory Blog
Yale University Press has published We Shall Overcome A History of Civil Rights and the Law by Alexander Tsesis. Here is a description: Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest days of nationhood, examples of injustices against minorities stain many pages of ...
, Legal
The American Spectator: Five weeks and one vice-presidential debate after joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin is not going away. As she proved Thursday night in St. Louis, for those who hoped to make her Dan Quayle, she is not obliging. Already she is rewriting the conventional ...
, Uncategorized
Frederick Jackson Turner was an American historian who is best known for his Frontier Thesis. The thesis, as defined in his seminal work The Significance of the Frontier in American History, stated that western expansion made American culture and civilization what it is. That moving ...
, Historical
Even though he has a 100 percent pro-choice Senate voting record, a new website is alleging that Barack Obama is the most pro-life candidate in the race for president. The Pro-Life, Pro-Obama site, started by a group of Christians with the pro-Obama Matthew 25 network, argues that...
, Campaign , WorldMagBlog , abortion , barack-obama , John-McCain , Matthew , pro-choice , pro-life
2008-10-06  Politics
With a month to go and the poll numbers down, the McCain campaign is playing the guilt by association card, and that’s leaving some conservatives uneasy. On Saturday, the recently unsequestered and newly empowered Sarah Palin went on the offensive, toting the “gloves are of...
, Politics
How in the world is this song a #1 hit? It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long Caught somewhere between a boy and man She was seventeen and she was far from in-between It was summertime in Northern Michigan And we were trying different things We were smoking funny things ...
2008-10-06  Right From Left
Whether you believe the hype or not, whether or not you believe the polls, McCain-Palin begin October behind.I'm skeptical about the polls, but Obama did get a bit of a bounce from debate #1 and the electoral map has shifted. It will continue to shift around. With a good debate perfor...
Why the CW decided to postpone the premiere of their new show, Stylista is beyond me. It was originally slated to premiere the same week as cycle 11 of America’s Next Top Model in September, but for whatever reason was pushed until October 22nd. Maybe there are only a few episo...
, Fashion , Stylista , Anne , CW
The experts tell us there will be another “bloodbath” on Wall Street today. There may be, or it may be another “dead cat bounce”. All that matters is that the American public was told if the big 700 billion dollar bailout package passed, all the problems would be fixed. Anyone...
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rated higher and whic...
, The , America , Decline
2008-10-05  Journey of Faith
So, you've all enjoyed laughing with me about my inaugural "Mommy", so I only feel it fitting to share "the other half" of the story. The same week he began calling me "Mommy," Tim was gone quite a bit, preparing for the chicken bar-b-q at the fire department. One afternoon, while he w...
2008-10-05  Onehealthpro
The Wall Street Bailout should not beused as an excuse to delay universal health care. In fact, universal health coverage will help Americans through the current economic disaster. The easiest avenue to achieve the goal of health care for all is to give Americans who can, the opport...
, HEALTH
"We Should Have Sold This Country Ten Years Ago" Alec Baldwin Huffington Post Posted October 5, 2008 | 09:50 PM (EST) It was fun to do Bill Maher's show this past Friday. Gary Shandling had the best line all night. "We should have sold the country ten years ago," Shandling...
As much as I'd like that to be the case, I'm not buying it. For years the majority of Americans have been fine with this situation provided they had their new TV, new car and were keeping up with whatever it was that the neighbors purchased. Even now, I think the economy would have t...
, Republican , socialism , business
2008-10-05  The Situationist
The following op-ed was co-authored by Situationist contribtor Jon Hanson and a Situationist fellow. “In crisis, beware illusion of reform“ was published in the Providence Journal. * * * IN CASE you missed it, global financial markets have been rocked by a series of unsett...
, Illusions , Law , Politics , Public
Reconciling the attitudes of the wise Few and the uneducated Masses -- the elites and common folk -- has been a point of contention throughout American political history. In the early days, John Adams was famously wary of an overly democratic democracy, whereas Thomas Paine championed ...
, Current
2008-10-05  LENIN'S TOMB
So, the stock markets turned up their noses at $700bn. Too little too late, apparently - all the stress and the bullying and arm-twisting and bribing and threats of 'martial law' were to no avail, at least if the idea was to avert catastrophe. According to Nouriel Roubini, the bail-o...
, new , financial , american , US , martial , coup , economy , america
2008-10-05  MediaShift Idea Lab
It's been almost a year and a half since a grant from the Knight Foundation allowed the Medill School to offer journalism master's program scholarships to experienced programmer-developers. Since then, on this Web site, I've been documenting the experience of the first two "programmer...
, Education , Participation , Technology , medill
Do your reading habits sometimes fall into unusual patterns? Mine have been known to in the past which may be one reason why I liked "How We Got In and Out of Town Again" by Jonathan Lethem so much. It's the second book in what may be a pattern. The story, from the collection Wastela...
, Short , Jonathan , How
2008-10-05  Vulpes Libris
While we are all aware of Napoleon’s energetic attempts to conquer the world, Nina Burleigh splendidly tells of his disastrous Egyptian campaign, which is less well known. And instead of the military tactics, she focuses on the civilian participants, a group of scientists and their s...
, Entries , Non-fiction: , Non-fiction: , Non-fiction: , Non-fiction: , Egypt , expeditions , Napoleon , scientists
What we don't see a lot of during this age of economic crisis are options to protect the rapidly expanding elderly and disabled population of America.  From an age where Social Security was sufficient to support a modest and frugal lifestyle, this population was confident that they c...
EUROPES LARGE SCALE MIND CONTROL EXPERIMENT STARTS IN SWEDEN and FINLAND Digital electric Meter-the "Eshelon Meter", a PLC System of the Televent Company is being installed in every house in Sweden and Finland under the disguise that it will make it easier to read the consumption of e...
2008-10-05  THE DOCTOR BLOGGER
Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease ( www.fightchronicdisease.org sponsore d a conference call Tuesday and below is the response fromThe LA Times.Healthcare System: the next financial meltdown? http://latimesblogs.latimes.c om/booster_shots/2008/09/health-care-sys .html When To...
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This post comes from J.D. Roth at partner blog Get Rich Slowly. How much do you know about millionaires? My wife recently had dinner with her friend Linda, who is a high school social studies teacher. As they ate, Linda bemoaned the lack of personal-finance and economics education in...
, investing , spending , saving , Get
Leading America and potentially having to take over the job of the president is not a game. It's a seriously important job and there are some real doubts about Palin's qualifications.
, Opinion
Remember that when you write an essay on the novel that you will be assessed on your ability to evaluate and analyse ideas to show a critical response and use evidence from the text to support a clear, controlled, logical and accurate discussion. To write a very good essay you will ha...
Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE I believe in the power of the free market if the rules are fair to all. Logic and common sense should determine healthcare policy. I am suspicious of the validity of pilot studies designed to test healthcare policy initiatives. The studies usually are def...
, Consumer , Health , Medicine: , Politicians,Healthcare
Pterodactyl-inspired Robot To Master Air, Ground And Sea ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2008) — Scientists have reached back in time 115 million years to one of the most successful flying creatures in Earth’s history, the pterodactyl, to conjure a robotic spy plane with next-generation cap...
2008-10-05  Muddy Thoughts
The Straight Talk Express, as much as a misnomer that can ever be in what is shaping up to be the worst Presidential election since, well, 2004, ran off the road and into the election ditch over this Ripoff and Rape America Bill.(UPDATE: It appears that Hairball Reid & Co. are going to...
, "Reid" , "Pelosi" , "Biden" , "Tina , "bailout" , "Straight , "McCain" , "Palin" , "Ron , "Bill
Last week, I recounted successful attempts to censor pro-intelligent design (ID) books from public school libraries, with high praise for such efforts from academia. But libraries, of course, aren't the only location where Darwinists have tried to ban pro-ID materials. In 2005, Darwi...
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2008-10-05  Scholars and Rogues
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): From American Raj, a new book by Eric Margolis: Abdullah Azzam “ran a dingy little rooming house next to his office for Muslim mujahedin headed for Afghanistan that came to be known as ‘the base’ or ‘the centre,...
, Congress , House , Republicans , health , national , sports , Add , bailout , Barack , Democrats , financial , Iraq , John , NFL , Sarah , Terrell
2008-10-05  Bright Hall
Filed under: US Elections, Politics, Boston University, MediaWhenever I meet pretentious New England liberals up here in Boston, and they ask me what I read, I always try to impress them. The New York Times. The New Yorker. The Economist.Wait, The Economist? Do I read that overly-intel...
The Brand Alphabet originally uploaded by InThePictureDesign.co.uk [do visit the original as you can test how well you recognize the brands behind the letters...]Consider an alternate question to What Does Your Brand Stand For?  Instead, ask yourself what makes your brand come alive?...
, marketing , brand+experience
WARNING! The following contains material unsuitable for sensitive readers.  Read on at your own risk. We did some research on why the big brand pet food sold in pet stores, grocery stores, and wholesale chains across America is just so bad for our dogs.  Like most other processed fo...
2008-10-05  WickedGayBlog.com
Georgina Beyer’s life is so vivid and surreal that it would make one say "only in America"-except it happened in New Zealand.A Maori who was born biologically male, Beyer ( in his 20s ) became a part of the Wellington gay nightclub scene as a singer and drag-queen performer, and then...
, transgender
2008-10-05  The Sundries Shack
An Unnamed MSM Reporter in Its Natural Habitat Are the media completely in the tank for Barack Obama at this point? I feel pretty silly for even asking this question given the complete lack of curiosity shown toward the Obamessiah’s long association with people who not only show ...
, Oh, , The , ACORN , Associated , Barack , Happy , Jeff , Jeremiah , Media , Progressives , Racism , Sarah , William
2008-10-05  Anglachel's Journal
Yes, I'm a few days late with this and haven't had time to read it in full until today. I've added Hillary's news page as a live feed to the sidebar to keep up with what's coming out of her Senate office, which is an amazing amount. I'd link my own Congress critters' news feeds, too, e...
, Housing , Roubini , Economics , Clinton , Class , Hillary , Democratic , Class , Political
2008-10-05  Esperando a Zufan!
A week from today, I’ll be running the Chicago Marathon. I’m nervous! Excited, too, but mostly scared that I’ll run out of energy at about, oh, mile 5 or so. Then what will I do? My training wasn’t what I hoped it would be. I skipped two essential long runs in ...
, Uncategorized
It began on May 11, 1962, as a spur-of-the-moment promise by France's minister of culture, Andre Malraux, dazzled by Jacqueline Kennedy: he would send the Mona Lisa to America. Then, as Presidents John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle tussled over nuclear policy, the Cuban missile cris...
2008-10-05  In The Moment
I once heard Arundati Roy say that when she wants to know what is truly going on in America she turns to people like Noam Chomsky. Whether you agree with his politics or not, the following excerpt (and prediction) from a recent interview with Alternet, is both scary and insightful: M...
2008-10-05  Hak Pak Sak
Like half of the population United States (i.e. the half that opposes the Republicans) I had intended to write about Republican vice-presidential candidate Palin’s misuse of language and deformation of facts and logic during the televised debate with Democrat Joe Biden last Thurs...
, Commentary , Language , Politics
Democratic radio address Oct. 4, 2008 Good morning, this is Ohio Governor Ted Strickland. Yesterday, we woke up to some tough news. Our economy lost another 159,000 jobs in September - our single biggest monthly job loss in more than five years. That's another 159,000 Americans wond...
Last week, a couple of important documents were released that had special significance to Security and Risk Analysis students.  As we well know, this young field seems to be growing more and more every day.  Now it is finding its way into government documents.  In this post, I'll gi...
The debate surrounding universal health care in America continues to grow. On the surface the idea of universal health care sounds nice. Everyone would be covered and everyone would be able to receive the same level of care. Sounds great right? Wrong! If we want to know the effects of ...
By Robert Gordon (Slate.com Monday, May 19, 2008) Why do most of us send our credit-card bills to South Dakota or Delaware? The answer to that seemingly arcane question illustrates the dangers of replacing state regulation with no regulation at all. It also offers a cautionary tale ab...
Evergreen Speedway Demolition Derby and Fireworks Show Billed as the premier demolition derby of the season, this event did not disappoint and CultureMob was there. Police chase, cars rolling over, rabid fans cheering, school busses in figure 8 races, Racey the mascot, Limo world recor...
, Blog , Cedric , Culture , Entertainment , boat , bus , Culturemob , demolition , derby , evergreen , figure , fireworks , kyle , monroe , speedway
2008-10-05  Beyond Dante
I noticed this morning that my blog is now almost exclusively running a banner advertisement for Freedomswatch.org. These guys are a well funded interest group to promote conservative values and while I share the fiscal responsibility portion (i.e. libertarian) of the conservative age...
, banner , protest , google
2008-10-05  Becoming Parents
Wow - what a week... honestly - it's been beyond busy. In one week, I have had a good friend lose a parent, had a different and equally good friend be involved in a life threatening car accident which she *literally* walked away from- thanks to German Engineering and watch another real...
Below: Isn't it time the McCain campaign stuffed a sock in that fat mouth, before someone gets really angry? Photo: Nati Harnik/APLipsticked pitbull Palin is on the loose again. Hope Animal Control gets here soon, before she hurts herself, or another animal.During her stop in Californi...
, The , Existential , WH08 , Denial , Down , Free , The , White , Hatin' , Republicans
2008-10-05  Kotaku: Top
Once a year they come to Las Vegas. Not to party. Not to compete. Not even to play Street Fighter. Perhaps they don't even realize it, but these few, these champions of a dying bit of pop culture, come to Las Vegas to scream into the approaching long night of arcade gaming. Each year ...
, feature , evo , original , pro , street , top , tournament
On September 29, 2008, I had one of my best days ever on this website.  In fact, I had the second highest hit count ever.  The next two days following also had similarly high hit counts.  Why?  Because of an article I wrote back in April of 2007, titled, “Wachovia Looking Forward...
2008-10-05  Gristmill
By Joseph Romm The world's second-largest maker of solar batteries plans a massive increase in capacity to meet soaring demand. Bloomberg reports: The company will raise the capacity to 6 gigawatts as early as 2014, from 1 gigawatt estimated for 2010 ... Sharp, which lost its ma...
Much as I detest internet bloviation, I think it makes sense for us to look into the corruption endemic to Washington. Unlike most, I don't think this is because our politicians are bad people; I think it's because of unrealistic expectations of voters, coupled with total oblivion to h...
, Corrupt
*Tina Fey's job may have become harder with Sarah Palin's cocky performance in her debate with Joe Biden last week, watched by a record 70 million people. But there was still plenty of mileage for the Saturday Night Live comedian, who peppered her debate skit with lots of "you betchas...
, Americas
2008-10-05  American Power
Victory in Iraq was all but declared earlier this year.Both major candidates have claimed success for the Petraeus surge, and each have proposed policy adjustments for the future of Iraq and global security. Even this week, the Associated Press conceded a major Bush administration argu...
, U.S. , International , U.S. , Iraq , Antiwar , Bush , American , Anti-Americanism
2008-10-05  Clotted Cognition
I first saw this on Cocktail Party Physics, then went looking for the original. Mama like.Brilliant. Unlike Sarah Palin.Speaking of Cocktail Party Physics, she had this to say, which I also find remarkably insightful and brilliant:Despite the Palin-centric focus, this is not meant to b...
2008-10-05  Smiles & Trials
My husband and I are following the election very closely. Despite our busy life with our awesome kids, we manage to keep our lines of communication open and flowing freely. Politics is often a source of discussion with us outside of an election so you better believe with a new pres...
, politics
The Economist e-mailed a questionnaire to 683 research associates of the National Bureau of Economic Research, America’s premier association of applied academic economists, and this was the reported result: AS THE financial crisis pushes the economy back to the top of voters’ conce...
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, Online , Americas , United , Electronics , EVB , Kodak
World renowned actor and acclaimed philanthropist Paul Newman passed away from leukemia over the weekend. Newman, 83, was reportedly surrounded by family and friends at his home in Westport, Connecticut, when he lost he long battle to cancer. The public was made aware of Newman&rsquo...
, Leukemia , News , Paul
2008-10-05  Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH Republicans are smearing the Democratic nominee? So what else is new? Well, the McCain team warned us they were going to start hitting. Bill Kristol backed them on it. So let the smearing begin. Sa...
So we all woke up one day and got fucked.  Anyone surprised?  We've been heading down this path for quite some time, and now we're at the threshold of hell.  Make no mistake; if we don't fix this country now, our children won't pay.  We will. Some things I've noticed lately... We h...
Mark Steyn is easily my favorite writer alive today, and has been on hiatus since June working on his forth-coming, soon-to-be-a-bestseller book. Here is the master's take on how Gov. Sarah Palin performed at last Thursday's debate. As always he is honest in his appraisal and insightfu...
2008-10-05  Inside-Out China
Saturday Night Live's latest, 7-minute parody is an excellent and uproarious summary of Thursday's Vice Presidential debate. The best performer is Tina Fey, who looks totally like the real Palin, to the turn of her hair, or lip. CNN has a good comment on this – "It's starting to fee...
, China , America , arts
2008-10-05  Anglachel's Journal
Yes, I'm a few days late with this and haven't had time to read it in full until today. I've added Hillary's news page as a live feed to the sidebar to keep up with what's coming out of her Senate office, which is an amazing amount. I'd link my own Congress critters' news feeds, too, e...
, Housing , Roubini , Economics , Clinton , Class , Hillary , Democratic , Class , Political
!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -- Jail in Beirut wasn't really a high-security sort of place. Most of the “prisoners” were being led around without handcuffs, and no one was carrying a weapon. People were actually fairly friendly. M...
The folks who said that Sarah Palin’s performance at last Thursday’s vice presidential debate didn’t leave Tina Fey any material were wrong — she killed in the opening skit, turning Palin’s perky but content-free non-answers into pure comedy gold. If you...
, In , America , Politics , Sarah , Video
Sorta kinda in continuation with a blog I wrote a while ago about Generation Y's faliure to launch as a respectable counterculture in the time line of society, I just wanted to touch on a little problem I came across while studying eras of the past. I may have touched on this briefly ...
Last week I gave six talks, at the Mina'tres na Konfrensian Chamorro in Saipan and in different classes at the University of Guam. I hiniyong este na afagao yu' gi este na simana. Before I lost my voice though, I was speaking about thesis topics and writing for different audiences and ...
, Finanu'i , Guahu , Magahet , Ethnic , Bopeep , Micronesians , Education , Decolonial , Racial , Konfrensian , Academia , Undocumented , Mafa'lansa
2008-10-04  Workbench
Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review for the past 11 years, posted this comment on The Corner about Sarah Palin's performance in the vice presidential debate:I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch a...
, politics , television,
2008-10-04  Geonexus
Stephen Pinker dispels two of the myths about Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential debate performance in today’s New York Times (Everything You Heard Is Wrong). He persuasively argues that she didn’t successfully survive a trial by fire, as her supporters suggest. Nor do...
, Ideas
2008-10-04  Sum Of Me
Ha ha Hey can anyone tell me why I'm supposed to care about Steve Fossett? Anyone? Because I don't, not even a little bit. In fact, I don't know a single person who cares or is following this story. And yet there are recurring headlines for a year(?) now, as though all of America is ...
2008-10-04  APRN
From the big ideas that drew in mid-century Americans seeking adventure to the small furs that brought Russians before that, we look back through Alaskan history as our 50th anniversary of Statehood series continues. We look back at aviation, healthcare, the earthquake that, ironically...
, AK
2008-10-04  edwinleap.com
Stupidity abounds, dear readers.  I used to think that medicine had kind of a ‘corner on the market’ of crazy.  I mean, we have crazy doctors, crazy nurses, crazy patients, heaven knows we have crazy laws like EMTALA forced down our collective gullets, and we have crazy r...
, Uncategorized
2008-10-04  comitini.com
Housing Prices in the Three Americas A Harvard economist weighs in on the quality of real estate's "troubled assets" that the government is buying. In the housing markets, there are really three Americas. The declining inner cities of the Rust Belt. The expensive markets of the two c...
2008-10-04  Wizbang
I saw this at Jake Tapper's piece about how the McCain camp will be hitting Obama hard on his relationships with some pretty nasty guys. This ad by Judicial Confirmation Network best explains why examining who Obama chooses to associate with is so important in this presidential electio...
, 2008
2008-10-04  Salome's Corner
Today, Bruce Springsteen spoke and performed at a voter registration rally in Philadelphia. No matter what your political stance this year, sit back and admire his poetic optimism when describing the American system. Makes me proud to think about my country this way, rather than all t...
, music , politics
You know how you get occasional reports from your stat counter? I have sitemeter--I seldom go to the thing--I put it here because someone told me it was cool. And it was at first, but then I sorta forgot about it. I remember it every time I am sent the little report that tells me how ...
2008-10-04  JoeTrippi.com
First of all I want to say that there is another book out there that I urge people to read. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga’s Taking On The System. Markos and Jerome Armstrong along with so many others were there at the beginning, and Markos’ book is a must read if you want to un...
, Trippi , Howard , Jerome , Markos , Obama , Taking , The
On August 7, 2008 Brian Dale Dykstra, 31,was charged with 2nd degree murder in the 2005 death of his adopted Russian son Isaac Jonathan Dykstra, 21 months old. Dykstra surrendered to Johnson County, Iowa authorities on August 8 and was released on $15,000 bond. He submitted a writt...
, Isaac , dead
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2008-10-04  Top Model Gossip
Tyra Banks is expanded the Top Model franchise to include her own daytime talk show The Tyra Banks Show. Modelville, a show-within-a-show will premiere on the October 8 episode. Modelville will follow former America’s Next Top Model contestants Fatima Siad, Renee Alway, Laur...
, ANTM , America's , America's , America's , Bianca , Fatima , Other , The , Tyra , antm , dominique , lauren , modelville , renee , top , tyra
2008-10-04  Queercents
Now for a bit of shameless promotion: Last night I had the privilege of working for the very talented Mike Daisey, a monologuist who has been described as a “master storyteller.” His monologue, called “If You See Something Say Something” was both incredibly po...
, Weekly , Economy , hobbies , theatre
J.L. Chestnut Jr., Early Leader in Civil Rights Movement, Dead at 77 J.L. Chestnut passed this week. He may be unknown to many folks outside of Selma and Alabama. However, his passing provides a moment to meditate on the life of a man with the vision and steel to change the direction a...
2008-10-04  Salon: War Room
"This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America. We see America as the greatest force for good in this world....Our opponent though, is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target t...
(updated below) There are few things that make political coverage more unbearable -- and more distorting -- than The David Brooks Syndrome: the extremely patronizing and ill-informed pretense, shared by media and right-wing elites alike, that they can study the Little Common People lik...
It's down to the wire. Who is going to be the next president of the United States of America? Have you made your final decision? Who do you think is most qualified? Who are you voting for? Are you registered to vote? Questions and more questions about your choice for the next presi...
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2008-10-04  Wizbang
I saw this at Jake Tapper's piece about how the McCain camp will be hitting Obama hard on his relationships with some pretty nasty guys. This ad by Judicial Confirmation Network best explains why examining who Obama chooses to associate with is so important in this presidential electio...
, 2008
2008-10-04  io9
As America descends into anarchy and destruction, the Russian president has declared the era of the U.S. over. So what are we in for? Soviet architecture in the 1930s and 1940s was cloud-touching stuff, as this exhibit of unrealized Soviet architectural fantasies proves. With the tabl...
, Retrofuturism , Architecture , Moscow , Russia
2008-10-04  Traveling with Baby
In the near future, I plan to post a really fantastic product review on something (that doesn’t have fluoride) that really helps teeth.  However, the controversy on fluoride is so extensive, I believe I need to write up a post just to set-up the foundation for the particular pro...
, Health , Nutrition , Toxins: , fluoride , dental , Research
I felt I'd dive right into a topic that's becoming become less forbidden and pushed on people of increasingly younger ages. Sex is visible in almost all streams of the media, in the seductively toned advertisements that line highways, overpower magazine pages, and consume television co...
I’ve always been interested in the music charts — I keep tabs on the happenings of America’s music charts via Idolator’s fantastic column, 100 and Single written by chart guru Chris Monalphy. But much more interesting is the Global Track Chart, which monitors th...
, Charts , Interesting , MP3 , Music , Coldplay , Jason , Kanye , Katy , Kid , Ne-Yo , Pink , Pussycat , Rihanna , T.I.
reason.tv is proud to be participating in this year's American Film Renaissance Film Festival, which runs in D.C.-area theaters from Wednesday, October 1 through Saturday, October 4.On Saturday at 3.30pm, at the Goethe-Institut (812 Seventh St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001), selections f...
2008-10-03  These Glory Days
It’s been quite the year for bleak. The Mist kicked everything off, of course, in a sweeping epic sort of way, bringing a murky apocalypse to the East coast of America. Eden Lake took things way downscale and plopped you in the middle of a very unpleasant Middle England, and even...
, Blogroll , Film , Films , movies , Hill , King , Leonardo , María , Montaña , Rey , Sbaraglia , Valverde
It’s not Tanis. It’s me. That’s right, Canada.  I’ve got her.  And I’m not giving her back. Sure, America has it’s war and it’s bankruptcy, it’s dueling banjos and it’s ire.  But now we’ve got Tanis. She’s trapped i...
, Comedy
During last night’s vice-presidential debates, Joe Biden invoked Shakespeare in an effort to emphasize the impact that the Bush administration’s ineptitudes will have on the policies of whoever wins this November's election, saying, “What’s past is prologue.” The fact that th...
2008-10-03  CityMama™
This week I was contacted by the PR folks representing Prego spaghetti sauce who are promoting their "$10 meal" campaign. They sent along a bag of penne pasta, a jar of Prego spaghetti sauce, a can of cut green beans, a bottle of garlic powder, and a small container of shelf-stable pa...
, Budget-Friendly , $10 , budget , budget-conscious , budget-friendly , cheap , prego
[Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag from "The Hills," who have been shilling for Taco Bell for a little while now, working the drive thru window as some sort hunger awareness stunt; image via INF. There are more of these pictures!!!] TheHonJudgeSmails' new line beats the original, This Pic...
, open , heidi , inf , spencer , the
2008-10-03  Wonderland
By Alice Bradey I watched the debate last night, as so many did, with great interest, and the three-quarters-written other column I had prepared for this week promptly got thrown out the window. Because this morning there's not much else I can think of. First off, let me just say t...
, Politics
2008-10-03  Linden's Pensieve
Tonight is our last night in America for at least a year. During my research-filled trip, I've been reminded of some of the advantages/disadvantages of America and some of the advantages/disadvantages of Germany. Some of these are highly subjective (chocolate-peanut butter!), but ot...
, surprising , peanut , germany , america
2008-10-03  Pet Trust Law Blog
Why do I need to hire an attorney? I can just go download the form from the Internet and fill in the blanks. Each day attorneys all across America hear this familiar refrain from potential clients. Estate planning documents for pet owners are no different. You need to consult your prof...
, General , Pet
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Westward Ho!!"][/caption] The electronic buzz and the chatter of people overflows the lobbies of airports across the world where tight security and a festive atmosphere always fills the air. With more people hopping on and off pla...
In random orderRegarding Palin - If you can cram enough into 6 weeks to pull off an acceptable job at a debate, either the interview process is flawed or the job simply isn't that hard. The fact that McCain and Obama can not show up for work for two year periods would suggest the latt...
, debates , Biden , Sarah , Politics
2008-10-03  The KickApps Blog
KickApps has been included in Fierce Online Video’s list of 15 Movers and Shakers in the online video space.  Our fierceness has nothing to do with the fact that we power Tyra Bank’s TV show America’s Next Top Model’s VIP Lounge, but has to do with our awesome vid...
, KickApps , Video , fierce
India and America complete, at last, a civil nuclear dealMore than three years after it was initially signed, the US-India civilian-nuclear deal has cleared its last remaining hurdle. A strong bipartisan majority in the US Congress endorsed the deal on October 1st. Supporters of the de...
PN of SuperSonicSoul has been writing about Aubrey McClendon. He's one of the richest men in America, and one of the minority owners of the Thunder. They don't like him in Seattle. PN is from Seattle. He writes: Today, I want to explore the sickening relationship between McClendon's i...
2008-10-03