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Marley and Me (2008)

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:33:14 +1900

> MOVIES Adjust this page for inflation ...>>> MARLEY AND ME Domestic Total as of Jan. 5, 2009: $108,235,664 Distributor: Fox Release Date: December 25, 2008 Genre: Comedy Running Time: 2 hrs. 0 min. MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: N/A SHOWTIMES: Zip Code This Movie All ...

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Turnin' Up the Heat, For Real

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 04:40:32 +1900

As the RNC looks for a new chairman, its voting members might want someone to pay attention to their Young Eagles program. This young group of donors might give off the wrong vibe about the seriousness of the stakes for the GOP. The Young Eagles were most recently mentioned in The Corner for ...

Firedoglake found this 36 minutes ago on corner.nationalreview.com

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Senate Chamber Desks ::Default Home page

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:18:27 +1900

Get Macromedia Flash Player The Flash player 6 plugin is required to fully experience the content within this site. If you do not have this plugin, click the icon to download and install it. Home Overview Senate Chamber Map Anatomy & Evolution of a Desk Desk History & Mystery Contact

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 12 hours ago on www.senate.gov

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The 10 Best American Movies

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:56:03 +1900

One take on the best American movies, not of 2008 but of all time.

The Corner found this 14 hours ago on fish.blogs.nytimes.com

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Bill Richardson is the WORLD’S Biggest LOSER

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:43:50 +1900

He withdraws his bid to become Commerce Secretary amid investigations that he exchanged state contracts for campaign contributions. He judased the Clintons for the Vice Presidency and it turns out he whored himself out for nothing. Good. Stupid moron liar.

Rover found this 2 days ago on www.clareified.com

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End Times - The Atlantic (January/February 2009)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:10:00 +1900

V irtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print—the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and elegiac reminiscences, the newspaper presses stop rolling and news goes entirely digital. Most ...

Michael Calderone's Blogs found this 7 hours ago on www.theatlantic.com

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Voting is Open!

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:16:07 +1900

I hadn’t realized it but voting opened today for the 2008 Weblog Awards , and you can vote for all of your favorite blogs here . (My li’l old category is here , if you’d like to vote for me!) Who am I voting for? Well, I have my favorites, but so many of them are ...

The Sundries Shack found this 4 hours ago on theanchoressonline.com

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I'm running for Congress in IL-5. (Progressive candidacy announcement for Rahm's seat.)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:36:26 +1900

I’m running for Congress in the Fifth District of Illinois. As a Chicago lawyer for thirty years, I have fought for working people in the Fifth District and throughout the city. I have represented unions as well as people with no unions to protect them. In plant closings I have helped them ...

This Modern World found this 11 hours ago on www.dailykos.com

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News from The Associated Press

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:17:48 +1900

NEW YORK (AP) -- A construction official falsely billed $1.2 million for supplies not delivered to clean up a toxic ground zero skyscraper in exchange for cash, clothes and trips to the Caribbean, prosecutors said Tuesday. Robert Chiarappa was the purchasing agent for the John Galt Corp., which ...

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 6 hours ago on hosted.ap.org

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Vote for Me in the 2008 Weblog Awards

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:54:49 +1900

I have been nominated for a 2008 Weblog Award in the Best Middle East or Africa Blog category. "Please go over there and vote for me":http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-middle-east-or-africa-blog/. I'm behind in the polls right now because, unlike the other nominees, I haven't sent my ...

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Sanjay Gupta's history of dissembling

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:28:53 +1900

In Sicko "fact check," CNN's Gupta falsely claimed his source's "only affiliation is with Vanderbilt University" Read more…

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I just saw 'Blazing Saddles' on CNNMSNBCBSABC

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:53:12 +1900

Well done! All the things you need to know in life you can learn from Blazing Saddles.“Howdy cowboy. What’s your name?” “My name’s Tex, ma’am” “Well, Tex Ma’am, are you in the show?” ” Why, no.” “Then get your fwiggin boots off the stage!” 35 years ago this February I saw it in the theaters. ...

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Ariane Sherine: We did it! The atheist bus campaign is bigger and better then ever | Comment is free

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:22:14 +1900

Ariane Sherine explains where the idea for the Atheist Bus Campaign came from and Polly Toynbee talks to Richard Dawkins about the word 'probably' Link to this video Today, thanks to many Cif readers, the overall total raised for the Atheist Bus Campaign stands at a truly overwhelming £135,000 ...

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JEFFREY GOLDBERG ON The World’s Pornographic Interest in Jewish Moral Failure. Is it pornographic? …

Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +1900

JEFFREY GOLDBERG ON The World’s Pornographic Interest in Jewish Moral Failure. Is it pornographic? Or is it just cowardly, since the Jews don’t cut off your head when you complain?

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Wilkes Expected To Leave Prison Today, Pending Appeal

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:55:53 +1900

Brent Wilkes, the former defense contractor who's serving a jail sentence for bribing former GOP congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, is expected to leave prison today, reports the San Diego-area North County Times . Says the paper: On Monday, a federal judge signed the order allowing ...

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SAN DIEGO: Wilkes getting out of prison : North County Times - Californian

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:53:29 +1900

9th Circuit says key Cunningham figure can bail out, pending his appeal By TERI FIGUEROA - Staff Writer | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 1:39 PM PST Brent Wilkes, the Poway man who was at the center of the corruption scandal that brought down former U.S. Rep Randy "Duke" Cunningham, is expected to ...

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Sources: CNN's Gupta approached for surgeon general

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:46:23 +1900

The Obama administration approached CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta about becoming U.S. surgeon general.

Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines found this 7 hours ago on www.cnn.com

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Doing It With Twitter

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

Incumbent RNC Chairman Mike Duncan tries to hold onto his job and explain the future of conservatism : “We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today,” Duncan ventured. “Let me just say that I have ...

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Hugh Hewitt’s ode to President Bush.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:06:53 +1900

In a new piece for Politico today, right-wing pundit Hugh Hewitt pens a paean to President Bush, saying that he remains in the small minority who approve of the job the President is doing. “Count me among the 30 percent, which will soon be 40 percent — and then more than 50 percent ...

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240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:49:23 +1900

An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways following ...

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Israel Soldier _Palestine Girl (video)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:50:00 +1900

W(World Wide Weekly)s.koreatv program edited.

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IBM May Cut Thousands of Jobs, Employee Group Says (Update2)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:51:00 +1900

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp. , the biggest technology employer, may cut thousands of jobs this month amid the global economic slowdown, according to the employee group Alliance for IBM. Employees have been hearing that layoffs will take place in late January, said ...

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Alcoa to Eliminate 15,000 Positions

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:51:00 +1900

Acknowledging that earlier cost-cutting moves are insufficient due to the sustained economic downturn, aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. announced deeper work-force cuts, more plant closures and a 50% reduction in capital expenditures. By the end of this year, there will be 15,000 fewer positions at ...

Calculated Risk found this 6 hours ago on online.wsj.com

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Evaluations of the ASUS Netbook.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:18:18 +1900

While I’ve been waiting two months for a new Dell laptop on backorder to arrive at work, I’ve been thinking about getting an ASUS 10-Inch Netbook

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Bush will use federal funds to install security gate to protect his Dallas home.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:31:50 +1900

After he leaves office on Jan. 20, President Bush will be giving up his photo-op Crawford ranch and moving to the affluent Dallas neighborhood known as Preston Hollow. Newsweek noted that the Bush family has “ found a friendly pocket ” in a Texas county that went for Obama. But Bush ...

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From Webmaster: Voting for The 2008 Weblog Awards is now open!

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:33:50 +1900

The Weblog Awards are the world's larges blog competition, with nearly 2 million votes cast since its inception in 2003. This year it is expected somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 votes over the next seven days. This year there are nearly 500 finalists in 48 categories as well as an ...

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"Although he is a completely fictional character and does not, in fact, exist"

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:00:00 +1900

Despite the bioline, the Huffington Post cites "David Kahane" straight.

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Best Science Blog - The 2008 Weblog Awards

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:27:00 +1900

Return to the The 2008 Weblog Award Poll Navigation Page . Finalists: Add to any feed reader Pharyngula (PZ Myers) Add to any feed reader Improbable Research Add to any feed reader Climate Audit Add to any feed reader Bad Astronomy Add to any feed reader Real Climate Add to any feed reader NASA ...

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House language becomes gender neutral.

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:30:13 +1900

In its new package of rule changes, the House has finally decided to make its official language gender neutral, recognizing the growing representation of women in Congress (including as Speaker of the House). Gone are references to “he,” “chairman,” and phrases such as ...

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An Ex-Detainee of the U.S. Describes a 6-Year Ordeal

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:13:58 +1900

Though never charged with a crime, Muhammad Saad Iqbal spent six years in American custody, during which he says he was taken to Egypt and tortured. >

Talking Points Memo found this 15 hours ago on www.nytimes.com

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The Nation Guide to the Nation

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 03:47:47 +1900

The Essential Lifestyle guide for the millions of progressives from coast to coast, The Nation Guide (VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009) will help left-of-center types find small businesses, cultural institutions, activist organizations, and gathering places in their own hometowns and on the road. Whether ...

Blue Gal found this 25 hours ago on www.thenation.com

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Patient, heal thyself

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:13:14 +1900

I don't find it surprising when studies of American/European health care consumption show little relationship between consumption and health outcomes. After a certain point, after all, iatrogenic morbidity and mortality has to outweigh the benefit of marginal treatment. But I confess ...

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Apple Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:11:17 +1900

Source: [b]New York Times[/b] SAN FRANCISCO Apple said it would begin selling song downloads from all four major music companies without the anticopying measures that have been part of its iTunes store since it opened in 2003. It will also move away from its insistence on pricing songs at ...

Rover found this 7 hours ago on www.democraticunderground.com

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Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:11:27 +1900

Elliot Spitzer’s vision for improving education : Provide funding for robotics teams at every school. If you ever want to see intellectual competition in the arena that matters today—technological wizardry—visit the robotics competitions that now exist in some schools. Make these ...

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Parsons to Commerce?

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:56:53 +1900

Former Time Warner Chairman and CEO is under consideration as possible replacement for Bill Richardson at Commerce. Parsons, a onetime Ford White House aide and former Dime Bank executive, ran Social Security study group in Bush era. Parsons officially left Time Warner in December 2008. ...

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 7 hours ago on thepage.time.com

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Carnival of Homeschool: Week 158 - The 3rd Anniversary

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:36:00 +1900

Where has all the time gone? Three years ago my wife and I launched the first Carnival of Homeschooling . The carnival keeps going strong. Every week we pick up new bloggers. There is a vast number of people who participate. We are also blessed to have several dozen people who take turns hosting ...

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The Limits of Fiscal Stimulus

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:34:23 +1900

I probably should have included this under my predictions for 2009 . I seriously doubt that any politically possible stimulus package that the new Congress and the Obama Administration enacts next year will do a great deal more to stimulate the economy than the mere passage of time will. ...

Rover found this 2 days ago on theglitteringeye.com

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Jeb Bush Not Running For Senate In Florida

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:07:43 +1900

Jeb Bush has announced that he is not running for Senator from Florida, dealing a blow to the GOP's chances to hold on to their open seat here. Jeb told the Associated Press that his brother's poor poll numbers were not a factor: "While I'm proud of my brother and I love my brother ... ...

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The Crab Dribble

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:48:11 +1900

Revisiting yesterday’s LeBron James contention that it’s okay to travel if you call it a “crab dribble,” I note that my friend Chris Hayes managed to unearth this document lurking on CoachesClipboard.ca — a web page for Canadian basketball coaches. Mike McNeil, ...

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That Explains So Much:

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:32:00 +1900

On June 18, 1912, Congress passed a law entitled,...

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Quote of the Day

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:23:34 +1900

RNC Chairman Mike Duncan on rebuilding his party. "We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today." Harness the the tubes ! Watch out, Change.org. -- Michael Crowley

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Passenger forced to cover Arabic T-shirt receives $330,000 compensation

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:30:48 +1900

An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded US$240,000 (A$337,000) in compensation, campaigners said Monday. Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways ...

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Jeb won't run for Senate

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:00:59 +1900

Jeb Bush has decided not to run for the Senate in Florida, according to former state House Speaker Marco Rubio. "He said it just wasn't the right timing," Rubio said, recounting a phone call he received this afternoon from the former Florida governor and presidential ...

The Page - by Mark Halperin on TIME.com found this 8 hours ago on www.politico.com

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Disappointing

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:00:14 +1900

There will be no Senator Bush. Here's his statement: While I will always have more than fond memories of my years in public office and was humbled by the outpouring of support I received over the last few weeks, now is not my time to be running for office. To sum it up, in the words of Dr. ...

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Exclusive analysis, Part 1 | Gristmill: The environmental news blog

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:45:03 +1900

A new study [PDF] puts the generation costs for power from new nuclear plants at from 25 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour -- triple current U.S. electricity rates ! This staggering price is far higher than the cost of a variety of carbon-free renewable power sources available today -- and 10 times ...

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Hard-Hit Families Finally Start Saving, Aggravating Nation's Economic Woes

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:35:52 +1900

Todd Meier for The Wall Street Journal Rick Capp with daughter Ellen and son Noah at home in Meridian, Idaho. Like many in the Boise area, the Capp family trimmed spending throughout the year as the economy turned; Mr. Capp lost his job in October.

The Latest on Air America found this 18 hours ago on online.wsj.com

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In the US, Gaza is a different war

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:03:50 +1900

The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel's war on Gaza.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan found this 13 hours ago on english.aljazeera.net

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When Tanks Meet Humans

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:42:31 +1900

Reports are coming in of a particularly grisly encounter at a school in Gaza. Maybe 40 dead in a U.N. school. For a glimpse of how these images are being seen in the global media - very different from American sources - check this story out . The carnage is a cable news 24 hour story: The ...

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Best Hidden Gem (Authority between 0 and 50)

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:55:23 +1900

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The Weblog Awards [Best Diarist]

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:55:23 +1900

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