America's Shameful Thanksgiving Secret Revealed (1)
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Notice anything interesting about all the turkeys being pardoned in these pictures? That's right! None of these turkeys are from the inner-city. Last year, Michael Kraskin pointed out here on this blog that in Bush's first seven years in office, not once did he pardon a non-caucasian turkey for Thanksgiving. But, now, at Political Machine, he's showing us that the problem is much more systemic. It appears that no president since Harry Truman has pardoned ...
RNC Chair: Only Conservative Whack Jobs Need Apply (1)
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I am struck by the last line in Chris Cillizza’s column over at WaPo detailing the candidates for RNC Chair. Here it is, describing potential candidate Jim Greer, of Florida: His disadvantage: he’s a moderate in a vote dominated by conservatives. I love this as a signal that the GOP is going full steam ahead in dragging their party further right of center. Michael Steele therefore gets kudos from the RNC for his “Drill, Baby ...
Vlad Centea is looking for the middle of something to be just in it when someone asks. (1)
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have to give credits to this one. we all be looking for that here now a days
The Gipper on Gay Leaders (3)
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To console myself in the wake of big-government victories at the ballot box (even if the Democrats didn’t campaign as such), I’ve been reading lots of Reagan in order to remind me of a Republican who could articulate opposition to such a statist agenda. Last night, while reading randomly in Reagan: A Life In Letters, I chanced on a passage which, while written in 1982, could be used to describe the heads of national gay ...
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It would seem many in the gay community have had enough with their own leadership.
Do you suffer from book amnesia? (1)
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Peter Robins wrote a piece for the Telegraph yesterday about buying a book only to get it home and find that you already own it. At first I thought I could confidently say I'd never done this - sometimes if...
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I can confidently say I often do this.
Navy-Funded Wave Farm Under Way in Hawaii (36)
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Ocean Power Technologies and the Navy have joined together to create a small wave farm off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii. The company has installed one of its PowerBuoy units one mile off the Kaneohe Bay Marine Corp Base, with plans to install others in the near future to generate 1MW. The PowerBuoy will be connected to the Oahu grid and Kaneohe Bay will serve as a test site for the Navy, which is hoping ...
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I've been following OPT for about a year now. This is great stuff!
The Challenger (2)
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The challenger space shuttle disaster The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board. The five men and two women - including the first teacher in space - were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger blew up. The astronauts’ families, at the airbase, and millions of Americans witnessed the world’s worst space disaster live on TV. The danger from falling debris prevented ...
Ethos (1)
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Ethos is the rhetorical appeal of your character. Your ethos in writing is who the reader "gets to know". Even in the most impersonal paper, the reader gets a sense of the writer, a sense of his or her credibility (which should be taken to mean quite literally "believability"). In Greek, ethos could mean custom, habit, disposition, or character. It is also at the root of "ethics".Unlike politics, however, scholarship does not make any explicitly ...
Brevíssimo curso de literatura brasileira amanhã no CCB (1)
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A terceira sessão organizada pelos Livros Cotovia para a comemoração dos 20 anos da editora realiza-se já amanhã, dia 9 de Novembro, na Sala de Leitura Jorge de Sena, do Centro Cultural de Belém, em Lisboa, das 11h00 às 13h00 e das 15h00 às 17h00. É o Brevíssimo curso de literatura brasileira apresentado pelos Professores Abel Barros Baptista, Carlos Mendes de Sousa e Osvaldo Silvestre. A seguir, está previsto o lançamento do livro Um crime ...
Intelligent design: Where is AI going? Part five - unpredictability (1)
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This is the controversial one. Emergent behaviours are non-scripted, un-planned activities that intelligent game characters learn through their interactions with the game world. Even the programmer won’t know what they’re going to do. There have been some amazing examples – the giant beasts in Black and White, the cute critters in the mid-nineties artificial life [...]
The push is already on to muzzle conservative talk radio and silence dissent (1)
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For you libs out there sqawking about how we should all sit down and sing Kumbaya now that The One is elected….well all I can say is go pound sand…. I have already had “moderate” libs knocking on the comments door of this blog declaring that I/we must “watch our words” and do something for the “hate” I/we possess for Obama. Now that we’ve had eight years of demented and deranged Bush hatred, you are ...
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Bush made personal allegiance a threshold test. The result was a surfeit of reliable hacks and outright incompetents.Shared by Shawn (0)Contribute commentwashingtonpost.com - National Security, Pentagon and Defense Department News (0) permalink
If President-elect Barack Obama follows the pattern of most of his modern predecessors, one of the first documents to bear his signature after he takes office will be a directive laying out his administration's national security structure. Bill Clinton signed one his first day in office; George W....Shared by Bill (29)Contribute comment
