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Think about what the Palin pick really says about how McCain views this campaign and how he views his potential responsibilities in national security. Think about what it says about the sincerity of McCain's own central criticism of Obama these past two months in foreign affairs. Think about how he picked a woman to be a heartbeat away from a war presidency who hadn't even thought much, by her own admission, about the Iraq war ...
Michael Moore: A Note I Sent to You -- Three Years Ago ...from Michael Moore (1)
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Friends, I'm am speechless after listening to Barack Obama's speech last night. So I'm sending you something I wrote to you two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. It remains every bit as relevant today, on Katrina's 3rd anniversary, as when I wrote it on September 11, 2005. Please give it another look. Here it is in full: A Letter to All Who Voted for George W. Bush... from Michael Moore Dear Friends, On this, the fourth ...
Arianna Huffington: DNC Diary: will.i.am Rocks the HuffPost Media Panel (1)
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We kicked off our panel discussion on the impact the new media have had on the '08 race by giving the 450-strong crowd of guests a quick pop quiz on Michelle Obama's favorite show: The Brady Bunch. True or false: Marsha was a Muslim? The actual panel started by recognizing that such a panel could not have existed in 2004. For starters, HuffPost didn't exist. Much more significantly, neither did YouTube, which was represented by ...
Toby Barlow: The Great Elementary School Conspiracy (1)
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Watching the convention today, I saw a shrill blonde protester lady with a skull shaped head shrieking about how, when Obama was a young boy living in Indonesia, he went to a Muslim school. Muslim school. Think about it. Sure, this theory has been "debunked" by "experts" like "CNN." But this woman was so loud and so fierce, I just had to believe she was right. This led to me wonder about other great leaders ...
Java Projects You Should Know About (vol. 2) (1)
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Dumbster: The Dumbster is a very simple fake SMTP server designed for unit and system testing applications that send email messages. It responds to all standard SMTP commands but does not deliver messages to the user. The messages are stored within the Dumbster for later extraction and verification. ... public class SimpleSmtpServerTest extends TestCase { ... public void testSend() { SimpleSmtpServer server = SimpleSmtpServer.start(); try { // Submits an email using javamail to the email ...
Robert S. McElvaine: Obama vs. "Oh, Bomb 'Em" -- Who's the Christian? (2)
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Republicans and self-styled "Christians" are agog over what Andrea Mitchell of NBC characterized as the "crisp, immediate, forceful response" John McCain gave to Rick Warren's question about evil during the forum at the Saddleback Church. They dismiss Barack Obama's "more nuanced approach." "Sen. McCain was crisp, decisive, knew what he was about, knew his values," Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.), who is a favorite of the "Christian Right," proclaimed on Face the Nation on Sunday. ...
I'm still liking but not hearing this. From Chuck Schumer: "I (2)
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I'm still liking but not hearing this. From Chuck Schumer: "I would answer back hard. What do you mean [Obama's] not one of us? It's John McCain who wears $500 shoes, has six houses, and comes from one of the richest families in his state. It's Barack Obama who climbed up the hard way, and that's why he wants middle-class tax cuts and better schools for our kids." A friend of mine just wrote in ...
Darryle Pollack: The World's Fastest Man Meets the World's Slowest Woman (1)
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In Beijing the focus has moved from the pool to the track, where Usain Bolt breezed through the 100-meter dash so easily he looked like an Olympian god running against mortals. No doubt he's now the world's fastest human. Another Olympian who held that title was "Bullet" Bob Hayes, who later played for the Dallas Cowboys. He was crowned world's fastest human at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo where he won gold medals in the ...
Andy Borowitz: Biden Prepares 50,000-Word Acceptance Speech (2)
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In an indication that he expects to be Barack Obama's vice-presidential pick, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del) has begun writing a 50,000-word acceptance speech, aides to the senator confirmed today. The address, which Mr. Biden has been working on around the clock, is an abridged version of a 200,000-word acceptance speech that Mr. Biden wrote when he ran for President in 1988. According to those familiar with the speech, if Mr. Biden is tapped as Mr. ...
Russell Simmons: Taking Back Our Families (1)
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The other day my brother Reverend Run texted me with some exciting news: the parenting book he recently wrote with his wife Justine, Take Back Your Family: A Challenge To America's Parents, had just made the New York Times bestseller list. While some might be surprised that a parenting book written by a rapper and his wife would hit the bestseller's list, I wasn't shocked that people of all backgrounds were interested in Run and ...
The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation (29)
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We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 new web startups a year, possibly more. And the founding teams of all of these startups are young and inexperienced, mostly by design. That youth and inexperience is an asset to many of these startups. ...
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Boris Mann said:
I'm also very interested in seeing where these startup companies go....an excellent post.
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Pejman said:
experienced CEO or first time CEO?
Most Wine Should Be Sold in Boxes (39)
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Tyler Colman, reporting for The New York Times: A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York. A 3-liter box generates about half the emissions per 750 milliliters. Switching to wine in a box for the 97 percent of wines that are made to be consumed within a year would reduce greenhouse gas ...
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Ian said:
This would be a natural consequence of a carbon tax or cap-and-trade regime.
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bbebop said:
on the downside, wine-in-a-box would obsolete a bunch of wine refrigerators...
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Frank said:
I love bottles -- for my beer and for my wine -- but I also love the idea of my grandchildren enjoying the Earth as much as I do.Can't someone come up with a better solution? Please?
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nybble said:
mmmm... boxed wine.
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zappy said:
I have been drinking boxed wine for quite a while in Italy. Will see if I can find some in germany.
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V said:
Anyone know of some good box wines?
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Todd Mundt said:
In some countries, you can buy wine in boxes that's actually good. We would take a nice step forward if one or two reputable wineries made the switch.
Jared Bernstein: Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance: What to Expect and Why It Really Matters (1)
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Every year around this time, the Census Bureau releases one of the most important government reports: the annual status of poverty, household income, and health insurance coverage. The release is scheduled for the morning of August 26th at 10; you can usually watch the press conference over the web if that kind of thing turns you on as much as it does me. With your approval, I'd like to take you on a pre-release tour ...
