"over the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people who live in cities, in highly..." (2)
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“over the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people who live in cities, in highly educated regions and on the coasts. This expulsion has had many causes. But the big one is this: Republican political tacticians decided to mobilize their coalition with a form of social class warfare. … Over the past 15 years, the same argument has been heard from a thousand politicians and a hundred television and talk-radio jocks. The ...
"I Know How to Get Him" (1)
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McCain vows that he'll finally track down bin Laden because "I know how to get him." If that's really the case, maybe he could just tell Bush? That would save some time.--Michael Crowley
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Alex C said:
Yeah, I was hoping Obama would ask McCain this in a followup -- oh, wait, no followups! cause that might be too, you know, *interesting*.
Tom Brokaw definitely lost this debate (1)
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Tom Brokaw definitely lost this debate
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* inconsistent enforcement of stupid "no followups" rule* whining about "you made and agreed to the rules"* leading question about social security (accepting the Republican "OMG SS is doomed CRISIS CRISIS" frame)* "Is Russia an evil empire, yes or no?" (To which McCain gave a very sensible explanation of why that was a stupid question.)* lame choice of "what don't you know" as final question* "Get out of the way, I can't read the words 'thank you and good night' off the screen" w/e d00d
"John Oliver: Governor Palin brought up Joe Biden’s quote about us raping the ocean floors this..." (1)
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“John Oliver: Governor Palin brought up Joe Biden’s quote about us raping the ocean floors this evening. Douglas Holtz-Eakin: Yes. John Oliver: Does Governor Palin support the ocean paying for it’s own rape kit?” - i was looking for some validation in my life - Great Minds
"‘What can we do? Its difficult times but we’ve spent all day talking about it, watching..." (1)
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“‘What can we do? Its difficult times but we’ve spent all day talking about it, watching the news getting worse and worse. We had to go out and be with friends. Maybe it’s like the party at the end of the world,’ says Egill Tomasson, 32, sitting in the Kaffeebarinn bar. Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest rates are raging upwards. The krona, Iceland’s currency, is in freefall and is rated ...
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Alex C said:
My mom's reply: "What can we do? Are you kidding? The krona is in freefall...Hell(sinki), let's sell AIG, go to Iceland and soak in a thermal hotspring :)"
What the Starbucks cup really said « NOT MY GAL (1)
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"Mr. BUFFETT: And they sat there, made reports to the Congress, you can get them on the Internet,..." (1)
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“Mr. BUFFETT: And they sat there, made reports to the Congress, you can get them on the Internet, every year. And, in fact, they reported to Sarbanes and Oxley every year. And they went—wrote 100 page reports, and they said, `We’ve looked at these people and their standards are fine and their directors are fine and everything was fine.’ And then all of a sudden you had two of the greatest accounting misstatements in history. ...
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution (draft form) - James Fallows (4)
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"No Person shall be elected President or Vice President without accepting a session of questioning by the press, such session to last no less than one hour and to be open to normally accredited members of the press in the same fashion as at Presidential news conferences. The questioning shall occur and the results shall be made freely available to the public at least one week before an Election is held." Three weeks to get ...
"So when you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it’s a cloudy day, I..." (1)
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““So when you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it’s a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it’s a cloudy day,” she said. “I should be able to tell my viewers, ‘Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right.’ And not have to say, ‘Well, you decide.’ Then it would be like I’m an idiot. And I’d be treating the audience like idiots.”” - Weighing In ...
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Designed: Senz aerodynamic umbrellas (25)
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The Senz aerodynamic umbrella turns itself to the best position in the wind and won a red dot award for its novel design. Even the shaft was rethought and redesigned (it’s oval, not cylindrical or square). I love reinventions of every day objects that are long taken for granted. And not that an umbrella matters in a hurricane, but…
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Moah said:
another improvement in design of an everyday object. :) watch the video it is pretty impressive.this guy is crazy sitting in front of that hurricane machine.
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Chris said:
Awesome, like having a stealth bomber flying right above your head! These would sell like hotcakes in Japanese during typhoon season, where you get strong winds and rain together. Litter is not nearly as common in Tokyo as it is in other big cities, but the line of broken umbrellas lining the road during typhoon season demonstrates the potential for this product.
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Jon said:
Amazing. Will be the first umbrella I have ever purchased. Also, looks like a great gift for that person that has everything and appreciates great design.
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cnu said:
Who would want to use an umbrella at 133kmph?
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pedstrom said:
wind-tunnel testing an umbrella. cool.
The McCain-Palin GOP (2)
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"Terrorist!""Kill him!""Sit down, boy!" None of these obscenities was uttered by anyone directly affiliated with the McCain campaign, but they are a clear consequence of the ugly turn it has taken--and shamelessly announced it would take!--over the past few days. If Steve Schmidt and the other architects of this increasingly disgraceful candidacy didn't anticipate such an outpouring of violent, racist bile, they are imbeciles. If they did, they are worse.Update: Of course there have always ...
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"Like Alex Max in Durango, and presumably all over the country, high school freshmen are leading the..." (1)
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“Like Alex Max in Durango, and presumably all over the country, high school freshmen are leading the way to register high school kids as well as phone bank or canvass nearly every day. … On the whole, the massive voter registration drive and the routinely packed field offices lead us to believe Obama has a strong chance to pull an upset here in the Hoosier State. A war with David Letterman is not going over ...
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An anonymous reader writes to mention that the Tokeneer research project has been released to the open source community by the US National Security Agency. The main goal of this project was to show how highly secure software can be developed cost-effectively. "Tokeneer has been written in SPARK Ada, a high level programming language designed for high-assurance applications. Originally a subset of the Ada language, it is designed in such a way that all SPARK ...
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