McCain Campaign Plans To Keep Palin Away From the Press (54)
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Yesterday, McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace dismissed the fact that Gov. Sarah Palin has yet to take any questions from the press. “So what?” she scoffed. Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, campaign strategist Rick Davis suggested Palin might never sit down for an interview if, he said, it’s “in our best interest” to keep her away from the media: SCARBOROUGH: Yesterday Nicolle Wallace suggested that she was sitting right there and told Jay Carney of Time ...
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What are they hiding? - "Yesterday, McCain adviser Nicole Wallace dismissed the fact that Gov. Sarah Palin has yet to take any questions from the press. “So what?” she scoffed. Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, campaign strategist Rick Davis suggested Palin might never sit down for an interview if, he said, it’s “in our best interest” to keep her away from the media."
In a more diverse America, a mostly white RNC (2)
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Natural childbirth makes mothers more responsive to own baby-cry (1)
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A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery (CSD) were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans two to four weeks after delivery.
Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes (2)
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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio's counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own ...
Cindy McCain: Palin knows foreign policy because ‘Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia.’ (10)
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Today on ABC’s This Week, Cindy McCain tried to rebut the criticism that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has no national experience by taking a talking point from Fox’s Steve Doocy. McCain pointed to the fact that Palin’s state is near Russia: STEPHANOPOULOS: But she has no national security experience. McCAIN: You know, the experience that she comes from is what she’s done in government, and remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to ...
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Tobey said:
By the same logic, I live by the ocean, so I am going to apply to be the head of NOAA!
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Ross said:
wow. the media lets these guys say ANYTHING! what the fuck kind of argument is this???
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pberry said:
THE STUPID! IT BURNS! Seriously, this is insulting.
Loyal Bushie: Palin pick is ‘disrespectful to the office of the presidency.’ (4)
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In his Political Playbook column, Politico reporter Mike Allen reports that one Bush loyalist is extremely troubled by McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin: BIGGEST QUESTION ABOUT PALIN: If it said something admirable about President Bush that he chose a running mate who would be more helpful in governing than in campaigning, what does it say about Senator McCain that he did the opposite? One of the most loyal Bushies calls the selection “disrespectful to the ...
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Derick Valadao said:
Wow. Even conservatives are blasting the Palin selection. Man I cannot wait to see what the polls look like next week.
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ppidgeon said:
OUCH!
Top Alaska Republicans puzzled by Palin pick. (11)
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The Anchorage Daily News reports that the state’s leading Republicans are expressing shock and bewilderment over John McCain’s selection of their governor as his running mate: State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news. “She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of ...
Landfill sites are being viewed as mines with buried riches - International Herald Tribune (2)
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How To Download MP3s from Streaming Music Sites (30)
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Your favorite music sites let you listen to songs all day for free, but only as a stream -- if you want to load one of those songs onto your iPod and take it with you, you'll have to go buy it. But your browser stores streamed MP3s temporarily on your hard drive. Learn where to look and save them for later with our guide.
Study: Bankruptcies soar for senior citizens (1)
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First came the health problems. Then, unable to work, Ada Noda watched the bills pile up. And then, suffocating in debt, the 80-year-old did something she never thought she'd be forced to do.
ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can’t Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Repeat After Us: America Is Not a Christian Nation (5)
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Last September, the First Amendment Center released a poll with a truly scary finding: they found that 55 percent of Americans believe that the Founding Fathers established the United States as a Christian nation, and that Christianity is somehow established in the Constitution. Noooooo! It is absolutely nowhere in the Constitution that Christianity, or indeed any religion, is the official religion of the United States. In fact, the sole mention of "religion" in the Constitution ...
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"Last September, the First Amendment Center released a poll with a truly scary finding: they found that 55 percent of Americans believe that the Founding Fathers established the United States as a Christian nation, and that Christianity is somehow established in the Constitution. Noooooo! It is absolutely nowhere in the Constitution that Christianity, or indeed any religion, is the official religion of the United States. In fact, the sole mention of "religion" in the Constitution is in the First Amendment..."
Fiorina: McCain Has Always Shown ‘Respect’ Towards All Women (4)
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In recent weeks, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) campaign has showered praise on Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), in an effort to court female voters. Yesterday, Carly Fiorina said, “Hillary Clinton was not respected to the extent she had earned,” adding, “John McCain has long honored and respected Hillary Clinton.” Interviewed on Fox News after Clinton’s speech last night, Fiorina said Clinton had been “dissed in the way that she was treated” and that McCain knows that ...
Arctic Climate Tipping Point Happening Now! Sea Ice in Its “Death Spiral” Scientist Claims (6)
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image: NSIDC After yesterday’s ominous news that North American permafrost (and presumably European and Asian, as well) stores 60% more greenhouse gases than we thought, here’s another siren announcing that we are rushing full speed ahead towards a climatic tipping point: Scientists are reporting that the extent of sea ice in the Arctic is at the second lowest point on record. Currently ice covers 2.03 million square miles; last year's sea ice coverage, 1.59 million ...
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spavis said:
remember this day when you're living 'skin of our teeth' style in a bunker 40 years from now
Seeing Climate Change Through the Trees (3)
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You've probably never heard of the whitebark pine, much less the tiny mountain pine beetle, but the story they tell together may be one of the clearest windows we have on how climate change is already affecting ecosystems around the world. I just returned from the Greater Yellowstone Area, Wyo., after a weekend with the Natural Resource Defense Council to learn about the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem. Although I’ve washed the campfire smell out of my ...
Whether brown or red, algae can produce plenty of green fuel (1)
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Having studied the physiology of algae for more than 30 years, Rose Ann Cattolico is convinced the plant life found in oceans and ponds can be a major source of environmentally friendly fuels for everything from cars and lawn mowers to jet airplanes.
Clive Thompson on Why Urban Farming Isn't Just for Foodies (21)
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This year, Carol Nissen's crops include mesclun, cherry tomatoes, strawberries, and assorted herbs. When she sits down to dine, she's often eating food grown with her own two hands. But Nissen isn't tilling the soil on a farm. She's a Web designer who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey — one of the most cramped, concrete-laden landscapes in the nation. Nissen's vegetables thrive in pots and boxes crammed into her house and in wee plots ...
Another view of the Great Lakes compact (1)
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The House of Representatives is expected to take up approval of the Great Lakes compact when it comes back in session next week. During the August recess, a small but important group of Great Lakes advocates (notably Representative Bart Stupak and author Dave Dempsey) have raised some provocative questions regarding the Great Lakes compact’s treatment of bottled water. They are concerned that by allowing bottled water, the Great Lakes compact turns water into a product ...
Why was Cheney aide in Georgia before the conflict? (6)
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The LA Times reports that Joseph R. Wood, Vice President Cheney’s deputy assistant for national security affairs, “was in Georgia shortly before the war began.” James Gerstenzang wonders what Wood was doing there. Sergei Markov — a senior political scientist who is close to Vladimir Putin — claimed recently that the war was “part of a plot by Dick Cheney” to help John McCain. But media reports indicate that a “parade” of U.S. officials, including ...
McCain’s GOP platform contains ‘caveats about the uncertainty’ of climate science. (3)
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The Washington Times reports today that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will “run on the final version” of the Republican Party’s election platform, a draft of which the GOP’s 112-delegate platform committee is debating today and tomorrow. The staff-written draft contains a number of hard line conservative positions with which McCain supposedly disagrees: - “The platform draft calls for constitutional bans on abortion and gay marriage, two steps McCain does not support.” - Despite McCain’s claims ...
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intelligence FAIL gump WIN
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