sick of the election had enough sick of the blogospheres obsession with it neoneocon to the rescue with something else to make you sicka jellomold recipe for the ages strawberry pretzel jello. yes i repeat strawberry pretzel jello a crisp salty pretzel crust complements the creamy marshmallo wflufflike white layer with a tangy topping of strawberries in gelatin. much like a strawberry cheese...
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st. paul minnesota earlier this week republicans pushed back the kickoff of their political rally by a day to make room for hurricane gustav. now a source the national hurricane center in miami says hurricanes hannah josephine and ike appear to be considering a similar move. its too early to know for sure said the unnamed meteorologist but i wouldnt be surprised if the storms backed off slowed do...
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no matter what you think of controversial film maker michael moore and ill admit that im not a fan i think hes entertaining but plays way too loose with the facts even on issues where i might agree with him over the years this been this odd compulsion by procopyright folks to pigeonhole moore as being against anyone sharing his films online despite the fact hes clearly stated he has no problem w...
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today well see just how infatuated john mccain is with the policies of our nations worst president ever george w. bush. if you want to learn more about the man of so many flipflops and political lives id recommend you check out nyt reporter david kirpatricks interview on fresh air this morning. its a bit long at 43 minutes but quite interesting. get ready to here mr. third term try to distance him...
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i feel like i am drowning in news there is so much of it. i had not planned to but i am going to in the face of all of this news continue the instapundity format i used yesterday which helps make things more readable i think. what do you think please let a comment and tell me if you hate it or like it. oh what did i think of the speech i thought she was actually better not by much on friday ...
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one theme people have been hitting a lot this week is an attack on the obamariffic use of the word change. most succinctly one delegate last night said to me not all change is good. people dont want change they want reform. thats the message weve been sending. not too well as it turns out. the tale fo the tape from last nights big speeches mike huckabee 7 changes no reforms rudy giuliani 4 changes...
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kevin w. baker of republic of dogs noted that there was no mention of george bush in sarah palins entire speech. this got me thinking. many people have noted that bush has really been shunted aside during the republican national convention and its hardly surprising given his justifiably abysmal approval ratings. dan froomkins provided good overviews of this dynamic this week in gustavs silver ...
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nprs day to day recently asked musicians to send in their takes on the california dream and the show just highlighted its favorite a song composed entirely of sounds of urban los angeles from squeaking bus brakes and clicking skateboards to clacking shoes. it turns out that the 25yearold artist who created it quinn kiesow has done the same albeit in shorter bits for other cities including madrid a...
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photo damir sagolj reuters if the mccain campaign selected sarah palin because they hoped the move would draw attention away from obama thenmission accomplished. palins selection has been a news story with a magnitude that rivals a category 5 hurricane. and so it was with great anticipation that the nation tuned in to watch her substantive entry onto the national stage last nights speech at the ...
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npr did a segment on the bechdel test a couple days ago. it was created by awesome cartoonist alison bechdela dykes to watch out for fun home in this comic where one of the characters says that she only watches a movie if 1 the movie contains more than one female character 2 who talk to each other 3 about something besides a man. sounds easy doesnt it nope. the bechdel test is surprisingly hard to...
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transcript gov. sarah palin at the 2008 rnc puh. die rede obamas auf der dnc war ausschliealich im kontext betrachtet natarlich eine wirklich gute. bei genauerem lesen offenbarte sich bisweilen eine ziemlich dumpfe rhetorik aber sei es drum der kontext eben. die vizenominierte palin hielt gestern wiederum ihre rede auf der rnc. und denkst plumper geht nicht mehr kommt von irgendwo ein republikaner...
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you didnt have to growup in the bronx or even have visited to get in the mood for chazz palminteris a bronx tale on for two more nights at the long center. i saw the show last night having not seen the 1993 film i really had no idea what to expect. when i told one of my colleagues i was going he mentioned something about a mouse and kids so i suspect he was even further off base than i was. palmin...
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social conservatism has been much ballyhooed the past year. in fact we were deflated after a simultaneous republican controlled house senate and oval office didnt do more to stop abortion and then a presidential candidate was picked with whom we had issues. i am absolutely convinced that culture wars are so 90s said barack obama during his july 2007 speech at a planned parenthood action fund e...
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first of all i think a recognition is due to our rightwing friends that indeed she is a considerable political talent. she delivered her speech with confidence and poise and stepped into the vp candidates attackdog role with zest. its on she seemed to say. and the ecstatic gop response was a combination of ideological kinsmanship and browmopping relief. i think that vetting issues aside not for l...
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npr bike messengers branch out i think its awesome that rising gas prices could actually create more bike messengers for things like grocery delivery in urban areas. as a side note i really wish npr had an embeddable audio player......
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victory in iraq is finally in sight he wants to forfeit. terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay he wants to meet them without preconditi ons. alqai da terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on america hes worried that someone wont read them their rights transcript gov. sarah palin at the rnc npr. what a stupid stupid woman. an equal right to justice under the l...
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hour interviews singersongwriter angela desveaux. hour what is the underlying storytheme behind the new record angela desveaux the title track the mighty ship is a song about my grandmother losing her first husband at sea. she was quite young and had a threemonthold baby at the time. these tragic events werent uncommon in those parts of nova scotia a small coastal village called cheticamp and as...
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in this edition of ya wednesday we link to a lot of books many of them not ya at all. caulfield too tame for most american teens theres been a fair amount of buzz about anne trubeks article in good magazine about j.d. salingers 1951 novel the catcher in the rye. trubek professor of english at oberlin college merely suggested that it may be time for holden caulfield to step down as the goto repre...
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acceptance speech. remember talking about her family is offlimits. except when she does it herself a transcript gov. sarah palin at the rnc......
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during the democratic national convention i couldnt believe my gay ears. big name speakers including both of the clintons and sen. barack obama publicly and openly called for gay and lesbian rights. this from a party that all but shunned the gay community in the 2000 and 2004 election cycles. even the republicans who led the charge against gay rights in previous election years are taking a new st...
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does anybody know where i can find audio archives of the geo quiz from pris the world radio program i subscribe to their podcast and get the recent ones but id like to get my hands on as many old ones as possible. theres an archive on their website but those entries are text only.......
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droughts. hurricanes. floods. monsoons. disappearing coastlines. these are just a few of the weather effects were currently experiencing and will see more of in the future courtesy of global warming. and they arent pretty they lead to destruction injury and the death of millions of people not to mention the effects on the earths ecosystems.a scientists are noting more weather disturbances than ev...
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speaking at the convention newshour flickr some reactions to joe liebermans speech last night at the gop convention in st. paul crystal clear conservative is a libertarianleaning republican yankees fan who writes mainly about virginia and national politics. she thinks liberman gave a great speech overall lieberman was a breath of fresh air to the convention by demonstrating mccains broad bipartis...
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npr gives a sample of the music played at the convention in st. paul which apparently heavily features the reggaeton stylings of daddy yankee who is endorsing mccain. this is the last thing id expect at the rnc. i would pay a lot of money to watch mccain dancing to gasolina......
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