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2008-08-26 Baba Reens
John McCain supports offshore drilling
for more Gasolina.
, politics
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2008-08-28 BlogHer
Senator Barack Obama made his first
appearance at the DNC! The surprise
showing came after Senator and VP
candidate Joe Biden spoke. Both outside
and inside Pepsi Center in downtown
Denver, everyone exploded with
enthusiasm! Here are two
reactions.
, Politics , dnc
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2008-08-28 Global Voices Online
Photo reports (RUS) by LJ user
photomans: from Tskhinvali - here; from
a refugee camp in Vladikavkaz - here.
, Central , Eastern , Georgia , Human , Humanitarian , International , Politics , Refugees , Relief , Roundups , Russia , Russian , War
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2008-08-28 Zennie's Zeitgeist
This is a totally terrible thing to
see on a video, let alone read about.
An elderly woman protester was slammed
to the ground at the DNC Convention by
Denver Police. (Or I would double check
that because some of the law enforcement
officers were from places like Aurora,
Colorado.)...
, code , elderly , dnc , politics
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2008-08-28 Sepia Mutiny
Well, the laws of probability had to
eventually come to fruition, and for one
night of the convention, I decided to
have an “alternate night.” I headed
to the Ralph Nader “Open the
Debates” rally at U of D, which was
quite the spectacle. It was at times
entertaining, frustratin...
, Politics
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Thomas: NObama.Did you ever wonder what
could possibly drive the diehard –
dare we say even militant – Hillary
Clinton delegates at Donkeypalooza in
Denver to cast their ballots for the
former First Lady.
You’re free. Fly on
your own. I release you to cast your
presidential ball...
, 2008
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2008-08-28 Obsidian Wings
by publius
So I’ve been sitting here
trying to think up something
semi-intelligent to say about
tonight’s speeches, but not having
much luck. The reason, I think, is that
it’s extremely hard to know what will
prove effective to swing voters. I
mean, I can tell you about what I...
, Politics
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Wow, what a night. I'm sure you all saw
the awesome Bill Clinton speech, and
John Kerry, and of course Joe Biden's
acceptance speech, and the grand finale
when Barack Obama joined his running
mate on stage. read moreKnoxViews
, Elections , National , Politics , 2008 , DemCon08
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2008-08-28 Truth From Facts
Here’s a fascinating story from
Caijing about alleged money transfers to
terrorist groups through Bank of China
accounts:
More than 100 terror victims
filed a class action lawsuit August 21
against the Los Angeles branch of Bank
of China (BOC) for allowing millions of
dollars to...
, Law , Politics , Rumors , USA , Bank , BOC , China , Hamas , Palestine , PIJ , terrorism
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2008-08-28 reveries.com :: marketing insights + ideas
var addthis_pub =
'moth50man';
“
I think there’s a lot of confusion
about what architects do,” says
Brandy Brooks in a Boston Globe piece by
Francie Latour (8/24/08).
“It’s supposed to be about
the health and safety and welfare of
peo...
, Politics , Innovation
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2008-08-28 Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - music
Many a memorable tune has been kept off
the top spot, often without suffering.
On the other hand, some have sunk
without trace and others you may
misremember as number ones...
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2008-08-28 BlogHer
BlogHer spoke with BlogHim Chris Rabb,
publisher of Afro-Netizen, and husband
of Dr. Imani Perry, about gender and
politics. Chris shared his thoughts on
the importance of re-thinking gender
definitions especially for progressives
and feminists of any gender. He also
speaks of the im...
, Feminism , Politics , Race, , Barack , CONVENTIONS , DEMOCRATS , Election , Hillary
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2008-08-28 Significant Pursuit by Renaissance Guy
I want to start this post by
saying that any change I could believe
in would not be more of the same old
thing.
Having more govenment
programs, as Senator Obama promises to
do, is not a change. It’s a lot
more of the same old thing. Cutting
out most of the p...
, Politics , 2008 , Barack , change , fair , free , taxes
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2008-08-28 Jesus community
Some say we should never talk to others
about politics and religion, because
it's so divisive. Where I work at RBC
Ministries, there is probably more talk
than usual on politics lately. I have
found my views as a registered
Independent, and neither sold to the
Democratic or Republican ...
, nationalism , books , politics , abortion
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2008-08-28 BlogHer
BioTech isn't exactly my strong suit,
although I do know buzz words like "big
pharmaceutical" and "genetically
engineered foods." However, I wasn't
expecting to see the chairman of the
industry's trade association here in the
Big Tent.
We talked about why he was
there, what he hoped t...
, Politics , CONVENTIONS , DEMOCRATS , Election
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2008-08-28 The Moderate Voice
Having had the night to sleep on the
evening’s affairs in Denver, even
though many of my co-authors here have
already done yeoman’s work on the
subject, I would reflect on some of the
changes I saw in the Democrats’
presentation. Going essentially in
reverse order, on...
, Newsweek , Democratic , Vice , Michelle , Denver , Joe , Bill , Dick , 2008 , John , Barack , John , Politics
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2008-08-28 Slacker Manager
Best Practices: Do we need more
practice?
by David Zinger
There is the
old question that was asked by someone
in New York City. How do you get to
Carnegie Hall? The New Yorker replied:
practice, practice, practice.
Do you
practice the best practices of
management? What are those best...
, management
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2008-08-27 DALLAS SOUTH
If you can hang with this video for
at lease a minute, you can see what
it’s like on the floor, and see
why the fire marshall had to shut it
down for a while last night. The floor
was extra packed because of Sen.
Clinton’s surprise announcement
but the hall is only ab...
, Blogging , Dallas , Politics , Democratic
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2008-08-27 The Caucus
Reporters and editors on the political
desk are taking questions from our
readers during the conventions.
, The , democratic , republican
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2008-08-27 ChannelWeb Complete Feed
Best Western says it has looked into a
reported breach of 8 million customers'
confidential data, but says that only 10
customers at a single hotel were
affected.
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2008-08-27 The Washington Independent
DENVER — In 2004, I was googling
around to find something about Joe Biden
for a piece I was writing. What I found
was a short-lived blog titled Joe Biden
Is Thugged Out, devoted to celebrating
the Delaware Senator’s bodacious
pugilism. Sadly, the blog shut down
after a coup...
, Blog , National , Obama , Politics , Biden , DNC
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2008-08-27 GreenTech Pastures
Clean-tech is getting more and more
political. With so much money and
government subsidy, or not, at stake, it
was inevitable. A leading greentech
venture capitalist spoke at the
Democratic Convention. And the governor
of Montana spoke about declaring energy
independence for America...
, Blogroll , green , renewable , energy , climate , global , fossil , air , cars , venture , China , law , wind , solar , petroleum , conservation , environmental
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2008-08-27 Political Lunch
Today's Lunch comes to you from the
third day of the Democratic National
Convention in Denver. It's all about
lines, signs, and speeches as Rob and
Will continue their convention
coverage.
, Politics , politics , political_lunch , democrats , convention , denver , obama , biden , mark_warner , dave_barry , millis , coghlan , hillary_clinton
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2008-08-27 Ogilvy PR 360 Digital Influence Blog
Kaitlyn has done a great job of
explaining Twitter, what it can be used
for and how to use it in her past two
blog posts. In Twitter: Edition 101, she
provides a great example of what Twitter
can to do enhance communication and
generate conversation around a specific
event, topic, bran...
, Digital , Best , Openness
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2008-08-27 The WOMMA Word Blog
Can’t make it to the DNC in Denver or
the RNC in Minneapolis? Don’t worry,
the crush of social media applications
covering the conventions will provide
you with a heavy dose of political
minutia. The pushers in this scenario
include the likes of Digg, Delicious,
Flickr, Seesmic, a...
, Links , WOM , WOM
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2008-08-27 //re:generate
Opening night at the Democratic National
Convention, author Donald Miller (Blue
Like Jazz, etc.) gave the closing
benediction. If you were watching CNN,
they didn’t televise it along with
a lot of other things that happened
throughout the day. But if you’re
interested in ...
, missiology , politics
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2008-08-27 handsandfeet
At time I can rally frustrate people
with my thoughts on politics. Yesterday
our son let me know that Obama was
having a carnival this week or
something. Then he informed me that he
was squarely in favor of McCain no
matter what this Obama had to say.
Well,
first I asked if he meant co...
, Politics , Barack , Church , Democrats , John , love , Republican
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2008-08-27 Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine
An activist from the women's peace
group CODEPINK was knocked down and then
arrested yesterday by city police in
Denver. In the above video, you can see
the thematically dressed Alicia Forrest
get (quite violently) swatted by a cop's
baton, and then scooped away from
reporters before...
, In , codepink , peace , police , politics , protests
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2008-08-27 J-Wild
I have been working with Google
documents and 'discovered' you can make
these cool online forms. This is a life
saver for a youth minister because now I
can create these sign up forms for
activities and post or e-mail them to my
kids. They put in the information I
want and it's goes ...
, Obama , Politics
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2008-08-27 Brandon Tucker
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – The West
Course at Myrtle Beach National
isn’t Myrtle Beach’s best
golf course. It’s not even
MBN’s best course, that’s
King’s North next door.
But the
West Course is the best course
I’ve played in seven rounds of t...
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2008-08-27 Lookin' Fer Learnin'
(WARNING: THIS IS A VERY LONG
DOCUMENT!)
Earmarks requested by Sen.
Barack Obama for fiscal year 2008
(word-for-word, Sen. Obama’s own press
release):
Thursday, June 21,
2007
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator
Barack Obama (D-IL) today announced that
he had requested federal funding f...
, Democrats , Politics , Obama , Barack , Earmarks
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2008-08-27 Health Beat
Yesterday, the Census Bureau came out
with a report that provides
a compelling
window on poverty and health in
America.
It’s somewhat modestly
titled “Income, Poverty and
Health
Insurance Coverage in the United
States, 2007.” I would suggest it
deserves a headline that
does j...
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2008-08-27 Obi's Sister
However, I could not help but shout
“Toga! Toga! Toga!” when I
read this news.
What’s wrong a
tasteful background of red, white and
blue? Old Glory? Slideshots of the
Founding Fathers? Prior Presidents?
Amber waves of grain? Purple
mountian’s majesty?
But
...
, DimWitDems , Election2008 , Politics , Village
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So crazy story: Monday night I am
walking through the Denver Performing
Arts Complex and right in front of me,
just standing there chatting with the
common people and hamming it up with the
rest of his band mates is Pete Wentz.
That's when the lady next to me says,
"Well I just saw Ash...
, Celebrities , Politics
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2008-08-27 Comments for The Best of Blogs
I hope you can include my blog next
time. Visit: So You Want To Be a
Banquet Manager
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2008-08-27 Just Make Money Online
Hi, there. This is just a quick
reminder that I’ll be closing this
poll on the best source of online income
shortly. After I close this poll,
I’ll be tallying and sharing the
results with you.
If you already voted,
thanks! I really appreciate it. And, i...
, Polls
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2008-08-27 Fleshbot
Because one in the hand is worth ... uh,
never mind. Agnes (asredas.com)
Bryleigh Rayne (babezplanet).com)
Candace (labatidora.net) Felicity Fey
(teenport.com) Heather Kozar
(sexykittenporn.com) Inga Unione
(freeporn.hu) Jamie Lynn
(bigboobsparadise.com) Janine Siu
(b...
, Babes , Babelogs , best , Boobs , Breasts , Feature , Glamour , Models , Outdoor , Penthouse , Playboy , Redheads , Straight , Topless
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2008-08-27 Tumbling Todd Sattersten
The 100 Best Drum Corps: We are doing
whatever we can to promote the new book.
E is doing his part. We’ll be doing
all the summer festivals and area block
parties.
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2008-08-27 LexBlog - Real Lawyers Have Blogs
We'll continue our monthly Best of
Blogging Series for LexBlog clients this
morning with 'Marketing Your Blog :
Getting And Growing Traffic To Your
Niche Law Blog.' Looks like we'll have
close to 100 clients attending.
We'll
go live at 9 AM PT with Rob La Gatta,
Stacey Merrick, and I ...
, LexBlog , Marketing , webinar
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2008-08-27 The Well-Timed Period
Photo by HHSCan you be a theology
professor at a Roman Catholic University
and refuse to teach Roman Catholic
theology to your students because of a
personal belief objection to the
theology? Of course not.Rosemary Radford
Ruether's appointment to theology
professor was withdrawn by th...
, Mike , Abortion , Politics
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2008-08-26 Tea and Yarn
I'm a liberal. Have been my whole adult
life. And I am very unhappy with the
Obama-Biden ticket. It strikes me as
schizophrenic. Mr. Hope-and-Change
combined with Mr.
Washington-Insider-Owned-by-Special-Inte
rests? Yes, I admit I would have
preferred Obama-Clinton, but Biden?
...
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2008-08-26 UsefulArts.us
Public Servant….Or Satan?
The idea
that Obama is the devil has been kicking
around among talk-radio callers for a
few months. Saturday Night Live
performer Victoria Jackson voiced her
concern that Obama is the Anti-Christ on
her blog:
“I don’t want a
political label, ...
, Politics , This
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2008-08-26 The Nursing Site Blog
The political race in the U.S. has been
a long one this time around, but as the
parties head to their conventions,
platforms will become more clear and
we'll begin to understand more about
where Obama and McCain stand on health
care and issues involving solving the
shortage of nurses.N...
, politics , politics , political
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2008-08-26 Medical Humanities Blog
The journal Race/Ethnicity:
Multidisciplinary Global Contexts has
issued a Call for Papers for its Autumn
2009 issue entitled Race and the Global
Politics of Health Inequity. Here is an
excerpt:The first issue of Volume 3
explores the implication of race and
ethnicity in health outcom...
, Medical
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2008-08-26 WardBunny's Coffee Break
I have come up with the best idea ever
for one of the projects we are doing. Of
course there are a few drawbacks to this
plan.
Task - Educate your peers on a
subject you've studied in depth. You can
use Powerpoint, tutorials, written
hand-outs, etc.
Method Chosen - (here's
the brilli...
, nursing , college , pride , drawing
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2008-08-26 The Weekly Rader
SINCE ITS INCEPTION, TWR has taken a
keen interest in the intersection of
politics and plagiarism. Not long ago,
we posted on accusations of plagiarism
against Barack Obama by Hillary Clinton,
and we also wrote about plagiarism and
the memoir Love and Consequences. Now,
plagiarism a...
, Obama , politics , Biden , Biden , Obama
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2008-08-26 defective yeti
Typo week continues here at dy, as I
liveblog Hillary Clinton's speech.6:55:
Hmm, Mark Warner is still speaking. He
just told a convoluted story that ended
with "and that's how I wound up at the
gymnasium of a high school." Right.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the
fact that yo...
, Politics
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2008-08-26 Olivier Travers
For your entertainment: the Hollywood
overwhelming leftist bias in numbers. To
be taken with a grain of salt given
PoliticalBase's elusiveness about how it
collects the data and where it's coming
from. It makes it hard to know how
thorough...
, politics
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2008-08-26 Intensive Care for the Nurturer's Soul
If you're like most people with sleep
problems, your mind is simply overloaded
with tension and strain by the time your
head hits the pillow.You lie there
trying to relax, yet you play the day's
events over and over in your mind. You
dwell on money problems. Kid problems.
Marriage and ...
, healing , health , stress , Resources
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2008-08-26 Business Pundit
The divide between presidential
candidates John McCain and Barack Obama
doesn’t end with years and ideology.
It also exhibits itself through the
Internet. According to an MIT Technology
Review article written by David Talbot,
Barack Obama has managed to create the
best online politi...
, Internet , Media , Politics , barackobama.com , my , my
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2008-08-26 Boing Boing TV
Can't see the video?
Watch this
video now in a browser or download this
video now.
The Boing Boing tv crew is
taking this end-of-summer week off from
production, so we're revisiting some of
our favorite episodes from the last
couple of months -- fun stuff you may
have missed. To...
, best
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2008-08-26 My Shingle
I'm not much of a political junkie, but
I made a point of watching Michelle
Obama's speech to the Democrat National
Convention. Michelle (it's tough for
me to refer to someone a few months
older than me as "Mrs.") intrigues me,
largely because she's a contemporary
with many superfic...
, Biglaw , MyShingle , Work
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2008-08-26 Daily Blog Tips
Content is surely king, but if no one
gets to see your content, it will just
get lost on the immense sea of bits and
bytes that we call the World Wide Web,
right? Email is the most popular method
for online communications, and it can
contribute immensely to your promotional
efforts.
T...
, Promotion
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2008-08-25 Stupid Pig's China Blog [Anonymoused]
…and I enjoyed it.
Even though I
had a whole bunch of posts about the
Olympics written here, I don’t
think I had a single one talking about
the sports itself. This might make me
seem like some kind of intellectual tool
who just likes to sit around at dinner
parties talking ...
, china , culture , olympics , politics , protest , phelps , coughlin , bolt , gymnastics , age , mcdull
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2008-08-25 Christian Unity
I recently wrote that Christians should
keep their political views between
themselves and God, for the sake of
unity. Subsequently, a new Pew poll
has discovered that more conservatives
are coming to the conclusion that it can
be a bad idea to mix religion and
politics. From the Pew ...
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2008-08-25 Reflections of Christ
[with teeth gritted] Must.. resist...
urge... to... comment... on...
politics...I'm sure I'd say something
trite, sarcastic, useless or otherwise
out-of-touch with the hip, cool, highly
mythological democratic candidate or
about his tough, courageous,
slightly-older-than-the-constituti...
, News , Politics
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2008-08-25 RD2 Blog
Business Week’s “Best of the
Web” voting is open until
September 12.
Visit Business Week to
vote for your favorite sites in
categories like News and Finance…
and also Best Blog, Tech News, Jobs,
Games, Social Network, Blogging Tools,
Mashups, and Widgets.
I love...
, Links
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2008-08-25 EFF.org Updates
Coauthored by ACLU of Northern
California Technology and Civil
Liberties Policy Director Nicole A.
Ozer
On blogs, personal and political
websites, and through user generated
content sites, ordinary citizens in
extraordinary numbers are recreating a
public sphere and reinvigorating the...
, Commentary
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2008-08-25 Willem Buiter's Maverecon
Here’s a link to “Central
banks and financial crises”, a
paper I presented at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Kansas City’s symposium on
“Maintaining Stability in a Changing
Financial System”, at Jackson Hole,
Wyoming, on August 21-23, 2008.
Sorry
about the length...
, Economics , Ethics , European , Financial , Monetary , Politics
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2008-08-24 Movin' Ahead
Seconds after the note arrived in my
emailbox, I gathered the family and
played this. We’ve been avoiding
the TV and newswire stories for 24
hours, just so we can see what we
thought about Mr. Joe Biden. This
video helped, at least a little, until
tomorrow when we get plugged...
, Politics , Biden , Obama
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2008-08-24 Gukira
A few months ago, I wrote that someone I
know must have participated in the
post-election violence.
This weekend, I
discovered that a close family friend
was forcibly recruited by Mungiki,
handed a panga, and ordered to create
violence. He managed to escape from
Mungiki after a few day...
, Politics , kenya
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2008-08-23 The Studious Soul
So, Obama has chosen Joe Biden.This has
got to be the smartest move a man in his
position could have made. His numbers
were slipping, his lack of experience
was surely getting to some as November
moves closer. For everything that Obama
is not, Biden is. For those who fear
Obama's exper...
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2008-08-23 Surgical Diversions
Joe Biden the 6-term Senator from
Delware is Obama’s choice for
VEEP. I’m wondering how this old
guard Washington insider adds to
Obama’s message of
change.
Personally I think Bill
Richardson would have been a better
choice. Adds the foreign policy cred
without all...
, politics
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2008-08-23 Project Management 411
Check out the best practice governance
model in my flagship series on Choosing
the Right PMO Vision. This Theory of
Constraints based approach is guaranteed
to ramp up your innovation and strategy
execution.
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, Best , PMOs
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2008-08-22 The Sound of Thunder
Here's a remarkably well done analysis
of Sen. Obama's response to the abortion
question Rick Warren posed last week
during the Civil Forum. Generally, I
wouldn't put something this partisan on
my blog, but it is wonderfully expansive
and can be applied more generally to the
arguments ...
, Leadership , Death , Abortion , Politics , government , evil
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2008-08-22 Forbes.com: Vehicle News
The daily back and forth is cheaper,
more comfortable and safer in these
cars.
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2008-08-21 FSU College of Law Research Center Blog
The Board of Regents of the University
System of Georgia (USG) has published a
the results of a student survey
exploring students' experiences with the
expression of political opinions on
campus by students and by faculty. The
press release is here and it includes a
link to the full c...
, Education
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