September 2008
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Mr. 19% →
George W. Bush — still polling above his actual quality.
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“It’s not based on any particular data point. We just wanted to choose a...”
– A treasury spokeswoman talking about the $700 Billion initial price tag of the Wall Street bailout proposed by the Bush Administration, as told to Forbes.com (article here). Hat tip to ThinkProgress.
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Sick
EPA won’t limit rocket fuel in U.S. drinking water
That’s the USA Today/AP headline, and it isn’t exaggerating. Seriously:
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there’s no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. …
The ingredient, perchlorate, has been found in at least 395...
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ABSOLUTE MUST-READ
Want to make sense of the Treasury Secretary Paulson’s reckless plan to salvage the economy?
READ THIS.
Via Jerome a Paris posting at DailyKos.
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Digging ever deeper...
Ben Smith of The Politico, on the McCain-Palin campaign’s spiraling veracity problem:
Sen. John McCain’s top campaign aides convened a conference call today to complain of being called “liars.” They pressed the media to scrutinize specific elements of Sen. Barack Obama’s record.
But the call was so rife with simple, often inexplicable misstatements of fact that it may have had the...
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Soundscapes of dying (or dead) places past
Click here to have a listen.
Unfortunately, the quality of the article’s text lags far behind the audio in terms of their respective power to enlighten. For example, writer Brandon Keim ends the article with this gem of a thought:
What does it matter if a habitat vanishes, or changes in some basic way? Does it matter if animals in one region die out, so long as they exist in another? Or...
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AIG and Reflexive Borrowing
According to an article in the NY Times, some important folks apparently think that AIG is “financially sound,” despite the failure of its “rescue plan.”
You may be asking yourself, “How can this be?” Normally, sound companies don’t require rescue plans, let alone “crumbled” ones. For the answer, let’s go to NY Governor David Paterson....
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“I don’t want to be the president who loses the recipe. Imagine how...”
– That’s KFC President Roger Eaton, discussing protective measures being taken to safeguard a handwritten copy of KFC’s secret recipe (via AP).
Yes, Roger, let’s imagine… let’s summon our greatest powers of empathy and compassion… to try to imagine how terrifying...
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It's about time
A comprehensive 2006 U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization study concluded that the livestock industry contributes more to climate change than the entire transportation sector combined. This was a landmark finding deserving of wide dispersal, a significant milestone in understanding and communicating the full and devastating environmental impact — climate change; deforestation and loss of...
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“Life is always welcome. Unless it’s on four legs.”
– Maureen Dowd, speaking for Sarah Palin in her latest column.
Really, how narrow-minded for the wolf-killing, moose-hunting, polar-bear-endangering, pro-ANWR-drilling politician to consider herself “pro-life”.
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Almost There
My bro and I recently (and rather unexpectedly) shared a stage with Almost There. Very different style than ours, but definitely worth checking out.
They couldn’t be nicer fellas, and their buddies can headbang with the best.
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