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1. | CNN.com - 'Can I quit now?' FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged - Nov 3, 2005
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| | .... head of FEMA and garden-variety crony of George Bush, is still on the public payroll is little short of criminal. Outrage over his feckless performance during the assault of Hurricane Katrina has subsided as time has passed, but the recent release of emails written by Brown during the crisis will kindle fresh indignation. They paint a picture of a man wholly incompetent to hold office - distant, uncaring, umcomprehending. .... | 
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2. | National Novel Writing Month - National Novel Writing Month
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| | ....So, over the past couple of years that I’ev been keeping this lil’ blog going, I’ve made several attempts to complete NaNoWriMo, often to disastrous results. So, this year, I wasn’t even bothering (you’ll notice, it’s already started and I had held off on posting about it till now). But then I heard about NaDruWriNi: National Drunken .... |
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3. | Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
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| | ....But thinking like a Big Media or Big Pharma company? You won't find answers or friends there. Only secrets and lies..... |
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4. | Rove's Future Role Is Debated
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| | ....In the real world, if you had to perform the lifeboat exercise, the one person you'd keep is the brain, because finding a good suit is much easier than finding a good strategist. So it's quite an irony that the Repubs find themselves having to make the wrong tradeoff at this juncture..... |
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5. | Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic
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| | .... so, it's been a war between Yahoo and Google to see who can outdo each other. They're often releasing competing products at nearly the same time, but Google Maps has held the lead on coolest map for a while now. Yahoo finally countered today, releasing their beta maps, which work much like Google's, though it uses flash instead of javascript. I kind of like the little video game-style radar map in the upper right to show where you are in the bigger .... |
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6. | CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
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| | ....For A Secret War, Secret Prisons
Speaking of hush-hush proceedings, BlogPulse features a few stories today about another point of controversy roiling the nation's capital: the string of secret prisons used by the CIA to detain, interrogate (and torture) terrorism prisoners. Even the Bush Administration itself is divided on how exactly to .... |
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7. | Google Print
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| | .... Controversial Google Print Service Launched [by rafat] : Google Print for books, the controversial book scaning nd searching service by Google, has been launched with its first batch of books. Included in this opening swathe are many 19th Century works of American literature .... |
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8. | Brown Emails
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Brown Emails (last page) [Melancon.house.gov].... |
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9. | © Новый Акрополь 2005
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| | ....© Новый Акрополь 2005.... |
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10. | The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town
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SCOOTER’S SEX SHOCKER [NYer]
The Apprentice [Amazon].... |
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11. | Windows Live
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| | .... out FolderShare, a file syncing and remote content access service that helps customers access information across multiple devices. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
FolderShare, based in Austin, TX, will become part of the new Windows Live service, launched earlier this week.
Related: Microsoft's Windows Live: New Personal Portal [.... |
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12. | myklm
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My personal world map
visited 2 countries- like to visit 7 countries
Create your own world map
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13. | BBC NEWS | Europe | Fresh violence hits Paris suburbs
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| | ....Don’t skip over this entry. It’s not “Rugrats in Paris” — it’s “Riots.” Seven straight days of riots in Paris suburbs and, even though I’ve turned on CNN and Fox a couple of times (a couple of times more than usual) I haven’t seen this story on TV in .... |
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14. | OpinionJournal - Featured Article
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| | ....OpinionJournal.com delivers some informative history along with its editorial on the “Bush lied” lie (link requires registration but not subscription):.... |
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15. | Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union - Yahoo! News
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Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union - Yahoo! News: "LUCKNOW, India - This was no one-night stand. Scientists in India say they have discovered two fossils fused .... |
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16. | New Scientist Breaking News - Invention: Coffee beer
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| | ....Slashdot linked up another round of creative patent applications. The highlight? Coffee beer. Coming to a Starbucks near you?.... |
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17. | CBS News | Poll: More Bad News For Bush | November 2, 2005 22:00:07
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| | ....Awwwww!!! How did you know I wanted schadenfreude?.... |
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18. | Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers | CNET News.com
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| | ....So this blog may get in trouble come the election. I may be breaking many campaign finance laws that I don't know about or have time to understand just by .... |
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19. | Yahoo! Search blog: Yahoo! Maps: drag 'em, search 'em, hack 'em
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| | ....(Originally found on Y!’s blog, but I see Jeremy’s on it and so is Mike over at TechCrunch).... |
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20. | Food Stamp Cuts Are On Table
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| | .... Saudi Arabia. They decided that "the deficit must be cut!" So, are they going after corporate welfare or rolling back the tax cuts on trust fund heirs? Of course not, they are attacking the benefits for the most vulnerable in our society.
The Washington Post reports,
"The food stamp cuts in the House measure would knock nearly 300,000 people off nutritional assistance programs, including .... |
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21. | Pennsylvania company recalls 94,400 lbs of beef - Yahoo! News
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ATTN: Recal of Beef Panties, consider yourself warned.
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22. | SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT - cp.sonybmg.com/xcp
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| | ....and provides a remover..... |
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23. | Holy fucking shit - The Awful Forums
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| | .... cuts from broken glass.
Another neighbor then walked outside and was confronted by Freund, who tried to fire his weapon, Amormino said. When it misfired, Freund returned to his own house and committed suicide, he said.
Apparently, the person was on SomethingAwful asking about where to get buckshot.
Here is the original post:
I have a problem. I live in orange county and am trying to buy hevi-shot buckshot, .... |
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24. | CBS News | Bush's Job Approval Hits New Low | November 3, 2005 09:00:06
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| | .... doorstep of the vice-president, who is defending the availability of torture for the CIA. The drumbeat builds for the resignation of George Bush's political Svengali, Karl Rove. And a CBS News poll has George Bush's approval rating has dropped to a near-Nixonian 35%, with a disapproval rating of 57%..... |
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25. | 'Party trumps race' for Steele foes - Metropolitan - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
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| | ....In Maryland, a black man is running for governor as a Republican. Naturally, this has a lot of leftists in an uproar, who are taking such racially-sensitive tactics as calling him an "Uncle Tom,' Photoshopping him into a blackfaced minstrel, and throwing .... |
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26. | Is Rove a Security Risk? - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com
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| | ....Source: Newsweek — Is Rove a Security Risk?
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27. | CNN.com - FBI: Muslims detained at stadium weren't profiled - Nov 2, 2005
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| | .... as apple pie and I'm sitting there and now I'm made to feel like I'm an outsider, for no reason other than I have a long beard or that I prayed," said Sami Shaban, a 27-year-old Seton Hall Law School student who lives in Piscataway.http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/02/football.muslim.ap/index.htmlNot profiled? Get the fuck out of here... If they'd been Christians conducting a prayer, I bet you dimes to .... |
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28. | the courts opinion
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| | .... enrolled as students."
The bottom line is that when parents enroll their children in school the school can teach them anything they like regarding sex. Parents have no constitutional right shield their children.
Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote the courts opinion.
Here are some excerpts from the ruling.
When parents of schoolchildren in Palmdale, California
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29. | Reining in Google - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
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| | .... Harvard University, Stanford University, The New York Public Library, and Oxford University, Google has scanned and made searchable at least ten thousand books, with many more to follow. NY Times story here. Meanwhile, certain politicians are trying to "reign in Google" and stop the experiment before it begins.
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30. | In the Company of Friends - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com
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From Newsweek: "President Bush last week appointed nine campaign contributors, including three longtime fund-raisers, to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, a 16-member panel of individuals .... |
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31. | ThePittsburghChannel.com - Channel 4 Action News - Civil Suit Goes To Court: A Scorned Lover, Glue And A Naked Man
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| | .... may LISTEN HERE.
The Royals were stocked by a man in a bear suit during their Washington visit yesterday.
Perhaps Democrats are being overly critical of Samuel Alito. He's done a few things that will make conservatives gasp in horror.
A Women scorned.
Oregon woman are relieved notorious panty thief Sung Koo Kim pleads guilty to his unusual fetish following Yamhill County panty raids. He still faces charges in three .... |
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32. | MERD | Panexa (Acidachrome Promanganate)
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the Panexa site is great, too [via]
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33. | Not Logged In
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My LJ - круто, кстати.
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34. | Ananova - Designer creates wall of breasts
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Ananova - Designer creates wall of breasts: "Designer creates wall of breasts
A Dutch designer has created a wall of fake breasts to help male shoppers buy bras that fit their wives .... |
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35. | CBS News | Poll: Approval Ratings Compared | November 2, 2005 22:00:08
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| | .... Bush is not yet embroiled in the level of scandal that Nixon was, I'd say that this is pretty much proof that people dislike Bush because of the lousy job he's been doing as president (Iraq, Katrina, attempting to gut Social Security, etc.). Poll results. Read 'em and weep, Republicans. George W. Bush is an albatross around the neck of your party..... |
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36. | Very cool illusion
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This is really weird.
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37. | The Netflix Settlement Sucks
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| | .... Netflix can end up making money on this deal, by slipping people into a higher service bracket, this hardly deters later wrongdoing. The people who were hurt don't get much of any benefit. If you're a member of the settlement class, you should opt out. And if 5% of the class opts out, the settlement may be voided..... |
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38. | World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit
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| | ....This just makes my day. One company with no respect for its customers gets screwed over by another company having no respect for its customers..... |
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39. | CNN.com - Denver voters OK marijuana measure - Nov 2, 2005
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You go Denver.There's still a problem--you can't grow an oz. at a time. Pretty much this makes it ok to consume, but not ok to produce. But, hey, baby steps.
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40. | vote tally
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| | ....The vote tally in the House of Representatives, 225 to 182, was not enough to send the Online Freedom of Speech Act to the Senate. Under the rules that House leaders adopted to accelerate the process, .... |
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