:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 ::

advertisement Supreme Court Refuses to Put Nader on Oregon Ballot :

"The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to include Ralph Nader as a candidate on Oregon's November ballot, dealing a blow to the one-time consumer advocate's independent bid for the presidency. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/28/2004 05:55:00 PM [+] ::
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Leiter takes on instapunditThe Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Ad Hominems, InstaIgnorance, and the Case of the Coming Draft:

:: Jim Nichols 9/28/2004 07:25:00 AM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Organic Farming Studied As Demand Rises:

"Organic farming sounds simple ? no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or genetically engineered plants. But succeeding at it can be complicated. A recent wave of research at universities around the country seeks to take some of the guesswork and financial uncertainty out of the practice. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/26/2004 08:41:00 PM [+] ::
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SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- CSU San Marcos president says Michael Moore visit would be illegal:

"CSU San Marcos President Karen Haynes said yesterday that it would be illegal to have Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore on campus before the presidential election. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/26/2004 03:46:00 PM [+] ::
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Losing the war on terror....
BBC NEWS | Europe | Arabs ambivalent over hostage crisis:

"The Arab media has presented the latest hostage crisis in Iraq as just another element in the bloody and chaotic pattern of violence in the country. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/26/2004 03:35:00 PM [+] ::
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And then the New York Times Magazine Cover Story is on blogs The New York Times > Magazine > Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail

:: Jim Nichols 9/26/2004 03:29:00 PM [+] ::
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Blogging is all over the news today. First a peice on military bloggers...
Yahoo! News - Soldiers' War Blogs Detail Life in Iraq:

:: Jim Nichols 9/26/2004 03:27:00 PM [+] ::
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Key Bush Assertions About Iraq in Dispute:

"Many of President Bush's assertions about progress in Iraq -- from police training and reconstruction to preparations for January elections -- are in dispute, according to internal Pentagon documents, lawmakers and key congressional aides on Sunday. "

I think the way Bush is going to get caught this election year is by being too optimistic. If there is a disconnect between the way the voters view things and the way Bush talks about things Bush loses. The only problem is that people may want to believe in that hopefully optimistic view of the world which he presents.

:: Jim Nichols 9/26/2004 03:17:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Candidates Gear Up for Crucial Debates:

"This fall's presidential debates will pit George W. Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view. Each is a proven debater who knows, only too well, what personal pitfalls to avoid: Bush must stifle the smirk, for instance, and Kerry must cut short his rhetorical rambling. "

I can't wait for Thursday. I'm glad Bush agreed on doing all three debates not only because I think Kerry can crush him but because I like the drama of the debates.

:: Jim Nichols 9/26/2004 02:13:00 PM [+] ::
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Cafe Hayek: How the Media Works:

"We think the media goes out and finds the news. Sometimes it does. But a lot of the times, it's the news trying to find the media. "

This was one of the only blog postings on the Rathergate hoopla that I have liked.... he concludes by saying that

Memogate and Dan Rather's troubles should remind us that what you read in the newspaper and see on the news is not simply the events of the day. Much of what we read and what we see comes from an intense effort to influence us. Some of it is surely true. Some of it is untrue but accurate. Some of it is untrue and inaccurate. The lesson? Read widely and have lots of grains of salt at the ready.

:: Jim Nichols 9/23/2004 09:45:00 PM [+] ::
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AlterNet: Finding Justice with Arundhati Roy:

"The essence of what one is looking at is deeply political, but how one chooses to express that can change ? if for no other reason than that one wants to keep experimenting and not bore oneself to death, you know."

:: Jim Nichols 9/23/2004 07:19:00 PM [+] ::
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AlterNet: DrugReporter: The Raid on Medicare:

"The real cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill is finally emerging: The drug industry gets more than $100 billion in profits, while seniors and taxpayers get the tab. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/23/2004 07:17:00 PM [+] ::
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AlterNet: Vegan, Head to Toe:

"While vegan foods have crept into the mainstream over the intervening years, vegan leather is still an oddity. But a growing number of non-leather stores want to change that. They see offering non-leather alternatives as key to bringing more people over to the vegan way of life, as a way to send the message that you can be vegan without giving up style and sophistication."

:: Jim Nichols 9/23/2004 06:16:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Despite Bush Flip-Flops, Kerry Gets Label:

"One of this year's candidates for president, to hear his opposition tell it, has a long history of policy reversals and rhetorical about-faces -- a zigzag trail that proves his willingness to massage positions and even switch sides when politically convenient."

:: Jim Nichols 9/22/2004 10:45:00 PM [+] ::
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Cell Phone Ban May Not Reduce Wrecks:

"Laws against driving while using cell phones would have little effect on the number of accidents, according to a new analysis of driver statistics by UC Davis economist James Prieger.

In a new study issued by the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Prieger found that, while still at increased risk, drivers who use cell phones are less likely to have accidents by as much as 36 percent than previous studies predicted.

The report also found that people who opt for hands-free phones are already more careful drivers than similar drivers who use hand-held phones."

:: Jim Nichols 9/22/2004 10:31:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Actors Filming Robbery Scene Arrested:

"A group of Serbian actors filming a bank robbery scene played their parts so well that police mistook them for the real thing and hauled them off to a police station, a newspaper reported Wednesday. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/22/2004 10:29:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Man Shoots Wife, Mistakes Her for Monkey:

" A Malaysian man shot and killed his wife after he mistook her for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house, the New Straits Times said on Wednesday. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/22/2004 10:28:00 PM [+] ::
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Cafe Hayek: Kudos to Draft Dodgers:

"There's nothing especially noble or glorious about dying in a military campaign. To believe otherwise is to succumb to the mystical belief that the state is god-like, and that men and women exist for it.

The state, at its best, provides protection against violence. It is a service. It is a valuable service, perhaps even an especially valuable service. But it is a service. The supplier of this service is entitled to no greater claim on the rights or property or lives of its customers than are suppliers of other services. If General Motors or Starbucks or The Wall Street Journal cannot supply their services without conscripting workers, they should go out of business. If the state cannot supply its service without violating the very rights that allegedly justify its existence, it should step aside and let some other provider supply this service."

:: Jim Nichols 9/22/2004 10:16:00 PM [+] ::
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Three Linked to DeLay Indicted in Texas Scandal:

"Three men with close ties to U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay were indicted on Tuesday along with eight companies for illegal fund-raising activities in a political action committee formed by the powerful Texan. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/21/2004 08:35:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Republican Senator Says He May Not Support Bush:

"U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a Republican moderate from Rhode Island, said on Monday he might not vote for President Bush in the Nov. 2 election. "

I wonder how many moderate republicans will be abstaining this year. I wonder how many progressive liberals will be abstaining this year? Or they might be like me and vote Green. Okay i'm more than likely voting Green. But I'm not positive yet.

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 06:39:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Schwarzenegger Vetoes Minimum Wage Bill:

"Siding with his business allies, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed bills Saturday that would have raised the minimum wage to $7.75 an hour and required economic impact reports before local governments approve Wal-Mart-like mega-stores. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 02:15:00 AM [+] ::
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Orcinus:

"It's pretty funny, really, how right-wing bloggers are serially breaking their arms patting themselves on the back for having exposed 'Forgerygate.' Actually, all they've really managed to prove is P.T. Barnum's famous adage, perhaps recast as 'There's a blogger born every minute.'"

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 02:05:00 AM [+] ::
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Extremist parties exploit German anxiety:

"Germany's most overtly neo-Nazi party secured a footing in a regional parliament yesterday for the first time in more than a generation. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 01:58:00 AM [+] ::
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When it looks like war and smells like war...

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Deadline for Briton facing Iraq execution:

"Despite George Bush declaring that combat operations were over more than 16 months ago, the growing hostage crisis and insurgency led Tony Blair yesterday to talk of a second war.

In a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Ayad Allawi, who was on his first visit to Britain yesterday, he said coalition forces were engaged in a 'new conflict' now that the 'first conflict' to remove Saddam Hussein was over."

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 01:54:00 AM [+] ::
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The New York Times > Magazine > Questions for Ray C. Fair: Bush Landslide (in Theory)!:

"Are you a Republican?

I can't credibly answer that question. Using game theory in economics, you are not going to believe me when I tell you my political affiliation because I know that you know that I could be behaving strategically. If I tell you I am a Kerry supporter, how do you know that I am not lying or behaving strategically to try to put more weight on the predictions and help the Republicans? "

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 01:27:00 AM [+] ::
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She pops pills, eats ice cream for breakfast and wanders the halls of the hotel without her clothes.

An excellent interview with Arthur Miller on his new play, making the Misfits, and Marilyn.

''I had to laugh,'' Miller said, referring to the reviews of the original production. ''As far as Monroe is concerned, I spent five years trying to keep her from falling off the cliff. How did she die? Did she self-destroy or not? Are we not to put truth on the stage?'' He asked the questions slowly, making them sound large and nearly biblical.
''There is no correct version,'' he continued. ''It's purely the way I see it.''
But what if the rest of us see it differently?
''It doesn't matter,'' he said. ''It's my truth. It's not your truth.''

and then this great insight...

''I like the company of women,'' he said. ''Life is very boring without them. Women are livelier than men and more interested in people. Men get abstract with their ideas.''

and it turns out Miller is quite political...

In conversation, Miller seems fully attentive to the present and its preoccupations. He spoke well of Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' and lavished high praise on Philip Roth's about-to-be-published ''Plot Against America: A Novel,'' which he was in the middle of reading. (''Philip and I see each other regularly once every three years,'' he noted humorously.) An unreconstructed leftist, he still subscribes to The Nation. (''How can the polls be neck and neck when I don't know one Bush supporter?'' he asked with apparent earnestness.)

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 01:08:00 AM [+] ::
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - The Region - 2003 Annual Report Essay - The Industrial Revolution: Past and Future

:: Jim Nichols 9/20/2004 12:42:00 AM [+] ::
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I'm watching Titanic and something struck me that always strikes me when I see a movie with a lot of death in it; I wonder how many people are injured during filming.

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 10:35:00 PM [+] ::
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Kevin Drum over at Political Animal says the Charter School Crash in California is a cautionary tale about the 'ownership society' The Washington Monthly:

" The problem with privatizing public services is that, in the end, it's the government that picks up the pieces if the private sector fails. If you invest a piece of your Social Security in private mutual funds and your mutual fund collapses when you're 64, what happens? In theory, it's just tough luck and you're screwed, but we all know perfectly well that's not what would really happen. As with the S&L disaster in the 80s or the LTCM collapse in the 90s, if enough people are affected the government will step in and make them whole."

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 02:36:00 PM [+] ::
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ABCNEWS.com : GOP Mailing Warns Liberals Will Ban Bibles:

"Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 02:28:00 PM [+] ::
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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | German far right makes poll gains:

"Far-right parties have made gains in eastern Germany, poll projections show. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 02:20:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Republicans Criticize Bush 'Mistakes' on Iraq:

"Leading members of President Bush's Republican Party on Sunday criticized mistakes and 'incompetence' in his Iraq policy and called for an urgent ground offensive to retake insurgent sanctuaries. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 02:08:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - IAEA Inspectors in S.Korea for 2nd Investigation:

"Inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog arrived in Seoul on Sunday to conduct a second inspection of South Korea's nuclear experiments, a day after the South said it had no plans to develop or possess nuclear weapons. "

I don't think this has been getting near enough attention. How do you expect to get North Korea to not push for nuclear weapons if South Korea is making waves trying to get them.

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 09:13:00 AM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - True or false: Blogs always tell it straight:

"If that sounds particularly convoluted, welcome to the 'blogosphere,' the chaotic new media world where questionable truths joust with plausible fictions, agendas are often hidden, and motives are frequently mixed, and millions of ordinary citizens clamber to offer their own rumors, opinions and jeremiads. All of which is either very bad or very good for the republic and the future of the American free press, depending on your point of view. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 09:06:00 AM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Bush's Cut-and-Spend Plan Is Math-Challenged:

"But if he wins reelection, Bush will have tough choices of his own. Some analysts predict that much of his agenda would wither if he achieved what seemed to be his top priority: making permanent the tax cuts enacted in his first term. Doing so would cut government revenue by more than $1 trillion between 2005 and 2014. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 09:02:00 AM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - State GOP Likes Its Chances:

"Powered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity, Republicans are launching their most aggressive assault in a decade on majority Democrats in the Legislature. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/19/2004 08:53:00 AM [+] ::
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Gaba gaba hey...

Yahoo! News - Johnny Ramone of 'The Ramones' Dies at 55:

"Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band 'The Ramones' that influenced a generation of rockers, has died."

I still remember my first Ramones show. It was at Big Day Out in Atlanta. I was 15. They played unbelievably fast. I ran around. It was fun.

:: Jim Nichols 9/17/2004 11:44:00 PM [+] ::
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AP Wire | 09/16/2004 | Laura Bush brings campaign to hopeful Republicans:

"'I'm here to support Mrs. Bush and President Bush,' Sweetapple said. 'I support them because they're pro-life. I respect what they do and they are born-again Christians.'"

That about sums up most peoples support for Bush.

:: Jim Nichols 9/17/2004 11:34:00 PM [+] ::
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You know you're getting old when

A girl at school had a New York Dolls shirt on. I commented nice shirt to which she replied "oh whats it mean?" She had never heard of the band, I can only wonder what the shirt meant to her.

:: Jim Nichols 9/17/2004 07:19:00 PM [+] ::
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Could it be God?
Australia Fights Biggest Locust Plague in Decades:

" Australia has started battling its biggest plague of locusts in decades as billions of the insects hatch along a wide front covering much of the country's central east region. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/17/2004 06:59:00 PM [+] ::
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Human ingenuity Deaf Kids in Nicaragua Give Birth to New Language:

"Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday.

Their observations show that children, not adults, are key to the evolution and development of language, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/17/2004 06:56:00 PM [+] ::
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Minnesota Poll: Bush inches up on Kerry:

"On the eve of President Bush's bus tour across Minnesota, a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows him potentially gaining ground on challenger John Kerry in what has long been a reliably Democratic state in presidential elections.

The poll, conducted Sept. 7-13, found that Kerry has the support of 50 percent of likely voters in Minnesota, while Bush has the support of 41 percent.

The president's support has increased by 3 percentage points from the level he had in March, the last time the Minnesota Poll measured support for the candidates, while Kerry's support remained unchanged."

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 09:49:00 PM [+] ::
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Bush and Kerry battle over science:

"The leading international science journal Nature has focussed the US presidential election campaign on science by asking both President George Bush and Senator John Kerry for their views on the major issues."

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 09:46:00 PM [+] ::
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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US blasts Saudi 'religious curbs':

"In an unusual public rebuke, the US State Department put its key Arab ally on a list of states causing particular concern over freedom to worship.

According to its annual report, freedom of religion in Saudi Arabia does not exist either in practice or in law. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 09:43:00 PM [+] ::
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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq war illegal, says Annan:

"The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has told the BBC the US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN charter"

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 09:42:00 PM [+] ::
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The New York Times > Washington > The Reconstruction: U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq's Future:

"A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq, government officials said Wednesday.

The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst case being developments that could lead to civil war, the officials said. The most favorable outcome described is an Iraq whose stability would remain tenuous in political, economic and security terms. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 09:38:00 PM [+] ::
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Eschaton:

"CBS and Dan Rather have their problems which they're going to have to sort out, but as anonymous reminds us in comments, this is the key point:

Q Scott, on the National Guard documents on '60 Minutes,' the First Lady says she believes these are forgeries. The RNC has accused the Democratic Party of being the source of these documents. Knowing then what you know now, would you still have released those documents when you did?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, that's a hypothetical question, John. We received those documents from a major news organization. We had every reason to believe that they were authentic at that time.

If the basic thrust of the memos was false - if, say, Bush came forward and said 'Hey, wait a minute! Those can't be real! I never disobeyed a direct order...' then why would our dear Scotty say such a thing?

And, yes, trolls, if the documents are proven to be forgeries than Rather and CBS will have major egg on face, and they'll get their punishment like the Bush administration did when they fell for forged documents recently. And, yes, if they're proven to be forgeries, then whoever passed them to CBS, at least if they *knew* they were forged, should be outed.

But, none of that changes the fact that as Scotty said, they 'had every reason to believe that they were authentic at that time.'"

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 09:32:00 PM [+] ::
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The problem with blogging through a hurricane (here .... http://weatherbug.blogs.com/, and here... http://redcoyote.blogspot.com/ ) is the power goes out and you can't give people any updates...

Will be interesting to see how long it takes people to get back online...

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 08:58:00 PM [+] ::
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Watch the wind blow

I've been watching the hurricane coverage. I don't know why I find it so fascinating. Maybe because they are talking about a place I usually go to every summer. I love that area of the country. The Red Neck Riviera. The armpit of the south.

update: If there is a curfew why is the media allowed out in it?

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 08:42:00 PM [+] ::
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The Role of Blogs in the world
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 12, 2004 - September 18, 2004 Archives:

"Whenever I get interviewed about blogs I'm always asked whether I think blogs will replace the conventional media or whether they're in competition with it. The question always strikes me as ridiculous since most of what blogs do feeds off of newspaper coverage -- either criticizing coverage, expanding on coverage, running with stories that aren't getting much attention and so forth.

That's not to say blogs aren't important, only that they're in a synergistic or interdependent relationship with the conventional media. That means newspapers and even more the investigative journalism done by newspapers and magazines. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 08:12:00 PM [+] ::
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Don't think you'll hear this from Bush

Edwards: No Military Draft if Dems Win:

"Vice presidential candidate John Edwards promised a West Virginia mother on Wednesday that if the Democratic ticket is elected in November the military draft would not be revived.

During a question-and-answer session, the mother of a 23-year-old who recently graduated from West Virginia University asked Edwards whether the draft would be reinstated.

'There will be no draft when John Kerry is president,' Edwards said, a statement that drew a standing ovation."

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 08:04:00 PM [+] ::
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The Official Blog of CBS
I haven't been keeping up with the story but this is funny...

Making Shit Up:

"Welcome!
You talked, we listened!

We learned a lot about the Blogosphere this week and, as they old saying goes ... if you can't beat 'em -- join 'em!

CBS News is happy to join the world of blogging with our new blog:

"

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 05:59:00 PM [+] ::
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The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Kerry Sharply Criticizes Bush's Record on the Economy:

"In a tough-worded, focused attack, Senator John Kerry lashed out at the Bush administration today over tax policy, jobs, the economy and health care."

Now this is the Kerry I like to see...

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 05:08:00 PM [+] ::
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People on Mars Possible in 20 to 30 Years:

"People could land on Mars in the next 20 to 30 years provided scientists can find water on the red planet, the head of NASA's surface exploration mission said on Wednesday. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 05:02:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Bush, Kerry to Finalize Debate Plans:

"The co-chairmen of the nonpartisan presidential debate commission told representatives for President Bush and Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday that they must act immediately to finalize details for the debates, the first scheduled in just over two weeks. "

So does anybody think Bush will pull out of one of the debates? I think they've been holding off to see if his convention bounce would be big enough for him to squeeze through doing only two debates. But I don't think his lead is big enough, he'll take a huge hit for skipping out on a debate. I'd guess around 2-4 percentage points.

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 04:56:00 PM [+] ::
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The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Vote Drives Gain Avid Attention of Youth in '04:

"After dismal turnout by young voters in 2000, surveys this year show that interest in the election among the young is near the highest level it has reached at any time since 18- to 20-year-olds were given the vote in 1972. And state election officials say registration of new young voters is coming in at levels they have not seen in years.

Polls in the spring and summer from the Harvard Institute of Politics, the Pew Research Center and MTV all found that young people say they plan to vote at a rate that will far eclipse the low-water mark of four years ago. The pool of potential young voters is substantial - about 40.6 million Americans ages 18 to 29, or one in five eligible voters, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or Circle, a nonprofit research group that has concentrated on the youth vote.

'This is a bigger group than 50- to 65-year-olds,' said Carrie Donovan, the youth director at Circle, which is based at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and financed by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Carnegie Corporation of New York. 'It seems like so much of it is influenced by the kind of buzz that's out there, and this year, there's a real buzz.'"

I've never understood the young people = apathy perspective. But then again my friends and I have always been political.

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 09:34:00 AM [+] ::
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New poll shows Bush bounce fading | csmonitor.com:

"More than a week after the Republican National Convention - and in the wake of new questions about President Bush's National Guard service - the race for the White House is once again tightening, just as pollsters and strategists for both campaigns had predicted it would. "

A new Monitor/TIPP poll finds Mr. Bush and Sen. John Kerry currently tied among likely voters nationwide, with each receiving 47 percent of the vote in a two-man race, and each receiving 46 percent when independent candidate Ralph Nader is added to the ballot. The poll of 674 likely voters was conducted Sept. 7-12, and has a margin of error of 4 percent.

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 01:26:00 AM [+] ::
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Sharon hints that Arafat may be killed:

"Ariel Sharon has threatened that Yasser Arafat will meet the same fate as Hamas leaders who were assassinated earlier this year by the Israeli military.

In ambiguous comments to Israeli newspapers to mark the Jewish new year, the prime minister said he intends to force the Palestinian leader into exile. But he also hinted that Mr Arafat might be killed. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 01:23:00 AM [+] ::
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Save Wonderfalls

Looks like Wonderfalls will be coming out on DVD this december. They only showed three of the episodes before it got cancelled. I'll probably check out the DVD, the show was pretty good. Of coarse it doesn't beat Gilmore Girls, but lets be honest, what does?

:: Jim Nichols 9/15/2004 01:08:00 AM [+] ::
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Survey: Spend More on Health Care for Aged and Kids:

"Most Americans do not feel that children or the elderly are getting adequate health care and a clear majority feel it is the government's job to pay for it, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

Men and women, Republicans, Democrats and independents alike, agree that the government needs to spend more not only to care for poor children and old people, but all children and old people, the survey found. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/14/2004 09:30:00 PM [+] ::
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Schroeder Won't Drop Equality Aim for East Germans
International News Article Reuters.com:

"The German government will stick to its disputed goal of raising living standards in the formerly communist east to western levels despite the spiraling costs, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/14/2004 09:24:00 PM [+] ::
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The Washington Monthly:

"Despite the best efforts of conservatives to scare everyone under 30 into thinking that Social Security is doomed, it's actually in fine shape. It's going to need some modest tax increases and some modest benefit reductions starting in about a decade, but that's it. People who suggest otherwise are either ignorant of the underlying numbers or else motivated by an ideological dislike of government programs for its own sake. A concern with providing stable pensions for the elderly doesn't seem to play a role."

:: Jim Nichols 9/14/2004 07:32:00 PM [+] ::
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From Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond...

"chiefdoms introduced the dilemma fundamental to all centrally governed, nonegalitarian societies. At best, they do good by providing expensive services impossible to contract for on an individual basis. At worst, they function unabashedly as kleptocracies, transferring net wealth from commoners to upper classes."

He also notes the 4 rules Kleptocrats use to gain support from the populace

1. Disarm the populace and arm the elite.

2. Make the masses happy by redistributing much of the tribute received, in popular ways.

3. Use the monopoly of force to promote happiness, by maintaining public order and curbing violence.

4. Construct an ideology or religion justifying kleptocracy.

Chiefdoms characteristically have an ideology, precursor to an instituionalized religion, that buttresses the chief's authority. The chief may either combine the offices of political leader and priest in a single person, or may support a separate group of lkeptocrats (that is, priests) whose function is to provide ideological justification for the chiefs. that is why chiefdoms devote so much collected tribute to constructing temples and other public works, which serve as centers of the official religion and visible signs of the chief's power.

Is the Bush administration a Kelptocracy? Are the tax cuts a popular way to redistribute tribute? Is the philosophy of preemption an attempt an attempt to maintain public order? Is terrorism an ideology justifying the Kleptocracy?

:: Jim Nichols 9/14/2004 01:33:00 AM [+] ::
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Volume 2

Just watched Kill Bill Vol. 2. You know I didn't really like the first one too much. I thought this one was a little better but not much better. Actually let me take that back, as I'm writing this I'm really wondering which one I liked better. They are both pretty films. Quentin Tarantino does know how to shoot a movie. And some of his one-liners are great. I don't know maybe I should sleep on it. I saw the first Kill Bill because I was on a Martial Arts kick, ever since I started taking Kung Fu I have been checking out Martial Arts films. Anyways I don't know what else to say about Kill Bill tonight. Maybe I'll feel more inspired to write more in the morning; more inspired than simply saying "it was pretty" but really thats about all I can say.

:: Jim Nichols 9/14/2004 01:05:00 AM [+] ::
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KnowItNow

Cutting edge technology at work for the everyone... as long as you live in Ohio

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 09:30:00 PM [+] ::
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Science News Article | Reuters.com:

"A stroke that robbed a woman of her dreams may help pinpoint where and how dreams are born in the brain, scientists said on Friday.
They found the stroke had damaged areas deep in the back half of the brain, which is involved in the visual processing of faces and landmarks.
Writing in the Annals of Neurology, they said the finding suggests that this area was crucial for dreams.

'How dreams are generated, and what purpose they might serve, are completely open questions at this point,' said Dr. Claudio Bassetti, a neurologist at the University Hospital of Zurich in Switzerland, in a statement. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 09:16:00 PM [+] ::
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Trash talk trumping policy talk | csmonitor.com:

"'Bush wins in the war on terrorism, and loses on everything else. But Kerry is off his game.... If Kerry can get it back to the economy and healthcare and stem-cell research, he wins. But he has to get his footing.'"

Amen...

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 09:13:00 PM [+] ::
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Looking for the great leap forwardGuardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Revive union festivals, say Benn and Bragg:

"Tony Benn and Billy Bragg joined together today at the TUC conference in a bid to revive traditional trade union events such as the Durham Miners' Gala."

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 09:04:00 PM [+] ::
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Roll out the barrels:

"Simon Jeffery offers a rundown of the weapons that can legally be sold in the US again from today "

This is the best article I've seen on the issue so far today...

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 09:02:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - $3 Trillion Price Tag Left Out As Bush Details His Agenda:

"The expansive agenda President Bush laid out at the Republican National Convention was missing a price tag, but administration figures show the total is likely to be well in excess of $3 trillion over a decade. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 08:20:00 PM [+] ::
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California Insider - Single payer blues

Over at California insider Daniel Weintraub takes a shot at Single Payer Health care. But if you read between the lines you'll see the attack comes up short. Go read the article in the times Canada Looks for Ways to Fix Its Health Care System
It states that

The government statistical agency estimates that more than 3.6 million Canadians, representing nearly 15 percent of the population, do not have a family doctor. That remains better than in the United States, where an estimated 20 percent do not have a regular doctor.

So yes Canada is having problems but our problems are far worse.

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 06:43:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Study: Racial Profiling a Growing Problem:

"Authorities' targeting of people because of their racial background or religious affiliation is a deep-rooted problem in the United States, with nearly 32 million people reporting they've been racially profiled, a human rights group said Monday.

The report by Amnesty International USA also said at least 87 million people- one in three-- in the United States are at high risk of being victimized because they belong to a racial, ethnic or religious group whose members are commonly targeted by police for unlawful stops and searches. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 04:46:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Something You Can't Do in California...:

"Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban on the practice, according to experts."

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 04:42:00 PM [+] ::
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The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'I'll Be Your Mirror': The Art of the Interview:

"In the end, what comes through in ''I'll Be Your Mirror'' is a special kind of resoluteness, Warhol's remarkable and admirable poise. Though he was a churchgoing Roman Catholic, he lived without God, without ideals or aspirations. Abstractions meant nothing to him. Existence was the here and now. Warhol's world was a landscape out of Samuel Beckett, cold and desolate. Art for him wasn't a transformative endeavor but merely ''something to do,'' a way to pass time. ''Why do people buy your art?'' he was asked. ''I don't know,'' he answered. His passivity mystified people. He in turn was mystified by them. How could they maintain their illusions, go on telling lies to themselves to give meaning to their lives? He was as tough-minded as the bleakest existentialist; Danto calls him the ''closest to a philosophical genius of any 20th-century artist.'' Warhol explained his outlook this way: ''I always had this philosophy of: 'It really doesn't matter.' '' And in an interview with Roman Polanski (not included in this volume), he elaborated: ''People make such a big thing out of living and it really isn't that important. . . . You go to bed at night and you fall asleep and it's all over. Then you wake up the next day and you have to start all over again.'' "

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 01:10:00 AM [+] ::
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TIME.com: "I've Been in Worse Situations" -- Sep. 20, 2004:

"America is not as safe as we ought to be after 9/11. We can do a better job at homeland security. I can fight a more effective war on terror. The standard of living for the average American has gone down. People's incomes have dropped. Five million Americans have lost their health insurance. The deficit is the largest it's been in the history of this country. They're taking money from Social Security and transferring it to the wealthiest people in America to drive us into debt. They're shredding alliances around the world with people we have traditionally been able to rely on. That's what bothers me. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/13/2004 12:43:00 AM [+] ::
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Calling all QWERTY typists.

The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to force typists to type as slowly as possible, scattering the commonest letters over all keyboard rows. The reasoning was that typewriters in the 1870's jammed if adjacent keys were struck in quick suscession so manufacturers were trying to slow down typists. After they solved the jamming problem in the 1930's the QWERTY keyboard was too entrenched to ever change to something more efficient.

:: Jim Nichols 9/12/2004 07:57:00 PM [+] ::
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The Fall dance...

The New York Times has the down low on upcoming albums. Some of the highlights: Green Day is doing a rock opera. Tom Waits, REM, and Elvis Costello for you purist. Le Tigre, Chicks on Speed, and the last Elliot Smith recording for you indie dorks. Gwen Stefani's solo album, Beck, and Eminem you can file under pop icons. And System of a Down in December rounds out the only stuff i'm interested in. And like always i'm sure to find something new to tempt my palate.

:: Jim Nichols 9/12/2004 05:10:00 PM [+] ::
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Marginal Revolution: The Economists' Voice:

"We--that is, Joe Stiglitz, Aaron Edlin, and I [Brad DeLong]--aim to start an online publication, The Economists' Voice, to be 'published' by Berkeley Economic Press, to try to remedy this situation. The two youngest of us are confident that we have a very good chance of succeeding. Our confidence is based on one fact: Joe Stiglitz thinks that this will work, and his judgment in this area is very good, as is shown by the remarkable success of the Journal of Economic Perspectives which has greatly increased the flow of information across the subfields of economics, and done a remarkable job of welding the American Economic Association into a stronger intellectual community.
The Economists' Voice will aim for pieces longer than an op-ed and shorter than (and much more readable than) a piece for a standard journal. We thus avoid the op-ed problem--the problem that op-ed space is too short for an argument, and only provides space to be shrill. But we also hope to stay short enough to be readable, and understandable. And we will aim for quick turnaround--days rather than the years of journals.
The level will be non-technical but sophisticated: perhaps what one expects to read in the Financial Times and the news pages of the Wall Street or National Journal, or perhaps a notch above. The aim will be to provide an economist's argument and point of view on some salient and interesting issue: a survey of something interesting happening in the economy, or a call for some change in policy or institutions--which would consist of a review of what the principal important factors are, what the objective function is, what the constraints are, why the objective function is maximized at the particular set of policies or institutional arrangements that the author prefers.
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Could be interesting

:: Jim Nichols 9/12/2004 05:16:00 AM [+] ::
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Size of Battleground May Be Smaller Than Expected (washingtonpost.com):

"The Kerry campaign and Democratic Party officials face difficult choices in the coming days involving the allocation of millions of dollars of television ads and the concentration of campaign workers as they decide whether to concede some states to Bush that they earlier hoped to turn into battlegrounds. Bush may have to do the same but on a more limited scale. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/12/2004 05:07:00 AM [+] ::
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UA study suggests people reminded of 9/11 support Bush:

"Worried about another Sept. 11-style attack?

Then you might need a little George W. Bush in your life, a new University of Arizona study suggests."

:: Jim Nichols 9/12/2004 04:29:00 AM [+] ::
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HoustonChronicle.com - Mentally ill inmate denied water, nearly dies:

"A mentally ill Dallas County jail inmate was cut off from drinking water for nearly two weeks and denied psychiatric medication for almost two months, according to an internal investigation. He nearly died."

Prison abuse is certainly more common than we like to believe

:: Jim Nichols 9/10/2004 07:15:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Study: Bush Judges Most Conservative on Rights:

"A study of thousands of federal court cases has found that judges appointed by President Bush are the most conservative on record in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/10/2004 07:11:00 PM [+] ::
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Article: Global suicide toll exceeds war and murder?| New Scientist:

"Suicide kills more people each year than road traffic accidents in most European countries, the World Health Organization is warning. And globally, suicide takes more lives than murder and war put together,"

:: Jim Nichols 9/10/2004 07:06:00 PM [+] ::
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The Washington Monthly:

"George Bush is not responsible for the recession that began in 2001. What he is responsible for is the fact that our recovery from that recession has been the worst in the last 30 years."

:: Jim Nichols 9/10/2004 06:36:00 PM [+] ::
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Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog: Gaming War in the Context of Everything Else:

"The terrorist attacks of 9/11 gave us a glimpse of what 'asymmetrical warfare' in the 20th century is going to be all about. It won't just be some other great power or some regional rogue keeping America from accessing some future battlespace they hope to own, because frankly, there ain't no such thing as a conventional battlespace anywhere in the world that our military force cannot access. Asymmetrical warfare in the future is going to feel more like you're trying to play football while the other guy has decided to play soccer. In other words, you won't be playing the same game, with the same rules, or even the same scorekeeping.

Great power war effectively died with the realization of mutual assured destruction thanks to nukes. Meanwhile, classic state-on-state war is going the route of the dinosaur: basically no one engages in it anymore. What's left is plenty of violence within states and non-state actors looking to hijack societies from globalization's creeping embrace so they can disconnect those societies from the global grid and have their way with the captive population. Increasingly, the most motivated non-state actors will employ terrorism to scare off advanced states from caring about those societies they seek to hijack from history. That's basically the al?Qaeda's game, and if it reminds you of a similar movement of a century earlier (Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks), then you were paying attention in history class. "

I'm reading this guys new book called The Pentagon's New Map: War and peace in the twenty-first century....

:: Jim Nichols 9/09/2004 09:54:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Health Care Premiums Jump 11.2 Percent:

"Health care costs continued to surge this year as family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year of double-digit growth, according to a new study. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/09/2004 09:32:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - U.S. Hid Dozens of Iraqi Prisoners, Investigators Say:

"The United States may have kept up to 100 'ghost detainees' in Iraq off the books and concealed from Red Cross observers, a far higher number than previously reported, an Army general told Congress on Thursday. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/09/2004 09:30:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Powell: Sudan Abuses Qualify As Genocide:

"The Bush administration for the first time on Thursday called attacks in Sudan's Darfur region by government-backed Arab militia against black Africans 'genocide.' "

If its genocide you should commit troops... yes? no? maybe?

:: Jim Nichols 9/09/2004 09:25:00 PM [+] ::
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Excite News:

"For about $10 million, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world's largest wireless Internet hot spot."

:: Jim Nichols 9/09/2004 01:56:00 AM [+] ::
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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | N Korea warns of arms race:

"North Korea has said the admission by South Korea that its scientists secretly enriched uranium in 2000 threatened a new nuclear arms race. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 11:05:00 PM [+] ::
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Boston.com / News / Nation / Bush fell short on duty at Guard:

"Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation"

But nobody cares...

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 10:51:00 PM [+] ::
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Salary squeeze threatens middle America | csmonitor.com:

"recent Census data confirm that the median household income - a level where half of US households earn more and half less - has fallen by $1,500 between 2000 and 2003."

The middle class thats big enough to fit in your front pocket....

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 10:46:00 PM [+] ::
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Aid agencies say they may pull out of Iraq:

"The remaining international aid agencies in Iraq are considering pulling out of the country after the kidnapping of four humanitarian workers"

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 10:41:00 PM [+] ::
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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | UK sets Iran deadline to end nuclear bomb work:

"The British government yesterday set a November ultimatum for Iran to suspend all activities linked to production of a nuclear bomb - a deadline that effectively marks the failure of more than a year of negotiations between Tehran and the European troika of Britain, France and Germany. "

Is Blaire pulling a Bush? Bush pulling some strings? Or is it just more talk?

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 10:36:00 PM [+] ::
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USATODAY.com - Fewer foreigners enrolling in grad school:

"U.S. graduate schools this year saw a 28% decline in applications from international students and an 18% drop in admissions, a finding that some experts say threatens higher education's ability to maintain its reputation for offering high-quality programs."

I think this is a sample of the world we will inherit from Bush II. A less globalized world, which is a far more dangerous world.

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 10:30:00 PM [+] ::
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Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania... The only states that matter??The Senate Dominoes Are Again Teetering:

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 08:18:00 PM [+] ::
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Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004:

"The biweekly Zogby poll of 16 battleground states taken Aug 30 to Sept 3 has now been released."

Florida now tied. Tennessee flipped. Iowa now leaning Kerry. Minnesota now leaning Kerry. Pennsylvania now leaning Kerry. New Mexico back in Kerry territory.

:: Jim Nichols 9/08/2004 04:45:00 PM [+] ::
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Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: A Weblog: A Few Quotes on the Administration's February Employment Forecast: "'What has gone wrong with the economy to leave us with an employment level 1.7 million below what you projected last February that it would be by now?' "

:: Jim Nichols 9/07/2004 09:49:00 PM [+] ::
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TAPPED: September 2004 Archives:

"ALABAMAS EVERYWHERE! I've long wondered why anyone would take seriously the notion that the country as a whole ought to adopt the low-tax, low-wage, no-union, no-regulation formula that's brought such a lack of economic success to the Deep South, but if I were to say that I'd be castigated as some kind of northeastern elitist, so I'll just quote son-of-the-south Ed Kilgore instead:
If you had to identify one simple reason for [the South's] grinding poverty, it was the perpetual delusion of southern political and business leaders that the region had to stay poor and dumb in order to attract the capital necessary to eventually climb out of the ditch. Like some of today's third world countries, the South, right up to the 1970s, was paralyzed by the idea that decent wages, unionization, protection of natural resources, business regulation, progressive taxes, and quality education were all impossible because they would 'price' the region out of opportunities for economic development. All of the South's social and economic weaknesses were perceived as essential to maintaining a 'good business climate.' And that benighted belief also helped perpetuate Jim Crow, since the ability to keep roughly a third of the region's population in semi-serfdom gave the South a cost advantage no other part of the country could ever meet.

Gradually, by the 1970s and 1980s, southern political leaders, and even many business leaders, woke up to the fact that deliberately maintaining a low standard of living wasn't worth the paltry payoff in low-wage textile jobs. And slowly but surely, a consensus developed that decent education and adequate public services were positive, not negative, factors in long-term economic development. The states that pursued this 'high road' strategy--especial"

:: Jim Nichols 9/07/2004 09:33:00 PM [+] ::
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Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004: "Bush and Kerry are now tied in Minnesota. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/07/2004 10:37:00 AM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Reclusive Russian May Have Made Maths Breakthrough:

"A reclusive Russian may have solved one of the world's toughest mathematics problems and stands to win $1 million -- but he doesn't appear to care. "

Its all about brilliant people...

:: Jim Nichols 9/07/2004 01:18:00 AM [+] ::
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Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican: "Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican"

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 09:14:00 PM [+] ::
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"What If Bush Wins" by a panel of 16 experts: "Predictions on the likely consequences of a second term for President Bush. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 08:40:00 PM [+] ::
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"The Left Learns from Goldwater" by Todd Gitlin:
If Bush wins....

"So, politics altogether will seem to be blocked. Dropouts will multiply. In this overheated atmosphere, I would not be surprised to see outbursts of political violence the likes of which we haven't seen since the Weather Underground of the 1970s. The commitment to marginality in much of the antiglobalization movement would take on a tang of negative logic. The master argument will sound like this: What else you got, you so-called practical types? "

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 08:35:00 PM [+] ::
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The New York Times > Education > Good Schools or Bad? Ratings Baffle Parents:

"Students are returning to classes across the nation amid a cacophony of contradictory messages about the quality of their education, as thousands of schools with vaunted reputations have been rated in recent weeks as low-performing under a federal law.
School ratings issued under the terms of the president's No Child Left Behind law have clashed with school report card systems administered by some states, leaving parents unsure which level of government to believe or whether to transfer their children, an option offered by the law."

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 08:28:00 PM [+] ::
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Prez track 2004:

"The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 47%. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 08:24:00 PM [+] ::
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Industries & Communities - bizjournals.com:

"President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have starkly different views on how to solve what many consider a health care crisis. The state's voters also will be asked to decide on controversial Proposition 72, a referendum on legislation that would require midsize and large companies to provide health insurance for their workers. "

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 07:16:00 PM [+] ::
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My final thoughts regarding the republican convention... the Democrats did a lot of talking, and too much talking about John Kerry and his war record. The republicans on the other hand did a lot of fantasizing. The problem with the fantasizing was that many people aren't able to factually combat the fantasy world the republicans put up for that taking. The republicans have been office for four years and they spent the entire convention not talking about the success they've had in four years they talked about the successes they will have in the next four years. But shouldn't we judge you not on your possibility but your record?

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 07:00:00 PM [+] ::
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The hunt for slave outposts in the Amazon | csmonitor.com:

"According to the Brazilian government, as many as 40,000 slaves - the majority of them poor, uneducated, and unskilled - are currently laboring under brutal conditions. Many are lured to the rain forest by ranchers - with the false promise of princely wages - to clear the trees. Once here, they have neither the money nor the means to leave. As the coordinator of one of the government's seven Mobile Anti-Slavery Units, it is Silva's job is to set them free."

:: Jim Nichols 9/06/2004 06:54:00 PM [+] ::
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Battle over Bush's economic legacy csmonitor.com:

"Clinton created 10.2 million new jobs in his first term while Bush has lost 1.1 million."

We've gone from tip top shape to bleeding in the red.... "a surplus of $250 billion,the federal budget is now in the red by $450 billion."

:: Jim Nichols 9/02/2004 10:38:00 PM [+] ::
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US standing with Arabs hits a low | csmonitor.com:

"A June poll by Zogby International in six Arab countries showed that America's already-limited esteem in the Arab world has plummeted since the invasion of Iraq. Just two years ago, Zogby found that 76 percent of Egyptians had an unfavorable impression of the US. Today, that number is 98 percent."

:: Jim Nichols 9/02/2004 10:34:00 PM [+] ::
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Current Electoral Vote Predictor 2004
New poll in Wisconsin puts Kerry up. But Bush is still pulling the electoral college this week.

:: Jim Nichols 9/02/2004 04:59:00 PM [+] ::
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Eleven Public Opinion Insights on the Election

:: Jim Nichols 9/02/2004 04:54:00 PM [+] ::
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