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:: Saturday, October 22, 2005 ::

New Harris Poll Finds Different Religious Groups Have Very Different Attitudes To Some Health Policies and Programs

look at support for universal healthcare

favored by 75 percent of all adults, including 63 percent or more of all religious groups.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 09:56:00 PM [+] ::
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WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price from the guy who did Outfoxxed

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 09:38:00 PM [+] ::
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Can the reporter--or the New York Times--be trusted?

The New York Times editorial page told readers over and over again that Times reporter Judith Miller went to jail for 85 days for a noble cause--the protection of confidential sources. But to many outside observers, the principles that Miller went to jail for were far from clear, with many fundamental questions left unanswered.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 09:33:00 PM [+] ::
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Sacramento's daytime population swells by 100,000

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 09:30:00 PM [+] ::
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Miers' Answer Raises Questions

Asked to describe the constitutional issues she had worked on during her legal career, Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers had relatively little to say on the questionnaire she sent to the Senate this week.

And what she did say left many constitutional experts shaking their heads.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 09:21:00 PM [+] ::
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Run on Drug for Avian Flu Has Physicians Worried

"If there is an outbreak, we're going to have to rely on the CDC and state governments to put those drugs where we need them. And I don't want them in people's bathrooms,"

Me either. I have a real problem with the stockpile mentality. Let the public health officials do their job.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 09:15:00 PM [+] ::
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China to adopt new jobless method

China will release an unemployment rate next year calculated under a method that could double the figure from levels now reported, according to a report in the official China Daily on Saturday.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 07:46:00 PM [+] ::
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Poll shows Iraqis back attacks on UK, US forces

Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph.

"Aboriginal people all over the world could tell you why the people of Afghanistan and Iraq do not, and should not trust Western 'civilizers.'" --Propagandhi

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 07:26:00 PM [+] ::
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Poll: Clinton Would Lead Rice in '08 Race

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a hypothetical presidential matchup, according to an independent poll released Friday.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 07:05:00 PM [+] ::
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Tropical Storm Alpha Forms in Caribbean

Tropical Storm Alpha formed Saturday in the Caribbean, setting the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season and marking the first time forecasters had to turn to the Greek alphabet for names.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 07:02:00 PM [+] ::
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Schwarzenegger asks TV stations to pull his special election ads

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asked television stations to stop airing commercials featuring him personally backing initiatives in the Nov. 8 special election.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 06:53:00 PM [+] ::
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Out-of-this-world sex could jeopardise missions

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 06:48:00 PM [+] ::
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DeLay Flies Corporate Jet to Arraignment

When he landed, DeLay held a press conference and called allegations that he allowed corporate dollars to improperly influence the political process “contrived and baseless.”

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 04:07:00 PM [+] ::
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Insiders see hint of Miers pullout

The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 03:57:00 PM [+] ::
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Went to see North Country tonight. It wasn't that great. I couldn't get into it at all.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 02:00:00 AM [+] ::
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Only something to confuse the fight even more than it is already.

Miers supported affirmative action: paper

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers supported affirmative action goals in the early 1990s when she served as president of the State Bar of Texas, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 01:44:00 AM [+] ::
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"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane." --Ray Bradbury

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 01:29:00 AM [+] ::
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Study: George Orwell's Illnesses Influenced '1984'

The gloomy stories of George Orwell were likely influenced by the writer's own ailments, including tuberculosis and infertility, according to a new study.

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 01:26:00 AM [+] ::
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Interview with Tom Gabel from Against Me

:: Jim Nichols 10/22/2005 01:02:00 AM [+] ::
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Conservative Group to Release Film Criticizing Ann Coulter

A conservative organization is doing a documentary critical of conservative columnist Ann Coulter, according to a report on BradBlog.com.

"The Truth About Ann" is from Citizens for Principled Conservatism, whose founder, Daniel Borchers, said: "Ann Coulter is mainstreaming extremism within the conservative movement."

Borchers, who also created the CoulterWatch.com site, said the documentary is slated for June 2006 release.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 08:52:00 PM [+] ::
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France Orders Positive Spin on Colonialism

France, grappling for decades with its colonial past, has passed a law to put an upbeat spin on a painful era, making it mandatory to enshrine in textbooks the country's "positive role" in its far-flung colonies.

But the law is stirring anger among historians and passions in places like Algeria, which gained independence in a brutal conflict. Critics accuse France of trying to gild an inglorious colonial past with an "official history."

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 08:48:00 PM [+] ::
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Editor Says He Missed Miller 'Alarm Bells'

In a dramatic e-mail, Executive Editor Bill Keller wrote Times' employees he wished he'd more carefully interviewed Miller and had "missed what should have been significant alarm bells" that she had been the recipient of leaked information about the CIA officer at the heart of the case.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 08:42:00 PM [+] ::
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Young Singers Spread Racist Hate

Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 08:38:00 PM [+] ::
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Wait a minute

Is Moveon.org selling Tom Delay t-shirts?

This article DeLay lawyer questions judge says so but if you go to their website you get this response

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 07:38:00 PM [+] ::
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Warning from the National Review

Conservatives will have long memories about how senators act in this crucial period. Any Senate Republicans who want people to listen when they run for president in 2008 and tell GOP primary voters how seriously they take the task of transforming the Supreme Court — by placing top-notch conservative jurists on it — had better be heard from now.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 07:33:00 PM [+] ::
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The Washington Note says there will be an article in the new New Yorker coming out on Monday where former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft comes out against the Bush Administration.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 04:58:00 PM [+] ::
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Flip flopper

Looks like Bush was against Reagan’s response to terrorism before he was for it.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 04:53:00 PM [+] ::
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Is America Ready for a Woman President?

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 04:30:00 PM [+] ::
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Dead man gets parking ticket from Australian cops

Australian authorities have apologised to the family of an elderly man who was given a parking ticket while he lay dead in his car in a suburban shopping centre.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 12:41:00 AM [+] ::
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Fox News Pushing “Criminalization of Politics” Talking Point

to which Orcinus replys:

Yes indeed. That's what happens when you let criminals into politics.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 12:36:00 AM [+] ::
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Banner week for the Republicans...

Possible cover-up a focus in CIA leak case: lawyers

Lawmaker DeLay arrested, charged in Texas

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 12:28:00 AM [+] ::
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I went to see Elizabethtown tonight. It was okay. I'm a big Kirsten Dunst fan so that helped. I wouldn't recommend it to somebody but it did kill two hours which is always a plus.

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 12:24:00 AM [+] ::
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I don't see it happening but Democrats hope angry voters mean '06 comeback

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 09:02:00 PM [+] ::
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Propositions 78 and 79: Rival plans target pain of uninsured

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 08:37:00 PM [+] ::
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Firefox Hits 100 Million Mark

The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser has reached 100 million downloads only five months after hitting the 50 million mark and just a few weeks prior to the one-year anniversary of its formal release.

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 08:11:00 PM [+] ::
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being paid by American Express to blog?

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 08:09:00 PM [+] ::
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Global Warming a Major Threat to Africa

Deadly epidemics. Ruined crops. The extinction of some of Africa's legendary wildlife. The potential consequences of global warming could be devastating for the world's poorest continent, yet its nations are among the least equipped to cope.

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 07:12:00 PM [+] ::
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This post Bush's Ace in the Hole-- The Pardon Power got me to thinking. Why was the President given the power to pardon? Is it a check on the Judiciary? Is it that the framers thought that some laws will be broken for the good of the country?

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 07:07:00 PM [+] ::
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Hunt for Tax Cheats Is Curbed by Governor

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is putting the brakes on efforts to give state investigators more tools to hunt tax evaders, following a period of aggressive enforcement that has generated billions of dollars for California coffers.

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 06:58:00 PM [+] ::
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Early retirers don't live longer

Researchers have disproved the theory that people who take early retirement enjoy longer lives as a result.

In fact, those who stop working at 55 have nearly double the death rate of those who continue to work on until they reach 65, a study suggests.

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 05:12:00 PM [+] ::
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Thomas P.M. Barnett on CSPAN



AIR DATE & TIME: Saturday, October 29 @ 8pm ET & Sunday, October 30 @ 6pm & 9pm ET

you can get his new book here

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 04:48:00 PM [+] ::
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Gov. Spurns Bush in Spat Over Money

Long-simmering tensions between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bush burst into the open Wednesday as the two Republicans clashed over that most basic of political necessities: money.

Schwarzenegger 'snub' prompts criticism

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drew fire Thursday for his "snub" of President Bush's visit to the state.

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 04:25:00 PM [+] ::
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51 senators in favor of Roe v. Wade

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 02:57:00 PM [+] ::
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Chavez Warns if U.S. Invades, Oil Goes Up

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his government is preparing for a possible U.S. invasion and he warned that such "aggression" would send gasoline in the United States prices soaring higher. The U.S. government repeated that it is not planning any such thing.

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 02:48:00 PM [+] ::
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Pirro: Unlike Dems, GOP doesn't want child molesters next door

"That's a difference between Democrats and Republicans _ we don't want them next door molesting children and murdering women,"

:: Jim Nichols 10/20/2005 02:39:00 PM [+] ::
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"inadequate," "insufficient" and "insulting."

Three words that could explain eight years of Bush.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 11:14:00 PM [+] ::
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Newsview: Strategy on Miers Backfiring No kidding

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 10:46:00 PM [+] ::
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Cheney 'cabal' hijacked foreign policy

Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 10:42:00 PM [+] ::
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In Katrina's wake, a tattoo boom in New Orleans

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 07:48:00 PM [+] ::
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Tonight at dinner the conversation turned to the question of voting and when is it appropriate to abstain as a form of political protest. The idea of abstaining during this special election seemed wrong to me. My Dad brought up my recent presidential votes as an example of abstaining. Weren't my votes for David Cobb in 2004 and Ralph Nader in 2000 examples of abstaining from the political process? To which my dad responded: Who is David Cobb? Maybe the reason I am against abstaining in this election is the fact that I feel so strongly against Proposition 73 which forces parental notification for minors having abortions. But the question remains, does low votor turnout make a political statement or does it simply make politics an easier game for the politically strong to play?

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 07:03:00 PM [+] ::
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Israel considers separate roads in West Bank

Israel is considering a permanent ban on Palestinians using major roads in the occupied West Bank, security sources said on Wednesday, drawing Palestinian condemnation of the idea as a form of apartheid.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:43:00 PM [+] ::
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Senators Say Miers' Answers Inadequate

The senators in charge of Harriet Miers' confirmation are demanding more information from her before hearings begin, with one lawmaker describing the Supreme Court nominee's answers so far as "incomplete to insulting."

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:39:00 PM [+] ::
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Make Miers pass a 'litmus test'

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:34:00 PM [+] ::
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Bill McInturff

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:30:00 PM [+] ::
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Senate Again Fails to Raise Minimum Wage

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:23:00 PM [+] ::
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Crisis Averted

Remember the Social Security crisis? Isn't it a bit, um, interesting that the president suddeny stopped thinking it was critical to do something about the program once it became clear that his preferred changes weren't going to be adopted?

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:17:00 PM [+] ::
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Starbucks stirs things up with a God quote on cups

Coffee drinkers could get a spiritual jolt with their java in the spring when Starbucks begins putting a God-filled quote from the Rev. Rick Warren, author of the mega-selling The Purpose-Driven Life, on its cups.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:08:00 PM [+] ::
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Rice: U.S. May Still Be in Iraq in 10 Years

Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice declined on Wednesday to rule out American forces still being needed in Iraq a decade from now. Senators warned that the Bush administration must play it straight with the public or risk losing public support for the war.

Pushed by senators from both parties to define the limits of U.S. involvement in Iraq and the Middle East, Rice also declined to rule out the use of military force in
Iran or Syria, although she said the administration prefers diplomacy.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 05:03:00 PM [+] ::
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Parents' Group Warns Against 4 Fox Shows

Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies "The War at Home," "The Family Guy" and "American Dad," topped a parents group's annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 03:58:00 PM [+] ::
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Chris left the band. Chris didn't leave the band. Chris left the band. Chris didn't leave the band.from Wikipedia

In September 2005, G7 Welcoming Committee announced that Chris Hannah had left the band, and the remaining members found a replacement in one Glen Lambert, formerly of the Portage Terriers. This would appear to be a joke however, for a number of reasons. Firstly, many fans say that the singer's voice is clearly Hannah's voice. Secondly Glen Lambert and the Portage Terriers (http://www.portageterriers.com/) seem to be unfindable on the net. Finally the article mentions Hannah leaving in 2003, but he has been seen performing with the band on numerous occasions in 2004. Despite this, the album booklet for Potemkin City Limits credits Glen Lambert as "Guitar, vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 and 12." A later page in the booklet, titled "A Message from Glen" includes a picture depicting Hannah. His fellow bandmembers, however, are referred to as The Rod and Jordy-boy, and on albums past Propagandhi have used humourous pseudonyms in the album booklet credits.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 03:54:00 PM [+] ::
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Spanish Judge Issues Arrest Order for US Troops

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 03:54:00 PM [+] ::
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Bush whacked Rove on CIA leak

An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair, sources told the Daily News.

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 03:50:00 PM [+] ::
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Blogging 101--Web logs go to school

:: Jim Nichols 10/19/2005 02:37:00 PM [+] ::
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Fuck yeah

Kemp Says Ex-Felons Should Be Able to Vote

Jack Kemp, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and HUD secretary, urged Congress on Tuesday to require states to restore voting rights for felons once they complete their sentences.

One of the great human rights violations that this country takes part in is the refusal to allow felons to vote.

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 09:46:00 PM [+] ::
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Whats the deal with the gilmore girls tonight. They give away the last scene as if it were going to be resolved tonight instead of what it really was: a tease/spoiler for next week.

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 09:21:00 PM [+] ::
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What the fuck

NBA Introduces New Dress Code for Players

The league announced in a memo to teams on Monday that a minimum dress code will go into effect at the start of the regular season on Nov. 1.

Players will be expected to wear business casual attire whenever they participate in team or league activities, including arriving at games, leaving games and making promotional or other appearances.

Why are they treating the players like children?

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 07:40:00 PM [+] ::
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Albright to Guest Star on 'Gilmore Girls'

Former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright temporarily traded in her diplomatic duties for a guest appearance on the WB series "Gilmore Girls."

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 07:37:00 PM [+] ::
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PROPAGANDHI released a new album today. And fitting enough, their website has gone down. After only two listens i'm not too impressed. Its much more complex of an album than the light pop enfused punk they used to write. I've argued before and i'm sure i'll argue again that due to the fact that only the drummer remains of the original band this band labeled Propagandhi should rename themselves something else.

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 07:24:00 PM [+] ::
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Prop 78 vs. prop 79

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 05:27:00 PM [+] ::
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Miers supported constitutional amendment to ban abortion

In 1989, Harriet Miers endorsed amending the U.S. Constitution to ban abortion except when necessary to save the life of the woman.

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 05:05:00 PM [+] ::
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Brian Leiter is over in London and he has a few observations to share

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 03:57:00 PM [+] ::
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Anti Flag has moved over to RCA records for their new album.

:: Jim Nichols 10/18/2005 03:47:00 PM [+] ::
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Aid 'too little too late'

Thousands are being sentenced to death because help given by world leaders to deal with natural disasters is "too little, too late", charity Oxfam says.

Its paper "2005: Year of Disasters" suggests that the level of aid depends on the publicity given to a tragedy.

The responses to Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur and southern Africa were inadequate, it said.

Oxfam wants to see the setting up of a multi-million pound UN fund to speed up the aid process.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 10:23:00 PM [+] ::
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Now we are talking about REAL Democracy. Concerns over voter fraud in Iraq

In a statement on Monday evening, the Independent Election Commission of Iraq said the results of the referendum on Saturday would have to be delayed "a few days" because the apparently high number of "yes" votes required election workers to "recheck, compare and audit" the results.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 07:46:00 PM [+] ::
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I just recently got The Evens album. The Evens are comprised of Ian MacKaye--of Fugazi/Minor Threat fame--on guitar and Amy Farina on drums. I've only had one or two listens but I like it so far. But I must say the best piece of music on rotation at my house is the cd-ep by Against Me "Crime as forgiven by" released by plan-it-x records

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 07:17:00 PM [+] ::
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Rich, Poor See Poverty Very Differently

The dramatic differences between rich and poor that were on view during Hurricane Katrina also can be seen by how those two groups view the causes of poverty. The poor largely believe they were dealt a bad hand while the rich are more apt to say poverty is from lack of effort.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 05:06:00 PM [+] ::
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Foreign Policy Top 100 Public Intellectuals Results

Number 1 Noam Chomsky

go here for some of Chomskys writings

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 04:37:00 PM [+] ::
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Murder Rate Hits 40-Year Low

The nation's murder rate declined last year for the first time in four years, dropping to the lowest level in 40 years. Experts said local rather than national trends were mostly responsible.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 04:00:00 PM [+] ::
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A welcome surprise: war waning globally

A new report suggests that the number of violent global conflicts is decreasing.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 03:54:00 PM [+] ::
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Half-century in mental asylum a mistake..

More than half-a-century ago, Machal Lalung was thought to be insane and sent to a mental asylum in India's remote northeast.

A few months ago, he was set free after the National Human Rights Commission found that healthcare authorities had made a mistake and Lalung suffered only from epilepsy.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 02:28:00 PM [+] ::
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Jobs abound in New Orleans, housing is obstacle

If you were seeking work in New Orleans in the months before Hurricane Katrina hit, chances are you had to fight to get an employer's attention. Now all you need to do is show up and perhaps pass a drug test

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 02:24:00 PM [+] ::
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Sex workers want rights, end to discrimination

European sex workers called for their profession to be recognized as work Monday, saying they deserved the same social rights as other employees.

Male and female sex workers from the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE) held a news conference in the European Parliament, urging the 25-nation European Union to end discrimination of the sex industry.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 02:15:00 PM [+] ::
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Did Christian conservatives receive assurances that Miers would oppose Roe v. Wade?

On Oct. 3, the day the Miers nomination was announced, Mr. Dobson and other religious conservatives held a conference call to discuss the nomination. One of the people on the call took extensive notes, which I have obtained. According to the notes, two of Ms. Miers's close friends--both sitting judges--said during the call that she would vote to overturn Roe.

:: Jim Nichols 10/17/2005 02:05:00 PM [+] ::
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The Right and Miers: Sound, Fury, Yawns

Big-name Right-wing bloggers and pundits are livid about Bush's latest Supreme Court pick. So why do polls find only 9% of the GOP faithful oppose her?....

when it comes to Web-driven furor over President Bush's selection of White House Counsel Harriet Miers for a Supreme Court seat, it's the right-wing blogosphere that looks out of sync with its own grassroots.

:: Jim Nichols 10/16/2005 11:45:00 PM [+] ::
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History teacher resigns because of alleged discrimination

Ambrosia, who has taught at Rocklin High School for 11 years, attributed her resignation to the discrimination she alleges she has received as a result of being club adviser to the Gay-Straight Alliance

:: Jim Nichols 10/16/2005 11:43:00 PM [+] ::
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Topic of the day

When are Dillinger Four coming out with a new album!!! Their last album SITUATIONIST COMEDY won me over big time.

:: Jim Nichols 10/16/2005 09:18:00 PM [+] ::
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Administration's Tone Signals a Longer, Broader Iraq Conflict

In the prelude to the war and in the early days of the occupation, Mr. Bush and top members of his national security team compared the effort to remake Iraq to the American occupations of Japan and Germany. As the insurgency grew - a feature missing from those two successful occupations - they dropped that comparison. Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under Colin L. Powell, argued in an interview recently published by an Australian magazine, The Diplomat, that it was a flawed way of thinking from the start.

"Those who argued at the time that the acceptance of democracy in Iraq would be easy, and who drew on our experience with Japan and Germany, were wrong," he said. "First of all, Germany and Japan were homogeneous societies. Iraq is not." He added that the German and Japanese populations were "exhausted and deeply shocked by what had happened," but that Iraqis were "un-shocked and un-awed."

Now administration officials are beginning to describe the insurgency as long-lasting, more akin to Communist insurgencies in Malaysia or the Philippines, but with a broader and more deadly base.

:: Jim Nichols 10/16/2005 08:27:00 PM [+] ::
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Condoleezza Rice on Meet the Press:

But the fact of the matter is that when we were attacked on September 11, we had a choice to make. We could decide that the proximate cause was al-Qaeda and the people who flew those planes into buildings and, therefore, we would go after al-Qaeda and perhaps after the Taliban and then our work would be done and we would try to defend ourselves.

Or we could take a bolder approach, which was to say that we had to go after the root causes of the kind of terrorism that was produced there, and that meant a different kind of Middle East.

I thought we attacked Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction?

:: Jim Nichols 10/16/2005 06:57:00 PM [+] ::
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Fatboy Slim makes Marcos musical

DJ Fatboy Slim and Talking Heads singer David Byrne are writing a musical about former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, to be shown next March.

:: Jim Nichols 10/16/2005 02:40:00 PM [+] ::
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Leaders Ask U.S. to End 'Blockade' of Cuba

Leaders of the world's Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries demanded on Saturday that the United States abide by U.N. resolutions to end its "blockade" against Cuba, in a resolution that earlier drew criticism from the U.S. government.

:: Jim Nichols 10/16/2005 01:34:00 AM [+] ::
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