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Reaction To Announcement on Governor Palin

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:49:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The campaign has been busily preparing TV commercials to run against Mitt Romney — with aides gleefully watching hours of footage of Romney-McCain exchanges from the primary — but far little opposition research had been prepared about the Alaska governor. And aides said no commercials were ready to be immediately released, which the McCain campaign did when Mr. Biden was chosen.”

There’s more at the link, including that the Obama campaign had to delay its campaign flight for more Palin prep and, as a result, McCain-Palin got a half-day of uninterrupted media time.

The Obama campaign was not prepared for the Palin announcement, a choice that was unexpected but not totally off the radar. That’s not good in politics but it’s very discouraging in governing. In fact, it makes the Obama campaign sound as clueless as it often describes the Bush Administration.

Clip Source: patterico.com

The Obama campaign was critical of McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin — she’s too inexperienced and not ready to be a “heartbeat away” from the Presidency — followed quickly by Obama’s statement that his staff was too critical. This clearly isn’t what the Obama campaign thought they would be talking about the day after his acceptance speech.

And now the New York Times’ Caucus blog has this amazing information on why the Obama campaign had a mixed message:

“11:40 a.m. | Obama Reaction: The Times’s Jeff Zeleny has the following dispatch:

The Obama campaign had no immediate response to reports that Senator John McCain has selected the little-known Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, as his running-mate. Neither Mr. Obama nor Mr. Biden talked to reporters, but Mr. Biden could be seen wearing a wide smile in the front cabin of the plane.

Ms. Palin came as a surprise not only to many Republicans and journalists, but also to the Obama team.

Tags: gov sarah palin, mccain's vp choice, nytimes' caucus blog

Superior Economic-Policy Reporting And Writing

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:34:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This, from Sunday's NYTimes magazine, is the most clear and comprehensive economic-policy piece I've read in awhile. (It even makes the tax code nearly digestible.) Regardless of your political stance, it's worth a look.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The fact that the economy grows — that it produces more goods and services one year than it did in the previous one — no longer ensures that most families will benefit from its growth. For the first time on record, an economic expansion seems to have ended without family income having risen substantially. Most families are still making less, after accounting for inflation, than they were in 2000. For these workers, roughly the bottom 60 percent of the income ladder, economic growth has become a theoretical concept rather than the wellspring of better medical care, a new car, a nicer house — a better life than their parents had.

Tags: obama, deficit, mccain, taxes

our universe

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:25:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: nytimes

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

This is your universe on acid: 10 dimensions of space, seven of which we cannot see, filled almost entirely with dark matter and dark energy — invisible thought stuff that serves to make the cosmologists’ equations come out right.

Tags: cosmology, science

times syndicate

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:12:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytsyn.com

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bugmenot

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:37:37 GMT

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Eddie Dodson to be played by Romain Duris

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:09:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: movies.nytimes.com

Cast:
Romain Duris - Eddie Dodson

© 2008 Baseline StudioSystems, All rights reserved.
© 2008 All Media Guide, LLC Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC

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wifi/restaurant info in NYC

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:16:33 GMT

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Clip Source: travel.nytimes.com

Finding restaurants, and even what to order in restaurants, may be the Internet’s finest hour, beating out guidebooks — even food-oriented guidebooks. Nytimes.com, nymag.com, citysearch.com and yelp.com all search by neighborhood and other categories.

Chowhound’s Manhattan board may be the most useful site (use the “search this board” function); there’s almost nothing it doesn’t have a suggestion for. Mexican near Times Square? (Toloache.) Gluten free in the East Village? (Caracas Arepa Bar.)

Frank's on NYTimes

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:53:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

A giant ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” weighing more than 900 pounds that will melt over the course of eight to 12 hours. YouTube public service announcements created by ordinary citizens about what it means to participate in an election. The chance to take the microphone in a bar and perform a speech by Barack Obama or John McCain, karaoke-style. An acoustic set by D J Spooky about the changing continent of Antarctica.

The New York artist Fang Lin has contributed another media project, “Political Science 101,” which will be shown at Intermedia Arts beginning on Aug. 31. The piece transforms one of the galleries into a traditional classroom with rows of desks and chairs set up around a slide projector. Mr. Fang has created a custom program that can scan 400 political blogs in real time for key words, like “security” or “McCain.” The program is able to then grab data from those blogs and present them through graphs and charts that are then projected onto a screen.

Individualism Vs Collectivism

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:46:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: NICE ARTICLE From nytimes.com

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality.

Americans are more likely to see categories. Asians are more likely to see relationships.

You can create a global continuum with the most individualistic societies — like the United States or Britain — on one end, and the most collectivist societies — like China or Japan — on the other.

The individualistic countries tend to put rights and privacy first

Either way, individualistic societies have tended to do better economically.

But what happens if collectivist societies snap out of their economic stagnation?

A new sort of global conversation develops.

The rise of China isn’t only an economic event. It’s a cultural one. The ideal of a harmonious collective may turn out to be as attractive as the ideal of the American Dream.

It’s certainly a useful ideology for aspiring autocrats.

iraq private sector != progress

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:57:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what a depressing article. you almost think the nytimes wants the war in iraq to fail....

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Iraq Private Sector Falters; Rolls of Government Soar

BAGHDAD — Hampered by years of violence, a decimated infrastructure, a lack of foreign investors and a flood of imports that undercut local businesses, Iraq’s private sector, particularly its small non-oil economy, has so far failed to flourish as its American patrons had hoped.

In its absence, the Iraqi government has been sustaining the economy the way it always has: by putting citizens on its payroll. Since 2005, according to federal budgets, the number of government employees has nearly doubled, to 2.3 million from 1.2 million.

In 2006, 31 percent of Iraq’s labor force was working in the public sector, according to the agency for statistics in the Ministry of Planning. The agency expects that figure to reach 35 percent this year, about 5 percentage points short of where the C.I.A. estimated it to be on the eve of the 2003 invasion.

NYtimes

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:35:06 GMT

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Clip Source: olympics.blogs.nytimes.com

Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared that “war has started” after Russian and Georgian forces clashed in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, in an escalation of the conflict.

Games in Beijing Open With a Lavish Ceremony

By JIM YARDLEY and DAVID BARBOZA 1:04 PM ET

With world leaders watching from inside National Stadium, the 2008 Beijing Olympics began with a ceremony of soaring spectacle and Chinese national pride.

Rings Blog: Coverage of the Opening Ceremony
Slide Show: Scenes From the Ceremony | Inside the Rings
TV Decoder: For U.S. Viewers, 12-Hour Delay Before Broadcast
Back Story With David Barboza (mp3)

The newyork times

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:36:59 GMT

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NYTimes uses spokesperson from a white-supremacist anti-immigration group as expert

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:10:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: To read the AP article go here http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hRZ1E71NbNh0y2o5WR0BjJQuNrjQD91VGR380

Clip Source: culturekitchen.com

The New York Times uses an Associate Press article titled, Federal immigration failures fuel state action.

Mark Krikorian is the expert quoted. He is from the "Pat Buchanan" school of mainstreamed white supremacist political lobbying. His employer, the "Center For Immigration Studies", is an alleged think tank that used to be the research arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)

Even though it has been spun-off and allegedly separated from the more radical FAIR, the Southern Poverty Law Center still considers the Center For Immigration Studies part of the list of anti-immigrant hate groups created by John Tanton

The need for including pro- and con- voices on the immigration debate doesn't bother me. What really irritates me is the Associated Press' insistence on legitimizing an organization that has at its core blocking people of color from entering and settling in the United States

watch the video and follow the chain of racist organizations that support the CIS

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Computer Models Suggests Mid-West Droughts...Oops

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:07:35 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Floods…the opposite of droughts. Of course, today these alarmists are pointing at the floods in the Midwest and saying, “I told you so, here is proof of global warming.” In that case, what isn’t proof of global warming, and how does one go about debating these sorts of incongruities? Unfortunately, the media and politicians have not done a good enough job of making prophets account for their past errant prophetic utterances. Instead, they accept as fact whatever dubious claims Hansen and Gore happen to be making at the moment.

Clip Source: www.openmarket.org

While doing some research, I came across an article in the NY Times headlined “U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail to Show Warming Trend,” which was written in 1991.

Dr. James E. Hansen and then-Senator Al Gore were both present in the piece. The article noted that Hansen’s study says (as of 1991), “average global temperatures have risen by nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit in this century and that the average temperatures in the 1980’s are the highest on record.”

This all sounds like a broken record now, but one particular sentenced grabbed my attention: “Many of the computer models that predict global warming also predict that certain areas, including the Midwest in the United States, would suffer more frequent droughts.”

This statement creates problems for today’s alarmists, who insist that models can be trusted, even though the models have been highly inaccurate. Some sixteen years after the article was printed, the Midwest has experienced floods the last two summers.

Tags: global warming, nytimes headliner, u.s.data, hansen, al gore

The facts about taxes from Morford's commenter

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:50:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: vkkv
8/6/2008 1:33:13 AM

2)-According to new research out of Princeton, real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president. "...Even more remarkable, the real incomes of working-poor families...grew six times as fast when Democrats held the White House. Only the incomes of affluent families were relatively impervious to partisan politics, growing robustly under Democrats and Republicans alike...": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27wwln-ideal... Here is a short summary of this research: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008...

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vkkv
8/6/2008 1:34:12 AM

3)-90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan compared to McCain's. This is according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Institute as reported by CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates... People making under $112,000 a year in individual (not household) inco

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70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican presidents. Go ahead, get out your calculator and add up debt by president/party. Apparently the party that claims fiscally responsibility thinks it's ok to borrow massive amounts of money from foreign countries like China. Consider that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars in interest payments on this debt each year. That means more and more of your hard earned money is going to make interest only payments on what is basically a Giant National Credit Card. Not to mention the fact our debt/deficits are largely behind the weakness of our dollar, which in turns makes gas more expensive and creates other serious problems. If you want to learn more about the National Debt, check out these links: http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock / http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20... http://zfacts.com/p/447.html (A running clock with the cost of the war) http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/busines

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Reaction To Announcement on Governor Palin

Superior Economic-Policy Reporting And Writing

our universe

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bugmenot

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Eddie Dodson to be played by Romain Duris

wifi/restaurant info in NYC

Frank's on NYTimes

Individualism Vs Collectivism

iraq private sector != progress

NYtimes

Games in Beijing Open With a Lavish Ceremony

The newyork times

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NYTimes uses spokesperson from a white-supremacist anti-immigration group as expert

Computer Models Suggests Mid-West Droughts...Oops

The facts about taxes from Morford's commenter