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	Fwd: Obama administration can act quickly to restore openness, according to new transparency proposals
	This is friggen awesome! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: National Security Archive Date: Nov 12, 2008 3:57 PM Subject: Obama administration can act quickly to restore openness, according to new transparency proposals To: Nxxxx@xxxcom National Security Archive Update, November 12, 2008 Obama administration can act quickly to restore openness, according to new transparency proposals Dozens of groups sign on to recommend openness from Day One For more information contact: Thomas Blanton/Meredith Fuchs - 202/994-7000 http://www.nsar...
To blog  From madpercolator using Gmail  11/12/2008 01:12 PM (0) | 30 views
	Conceding,
	That race was not the secret factor I thought it would become last night... And happy to see change entering the White House. Now we have the * possibility*, at least, of something good happening to this country. * Really* disappointed in the FL gay marriage ban an amendment I view as just purely mean. Also, later, Sarah Palin. Later Elizabeth unexpectedly late shit-talking Dole. Now, I anticipate and fervently hope there is a serious reckoning for the out-of-control media, who has been tugging candidates and constituents along with preformatte...
To blog  From madpercolator using Gmail  11/05/2008 04:21 AM (0) | 30 views
	Seriously, TruTV,
	What's with the VH1-styled "I Love the Law Enforcement Zany Videos?" I'd rather watch a marathon of lame COPS episodes (Xmas Cops, that episode with the 80's chick cops from Michigan who were also in a synth band...) than one second of Leif Ericson or Danny Bonaduce tell me what, in arsenal of personal knowledge and experience, makes each particular arrest comically special...
To blog  From madpercolator using Gmail  11/03/2008 05:53 PM (0) | 35 views
	DUKE is Tweeting, People!
	Yes, you crave debate, don't you! I, myself, am still totally full of info from yesterday's totally brilliant Frontline on PBS, which gave comprehensive biographies of our candidates. And, while I acknowledge it's kind of irrelevant, the footage of McCain being interviewed while still a POW was pretty amazing. The one thing I was certain of, which is kind of controversial, I guess, is that I was TOTALLY prepared to vote for McCain for president in 2000. Can you imagine if he were our president on September 11? If there were no Rove sucking up t...
To blog  From madpercolator using Gmail  10/15/2008 04:30 PM (0) | 48 views
	DUKE's NewsRants: This is getting sad.
	---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Duke* Date: 14 Oct 2008 15:12:51 -0400 Subject: This is getting sad. To: madpercolator So Stanley Kurtz has put it all together! "In the winter of 1996, the Coalition for Improved Education in [Chicago's] South Shore (CIESS) announced that it had received a $200,000 grant from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That made CIESS an 'external partner,' i.e. a community organization linked to a network of schools within the Chicago public system. This network, named the 'South Shore African Village Colla...
To blog  From madpercolator using Gmail  10/14/2008 12:25 PM (0) | 42 views
	He Read the Rove Playbook Out Loud
	When you're feeling unpopular, re-state your ideas in a more user-friendly soothing propagandist manner. The People are learning, methinks. Learning to know better and look for the substance behind the pretty veneer. via Google News on 9/30/08 Voice of AmericaMcCain urges Bush action on crisisUSA Today - 3 hours agoBy Thomas Beaumont, The Des Moines Register Republican presidential nominee John McCain said in Des Moines that he urged President Bush today to direct the US Treasury to take action to back more financial services ...
To blog  From madpercolator using Google Reader  09/30/2008 03:48 PM (0) | 58 views
	Normal People Interpret the Economy
	New tumblr crush on "keeping a notebook." Post from that Tumblr. via keeping a notebook on 9/29/08 So that’s where I’m coming from on this whole financial crisis. Anyway, a few months ago I ended up spending some time in the Murray Hill apartment of this young investment banker who had his undergraduate diploma in Economics framed and hanging on his bedroom wall. His lease was up soon and one of his roommates wanted to move to Gramercy, but he vetoed the idea because that area was ‘too freaky’. So when I first heard ab...
To blog  From madpercolator using Google Reader  09/30/2008 01:06 PM (0) | 45 views
	Remember "Political Capital?"
	Our leaders have spent ALL of it. Isn't that appropriate? They can't afford our trust, so they have to beg for it, like Bush in his national address last Friday. The people are tired of blindly trusting, and so we find ourselves closer than ever to a revolution with (1) a foreign unpopular war and (2) no money to fund it or anything else. via memeorandum on 9/30/08 David Brooks / New York Times: Revolt of the Nihilists  —  In 1933, Franklin Roosevelt inherited an economic crisis.  He understood that his first job was to...
To blog  From madpercolator using Google Reader  09/30/2008 05:22 AM (0) | 59 views
	Phenomenal Weejend Read
	Not a very long read... or even form this weekend... but still phenomenal. :D via fourfour by Rich Juzwiak on 9/19/08 Lately, my experience with pop culture has been like a nonstop merry-go-round. It's all a blur and there's always a chance to grab a ring - it's just a matter of actually doing it, and who knows if it'll be brass, anyway? I set up my life to maximize my pop-cultural intake, and yet I fall behind, if not in actual consumption then in the response that should result. For example, I haven't so much as fou...
To blog  From madpercolator using Google Reader  09/28/2008 11:21 AM (0) | 49 views
	Liberty Rabbits!
	via Disapproving Rabbits by nxxxx@xxxcom (Cinnamon) on 9/25/08 Sharon got the following message in her blog:Oh, Birdchick. Now that I've delurked (um, not sure if we've ever met...allow me to introduce myself...friend of Lorraine and company from ever so long ago) anway, I've been meaning to tell you for AGES that your Disapproving Rabbit fiend, er, friend has a bit of a following amongst troops stationed in Iraq.About a year ago (not sure exactly when)Stars and Stripes published an article (from AP, I think) just inside on top ...
To blog  From madpercolator using Google Reader  09/27/2008 08:53 AM (0) | 48 views
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