Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – Spending seven Septembers hijacking my religion back « – Blogs from CNN.com A beautiful and heartfelt essay from a Muslim pacifist civil rights lawyer, who with his Islamic brothers and sisters wants to peacefully hijack his religion back from the extremists.
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Daily Herald | Hoffman Estates starts stocking up on salt tonight Breaking news: Chicago-area residents should expect a “very cold period” after Thanksgiving. That’s according to the winter weather projections in the 2009 edition of the “The Old Farmer’s Almanac,” in stores in next month. Yep, my village is debating the cost of road salt, in August, because the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a cold winter. Well, they did run out of salt last winter…
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Actors paid to line up for iPhone launch | Oddly Enough | Reuters That it has come to this: iPhone isn’t sexy enough for the Poles, who probably don’t like their one and only provider’s plan any better than the Brits like theirs.
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Only Connect: Holding together but going nowhere From our viewpoint the bishops talked in secret little groups in their ‘big top’ surrounded by a ring of police and only emerged once to go to London to tell society how wicked it was not to do more about the debt. Many of us had worked in or visited Africa and experienced the poverty. We do all we can to press for justice and support the aid agencies but we also know about violence against women in Africa and the persecution of gay people. They are the real victims and scapegoats in…
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Economist’s View: Paul Krugman: Know-Nothing Politics Another good phrase: “the party of stupid.”
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Bob Cesca: Protecting McCain’s Ignorance with a ‘Great Wall of Duh’ Wow! I love that phrase. Gotta keep that one around.
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This is a picture I never had a chance to upload to Flickr from my phone. I’ve got a lot of unused content waiting for its big moment. Teh kitteh blags, too.
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… a lot of them are being closed in areas that tend to appeal to ethnic minorities, and they’re sorry that the iconic brand is leaving their neighborhoods. Cafe closings hit minority areas — chicagotribune.com Starbucks has identified 18 stores in the Chicago area among the 600 nationwide targeted to close through March 2009, including several in minority neighborhoods that had counted on the green-and-white medallion to signal rebirth.
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Colombians Briefed McCain Before Rescue – washingtonpost.com CARTAGENA, Colombia, July 2 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke repeatedly Tuesday and early Wednesday about how he would work as president to free three American hostages held by leftist guerrillas in Colombia, but he declined to reveal one key fact: Colombian President Ãlvaro Uribe and his aides had briefed him Tuesday evening about the plan to rescue the Americans, along with 12 other captives.
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ZHAO II And How To Make It a Personal Dance Machine Okay, this actually makes a certain amount of sense, except that I have multiple versions of the animation overrider, in folders with different outfits. If this makes no sense to you, relax, it’s a mini-post.