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"No Way, No How, No McCain"
Hillary was excellent. She played all the right notes, and played well, in the right order. She was right to spend a lot of time dwelling on her campaign, which so many people worked on and fought for. She knows very well that her supporters' emotional investment isn't something she can lightly hand over to someone else.
But she also hit McCain hard and gave the best pro-Obama argument of the convention. Yes, even better than Michelle's message.
People should compare this speech with the "dream will never die" speech by Kennedy at the 1980 convention, or the fight by Reagan people in the '76 GOP convention. HRC could have taken that route but she did just the opposite.— dende blogger
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Bill Maher's thoughts on the convention.
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I can't imagine her giving a better speech. It seemed to me to be pitch perfect.
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And the crowd chants fuck fox news.
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I favor engagement – not war or isolation -- with Iran. Only war could possibly stop them from building nuclear weapons if they choose to. This would be a disastrous course of action. Even a cold war with Iran would fail. We couldn’t stop friends like Pakistan and India, so what gives us the confidence that our hostility will change their minds?My administration is not going to war with Iran. It is better to establish a relationship with them. It would be even more important if they develop nuclear weapons.
Some argue that we must use force and eliminate Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities to support and protect Israel. I ask you: Since when has Israel ever needed defending? The certain knowledge that Israel would use its A bomb against Iran is deterrent enough. Deterrence worked between the former Soviet Union and us during the Cold War, and it seems to be working between Pakistan and India. Let’s leave Iran to decide its own fate.
I was excited to hear that Chevy plans to debut an electric car in 2010. But then a discussion with a friend got me thinking: If the electricity used to charge up an electric car is created by burning fossil fuels, is it better to stick with a gas-powered car with good fuel economy?It's true that most electric cars get their electricity from the grid, which, in many states, is made up mostly of electricity from coal-fired power plants. In areas where the power comes mostly from hydro, wind or solar, your electric car would be virtually emissions-free. (Any electric-car owner can achieve this by installing a solar carport at home.)
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And this week's winner is?
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David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote “Evolution” in the rectangle of light on the screen.He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville suburb, had been raised to take the biblical creation story as fact. His gaze rested for a moment on Bryce Haas, a football player who attended the 6 a.m. prayer meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the school gymnasium.
“If I do this wrong,” Mr. Campbell remembers thinking on that humid spring morning, “I’ll lose him.”
I think Hillary would have been a better choice, no surprise there, but I think the Biden choice was better than Bayh or Kaine. I had forgotten why I dismissed Biden early on, this article reminded me. I think Obama-Biden will win in November, but it will be way too close for comfort.
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There’s some good news from America concerning action on climate change. It turns out that two-thirds of adults in the USA think that their country should do something serious about climate change, regardless of what other countries do, according to a poll by TNS, ABC News, Standford University and Planet Green. It’s good news, because the thought that America should refuse to act until developing countries like China and India take action has been at the centre of US policy for some time. The Bush administration’s spoken reason for refusing to sign up to Kyoto is that the treaty fails to make demands on the developing world. Thrasymachus could not have put it better.
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At least that's what the New York Times news alert I just received claims. No message from the Obama campaign on my phone yet.
update text message: Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com
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Some Americans are having a change of heart about mixing religion and politics. A new survey finds a narrow majority of the public saying that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters and not express their views on day-to-day social and political matters. For a decade, majorities of Americans had voiced support for religious institutions speaking out on such issues.

Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, highlighting the mental skills of some birds and confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals.
Try this experiment at a dinner party (if you want to ruin it). Mention a frequent obsession of puzzle people, the NPR "news quiz" show, Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! (Or, as I call it, "Wait Wait ... Please Kill Me!") About half the attendees will exhibit violent, often physical reactions ranging from cringing to shuddering. Meanwhile, the other half will have sublime self-satisfied smiles. They sometimes get the answers before the guests! The show is so mentally stimulating!What always gets to me is the self-congratulatory assumption on the part of puzzle people that their addiction to the useless habit somehow proves they are smarter or more literate than the rest of us. Need I suggest that those who spend time doing crossword puzzles (or sudoku)—uselessly filling empty boxes (a metaphor for some emptiness in their lives?)—could be doing something else that involves words and letters? It's called reading.
But supporting one candidate - clearly preferable to the Republican - should not require a lack of candor about the preferred candidate's defects. And progressive interests are not advanced by claiming, against the evidence, that it doesn't really matter which candidate wins.
Does this mean we can't call him Scruffy?

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