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Online video site YouTube will be partnering with the live video streaming service UStream for YouTube’s live event on November 22, an anonymous tipster tells us. If true, the ramifications of the partnership are interesting for a number of reasons, most significantly the potential for a YouTube live-streaming service.Here’ (Read More)
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As a final word of warning, proceed cautiously with any polls that were in the field last night. Friday nights are difficult enough to poll, and holidays are difficult enough to poll, but when a Friday night coincides with a holiday (in this case, Halloween), getting an appropriate sample is all but impossible. (Read More)
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: This is beginning to look like a five-state election. Those states are Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada. Essentially all relevant electoral scenarios involve some combination of these five states.I should caution that by far the most likely scenario is that Obama wins some relatively decisive victory of anywhere from 3-12 points in the popular vote. If Obama wins the popular vote by anything in this range, he will find plenty of blue territory, accumulating somewhere between 300-400 electoral votes. The electoral math will matter very little. 1
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Atheist Revolution
Image via Wikipedia It is undeniable that atheist activism is desperately needed. It is also clear that we can make an important difference through even a minimal investment of time. So why aren't more atheists engaging in activism? It occurs to me that it might be useful to address some of the obstacles to atheist activism (Read More)
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Google Flu Trends is based on the simple idea that people who are feeling sick will probably turn to the Web for information, typing things like “flu symptoms” or “muscle aches” into Google. The service tracks such queries and charts their ebb and flow, broken down by regions and states.Early tests suggest that the service (Read More)
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Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides (Read More)
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Nov 10, 2008
: According to a NYTIMES article, by JannyScott, when Obama arrived in the Illinois Senate as a brand new senator, he was greeted with taunts, name calling by his African American colleagues. Obama's African American colleagues, held it against him, that he was a graduate of Harvard and that he was of mixed race, he wasn't black enough. They said so to his face. It got so bad, that a shoving match ensued between Obama and one of the principal agitators. Stanley Crouch piece in the NY Daily News "Obama isn't black like me illustrates the hostility that African Americans in positions of power and influence within our society had towards Obama. What about Jesse Jackson's rude comment, "I want to cut his nuts off"? Jesse Jackson may have been crying when Obama finally made it, but were those tears of joy or rage, because he knows he could never get it. Obama is not an African American in the traditional sense. There is no Public School in any ghetto that he attended anywhere in the urban centers of the USA. His formative years were spent attending school in Indonesia. He speaks well, eloquently, in perfect command of the English language. African Americans are coming out of the woodwork, rallying around the Obama flagpole, now, but a lot of them didn't do so in the beginning. He owes more to the whites in the Senate that were his friends than the blacks that turned their backs on him. I like respect and like Obama a lot. I have tremendous respect, admiration for Barack Hussein Obama. I have contempt for those African Americans that in their own words "gave Obama hell" when he first arrived in the Illinois Senate, because he wasn't black enough, in their opinion. They are jumping all over him now, that he won. 1
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Atheist Revolution
Image via WikipediaBack in August, the campaign of North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole issued a press release accusing Democratic opponent Kay Hagan of associating with atheists. I joined many others in the atheist blogosphere in denouncing Sen. Dole's bigotry. Still, I do not think I was alone in viewing the act as simpl (Read More)
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