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And they aren’t Colombia, decade’s old foot bridges, or US invasion fantasies. 1 They are, more to the point, the internal management of Venezuela’s infrastructure and the mismanagement of its oil wealth.
Via the LAT : Outages dim Chavez popularity :
Power outages in this ...
World
Venezuela
The End has Come
365.323 (11/20/09). This place is just north of Troy (indeed, it may be in the city limits) on US231. I am fairly certain is has been closed for some time. The name is falls into the "you can’t make this stuff up" category.
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That’s "Associate" Thank You Very Much…
365.322 (11/19/09). From a paper turned in earlier this week. The student is from abroad, so we will assume that it is an honest attempt at abbreviation…
Of course, you know what they say about assuming…
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Fortune Teller
365.321 (11/18/09). I suppose there is a sociologist out there somewhere who can explain how these kinds of things pass down through the generations. This is from my second grader and I recall the same things from when I was his age.
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Untitled
365.318 (11/15/09). I can’t decide on a title, so will leave it without one.
Taken at Cheaha Mountain State Park.
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Via the BBC: Colombia accuses Venezuela of blowing up border bridges .
Of course, these were improvised, pedestrian bridges that the Venezuelans claim were illegal, so isn’t as quite dramatic as it sounds (i.e., if they had destroyed official border-crossing points). It certainly ...
World
Colombia
Venezuela
As best as I can tell from reading people who know what they are talking about, Obama’s bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito was a protocol mistake. I will even go so far as to say that as a confirmed democrat (note the small “d”), that an American leader bowing to the royalty of another ...
World
Marc Ambinder writing at CBS News: Palin Needs to Take Herself Seriously .
Without being insulting, I think Ambinder cuts to the basic chase in terms of where Palin is, why she is there, and why she is likely to remain in place.
The main critique one could level at the piece is that ...
White House
Sarah Palin
CBS
Via the BBC: Iraq VP vetoes new election law
One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt.
Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab, revoked Article 1 of the law and called for the ...
World
Iraq
Seth Masket (whose book I was sent over the summer to read, but I have yet to get to it) looks at past mid-terms elections and the relationship between key economic variables and the fortunes of the president’s party. Interestingly, he notes no correlation between unemployment and seats ...
World
Economic Meltdown
Via Reuters comes a story from late last week that I never got the chance to note: Uribe re-election effort hits snag in Colombia
A bid to elect Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to a third term next year hit a snag on Friday after a panel of arbiters ruled that signatures ...
World
Colombia
Álvaro Uribe
CBN’s David Brody isn’t too pleased with the Newsweek cover I noted in the previous post .
You’ve got to hand it to the folks at Newsweek. They have accomplished being biased and sexist at the same time. Quite a feat. This cover has got to be a new low right?
The cover in question: ...
White House
Mitt Romney
Tim Pawlenty
Sarah Palin
poliblogger.com - 3 days ago
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In his LAT book review of Sarah Palin’s
book , Tim Rutten makes the following observation: Palin
is genuinely convincing in her admiration for Reagan, but one of the things she misses about his appeal was the utter absence of resentment from his ...
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Palin and the Politics of Media Resentment
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Via the BBC: Japan’s economy continues growing
The world’s second biggest economy grew by 1.2% in the three months from July to September - faster than economists had predicted.
However, analysts say overall growth is likely to be sluggish for years.
And, speaking of ...
World
Japan
Barack Obama
Of course, this was from a comedy show…
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