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Posted at 10:52am on Mar. 31, 2008 Green stunt raises awareness of AGW, benefits of sitting around in the dark...
By darwinianlurch
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/commen...
It's called "Earth Hour" and it is intended to show us polluting, hydro-carbon addicted mortals the morally superior, Gaia-supported lifestyle of sitting around a peat fire in a mud hut in the dark after a hard day of root and berry collection, or something like that:
"The organisers will say never mind, this was about raising awareness (although not of raising awareness of the facts). But here’s the awareness it should raise: how difficult it is to get even a tiny cut in just electricity use for one lousy hour, in a country responsible for just 1.5 per cent of the world’s emissions.
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Posted at 9:50am on Mar. 31, 2008 Welcome to Sweden...
By darwinianlurch
If we were under the impression that our current administration was somehow "free-market" oriented, please look again:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/03/31/cnfed1...
The US Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990s as a possible interim solution to the US financial crisis.
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Norway ensured that shareholders of insolvent lenders received nothing and the senior management was entirely purged. Two of the country's top four banks - Christiania Bank and Fokus - were seized by force majeure.
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Posted at 3:17pm on Mar. 20, 2008 McCain aide circulates Obama/Wright video, is suspended
By darwinianlurch
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0308/McCain_aide_circulates...
It was posted on Twitter at 12:31PM today. The timestamp for Martin's article is 2:15PM. Less than two hours from infraction to firing to this being out in the media.
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Posted at 4:08pm on Feb. 5, 2008 West Virginia 2008/Florida 2000
By darwinianlurch
Deep breath everyone...it's going to be a long, long day and night.
WV held a state convention. Not a primary, not a caucus. This is the decision of the state party. Those were the rules. All candidates who participated and sent delegates agreed to participate and abide by those rules. The convention rules expressly called for a second vote in the event that one candidate couldn't secure an outright majority. The notion that this was some type of evil, under-handed, nefarious scheme to derail your candidate is simply embarrassing. Please stop whining.
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Posted at 3:01pm on Feb. 5, 2008 Don't Trust California's Exit Polls....
By darwinianlurch
Exit polls are likely to be pretty off tonight..
http://www.slate.com/id/2175496
"California has issued 5.5 million absentee ballots for today's primary, reaching more than one-third of the 15.7 million total voters registered in the state. As of yesterday, 3 million ballots had already been returned, and state officials expect about 75 percent of the ballots to be returned by the close of polls—that's 4.125 million people who voted without pulling a lever."
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Posted at 1:52pm on Jan. 21, 2008 Nobody's leaving...
By darwinianlurch
I've seen a lot of postings indicating that if candidate x doesn't win state y, than that candidate should drop out. This is nonsense, as this campaign is unlike any other.
1. No Momentum: Huckabee's win in IA didn't help him in NH. McCain's win in NH didn't help him in MI (although it did help his standings in the national polls). Romney's win in MI was so unhelpful he had to quietly slink away from SC earlier this week. McCain's win in SC is not going to give him a bounce in FL. Each state seems to be giving the voters of the previous state the 1-fingered salute.
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Posted at 3:10pm on Jan. 17, 2008 Bob Johnson Apologizes to Obama...
By darwinianlurch
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/17/584435.aspx
"I'm writing to apologize to you and your family personally for the un-called-for comments I made at a recent Clinton event," Johnson said in a statement. "In my zeal to support Senator Clinton, I made some very inappropriate remarks for which I am truly sorry. I hope that you will accept this apology. Good luck on the campaign trail."
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Posted at 1:44pm on Jan. 17, 2008 McCain up 2 in New Jersey...
By darwinianlurch
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2...
Although it is early yet, and anything can happen as we have seen over the last two weeks, for Guliani's sake I hope his 'firewall' in FL. is strong.
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Posted at 4:48pm on Jan. 16, 2008 The reason why Coburn endorsed McCain...
By darwinianlurch
This was done almost 7 months ago, when the immigration debate got really hot and heavy:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWQzNTNmMjAxMTMwNmFjNmVlMjhkOTZjNTd...
"As the American people, elected officials, and commentators reflect on the heated immigration debate that came to a temporary close in the Senate this week many will ask, and have asked, why U.S. Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) staked out a position that may, in retrospect, be seen as devastating to his presidential ambitions. I hope the American people, at least, step back from the obsessive play-by-play pre-season election analysis and reflect on Senator McCain’s actions for what I believe they were: One of the purest examples of political courage seen in Washington in a very, very long time."
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Posted at 2:30pm on Jan. 15, 2008 Fred Hits McCain...sort of...
By darwinianlurch
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/01/15/finally-fred-hits-mccain/
Mixing in praise for McCain on Iraq, and then muddling the attack by grouping in Guliani and Huckabee and soft-soap on immigration. If that's an attack, sign me up.
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Posted at 2:10pm on Jan. 15, 2008 Michigan primary results...
By darwinianlurch
Here is a good site that will break down vote totals by county when the results start coming in this evening:
http://miboecfr.nictusa.com/election/results/08PPR/COUNTYVT.html
Also, turnout in today's primary could be *higher* than it was in 2000:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDk0YzUzYmRkY2Y1MjYxZDE3YjRmYzd...
1.5 million expected today, 1.4 million voted in 2000.
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Posted at 11:31am on Jan. 15, 2008 Romney camp looking for 20% or less of total voters to be Ind/Dem
By darwinianlurch
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/01/the_final_michigan_...
That does not track at all with 2000 (about 48% Ind/Dem turnout in the Michigan Republican primary, if I remember correctly). Zogby's poll today (which assumed about a 50%/50% split betwee Republicans/Ind-Dems had McCain up by 1. Way to close to call.
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Posted at 4:38pm on Jan. 14, 2008 Post debate bump for Fred in SC...
By darwinianlurch
Nice jump for Fred in SC, seems to be coming entirely out of Huckabee's numbers:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2...
Survey included 911 Likely Republican voters. McCain up by 9.
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Posted at 4:24pm on Jan. 11, 2008 Racial tensions roil Democratic race...
By darwinianlurch
Wow.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7845.html
Every time I think the race on our side is getting rough, the potential for some *nasty* tactics on the Dem side puts it to shame. Two thoughts, 1: I give the Clinton's the crown as the absolute masters of dirty politics 2: I don't think that anyone survives very long in Chicago politics as Obama has done without being able to throw some serious punches.
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Posted at 5:42pm on Jan. 10, 2008 Romney and Giuliani delegate operations fail in Rhode Island
By darwinianlurch
http://www.sec.state.ri.us/candidates/presdelegates/
"The Rhode Island Secretary of State just released the list of filed delegates. Delegates then need to get signatures to get on the ballots. But… John McCain and Mike Huckabee filed 40 delegates. Fred Thompson 8. Mitt Romney 7. And Rudy Giuliani 0.
There are two stories here. The first one is that Romney’s delegate operation failed. They have the Governor, one of the delegates. The head of Students for Romney is one of the delegates. And that was all they could get. And this is a pro-choice, highly Italian state. Why didn’t they file?"
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