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Chatbots Viral Marketing Messengers
I especially liked the description of Chatbots as Viral Marketing Messengers. Fox News is similar to George Orwell's ''1984'' Newspeak. Here is a quote for ''1984,'' ''The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosphies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and ...
Posted to Chatterbox by richard_lee_morris on September 14, 2009
Art. 239
With JP, I agree that art. 239 from the Constitution is key here. Dan might say Zelaya never sought staying in power. However, Zelaya tacitly opposed the dispositions of art. 239 by wanting to revamp the Constitution, which, he said, would include provisions for reelections and maybe a longer presidential term. Albeit Zelaya never said the ...
Posted to Foreigners by intimaralem85 on July 6, 2009
Where's the evidence
While I am naturally aligned to the those wearing green in Iran, against the intolerant theocracy, I find Christopher Hitchens' article unconvincing. His main evidence for the rigging of the election is that it conflicts with trends in other countries. Well, perhaps Iran is different. Unfortunate, but true. It seems that if the west is to support ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Kitezh on June 15, 2009
The Souter Replacement: Democratic Balls in the Senate?
When the most conservative Supreme Court Nominee since the 1920s was before the Senate, Alito--the most recently seated Supreme Court Justice, the Democrats in the Senate had the votes to block the nomination: Forty two Democratic Senators voted against Alito's confirmation on in the final vote, losing that vote in the then majority Republican ...
Posted to Today's Papers by Issywise on May 1, 2009
The hell they don't influence elections!
Jack,You don't know what you're talking about in claiming newspapers are not essential to''demo-crashy''. Is that why candidates vie for endorsements??? Let me give you an example.I worked as an election judge at my local precinct [in Seattle] for the past decade, until last year,for a break in my routine and as a way to get to know the folks in ...
Posted to Press Box by mikerol on March 30, 2009
Re: Liquidate, Liquidate, Liquidate
Here's somebody who supports your ''Liquidate now'' stance: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/18/president_barack_obama_should_serve_the_taxpayers_not_goldman_sachs_and_liquidate_aig I find it peculiar that in all of the bailout madness, no politician--despite the vast amount of time they all have spent mugging for TV ...
Posted to The Best Policy by Jade123 on March 22, 2009
Legal Foot Dragging Denial of Inevitable by Senate Republicn
I find the months long and continuing saga of Senate Republicans and former incumbent Norm Coleman of Minnesota, in denying a rightful U.S. Senate seat to Al Franken, both insulting and undemocratic. These Republican legal stratagems and arguments are hollow and feckless, mere tools of the impoverished and unimaginative minds of Sore Losers. In ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard4 on March 20, 2009
in china they prosecute judges for criminal offenses
BEIJING, March 12 -- China's top judge Wang Shengjun said on Tuesday that the Supreme People's Court will ''improve its education of work ethics'' for judges in a bid to weed out judicial corruption. Wang said judicial corruption has seriously damaged the credibility of the country's judicial system and led to ''very bad'' social ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by KayASieverding on March 15, 2009
Hamas 'Hijacked' Palestine
The dear author has taken the view, that Hamas has somehow effected a coup within Palestine, when in fact they were democratically elected in 2006. Unfortunately this also is a meme widely proffered by the talking heads of the Israeli PR machine. How else to deal with the Palestinians? - we cannot talk to Hamas they are ... <insert fearsome ...
Posted to Fighting Words by kentis on January 12, 2009
Democrats Are Taking Office -- Time to Party!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as Democrats Are Taking Office -- Time to Party! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as
Posted to Chatterbox by MichaelBernard3 on January 8, 2009

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