Archive for August, 2008
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Not McSame. McFarWorse.
There’s no healthcare crisis. It’s just a vocabulary problem:
[T]he numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as [...] -
Huge mistake.
… After securing the nomination in June, Obama’s first priority had to be healing the rift between himself and Hillary Clinton. Candidates who can’t put nomination battles behind them well before the convention usually lose. Think of Goldwater in 1964, Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980, and Walter Mondale in 1984. There are [...]
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Did someone moo?
Unfortunately, they sound like lunch for the full-size coyotes living in our north field:
It’s the little cow with a big future. Rising supermarket prices are persuading hundreds of families to turn their back gardens into mini-ranches stocked with miniature cattle.
Registrations of the most popular breed, the Dexter, have doubled since the millennium and websites are [...] -
wow.
Dennis Kucinich makes the most of his window of opportunity:
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Great paragraphs in science reporting.
The scientists were unable to distinguish between the head and rear of the cattle, but could tell that the animals tended to face either north or south.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cattle shown to align north-south
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That’s more like it.