12/29   Candidate for chairmainship of GOP *improves* his chances by
        distributing "Barack The Magic Negro" songs:
        http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16919.html
        \_ He should have put a Confederate flag on the album jacket.
        \_ What do Powell and Rice have to say about this?
        \_ This article is total FAIL for not even mentioning what a Magic
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8/26    I've been wondering about the Georgian side of the story, here it is
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/6bn2co
        Very interesting.
        \_ Can you summarize? I'm not going to read this unless it blames
           Obama for the whole thing.
        \_ Can you summarize? I'm not going to read this unless it blames
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8/22    Non-MSM article on the conflict in Georgia.  Other than Bush
        ordering the invasion of Somalia (what?) -- I found it interesting:
        http://tinyurl.com/5ag5jn
        \_ Bush did order the invasion of Somalia - the first Bush:
           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Restore_Hope
        \_ I didn't get very far because it starts off with a couple of
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8/21    Well, now they've got a timetable.  I guess the "facts on the ground"
        finally worked out.
        http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-08-21-rice-meeting_N.htm?csp=34 (shorten this please)
        \_ I really hope Miss I Have a freakin' PHD In Russian Studies Rice
           did not tell Georgia a few weeks ago that the US would stand
           behind Georgia if they were stupid enough to taunt Russia into
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4/24    Run on rice hits American stores:
        http://www.csua.org/u/lca (LA Times)
        \_ went to costco this weekend (4/27) and wow, they were cleared out,
           of the two pallets of space for rice, they were empty except for one
           lonely bag.   -ERic
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4/24    Lefty gives the beat down on girl in wheelchair, cause he hates Bush so
        much.
        http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/232115.asp
        \_ left wing nuts are more violent than right wing nuts.
           \_ yeah, just ask those kids in Oklahoma City...oh wait
              \_ Or Waco
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4/8     Fattest States:
        http://calorielab.com/news/2007/08/06/fattest-states-2007
        \_ "California not getting fatter" only because starving
           immigrants are making the average less, while fat lazy
           trailer trash whities from Riverside and the Inland Empire
           keep moving inland towards Las Vegas and Arizona.
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4/19    6-yr-old boy with 15 fingers to have surgery to remove the "extra"
        fingers:
        http://www.csua.org/u/qll
        Are we killing off further evolution of the human species by acts like
        this where we surgically "correct" any variations that we think are
        bad?  This kid could have been a great piano or guitar player with all
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5/21    So the big crowd that Obama had in Oregon was there for a free concert
        before him.  Why didn't I hear this before now?
        \_ you know the decemberists arent the second coming of Guns
           N Roses.  75,000 would be pretty huge for a Decemberists show.
           I think they were there for Obama.  plus the decemberists
           ARE FROM PORTLAND.  local bands dont draw as big a crowd
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7/5     Four-fingered pianist
        http://dopejam.multiply.com/video/item/6
        (Not four fingers on each hand, but four fingers total.)
        \_ Very very touching and inspirational. I almost cried. Thanks
           so much for the link we need more stories like these.
        \_ FYI she was playing Chopin's Fantasy Impromptu and later on
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3/27    My choir is having their 25th Anniversary Gala concert this weekend.
        http://pacificmozart.org/calendar
        This is the choir I went to Berlin and Carnegie Hall with.  The
        concert is Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor, with new completions
        by Dave Brubeck, Meredith Monk, and David Lang.  It should be good.
        Saturday, 7:30 at Herbst Theatre (SF) in the Green Room, and Sunday
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