If you missed Obama’s speech last night at the DNC, you missed one of those where-were-you-when-history-happened moments.
Go ahead, watch it. I guarantee you’ll walk away feeling like you’ve just completed a 3 day health retreat that your kids bought you for your wedding anniversary and at first you were like ‘No way this is lame’, [...]

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From CNN.com this morning:
As the five-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, nearly three-fourths of those responding to a CNN poll said they believe Osama bin Laden is planning another significant attack against the United States.
It must be mid-term election time! Let the fear mongering begin….

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Tuesday, Google announced that they will be opening a facility in Ann Arbor. The facility will deal primarily with Google’s revenue-making Adsense and Adwords. It is projected that Google’s move will hire about 1000 people directly and create about 1200 jobs indirectly.
Google’s reason for choosing Michigan?
Larry Page, U of M alum and Google co-founder, says [...]

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Largely ignored by the media here in the states, Canada has elected a Conservative majority government.
Stephen Harper has promised to radically alter the relationship between Ottawa and all of the provinces.
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Harper is also being urged to consider naming a Western Canadian to the post [Ottawa’s envoy to the US] in Washington. The Bush administration and [...]

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I don’t know if anyone has thought of this yet, but I at least wanted to work it through in my mind before the thought got lost again…
A month or so ago after Katrina, Bush repealed one of the clean gas requirements to open up the market to some of the gas without the additives [...]

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President George W. Bush:
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
(Applause)

Joseph Goebbles, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. [...]

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