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[FloridaBlues] What can be learned from George W. Bush's sinking poll numbers and themajor media's sudden chagrin over its failure to follow-up the DowningStreet Memo? What political factors should get the credit and whatlessons can be applied to the future?
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[Blog.democrats.com] archives | Democrats.com Blog: Everything we believe in and need as American citizens is being destroyed by this war budget. I cannot support any candidate who does not oppose this war. I know she is popular, but she is wrong on the war. I will not work again for someone who goes along with it. I know she is good on some other issues, in fact I campaigned for her, but I cannot support her again. By now she knows about what the war is doing to our people and the Iraqi people and to support Bush's policy again is self-defeating.
[Sixdaywar.blogspot.com] Go Blog and Multiply: 10/01/2003 - 10/31/2003: You know, it's really sad that there is so much blatant, published anti-semitism in the world that I have to post a link to someone who's taken the time out to do a summary of recent anti-semitic events and comments made by public officials. Hat tip to www.jewschool.com.
[Customerservicecareers.com] Swing state: In United States presidential politics , a swing state (also, battleground state ) is a state in which no candidate has overwhelming support, meaning that any of themajor candidates have a reasonable chance of winning the state's electoral college votes. Such states are targets of both major politicalparties in presidential elections , sinceconvincing winning these states is the best opportunity for a party to gain votes.
[Web.pitas.com] UNKNOWN NEWS: MOBYTHOR'S GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE ABOUT UNKNOWN NEWS ...: They may have become aware that this all-seeing eye, out of 1984, could be looking into their own personal information. But there has been little follow-up to this front-page story in the December 15 New York Times: "The Bush administration has prepared a list of terrorist leaders the Central Intelligence Agency [under George Tenet] is authorized to kill, if capture is impractical and civilian casualties can be minimized, senior military and intelligence officers said." Acting on that presidential authorization, "a pilotless Predator aircraft operated [by the CIA] fired a Hellfire antitank missile" at a car in a remote region of Yemen, killing six, including an Al Qaeda leader, Salim Sinan al-Harethi, and "one suspected al-Qaeda operative with United States citizenship." That dead American passenger was Kamal Derwish, who, according to the Bush administration, was the leader of an alleged cell of Al Qaeda sleepers in Lackawanna, a Buffalo, New York, suburb. As syndicated columnist Charles Levendoskya constant and accurate chronicler of the Bush shadow Constitutionwrote: "[Derwish was labeled] an enemy combatant, but only after his death.
[Siliconyogi.com] Library: to situations where greater cognitive power is required, we must look at much more challengingenvironments: those formed by other evolving, behaving organisms. In such environments, themajor selective forces affecting the evolution of one species' cognition come from the cognitiveand perceptual abilities of the other organisms, including prey, predators, competitors forresources and mates, kin, offspring, and allies. The eyes, ears, and brains of such organismsimpose a new set of selective forces that we can call psychological selection, in contrast to theselection exerted by nonadapting physical forces (such as climate or local chemical composition)or unthinking biological vectors (such as plants or unicellular parasites).Mating, and other gamesPsychological selection can result in the kinds of more sophisticated cognitive abilities thattraditionally interest researchers in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and othercognitive sciences.
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