11/19/2008 -
Rexburg Mayor Apologizes for Bus Chant
Three students chanted "Assassinate Obama" while riding a Madison County School District bus. Rexburg Mayor Shawn Larsen said there's no excuse for the comments and asked parents to be careful with the things they say in front of their children.
Source:
KIFI Idaho Falls
http://www.localnews8.com/global/story.asp?s=9374360
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11/18/2008 -
Embarrassed BNP admits its members list has been published online
There was panic at the centre of the British National Party tonight after it emerged that its entire membership list had been published on the internet.
Source:
Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5183095.ece
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11/18/2008 -
One day we?ll look back at this and...
There will come a day, very soon I believe, when we will look at Proposition 8 as a turning point. Today, all of the stories are about the protests and counter-protests.
Source:
The Logan Herald Journal
http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2008/11/18/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/let
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11/18/2008 -
Nigeria: Iwu And American Elections
In the last one week or thereabout, the media in the country have been awash with vituperations on the person of Professor Maurice Iwu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Reason, his comment on the conduct of the presidential, congressional and referendum on some issues, including proposition on the otherwise called the gay right to marriage.
Source:
AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200811181050.html
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11/18/2008 -
Tx. senator seeks stronger anti-trafficking law
San Antonio Democrat has filed anti-human trafficking legislation for the 2009 session
Source:
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
http://caller.com/news/2008/nov/18/tx-senator-seeks-stronger-anti-trafficking-la
w/?partner=RSS
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11/18/2008 -
Auburn's cruel year faces final stop
The guessing game has begun: Will he or won't he? Next weekend in Tuscaloosa, will Tommy Tuberville raise his fingers at Bryant-Denny Stadium or not? Will he run around the field with seven fingers raised in the air?
Source:
Mobile Press-Register
http://www.al.com/sports/press-register/pfinebaum.ssf?/base/sports/1227003365826
0.xml&coll=3
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11/18/2008 -
Ayers Emerges from Underground to Speak in D.C.
Weather Underground founder William Ayers, whom Sarah Palin linked to Barack Obama, gave speeches in the District Monday during two rare public appearances.
Source:
NBC Washington
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Ayers-Emerges-from-Underground-to-Speak-
in-DC.html
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11/18/2008 -
Stricter laws against sex crimes
Parliamentarians passed a package of crime bills in the House of Assembly yesterday. One of them is a bill that would increase the penalty for seven serious sexual offenses ? including rape ? to life imprisonment.
Source:
The Nassau Guardian
http://www.thenassauguardian.net/national_local/293123864876139.php
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11/18/2008 -
Online backlash ends Motrin ad
Can a tongue-in-cheek ad for a popular pain reliever backfire and turn into a huge headache for one of the most respected health product marketers? You bet - if the ad appears to be making fun of new mothers and their
Source:
KATU Portland
http://www.katu.com/news/tech/34677199.html
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11/18/2008 -
Capsule reviews for films playing week of Nov. 19
By Matt Brunson Current Releases BODY OF LIES Despite Russell Crowe's shared marquee billing, this is really Leonardo DiCaprio's film, as the young thespian handles the part of Roger Ferris, a compassionate CIA point man working in the Middle East under the jaded eye of his ruthless superior (Crowe) back in the United States. Hoping to track down a bin Laden-like terrorist (a menacing Alon ...
Source:
Creative Loafing Charlotte
http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/capsule_reviews_for_films_playing_
week_of_nov_19/Content?oid=409987
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11/18/2008 -
Bush-bashers must look inward
In response to Mr. Carl Hess' recent letter railing against 'hate letters directed towards President-elect Obama' and asking 'Why don't good people speak out against this evil?'
Source:
Montgomery Advertiser
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20081118/OPINION02/811170333/1007/ne
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11/18/2008 -
The praise and blame game
As all of my readers will know full well, I'm not at all keen on politics, on organized political parties and politicians. Now, many may ask the question ... why?
Source:
The Nassau Guardian
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/social_community/350010305970600.php
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11/17/2008 -
Slings and arrows: Online backlash ends Motrin ad
Can a tongue-in-cheek ad for a popular pain reliever backfire and turn into a huge headache for one of the most respected health product marketers?
Source:
AP via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081117/j_j_motrin_ad_pulled.html?.v=1
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11/18/2008 -
Opens Fri., Nov. 14: Shoah seen via childā??s eyes
Another Holocaust fable has come to the big screen, this time with the wildly implausible premise that an 8-year old German boy befriends a Jewish youngster his own age interned on the other side of a Nazi concentration camp?s barbed wire fence.
Source:
Cleveland Jewish News
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2008/11/18/arts/reel_time/doc491b542
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11/18/2008 -
Focus on the Family eliminating 202 jobs
Focus on the Family announced today that it is eliminating 202 jobs in the coming weeks ? 149 through layoffs and 53 by not filling vacant positions. It's the biggest layoff in the history of the Colorado Springs-based ministry, and comes on top of 46 announced in October that will take effect at the beginning of 2009.
Source:
Rocky Mountain News
http://rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/17/focus-family-eliminating-202-jobs/
?partner=yahoo_headlines
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