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        <title><![CDATA[What? White Girls Ain't Allowed To Win?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Traditionally White Sorority Zeta Tau Alpha Pulls Shocking Upset.&nbsp;The ladies of Zeta Tau Alpha - Epsilon chapter at the University of Arkansas rocked and shocked the crowd during the Sprite 2010 Step-Off&nbsp; Finals in Atlanta on Feb. 20th. The blogosphere is full of haterade over their shocker win.&nbsp; Stepping and step competition is a long standing cultural tradition within black Greek organizaitons with roots deep in African American culture.&nbsp; So it was a shock to the system to see the sisters of Zeta Tau Alpha, a traditionally and predominantly white sorority, bring a tight routine to the stage and rock it pretty decent. Now, black folk are mad but wait a minute, its a step COMPETITION. So I'm moved to ask "What? White sorority girls ain't allowed to win? 

The anger at this win is running hot and heavy in many sectors of the net with some alleging that ZTA won based on novelty value, others stating flatly that they were not as good as the 2nd place team (AKA Tau ch]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Old Spice - "Look At Your Man"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
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My wife, The Hot Little Number, has two smiles. One is a nice, warm smile appropriate for everyday use. Its a perfectly pleasant smile and I always enjoy seeing it. It pales in comparison however to smile #2.&nbsp; That one is bigger, brighter and blazes with raw, megawatt sex appeal.&nbsp; I like that smile.&nbsp; Lately I feel like I don't make it appear often enough, so anything that does is intriguing to me.

Now, I have to confess that intrigued was not my first reaction when I saw the new Old Spice "Look at Your Man" commercial the other night for the first time.&nbsp; The Hot Little Number is looking at him, then looking at me, then looking at him, and by the time the commercial is over, she's got the megawatt smile going and she's cracking up.&nbsp; I'm feeling a little perturbed. I ask the Hot Little Number, how the heck do they think they are gonna sell me]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Tiger Woods Apology: Impressions]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Its a definitive statement about the scandal and his responsibility for it.&nbsp; My only nitpick with it is the passing reference to in-patient therapy (the guy isn't sick), but its a nitpick, he was very clear about it being his fault.&nbsp; His speech makes very clear that a lot of people took it on the chin because of his affairs. I thought it was much better than the bare minimum apology you see from others in these situations.&nbsp; I thought this was pretty comprehensive and definitive. I don't know if any of Elin's family members were on hand for this, but his mom was there and you could tell it was hard for her to hear and hard for her to watch him have to do it in a way that probably only mom's understand, but she embraced him afterward.&nbsp; Just goes to show you always have your momma.

Some strong words about maintaining his privacy and demanding that the focus be on him. Very smart for personal and business reasons. I thought this was pretty good from a business perspe]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[Missing 3 Days: Have You Seen Her?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Have You Seen Me….?Autiyana “Tiana” Hughley&nbsp;
Height: 5’5 ½Weight: 150 lbs. Hair: Brown (Blonde)Eyes: Hazel Age: 15Missing since Tuesday February 16, 2010 (Last Seen at 6:30 AM on her way to the bus stop)Park Hoover Condos @ 64th and Hoover Rd, Indianapolis

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Please call Mom at 317-405-8986 or email at cadarring@yahoo.com  or contact IMPD.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Meaning of Marjah]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes
On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province. Until this latest offensive, the U.S. and NATO effort in Afghanistan had been constrained by other considerations, most notably Iraq. Western forces viewed the Afghan conflict as a matter of holding the line or pursuing targets of opportunity. But now, armed with larger forces and a new strategy, the war — the real war — has begun. The most recent offensive — dubbed Operation Moshtarak (“Moshtarak” is Dari for “together”) — is the largest joint U.S.-NATO-Afghan operation in history. It also is the first major offensive conducted by the first units deployed as part of the surge of 30,000 troops promised by U.S. President Barack Obama. 

The United States originally entered Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. In those days of fear and fury, American g]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Idiot]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Chris Matthews is a most excellent media cretin. I wish we could forget his career.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oratory Is Not Enough]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season President Obama will give his first State of the Union speech tonight at 9 pm Eastern.&nbsp; I'll watch, but my expectations are extremely low.&nbsp; No matter how stirring the oratory is tonight, there is nothing Obama can say this evening that will erase the fact that he has now demonstrated that he is unequal to this moment in history. In fairness, perhaps no one could have been. Two wars, an economy in shambles, a body politic divided, a terrorist enemy at the gates; if ever there was a presidency that would be forged in the crucible of events, this is one, as was that of Obama's predecessor, George Bush. 

Obama has not been equal to his promises.&nbsp;No one in their right mind expected him to&nbsp;do all that he&nbsp;promised in exactly the way that he promised.&nbsp; But what I&nbsp;think people did expect&nbsp;and had some right to expect was that he would be true to the spirit of his hope and change mantra. Sure, we knew there would be compromises,&nbsp;some deviation and we]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Haiti's Future: A Failed State?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season &nbsp;Fellow Hoosier and serious thinker Thomas Barnett puts words to a nagging misgiving thats been gnawing at the back of my brain since Haiti was leveled by an earthquake 12 days ago. Can a state that was in such poor shape before the quake really make a comeback? Is Haiti destined to become a perpetual national security problem that sends a chronic exodus of Haitian's to our borders?&nbsp; Functional capitalism does not seem to have ever taken serious hold in Haiti and Barnett suggests there is a real question whether it can:

"when you want to talk revitalization, the prime conduit is never Western NGOs and PVOs or official development aid, it's the ex-pats and their money. I mean, the Bahamas are close by, have no natural resources, and yet make $30k per capita a year (Johnson piece). They get no serious aid that I can see. Meanwhile, last year the U.S. sent $290m in aid to Haiti (says Johnson). Overall, aid accounts for 30-40% of total government revenue--always a bad sign (abou]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[My AFC/NFC  and Predictions]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Indianapolis Colts take down the NY Jets. (Thats my team..Go Colts, Go Peyton, Go Caldwell!). We've already beaten the Jets once, and the game against the Ravens proved we're rested and thoroughly preprared. Colts will make it do what it do.







New Orleans Saints defeat the Minnesota Vikings.&nbsp; Brett Favre seems to be peaking at the right time, but the Saints are playing for themselves and for a city that has been hard hit and is fighting to come back.&nbsp; The comeback karma of New Orleans is pushing them on and I don't think Favre's leadership will be sufficient to beat back that karmic tide.


These two teams will face off at the Superbowl.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Corporate "Speech" is Inferior to Human "Speech"]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season More of my reaction to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 

I've no problem with corporations being granted rights. Rule sets are necessary for the proper operation of these constructs. However, I have a distinct and visceral negative reaction to the idea that a corporation should have equality of stature to humans under the Constitution in frankly any dimension. I think the Court overreaches when it elevates these entities to the same level of humans under the Constitution. Its a slippery slope to say that corporations are "persons" with rights equal to human beings under the Constitution, and I want to know where does it end. If their "speech" is equal to mine, the vote is political "speech". If they are persons, why not just give them the franchise? All of the rights of individual, flesh and blood human beings under our constitution flow from the fact that we are endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights. This cannot be said of corporations. How do we get t]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The First Amendment is for People]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission got it wrong.&nbsp; Quite seriously wrong. I have a law degree, but my objection to this ruling isn't based on some tremendous erudition as it relates to constitutional law.&nbsp; No, my objections are more basic and common sense.

The Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission&nbsp; enhances the concept of the corporation as a "person" with First Amendment rights which must be respected, meaning that corporate entities may not have limitations placed on their political "speech".&nbsp; Corporations are free to spend any amount of money to advance their interests via political speech in elections and within our political discourse in general.&nbsp; This is an expansion of the "personhood" of corporations.

I think its a load of horses**t.&nbsp;&nbsp; A corporation is a person entitled to unfettered political speech to support or defeat candidates in elections in the furtherance of their corporate]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Black Republicans Call Steele to Account]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Hat Tip Booker Rising

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor and head of the National Republican African American Caucus, Dr. Howard Hill, responds to RNC chairman Michael Steele's statement calling for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to resign over his comments about President Obama: “If RNC Chair, Michael Steele is truly concerned with racism, then perhaps he needs to first begin within our own party. There are certainly enough issues with race for him to have his hands full in dealing with this right here within the Republican Party. There also are a few within the GOP leadership, he also may wish to ask to step down.”

She continues her statement: "As a 30-year veteran African American Republican and as the head of the National Republican African American Caucus, I find it offensive to see and hear this kind of meaningless rhetoric. It is simply another way of posturing and playing to partisan unrest..... Many of us (African American Republicans) have trie]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Another Steele Fail]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Lrey of the Conservative Brotherhood makes a mighty fine point with regard to RNC Chairman Michael Steele and Rush's comments on Haiti, one I had not even considered.&nbsp; Steele has been happy to jump on the bandwagon regarding Harry Reid's insightful but stupidly permitted to be overhead comments on the Obama campaign, but has not had a word of opprobrium for Limbaugh's race baiting comments (in my opinion) on Haiti, to wit:




RUSH:&nbsp; "This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate.&nbsp; They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, "credibility" with the black community -- in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.&nbsp;&nbsp;



Rush simply can't wait to make the Haiti relief response a race baiting political weapon against Obama, suggesting that this is how he curries favor with minorities.&nbsp; Its pretty foul. The crassness of the thinking in this little jewel of a comment drew pushback from no less a republ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Newsflash Black People: It's Not Obama's Job]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Hat tip Shortform blog:

On race relations:58% of Americans thought Obama would change race relations before his inauguration
41% of Americans say he's actually improved race relations in his first full year in office source
Where was the freefall? Strangely enough, it was largest among other blacks. While white voters dipped to about 40 percent from 55 percent, blacks were at 75 percent a year ago, free-falling to 51 percent – a 24-point decline.
Little newsflash to my disappointed brothers and sisters; it's not Obama's job to solve all your problems in life.&nbsp; Its not his job to solve "racism" to the extent such a thing is solvable. Anybody that thought his election would magically heal the divisions between black, red, white, brown and yellow was criminally deluded. Perhaps this disappointment that some feel is a good thing that will spur some people out there to solve their own problems, now that they realize Obama won't.&nbsp;]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Wow. Imagine that.&nbsp; Taliban militants attack the capital on the day Karzai is swearing in his cabinet. Remember when Obama announced his Afghan surge strategy and said that US forces would begin to withdraw after 18 months? There was a great hue and cry about telling the enemy when we would leave and the argument was that the Taliban would just sit back and wait for us to split and then take over. I think we can officially call that argument stupid.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Go See the Book of Eli]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The Tea Party contingent is populist and vocal, but their numbers are not sufficient to elect Palin. She polls badly with independents and many republicans don't have confidence in her either. She has yet to do anything that indicates to me she has a level of political savvy on the same level as displayed by Obama in the crafting of his successful run.&nbsp; Taking on this talking head gig only solidifies her as a non serious candidate in my mind. I would not consider any of the paid blowhards of the left or right as potential leaders of the free world. Just not what I think of as Presidential resume builder. She left office to make the money and cash in. I'm okay with that, since her cynical selection by McCain brought her a lot of grief, which although she willingly signed up for, was not entirely deserved. I don't begrudge her salvaging a career and some wealth from that mess, which is why I encourage you to follow the link below and pick up her best seller at Amazon.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Obama Administration: A Schizophrenic Client State of the Banking Industry]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season That's essentially the position of Yves Smith at the blog Naked Capitalism.&nbsp; You've gotta love the cats at this blog, who routinely and with great vigor expose the ridiculous logic, misdirection and wrongheaded strategic ideas that has been the Obama administrations unfettered catering to the banking industry.

Yves makes the case:

"While I cannot fathom the logic, Team Obama clearly decided to throw in its hat with the industry from the beginning, supporting a whole raft of tricks to keep banks from recognizing losses (heavens, might expose that some were bankrupt and require that incumbents be given the heave ho!). It also assisted in the “talk up the bank stocks” effort, since goosing prices would allow some banks to sell shares and save the new Administration the unpleasant task of figuring out how to resolve and recapitalize the sickest bank. It never seemed to occur to them that the best time for a President to take unpopular but productive action is at the start of his]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pray for Haiti: Then Send Money, Food and Anything Else You Can Do]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Pray for Haiti's people. A country of 9 million souls in roughly 935 square miles lies devastated tonight. Homes destroyed, aftershocks, hundreds, perhaps thousands still trapped in the rubble with the clock ticking for their survival. The capital city leveled, the infrastructure destroyed, the dead, dying, wounded and the living all forced into the streets. Around the world, people with loved ones in Haiti desperately waiting for word from the quake zone that the people they love yet live. 

The world is mobilizing. Haiti is only 1.5 hour flight from the shores of Miama.&nbsp; Pray that America will be quick and lead the world. Pray that it is the humanity of Haiti's people that dictates the world's response, rather than the color or the poverty of its people. Pray for God's mercy and favor to fall upon the people of Haiti like rain in this dire hour of need.

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        <title><![CDATA[Despicable]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Hat tip Booker Rising



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        <title><![CDATA[A Political Season]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season Contributor

As Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi exited the vehicle that brought him onto Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, on Dec. 30, 2009, security guards noticed he was behaving strangely. They moved toward al-Balawi and screamed demands that he take his hand out of his pocket, but instead of complying with the officers’ commands, al-Balawi detonated the suicide device he was wearing. The explosion killed al-Balawi, three security contractors, four CIA officers and the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID) officer who was al-Balawi’s handler. The vehicle shielded several other CIA officers at the scene from the blast. The CIA officers killed included the chief of the base at Khost and an analyst from headquarters who reportedly was the agency’s foremost expert on al Qaeda. The agency’s second-ranking officer in Afghanistan was allegedly among the officers who survived.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Blacks weigh in on Harry Reid's racial comments / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

So Washington is abuzz with the latest piece of red meat for politicians and associated operators to gnaw at, the simultaneously awkwardly phrased, stereotypical yet oddly insightful comments by Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. In their new book, "Game Change," journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann expose remarks Mr. Reid made in an interview about Barack Obama during the presidential campaign. Mr. Reid is quoted as saying that he believed the nation was ready to elect a "light-skinned" black man "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

Race hustler Ward Connerly is one of the voices of outrage from conservatives. "it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the spirit of forgiveness is universal—except when it comes to conservatives." 

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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season You simply can't make this stuff up.&nbsp; Gilbert Arenas, a grown man, with a six-year, $111million contract, plus an additional $50 million deal with Adidas, thought it was a good idea, a harmless practical joke, to bring not one, not two, but three guns into the Washington Wizards locker room and display them to teammate Jarvaris Crittendon, in some doofus attempt to emphasize his seriousness about a gambling debt. He does this within the District of Columbia's jurisdiction, home of some of the toughest gun laws in the nation governing concealed weapons.&nbsp; He came from his home in Maryland, so he also crossed state lines with the weapons and we don't even know yet if he had a license for any of them.

You'd think that if moron boy was going to be brandishing weapons in anyone's face, it would be that of his fellow teammate Shaq, who's been dunking his fiance since forever apparently. Now, I file this hot mess in the same moron file with other cases of terminal stupid fever: Chr]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season If you go to Wickipedia, it explains "race realism" as the claim that races are real rather than social constructs, and that racial distinctions are enduringly important because racial groups differ by nature (genetically) with regard to such important behavioral tendencies as intelligence and impulsiveness. This claim holds that racial distinctions are real and measurable, and further claims those measurable differences are based in science instead of idealism. Examples of scientifically demonstrable racial distinctions are said to include different decision and reaction times, intelligence, crime rates, and medical characteristics, such as differing tendencies toward diseases such as osteoporosis or sickle cell anemia.[1] Critics often claim that racial realism is a euphemism for scientific racism. I would agree.

Dennis Mangan is the author of the blog Mangan's Adventures in Reaction and describes his views on race in various ways, one of those self descriptors being that of a "race]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Muslim World Needs Terrorist Qaulity Control]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Suicide Blast Kills At Least 88 at Pakistan Volleyball Game | Asia | English

The horrific bombing in Pakistan once again has me shaking my head in a species of disbelief. This is an element of Islamic terrorism that I don't understand.  For all the railing against the US and Western "infidel" culture in general, Islamic terrorists kill far more Muslims far more regularly than they do Westerners.

I have a hard time understanding how Muslim publics around the world tolerate these rabid, murderous dogs.   Just from a purely pragmatic, practical point of view, what bloody good is it to have terrorists who target you far more than they target the "infidels" they claim to be out to destroy?

I guess I do understand some of it. Though its easy to think otherwise, with the exception of groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, most of these terror movements are not really about taking down the West (the Far Enemy) as they are about taking down their local governments (the Near Enemy).&nbsp; Its a mea]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Taliban fighters before they ever gave a damn about Taliban fighting 
from morphyne.com

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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The blog Naked Capitalism takes note that on Christmas Eve, the Treasury Department announced it had...&nbsp;considerably increased its Freddie and Fannie safety net, by removing all limits on the amounts on offer (an increase from a ceiling of $400 billion) and simultaneously allowing the two GSEs to increase their balance sheets near term. Previously, they had been required to shrink their portfolios by 10% per annum; now it is their ceiling which will be lowered by 10% a year, and that ceiling is much higher than their current exposures ($900 billion versus roughly $760 billion for Freddie and $770 billion for Fannie as of the end of November).

The proper interpretation of these events is succinctly laid out by Edward Harrison at the Credit Writedowns blog, to wit....Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be used as a nationalization of America’s mortgage problems via a back door bailout of banks. The evidence, therefore, tends to demonstrate that we have witnessed an orchestrated camp]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Charter Schools: Why Republicans Can’t  Make This Issue A Winner ......]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Thats the answer that Vladimir posits a question to&nbsp;in a post at Redstate (the conservative blog that would swiftly ban me for this point of view...if they hadn't already). Vladimir asks a question that really should be examined by the GOP as a party and conservatives as a movement, namely why don't we make any headway with this issue with blacks? He points out....

The conservative solution is demonstrably the better solution. And it doesn’t take a generation to prove it. Republicans do a lot of hand wringing, trying to figure out how to make the Republican Party and conservative governance relevant to the minority community.&nbsp; Charter schools are a way to do it without pandering. 


I completely agree with the above statement. Nonetheless, conservatives get nowhere with the black community on this.&nbsp; Commenters on the issue at Redstate respond with a variety of excuses: its because the constituency that benefits most (poor and working class urban blacks) are not swing]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season There has been another taser death, this one occurring in Bradenton Fl.&nbsp;&nbsp; 38-year old Derrick Humbert was tasered to death after being stopped by police while riding his bike around midnight in a black neighborhood.&nbsp; Humbert was a father of four who had no warrants.&nbsp; He had left out the house to get a pack of smokes from a nearby store.&nbsp; He was killed Oct. 2, 2009 by undercover police in an unmarked police car who initiated a police stop of Humbert because his bike had no light.&nbsp; It is another in a very long list of taser deaths occurring all over the country on what has become a routine basis.&nbsp; Fellow Afrospear blog Electronic Village has been sounding the alarm about this issue for quite some time, and blogs like Electrocuted While Black and Tasered While Latino now work this beat 24/7.


&nbsp;Villager's post on the Bradenton taser killing of Humbert, specifically referencing the response of the The Florida SCLC chapter however caught my eye.&nbsp;]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Working on my John Chow emulation.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season “And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”LUKE 2:9-10-11From our family to yours this holiday seasonMerry Christmas]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Our Deepest FearOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.Your playing small does not serve the world.There is nothing enlightened about shrinkingso that other people won't feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine, as children do.We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.- by Marianne Williamson from "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles"Three overarching issues top my list of stuff we are getting wrong at the neighborhood level. You tell me if the fo]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season by George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season Contributor A small number of Iranian troops entered Iraq, where they took control of an oil well and raised the Iranian flag Dec. 18. The Iranian-Iraqi border in this region is poorly defined and is contested, with the Iranians claiming this well is in Iranian territory not returned after the Iran-Iraq War. Such incidents have occurred in the past. Given that there were no casualties this time, it therefore would be easy to dismiss this incident, even though at about the same time an Iranian official claimed that Iraq owes Iran about $1 trillion in reparations for starting the Iran-Iraq War. But what would be fairly trivial at another time and place is not trivial now.  Sending a Message With an Incursion Multiple sources have reported that Tehran ordered the incident. The Iranian government is aware that Washington has said the end of 2009 was to be the deadline for taking action against Iran over its nuclear program — and that accordi]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman - Honorary Political Season Contributor President Barack Obama’s speech in Oslo marking his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize was eloquent, as most of his speeches are.  It was also enigmatic — both for its justification of war and for his speaking on behalf of the international community while making clear that as commander in chief, his overarching principle is to protect and defend the United States. In the end, it was difficult to discern precisely what he meant to say. An eloquent and enigmatic speech is not a bad strategy by a president, but it raises this question: At the end of his first year, what precisely is this president’s strategy abroad? Ironically, it is useful to consider Obama in the light of the last president who dominated and defined his time: Ronald Reagan, a man as persuasive, polarizing and enigmatic as the current president. These two men share much, including charisma and a desire to revive American power abroad. But Obama is about to d]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season That is my satirical take on the premise behind this commonly made argument by gay marriage proponents, articulated here by NY Senator Diane Savino.Her speech is effective and sincere, but I reject its premise, one I commonly hear advanced in support of gay marriage, namely that since heterosexuals have failed to honor the marriage institution, indeed have disgraced it repeatedly and failed to act morally within its boundaries, it follows then that we should cast aside the moral/religious basis upon which opposition to gay marriage has most often devolved.  One does not follow the other. That heterosexuals have been imperfect in marriage is no rationale for casting aside the objection to gay marriage on moral/religious grounds.  Put another way, if the reverse were true, that heterosexuals were exemplary paragons of marital virtue, would supporters of gay marriage then agree  that the moral/religious based objection to gay marriage is vindicated? I think not.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I was home for Thanksgiving briefly. I went out to Thanksgiving "breakfast" with my mom. For years, my mother has always seemed to be very self sufficient and capable of taking care of herself (and she is).  But the years are steadily going by and its now becoming very apparent to me that momma is growing old and her infirmities are beginning to multiply. She's got a bad knee that she had surgery on, and I was actually shocked to see that she now walks with a cane when I was home. The cane really signaled her advancing age to me.  Momma is always just "momma", or she was.  Now, I worry about her.Besides the cane and bad knee, which is impacting her mobility, her eyesight is fading as well.  She's basically told me that the doctors said that she's going blind.  She declares this to me in the same matter of fact way you might say "this is a jar of peanut butter" or "he has very bad teeth".  Likes its a factual but not particularly important datum.  She mentions things floating in her vis]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season Contributor With U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement of his strategy in Afghanistan, the U.S.-jihadist war has entered a new phase. With its allies, the United States has decided to increase its focus on the Afghan war while continuing to withdraw from Iraq. Along with focusing on Afghanistan, it follows that there will be increased Western attention on Pakistan. Meanwhile, the question of what to do with Iran remains open, and is in turn linked to U.S.-Israeli relations. The region from the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush remains in a war or near-war status. In a fundamental sense, U.S. strategy has not shifted under Obama: The United States remains in a spoiling-attack state.   As we have discussed, the primary U.S. interest in this region is twofold. The first aspect is to prevent the organization of further major terrorist attacks on the United States. The second is to prevent al Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups from ta]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I recently stumbled over a site called Qype, a portal to information on places all over the world and I started browsing through the info on London.  Back when I was in law school, I spent time studying abroad, living in London.  I can remember often wishing I had some definitive resource or guidebook to the real London, like Qype.  It was a really huge moment in life for me, because I had not done any study abroad during my undergraduate days, and I was pretty convinced that if I didn't take the opportunity while I was in law school, the chance to spend extended time outside the country would not come again for a while.So in the spring of 1992, my grandfather (Charles DeCembly, now deceased) took me to the train station in Toledo, Oh, along with my mom, and put me on a train to New York.  I traveled to New York City.  After debarking at the station in NY, I took transit out to the airport and caught my flight bound for Heathrow.I was fortunate enough to have a friend stateside who was]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season Contributor     U.S. President Barack Obama announced the broad structure of his Afghanistan strategy in a speech at West Point on Tuesday evening. The strategy had three core elements. First, he intends to maintain pressure on al Qaeda on the Afghan-Pakistani border and in other regions of the world. Second, he intends to blunt the Taliban offensive by sending an additional 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan, along with an unspecified number of NATO troops he hopes will join them. Third, he will use the space created by the counteroffensive against the Taliban and the resulting security in some regions of Afghanistan to train and build Afghan military forces and civilian structures to assume responsibility after the United States withdraws. Obama added that the U.S. withdrawal will begin in July 2011, but provided neither information on the magnitude of the withdrawal nor the date when the withdrawal would conclude. He made it clear]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season This was just a lot of fun arguing about. Remember back during the campaign when Cornel West got cheesed off at Obama for not going to the King celebrations in Memphis? Well, Mo'Kelly posted on the subject, as did I and I stopped through his blog to comment on it, as that whole incident really frosted my cake.  Someone visited the blog from a permalink at that post recently and I reread the debate I had with Mo'Kelly.  It was a lot of fun. Read the exchange and at the end, leave your vote in the comments on who you think wins the argument. Flashback.Political SeasonWest and Tavis both work my nerves with this kind of "blackness" testing. Obama is busy running a campaign for the nation's highest office. While it certainly would have been nice if Obama could have attended, that he did not go does not change or affect a damn thing of consequence in the lives of black people.Tavis and West's reaction is no different than the people jumping on Obama for Wright's comments. Its the same logic]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Folks are complaining about the President giving a timetable. Get a grip.  What the President is really saying is that he plans to finish the job of kicking the Taliban's ass in 18 months.  I'm okay with that.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I have not posted anything in a fair bit and I'm sure some of my readers have been wondering "where the heck is Political Season these past weeks".  Fear not, I am well, if a bit heavy burdened by the travails of everyday life.  Unlike many of my blogging betters, my volume tends to recede when life is strongly demanding my attention.  I'll be back to opining, perhaps sooner than I think.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Dave G's NY-23 post mortem nails the broad political lesson:What this shows is that neither running as Democrats-lite nor as talk-radio-style anarcho-conservatives will win the future for the GOP. What will yield a Republican comeback in 2010 and beyond is the McDonnell/Christie model, where Republican candidates ideologically appropriate for their states and districts run as pragmatic conservatives who are solutions-oriented and who are running to apply their conservatism to public problems. This is the type of Republicanism that can win, and it did win in purple Virginia and blue New Jersey. It did so by contrasting a GOP that was optimistic and problem-solving yet distinctly conservative with a corrupt, interest-group-friendly, tax-and-spend leftist establishment. This is the model that Republicans should emulate, not the Rockefeller-esque model of Dede nor the Palin/Beck model of Hoffman.The above is completely on point and totally tracks with my attitude about the purpose of being]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman and Reva Bhalla The decision over whether to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan may wait until the contested Afghan election is resolved, U.S. officials said Oct. 18. The announcement comes asU.S. President Barack Obama is approaching a decision on the war in Afghanistan. During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, Obama argued that Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time, but Afghanistan was a necessary war. His reasoning went that the threat to the United States came from al Qaeda, Afghanistan had been al Qaeda's sanctuary, and if the United States were to abandon Afghanistan, al Qaeda would re-establish itself and once again threaten the U.S. homeland. Withdrawal from Afghanistan would hence be dangerous, and prosecution of the war was therefore necessary. After Obama took office, it became necessary to define a war-fighting strategy in Afghanistan. The most likely model was based on the one used in Iraq by Gen. David Petraeus, now head of U.S. Central Comman]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I've been using mobile devices and phones for the better part of a decade now. With each leap in the technology and power of the devices has also come an increase in the number and variety of accessories you could get for them. Nowadays, I'm rocking a Palm Pre, while the hot little number sports an Iphone.Consequently, I find myself looking at a lot more mobile sites now, particularly ones that have really big accessory selections. The one I've come across most recently is Mobilefun.co.uk. While it does have the drawback of being an overseas site with money denominated in pounds sterling, it has a great selection. I found myself just browsing around and finding accessories I had never seen before. The Iphone accessories selection is pretty large, a fact the wifey cottoned to immediately. I had barely begun to check the site out and she bogarded me away from the screen to check out an Iphone case on offer, of which there were many. They even had an Iphone car charger I had not seen befo]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I've blogged before about the racial chip that seems to exist on the shoulders of Michael Steele.  You know, the one that manifests itself in the repeated use of "in da hood" slang in what I used to think was a half witted attempt to simultaneously keep it real with blacks and reassure whites that his election to RNC chair makes them hip and with it, but what I now believe is a manifestation of Steele's anger at the way the GOP dismisses blacks as an unnecessary  political constituency for engagement.It began on the very day of his election, when asked what message he had for the president and he replied "how do you like me now?" It continued through a dissapointing early Esquire magazine interview laced with profanity and reached a new low when he came to Indiana for the Young Republican election and encouraged minorities "ya'll come.  I got the fried chicken".You've heard me on this before: why in God's name is a sixty something year old grown black man with a law degree from Georget]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season A member of my FB circle posted this PSA.  I'm all for more accurate, non distorted readings of history.  If you don't understand the past, blah blah blah.  But this group or coalition of groups is trying to sell two different outcomes that really ought not to be conflated with each other, as they do with this PSA and website:Outcome#1: Eradicate Columbus' name from the federal calendar. I kid you not, its stated just that way on their website.  So you start your campaign by seeking to tear down something long established, without having laid a sufficient foundation in education or outreach to change peoples viewpoint about this historical figure.  Further, this stance is not necessary, they could have just stayed with the  soft kill approach of getting out the alternate historical viewpoint on Columbus.  But they are so busy trying to make people feel like crap over Columbus Day, so busy being self righteous  they don't get the more important issue of correcting the historical record]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Via the Short Form blog:“I’m the one who hired him. I put him there to give me a frank assessment.”                                   President Obama, during White House                                           meeting with lawmakers on Afghanistan strategy]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season ContributorTwo major leaks occurred this weekend over the Iran matter.    In the first, The New York Times published an article reporting that staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N. nuclear oversight group, had produced an unreleased report saying that Iran was much more advanced in its nuclear program than the IAEA had thought previously. According to the report, Iran now has all the data needed to design a nuclear weapon. The New York Times article added that U.S. intelligence was re-examining the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of 2007, which had stated that Iran was not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon.  The second leak occurred in the British paper The Sunday Times, which reported that the purpose of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s highly publicized secret visit to Moscow on Sept. 7 was to provide the Russians with a list of Russian scientists and engineers working on Iran’s nuclear wea]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season ....with the exception of the bit about a nuclear detonation in an American city, that the following is a correct line of reasoning from the commenter R. L. Hails Sr. P. E.  at Real Clear Politics:My prejudicial judgments. Obama, a very bright articulate, persuasive orator, for the first time in his life, holds both the burden of real decision making and confronts opponents who have no qualms about killing their enemies. Obama's opposition were George Bush, Gitmo, the Iraq war, and global warming. Obama made much, during the campaign, of an intelligence report that flatly contradicted Bush's position that Iran was pursuing the bomb. It crippled Bush's foreign policies in the middle east. We now know that report was either incorrect, or a lie. Iran had repeatedly cheated and lied about a basic cause of war. Obama knew the truth when He spoke in Cairo, and apologized for our policies. Looking at the cards, the world will suffer a nuclear explosion in a city, within the Obama Administrati]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season Contributor During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, now-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said that like all U.S. presidents, Barack Obama would face a foreign policy test early in his presidency if elected. That test is now here. His test comprises two apparently distinct challenges, one in Afghanistan and one in Iran. While different problems, they have three elements in common. First, they involve the question of his administration’s overarching strategy in the Islamic world. Second, the problems are approaching decision points (and making no decision represents a decision here). And third, they are playing out very differently than Obama expected during the 2008 campaign. During the campaign, Obama portrayed the Iraq war as a massive mistake diverting the United States from Afghanistan, the true center of the “war on terror.” He accordingly promised to shift the focus away from Iraq and back to Afghanistan. Obama’s views on Ira]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season From Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard:"When Barack Obama strode on stage to scold Iran for its failure to disclose the existence of a second uranium-enrichment facility in the country, his message was timid and at times almost apologetic. When the tough language came, it was because French president Nicolas Sarkozy had taken the podium. Sarkozy excoriated the Iranians for their deception, saying that the revelations have caused "a very severe confidence crisis" and issued a time-specific warning about oft-threatened (but never implemented) sanctions. "We cannot let the Iranian leaders gain time while the centrifuges are spinning," he declared. "If by December there is not an in-depth change by the Iranian leaders, sanctions will have to be imposed."  The above is one of several pieces I have seen since the UN meetings began that essentially says, "France's Sarkozy talks tougher than Obama" and the comparison is made to paint Obama as weak. Its trash talking foolishness.  Lets botto]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season ContributorThe United States announced late Sept. 17 that it would abandon a plan for placing ballistic missile defense (BMD) installations in Poland and the Czech Republic. Instead of the planned system, which was intended to defend primarily against a potential crude intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) threat from Iran against the United States, the administration chose a restructured system that will begin by providing some protection to Europe using U.S. Navy ships based on either the North or Mediterranean seas. The Obama administration has argued that this system will be online sooner than the previously planned system and that follow-on systems will protect the United States. It was also revealed that the latest National Intelligence Estimate finds that Iran is further away from having a true intercontinental missile capability than previously thought, meaning protecting Europe is a more pressing concern than protecting the Un]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman ~ Honorary Political Season ContributorThe Iranians have now agreed to talks with the P-5+1, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China) plus Germany. These six countries decided in late April to enter into negotiations with Iran over the suspected Iranian nuclear weapons program by Sept. 24, the date of the next U.N. General Assembly meeting. If Iran refused to engage in negotiations by that date, the Western powers in the P-5+1 made clear that they would seriously consider imposing much tougher sanctions on Iran than those that were currently in place. The term “crippling” was mentioned several times.Obviously, negotiations are not to begin prior to the U.N. General Assembly meeting as previously had been stipulated. The talks are now expected to begin Oct. 1, a week later. This gives the Iranians their first (symbolic) victory: They have defied the P-5+1 on the demand that talks be u]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season As reported by TMZ, The audio was recorded just before Obama went on camera to do an interview with CNBC. Before the interview began, Obama -- referring to Kanye's antics on stage -- said "I thought that was really inappropriate," then adding, "He's a jackass." Listen to it.Alaine found it unpresidential, but I found it refreshing and spot on.  I like it when the President has the same common sense reaction to something as I do.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season My goodness, somebody declared this past Sunday an impromptu "Act An Ass Day" in the black celebrity community without telling me. Kicking off the foolishness was the always interesting, never boring, Serena Williams.  Under relentless pressure from unseeded wild card Kim Clijsters (returning to competition after taking a break to marry and have a child), Serena was losing the match and her cool. After losing the first set she pulverizes her racket:Already having been penalized earlier for pulverizing her racket, Serena completely loses it when she is called for what turned out to be a bogus foot fault from an overzealous line judge on match point. Check it:It was an ugly display and it cost Serena the match, $10,000, some dignity and a nasty hit to her public image. Even mama Oracene remarked that she could have kept her cool. Serena is a champion, but she blew the opportunity to show the heart of one with this performance.  I think the Williams sisters have had to bear a lot for thei]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Its the anniversary of 911 again. Lot of emotions and feelings opened up again for so many people. I was in New Orleans at a training on 911. I'd been there for a day. I was staying at a hotel in the French Quarter, which happened to be directly across the street from a strip joint (didn't think my company was really winning one for family values that day). I woke up that morning around 8:30, and flipped on the news. I'm an info junkie, so I love listening to news. I flip to CNN, and there's a live feed of the Trade Center, a few minutes after the first plane struck. The shot was showing the tower burning. I thought to myself "oh man, some idiot flew his plane into the trade center". It looked bad, but I thought " a tragic accident", nothing more. I continue getting dressed, watching the tv, listening to the commentary.Suddenly, coming in from the right of the screen, I see the 2nd plane strike. That's when I know. "We're under attack". That's when the sense of horror starts growing. A]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By George Friedman~Honorary Political Season Contributor                          As August draws to a close, so does the first phase of the Obama             presidency. The first months of any U.S. presidency are spent filling             key positions and learning the levers of foreign and national security policy.             There are also the first rounds of visits with foreign leaders and the             first tentative forays into foreign policy. The first summer sees the             leaders of the Northern Hemisphere take their annual vacations, and             barring a crisis or war, little happens in the foreign policy arena.             Then September comes and the world gets back in motion, and the first             phase of the president’s foreign policy ends. The president is no             longer thinking about what sort of foreign policy he will have; he now             has a foreign policy that he is carrying out.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Top Three Movie Moments that made me say..."Oh, he is so in there.....".#3Outbreak - Army scientist Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman)is racing against time to save the people of Cedar Creek, California from death due to infection by a killer virus. His fellow scientist and ex-wife who he is still in love with, Dr. Keough (Rene Russo), becomes infected and to convince her to hold on while he finds a cure, he removes his enviro suit in her presence, infecting himself with the same deadly virus and committing himself to find a cure or die with her. Oh, he's so in there.#2Speed - LA cop Jack Traven (Keana Reeves) hangs on for dear life to a runaway commuter train thats been blown off the rails by a madman with damsel in distress Sandra Bullock handcuffed to a handrail and unable to escape.  The intrepid Reeves disdains the opportunity to save himself from what appears to be certain doom and remains with Bullock as the train careens through the subway and explodes from underground to land in the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Ever since I learned  about the impending debut of the Palm Pre, I've been awaiting its release. When June 6th finally arrived,few were happier than I. The Pre is the only natural upgrade path for a Sprint user like me who has been using Palm's OS 5 for years.   The old Palm OS was a great operating system.  Thousands of apps, flexible and easy to use, easy to hack.   But lets face it.  It was very looonnngg in the tooth.  After the Iphone came out and raised the game and expectations, I was increasingly irritated with the lack of pizzaz in the old Palm OS.  No flash.  A useful web browser, but the web didn't  look like the web, and many other things.But with the news of the arrival of the Palm Pre I knew there was hope.  The release date came and since I had been dropping hints about it for weeks, my lovely wife pulled the trigger. So lets talk about the Pre experience.  I had gone to the store a time or two after the Pre was released to see the device and I got a chance to play with]]></description>
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