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Thursday, November 7, 2002 |
Tara Sue: "The campaign is only the beginning." [Scripting News]
Cyber-campaign for North Caroilina congressional seat pulls 11.19% with a campaign budget of $3500 bucks. The times could be a-changin'
10:21:56 PM 
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When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden
Bill Maher tonight on "Fresh Air":
Thu, November 7, 2002, 7:00pm, KQED-FM (88.5 FM)
(Check your local listings.)
We'll hear from the former host of "Politically Incorrect" - Bill Maher. He has a new book called "When You Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us To Help Fight the War on Terrorism."
Maher is of course the guy fired from the TV show "Politically Incorrect" for being... politically incorrect. Astute, insightful, funny. And likely to piss some folks off, of course, so don't tune in inf you're that sort of think skinned. (Then again, you wouldn't be reading this if you were!
4:48:28 PM
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Picture, 1000 words, etc.
(Take a careful look at those binoculars...)
2:57:32 PM
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Ford, Alcan launch closed-loop aluminum-recycling program
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Wednesday, November 06, 2002, DETROIT, Mich.
Ford Motor Company and Alcan Inc. have launched the North American automotive industry's first "closed-loop" recycling program for aluminum sheet scrap.
"The recycling of aluminum requires only 5 percent of the energy used to produce the primary metal," explained Andy Acho, Ford Motor Company's worldwide director of environmental outreach and strategy. "This is an important factor in reducing the total cost of this component to Ford. Moreover, recycling eliminates 95 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with primary production, thereby providing tremendous environmental advantages."
From GreenBiz.com
9:55:42 AM
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Tiptoeing to Defeat. The party of Roosevelt, Truman and the Kennedys has morphed into the party of timidity. By Bob Herbert. [New York Times: Opinion]
Twenty years ago a friend, very active in progressive politics, gained an audience with Richard Viguerie -- one of the architects of the Christian Right fundraising/media juggernaut. At one point in the perfectly polite conversation, Viguerie leaned forward across his desk and bellowed "You know what's wrong with you people?" My friend, a bit stunned, managed to squeek out a "What?" You're afraid," he replied, "to say what you really believe."
Reminds me of the "New Coke" debacle. Some braniac at Coca Cola decided that the way to grab market share from Pepsi was to make Coke taste more like Pepsi. The market gave them a big spit take, and Coke, tail between its corporate legs, re-introduced "Original Coke."
Somehow these stories always come to mind when I think about Democratic Party strategy.
8:20:51 AM
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© Copyright 2006 Gil Friend.
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