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NPR News: Top Stories, 10/31/2004; 9:50:02 AM |
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| | Workers Kidnapped, Japanese Killed in Iraq. A videotape broadcast on Arab television shows three kidnapped United Nations election workers. Japanese officials confirm that a headless body wrapped in an American flag recovered in Iraq is that of a Japanese hostage. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen. | |
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Alan Bjerga, 10/31/2004; 9:40:04 AM |
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| | The Peerless Princess of the Plains. Hangin' out in the Eagle newsroom on a Sunday, hoping an anti-tax activist calls back so I can go to the Museum of Ancient Treasures, one of Wichita's oddest places of wonderment. Basically, the museum is this eccentric old guy's collection of weird stuff | |
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The Official Kerry-Edwards Blog, 10/31/2004; 9:40:01 AM |
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| | New York Observer Endorses John Kerry. The New York Observer today endorsed John Kerry, in an editorial with one of the better summaries of why Americans should vote for John Kerry on November 2: "John Kerry understands that disorder is dangerous in this world, that intelligence and rationality are the right partners to passion, resolve and principle. As he showed in his three focused and well-prepared debate performances with President Bush, he is a man of intensity and rationality, whose 30 years in public life have... | |
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TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime, 10/31/2004; 9:30:04 AM |
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| | 'Meet the Press': Fair Matchup?. 'Meet the Press' this morning has Bob Kerry (former Neb. Senator and 9/11 Commission member) vs. Rudy Giuliani. I turned it off after opening credits announced the "squaring off." Given Giuliani's name recognition, this is hardly a fair matchup. Why... | |
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BOPnews, 10/31/2004; 9:30:03 AM |
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| | Thesis and Proof.. Thesis: this election, in the media, is about Bush versus Bush-lite. Proof? the conventional wisdom that Osama helps Bush.
Thesis: Bush has narrowly convinced the standing electorate to vote for him, but is wildly unpopular. Proof? Questions on turn out and polls showing low approval numbers. | |
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The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election, 10/31/2004; 9:30:02 AM |
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| | Daily Tracking Polls Tied. Reuters reports that President Bush and Kerry and are tied at 48 percent in the latest three-day Reuters/Zogby International Tracking Poll Kerry led Bush 47-46 percent on Saturday. ABC News/Washington Post Tracking Poll and the Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll... | |
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NPR News: Top Stories, 10/31/2004; 9:30:01 AM |
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| | Bush Heads for Florida; Kerry Draws on Starpower. President Bush spent most of Saturday campaigning in Midwestern states that have previously gone to Democrats. His rival, Sen. John Kerry, began a five-state tour with celebrities from Sen. John Glenn to Bruce Springsteen. Hear NPR's David Welna and NPR's Andrea Seabrook. | |
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Daily Kos, 10/31/2004; 9:20:04 AM |
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| | Polling Open Thread II. LV Two-way Tracking polls are here: Bush Kerry Zogby 48 48 Sunday TIPP 45 44 Saturday Rasmussen 48.1 47.1 Sunday WaPo 48 48 Sunday! Fox 46 47 Sunday The tracking polls will be updated throughout the day. Did I ever mention Bush is stuck at 48? Don't miss mattb25's thorough state-by-state poll analysis below, also quoted by Kevin Drum and who knows where else. Don't miss this NY Times article on the guy Bush has been ignoring: In dozens of interviews on Friday and Saturday in five hotly contested states, such steely sentiments were echoed again and again. Supporters of Mr. Bush said the bin Laden tape had strengthened their resolve to vote Republican by reminding them of the grave threats still faced by the country, while Mr. Kerry's supporters said the tape was yet another reminder that the Bush administration had failed to catch Mr. bin Laden. Even the undecided said the tape would not influence their decision. Indeed, with passions raised to such a pitch by this election, and with many people already committed to their choices, Mr. bin Laden and his blustering postures may have achieved a strange and remarkable feat: making himself irrelevant, despite the analysis of some political operatives that his tape could affect the election, to Mr. Bush's benefit in particular. And as to the OBL tape's irrelevence to the election, don't you believe it. People are pissed he's still out there, even if it seems unseemly to talk about it. Mr. Bush is likely to be informed of that on Tuesday in a big way. Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. Independents decide Bush ain't a sure thing any more. From TIPP: | |
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Pacific Views, 10/31/2004; 9:20:01 AM |
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| | Even Fox News .... ... now says Tuesday's US presidential election is too close to call. The right-wing network's latest polling shows Kerry and Dubya tied among likely voters at 46-46. Among all voters, Kerry has a two-point lead over the prez — however,... | |
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Boston, Massachusetts Weather, 10/31/2004; 9:10:04 AM |
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Democracy For Vancouver - Progressive Powered People, 10/31/2004; 9:10:02 AM |
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| | Report voting problems.. Dear Friend of Global Exchange:
As a non-partisan organization, Global Exchange does not endorse or support
any candidates for office.
At the same time, we believe that voting is a central part of fulfilling our
duties as citizens and an important way to press for human rights, social
justice, and environmental sustainability.
That is why we strongly encourage you to vote this Tuesday, November 2. | |
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TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime, 10/31/2004; 9:10:02 AM |
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| | Sunday Open Thread. Self-imposed break today. You can talk amongst yourselves here, you pick the topics. Some ideas: Voting problems. As I wrote over at 5280 today, the TL kid and two of his friends in New York still have not received their... | |
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Democracy For Vancouver - Progressive Powered People, 10/31/2004; 9:00:02 AM |
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| | Report voting problems. Dear Friend of Global Exchange:
As a non-partisan organization, Global Exchange does not endorse or support
any candidates for office.
At the same time, we believe that voting is a central part of fulfilling our
duties as citizens and an important way to press for human rights, social
justice, and environmental sustainability.
That is why we strongly encourage you to vote this Tuesday, November 2. | |
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Westport Now, 10/31/2004; 9:00:01 AM |
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| | Westport's Best Trick or Treat Streets. By Fran WestportNow Consumer Correspondent fran@westportnow.com Isn’t it ironic – and somewhat poignant – that when it comes to trick-or-treating neighborhoods, what kids really want is Westport in its pre-teardown state: small houses in cozy neighborhoods, densely packed, short... | |
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BOPnews, 10/31/2004; 8:50:03 AM |
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| | FT: Your Money is not an issue.. Remember how much intense debate there was about the coming recession back in the 2000 election? Nor does anyone else.
This year, remember the intense debate about the state of the credibility of the financial markets. FT doesn't remember either. | |
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TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime, 10/31/2004; 8:50:03 AM |
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| | Sunday Open Thread. Self-imposed break today. Don't want to burn out before the main event. Chatter away, you pick the topics.... | |
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Mathew Gross, 10/31/2004; 8:40:01 AM |
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| | Kerry Surges in Fox Poll. First, Zogby shows Senator Kerry leading among 18-29 year olds (Kerry 61%-Bush 37%). That age group composed 17% of the electorate in 2000, and was split evenly between Bush and Gore. Based on these numbers, you can swing roughly 1.5... | |
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MyDD, 10/31/2004; 8:40:01 AM |
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| | Republicans call it a Fraud, we call it Democracy. Reading through yet another challenge of voter registrations by Republicans, this one in Wisconsin, of... | |
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Seeing The Forest, 10/31/2004; 8:30:04 AM |
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| | Ground Operation Wins It? Don't Know.. The Democrats are counting on the strong ground operations that have been put together to help win in the swing states. But I just don't know. I used to think that precinct operations are the key to winning. But I remember being confident that the huge | |
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BOPnews, 10/31/2004; 8:30:03 AM |
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| | Food for Oil Deals. The failure of the Iraq policy of George Bush Sr. - as he inflicted it on Clinton - and the failure of the entire theory of it, is mainly responsible for the collapse towards war in Iraq.
Here is what is going on. And how it ate the Presidential election. | |
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Daily Kos, 10/31/2004; 8:20:02 AM |
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| | John Kerry Is a Closer. ...and that should clearly be evident in the next 48 hours. What's also clear despite OBL tapes, the explosives screw-up, Abu Ghraib and any other news story you or I think is important, the electorate doesn't seem to budge. Why? I was intrigued to hear some of the theories on the talking heads shows; it's culture issues, not class economic issues. Kerry's reality-based, Bush is not. Bush has run for four years to select and indoctrinate those who believe him and everyone else is against him. Maybe they're all true, The fact is that no matter what hits the wall, none of it sticks to either guy. There is also no question that George W Bush is the most polarizing President in Gallup polling history, more than Clinton and more than Nixon. The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds more than 7 in 10 Americans with a strong view of the way Bush is handling his job as president, with a roughly equal percentage strongly approving and strongly disapproving. The divide between Republicans and Democrats in their views of Bush is increasing as the election draws near -- 71% of Republicans strongly approve of Bush while 68% of Democrats strongly disapprove. Never before has a president had so many of one party taking a strong positive view of his performance in office at the same time so many of the other party took a strong negative view. We keep expecting the next great scandal will be The One, and it never is. But as our noted Kerry supporter (Tucker Carlson) says: people who hate Bush hate him more than those who love him love him. And a lot of that is because he's seen as illegitimate, sez Tucker. He's right. Somebody who understands that is Kerry and his team. He hasn't run anywhere near a perfect campaign, but some of his decisions (as Kos has pointed out going dark in August to save money for the battlegrounds was a deliberate choice) look pretty good in retrospect. An all-out Pickett's Charge assault would have failed. Keeping himself in the game and absorbing those that the Bush-base campaign alienated to 'create' a majority is going to be a winning strategery. it's fingernail-biting, but anyone on the other side who thinks 'Kerry is weak' is nuts. Who else would have the stomach for this? More proof of the "frozen' electorate is here from Greenberg and Devine (thanks, dlender): First of all, it's very clear looking at Democracy Corps polling and public polling, that we're looking at remarkably stable race - a remarkably dead heat race - that's true this week, that's true this Saturday, nothing that we've looked at up until now has changed the character of this race Bush is stuck at somewhere between 47 and 48 percent in the polling, 47 in Democracy Corps poll, but near 48 percent, that's an average of the public polls, and for an incumbent candidate, as we know, that puts him in a very, very endangered position in terms of his re-election. Let me talk about Democracy Corps first and then the public polls. And he does. In detail. Tied race, incumbent fatigue, good closer for an opponent... those tied polls with Bush's numbers actually dropping may not tell you what the final Kerry percentage will be, but it's looking pretty bad for Bush any way you slice it. | |
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Democrats Abroad Japan - Progressive Pragmatic Politics, 10/31/2004; 8:10:04 AM |
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| | windows 95 'predicts' election results. This spoof might amuse some of you. If it does, please rate it (at the bottom of the page). | |
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Pandagon, 10/31/2004; 8:10:03 AM |
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| | Rudy Giuliani, Suck My Everything. Rudy G., America's Shittiest Mayor, is on Meet The Press, and has laid out the new doctrine of When You're Blaming The Troops. Apparently, it now occurs whenever you criticize the Commander-in-Chief. You see, it eventually gets down to the... | |
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TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime, 10/31/2004; 8:10:03 AM |
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| | "Meet the Press': Fair Matchup?. 'Meet the Press' this morning has Bob Kerry (former Neb. Senator and 9/11 Commission member) vs. Rudy Giuliani. I turned it off after opening credits announced the "squaring off." Given Giuliani's name recognition, this is hardly a fair matchup. Why... | |
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Westport Now, 10/31/2004; 8:10:03 AM |
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| | "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Remembers Westporter George Silk. Part of ABC News tribute:: WestportNow's photo of George Silk last year at a Westport Arts Center exhibition. ©2004 WestportNow.com The ABC News program ""This Week with George Stephanopoulos" today remembered Westporter George Silk, a famed Life magazine photographer who... | |
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Centerfield, 10/31/2004; 8:00:00 AM |
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| | My New Hope. I've waited since I was a little kid to see my team, the Boston Red Sox, win a World Series championship. My gramps and dad died waiting, and I had been hoping that I'd see it happen just once before... | |
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Boston, Massachusetts Weather, 10/31/2004; 7:50:03 AM |
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall, 10/31/2004; 7:50:03 AM |
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| | More wobbles and.... More wobbles and noise. As of Sunday morning, the two tracking polls with new numbers out -- Zogby and WaPo/ABC -- show, remarkably, the exact same thing: dead even at 48%. For Zogby that's Bush going up one, for WaPo... | 
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Daily Kos, 10/31/2004; 7:50:01 AM |
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| | John Kerry Is a Closer. ...and that should clearly be evident in the next 48 hours. What's clear despite OBL tapes, the explosives screw-up, Abu Ghraib and any other news story you or I think is important, the electorate doesn't seem to budge. Why? I was intrigued to hear some of the theories on the talking heads shows; it's culture issues, not class economic issues. Kerry's reality-based, Bush is not. Bush has run for four years to select and indoctrinate those who believe him and everyone else is against him. Maybe they're all true, The fact is that no matter what hits the wall, none of it sticks to either guy. There is also no question that George W Bush is the most polarizing President in Gallup polling history, more than Clinton and more than Nixon. The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll finds more than 7 in 10 Americans with a strong view of the way Bush is handling his job as president, with a roughly equal percentage strongly approving and strongly disapproving. The divide between Republicans and Democrats in their views of Bush is increasing as the election draws near -- 71% of Republicans strongly approve of Bush while 68% of Democrats strongly disapprove. Never before has a president had so many of one party taking a strong positive view of his performance in office at the same time so many of the other party took a strong negative view. We keep expecting the next great scandal will be The One, and it never is. But as our noted Kerry supporter (Tucker Carlson) says: people who hate Bush hate him more than those who love him love him. And a lot of that is because he's seen as illegitimate, sez Tucker. He's right. Somebody who understands that is Kerry and his team. He hasn't run anywhere near a perfect campaign, but some of his decisions (as Kos has pointed out going dark in August to save money for the battlegrounds was a deliberate choice) look pretty good in retrospect. An all-out Pickett's Charge assault would have failed. Keeping himself in the game and absorbing those that the Bush-base campaign alienated to 'create' a majority is going to be a winning strategery. it's fingernail-biting, but anyone on the other side who thinks 'Kerry is weak' is nuts. Who else would have the stomach for this? More proof of the "frozen' electorate is here from Greenberg and Devine (thanks, dlender): First of all, it's very clear looking at Democracy Corps polling and public polling, that we're looking at remarkably stable race - a remarkably dead heat race - that's true this week, that's true this Saturday, nothing that we've looked at up until now has changed the character of this race Bush is stuck at somewhere between 47 and 48 percent in the polling, 47 in Democracy Corps poll, but near 48 percent, that's an average of the public polls, and for an incumbent candidate, as we know, that puts him in a very, very endangered position in terms of his re-election. Let me talk about Democracy Corps first and then the public polls. And he does. In detail. Tied race, incumbent fatigue, good closer for an opponent... those tied polls with Bush's numbers actually dropping may not tell you what the final Kerry percentage will be, but it's looking pretty bad for Bush any way you slice it. | |
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Democrats Abroad Japan - Progressive Pragmatic Politics, 10/31/2004; 7:40:02 AM |
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| | Photos from Florida. So the volunteers from Japan and the UK are on the ground working hard. and here are some snapshots!
We are starting the morning today getting the news out to the media and blogs.
Here is a great t-shirt from a member of the Englewood Democratic Club, we went to their luncheon yesterday looking for volunteers for canvassing and phone banking.  | |
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The Official Kerry-Edwards Blog, 10/31/2004; 7:40:01 AM |
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| | John Kerry on Faith. "I don't wear my own faith on my sleeve. But faith has given me values and hope to live by, from Vietnam to this day, from Sunday to Sunday. I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. And whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others... | |
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, 10/31/2004; 7:30:03 AM |
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| | In Iowa, Kerry Leads in Early Voting. The Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll "shows 48% of Iowans likely to vote in Tuesday's election, or who have already voted by absentee ballot," support Sen. John Kerry and 45% back President Bush. "Twenty-seven percent of Iowa adults surveyed said they had already voted. Kerry leads Bush, 52 percent to... | |
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Democrats Abroad Japan - Progressive Pragmatic Politics, 10/31/2004; 7:30:02 AM |
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| | Photos from Florida. We are starting the morning today getting the news out to the media and blogs. | |
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NYT > Times on the Trail, 10/31/2004; 7:30:00 AM |
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| | O.K., Students, a Final Exam. Question 1: When asked in March 2002 why he rarely mentioned Osama bin Laden anymore, which three of these statements did Mr. Bush make? By By JOHN TIERNEY. | |
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, 10/31/2004; 7:20:02 AM |
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| | In Iowa, Kerry Leads in Early Voting. The Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll "shows 48% of Iowans likely to vote in Tuesday's election, or who have already voted by absentee ballot," support Sen. John Kerry and 45% back President Bush. "Twenty-seven percent of Iowa adults surveyed said they had already voted. Kerry leads Bush, 52 percent to... | |
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Democracy For Vancouver - Progressive Powered People, 10/31/2004; 7:20:01 AM |
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| | Vancouver-Based WinThePeace.Org Endorses Kerry. Vancouver, Washington, October 28, 2004 – “I am a human first, an American second and a Republican third. My human and American feelings support Kerry rather than Bush,” explains Hasan Nouri, Chairman of WinThePeace.Org. Nouri came to America from Afghanistan in the sixties, built a successful engineering firm, and became a strong Republican. He is the winner of the Hoover Medal; the same award that Presidents Hoover, Eisenhower and Carter have received. “I have lived the American dream, and I am still a strong Republican,” he pledges, “But President Bush has failed, and Kerry offers a better future for America.” | |
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BOPnews, 10/31/2004; 7:10:02 AM |
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| | It's Not A Wonderful Life. At the end of Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, the "little people" of Bedford Falls bail out Jimmy Stewarte's stalwart banker, from a problem he did not create. It is heart warming, and the moral lesson of how the little people have to protect each other, particularly their best citizens. But if you think about it, it is a darker tale: the little people can bail out their best citizen, once, and the best they can hope for is a slow progress towards a better life.
You can do anything with sympathy except eat it. You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. These two moral rules describe the problems that consumers and producers have.
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Seeing The Forest, 10/31/2004; 7:00:02 AM |
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| | Stolen Honor. MaxNews.com will be running Stolen Honor, the notorious movie about John Kerry, almost constantly from now until the election on various stations as a paid program. I haven't gotten this morning's paper yet, so I don't know if it's listed by name. Last ni | |
