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The Message of Majora's Mask
The Message of Majora's Mask
Comment in News (1 digg) - 6 hr 47 min ago
I didn't make it to the windmill in time, so the game made me do it again. So, I pulled a fast one on the game and turned it off never to be played again. That showed them....but seriously, I need to play that game again. (see comment)
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How State Troopers Want You To Act During a Traffic Stop
How State Troopers Want You To Act During a Traffic Stop
Comment in News (1 digg) - 6 hr 49 min ago
Oh, I went to court. Judge was awesome, knocked the price in half and I had to take driver rehab (which I took for free online) (see comment)
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How State Troopers Want You To Act During a Traffic Stop
How State Troopers Want You To Act During a Traffic Stop
Comment in News (1 digg) - 6 hr 51 min ago
I wasn't (see comment)
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8 Reasons Why This Is The Dumbest Generation
Comment in News (9 diggs) - 10 hr 24 min ago
Makes sense to me, let's get on it! After all, I am part of the dumbest generation. (see comment)
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How State Troopers Want You To Act During a Traffic Stop
How State Troopers Want You To Act During a Traffic Stop
Comment in News (15 diggs) - 11 hr 54 min ago
I got pulled over once, going 63 in a 35. I was 17 and trying to get home for curfew. I did everything that this list said, I was polite and did exactly what the officer said. I left that scene with a $240 ticket. (see comment)
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8 Reasons Why This Is The Dumbest Generation
Comment in News (4 diggs) - 12 hr 23 min ago
I'd put my money on the flappers (see comment)
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8 Reasons Why This Is The Dumbest Generation
Comment in News (5 diggs) - 12 hr 24 min ago
20, just finished reading The Stranger by Camus. It was fantastic. (see comment)
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8 Reasons Why This Is The Dumbest Generation
Comment in News (4 diggs) - 12 hr 26 min ago
Don't you know? Left handed people are devil spawn. (see comment)
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8 Reasons Why This Is The Dumbest Generation
Comment in News (11 diggs) - 12 hr 32 min ago
It's not a big truck (see comment)
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Finally the definition of Web 2.0 & 3.0
For all those added friends, if you already dugg i appreciate it.
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Read the Fine Print on "Open Source" Software
The term "open source" was supposed to remove that confusion, and was deliberately chosen to emphasize what the software is, rather than what it isn't. The good news is that when the term "open source" was coined, just 10 years ago, the world was ready to listen, and incorporated this term into its vocabulary. The bad news is ...
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Obama and McCain have rifts to heal
How will Obama and McCain regain support of "classic but alienated" supporters of their respective parties?
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Finally the definition of Web 2.0 & 3.0
Please digg. Trying to get my first ever "popular" digg! As always, will return the favor.
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Ruby on Rails is good for concepts, but anything else?
For any of you programmers out there. Diggs will be returned as usual :)
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A Startling Collapse for Clinton, and an Inability to Let Go
First of all, what a pleasant surprise to see a submission hit "popular". Thanks to you all.
Hillary should look at the plain math and let it go. First, Obama has won more pledged delegates, more states, and more votes than Hillary Clinton, no matter how you count it. Second, Barack Obama has a far more diverse political base than Clinton. Third, in recent contests Clinton has increasingly relied on McCain supporters to win votes. Fourth, a disproportionate share of Clinton's support from white voters comes from women who are basing their vote on the identity politics of gender more than race. Fifth, one of the reasons that Hillary has been able to build an image as a (white) "working-class hero" is that despite Clinton's attacks on Barack Obama, Obama has taken the moral high ground by refusing to make personal attacks against her (and boy howdy, could he have done so). Sixth, this race and gender divisive thing she is now promoting is plainly evil.
Her campaign surrogates' new "let her resign with grace" argument is also a canard, a trick, a ruse: the supers should seal the nomination away from Hillary's destructive tampering now before further damage is done.
Even today, she is trying to take Obama down in a new way, but also, as conservative commentator Peggy Noonan noted yesterday in the Wall Street Journal article, within a new context.
In the past Sen. Obama was just the competitor. Hillary could say, "All's fair."
But now Sen. Obama's the competitor who is actually going to be the nominee of the Democratic party.
And she is still trying to do him in, Fatal Attraction style.
And the party is watching.
As Peggy Noonan also noted, to play the race and gender cards as Mrs. Clinton has again this week, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical "the black guy can't win but the white girl can" is -- well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case our children walk by.
It's not math anymore, it's psychodrama. If she can't have it, no one can have it. If she has to tear the party apart, she will.
It is time for the super delegates to end it, so that we can all move on to winning the general election in the fall.
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Aides Say Clinton Regrets "White Voter" Remarks;or Does She?
Can't have it both ways, Hillary. But we're on to your hypocrisy and getting the word out.
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Obama Sets Sights on McCain, Ignores Clinton
Oh, just won't *that* frost Hillary's bunny! She will not be ignored (oh, no, no, no -- another "Fatal Attraction" reference.)
It's not math anymore, with Hillary, it's psychodrama. If she can't have it, no one can have it.
But complete silence from Sen. Obama at the public level is probably prudent. A very wise man, Bill Wilson, once wrote about appropriate responses when coming under unjustified sharp public attack "Almost without exception it can be confidently estimated that our best defense in these situations would be no defense whatever - namely, complete silence at the public level. Unreasonable people are all the more stimulated by opposition. If in good humor we leave them strictly alone, they are apt to subside the more quickly (you don't know Hill, Bill). If their attacks persists and it is plain they are misinformed, it may be wise to communicate with them in a temperate and informative way; also in such a manner that they cannot use our communication as a springboard for fresh assault... Such communications should be purely informative, and should never question the motives of the attackers."
To a large extent, Sen. Obama has followed this principled spirit of communication and discourse. One of the most refreshing aspects of his candidacy is that he tells the truth quickly and openly, gives the information that he believes to be true promptly and to the best of this ability, without excoriating or castigating his opponent. His practice of rigorous honesty, unconditional kindness (kindness is always within our power, even if fondness is not) and "restraint" is a quality of great leadership, and the character of a great man.
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Hillary's Exit with Grace Ruse
I agree this "let her resign with grace" argument is a canard, a trick, a ruse: the supers should seal the nomination away from Hillary's destructive tampering now before further damage is done.
She is trying to take Obama down in a new way, but also, as conservative commentator Peggy Noonan noted yesterday in the Wall Street Journal article, within a new context.
In the past Sen. Obama was just the competitor. Hillary could say, "All's fair."
But now Sen. Obama's the competitor who is actually going to be the nominee of the Democratic party.
And she is still trying to do him in.
And the party is watching.
As Peggy Noonan also noted, to play the race and gender cards as Mrs. Clinton has again this week, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical "the black guy can't win but the white girl can" is -- well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case our children walk by.
It's not math anymore, it's psychodrama. If she can't have it, no one can have it. If she has to tear the party apart, she will.
It is time, superdelegates, to end it, and move on to winning the general election in the fall.
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Hillary's Exit with Grace Ruse
I agree this "let her resign with grace" argument is a canard, a trick, a ruse: the supers should seal the nomination away from Hillary's destructive tampering now before further damage is done.
She is trying to take Obama down in a new way, but also, as conservative commentator Peggy Noonan noted yesterday in the Wall Street Journal article, within a new context.
In the past Sen. Obama was just the competitor. Hillary could say, "All's fair."
But now Sen. Obama's the competitor who is actually going to be the nominee of the Democratic party.
And she is still trying to do him in.
And the party is watching.
As Peggy Noonan also noted, to play the race and gender cards as Mrs. Clinton has again this week, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical "the black guy can't win but the white girl can" is -- well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case our children walk by.
It's not math anymore, it's psychodrama. If she can't have it, no one can have it. If she has to tear the party apart, she will.
It is time, superdelegates, to end it, and move on to winning the general election in the fall.
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Obama, Pay her Bills But Don't Make Hillary VP
Respectfully, I don't think Sen. Obama has to do - or should do - either.
Clinton will probably give it a strong go through Oregon, if the supers don't force her out by sealing the nomination for Sen. Obama by then (which looks more than likely).
But as to her continuing to campaign with the threat of damaging Obama so that she can get a better deal: Sen. Obama has always dealt from principle, and now has the luxury of dealing from strength. Sen. Obama doesn't have to make any deal at this point out of panic or fear.
Sen. Obama deserves to have a running mate that he can rely upon not to sabotage the general election for personal political gain, as Hillary would be very much tempted to do. In other words, if she was willing to damage the party and the party's presumptive nominee to win at all costs in the primary, what would prevent her from deliberately sabotaging Obama's fall campaign as his running mate so she will have a shot in 2012? Her good and upright moral character?
Am I being overly cynical and suspicious of Hillary's propensity for ulterior motives? I don't think so. Look at what we have learned about her character by observing her conduct in this campaign.
As to payment of campaign debts: Hillary should learn to live with the disappointment that comes from running a campaign in the kneecapping, deceitful, disingenuous and divisive manner in which she has conducted hers. This will prove to be both a strong reality check and a good character building experience for the junior senator from New York. We learn through what doesn't work as much as we learn through what does. But if there is no cost and she is bailed out -- we are all - in recovery terms -- enabling Hillary, and not helping her.
While $20 million is an unimaginable chunk of change for most of us, let's be clear, everyone: Bill and Hillary Clinton can certainly afford to pay their own campaign debts. And they should.
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NYT Editorial Board: McCain = Bush
The United States needs a clean break from eight catastrophic years of George W. Bush. And so far, Senator John McCain is shaping up as Bush the Sequel — neverending war in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich while the middle class struggles and courts packed with right-wing activists intent on undoing decades of progress in civil rights.
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View All ShoutsObama picks up 9 superdelegates, union endorsement
This trickle has already become a steady stream. At a certain point, it’s gonna become an inescapable wave.
Anyone out there still think Sen. Obama's supporters here on Digg are just Obama-bots?
This trickle has already become a steady stream. At a certain point, it’s gonna become an inescapable wave.
Anyone out there still think Sen. Obama's supporters here on Digg are just Obama-bots?


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