
After announcing her intent to support a health care debate this afternoon, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) told reporters she thinks Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will soon have to choose between a triggered public option and no health care bill. She also says Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)--the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate one of its most ...
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Reid Gets His 60 Votes, But Still Has His Work Cut Out
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It's official: Harry Reid has corralled enough votes to bring his health care reform bill to the floor. Blanche Lincoln became the 60th Democrat committed to voting to allow debate to open on the bill, following her moderate colleague Mary Landrieu, who also announced today that she'd vote aye. But Harry Reid still has his work cut out for him. ...
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Senate Debates Historic Health Care Bill
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Health Care Bill Voting Today: What It Isn't
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While Sen. Harry Reid has 60 votes for tonight's vote, you have to read the fine print to know what it means and doesn't mean. It's not a vote on the health care bill, but only a vote on whether debate can begin on it. [T]his vote simply says that the Senate is prepared to have a debate on the bill. From here, the bill will be ...
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Reconciliation
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Does Harry Reid have the votes for a health care bill that does not have a public option? Does Nancy Pelosi have 218 votes for a health care bill that does not have a public option? I think the answer is no. Today's Senate vote on bringing the Reid HCR bill to the floor for debate strikes me as a waste of time. Lieberman, Landrieu and Lincoln ( ...
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Nelson: Nebraskans' Views Must Be Heard In Health Care Debate
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November 20, 2009 – Today, Nebraska’s Senator Ben Nelson announced that he will vote for the motion to proceed to debate health care reform on the Senate floor and issued this statement:
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Reid Gets His 60 Votes, For Now
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At least for continuing debate . Nelson, Lincoln, Landrieu, they're all in. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has secured the vital 60th vote he needs to advance healthcare reform legislation with the announcement by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) that she will vote with her party Saturday evening. "I have concluded that it is more ...
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Health bill poised to pass U.S. Senate test
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A broad healthcare overhaul was poised to clear its first U.S. Senate hurdle on Saturday as the last wavering senators said they would vote to begin debate on the legislation, giving Democrats the 60 votes they need.
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The Christianist Manifesto: A Partial Fisking by tristero Led by an admitted felon,* a bunch of extreme, but influential, christianists have released a rambling statement which they've pompously called "Manhattan Declaration." Get it? That's "declaration" as in "Declaration of Independence" rather than "manifesto" as in "The Communist Manifesto."
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Obama Job Approval Down to 49%
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PRINCETON, NJ -- The latest Gallup Daily tracking results show 49% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, putting him below the majority approval level for the first time in his presidency.
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America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places
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America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places has identified more than 200 threatened one-of-a-kind historic treasures since 1988. Whether these sites are urban districts or rural landscapes, Native American landmarks or 20th-century sports arenas, entire communities or single buildings, the list spotlights historic places across America ...
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Obama's Shift on Gitmo and Military Commissions
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Time Magazine reports on The Fall of Greg Craig : Obama quietly killed the Gitmo plan in the second week of May; Craig never got a chance to argue the case to the President. "It was a political decision, to put it bluntly," says an aide. ...The White House realized it had to start over on a signature issue....First to go was the release of the ...
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Gallup Poll: Obama's job approval drops below 50%
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Dropping under 50% isn't the worst thing in the world to happen. The big change seems to be on the issue of the economy and the health care fight. It just goes to show you how much the defenders of the status quo hate change. Even the watered down Obama change is causing them to rise up. Imagine what they would do if the changes were substantial. ...
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Who You Calling Illegitimate?
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I was pretty shocked by this new poll that found that 52 percent of Republican voters think ACORN stole the 2008 presidential election for Obama. I wanted to get some perspective, though, so I looked for polls that assessed voters' feelings about the 2000 elections. I figured that, even with hanging chads and all, fewer Democratic voters would ...
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Arbitrary but Resentful Friday
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For the very first ARF Friday on this humble but tenacious blog, I turn you over to a Mystery Guest. Take it away, MG! _______ Thank you Michael. All your blogs are belong to Sarah Palin . But what about me? And what happens now when I rear my giant looming head? America has forgotten. Yes, you have forgotten when your Palin defends you from me ...
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The only surprise is that it's taken so long to come to this conclusion. California is on the right side, again. Cat friends of the world, unite.Don’t have your cat declawed in San Francisco, or West Hollywood, or you could face fines up to $1,000 and six months in jail. This month, the city by the bay became the first major metro area in ...
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The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross section of voters reported its latest results.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits displaced residents in flood-hit Cumbria, as falling flood waters reveal the extent of the damage.
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Merkel halted Blair's EU candidacy
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Tony Blair warned Gordon Brown a week ago that his campaign to become the first president of the European Council was doomed after a decisive intervention by the German chancellor Angela Merkel, according to senior Whitehall sources. To the dismay of key ministers, who wanted Brown to push for Britain to take an economic portfolio in the ...
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Man, the loot you can uncover when you go snooping around spec pages. That most ambitious of Sony Ericsson projects, the XPERIA X10 , is still a long way from being released, but already we can narrow down the list of potential US carriers to just one: AT&T. The guys over at Phandroid were the first to spot the newly added UMTS frequency ...
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Who's Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?
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The gagged whistleblower goes on the record. November 01, 2009, American Conservative. By Sibel Edmonds* and Philip Giraldi** | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of ...
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Xperia X10 To AT&T, Details Emerge
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Yesterday, Sony Ericsson held a Press Event in Sweden to demonstrate their upcoming first Android Phone, the Xperia X10. We’ve got video from that event to give you a glimpse of what it was like, but more importantly some juicy details about the device are starting to emerge:
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Democrats in the US Senate say they have now secured the votes they need to begin a full debate on healthcare reform.
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Is Paul Krekorian already running for State Senate??
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A well-known City blogger says he has sources that put the Burbank Assemblyman in the contest for the 21st District Senate seat in the near future. The sources say that Krekorian plans to run for the spot when it is vacated by Senator Carol Liu when she leaves the position. But isn't Krekorian... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
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Editor's note : More and more mobile app developers are deciding to make apps for Android, even though it still doesn't have the same reach as the iPhone. In this guest post Kevin Nakao , the VP of Mobile for Whitepages , makes the argument for taking the Android plunge now (as he is preparing to with a new Whitepages Android app launching next ...
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GigaOM
Android This Week: ARM Alliance Formed; Droids Fix Themselves?
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Android is like a snowball rolling downhill — it won’t be long before it’s moving too fast for anything to stop it. That movement is surely going to spread from the smartphone sector, where Android has its roots, to that of smartbooks. Knowing this, ARM and the Android folks have put their heads together and [...]
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Top 10 Grossing Android Apps
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The Apple App store recently added a top grossing list to go alongside top free and top paid lists. This I'm sure is in response to the race to the bottom phenomonem. App developers attempt to have their app featured in the top paid and free lists as users browse these lists first when looking for apps to download. These lists are based on ...
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I drive on Sitra Bridge almost every day; it's old, always overcrowded, and definitely falling apart. It wasn't that unbelievable to get a broadcast Blackberry message saying the bridge actually collapsed, although I usually wait to confirm news before I spread it.
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Most TechCrunch readers have never heard of Tracking202 . But affiliate advertisers love the service, which manages advertising campaigns on Facebook, MySpace and other platforms. In fact, Tracking202 was at the center of the Facebook click-fraud issue that we reported on earlier this year. Tracking202 users saw a certain number of clicks on ads ...
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Facebook’s iPhone App Is Broken. Who Will Fix It?
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10 days ago, Facebook developer Joe Hewitt rocked the iPhone development world when he announced that he would stop making iPhone apps because he was fed up with the way Apple is running the App Store. This is significant since Hewitt was pretty much solely responsible for one of the most popular ( and best ) iPhone apps out there: Facebook's. ...
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Already headed to the Rose Bowl, No. 9 Ohio State clinched the Big Ten title outright today with a 21-10 victory over mistake-prone Michigan in The Game. Get more Top 25 scores right here.
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Ohio State capitalizes on Michigan's mistakes for 21-10 victory
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Ninth-ranked Buckeyes intercept four passes by Tate Forcier, who also fumbles in his own end zone. ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Tate Forcier threw four interceptions and fumbled in his end zone, and No. 9 Ohio State took advantage to beat Michigan 21-10 Saturday for its sixth straight win in the series.
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Google Voice was GrandCentral before Google acquired that company back in 2007. Like most Google acquisitions it took a long time to fully rebuild the service on Google's infrastructure, and even today Google Voice is still in private beta. But lots of changes are coming. Google Voice should roll out publicly shortly. Users may be able to port ...
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GigaOM
Google’s Past Failures Offer Perspective on Chrome OS Release
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The Internet is abuzz over Google’s release of the open-source version of its Chrome OS, and for good reason. It’s free, which will save hardware manufacturers licensing fees, and it appears ideally suited for the netbooks that have become such a hot item for the mobile crowd (GigaOM Pro, sub. required). But Chrome is not [...]
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Google Chrome OS Will Fail: Here are the Fatal Flaws
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The Chrome OS is here -- sort of. This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. And after months of speculation (and more than a few bogus screenshot galleries), I can finally say that I've seen the future ... and it's not Chrome OS.
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LOGAN, UTAH Forever a part of American electoral history, Joe Wurzelbacher--better known as "Joe the Plumber"--is hitting back at the media for its coverage of him over the past year, telling Editor & Publisher the reporting has been "poorly done."
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Dick Lugar Wife Charged With DUI, Hit & Run
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Link Charlene S. Lugar, 77, was stopped shortly after 6:30 p.m. by an officer who noticed smoke coming from her car and damage to the front end of the car as she drove on Old Dominion Drive, Officer Bud Walker said. The officer pulled her over near Dominion Reserve Drive, ‘developed probable cause that she was [...]
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Global Voices Online
Algeria: Coverage ‘Written from Cairo'
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Algerian The Moor Next Door takes a closer look at media coverage following the Algeria- Egypt matches which saw Algeria qualify to the World Cup in South Africa next year. “Foot-ball is something akin to a religion in many countries… It can also lead to blind and irrational fanaticism,” he notes.
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Blasphemy! by digby Yesterday, I made fund of the fact that little Luke Russert thought that Harry Reid was the new liberal standard bearer because he got a vote to the floor. But this might actually do it: "In tomorrow's Washington Post , David Broder, their distinguished senior columnist, certainly not a political conservative, expresses his ...

Arizona State battered UCLA, using running back Dimitri Nance. After getting to the Bruins’ 35-yard line, quarterback Samson Szakacsy faked to Nance, then rolled right and finally found wide receiver Kyle Williams, who made a diving catch in the end zone.
Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter. He is an active member of the blogging community.
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Manchester United had won only two of their previous five Premier League matches, and were eight points behind Chelsea at kick-off, but they quickly trimmed that back to five with a comfortable victory over the basket case poor Everton resemble at present. It is interesting to note that, at this stage last season, United were running third, ...
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Movie studios have cut paid advertising and are leaning more heavily on free coverage in print, television and online outlets generated by publicists.

I have received 6 replacement phones (lucky number 7! ... sort of. Few dead pixels and slider oreo but dealing with it). Anyway, one thing that I have learned is how to recover my Palm profile data specifically pertaining to information stored in apps to link contact information. Almost every time I received a refurb I lost my Palm profile ...
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Which is safer: technology that disables a cellphone in a moving car, or that makes the conversation completely hands-free?
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