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		<title>By: fahrender</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1324032</link>
		<dc:creator>fahrender</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;it was worse than bitchy. it was the kind of attitude that is so negative and mean-spirited that it motivates people to vote for Obama even more.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it was worse than bitchy. it was the kind of attitude that is so negative and mean-spirited that it motivates people to vote for Obama even more.</p>
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		<title>By: johnSwifty</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1324013</link>
		<dc:creator>johnSwifty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, that was bitchy.  Chill out, man.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, that was bitchy.  Chill out, man.</p>
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		<title>By: MarkH</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323922</link>
		<dc:creator>MarkH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;So just to make sure I understand this issue, when Obama wins a primary with a lot of crossover votes that’s good, because he’s post-partisan, but when Hillary wins with crossover votes it’s bad, because they were Limbaugh-induced. Have I got that right?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What? Didn’t you get the memo?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everybody knows Obama is coooool and Hillary is a bitch. It’s a campaign slogan or something.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The fact Hillary has about as many votes &amp; delegates as Obama must really be frustrating to “The Suit”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BTW, when is someone going to ask him if when he’s the nominee he’ll pick another Afro-American to be Veep. I’d also like to know if he’s so much like JFK that he too has Addison’s Disease or something else hideous.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>So just to make sure I understand this issue, when Obama wins a primary with a lot of crossover votes that’s good, because he’s post-partisan, but when Hillary wins with crossover votes it’s bad, because they were Limbaugh-induced. Have I got that right?</p>
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<p>What? Didn’t you get the memo?</p>
<p>Everybody knows Obama is coooool and Hillary is a bitch. It’s a campaign slogan or something.</p>
<p>The fact Hillary has about as many votes &amp; delegates as Obama must really be frustrating to “The Suit”.</p>
<p>BTW, when is someone going to ask him if when he’s the nominee he’ll pick another Afro-American to be Veep. I’d also like to know if he’s so much like JFK that he too has Addison’s Disease or something else hideous.</p>
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		<title>By: dmac</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323917</link>
		<dc:creator>dmac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;cinnamonape–recently, the ou tv station here interviewed the female engineering students here about what it was like being in a male-dominated field, that’s how they put it—all 4 of them……4 of them. and engineering is a big department here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;back in ’77, i was a math and arts major, my professor for matrices in finite mathematics did everything he could to get me out of his class, even though i had the second highest grade………he came around, but it took a while. definitely women shouldn’t be here kinda guy. he was in charge of the department. it totally sucked, and i didn’t ’get’ it then, and i don’t ’get’ it now.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>cinnamonape–recently, the ou tv station here interviewed the female engineering students here about what it was like being in a male-dominated field, that’s how they put it—all 4 of them……4 of them. and engineering is a big department here.</p>
<p>back in ’77, i was a math and arts major, my professor for matrices in finite mathematics did everything he could to get me out of his class, even though i had the second highest grade………he came around, but it took a while. definitely women shouldn’t be here kinda guy. he was in charge of the department. it totally sucked, and i didn’t ’get’ it then, and i don’t ’get’ it now.</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323814</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;BTW Those other female “editors” at the Washpo (doubt if any of them were the gals working in the Science Section) that thought there was nothing wrong with Charlotte Allen implying almost all women are stupid (of course that wasn’t THEM, they are the “special breed”)…should read this &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080307/sc_livescience/studygirlslikescienceandmath;_ylt=AjkG7r4maf3I.e2I6FrMsrSyvtEF&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Girls NOW Like Math and Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The study demonstrates that girls today actually like math and the Sciences during elementary and much of junior high, only losing interest with it (and all academics) in the High School years. And while interest in Math and Science goes down…it’s still above other disciplines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Furthermore some universities are showing major increases of women entering and graduating from the Sciences and Mathematics. This follows an historically significant pattern in which the number of females in general entering Universities is outleaping male enrollment. This is such a noticeable trend in Universities that some administrators have discussed whether male students should receive some controversial status as “underrepresented” and have additional counselling or other academic help to encourage entering fields that are considered “difficult”, and to assist in retention counselling.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW Those other female “editors” at the Washpo (doubt if any of them were the gals working in the Science Section) that thought there was nothing wrong with Charlotte Allen implying almost all women are stupid (of course that wasn’t THEM, they are the “special breed”)…should read this </p>
<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080307/sc_livescience/studygirlslikescienceandmath;_ylt=AjkG7r4maf3I.e2I6FrMsrSyvtEF" rel="nofollow">Girls NOW Like Math and Science</a></p>
<p>The study demonstrates that girls today actually like math and the Sciences during elementary and much of junior high, only losing interest with it (and all academics) in the High School years. And while interest in Math and Science goes down…it’s still above other disciplines.</p>
<p>Furthermore some universities are showing major increases of women entering and graduating from the Sciences and Mathematics. This follows an historically significant pattern in which the number of females in general entering Universities is outleaping male enrollment. This is such a noticeable trend in Universities that some administrators have discussed whether male students should receive some controversial status as “underrepresented” and have additional counselling or other academic help to encourage entering fields that are considered “difficult”, and to assist in retention counselling.</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323798</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’d like to point out that in both Ohio and Texas the amount of delegates distrubuted to certain areas were based upon prior Democratic registration or voter turnout in General elections. Thus in high turnout areas (i.e. Blue Zones) there would be a lot of delegates. In “Red Zones” much fewer. Now there aren’t simply going to be enough Republicans in the Blue Zones to really influence delegate distribution I suspect. And in areas where there are only two delegates available…it likely took levels of about 75% to win the second delegate. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now I’m not saying that it wouldn’t be possible for an effort to exist that might shift a delegate here or their. But this would only be successful if there was already a large substantial number of the Democratic voters in that district similar inclined. That is the votes would have to be very close to the threshold points already. And the Republicans would have to mirror what their neighbors were predominantly doing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the dense Democratic areas smaller differentials might make an impact, but that would mean a very large number of the Republicans in those areas would have to decide to jump party. And again, to make a difference they would have to push an already substantial bloc of Democratic voters over a threshold point.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In most cases such an effort would have gone for nought. Let’s say Obama had already cleared a threshold point at 34% to get one of the two delegates…to get the second one would require Republican moles to add an additional 33% of the tally.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At most this might effect 1 or 2 delegates statewide is my guess…and rounding off numbers might have just as much of an impact!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’d like to point out that in both Ohio and Texas the amount of delegates distrubuted to certain areas were based upon prior Democratic registration or voter turnout in General elections. Thus in high turnout areas (i.e. Blue Zones) there would be a lot of delegates. In “Red Zones” much fewer. Now there aren’t simply going to be enough Republicans in the Blue Zones to really influence delegate distribution I suspect. And in areas where there are only two delegates available…it likely took levels of about 75% to win the second delegate. </p>
<p>Now I’m not saying that it wouldn’t be possible for an effort to exist that might shift a delegate here or their. But this would only be successful if there was already a large substantial number of the Democratic voters in that district similar inclined. That is the votes would have to be very close to the threshold points already. And the Republicans would have to mirror what their neighbors were predominantly doing.</p>
<p>In the dense Democratic areas smaller differentials might make an impact, but that would mean a very large number of the Republicans in those areas would have to decide to jump party. And again, to make a difference they would have to push an already substantial bloc of Democratic voters over a threshold point.</p>
<p>In most cases such an effort would have gone for nought. Let’s say Obama had already cleared a threshold point at 34% to get one of the two delegates…to get the second one would require Republican moles to add an additional 33% of the tally.</p>
<p>At most this might effect 1 or 2 delegates statewide is my guess…and rounding off numbers might have just as much of an impact!</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323779</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I also think that Obama picked up a Super-Delegate there. Funny that Clinton didn’t come out to support him?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also think that Obama picked up a Super-Delegate there. Funny that Clinton didn’t come out to support him?</p>
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		<title>By: dmac</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323763</link>
		<dc:creator>dmac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;jane–at the top of scarylotte allen’s article, wapo invites you to write to the outlook editor about what you thought of the article, so, i did—-&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I didn’t get a whole lot from it. I didn’t learn anything new, gain any new insight or enjoy reading it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Will avoid spending any time reading anything of Charlotte Allen’s in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My best friend’s daughter, soon to be graduating from Mt.Holyoke for creative writing, is a much better writer. But I guess there are a lot of writers I could name that are better than Charlotte Allen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have noticed over the past year that the quality of writing has gone down at your paper.  If you can trace how and when people link to your paper, you will notice that my reading at your site has fallen off drastically.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;
D—–&lt;br /&gt;
Athens, Ohio&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jane–at the top of scarylotte allen’s article, wapo invites you to write to the outlook editor about what you thought of the article, so, i did—-</p>
<p>I didn’t get a whole lot from it. I didn’t learn anything new, gain any new insight or enjoy reading it.</p>
<p>Will avoid spending any time reading anything of Charlotte Allen’s in the future.</p>
<p>My best friend’s daughter, soon to be graduating from Mt.Holyoke for creative writing, is a much better writer. But I guess there are a lot of writers I could name that are better than Charlotte Allen.</p>
<p>I have noticed over the past year that the quality of writing has gone down at your paper.  If you can trace how and when people link to your paper, you will notice that my reading at your site has fallen off drastically.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
D—–<br />
Athens, Ohio</p>
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		<title>By: kuff</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323761</link>
		<dc:creator>kuff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;All due respect, Phoenix Woman, but this is BS, and we in the Texas ’sphere have been working to get the word out about it. Please see &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/011316.html#011316&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/011318.html#011318&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/011324.html#011324&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, for example. Every piece of available evidence, from exit polling to past primary voting history (which is public record), to caucus participation, debunks this myth.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All due respect, Phoenix Woman, but this is BS, and we in the Texas ’sphere have been working to get the word out about it. Please see <a href="http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/011316.html#011316" rel="nofollow">here</a> <a href="http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/011318.html#011318" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/011324.html#011324" rel="nofollow">here</a>, for example. Every piece of available evidence, from exit polling to past primary voting history (which is public record), to caucus participation, debunks this myth.</p>
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		<title>By: bigbrother</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/09/congratulations-ian-we-knew-you-when/#comment-1323741</link>
		<dc:creator>bigbrother</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Ian is an economist with no dog in the fight. I think he is pretty unbiased when he describes the global economic climate down to countries.&lt;br /&gt;
Wall street economists and government economist have their foot on the scale. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He I believe has a socialist philospyy like northern European economies private capitalist with strong regulation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first spiral article gives a lay view of the economy from capital, production and trade. He has all the numbers available from standard sources. He is a realist we are going to take a licking because of BUSHCO policies. OT Wexler has a good letter out on impeachment and how weak going to the Bush courts for a congressional subpeona is.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ian is an economist with no dog in the fight. I think he is pretty unbiased when he describes the global economic climate down to countries.<br />
Wall street economists and government economist have their foot on the scale. </p>
<p>He I believe has a socialist philospyy like northern European economies private capitalist with strong regulation.</p>
<p>The first spiral article gives a lay view of the economy from capital, production and trade. He has all the numbers available from standard sources. He is a realist we are going to take a licking because of BUSHCO policies. OT Wexler has a good letter out on impeachment and how weak going to the Bush courts for a congressional subpeona is.</p>
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