Archive for November, 2008

Malawi makes strides and now is exporting food

After suffering through a deadly drought, the government of Malawi took the bold step, and ignored the United States and European Union, and developed a seed giveaway program.
Well guess what happened, they have had two bumper crops and are now exporting food to their neighboring countries.  Quite a success story.
I found this story on NBC [...]

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Idaho and Boise State renew rivalry

The University of Idaho and Boise State renew their rivalry this weekend.  After Idaho dominating the series for 13 straight games in the late 1980’s to early 1990’s, Boise State has taken over and dominated the series since the late 1990’s.
What will the score be?
Everyone is down on Idaho, but I they have been playing [...]

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Twitter Tools 1.5 seems to have a bug

I just tried to update to Twitter Tools 1.5 and it wouldn’t authenticate my username and password. It said it couldn’t find me.
I rolled back to my previous version and it is working fine. I don’t know what the problem is, but I really like this plugin.
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I am disappointed in the Colorado Rockies…

I just want to say that I am disappointed in the management of the Colorado Rockies.  They failed to show committment to winning to their players and most importantly their fans.
Why? Who knows, we may never know.
The reason? Because they failed to sign Matt Holliday to a long-term deal and traded him away to the [...]

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Campbell Brown Attacks McCain Aides

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I just want to say the aides who are attacking Sarah Palin are the most unprofessional people in the world. They are just developing excuses to save their own skin for a future job.
As a handler, spokesperson, etc. you are exposed to many things and you never, ever allow [...]

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A Truly Historic Evening…

Today, the people of the United States elected a man of color to be President. This is something that was not seen as possible, even 20 to 30 years ago.

Even though I had policy differences with Barack Obama and voted for John McCain, I look forward to the next four years and will work to [...]

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Why the Denver Broncos won’t win another game…

The reason that the Denver Broncos won’t win another game is that they can’t play defense. No ands, ifs, or buts about it.
A perfect example is late in the game today when the Broncos scored to pull within two points.  The defense then gave up a 80 yard, over eight minute drive and Miami scored [...]

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