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HuffPost Social News + Facebook = Strange Bedfellows?
2009-09-06 15:46:00 Can online journalism become a social network? With legacy newspapers continuing to look for new ways to reinvent themselves, transforming into online blogs was just the first step. As a result of the Huffington Post's collaboration with Facebook, the next phase in the morphing process appears to be news blog sites melding into social media networks.
Politics & Real Estate - Strange Bedfellows
2008-05-16 21:08:00 Real investing is, and has always been, a topic that has generated a lot of interest. Some people are actually accomplished investors while others are dabblers with the remainder being ?wannabes?. That?s the American way and nothing wrong with that unless you fall victim to a real estate hustler. What?s a real estate hustler? If you have ever heard of a fellow named John T. Reed, you will know. A West Point graduate and former Army officer, Reed isn?t exactly your run of the mill dummy. However, he does carry an acerbic pen. To give you an idea, he has a full page devoted to those folks who sell how to invest in real estate courses. He gives you in no uncertain terms who he thinks is a hustler and who he thinks isn?t. As one would imagine, he has both critics and supporters. Personally I like the idea he created his guru rating. It at least gives a broader read on the former late night real estate hawkers. There is an ominous overtone in his pages as well. If you go to his headline...
strange bedfellows (relationships, sexuality)
2008-05-10 16:46:00 so i’m traveling in the u.s. for two months and arrive back at my boyfriend’s in rio, and we have sex the next day. he cums but i don’t – and now two weeks have passed, and i'm still waiting to have an orgasm (with him - i masturbated a few times). is it really so wrong for me to pursue sex outside the relationship? he complains about our sex life and doesn’t want me to have sex outside the relationship – but almost without exception bothers me about having sex when i'm exhausted and we are finally getting to bed after he has run out of television-watching options – and he would seem to prefer to work really hard, go to the gym, watch t.v., and sleep. i think that’s a little strange for someone who says that he wants a relationship, and one that includes a sexual component at that.granted, i often don’t sleep well at night, feel tired and exhausted, or have other health problems that get in the way (mayb...
Strange Bedfellows
2008-03-08 23:28:00 When the Hillary Clinton ad agency picked stock footage of a sleeping child for its red telephone commercial they had no way of knowing that the child had grown up to be ? an Obama campaigner! Via the Huffington Post, check out an interview with Casey Knowles, now a high school senior, who makes it clear ...
By: Kmareka.com
The Race, New Names, Strange Bedfellows
2008-02-10 16:22:00 It seems to be a quiet day in and around the political blogging world. Oh, you can find the usual vote counts for yesterday, and the usual punditry regarding those numbers. I had thought this election essentially over lets say after Iowa, and I've vacillated between elation and depression in mild forms as Obama or Clinton surged, leveled off and did it again. And you can look around today, and see varying claims of analysis and various calls to unite behind either Obama or Clinton, although clearly in the blog world, Obama holds sway. I'm just not going to try to over-analyse this one. Much depends as I see it on whether Obama can keep up this momentum and whether the March primaries which favor Clinton will turn the tide or be too late to matter.Almost everyone now sees this race going past March. Whether the super delegates will be the major deciders or not is any one's guess. Now that may not be a bad thing if the super delegates actually go along with the popular vote. That v...
Strange Bedfellows : Imran Khan and Qazi Hussain
2008-01-13 09:30:00 I keep hoping Imran Khan will change direction, because he’s a good man and this country needs a Prime Minister like him. But his cynical (and self-destructive) choices have been hurting the country since that conflict over the boycott of elections which rendered the APDM useless. And the fact that he didn’t remain in the ...
BizTalk Blogs and UdiDahan.com, strange bedfellows?
2007-12-19 22:04:00 So, it turns out that Microsoft has quietly launched a new community-style site. Titled "BizTalk Blogs", I wasn’t quite sure what my blog was doing there. It’s not that I never write about BizTalk - every once in a while I even find something nice to say about it My quick post on BizTalk and ...
BizTalk Blogs and UdiDahan.com, strange bedfellows?
2007-12-19 22:04:00 So, it turns out that Microsoft has quietly launched a new community-style site. Titled "BizTalk Blogs", I wasn’t quite sure what my blog was doing there. It’s not that I never write about BizTalk - every once in a while I even find something nice to say about it My quick post on BizTalk and ...
BizTalk Blogs and UdiDahan.com, strange bedfellows?
2007-12-19 22:04:00 So, it turns out that Microsoft has quietly launched a new community-style site. Titled "BizTalk Blogs", I wasn’t quite sure what my blog was doing there. It’s not that I never write about BizTalk - every once in a while I even find something nice to say about it My quick post on BizTalk and ...
San Diego and Detroit Make Strange Bedfellows
2007-11-29 06:57:00 Say what? In 2004, San Diego real estate was ranked as the least affordable in the United States. Thousands of San Diegans, priced out of the coastal market, moved to Temecula, Murietta and other outlying and inland areas where homes were more affordable. These days, according to the National Association of Homebuilders, San Diego has slipped to ...
Strange Bedfellows
2007-11-07 21:51:00 Ron Paul? Pffffft! Pat knows Dr. Paul is not batshit crazy enough to play ball with his Rapture plans. read more
Strange bedfellows..
2007-11-07 16:27:00 Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani Pat Robertson, one of the most influential figures in the social conservative movement, announced his support for Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Robertson's endorsement of Giuliani is a significant blow to Mitt Romney, who has worked hard to court evangelical leaders. Above, Robertson speaks to the Christian Coalition in 1999. (File photo: James A. Parcell - The Washington Post)Robertson's support was coveted by several of the leading Republican candidates and provides Giuliani with a major boost as the former New York City mayor seeks to convince social conservatives that, despite his positions on abortion and gay rights, he is an acceptable choice as the GOP nominee. It also slows any momentum for Mitt Romney within the social conservative movement. Romney had recently secured the backing of conservative stalwarts Paul Weyrich and Bob Jones III -- endorsements that seemed to strength...
By: Coldheartedtruth
Latin America?s Strange Bedfellows
2007-11-01 05:21:00 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is Washington?s closest ally in Latin America, while Venezuela?s Hugo Chavez is an anti-American firebrand. Yet a recent warming between the two leaders, prompted by Venezuela?s offer to help Colombia negotiate with one of its guerilla groups, is raising eyebrows and provoking questions about the direction of U.S.-Colombia relations. ?How long ...
By: 1913 Intel
Strange Bedfellows in Iraq
2007-10-15 05:34:00 It continues to amaze me that the Bush Administration could think they could control events in Iraq while dealing with an Iraqi government dominated by allies of Iran and handmaidens with the organization that inspired Hezbollah, the Islamic Dawa Party led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Clearly, there was never hope the US would benefit from a Shia revolution in Iraq. Informed Comment Ammar al-Hakim, who has been acting head of ISCI in his father's absence, preached a sermon in which he pledged to work against enduring US bases in Iraq. (On December 4, 2006, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim stood next to Bush in the Rose Garden and asked for US troops to remain in Iraq, so this pronouncement seems to be the beginnings of a reversal). Al-Hakim also argued for forging ahead with a Shiite provincial confederation in the south. He argued for a complete return of sovereignty to Iraq, according to AFP. You have to wonder whether the recent Iran-brokered pact between al-Hakim and Muqtada al-S...
Strange Bedfellows
2007-10-05 22:34:00 I was hesitant to post this, because it's always controversial to talk about underage furries. However, in the interest of freedom of speech and open inquiry, I have posted this photograph in the hopes that we can understand the cause of these mental abberations and eventually work together to give these poor infants the help they most desperately need. We shouldn't have to see pictures like this anymore.--NattyYou've heard of prison gay, where dudes who spend time locked up get out but still keep fucking dudes because it's what they're used to, right? Well here's a newer phenomenon known as "time out gay." Preschool done changed.-JQPRemember when you were a kid and all you needed to conk out and catch some z's was a stuffed animal with a silly name? Nowadays my stuffed animals have silly names like Valium, Codeine, and Xanax. Love,Brett Scieszka
What iTunes Looks Like Without NBC (UPDATED)
2007-09-01 22:55:00 UPDATE: A lot of bluster under the bridge since this was posted early Friday morning. A couple hours later, Apple (AAPL) issued a press release calling NBC Universal's bluff (see Apple to NBC: Drop Dead). Later that day, NBC issued...
GDCA Warning Against E-Bullion Breeds Strange Bedfellows
2007-08-28 04:16:00 Perhaps you’ve been to a website that displayed the GDCA accreditation logo pictured here at the the left. The GDCA accredited logo, which is meant to assure consumers that the site they are doing business with has been issued this logo because of satisfactory business practices. Although the issuer of these accreditation logos has no ...
Strange bedfellows
2007-08-16 03:52:00 In our fight for open borders, we progressive cosmopolitans have made an interesting ally: Big Business. While, some business honchos are cosmopolitan progressives themselves, it is not too often that the business lobby and progressives see eye to eye. Yet, on issues regarding immigration and globalization we do. As undocumented workers constitute 25% of all farmhands and form the basic foundation of the construction sector, corporate America has a stake in granting legal acknowledgment to unauthorized immigrants. Open door immigration, which would let all those who do not pose a threat to American society, enter is also looked upon favorably by U.S. business interests. Globalization; the removal of trade barriers is another concept of which progressives and corporate American are proponents. Progressives see globalization as providing opportunity to those in the world's most impoverished region and as moving us closer to the cosmopolitan ideal where countries surrender the soverin...
Strange Bedfellows
2007-06-29 22:16:00 This missive arrived in my mailbox from outside sources the other day. I don’t know if it has been a secret or not, but Public Citizen, CRASH and Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety seem to be slumming together. From: Robert Shull <rshull@citizen.org> To: Robert Shull <rshull@citizen.org> Sent: Wed Jun 27 17:28:19 2007 Subject: NAFTA Trucks: Latest DOT Screw-Up We’re ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Northern Ireland : Strange Bedfellows
2007-05-09 23:54:00 This week I watched a few of the speeches that heralded a new era in N. Irish politics, and I have to admit, it was an unsettling vision for an ex-Belfast man like myself. One-time fire breathing Protestant rabble rouser Ian Paisley was up on the podium, shoulder to shoulder with Martin McGuinness, one-time provisional IRA commander in Derry. At one point the two of them broke out laughing like two old buddies. You would have thought it was a school reunion.The two former enemies are now team players. Big Ian, as he's known in N.Irish circles, was sworn in as Northern Ireland's first minister, with wee Marty as his deputy. Try painting that future scenario for the boyos back in the Bogside during Sunday Bloody Sunday days, and they'd look at you as though you were insane.The weird part about this about-face in N.Irish politics, is that it isn't even the moderate parties doing the making up. At one time it seemed more likely that a workable arrangement would involve the middle-of...
By: Aidan Maconachy
Arms trade and publishing - strange bedfellows
2007-04-20 22:56:00 Although the pen is mightier than the sword, involvement in publishing hasn't kept Reed Elsevier out of the defense industry.The conflict between on the one hand being involved in advances to aid the treatment of patients and on the other arranging the sale of lethal weapons has garnered increasing criticism.A letter organised by the Campaign Against Arms Trade pitted the Lancet against its own publisher, and the BMJ has waded in with a call for a boycott of the Lancet. This focus on the Lancet appears to be aiming to force a wedge between journal and publisher - imagine the fall-out if the Lancet left Elsevier?A petition on Idiolect mentions that "DSEi's 2005 official invitees included buyers' delegations from 7 countries on the UK Foreign Office's list of the 20 most serious human rights abusing regimes, countries like Colombia, China and Indonesia... Reed Elsevier arms fairs have featured cluster bombs, depleted uranium munitions and torture equipment". Nice.Another petition ...
By: Journalology
Strange Bedfellows
2007-02-16 22:11:01 With a nuclear weapon, Iran becomes powerful. They can destroy Israel. The trouble is, the Arab countries in the region with most of the influence, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan do not want to see Iran emerge as the Middle East's power broker. The idea of a non-Arab state in the Middle East's power position doesn't sit well with them, despite the fact that they too would probably dance for joy if Israel were wiped off the map.
McDonald?s and Hepatitis, strange bedfellows?
2006-12-31 01:46:02 Apparently, on December 15th 2006, a worker tested positive for Hepatitis A, at a McDonald’s in Auckland, New Zealand was not wearing gloves. According to spokeswoman Joanna Redfern Hardisty, the workers that prepare the meals are not required to wear gloves but are required to clean their hands with anti-microbial soap. Ms. Hardisty has said that [...] |
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