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jr: Voter turnout yesterday in Perrysburg was 13 percent, which seems pretty good to me for an August election. They had a library levy on the ballot. - Aug 06, 2008 at 01:54:23 pm #
jr: Oil hit a record above $147 a barrel on July 11. - Aug 04, 2008 at 10:36:23 pm #
jr: #quote Socrates claimed that the unexamined life is not worth living. - Aug 02, 2008 at 09:32:37 am #
jr: #quote George Orwell: "What I have most wanted to do ... is to make political writing into an art." - Aug 02, 2008 at 09:28:47 am #
jr: #quote Albert Einstein once suggested, "You can't solve a problem with the same thinking that created it." - Aug 02, 2008 at 09:26:55 am #
jr: #1 song on Billboard is "Sleep When I'm Dead" by The Cure, an old favorite band of mine. - Jul 26, 2008 at 05:15:39 pm #
jr: Previous posting also from the same telegraph.co.uk story. - Jul 26, 2008 at 05:00:18 pm #
jr: "A recent study found that the news [TV] networks had run more than double the number of stories about Mr Obama than Mr McCain since early June." - Jul 26, 2008 at 05:00:00 pm #
jr: Previous posting from a July 22, 2008 telegraph.co.uk story - http://tinyurl.com/58ysu2 - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:59:32 pm #
jr: "The New York Times has rejected an opinion piece on Iraq by John McCain less than a week after publishing a similar article by Barack Obama." - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:58:09 pm #
jr: "Why the Press Is Ignoring the Edwards "Love Child" Story" - July 23, 2008 - http://www.slate.com/id/2195869/ - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:55:30 pm #
jr: Story link for previous posting : http://tinyurl.com/25utml - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:49:38 pm #
jr: "The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Rielle Hunter is more than six months pregnant and Edwards is the father of her baby!" - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:49:25 pm #
jr: "SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD!" - http://tinyurl.com/627m9s - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:46:26 pm #
jr: ProPublica, the new independent investigative journalism non-profit. - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:43:20 pm #
jr: "Los Angeles Times has banned its bloggers, including political bloggers, from mentioning the Edwards/Rielle Hunter story." http://tinyurl.com/5pljy3 - Jul 26, 2008 at 04:42:26 pm #
jr: Link to previous posting: http://wspd.com/cc-common/news/sections/local/?newsart=7 - Jul 23, 2008 at 06:51:47 am #
jr: "WSPD News investigation uncovered a loss by the [Toledo COSI] museum of two million dollars over the three years leading up to its closure." - Jul 23, 2008 at 06:51:26 am #
jr: ... and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was located near Waterville... moving southeast at 20 mph. - Jul 21, 2008 at 04:52:33 pm #
jr: At 542 PM EDT... National Weather Service Doppler radar continued to indicate a severe thunderstorm capable of producing penny size hail ... - Jul 21, 2008 at 04:52:21 pm #
jr: A storm formed rapidly in western Lucas County in the past 45 minutes. - Jul 21, 2008 at 04:25:44 pm #
jr: Weather alarm sounded at 5:22 p.m. Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Lucas County and northern Wood County until 6:22 p.m. - Jul 21, 2008 at 04:24:58 pm #
jr: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121642002363666365.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today - Jul 20, 2008 at 10:58:47 pm #
jr: "Independent coffee shops complained about the big-muscled competition, and residents bemoaned the erosion of local character." - Jul 20, 2008 at 10:58:30 pm #
jr: "For years, Starbucks gained attention when a town didn't welcome it." - Jul 20, 2008 at 10:58:25 pm #
jr: "The closures mean Starbucks will eliminate about 12,000 jobs, which comes out to 20 for every location it plans to shut." - Jul 20, 2008 at 10:57:45 pm #
jr: 1:45 p.m regional radar shows a few scattered showers/thundershowers in central IL and central IN, although activity looks benign at this point. - Jul 20, 2008 at 01:25:29 pm #
jr: 1:43 p.m. EDT SPC MD: POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR STORMS TO INTENSIFY ACROSS CNTRL IL AND [cntrl] IND AND SPREAD ESEWD INTO [w cntrl] OH. - Jul 20, 2008 at 01:22:35 pm #
jr: Kay Ryan was chosen this week as the new U.S. Poet Laureate. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352 - Jul 20, 2008 at 01:12:49 am #
jr: quotes in previous two postings from http://www.danagioia.net/essays/eryan.htm - Jul 20, 2008 at 01:07:28 am #
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