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Archive for October, 2008

October’s Top Five Craigslist’s Missed Connections Quotations

In Uncategorized on October 28, 2008 at 5:44 am

Philadelphia

1.)You are the girl of my dreams: “…Hairy legs and pits. You were yelling at someone on your cell phone and some of your cheese steak flew out of your mouth and landed in front of me.”

NO SHE DID NOT. No way. There is not a doubt in my mind this is supposed to be a joke… or a social experiment to see who would respond to it, at least.

2.)I figured that you probably knew and just couldn’t help yourself because I looked so hot this morning.

Well I’m swept away by your humility.

Hoboken411.com

Hoboken411.com

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Since we’re talking Pastors here

In Uncategorized on October 28, 2008 at 4:33 am

Wasilla, Alaska:Gov. and McCain running mate, Sarah Palin, reportedly belonged to an evangelical church in Wasilla that not only practices speaking in tongues, but is indeed run by a self proclaim witch hunter, Pastor Thomas Muthee. The Kenyan minister and his wife claim to have been told by divine forces that there was evil witches present. A police raid was made on an elderly woman’s home–there, they shot a snake believing it to be some kind of demon.

Evangelicals praying, Google.com

Evangelicals praying, Google.com

Gov. Palin indirectly accredits her pastor as a reason she became governor of Alaska, claiming that he prayed for her. According to Shannyn Moore, a radio journalist in Alaska, Gov. Palin’s church speaks largely about something called “spiritual warfare.”

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UN-American Affairs

In Editorial, The Glean Machine on October 26, 2008 at 10:26 pm

Google.com

Google.com

CNET released an article today that detailed a report, using all open-source information, made by 304th Military Intelligence Battalion on the Federation of American Scientists about the increased use of Twitter by ‘terrorist’. The site–which serves as a micro blog and social networking tool–already hosts many politically motivated networks of people (like most blogospheres do).

The report released several scenarios of how Twitter is being used by terrorists.

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Celebrate the VP Debate

In The Tube on October 3, 2008 at 3:06 am

Listening to the debate tonight I wondered, often aloud, if Governor Sarah Palin just didn’t want to answer questions relevantly, or didn’t have an answer. And while Gov. Palin was not answering questions, Senator Joe Biden seemed only to harp on, repeatedly, the connection between Sen. John McCain and President Bush concerning economic policies.

ABCNews.com

ABCNews.com

Whether or not Gov. Palin has usurped her now slightly damaged reputation (since CBS interviews) is still rather unclear.

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Bombs over Baghdad

In The Glean Machine, Things that Mattered on October 3, 2008 at 3:02 am
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Flickr.com

MARKET EAST STATION, CENTER CITY: I got a text from my friend saying that she was stuck at Suburban Station because there was a bomb threat at Market East. From above, you could see the entire station was barren, something that I had already marked as unusual.

Strangely, it was a pretty siren-free night.

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