A Rose by Any Other Name Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had an “epiphany” over the weekend. He thinks the enemy in Iraq shouldn’t be called “insurgents.” Read the article here. “This is a group of people who don’t merit the word ‘insurgency,’ I think,” Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news conference today. The Wikipedia defines an insurgency as: “…An organized rebellion that engages in deliberate actions to cause the downfall of a governmental authority, through destruction and armed actions… primarily focuses on armed activities of irregular forces read more...

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Getting the Word Out in a Disaster But is the message getting through and reaching its mark? As part of his "Bring New Orleans Back" initiative, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin held a town hall meeting in Houston yesterday in a bid to get residents to return to the flooded city. He plans another meeting in Memphis later this week. The meeting only drew about 500 people out of the 150,000 currently living in Houston, showing that Nagin has a unique challenge – effectively communicating to millions of people spread out over more than a dozen states. Nagin has read more...

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Little Things Mean Alot Miners used keep a sparrow with them as they worked deep in the mines. If the sparrow died, they would evacate immediately. The sparrow's death was always a harbinger of worse things to come, usually death by from carbon monoxide poisoning. I am sure that Netherlands-based TV network Endemol wished that they hadn't ever heard of a certain house sparrow. It seems that they were putting up some 4 million dominoes in order to break a Guiness record and a common house sparrow got into the hall and knocked down some 23,000 of them. Pest control was called and the house sparrow was shot dead. You can read about it read more...

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Shopping News Without Leaving Home

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

And to show my thanks, I want to help you navigate this weekend, which has long been known as the biggest shopping weekend of the year.

I just ran across a fun project to help. If you are like me and would rather be anywhere except a crowded shopping mall, this site is for you. BlackFridayWatch.com is covering the mall shop-a-thon with reporters dispatched throughout the country.

If you like to shop, look to this site bf2005.com for news about all of read more...

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