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Indiana/NC: Live-Blogging (10-11pm)
10:01: In response to a question from Olbermann, Matthews says "Yup." Olbermann: That's the shortest thing you've ever said." Norah O'D: "Does that mean I can use up the time?" Olbermann: "No." 10:02: Olbermann says "this thing gets more mysterious as we go." Russert hears that Lake County may…
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Bush talks with dissidents via TV
Dissidents in Havana spoke with President Bush via closed-circuit TV for 45 minutes on Tuesday, the French news agency AFP reported. Topics included the political, economic and social situation in Cuba and the status of political prisoners, AFP said, quoting dissidents Martha Beatriz Roque,…
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Primed
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CBS And Its 8:09 PM Indiana Call
So far CBS is the only network to call Indiana for Hillary Clinton. FishbowlDC has grabbed the video of how it went down at 8:09 pm: CBS News' Director of Surveys Kathy Frankovic tells FishbowlDC: We have an excellent decision team. In addition, we had access to some vote count…
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Metro Washington Congestion
A few weeks ago, Forbes published it’s list of most congested cities. Washington, DC made the list at #1. Hardly newsworthy to the locals, and this does help those on the Washington Metro understand why they are packed in tight, the system averaging 800,000 riders daily in April 2008. This…
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Indiana/NC: Live-Blogging (9-10pm)
9:02: Tom Brokaw talks about back when "Obama sent that thrill up your leg, Chris." 9:05: Andrea Mitchell reports from Hillary headquarters. "They are holding their breath ... They think they've won Indiana. ... This is not a knock out punch for Hillary Clinton ... They've got very hard work to…
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Liveblogging The Still-No-Word-On-Indiana Night Of Torture! [Liveblogging]
Indiana is too close to call, and will be too close to call forever, so hoist another drink and let's figure out what Hillary Clinton will talk about in her loser/possible winner speech, whenever she gets around to giving it. 9:52 PM — Major Garrett: "The atmosphere in here can only be…
Capitol quake
For the second time in four months, I have survived another earthquake. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to respond to all of your concerned phone calls and email, but let me once again assure you we’re fine. Unlike the first one in CA, I was at work in Northern VA for this one, a location…
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'Hope' You Liked My Speech [Yes He Did]
Here's Smilin' Barry Obama, with wife Michelle, after (or just before?) his "convention speech" delivered to the usual adoring crowd, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Let's run some more Obama porn for you people with your addictions, after the jump. Earlier in the day, Barack and Michelle checked…
15,000+ Indianans Voted For Mitt Romney Today [The Republican Primary]
Can you imagine waking up in Indiana this morning, eating breakfast, maybe walkin' the ol' dog, not showering, getting in your car, driving to the local elementary school to vote in the Republican primary — the party that chose its nominee months ago! — signing in, showing your ID,…
Earthquake Virginia
As a matter of fact pull someones leg more strokes than its traditional counterpart ?? It was pretty much what i had expected - clean, competent, and very western-feeling. Ive already decided that i prefer it to the eurostar, which i recollect as rather cramped when compared with the hsrs wide…
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Back to DC then back again!
I’m back in Avalon now from another trip to DC–I’m starting to feel like it’s my second home! The Innovative Users Group [Innovative is our library system] conference was held in the East for once so I felt I really had to go. I won’t bore you with all kinds of details (like with the…
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Legally Blonde: Red, White and Blue for Reals!
Legally Blonde: Red, White and Blue for Reals! Asian Elle Woods writes: Omg our hero was in town. The real Elle Woods!! I looooove Reese. From Perez Hilton: They sure get around! Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal were spotted having a romantical dinner together at Zaytinya in…
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Indiana/NC: Live-Blogging (8-9pm)
Question of the hour: Will Fox News call Indiana first? The network has been on a roll lately...(And the cable nets North Carolina call was basically a wash...) 8:00: On CNN...Donna Brazile says the Democratic Party has mashed potatoes (white people) and gravy (African-Americans). Bill Bennett…
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LIVEBLOGGING The Indiana Indecision [Liveblogging]
Here is your Relief Editor, clocking in one million hours after the polls have closed, and all we know is that Barack Obama won North Carolina and Indiana is filthy with Hoosiers. That pretty much brings us up to speed, right? Let's LIVEBLOG the speech Barack Obama is about to give, explaining why…
CNN Projects Obama Winner In North Carolina, Clinton In Indiana
CNN Projects Obama Winner In North Carolina, Clinton In Indiana By newsroom | May 6, 2008 - 7:55 pm - Posted in Election News, Political News, US News Now, Washington DC As North Carolina results came in, Obama was leading Sen. Hillary Clinton by a margin of roughly 62-36. The win will…
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Mais um tremor e, de novo, o microblog dá o furo
Hoje foi a vez de os norte-americanos constatarem a velocidade quase insuperável do microblogging no relato de fatos. Um tremor pequeníssimo em Washington D.C. foi percebido antes pelos usuários da ferramenta. Ou melhor, publicado antes (”publique antes, filtre depois” é a norma vigente…
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Who Will Be President of Indiana, Besides This Gal? [Liveblogging]
...And she's single! Well maybe not, but Hillary Clinton will soon be single when Bill divorces her and becomes president again on his own terms. Because Hillary is losing her ass off in North Carolina, and will only win by like 5 points or whatever in Indiana (although they haven't called), and…
TARHEEL TUMBLE: Liveblogging Obama's North Carolina Night [Liveblogging]
"Decisive victory," says sleepy-face Tim Russert. Decisive enough? Or, as sleepy-face Tim Russert says two minutes later, "status quo"? How big did Barry win North Carolina? Nobody will say, just yet, but they will, so ... Begun, this live blog has. (Part Two is here, Part One is here, the…
Permanent Link to Cat Time Checks
Washington Logo Checks 05/06/2008 06:00 AM Theyâre Making a Hockeytown in Chi-town, Too Theyâre Making a Hockeytown in Chi-town, Too(c) OnFrozenBlog - http://www.onfrozenblog.com/ - Business that brings me to Original Six cities is my favorite kind (save trips to…
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Indiana/NC: Live-Blogging (7-8pm)
7:03: Karl Rove joins Fox News coverage. 7:05: Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News... "Our official call at this hour, so far, is that it's too early to call." 7:06: Obama supporter Sen. John Kerry, on MSNBC, calls Terry McAuliffe's analysis "dead wrong." 7:05: On CNN: Bill Bennett…
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NBC Expands Miogyny To Include Airport Shops
Not content to make money just by calling Hillary Clinton every type of sexist name and making every type of sexist or misogynistic reference to her and to other women, NBC has now begun selling the infamous Hillary nutcracker in its airport shops. Here is a report from Mike Caulfield at Blue…
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Go Home Already: Taking a Bath
>> Check out this NYT op-ed from 1996 decrying the high price of gasoline ($1.23!) and insight into the reasons behind why we're so screwed. [Greater, Greater Washington] >> Polls in Herndon and other Northern Virginia towns and cities close at 7 p.m. for elections to determine offices like…
Le Traité de Paris exposé pour la première fois
Dans le cadre du 225e anniversaire de la signature du Traité de Paris, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC), en collaboration avec la National Archives and Records Administration des Etats-Unis (NARA), présente l’exposition 1783 : Sujet ou citoyen? Le Traité de Paris. Cette…
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The Wonderland Ballroom Finally Get a Real Web Site
It's taken roughly three years, but The Wonderland Ballroom finally has a real web site. Moving away from the drab, desolate wasteland of design faux pas and '90s-esque, sparkling banners known as MySpace, The Wonderland Ballroom now has a much cleaner and simpler site for touting their food…
Indiana/NC: Live-Blogging (6-7pm)
5:40: Chris Matthews introduces his panel (Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, Patrick Buchanan): "You are all quite the team here. I feel like I'm interrupting you all, as you battle late into the night with great fervor and intellect...I'm a virgin when it comes to knowing what's going on…
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If Barack Obama Is So Good At Basketball, Why Can't He Win HOOSIERS? [Liveblogging]
After all, wasn't the inventor of basketball, Al Gore, from Indiana anyway? These are two of the many questions surrounding tonight's Indiana primary, which will be followed by a North Carolina primary like 30 minutes later. Results, that is. Is Chris Matthews punching Keith Olbermann yet, which…
Homes in Southeast Affected By Water Main Breaks
Earlier today the AlertDC system sent out an advisory that five water mains had broken overnight in Southeast DC. The DC Water and Sewer Authority followed up with a press release a couple of hours later with the exact locations of the breaks, details on service disruptions, and repair…
INDIANA FREAKOUT: Liveblogging the Indiana Vote [Liveblogging]
Oh man, the polls are already closed in Indiana? What time zone are they on over there, 1952? Anyway, we've already learned that Obama's got a double-digit win in North Carolina (doesn't count because of blacks) and Hillary had a four-point lead in the Indiana polls, blah blah, he's still handily…