Donna Brazile invited to speak at Department of Justice for Women’s History Month
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Donna Brazile will be making remarks at a Women’s History Month event at the Department of Justice on March 31.  She was invited by Attorney General Eric Holder.  A flyer sent to employees of the DOJ said that “Supervisors are encouraged to grant official time to employees to attend the event.”
Ms. Brazile made the following statement:

During my remarks, I will pay tribute to women who dare, women of courage and the many milestones …

(Editor’s note: This post is presented in both Spanish and English.)
La Nueva Agenda le da la bienvenida
Les presentamos nuestro volante en español de la Nueva Agenda, recién revisado, que se encuentra bajo Grassroots para copiar y distribuir.
Click to download and printEsto es una continuación de lo que Jennifer Lee empezó en su “Grassroots in action!” Jennifer guarda los volantes en su coche para entregárselos a los negocios que visita. Ha notado que les ha gustado a los hispanohablantes la bienvenida que tratamos de hacer en español. …

As of January 1, 2009, prostitution by women is no longer a criminal offense in Norway.  Sweden introduced a similar ban in 1999.  Norway follows Sweden with fines up to $5000 (USD)
Here’s the kicker:  Purchase of sex by males is a criminal offense. So while it is now legal for women to sell their bodies–and they won’t be arrested–male customers will be arrested, if caught.
They expect there will be no prostitutes on the streets of Oslo beginning the new year–most of whom are Eastern European.
Even more interesting, if Norwegian males purchase sex and are …

Pat Racimora has a nice article in No Quarter Dec. 22, 2008, about seats in our House of Lords. She cites Charles Krauthammer on the Biden seat in Delaware:
Vice President-elect Biden’s Senate seat will now be filled by Edward Kaufman, a family retainer whom no one ever heard of before yesterday. And no one will hear from after two years, at which time Kaufman will dutifully retire. He understands his responsibility: Keep the Delaware Senate seat warm for two years until Joe’s son returns from Iraq to assume his father’s …

SantaFeK wonders if New York/Around Town is in a city where nothing happens, and nothing is to be seen, nor any good products to be found, and complete vapidity of reporting.  Otherwise, why would this mag. write an article about a Secretary-of-State nutcracker as a deal?  Since this is a year-old product, what’s in it for Ms. Elizabeth Bougerol, the “author” of this…er..”article,” other than to shill for Overstock?

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Deal of the Day: Hillary Clinton Nutcracker
Commemorate our departing Senator — and crack your holiday nuts — with this …

Why would I torture myself to find out the commercials for Hardball? First, people say they will write advertisers, but who are they? My goal was information to readers. Second, I wanted to get an idea what was involved in profiling the advertisers, if the project were expanded in the future.
Here is the way I collected the data: I recorded Hardball and only watched the commercials at the 5:00 show in my time zone for Nov. 19-21– 3 days worth. Note that Hardball is also shown at 3:00 and 10:00 …