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		<title>The cookies (republished)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: I decided to re-post this entry, see below why. After a bit of (non-extensive) internal discussion, we decided to remove all tracking code from the nest. This is one of the reasons the Media Matters widget has disappeared. *) We try to keep this site clean (as in, &#8220;non evil) so we got rid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2242</link>
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		<title>The death penalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Europe, only Belarus still has the death penalty. In Switzerland, capital punishment was abandoned in 1942. Before that, the method of execution was the guillotine, and before 1867 decapitated with the sword. In line with the &#8220;new firmness&#8221; or &#8220;refreshing shift to the right&#8221; as the proponents call it, a group of people in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2247</link>
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		<title>A trend in the US &#8211; and maybe elsewhere?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems to me the anti-corporate Left/Right thing might be catching on. Of course there are many, important, wedge issues in the way &#8211; but it&#8217;s hard to argue that clipping the ears of the big corporate defense contractors (and food producers) and their paid sponsors in Congress and in The White House is probably one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2245</link>
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		<title>The distribution of media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes I know. This is getting old, but again a real life story on how even new distributors or missing the boat, or are forced to miss the boat. A true story: A few days ago, a US based friend needed a specific soundtrack for a project. As it was needed now, downloading was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2237</link>
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		<title>The former senator, dead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know fox, but? Ted Stevens dead?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2216</link>
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		<title>The OS, again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a tech rant, but I expect to be working towards a happy ending. Background. I tried to switch to Ubuntu earlier, but hey, I am getting a bit rusty, and there was never time and old habits die hard, etc etc. A few months ago, I got myself a new laptop, a dead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2213</link>
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		<title>The faith of comrades in the liberal revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a shameless, rough translation from a newspaper article. I thought it might be nice to see some &#8220;other perspectives&#8221;, if I may be so patronising. Edit: See Citykid&#8217;s comment: &#8220;Liberal&#8221; here in Europe usually means &#8220;laisez faire&#8221;, free market thinkers, right-end of the political-economical spectrum. I realize again in the US it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2209</link>
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		<title>Senator Begich either caves in &#8211; or sells out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times has reported (2010 August 04): Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) has said he would not vote for the Democrats&#8217; bill without changes to the liability language and inclusion of a revenue-sharing measure. He &#8212; along with Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) &#8212; are working on so-called compromise language that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2191</link>
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		<title>Lisa Murkowski is proof we need Campaign Finance Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent Anchorage Daily News &#8220;Alaska_Politics&#8221; post &#8220;Scott McAdams: it&#8217;s not just about Miller vs. Murkowski,&#8221; Sean Cockerham wrote: McAdams didn’t get into the race until June 1 and raised $9,175 between then and June 30, according to the latest campaign disclosures, leaving him with $4,533 in the bank after expenses. That compares with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2143</link>
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		<title>Link:  Don Mitchell, native Alaskan&#8217;s and politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t agree with all of what Don Mitchell has to say here. But Donald Craig Mitchell has been around the block and in the thick of things up here for a long time. If you give two hoots about Alaska or the folks who can really claim to have lived here for any length [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ptarmigannest.net/?p=2138</link>
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