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		<title>&#8220;Recycling&#8221; vs Zero-Waste</title>
		<link>http://stuflash.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/recycling-vs-zero-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a repost of a short article by Paul Palmer (see link at end).
Moving company to offer electronics recycling services (from  Waste &#38; Recycling News) 

July 20, 2009 &#8211; NorthStar Moving Corp. is partnering with  E-Cycle Environmental to offer  electronics recycling services to its customers.Individuals who are moving can request the service [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=227&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The spook in the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revealed!  There was a spook in the White House!!!  No, it wasn&#8217;t the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, nor that of his ten year old son, William Lincoln, who died in the White House in 1862.  Nor was it any of the other U.S. Presidents who died in office.  This spook is still alive and very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=222&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the Oakland Special Election</title>
		<link>http://stuflash.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/thoughts-on-the-oakland-special-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I got my absentee ballot in the mail.  That might not seem so special, except that here in Oakland, everyone is getting an absentee ballot in the mail.  This is the first time I can recall a mail-ballot-only municipal election.  (There have been, of course, numerous mail-only elections for assessment districts and the like.)  With [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=215&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New poll supports retaining 2/3 majority on the budget, but poll itself is highly suspect.</title>
		<link>http://stuflash.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/new-poll-supports-retaining-23-majority-on-the-budget-but-poll-itself-is-highly-suspect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new poll done by students at U.C. Riverside reports that a majority of Californians still support the requirement that the state budget be passed by a 2/3 majority. The poll also indicates that Californians continue to support &#8220;ballot box budgeting&#8221; &#8212; setting budgetary priorities through the initiative process. However, some crucial details on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=201&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equality California&#8217;s Campaign Stategy</title>
		<link>http://stuflash.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/equality-californias-campaign-stategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equality California, one of the main groups working to overturn Proposition 8 and regain marriage equality for all Californians, has started working towards qualifying a 2010 ballot measure.  They&#8217;ve started opening field offices and hiring community organizers in those parts of the state where Prop. 8 collected most of its votes.  (see previous post for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=195&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>County-by-county results for Prop 8</title>
		<link>http://stuflash.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/county-by-county-results-for-prop-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know whose minds need to be changed, the place to start is the county-by county results for Prop. 8 last November.
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		<title>On Torture, the Constitution, and the Exclusionary Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to shift gears today from my recent series of posts and talk about something that has nothing to do with elections or California politics.  Instead, I&#8217;m going to discuss the question of what to do with the prisoners currently being housed at the &#8220;GITMO&#8221; &#8212; The Guantanamo prison facility built to house terrorism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=171&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Courage Campaign Petition</title>
		<link>http://stuflash.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/courage-campaign-petition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 21:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Courage Campaign &#8212; a California progressive Democratic group with a strong on-line presence &#8212; is helping to circulate a short-and-sweet petition asking that the budget, and taxes, be approved by a simple majority vote.  Here&#8217;s the website for the on-line petition
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/Declaration
It&#8217;ll be interesting to see whether this initiative goes anywhere.  It obviously runs directly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=165&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Walters on the Special Election Results</title>
		<link>http://stuflash.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/163/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 19:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here&#8217;s Dan Walters (the dean of Sacramento pundits) on the impact of yesterday&#8217;s election:
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1876481.html
As he puts it, California is moving into uncharted territory.  Reminds me of the old flat-earth map makers who, at the edge of their map would put the line, &#8220;Here there be monsters.&#8221;
If you want some real fun, read some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=163&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So Now What??</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 05:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Predictably, California voters have emphatically turned town the compromise crafted between the governor, the Democratic legislative leadership, and a few pragmatic Republican legislators.  So now what?
Well, to begin with, what lessons have been learned?  The big one is &#8212; don&#8217;t compromise.  The voters don&#8217;t want compromise.  They prefer ideological purity.  Republicans voters went along with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuflash.wordpress.com&blog=665545&post=156&subd=stuflash&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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