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Archive | January, 2005

31 January 2005 20 Comments

The Technosailor family Grows

Welcome to Mark Woodhall. Mark will be with us in the Technosailor fold now. We have agreed to merge his blog, OpenMad.com into Technosailor. I welcome all of his readers as well. Over the next few days, I will be attempting a merge of all of his Textpattern entries into this Wordpress blog.
I look forward [...]

31 January 2005 70 Comments

Blogs That Might’ve Been

Due to some unfortunate situations, here are a list of blogs I like and have been reading, but due to my self imposed guidelines I won’t be adding to my blogroll.
The Dynamist – Very cool conservative chick who has been blogging the Iraqi elections. She doesn’t make the cut because she doesn’t allow commenting. Damn [...]

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Embarassing Look at History

Thanks to Matt for this reminder of how badly our websites may have looked. I’ll refrain from sharing mine. ;)
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With Decision Day Past, Now Comes the Real Test

By all accounts, Election Day 2005 in Iraq was a success. The predicted mass coordinated attacks never transpired and although 44 people died in homicide bombings around the country, the death toll was far less than expected. An estimated 60% of eligible voters turned out to vote, mostly in Shi’ite and Kurdish provinces, but higher [...]

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30 January 2005 6 Comments

Soros: Kerry Was a Flawed Candidate

In an article on Bloomberg.com billionaire George Soros has finally seen what 60+ million other people saw last election season:
“Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative,” Soros, 74, said yesterday in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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30 January 2005 15 Comments

Why the Iraqi Elections Will Fail

The idea of allowing the Iraqi citizens to vote today, while noble, is far fetched. The reason is numbers.
In a country that is not used to democracy, has not had the ability to know the candidates and in some cases, may be threatened with their life if they choose to vote, choosing from a list [...]

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