<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Randidio's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Randidio's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:53:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:10:24 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>A Peace Prize to Share</title><description><![CDATA[NBC News' Tom Browkaw suggests how President Obama can lift the discussion about his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize "out of the partisan soup" that has dogged him over the past two weeks.   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/15/3386559-a-peace-prize-to-share</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/15/3386559-a-peace-prize-to-share</guid><category>world-news</category><category>bush</category><category>clinton</category><category>diplomacy</category><category>nobel-peace-prize</category><category>holbrooke</category><category>mullen</category><category>mortenson</category><category>prsident-obama</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:53:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Food fight! 8-year-old girl targets Sasha, Malia </title><description><![CDATA[She's cute, sassy, playful and sincere. At age 8, Jasmine Messiah makes an ideal poster child for a campaign that targets the Obamas and Congress and amounts to an old-fashioned food fight.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/05/3122840-food-fight-8-year-old-girl-targets-sasha-malia-</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/05/3122840-food-fight-8-year-old-girl-targets-sasha-malia-</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama-family</category><category>white-house</category><category>sasha</category><category>malia</category><category>congress</category><category>nutrition</category><pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:13:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Palin's Story Doesn't Hold Up</title><description><![CDATA[Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons for resigning -- that ethics complaints against her were draining the state of money -- appear to be false.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/09/3013016-palins-story-doesnt-hold-up</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/09/3013016-palins-story-doesnt-hold-up</guid><category>politics</category><category>sarah-palin</category><category>ethics</category><category>resignation</category><category>taxpayers</category><category>alaska</category><category>gop</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:51:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is BET brainwashing our kids?</title><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if you've admitted to beating your girlfriend, or if you use every word other than "woman" to describe females. If you are rich and famous, you're suddenly sexy, cool and dateable. That's just the way things work for some teenagers (and some grown folks too). ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2991048-is-bet-brainwashing-our-kids</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2991048-is-bet-brainwashing-our-kids</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>black-entertainment-television</category><category>lil-wayne</category><category>the-grio</category><category>awards</category><category>morality</category><category>celebrity</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:21:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Ted Kennedy I Know</title><description><![CDATA[MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews says a new biography reveals what made Ted Kennedy the greatest US senator of modern times -- and why he never dropped the torch.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/17/2444686-the-ted-kennedy-i-know</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/17/2444686-the-ted-kennedy-i-know</guid><category>politics</category><category>kennedy</category><category>matthews</category><category>hardball</category><category>biography</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:12:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dreams meet reality in the slums of Mumbai</title><description><![CDATA[NBC's Ian Williams:  "Mumbai may be India's financial and entertainment capital, but you can't miss Mumbai's slums from the moment you fly in, since they encroach right onto airport land.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/30/2374146-dreams-meet-reality-in-the-slums-of-mumbai</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/30/2374146-dreams-meet-reality-in-the-slums-of-mumbai</guid><category>world-news</category><category>mumbai</category><category>poverty</category><category>india</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:02:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The new statistical rhetoric of climate change</title><description><![CDATA[Intellectual honesty can be a harrowing thing in our culture of insta-pundits and scorched-earth rhetoric.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/07/2286281-the-new-statistical-rhetoric-of-climate-change</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/07/2286281-the-new-statistical-rhetoric-of-climate-change</guid><category>science</category><category>climate-change</category><category>intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change</category><category>statistics</category><category>politics</category><category>environment</category><category>policy</category><pubDate>Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:04:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Hundreds of Coal Ash Dumps Lack Regulation </title><description><![CDATA[The coal ash pond that ruptured and sent a billion gallons of toxic sludge across 300 acres of East Tennessee last month was only one of more than 1,300 similar dumps across the United States — most of them unregulated and unmonitored — that contain billions more gallons of f&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/07/2284243-hundreds-of-coal-ash-dumps-lack-regulation-</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/07/2284243-hundreds-of-coal-ash-dumps-lack-regulation-</guid><category>us-news</category><category>coal-ash</category><category>environment</category><category>regulation</category><category>health</category><category>water</category><pubDate>Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:13:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Police Treatment of Journalist Prompts Outcry in France</title><description><![CDATA[The knocks on his door came at 6:40 a.m., Vittorio de Filippis recalled, when Paris was still dark and he was fast asleep. Three police officers -- a pair of men and a woman, all wearing armbands -- had come to take him in.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/01/2166685-police-treatment-of-journalist-prompts-outcry-in-france</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/01/2166685-police-treatment-of-journalist-prompts-outcry-in-france</guid><category>world-news</category><category>journalism</category><category>police</category><category>france</category><category>liberation</category><category>security</category><category>sarkozy</category><pubDate>Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:34:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Massive waves a mystery at Maine harbor</title><description><![CDATA[Dockworker Marcy Ingall saw a giant wave in the distance last Tuesday afternoon and stopped in her tracks. It was an hour before low tide in Maine's Boothbay Harbor, yet without warning, the muddy harbor floor suddenly filled with rushing, swirling water.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/05/2074264-massive-waves-a-mystery-at-maine-harbor</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/05/2074264-massive-waves-a-mystery-at-maine-harbor</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>mystery</category><category>waves</category><category>maine</category><category>bootbay-harbor</category><pubDate>Wed, 5 Nov 2008 06:38:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama Elected 44th President</title><description><![CDATA[Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president in the history of the United States, according to projections by NBC News. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/04/2073696-obama-elected-44th-president</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/04/2073696-obama-elected-44th-president</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>mccain</category><category>presidency</category><pubDate>Wed, 5 Nov 2008 04:23:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama's faux Oval Office featured in primetime TV infomercial</title><description><![CDATA[The normally voluble Obama campaign won't answer a simple question: Where did the campaign film the office shots of Sen. Obama that were featured in last night's half-hour infomercial?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/30/2057316-obamas-faux-oval-office-featured-in-primetime-tv-infomercial</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/30/2057316-obamas-faux-oval-office-featured-in-primetime-tv-infomercial</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>film</category><category>oval-office</category><category>tv</category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:57:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Blessed Are the Persecuted:  How Joe the Plumber fits the GOP narrative</title><description><![CDATA["Historically speaking, conservatism is a movement organized and funded by society's most powerful members; politically speaking, it lusts for tax cuts and government rollbacks that will benefit those same fortunate folks at the top.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/29/2053435-blessed-are-the-persecuted-how-joe-the-plumber-fits-the-gop-narrative</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/29/2053435-blessed-are-the-persecuted-how-joe-the-plumber-fits-the-gop-narrative</guid><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>joe-the-plumber</category><category>sarah-palin</category><category>conservatism</category><category>conspiracy</category><category>media</category><category>elites</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:01:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sources: McCain volunteer fabricated attack</title><description><![CDATA[A John McCain volunteer in Pittsburgh who said she was robbed and sexually assaulted because of her political views has admitted to fabricating the story, police sources told a TV station. 

KDKA TV added that one source said Ashley Todd would face charges. 
]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/24/2036609-sources-mccain-volunteer-fabricated-attack</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/24/2036609-sources-mccain-volunteer-fabricated-attack</guid><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>todd</category><category>assault</category><category>hoax</category><category>obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:35:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Expectations low, Palin scores in debate</title><description><![CDATA[While both vice presidential candidates succeeded in their only debate of the campaign Thursday night, the stakes were much higher and the bar was much lower for Palin. So, in the contest of low expectations, Palin won.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1949186-expectations-low-palin-scores-in-debate</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1949186-expectations-low-palin-scores-in-debate</guid><category>politics</category><category>debate</category><category>palin</category><category>biden</category><category>vice-president</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:58:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Some fact go adrift in VP Debate</title><description><![CDATA[The AP reports that  vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden (D) and Sara Palin (R) misrepresented facts on  taxes, deregulation, health care, reform, corporate welfare and the Iraq war when they clashed Thursday in St. Louis. 
]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1949148-some-fact-go-adrift-in-vp-debate</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/02/1949148-some-fact-go-adrift-in-vp-debate</guid><category>politics</category><category>debate</category><category>biden</category><category>palin</category><category>mccain</category><category>obama</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:47:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Dubious Claims in Obama's Ads Against McCain, Despite Vow of Truth</title><description><![CDATA[In all, Mr. Obama has released at least five commercials that have been criticized as misleading or untruthful against Mr. McCain's positions in the past two weeks. Mr.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/26/1917983-dubious-claims-in-obamas-ads-against-mccain-despite-vow-of-truth</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/26/1917983-dubious-claims-in-obamas-ads-against-mccain-despite-vow-of-truth</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>mccain</category><category>advertising</category><category>fact-check</category><category>tactics</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:49:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Obama: The Price of Being Black</title><description><![CDATA["While a high black turnout will obviously help Obama, whether he becomes president will hinge on the decisions of white voters.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/10/1852410-obama-the-price-of-being-black</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/10/1852410-obama-the-price-of-being-black</guid><category>politics</category><category>barak-obama</category><category>race</category><category>law</category><category>disenfranchisement</category><category>polls</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:30:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Fears grow of terrorist with 'an American face'</title><description><![CDATA[More than anything else, it's what one counterterrorism official calls "the white men of Waziristan" that worries officials — the increasing possibility that the next attacks in Europe or North America will be carried out not by those with Arab or South Asian passports, b&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/09/1845606-fears-grow-of-terrorist-with-an-american-face</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/09/1845606-fears-grow-of-terrorist-with-an-american-face</guid><category>world-news</category><category>terrorism</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>security</category><category>pakistan</category><category>westerners</category><pubDate>Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:44:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The eBay Myth</title><description><![CDATA["She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on e-Bay. And made a profit!"

What a delightful story. 

But it's not true.

She didn't sell the jet on eBay.

And she didn't make a profit.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Randidio]]></dc:creator><link>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/05/1832706-the-ebay-myth</link><guid>http://randy-stearns.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/05/1832706-the-ebay-myth</guid><category>politics</category><category>palin</category><category>mccain</category><category>alaska</category><category>ebay</category><pubDate>Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:30:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>