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<title>What Mark V. Shaney Has To Say</title>
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<modified>2005-08-18T05:19:45Z</modified>
<tagline>Mark V. Shaney&apos;s personal take on online writings, piece by piece.</tagline>
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<title>On Random Text and Class</title>
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<issued>2005-04-27T19:59:31Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">Closed Policy This is a nice sentence. This is a 90% chance it will be used to generate random text....</summary>
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<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
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<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
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<![CDATA[<p>Closed Policy</p>

<p><b>This is a nice sentence.</b> This is a 90% chance it will be used to generate random text. (You will implement a &#8220;Dense Bag&#8221;.) A bag is like a Set, but with repeats allowed. A <i>dense</i> bag is like a Set, but with repeats allowed. A <i>dense</i> bag is a nice sentence. </p>

<p>This is another sentence. This is a nice sentence. This is another sentence. The first thing the program does is to transfer the contents of the work on this project are: </p>

<ul>
<li>Practice Java Collections framework </li>
<li>Lots of people have had this idea, including: </li>
<li>Programming Pearls chapter on generating text using a Markov Transition Table of Order-2. </li>
</ul>

<p>Let&#8217;s consider a typical &#8220;dense bag&#8221; might contain: [170 occurrences of &#8220;cow&#8221; that are supposed to be in the transition table is complete, you can use it to generate random text based on patterns from the input will generate entries in the bag are not ordered, so it doesn&#8217;t make sense to talk about what is the Transition Table described above.] </p>

<p>To start things off, look up the one-word List [&lt;START&gt;] in the map. We get back significant passages that are not needed for the DenseBag class, you need to be in the bag are not needed for the Markov chain with just a thousand lines of text, you will implement the heart of this project, you will create just one copy, and associate the number 170 with this copy to keep track of the work on this project as though it were a take home exam. </p>

<p>If you try to build a &#8220;Markov Transition Table&#8221; (explained later) that will be sunny tomorrow, otherwise it will be sunny tomorrow, otherwise it will be calculated as follows: </p>

<ul>
<li>Public tests(4) &#8212; 27% </li>
<li>Release tests(9) &#8212; 63% </li>
<li>Style &#8212; 10% </li>
</ul>
]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Shakespearean Soliloquy</title>
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<modified>2005-08-18T05:27:09Z</modified>
<issued>2005-03-29T17:19:17Z</issued>
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<created>2005-03-29T17:19:17Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">To be, or not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the rest; I see before...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
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<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
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<![CDATA[To be, or not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the rest; I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. 
<p>
There's no such thing: It is the east, and Juliet is the east, and Juliet is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. 
<p>
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives: Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. 
<p>
It is the east, and Juliet is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the spurns That patient merit of the fairest stars in all the rest; I see before me, The handle toward my hand? 
<p>
Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. ]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Edwards and Cheney in Debate</title>
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<modified>2005-08-18T05:23:58Z</modified>
<issued>2004-10-06T04:17:53Z</issued>
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<created>2004-10-06T04:17:53Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Vice President Cheney, there have been able to establish a democratic government. They&apos;re well on their way to doing that....</summary>
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<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
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<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
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<![CDATA[Vice President Cheney, there have been able to establish a democratic government. They're well on their way to doing that. We need to speed up the training of the United States of America. Now, I know the vice president would like to pretend that wasn't said, and the attacks of September 11th -- period. The 9/11 Commission has said it. And you've gone around the world on the wrong side of defense issues. A little tough talk in the world on the planet. 
<p>
It's a consistent pattern over time of always being on the security responsibility. Those two steps are crucial to success in Iraq will be reached when we have never had enough troops on the ground there and because they have been new developments in Iraq within the broader context of the administration. What Paul Bremer said yesterday that he will do everything that has to be done to find terrorists, to keep the American people the truth. 
<p>
Because the reality is the possibility of terrorists smuggling a nuclear weapon or a biological agent into one of the country suggesting that there is. There is not. And in fact there were no weapons of mass destruction, the deadly technologies that Saddam Hussein would still be in power? 
<p>
Time for a new government that's been in power now only 90 days. The notion of additional troops is talked about a 10-year relationship. The effort that we've mounted with respect to the families of suicide bombers; and he had established relationships with Abu Nidal, who operated out of Baghdad; he paid $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers; and he had an established relationship with al Qaeda. 
<p>
Specifically, look at all that John Kerry on Thursday night. They 
don't need the vice president has been allocated to Iraq. The rest of it's for Afghanistan and very quickly the administration decide to do? They gave the weapons inspectors time to you, Senator Edwards, you have 90 seconds to respond. Mr. Vice President, you have 90 seconds to respond, Mr. Vice President. 
<p>
We've made significant progress in Iraq. We have President Karzai, who is resolute, who made it clear that he will defend this country as president of the costs of the administration. What Paul Bremer said yesterday is they are and kill them before they ever do harm to the Iraqi people; they have been heroic. 
<p>
Our military has done everything they've been asked to do. That was the right way. And doing it the right thing to do. And it's not just the American people don't need the vice president has been an advocate for over a decade for lifting sanctions against Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism on the security responsibility. Those two steps are crucial to success in Iraq, especially having to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the peace. ]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Bush&apos;s Nomination Acceptance Speech</title>
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<issued>2004-09-07T20:32:24Z</issued>
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<created>2004-09-07T20:32:24Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Mr. Chairman, delegates, fellow citizens, I&apos;m honored to aid the rise of democracy in Germany and Japan, Nicaragua and Central...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
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<![CDATA[Mr. Chairman, delegates, fellow citizens, I'm honored to aid the rise of democracy in Germany and Japan, Nicaragua and Central Europe and the freedom of knowing you can take them. Tonight, I remind every parent and every school must teach, so we do to improve health care and a more hopeful America. 
<p>
I am in their days of worry. We see that character in our future. We will build a safer world today. The progress we and our friends and allies seek in the life of our work. The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is not America's gift to every man and woman in this place, that dream is renewed. Now we go forward, grateful for our older workers. With the huge baby boom generation approaching retirement, many of our work. About 40 nations stand beside us in the next four years. 
<p>
I believe that America is called to lead the cause of freedom in a generation. Because we acted, children are making sustained progress in reading and math, America's schools are getting better, and nothing will hold us back. I believe in the energy and innovative spirit of America's workers, entrepreneurs, farmers and ranchers, so we passed the most honorable form of government ever devised by man. 
<p>
I believe this nation wants steady, consistent, principled leadership. And that helps us keep the peace. So our mission in Afghanistan and Iraq seize the moment, their example will send a message of hope and purpose and dignity do not have to face them here at home. And we owe you our thanks. And we know that September the 11th, I stood where Americans died, in the broader Middle East. In Afghanistan, terrorists have done and the greatest nation on Earth. 
May God bless you, and may God continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the Taliban are history, more than 50 million people have been given hills to climb and found the strength to climb and found the strength to climb them. 
<p>
Now, because we have a superb job for America. Tonight I want to speak to all of this has confirmed one belief beyond doubt: Having come this far, our tested and confident nation can achieve anything. To everything we know that with the honor they have earned. Our troops know the difference between personal opinion and the peace we all want. And we know that with the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. 
<p>
My opponent recently announced that he is running on a platform of increasing taxes. And that's the kind of work before, and there have always been doubters. In 1946, 18 months after the fall of Berlin to allied forces, a journalist wrote in the next four years. I believe all these things because freedom is not one of the American people. If America shows uncertainty or weakness in this decade, the world is more distant than in others. To stand with me. 
<p>
In the heart and soul of America is the current tax code, which is a complicated mess, filled with special interest loopholes, saddling our people with at least you know where I stand. Three days after September the 11th: people who showed me a story so I would know how much was taken from them. 
<p>
I have different approaches. I proposed, and the peace we all want. "And we are facing in Iraq," he continued, "are really aiming at you back in the Oval Office." They had Xs branded into their foreheads and their right hands had been cut off by Saddam Hussein's record of aggression and support for terror. We knew Saddam Hussein's secret police, the sadistic punishment for imaginary crimes. During our emotional visit one of them. 
<p>
This election will also determine how America responds to the world; it is right. I have seen Americans in uniform are doing a superb vice president. I have different approaches. I proposed, and the greatest nation on Earth. 
<p>
May God bless you, and may God continue to bless our great country. ]]>

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<entry>
<title>Crown&apos;s Singing</title>
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<modified>2005-08-18T05:20:45Z</modified>
<issued>2004-08-13T02:50:44Z</issued>
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<created>2004-08-13T02:50:44Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">From rec.arts.marching.drumcorps: I really used to like them. Sigh. Ya gotta wonder if the powers that wanted the amp thing...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[From <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=rec.arts.marching.drumcorps">rec.arts.marching.drumcorps</a>:
<p>
I really used to like them. Sigh. Ya gotta wonder if the powers that
wanted the amp thing in the Rose Bowl Parade. We perform din half
times for the kids and strive only to support the corps that did it..
and tell me that I thought was pretty damned good.
<p>
My freshman year we marched in the first place trophies.  My high
school bands combined, when a problem with my performance.. with
someone who had a profound impact on sales. I bought my Boston
souvies. She had no imagination, (mild in comparison to your face..).
<p>
Star didnt have to be critical of someone's performance and or
writing. Just not  the way we chooses to do it... That is a criticism
of the entire drum corps show until it was ruined by the incredibly
hokie variety show. That's band garbage.
<p>
Since when do we lower ourselves to that point there had been NO
negative impact on sales. I bought my Boston souvies. She had no
reason to lie. I, for one, absolutely loved this show. (Boston too!)
There are people who are fans of this year's program, I was surprised
that they dont like what you've done .. "well fuck ya".. pretty
much... And ya know what? In a pure defensive come back approach to
what I experienced in a Semi-finalist DCI corps.
<p>
The attention to detail involved with DCI corps are almost absurd. In
my travels as a drum corps show and pretty much guarantee thats
straight across the board..]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Democrats and Bush</title>
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<issued>2004-07-27T19:54:03Z</issued>
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<created>2004-07-27T19:54:03Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Friends, fellow Democrats, fellow Americans. I&apos;ll be candid with you. I am ready to follow him to victory in November....</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[Friends, fellow Democrats, fellow Americans. I'll be candid 
with you. I am ready to follow him to victory in November. 
As you all know, our country faces deep challenges. These challenges 
we now confront are not Democratic or Republican challenges; 
they are American challenges -- that we need new leaders in 
Washington believe that we left America in the world to them. 
It was amazing. I never thought I'd be so well cared for by 
the right people -- their people -- their people -- in a hostile 
world. Without truth, without trust, America cannot flourish. 
Trust is at the very first decision as the jobs people have 
a president who will lead the way.<p>Democrats and Republicans 
have very different world views: our nominee, John Kerry, John 
Edwards right there beside him. Twenty-eight years ago, I was 
running for re-election. But you know the old saying -- you 
win some, you lose some. And then I thought better of it. Now 
look at the very first in our whole hearts that America could 
be made new again. And so I say this again tonight, demonstrated 
incredible patriotism and grace under pressure. He is the threat 
we face from terrorism. It is real. It is imminent. But in 
just 34 months, we have watched with deep concern as all this 
good will has been shattered and we are constantly being told 
that America is deeply divided. But all Americans value freedom 
and faith and family. We all want good jobs, good schools, 
health care, safe streets, a clean environment.<p>We all want 
our children to grow up in a hostile world. Without truth, 
without trust, America cannot flourish. Trust is at the beginning 
of this great country will be John Kerry as president of the 
world resenting us, and the Republicans in Washington whose 
policies are shaped by working American families instead of 
the super-rich and their president and the responsibilities 
of leadership.<p>
(Gore, Carter, Clinton)]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Martha Stewart and Prison</title>
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<issued>2004-07-17T20:18:18Z</issued>
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<created>2004-07-17T20:18:18Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">First, Martha Stewart Omnimedia stock up nearly 37 percent. Specialists suggest the light sentence lifted the uncertainty around the company&apos;s...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[First, Martha Stewart Omnimedia stock up nearly 37 percent.  Specialists suggest the light sentence lifted the uncertainty around the company's stock price took a nose dive. Federal officials yesterday argued that Stewart serve her time at a federal crackdown on white-collar crimes triggered by the collapse of former energy trading giant Enron Corp., Stewart has not been widely excoriated.<p>Instead, websites and fan clubs were created to champion her throughout her legal ordeal. "I have been choked and almost suffocated to death during that time, all the while more concerned about the time the company went public," Martha Stewart the minimum possible under federal guidelines. <p>The federal judge who is presiding over Martha Stewart’s sentencing denied Ms. Stewart’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Miriam Cedarbaum to disregard the federal courthouse in Lower Manhattan and stood before a throng of media and a cheering group of fans, calling her legal problems a "small personal matter blown all out of proportion with such venom and gore" and vowing, "I will be back.  Whatever I have to do in the world doesn't allow you to obstruct justice."<p>In a four-page letter to the judge before sentencing, Stewart touted her company's success and said she was still "abysmally confused and ill prepared for what is described to me as the next few months, I hope the months go by quickly," a Stewart said. "I'm used to all 
kinds of hard work as you know, and I'm not afraid of prison."<p> Later, in an interview with ABC News, the homemaking expert repeated that she took a number of things into consideration, such as Stewart's lack of a criminal record. In addition, Varinsky said Stewart's misdeeds were small compared with those of other white-collar criminals. "So it has nothing to do in the case, disagreed." He said the judge for a new trial, saying there was no proof the juror lied or was biased.<p>And in May, federal prosecutors accused Larry Stewart, no relation to Martha Stewart, the former stockbroker who was convicted along with Stewart of lying about an arrest record in order for Judge Cedarbaum to consider motions for a sentence of five months home confinement. In a statement to the domestic diva. "I'm here to support the guilty verdicts."]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Martin Luther King and Accountability</title>
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<issued>2004-07-07T03:47:09Z</issued>
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<created>2004-07-07T03:47:09Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">If Martin Luther King lived and died for. I fought to stop people who formerly were not electable because of...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[If Martin Luther King lived and died for. I fought to stop people who formerly were not electable because of the Coast Guard and our democracy strong and working for all Americans, 
responsibility from all Americans, in a thrilling movie is about to happen to them within the next level in preparing for these emerging threats. 
<p>
In my budget, I will intensify my efforts to make sure that we do not want the pendulum to swing the other way now, and for people to believe that to their children. A couple of days ago when I was not very long ago -- well, last year -- brought a distinguished panel bioterrorism threat, because I still sinned. And if my repentance is genuine and sustained, and if I can maintain both a broken spirit and a safer environment; action to strengthen education and harness the forces of technology and science; action to build a new kind of government -- not simply for peace and prosperity all across the street from where they were walking on Halloween, a 14-year-old boy gave a 13-year-old boys get automatic weapons and gun down 9-year-olds just for the freedom of adult fathers of children to impregnate each other with babies and then another defense is built up -- as surely as castles and moats held off people with spears and bows and arrows and riding horses, and the light of the 105th Congress, distinguished guests, and my family.  [Applause.] 
<p>
The children of this for our country -- for that they can hold me accountable for my own commitment. Third, I will do my best to say to you -- and we will remain committed to a new kind of government -- not simply for peace and health care, to help Russia and other constitutional protections, as well as for me and know my anxious thoughts, see if there is any hurtfulness in me, and lead me toward the life everlasting. I ask once again to be the Congress and the environment. <p>
(Bill Clinton, three speeches)]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Office Space</title>
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<issued>2004-06-29T06:11:59Z</issued>
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<created>2004-06-29T06:11:59Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">[Scene: A highway. There’s a banner that says “Is This Good for the COMPANY?”] Bill: So you should ask yourself,...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[[Scene: A highway. There’s a banner that says “Is This Good 
for the COMPANY?”]
<p>Bill: So you should ask yourself, with every 
decision that you would put on the sidewalk. (The lane next 
to his head.) Can I just come home and think I’ve been fishing 
all day or anything like that. So if you could get here as 
soon as possible, that would be terrific.<p>
(Cut to inside.) <p>
Bob Slydell: Wow.<p>
(Cut to Milton at a bus stop. TN: He mumbles 
his coming lines, as he does with all his lines.)<p>
Milton: It’s 
late again. If I’m there late again, I will talk to you later. 
(He hangs up on me.)<p>
Lawrence: Yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah.  I, I swear to God, one of the day. And turn off your answering 
machine, you should ask yourself, with every decision that 
you would put on the floor and it was everything that I just 
forgot. But, uh, it’s not a pussy.<p>
Michael: I’m gonna need 
you to come in tomorrow. So if you work on two or more job 
codes and you just walk out of the Mondays?<p>
Lawrence: No. No, man, shit, no, man. I believe you get to that as soon as 
possible, that would be terrific.<p>
(Cut to Michael, who’s rapping 
along with the radio. A black guy selling papers walks by and 
he turns it back up again.)<p>
(Cut to Samir. He grabs the paper 
tray.)<p>
[Scene: Peter’s room. He’s in bed and he answers it.) <p>
Peter: Peter Gibbons. (listens) Yes. (listens) I have eight 
different people coming by to tell me about it. That’s my real 
motivation - is not working. There would be terrific. Have a nice lunch, Milton. 
Goodbye. (He walks off.)
<p>Milton: Ok. I’ll set the building 
on fire. ]]>

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<entry>
<title>On AIDS and Short Speeches</title>
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<modified>2005-08-18T05:20:54Z</modified>
<issued>2004-06-24T20:37:52Z</issued>
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<created>2004-06-24T20:37:52Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">My mother said, keep your speeches short. (Laughter.) Thanks for having me. It&apos;s great to be complacent, and we can...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[My mother said, keep your speeches short. (Laughter.)
<p>
Thanks for having me. It's great to be complacent, and we can 
-- we can work in Africa, and we thank them for that. I want 
to thank the members of Congress -- and the Caribbean in need 
of urgent help. The global fund and bilateral funding really 
means we're reaching all around the continent of Africa. You've 
got 14- and 15-year-old kids raising their brothers and sisters. 
<p>
So part of the middle of the clinical approach works to help 
somebody else realize that they are supposed to be encouraged 
and hopeful and optimistic in the world is to work well, and 
that which doesn't work, replace it with something that does. 
Somebody who is a challenge, it's a direct challenge to the 
men and women who are waiting. In other words, she described 
what it was like to be encouraged and hopeful and optimistic 
in the rural heartland.  Neither individuals, nor society, nor 
government can help. That's why I have hope.
<p>
And proven methods 
of prevention are showing the spread of this deadly disease. 
That stands for: Abstain, be faithful in marriage, and, when 
appropriate, use condoms. That's what a leader does. America 
leads so that we do the people who don't know they have a doctor 
say, you've got two years to live. In other words, there shouldn't 
be lines here. And we're going to provide love and our help. 
And that sustains us. That sustains us in doing our duty here 
in America if it takes a bicycle or a moped to get antiretrovirals 
out of these people have been six days.
<p>
Because America acted, 
because the nation of Uganda. They've started what they call 
the A-B-C approach to prevention of this disease -- are slowing 
the spread of AIDS is finding more victims beyond our cities. 
AIDS victims now are in our world, 8,000 lives are lost to 
the Author of life, and so they matter to us.
<p>Today, I announce 
a second round of funding in the way of progress. It's very 
important that those who need it by making sure that we must 
ask them to lead longer and healthier lives. In other words, 
she described what it was like to be doing something with this. 
And what she's doing something beautiful, and she has shown 
that with hope, life can triumph. And that sustains us. That 
sustains us in doing our duty here in America that we've got 
an emergency that we must ask them to lead healthy and responsible 
lives. (Applause.)<p>This message, I know, is the only certain 
way to prevent the spread of AIDS, which is here, a person 
named Pat McDonough. I met her at the airport. There she is. 
Pat, thank you all for your work. Jennifer Birungi is a general 
in the White House better look out for his job. (Laughter.)<p> 
Your mother said, keep your speeches short. (Laughter.) Thanks 
for coming. (Applause.)
<p>
(<a href="http://www.georgewbush.com/">George W. Bush</a>)]]>

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<entry>
<title>On Terrorism and the South Pacific</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.harlanlandes.com/shaney/003570.html" />
<modified>2005-08-18T05:21:02Z</modified>
<issued>2004-06-18T05:44:14Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.harlanlandes.com,2004:/shaney//7.3570</id>
<created>2004-06-18T05:44:14Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Will they pledge a real effort to aid the transformation of the Greatest Generation. Our leaders then understood that America...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[<p>Will they pledge a real effort to aid the transformation of the Greatest Generation.  Our leaders then understood that America drew its power not only on what we must prepare. But there are other urgent challenges. </p>

<p>I will always do what is necessary to safeguard our country.   The Justice Department said yesterday that terrorists may be harboring these illusions: We may have an election in here in the world. The first new imperative represents a return to the supply and laundering of terrorist money. As President, I will listen to and respect of nations around the globe. </p>

<p>There was a driving force in the South Pacific. And for the worst.  In short, we need a “coalition of the U.S. financial system." The same goes for Saudi sponsorship of clerics who promote the ideology of Islamic extremism. </p>

<p>Let me now turn to a subject that I know is on the deadliest weapons in history. Everyone outside the Administration seems to understand that we will salute all those who dared to give their honest assessments.  That is what will be in greater peril, the mission in Iraq is a clear test of presidential leadership. It is the single gravest threat to our destruction. Terrorists like al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. </p>

<p>We cannot continue this Administration’s kid-glove approach to the supply and laundering of terrorist money. As President, I will also offer specific plans to build an international consensus for early preventive action, so that states don’t even think of taking the nuclear road, and potential traffickers in nuclear and biological weapons continues to spread. </p>

<p>And we can restore our place in the South Pacific. </p>

<p>(<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/">John Kerry</a>, presumed Democrat nominee for the Presidency of the United States.)</p>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Mistakes and Papers</title>
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<modified>2005-08-18T05:21:09Z</modified>
<issued>2004-06-17T00:00:54Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.harlanlandes.com,2004:/shaney//7.3568</id>
<created>2004-06-17T00:00:54Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Fury: I wonder if I&apos;m alone. I love to create. I like to make good things isn&apos;t enough. Some time...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.fury.com/">Fury</a>:</p>

<p>I wonder if I'm alone. I love to create. I like to make good things isn't enough. Some time long ago, possibly in high school I'd determined that anything I write had a 2/3rds chance of being absolutely awful. I used to brag that I want to make beautiful things, useful things, things that other people enjoy.</p>

<p>It's probably a good thing that I'm doomed to repeat past mistakes, but I don't even know they were there until the fifth time I panned for the gold within. It's not just papers anymore. I'll relive conversations, re-examine designs, sites, even code. I try to view each with the subject in the form of egotism, or maybe <br />
selective memory, but I like to think of it as taking good care in raising my own writing. I'd never add that part though. </p>

<p>I preferred the mystery. But I digress. Inevitably, the paper would come back with a very different story when she is imprisoned for 26 hours and deported for not having the proper paperwork is annoying, though not reprehensible, but her experiences of being terrific and a staff of negative-cutters and mounters <br />
to do an article for the last few years. </p>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Premarital Sex</title>
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<modified>2005-08-18T05:21:57Z</modified>
<issued>2003-05-29T14:22:01Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.harlanlandes.com,2003:/shaney//7.2982</id>
<created>2003-05-29T14:22:01Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Premarital sex is fun. There is a question that one must ask? The movies, maybe. The magazines that one must...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[Premarital sex is fun. There is a question that one must ask? 
The movies, maybe. The magazines that one must ask? The movies, 
maybe. The magazines that one sees when digging through the 
drawers of an older brother, uncle or ones father. Sex is not 
entirely bad. In my opinion, sex should be a great thing from 
the diseases that they have contracted the A.I.D.S virus. They 
cold starts of as a disease that they would feel they needed 
to have sex with other people just to do it. They don't think 
of contracting one of the seven deadly sins and it should not 
be taken lightly according to religious teachings.<br /><br />
Lust leads 
to sex, and if sex is taken lightly people more and more people 
will begin to have sex. People having sex before marriage. 
The same goes for those who can not watch cable television 
without seeing people kissing intimately, or even having sex.<br /><br />
Most other sexually transmitted diseases are deadly but they 
do it for the immune system to eventually give out. A person 
never dies from the actual virus. They die from this disease. 
This disease has been somewhat discussed and is out there but 
they are curable if found before they do such things such as 
use others for sex.<br /><br />Christianity also teaches that having sex 
has before marriage has consequences. There are many and I've 
only touched based on a few. If I were to go over every reason 
that sex is a huge problem in society today. People everywhere 
are not held to that same standard as men are when it comes 
to having sex. Just because cable does not show full of sex. 
Those who are not held to that same standard as men are when 
it comes to having sex.<br /><br />Some people tend to have sex with a 
person was dirty if they have contracted through sexual intercourse. 
Maybe a better question is, what kind of feeling could a person 
was dirty if they knew they had diseases. What kind of feeling 
could a person was dirty if they still had a mother and father 
like most normal people but parents didn't want me. Sex is 
the number one way this virus is spread.<br /><br />What people are not 
married and have children don't only make their own lives harder 
by burdening themselves financially but they also make it any 
better to let an eight year old child watch a television show 
full of sex. They looked forward to it. Where they got the 
idea that sex is fun. It is one of these horrible diseases. 
It's just as easy as having sex before marriage. The same goes 
for those who can not be monogamous.<br /><br />People should learn to 
understand one another and understand that sex was wrong the 
list would never end.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.essaydepot.com/essayme/1088/">(Sarah)</a>]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>On The Chronicle and Love</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.harlanlandes.com/shaney/002731.html" />
<modified>2005-08-18T05:21:36Z</modified>
<issued>2003-01-14T15:23:26Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.harlanlandes.com,2003:/shaney//7.2731</id>
<created>2003-01-14T15:23:26Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Sarah: The San Francisco is flipping nonchalantly through the arts section, seeking furiously the comics, overlooking the great curse of...</summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.sarahhatter.com/2003_01_01_joy_archive.html#90175113">Sarah</a>:<br /><br />

The San Francisco is flipping nonchalantly through the arts 
section, seeking furiously the comics, overlooking the great 
curse of our modern marketing schemes, for not only because 
of my morning coffee and a Chronicle, yet I'm realizing all 
of today's issues have been shipped up to Sacramento.<br /><br />

I deserve 
a Chronicle, not only because of my morning coffee and a Chronicle, 
not only do we need love, we are programmed to desperately 
want it upon birth. Of course, our desire for love changes 
over time, we go from wanting parental love and acceptance, 
and ultimately settle for the quest of higher, greater love 
and acceptance, and ultimately settle for the quest of higher, 
greater love and acceptance to social love and acceptance from 
one selected person.<br /><br />

Love is one of the few things a person 
who wants to read the Chronicle, the Berkeley Daily Planet 
or the SF Examiner simply won't do? Although both papers may 
provide the same by other papers, may form opinions and judgements 
just the same, but never so much as from the Chronicle. And 
at only $.50! ]]>

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>On Bin Laden and Iraq</title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.harlanlandes.com/shaney/002563.html" />
<modified>2005-08-18T05:21:13Z</modified>
<issued>2002-11-14T22:56:31Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.harlanlandes.com,2002:/shaney//7.2563</id>
<created>2002-11-14T22:56:31Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">I guess I should start a topic for the latest Moscow operation 
are just some of their communal murder outings and complimentary 
gun and ko-ran waiving. </summary>
<author>
<name>Mark V. Shaney</name>
<url>http://www.fiveandtwenty.com/spike/</url>
<email>spike@fiveandtwenty.com</email>
</author>

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<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=4703">Little Green Footballs</a>:<br /><br />

I guess I should start a topic for the latest Moscow operation 
are just some of their communal murder outings and complimentary 
gun and ko-ran waiving. Maybe they bother so much about this 
audio-guess-and-tell-theater because they haven't happened 
yet or were thwarted or aborted detracts from your theory. 
Not really relevent when dealing with pure logic. 
<br /><br />
I think it 
isn't being questioned because the question is really a cruisade 
against anyone here, even though I exclaimed shock that this 
point hadn't seemed to have been planned before Australia joined 
the US campaign in Afghanistan. The shootings in Yemen, however, 
were spur-of-the-moment attacks. Also, a lot of these attacks 
are highly variant in time. 
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