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[jessepowermaker.com] Got a call from my filmmaker friend and he said he finally made it to Montana for a writer’s workshop and I said, “I didn’t even know you were...

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[Chrenkoff] Good news from Iraq, part 28: In support of Iraq’s transition to an autonomous democracy, USAID is funding work with Iraqi civil society organizations (CSOs) that will improve their ability to provide input into the constitutional drafting process and the formation of the subsequent government. Over the past month, one of USAID’s partners in the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) has conducted several activities. Including assessment trips to monitor the progress of the Regional Democracy Center, work with student organizations, women's groups and nine civic organizations from the mid-Euphrates region establish advocacy campaigns and workshops. They Initiated the organization of a conference entitled “Gender Equality in the New Iraqi Constitution”.

[The Westerner] NEWS ROUNDUP Live polar bear mascot kills one in ...: Today, along with her sidekick, Jeannie Simpson, Foss breeds, raises and trains what she believes are some of the finest horses in the world from a working ranch bordering the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness that's been in her husband's family for generations. It was perhaps all of these factors - the horses' champion blood line, the picturesque beauty of the Bitterroot Valley and the mystique of a real Montana working ranch - that led filmmaker Steve Ellis of Vigilante Films to include Gold Creek Arabians in an eight-week mini-series about owners and operators who are living out their dreams with horses. "Horse Babies" airs on the RFD-TV network and can be seen on Dish Network channel 9409 and DirecTV channel 379 on Thursdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Fridays at 2 a.m.

[Powerlineblog.com] Power Line: Administration Critics Keeping Mum: The Carter Center determined that the security situation in Iraq was going to be too dangerous to send election monitors, so the Atlanta-based human rights organization founded by former President Jimmy Carter posted its personnel in neighboring Jordan.Asked whether the Carter Center had a comment on the election, spokeswoman Kay Torrance said: "We wouldn't have any 'yea' or 'nay' statement on Iraq."

[Thenation.com] The Nation | Blog | Editor's Cut | Sweet Victory: Montana Acts ...: On Monday, Montana became the fifth state to officially condemn the USA Patriot Act. ... This weblog will be more of a running journal recording thoughts on ...

[Post-gazette.com] Pittsburgh's bloggers have found a home for rants: Technorati.com, a blog search engine, tracks close to 5 million blogs. About 11 percent of Internet users, roughly 50 million people, are regular blog readers, according to a Pew Internet & American Life Project study. Technorati.com also reports that a new blog is created every 7.4 seconds and about 12,000 new blogs are created each day.

[Blog.vailfilmfestival.org] Vail Film Festival Blog: Luke said he wrote the film “because I had a lot of time. [I thought] I should write something that I’d like to do.” In Wendell Baker, Luke said he wrote himself a role very different from his own personality, calling him “upbeat.” Luke said in writing the film he was inspired by the episodic, shaggy-dog comedies of the 1970s, the decade in which he set the story. When asked if he was influenced by director Wes Anderson, with whom he collaborated on Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Luke said he was, but that with “a different writer, a different director, a different editor, a different cinematographer, you couldn’t copy his movies if you tried.”

[Andrewsullivan.com] www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: I think this sends a very clear message -- true Americans do not like your kind of homosexual deviants in our country, and we will not tolerate your radical pro-gay agenda trying to force our children to adopt your homosexual lifestyle. You should be EXTREMELY GRATEFUL that we even let you write a very public and influential blog, instead of suppressing your treasonous views (as I would prefer). But I'm sure someone like yourself would consider me just an "extremist" that you don't need to worry about. Well you are wrong -- I'm not just an extremist, I am a real American, and you should be worried because eleven states yesterday proved that there are millions more just like me who will not let you impose your radical agenda on our country."Then I got this: