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Let's embarrass the real Glenn Beck by making his vegetable effigy more popular on Facebook.

Not only will Squash Glenn Beck be bigger, exposing the fragility of Glenn Beck's popularity, but Squash Glenn Beck's Facebook Page will help share information about the offenses of the real Glenn Beck.

Now is the time. Glenn Beck is weakened by lack of advertising. We need to organize and act to stop him.

So please, go to the Squash Glenn Beck page, become a fan, and suggest it to your friends with the link below his picture.

We will Squash Glenn Beck together.

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Here at BuzzFlash, we wanted to celebrate the sweetness of Valentine's Day with the approbation of Presidents' Day. Our customer service director Katy came up with the excellent idea to write love letters to U.S. presidents. Below you'll find our humble missives to former leaders of this great nation.

And feel free to add your own love letter to former a president by commenting below.

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This Wednesday, we announced we would give away one $50 gift certificate to a randomly selected patron who donated to BuzzFlash or purchased any item from the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace between then and Thursday night.

And now, the winner! Drum roll, please...

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BuzzFlash has been working to create a truly progressive marketplace, a site you can go to and be confident that the items sold within reflect progressive principles,  promote progressive causes, including economic justice goods that directly help people and items that help build a sustainable, ecological economy.

It takes time and energy to personally vet items for you, but the re

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Today is the anniversary of Obama's innauguration. And whether you think it's been a productive year or not, you've got somethiung to say about it.

So say it in haiku.

Yes, haiku, the ancient Japanses poem of 3 lines: the first with 5 sylables, the second with 7, and the third with 5. An example:

Obama, the Pres / Eyes bigger than his stomach / Always the "nice guy"

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Support the Public Option, and get a free book. Our only request is that you lend the book to everyone you know after you're finished reading it to help spread the word about the need for a public option.

BuzzFlash thanks Chelsea Green Publishers for donating copies of Howard Dean's book to help pass a robust public option.

Here's how to win a copy ot the book.

1. Find your favorite BuzzFlash article from the past week.

2. At 3pm EDT, tweet that article using the Twitter button on the top right hand side. Feel free to personalize the message, as long as you retain the @BuzzFlash and the link to the article.

That's it. Every third Twitterer will win a copy of the Howard Dean book until we're out of 10 copies. You will be alerted via Direct Message, so make sure you're following @BuzzFlash and keep your eyes open. You can enter multiple times as long as you are tweeting different articles.

Good luck!

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BuzzFlash has vastly enjoyed interacting with the members of our progressive Twitter community at http://www.twitter.com/buzzflash, where we have reached more than 16,300 followers in just a few months!

But making our nation better shouldn't always be hard work; sometimes we need to celebrate and offer our thanks to all of you who work to ensure the promise of our democracy.

So enjoy, the BuzzFlash Twitter Premium Giveaway!

We'll try to do it on Mondays, when the opportunity arises.

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This was a tough one to decide. There were so many fine and humorous entries which you can read at the original contest site.  There were long ones about W's fate were his last name Smith; there were short ones.

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Okay, George W. Bush is now spending most of his time palling around with the dog, Barney, who just watched as Bush choked on a pretzel. (Remember that bizarre incident?)

For 8 years, BuzzFlash and many other sites reminded people that Bush wouldn't have gotten any of his jobs -- including President -- if his last name were Smith.  The guy was as good as a curse when it came to business, except for the Texas Rangers where he was given a fortune by his Daddy's friends to essentially be a greeter -- which you got to admit he is good at.

So, BuzzFlash will give a prize to what our staff judges as the best comment (post below) that answers the question: "What would George W. Bush have done for a job if his last name had been Smith and he were born to a poor family?

The winner will receive a free copy of "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" and "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free."

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by Alyssa Morin

^{Image courtesy of Minnesota Public Radio}

After months of counting and recounting, adjudicating and appealing, we at Buzzflash have finally confirmed a winner in our "Seat the Senator" contest. Congratulations, Quousque.

Author, comedian and Saturday Night Live veteran Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's senator on July 7, 2009, a staggering 239 days after the November 4 election last year. Franken declared victory on January 6 after the official recount found him ahead by 225 votes. The same day, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman filed a lawsuit with the district court disputing the results. The 111^th Congress convened with an empty seat where its junior senator from Minnesota would be.

When it became all the more painfully clear this winter that Coleman was not going to go quietly into the night, we at Buzzflash decided to hold a little contest to make the ensuing legal battle a bit more tolerable. In February, we asked our readers to "Seat the Senator" by guessing the day Franken would finally take his seat in Congress.

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