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I wrote this today in response to a friend who asked what does Democracy look like? I am posting it here because it contains my feelings about where we are today in America. Democracy is possible in America, but there is much we all need to learn before it can happen here.Democracy looks like a place where people vote for somebody or some party that will make their lives better. If everybody

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Everyday there is more poverty in the United States, everyday there is more uncared for people who don't have medicine, doctors, or even education. This country is eating itself from the inside. What's happening to the American, how do you say it, Dream [in English]. I believe in the American Dream, but the dream of Martin Luther King Jr., not the dream of consumerism, unbridled capitalism or

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thanks to steve benen -- hardest working blogger in the 8-5 edt slot...

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I still contend health care reform is over. The GOP and the fringe right will just move on to something else they find “objectionable” like this absurd accusation that voluntary counselling amounted to a panel of experts determining who should and should not live, the senior citizens seem overwhelmingly content to suckle at the public teat in regards to medicare while giving everyone else the

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No, Democrats aren't going for a government takeover of health care and I'm cautiously optimistic that whatever finally gets passed will be a nontrivial improvement over the status quo. Still, I don't think it's crazy for people to be concerned that whatever comes out of the sausage factory might be worse. Whatever it is will be a rube goldberg plan which preserves health insurance profits, keeps

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thx again john cole

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I’ve always thought that if Palin were just a touch less ignorant and frightening, the national media might have loved her. -- Doug J

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"Approximately 114 million Americans are expected to leave private health insurance. Why? Their employers will drop the insurance because the taxpayer-subsidized plan will be 30 to 40 percent cheaper. This action will collapse the private health insurance market, and then the Federal Government will own the health provider game."

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Professor Gates was driven to his home by a driver for a local car company. Professor Gates attempted to enter his front door, but the door was damaged. Professor Gates then entered his rear door with his key, turned off his alarm, and again attempted to open the front door. With the help of his driver they were able to force the front door open, and then the driver carried Professor Gates’

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thx/K of Minta

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Obama really needs to start listening to people who have a clue. -Atrios (20 July)

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Watch our man Dennis turn a young arrogant rightwing prick into a nice lookin' heap a'stinkin' garbage...

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it is classified, held secret from Congress, and no big deal... "This characterization of something that began in 2001 and continued uninterrupted for eight years is just wrong. Honest men would question that characterization. It was more off and on," said a former top Bush administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the issue.The official

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My strong sense is that contrarianness reached its apogee in the 1990s when a general sense took over that politics was basically silly and that punditry should be seen as basically akin to the college debate circuit wherein the idea is to construct the most clever possible argument rather than to actually hit on the truth. When this general spirit of the times merged with the elite press’

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i'm with atrios -- this shit about "everybody" misreading the economy back when he and obama gave the repugnants every opportunity to ruin the stimulus -- while progressives-with-voice -- krugman, stiglitz et al. -- were "uh-oh-ing" all over the friggin' place that this stimulus was too small even before "obama and them" cut its heart out for the republicans... who then didn't cast one vote fer

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tx/atrios

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Just go read...and god damn the shit-filled entity that is WaPo... but thanks, Dan, for trying.

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tx/juan

Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-89130453023902716252009-06-26T09:06:00.002-05:002009-06-26T09:09:07.291-05:00

as far as this country is concerned -- and in particular, its lawmakers -- regarding the global climate deterioration: these "leaders" are teething babies on pablum, and have absolutely no clue what the human species is up against. and many of them don't want to know. we're seriously doomed because these pricks are such cowardly, greedy idiots...(this so-called "big day for the environment" -- oh

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On Thursday, Rockefeller admitted he expects little bipartisan support."There is a very small chance any Republicans will vote for this health-care plan. They were against Medicare and Medicaid [created in the 1960s]. They voted against children's health insurance."We have a moral choice. This is a classic case of the good guys versus the bad guys. I know it is not political for me to say that,"

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"Well, that election was, what, almost 60 years ago now. The world has changed dramatically since then. And I dare say that you go up to any of those people in Tehran who are protesting in the streets and say, 'Hey, what about the United States meddling in your election in the `50s,' they would shake their heads, like, 'What in the world are you talking about?'" -- Saxby Chamblisstx/crooks &

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"One of the most irritating things about the current Iranian uprising is that I’ve seen a spate of WWRD (What Would Ronnie Do?) posts all over the place. I’m not on my normal computer, so I don’t have my browser history to help me, but I know there was one or two at Hot Air, I know I’ve seen them at the NRO, and I’m pretty sure there was one at Commentary magazine. At any rate, you know what

Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-8018028975899899432009-06-16T10:30:00.001-05:002009-06-16T10:32:03.247-05:00

If you were forced to live under the sway of a "Supreme Leader," who would you choose, Khamenei or Scalia?Or, would it make any difference?

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"What Fox did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality." -- Charles Kauthammer(tx bj@tpm)

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Can we quit the Cairo Sunday school class and git down to being a beneficial resource, a wise counsel, and a skilled negotiator?Can we now begin helping to make the Middle East tolerable for the many peoples who live there, now that we have re-established the fact that good Muslims are as good as good Jews and good Christians? I mean, big deal... who knew?let's hear some policy -- let's see some

Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-66200941301236048622009-06-04T11:52:00.003-05:002009-06-04T11:57:42.574-05:00

Just as the banksters and their guvamint whores were playin' with the big fantasy bubble, layin' in mythic money by the ton, so now-a-days they is still playas, holdin' onto the worthlessness of everything they got -- workin' the short term and putting off the disaster.whether it's metaphysical 'puts' or metaphysical 'calls' the slime always rises to the top in economics...

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Newster Fuckin' Gringrich: The Future of the God Damn Republican Party!(yahoo!)

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If Obama is an incrementalist, he aint incrementing fast enough...

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"The blog god made me do it."

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Ayn Rand is the original flesh-eating zombie and "Going Galt isn't ballsy. These narcissistic children ought to look at the life and work of the great Charles Bukowski. Now there's a hero.Yo, idiots: "Go Bukowski" on us... please.(aside: and stay off my damn sidewalks, out of my libraries, and quit using my internets, you fuckin' social leeches.)

Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-47275691675134416242009-05-30T10:09:00.002-05:002009-05-30T10:16:02.443-05:00

Is there something suggested by the dual phenomena of 1) decades of stagnant wages (a total breakdown of "investment in people") and 2) the collapsing of the real estate markets (domestic and commercial) which, for decades, have been over-invested with value, and tapped constantly like -- teh ol' proverbial atm machines?could there have been a directive gone out by the cabal to freeze labor and

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if the quality of 'terrorist' our homeland security catches is any indication of their expertise... RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!11!!1

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Neill Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01252372903449650895noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-63679520826476575582009-03-05T21:40:00.000-05:002009-03-05T21:41:54.068-05:00

This is simply unbelievable. The Federal Reserve has set up three shell companies so that it can buy crappy investments from AIG. Investors get their money out and we get stuck with the tab. Bernanke should be fired and then brought up on embezzlement charges. In a just world that is what would happen. In our world, Obama probably gives him a #!*% medal.Details in this post.

Dorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00644704464203319924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-69605924773746994042009-02-26T23:14:00.001-05:002009-02-26T23:17:51.833-05:00

Billmon has a post where he compares Milo in Catch-22 to our financial traders buying and selling the Big Shitpile. He then expands this allegory to explain how the Big Shitpile led to the collapse of our financial system. A very good read if you can slog thru the technical details.

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I think it is time we start working to defend Social Security. This so called "fiscal responsibility summit" is going to be used by some to once again try to destroy social security. Obama has said he wants to "fix" social security, but has not clarified what he means by "fix". If he wants to cut our benefits we need to fight him along with anybody else, democrat or not, who means cutting

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I don't like people trying to take advantage of that [outreach]. This is why actually if you watch my political interactions. I am always best as a counter-puncher. You know, somebody comes at me I will knock them out. If not, I will try to understand their point of view and that actually serves me well. I give people the benefit of the doubt; I try to understand their point of view -- if I

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TARP and related expenditures by the FED are a blatant direct transfer of the public wealth of America to the richest people in the world. As such I believe we should start from this day forward to campaign against Welfare Kings. Welfare Kings are people who can't afford to live on less than 500 hundred thousand dollars a year, but due to hard times on the financial market need transfusions of

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I am writing to ask you to support the stimulus bill as it has come to the floor, If there are to be any amendments to that the bill it should be to add spending and/or reduce tax cuts. In specific I am asking you to reject the amendment being put forward by Senator's Collins & Nelson.The economy is crashing and burning out here beyond the comfortable confines of Washington DC. We need spending

Dorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00644704464203319924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-50431575308717628432009-01-18T22:03:00.002-05:002009-01-18T22:06:52.036-05:00

Pete Seeger in triumph, and goddam does he look great!

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Alan Greenspan ought to be in prison.

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The title of this post was penned by Michael Stipe of REM and I have always wondered if it was in reference to the end of the Soviet Empire. Today we could be watching the dissolution of the American Empire and I find the possibility of it's demise raises my spirits.This article by Aziz Huq at TomDispatch makes many good points about how the military disasters of Iraq & Afghanistan combined with

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Krugman cheers the new Bush Socialism, and tips his hat to Chris Dodd and Gordon Brown.I'm bettin' Krugman's got a "WTF" sequel comin' -- BushCo has never ever done anything right. Moreover, I am pretty sure they are set on loading up all the silver and gold (that is left after 8 years) on their wagon train as they de-camp Washington.Probably a little Italian influence...

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This article by a conservative editor (Wolfgang Munchau) of a conservative European newspaper (Financial Times) is worth a quick read.Some excepts from the article:The US administration’s TARP proposal is a case in point. It has lambasted by almost every economist, including those who normally disagree with each other on most things. Buying up toxic securities at above market prices is

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I found the summary on Pete Defazio's web site. I assume language of the bill is being drafted and does not exist in a fleshed out form at this point.The first three points are technical rules about trading which I do not understand the implications of. But the meat of the Bill is in the 4th point which proposes a paper shuffle to infuse assets into the banks balance sheets without actually

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Take a look at this clips.The first is a clip of Nancy Pelosi's closing speech. The second is the Republican Party press conference after the vote where the blame Pelosi's speech for causing the vote for the bailout to fail. What a bunch of wimps. The majority of their members voted against the bill. The should take credit for killing the bill, instead once again they don't want to assume

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The McCain campaign is so inept, so corrupt, so cynical, it makes Bush/Cheney look like a Mother Teresa outfit.

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In his testimony today in the Senate he said "This (the 700 billion dollar blank check proposed by Paulson) is a precondition for a good, healthy recovery of our economy". We are not asking the banks to do us a favor. They are asking for us to bail them out, if the crisis is real. They cannot put conditions on what they will accept, we can put conditions on what we will do. Somebody needs to

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Naomi Klein has a post today on Huffington Post which worth a quick read. It points out that the "right" uses the failure of their policies to push for the enactment of more of their policies.Don't believe her? Take a look at what Newt suggest we do now to "solve" the current crisis.We can stop this only be calling bullshit on these sons of bitches and start publicly pinning the causes of this

Dorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00644704464203319924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283422508778716145.post-15065744752152796192008-09-18T20:43:00.002-05:002008-09-18T20:59:00.669-05:00

The Democratic leadership in their effort to prove to the business elite in this country that they can also be trusted to serve the elites' interests are now pushing a bill which would pre-empt state insurance related (health care insurance is exempted from the bill) consumer protection law if it conflicted with an international treaty. Here is the summary of the bill (from the Congressional

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The Huffington Post has an interesting article that provides a good outline of the current Foreign Policy of the US Government. This should not be mistaken as a purely Bush Administration policy because the following principals of US foreign policy have broad bipartisan support and should be a concern of anybody is truly concerned with freedom and democracy.The Washington principals which are

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"71-year-old McCain says in Kansas City, Missouri Thursday that he’s receiving Social Security checks, but the system needs to be fixed if future generations are to enjoy the same benefits." (per mark halperin @ time mag)And per Katha Pollitt at The Nation, he's a Viagra-votin' anti-birth control dickwad, too. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/anotherthing/337332

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From the London Independent:In November, alongside casting their ballot for the next president, the people of San Francisco will also vote on a measure to rename one of the city’s largest sewage works the George W Bush Sewage Plant, to provide a “fitting monument” to the outgoing commander-in-chief’s achievements.

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For decades, since Mondale lost in 1984, we have watched the DLC easily nominate their preferred choice for the President and then lose the General Election. Bill Clinton, obviously was the exception, his political skills were unmatched by his peers so he was able to overcome the DLC's failed strategy. Their strategy consisted of two main points. First, back away from liberal issues as if you

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thanks to dave neiwert/orcinus

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Scott McClelland: "...a serious strategic blunder." that's what the asshole says Iraq was. A. Serious. Strategic. Blunder. Shows me how far from humane these fuckers really are... even the ones like little scottie who are having a little difficulty sneaking up on the mirror.well, scottie, it seems to me that you are still scooping a little shallow when you attribute these things to strategic

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a k a "what Glenn sez" -- viz...http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/03/hiatt/index.html"... It's hard to recall a more incoherent argument than this. Self-evidently, every problem that Hiatt argues is created by "mere" air strikes against other countries is magnified by many magnitudes by the types of invasions and long-term occupations which Hiatt cheers on for Iraq. Unlike the

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thanks pandagon... i guess

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Heath Shuler is the one Bush Dog in North Carolina that has signed a letter calling for Telecom Immunity and threatening to vote against a Protect America Act extension if it does not contain Telecom Immunity.Now, I am against extending the Protect America Act because I believe it gives unconstitutional power to law enforcement agencies to spy on American citizen's without a warrant. But, if it

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First there was Iraq, then aid to Katrina reconstruction contractors (Note: I did not say residents, or former residents, of New Orleans because they did not received much aid from DHS) and now we have the border fence along our southern border.This article in the Texas Observer is primarily about the rather selective methods that the contractors working out of the SBInet office of the DHS are

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John McCain is trying to opt out the spending restrictions that he agreed to when he opted into the Federal public financing system last fall. TPM has a complete run down of the details.The problem is that the head of the FEC has ruled that since he used the public financing as collateral for a loan he is bound by his spending commitments until the general election. The general election starts

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Hillary has become the John the Baptist figure played out ironically even as the Black Jesus dons the crown of thorns -- awaiting persecution and crucifixion by the Repuglicans and racist amurika. Hillary -- the Sign, the First Apprehension -- lays groundwork for the Woman Messiah to triumph in the future. And who will the goddesses send? Donna Edwards? There's a day's worth of poetic thought...

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Olbermann hit another one out of the park with last nights Special Comment.He not only rightly called President Bush a fascist, he called on us not to fear Bush or his idle threats. He pointed out that Bush threatened to, and in effect did, veto a Protect America Act extension because it did not include immunity for the telecoms. As Bush was vetoing the House bill he claimed that to not extend

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7240414.stm"Two employees of Pakistan's atomic energy agency have been abducted in the country's restive north-western region abutting the Afghan border, police say."

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(the ol' jimmy hatlo tuh atrios)

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yee-haw to king atrios

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Today the senate cloture vote on the FISA reauthorization failed. That means the FISA bill which contained immunity for the Telecoms did not pass, at least not today. This is a victory for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.However, it seems the Republicans are going to try and use the expiration of the Protect America Act on February 1st as an example of how the Democrats are weak on Terror

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thx Juan Cole

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In 2001 President Bush wanted to cut marginal income tax rates for the top income brackets. He also wanted to eliminate the estate tax and reduce the capital gains tax. To help push this through he offered a tax "rebate" of $300 for singles and $600 for couples.Now, in 2008 President Bush wants to make those tax cuts permanent. To do this he is offering a tax "rebate" of $800 for singles and

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tipper ah lah Balloonjuice

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--thx TPM; but esp thanks to the great orange satan

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110014

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by Steve GilliardYou know, I've studied history, I've read about America and you know something, if it weren't for liberals, we'd be living in a dark, evil country, far worse than anything Bush could conjure up. A world where children were told to piss on the side of the road because they weren't fit to pee in a white outhouse, where women had to get back alley abortions and where rape was a joke

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/magazine/30gilliard-t.html?ref=magazinewhen the time comes, tell your grandchildren to read steve's archives...that is all.

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Suicide Attack on Rally May Have Killed Bhutto--the careful Pravda-on-the-Hudson @8:50 AM EST, 27 Dec 07

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" I dread the upcoming election year, because it’s going to speak volumes about whether or not we can salvage democracy in this environment." -- Amanda Marcotte (http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/12/22/6475/)

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h/t crooks&liars (yeah!)

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"I don't give a fuck who you are, I'm a fucking TV reporter, you fucking dyke." -- alleged retort of famed Philly newscaster Alycia Lane.She shudda saved it for the Phillies...

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This Sunday the Washington Post ran an article that claims that Nancy Pelosi was first briefed on the harsh interrogation techniques, known as torture to non orwellian challenged people, that the CIA was (is?) using as early as September of 2002. See this link for the complete article. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR2007120801664_pf.htmlNow the article clearly

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h/t Crooked Timber (bien sur)

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"Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers," Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said in a meeting with constituents this week.[h/t talkingpointsmemo.com]

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(thanks Atrios)

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yeah did you see the ad too?@ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

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-- thx to jeff fecke of the marvelous shakers...

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Chris Matthews will be damned if it does. ...not to mention all the "Bitchy Boys" of November... startin' with McCain.and the baby Jeebus will weep, weep and weep... ask any Babtist... It'll take more than Hillary to jerk these jerks around by their choke collars. It'll likely take a huge majority of women to vote this country away from its next deeper dive into insanity -- with Giuliani, Romney,

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Ahhh! The Republicans came to the healing waters of the "value voters" on the Sabbath of their god, and the candidates did lay out their gifts like bread upon the waters....Besides their usual debate strategy: A linguistic simulation of carving off large chunks of meat from the carcass of some dead mammal and throwing them into a cage full of ferocious wild beasts to rip and gobble up -- i.e.,

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That is the title of an article in the August 27th edition of the Nation magazine. In the article Christopher Hayes talks about a current right wing conspiracy theory about a large super highway which is supposed to run from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. You should read the article for details, here is the link http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070827/hayes .My interest in the article

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According to Cornel West in Democracy Matters:Prophetic witness consist of human deeds of justice and kindness that attend to the unjust sources of human hurt and misery. It calls attention to the causes of the unjustified suffering and unnecessary social misery and highlights personal and institutional evil. The especial aim of the prophetic utterance is to shatter deliberate ignorance and

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Here he comes... the Ministry of Truth is finally getting its terrorist-actor thing right...google "al qaeda" (News)they are ALL al qaeda... and we are ALL bozos on this bus...

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I cant think of a better example of the triumph of 'truthless' postmodernism a la Lynn Cheney's nemesis (in what are her several apologetic theologies for superman-amerika -- "truth, justice and the amerikan way..." yee-haw) than her creepy evil husband's neat trick of making his office of the vice-presidency a fourth branch of the federal government. This little coup has been spieling along for

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Today the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) struck another blow to the individual investor. According to the NY Times: ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/washington/21cnd-bizcourt.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin )The Supreme Court dealt a new blow today to investors suing companies over accusations of fraud when it set a higher standard to prevent the lawsuits from being dismissed.The decision was the second this

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It is reassuring to know that Bush has even more confidence that Alberto Gonzales is doing his job, after seeing Gonzales' testimony in front of the senate last week.Leaving aside the fact that Bush's press secretary admitted, right after saying Bush was satisfied Gonzales' testimony, that Bush had not actually seen Al's testimony. That was last week, maybe Bush has watched the hearing since that

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