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Via The General

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Didn't see this coming...A report compiled by the Iraqi Board of Supreme Audit has concluded that at least half, and probably more, of $1.27bn (£700m) of Iraqi money spent on military procurement has disappeared into a miasma of kickbacks and vanished middlemen - or else has been spent on useless equipment.The report, leaked to the US news organisation Knight Ridder, comes as a blow to the

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Funny...In this White House pool report, we learn the limits of getting your information via the airways:The president stopped to talk to the pool outside a one story school being repaired, just after 2 pm CDT. He made no news at the 28th Street Elementary School. Asked about Mike Brown resigning, he said he hadn't spoken to Chertoff or Brown, but will be on AF One. "Maybe you know something I

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What Froomkin says:Is Bush the commanding, decisive, jovial president you've been hearing about for years in so much of the mainstream press?Maybe not so much.Judging from the blistering analyses in Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere these past few days, it turns out that Bush is in fact fidgety, cold and snappish in private. He yells at those who dare give him bad news and is therefore not

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Dear Leader, on Cindy Sheehan:"Mur-i-cans don't care about these issues of heart broken mothers! They know we're at war and someone has to sacrifice (not me and Dick's rich friends at Halliburton and Exxon and Bechtel, though). Besides, I sent someone out there to the Free Speech Ditch to speak to her last week, what the hell does she expect from a hard workin fella on vacation? I would send

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Huh? Wha??"In fact, I very much like women and wish them well, which is precisely why I consider women's rights to be a disease that should be eradicated."Hear that gals? Now get back in the kitchen...

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I found this amusing, but then I'm a sicko:

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From todays WaPo:Before the war in Iraq began, the CIA recruited and trained an Iraqi paramilitary group, code-named the Scorpions, to foment rebellion, conduct sabotage, and help CIA paramilitaries who entered Baghdad and other cities target buildings and individuals, according to three current and former intelligence officials with knowledge of the unit.The CIA spent millions of dollars on the

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Once upon a time, a dangerous radical gained control of the US Republican Party.

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Billmon: A friend of mine predicts the day will come when mothers in this country get their children to eat their vegetables (or wash their ears or do their homework or go to bed on time) by warning them that if they don't, the big bad George W. Bush will come and get them. I don't know about that, although I did successfully terrify my kids into submission once by threatening them with the

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Tell me this hasn't happened to you?Via The Tattered Coat.

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Digby makin' sense:I have no idea where people who don't pay much attention to the political scene would come down on this. It may be that they think the government should have a branch that does illegal dirty work. But I suspect they would also think that the president should not be allowed to run a secret foreign policy or stage wars for inscrutable reasons. Indeed, I think most people would

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More fun is on the way!!!In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type

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Dear Red States...We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us.In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.To sum up briefly

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I must say these new pictures of the Boxing Day tsunami (9 pix taken from a mountaintop in Southern Thailand) are pretty darned impressive. I'd never seen them before.

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The end..... I started this blog to give me a place to vent my frustrations at The Way Things Are, Bush-wise. I worked hard, and we lost. Life goes on. This blog doesn't....

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Via Life and Deatherage comes a fair and balanced comparison between JKerry and Smirky: Before he was 40, John Kerry graduated Yale with higher than Bush's 2.0 GPA, and volunteered for service in Vietnam. After earning all those medals, he returned to the US, testified before Congress about the War, and founded Vietnam Veterans for America. He was then accepted to Boston College Law School,

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SamuelJohnson: "This election is about President Bush," said Bill Kristol, an official in the previous Reagan and Bush administrations and now editor of the Weekly Standard. "It's his re-election, he's got to make the case for himself. He's entitled to criticize John Kerry, but John Kerry is more qualified to be president than Jimmy Carter was after four years as governor of Georgia and, arguably

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You can buy anything over EBay, and that includes an adorable little rubber ducky who happens to be, ya know....HAUNTED!! This is a true story about a Rubber Ducky. I don't feel that in good conscience I can keep this thing in my house, it wouldn't be fair to my family and frankly I've lost enough sleep over it as it is. I spoke at length with my Pastor and together we came up with the idea to

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You want irony? I'll give you irony: ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A small cruise ship catering to eco-tourists was seriously damaged after running aground in the Aleutian Islands. Coast Guard Chief Warrant Officer Roddy Corr said about 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from the ruptured tank, as was some waste water. He said swift currents dispersed the spilled fluid before it could be cleaned

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Jake has it figured out: No muss, no fuss, no unsightly paper trail.

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Ted boils it down: Only 96 days remain to take back our country from the most secretive, hypocritical and dangerous band of ideologues in our governmental history. Let no doubt remain; this is the most important election of our time. Either we take the road forward to national unity and international cooperation, or we fall further into despair, division and dangerous isolation. Our nation

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Ron Jr. is all over ChimpCo: “When Mr. Bush talks about the economy, he is not talking about your economy. His economy is filled with pals called Kenny-boy who fly around in their own airplanes. In Bush’s economy, his world, friends relocate offshore to avoid paying taxes. Taxes are for chumps like you. You are not a friend. You’re the help. When the party Mr. Bush is hosting in his world ends,

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Blogging out of Madras (Oregon) the Gr8ful Grind clues us in as to what kind of thinking it takes to be a Republican today: The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand

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I must have missed this one: WASHINGTON, June 14, 2004 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- Five former Halliburton employees and one former executive of a Halliburton subcontractor describe egregious examples of abuse involving Halliburton’s Iraq contracts. In a letter written by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), these whistleblowers describe instances where Halliburton employees would abandon or torch new

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The Dark Window has discovered Amber in Seb's closet and it ain't pretty: What is “divisive” about taking out someone like Saddam Hussein? Let me explain the war in simple terms, understandable to the left: Saddam Hussein was a bad man, we are at war with an entire culture that wants us destroyed, and taking him out can do nothing but good. There is nothing about this that is too terrible.Amy

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This one really had me going: Kerry Campaign Questions Timing By DAVID STOUT 10:37 PM ETOvercoming the distraction caused by the suspiciously timed announcement of the capture of Osama bin Laden, John Kerry pledged tonight to help build an America that is secure and prosperous within its own borders; the rest of the world was told to "shove it".I had to look thru that site a couple times before I

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Lotta angry people out there: Prettygirl: When the doors open in the morning, find the biggest toughest Mom in the crowd and rip her goddamn throat out her neck to show all the other Moms you're not to be fucked with. If you don't acquire a Mattel Piss Cannon this morning, you do not love your son. TerryC: NEWSWEEK reports that President Bush, appearing before a right-to-life rally in Tampa,

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Attractive bumperstickers. Free to good home: "In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top." -Tallyrand

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Stolen from My Stolen Nation

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Three from my day: Nat: This was once a country that understood the value of speaking softly while carrying a big stick. But it seems that public discourse has become so shallow and trite that all we can do is talk loudly about our big stick. SDAI Tech1: Not a lot of people know much about Dick Cheney. The media doesn't show many pictures of him smiling, but Cheney does smile. He smiles a lot.

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RightWing nirvana. Jonah didn't bring his couch. He was on his feet the whole night and organizing on the phone. As you can see from the picture he is also the world's tallest Jew. He blinked - he wasn't hammered (although that might be a better strategy for coping with hours of DNC speeches). I couldn't not include it though, its a picture of me and Jonah Goldberg!Cool! And I say good for Jack.

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They said it: Chris: OK, let me ask you, because you have been where many—very few people have been before.  It‘s like—not “Star Wars.”  It‘s like “Star Trek.”Josh: This is just the latest, but perhaps the most blatant, example of how this administration has placed politics and, really, political dirty tricks above national security itself, and along the way persisted in defining political

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The Decembrist has some second thoughts about John Kerry:As a political analyst, Tom Oliphant is the equivalent of a Red Sox broadcaster, always certain that his own homeboys are going all the way this year, not quite finding the distance. It's got its limits as analysis. But on the subject of just those New England politicians who float his bowtie, he is indispensable. I found his argument for

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Tom DeLay has tiny vapors : A super-sized Statue of Liberty, holding aloft an order of french fries, is adorning food tray liners in Subway restaurants across Germany. And House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, is angry enough about it to lose his lunch. The ad in German, whose headline translates as "Why are Americans so fat?" is a promotional tie-in to the movie Super Size Me,

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Imagine my surprise: WASHINGTON - A U.S. official on Thursday confirmed that Pakistan has captured a senior al Qaeda member wanted by the United States in connection with the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. "He is wanted for the death of Americans," the official said on condition of anonymity. The United States had offered a reward of $25 million for the capture of the suspect

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Meet Helen and Graham: I’ve been lucky in my travels to have met some great folks along the way. I met HG on Ko Pu Thailand last February, hung out with them on that beach for about 15 days then time ran out and I had to come home when my holiday ended mid-March. Yeah and I was bummin pretty bad about that too.   We all were having a pretty good time in SThailand and I just didn’t want to

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As fearless as it is unreliable, Capitol Hill Blue suggests that Chimpy has gone bananas: President George W. Bush is taking powerful anti-depressant drugs to control his erratic behavior, depression and paranoia, Capitol Hill Blue has learned. The prescription drugs, administered by Col. Richard J. Tubb, the White House physician, can impair the President’s mental faculties and decrease both

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The First Brother has everything under control: Some states, worried about the potential for abuse with voting machines that leave no paper trail, have banned their use this November. But Florida, which may well decide the presidential race, is not among those states, and last month state officials rejected a request to allow independent audits of the machines' integrity. A spokesman for Gov. Jeb

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Hullabaloo points us to one of JK's advisers: Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy:   Kennedy was a real breath of fresh air, and clearly a truly progressive thinker. She first spoke about how one flaw in government we can fix with Kerry is how we come to decisions. Usually this process is crisis-driven.We need a much more sophisticated process that is more "granular" and shaded. Echoing Clark a bit, she

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 The lady can write some: That said, beyond the (very nice and very much appreciated) extra gifts youth delegates received at the convention (a FCUK –French Connection t-shirt and a copy of Primarily New Hampshire ) there doesn’t seem to be much of substance for youth to participate in. Yes, there are youth caucuses, but from reports, they tend to be “warm and fuzzy” events, with no voting on

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BendBlogger Jake is all up in the Bulletin's face: And the first thing I'm going to hear back from the authority figures is that "We don't want to lose print subscribers." I understand that, and I wouldn't want to, either, but thanks to the efforts of folks like Barney at Bend.com, you probably already have. Because they are providing news online in a timely manner while to get any news from you

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Conason has the scoop behind "Shoveitgate": The innocuously named newspaper has long served as the weapon of Richard Mellon Scaife, its founder and publisher. His name is now synonymous with the campaign of hate and calumny focused on the Clintons during the 1990’s, but to Ms. Heinz Kerry, his methods were familiar long before he achieved any national notoriety. During the decades of her marriage

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WOLF BLITZER: So, Fafnir and Giblets, what IS a blog? FAFNIR: Blogs are the future Wolf. GIBLETS: Yes! They are MADE of the future! G: Blogs must be spontaneous intant reactions to the lightning events of the everyday! Giblets fires up a random news article, pounds his head against the keyboard several times, an hits the "publish" button for the purest of pure blog posts! F: Otherwise you are

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And who exactly is this Mystery Woman? “Democratic Girl” is Sarah Schacht, a 24 year-old delegate at-large to the Democratic National Convention, representing supporters of Governor Howard Dean’s former presidential campaign.  A Dean supporter since December 2002, she traveled cross-country to work as an unpaid intern for Dean for America in the summer of 2003, and by February of 2004 had

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Get 'em while they're HOT! Bush campaign Hate Buttons:

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I was dish surfin this morning and blundered into Democracy Now! on LinkTV.  I'd never seen it before and it's quite good. If you're looking for a  recap of the previous night's Convention Amy Goodman gives as sedately as any.

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Who's saying what this morning. Jesse: But Hewitt's just being totally ridiculous here - Drudge is a Republican attack dog. A beast, a machine, a doomsday device. The only excuse he needs to talk about the story is the fact that it involves a Democrat.greg: Last night Bill Clinton gave one of the most effective anti-Bush speeches I've ever heard. The Republican response? That John Kerry looks

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Somebody always has to ruin it for everybody: Just five minutes ago I got to see THE Newsweek's Howard Fineman! He is even shorter an pastier an more pathologically blase about the status of American democracy in real life! I tried to engage him in insightful commentary but I was overcome by girlish squealin and mobbed him along with some of the understaff of the New Republic. I came back with

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The Big Dog was soooooo on last night:When I was in office, the Republicans were pretty mean to me. When I left and made money, I became part of the most important group in the world to them. At first I thought I should send them a thank you note—until I realized they were sending you the bill. They protected my tax cuts while: Withholding promised funding for the Leave No Child Behind Act,

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It's no secret  I was a big fan of Howard Dean and I was as  disappointed  as anybody when DFA went knackers. DrDean, unleashed, getting his still-potent message out: ...Cops blocked hundreds of Deaniacs from entering the over-capacity Royal Sonesta Hotel Tuesday afternoon, after some had waited up to three hours to get in. But when Dean and the organizers heard about the snafu, the former

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Here's a charming story from young Chimpys' past: Other documents in the Bush files provide additional evidence that the training that Bush was paid for in Alabama was never properly authorized. And the statements made by officers of the Alabama Air National Guard also confirm that Bush did not get the authorization necessary from Alabama for him to be paid and credited with training. Finally,

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Once in a while something kinda nice tumbles off the Internet:

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I was doing some housecleaning this afternoon and ran across this one: One of my wildflower guides tells me the lily above is a lilium columbianum or Columbia Lily, which is found growing hither and yon here in the NW. We planted a few dozen bulbs a couple years back and they're doing nicely in our half-assed landscaping. I've always known it as a Tigerlily. Your mileage may vary.

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This little guy wandered thru my garden the other day, so I thought I'd share the love:

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Billmon comes back just in time for me to disagree with him: I've never liked our national anthem much. I usually wince every time I have to listen to it, and if I'm listening to it on TV I always fumble for the mute button. I've often said that if I were dictator (which, as Shrub has noted, makes things easier) my first decree would be to change it to This Land is Your Land, and let the bombs

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Good to see BushBashing still alive and well: In a speech that went on so long that California Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres began to hover nervously at his side, [actor Richard] Dreyfuss called Bush "arrogant and incompetent'' and said "his appeal to patriotism is simplistic and thuggish.'' Dreyfuss added, "He is the enemy of thoughtfulness.'' "I wasn't raised in George Bush's

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Hahahahahahaha: May I recommend a trip over to C-Span? The speeches are boring, but at least they are sincere. (Fox News team just got a hearty boo from the crowd.)You get to see lots of shots of the delegates instead of the absurd celebcorps who haven't even the slightest interest in anything but trivia. And the films are actually quite good. As Professor DeLong plaintively cries, "Why, oh why

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If you can handle the profanity and the un-PC of the whole blog The Rude Pundit very often gets it just right:So, like, when you hear the words "bipartisan" and "unanimous" in reference to the 9/11 Commission report, are you just ready to beat your head against the wall until you fall into the sweet sleep of concussion?  Are you ready to try to gnaw off your own arm, held, as you are, in the

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Greg at The Talent Show gets it:We went to war because the President was "running out of patience". As the inspection process went on and on, it was more and more likely that Hans Blix and his crew weren't gonna find anything and that the U.N. wouldn't support an preemptive war. A decent leader would use this as a sign that he should re-evaluate his evidence and work harder to unite his allies,

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Post 9-11 funtime in Beantown: I can't begin to describe my horror being in this place. The same government that calls the law that gives polluters free reign to pollute, the "Clear Skies Act" and calls the justification for us to terrorize the world, the "War on Terror" has the audacity to call this concentration-camp type holding pen a 'Free Speech Zone"! The first thing that came to my mind

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I've been looking all over for a good resourse to keep track of the blogging from Boston and I think I found the best. It's  attractive, up-to-the-minute and has everybody you've probably heard of. Thanks to the (surely) vivacious Annatopia for the link.

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In my surfings around the Web I occasionally run into some homegrown who are bloggin' the Convention:I had the good fortune of riding on the plane with Governor Barbara Roberts, who told me stories of Convention's past and made it very clear that you can't do all the things that you think you're going to do. Speaking of things, the sheer volume of mail and email invitations and the many packets

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I agree with James over at Left End of the Dial that the World Without BushCo would be a better place: I would be happy if Kerry does any of the following: -Kick out every current member of the current White House. That includes Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, ASHCROFT etc.. safe bet -Make nice with the rest of the world and work to get the people that should be our friends to stop hating

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Well that wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be....

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OK so it took me longer than expected to do re-do The Skeptic. Still tweaking....

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I really haven't been doing a whole lot of blogging lately because I was busy preparing for some SUNDAY KNEE SURGERY BLOGGING!!! Yeah I spent the better part of Tuesday at SCMC getting my left knee scoped. Dr. Coe (of The Center) fame did the meniscus repair and he did a wonderful job. Of course, he's not to be confused with this Dr. Coe: Charles Spencer Edwards was Bend's first doctor,

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Post removed during remodeling...

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So says Hunter S. Thompson:"I got into politics a long time ago and I still believe, on some days, it can be an honorable trade...That is not an easy belief to hang on to after wallowing for 30 years in the belly of a beast that has beaten and broken more good men and women than crack and junk bonds combined. Politics is a mean business, and when September rolls around in a presidential campaign,

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It's Friday Flowerblogging!!! Fresh from the garden: Picture removed, sadly....h5>

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LOL Photoshop MAGIC!! Caught at Catch.

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John Kerry does the right thing and picks Johnny Sunshine as his running mate:!!! I kid, because I love this guy!! UPDATE: The always effervescent Talent Show has a good rundown on why Edwards is the right choice.

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Alllll righty! It's Friday Flowerblogging!! From my garden....

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Quote of the day:After a particularly brutal day of bombings in Baghdad an Iraqi friend recently asked, "Are the Americans so smart that they have a plan for Iraq that's so complicated that I don't understand it, or are they so stupid that they have no plan at all?"It's answer "B".

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There's a whole new online site to answer all of your BushAWOL questions:Under Air Force policy in force at that time, the only way that someone in Bush’s position could be placed in an “Inactive Status” was if they were being “completely severed from military status.” And the only way that could happen is if someone had become permanently disabled, or deserted. Bush was not disabled. Instead

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Proconsul Paul checks out: UPDATE! TomDispatch says it better than I ever could in a million years:Other than L. Paul Bremer, not a significant American official was in sight, even though the President, Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Secretary of State were all in Turkey, not 90 minutes away. There were no representatives from other governments. No flags. No bands. No

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Like the swallows returning to Capistrano and just in time for the 4th:As the July 4 holiday approaches, Bush Administration officials are bombarding the nation's police, fire, emergency and corporate-security offices with another round of terrorism warnings. Although there are no plans to raise the threat level from yellow to orange, a senior Justice Department official says, "there's very

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Here's one movie theater owner who going to be eating a lot of crow the next few weeks for deciding NOT to show F911 at his chain:One chain that has so far said no is Carmike, which owns theatres in the Mid-West. Mike Patrick, Carmike's president, insists that he made the decision purely for business reasons. "This is in the biggest part of our season," he told the Chicago Tribune. "

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William Rivers Pitt has about 1500 well chosen words about his Fahrenheit 9/11 experience: The Who once sang about how the hypnotized never lie, but as we have seen, people hypnotized by television and deliberately enforced fear can certainly support a war, and a President, which are fundamentally at odds with basic American decency. In fact, people hypnotized by television and deliberately

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Let's give a warm welcome to KABUL FOR KERRY!!!KABUL: The doughnuts and the donkey suffered in the summer heat, and the man himself was nowhere to be seen, but American Democrats have held one of the most remote gatherings of the US presidential campaign so far with 'Kabul for Kerry'. Afghanistan's event lacked the glamour of this week's star-spangled fundraiser in Hollywood and is unlikely to

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From Two Visions of America:If the struggle against terrorism were to be carried out consistently with the institutional theory embedded in the U.S. Constitution, America's leaders would be well aware of the potential for abuse - even by decent patriots. They would have ensured not only that the Constitution was upheld at home, but that the more limited protections embodied in international law

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Oh how they hate Smirky:How can there be so little enthusiasm for welcoming President Bush in as pro-American a country as exists on the face of the earth? Our intelligentsia is pro-American; American popular culture, far from being resisted as it is elsewhere in Europe, has been a precious modernizing influence on the grim patriarchy that dominated Ireland until recent times; our teachers and

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I'm just saying...."I have also determined that the use of armed force against Iraq is consistent with taking necessary action against those nations who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11." George Bush Letter to Congress 2002 Thanks to Working for Change and Joe Conason for the quote. I think this explains it

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Hey, Jude. Don't let me down:I`m sure you read the NYTimes story this morning from Beijing, "U.S. Cites Scant Progress in Nuclear Talks With North Korea. It notes Senator Kerry`s position that the U.S. should "engage in intensive, bilateral discussions with North Korea in addition to the six-party talks, and has criticized the Bush administration for being slow to enter serious negotiations." I

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There's Friday Catblogging. There's Friday Ferretblogging. How about some Friday Lilyblogging: Via my garden.

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I generally don't like Joe Biden (OK I know he has a metal plate in his head and that can account for some of his sometimes bizarre behavior), but THIS I like: Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) might not be invited back to the Oval Office anytime soon to do his Donald Trump imitation. In May he dispensed blunt advice to President Bush on whom he would fire. As Biden recounts in the new Rolling Stone: "I

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Go have a bite at The Big Picnic who was nice enough to link to me this week.

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Quick! Without looking...who said this:It is an extraordinary blessing to live in a nation so carefully designed to protect individual liberty and safeguard self-governance and free communication. But if George Washington could see the current state of his generation's handiwork and assess the quality of our generation's stewardship at the beginning of this 21st century, what do you suppose he

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BIF! WHAM!! SNUGH!!! Holy Photoshop, Batman: Via Thru the Looking Glass.

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So you've gotten into a fight with a wingnut and you need ammunition to prove your points. Go to Winning Argument for everything you'll need:Argument: The war in Iraq made al-Qaeda stronger Why you're right: 1. The war in Iraq reenergized al-Qaeda. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) says, "the war in Iraq has focused the energies and resources of al-Qaeda and its

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BRITNEY SPEARS NAKED!!!!! Click...you know you want to.

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Unka Dick drops the F-Bomb:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out the "F word" at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont during a heated exchange on the Senate floor, congressional aides said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Tuesday in a terse discussion between the two that touched on politics, religion and money, with Cheney finally telling Leahy to "fuck off" or

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The Moon also rises:More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in which Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be "reborn as new persons." At the March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding an

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Anonymous opens up at TPM this week. Must read: Then there's Iraq. "There is nothing bin Laden could have hoped for more than the American invasion and occupation of Iraq," he writes. All Muslims would see each day on television that the United States was occupying a Muslim country, insisting that man-made laws replace God's revealed word, stealing Iraq's oil, and paving the way for the creation

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So let us never EVER forget that Maj. Leader Bill Frist was a cat murderer:I'm talking about the cat-killing. What perspective should we put this in? Think of it this way: You have a sister, and she comes to you for advice. This guy named Bill has asked her to marry him. Great guy, this Bill, practically Mr. Perfect: a heart surgeon, ambitious, dedicated, everyone speaks well of him. There's

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I knew it. I JUST KNEW IT!!!!: Thanks Talent Show.

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