MORE ON WAR
“Rush to War: Between Iraq and a Hard Place” is a new documentary which examines U.S. foreign policy. The trailer looks pretty good, and the interviews are with a bunch of good, smart people, including Howard Zinn, Molly Ivins, Daniel Berrigan, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter, Robert Scheer (hey Bob, what’s with that 1975 [...]

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WHAT UTOPIA LOOKS LIKE
A candid interview with Sy Hersh:
You’ve said in other interviews that it would be better to have a realist like Henry Kissinger in the White House than utopians like the neoconservatives. So is there a lesson in Iraq then for the so-called humanitarian hawks – the liberal hawks who believe in going [...]

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SHEDDING LIGHT
Seems they’ve been less than honest with us:
When the troops from the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade arrived at the Al-Qaqaa base a day or so after Baghdad’s fall on April 9, 2003, there were already looters throughout the facility, Lt. Col. Fred Wellman, deputy public affairs officer for the unit, told The Associated [...]

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HEDGING HIS BETS
Well!
AFTER months of embarrassed silence over links with US Democrats, Downing Street finally admitted yesterday that Tony Blair had twice met John Kerry, who is challenging the Prime Minister’s war ally President Bush for the Oval Office.
The disclosure suggests that Mr Blair may be hedging his bets on the outcome of the US [...]

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“I don’t want the Supreme Court to pick the next president,” Mr. Gore said, “and I don’t want this president to pick the next Supreme Court.”

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NOTHING IS TOO UNTHINKABLE FOR THIS BUNCH
Digby cites a post by Amy Sullivan which points out the possibility of Bush making an interim appointment to the Supreme Court.
If it does happen, people will take to the streets.

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WHEN NASCAR MOMS ATTACK
Via Wonkette, who notes, “David Brooks must be shitting himself.”

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PERHAPS WE SHOULD TRY THAT DEMOCRACY THING HERE FIRST
From Kos:
An email from Wisconsin.
A friend with a child in the Richland County,WI high school where George Bush appears today reports the following. Students were told they could not wear any pro-Kerry clothing or buttons or protest in any manner, at the risk of expulsion. After a [...]

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BLAST FROM THE PAST
Years ago (1988 or so, I think it was), I answered an ad on the back page of the Village Voice seeking people who worked for the movie theaters showing “The Exorcist.”
It turned out to be for a Clive Barker BBC series called “The A to Z of Horror.” The episode [...]

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TRANSITIONAL HAIR
I had to do something about the butterscotch hair (plus, I was in the mood for yet another drastic change) so I went and had it all cut off today. It’s the first time in seven years I’ve had short hair.
It must look okay, because every single stylist in the place stopped me to [...]

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KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Excellent Buzzflash interview with investigative reporter Robert Parry, the man who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for the AP and Newsweek:
Even though Bush got in as CIA Director and was confirmed by the Senate, he did operate in a very political way. One of his most significant acts was to allow a [...]

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HMMM
While checking my stats a few months ago, I noticed a regular reader in Chappaqua - an AOL user who checks in a couple of times a day.
Bill Clinton’s on the road and my reader has disappeared.
Coincidence? I think not.

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LEARNING FROM HISTORY
I remember a post-election Nightline special that appeared after Clinton was first elected. And Ted Koppel said then that, from their own polling, reporters knew a week before the election that Bush was going down.
He explained how, of course, they couldn’t actually say that because they couldn’t be seen as influencing the results. [...]

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TRUE BELIEVERS
E.J. Dionne:
As a political matter, this intensity gap suggests that even if Bush has been successful in mobilizing the Republican Party’s political base, he has been even more successful in mobilizing Democrats.
The Bush camp followers are not happy with this state of affairs. They tried to dismiss the strong feelings against Bush as [...]

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FIGHT SONG
Here’s the link to “Mosh,” Eminem’s new anti-Bush video.

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COMPASSIONATELY IN FAVOR OF CIVIL UNIONS
See, I’m actually a moderate. And these people - God fearin’ people, people who believe God will smite down the Sodomites, they think they’re doing God’s will, so they want to make sure the Sodomites can’t get married. It’s a point of view, see?
And I’ve told them I don’t agree, [...]

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THE APOSTLES CREED
For the faith-based voter: “I believe in George Bush.”

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DON’T BE PICKING NEW WALLPAPER JUST YET, PORTER
Here’s some good news from Paul Krugman:
Aides to John Kerry say that if he wins, he’ll replace Porter Goss as head of the C.I.A. Let’s hope so: Mr. Goss has already confirmed the fears of those who worried about his appointment by placing Republican staff members from Capitol [...]

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PROBLEM SOLVED
See, if you don’t say it out loud, it just goes away:
top NASA climate expert who twice briefed Vice President Dick Cheney on global warming plans to criticize the administration’s approach to the issue in a lecture at the University of Iowa tonight and say that a senior administration official told him last [...]

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DANGEROUS GROUND
What makes this any different than a kangaroo court?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 - A new legal opinion by the Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions, administration officials said Monday.
The opinion, reached in recent [...]

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SEMI-HUMOROUS ASIDE
I may be taking this radical-change program a little too far.
The picture on the Revlon box looked just like my natural hair color, only better: “This is a sophisticated blonde with warm butterscotch tones.” You can say that, all right. My hair is now exactly the same color as the cellophane wrapper on a [...]

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FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE
Send this on to anyone you know who may be the least be confused about finding their polling place.
The site was started by Keith Kritselis:
The website’s goal is to help voters find their polling place. Our database of online poll locators has been slowly growing. We now can get 63% of the [...]

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INSPIRATION
“This,” cried the Mayor, “is your town’s darkest hour!The time for all Whos who have blood that redTo come to the aid of their country!” he said.“We’ve GOT to make noises in greater amounts!So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”
- excerpted from Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss

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THE HEALTH OF NATIONS
Two of my personal heroes, Don Barlett and Jim Steele:
Aggressive marketing and pricing have made pharmaceutical companies America’s most profitable industry. On the whole, Americans pay higher prices for prescription drugs than anyone else in the world because the United States is the only industrialized nation that does not exert influence over [...]

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THE BIG MO
My friend Cos took the train into town yesterday for the Kerry rally. She said SEPTA added an additional run to carry the extra load, and it was “filled” with little old Main Line ladies with Kerry stickers.
A born-and-bred Main Liner herself and familiar with their mostly-Republican ways, she was impressed. “Imagine. And [...]

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WELCOME TO THE PLANTATION
Charles Pierce over at Altercation:
And Look who’s getting millions from the DOD to train Iraqis about how to be right-wing nuts. Former board members include Lynne Cheney, PhD (literature), former chairman (sic) of the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986-1993), senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and wife of Vice [...]

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STORIES FROM THE VOTING LINE
We’re going to win. Don’t doubt it for a minute:
Second week of “early voting,” one week before the general election.Sometimes, my eyes glance lazily up and down the lines of voters who have been standing for hours, and I find myself moved intensely. Often it is the elderly ladies, shrunken by [...]

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CARELESS
Latest on those explosives:
“This stuff was well-known. Everyone knew it was there, and it should have been among the first sites to be secured,” said a European diplomat familiar with the disappearance of the explosives, which was first reported Monday by The New York Times.
At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq [...]

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CLOWN
Ahnold is such a comic:
At a campaign appearance for a Republican candidate to the California Assembly, Schwarzenegger apologized for being a few minutes late, explaining that he had been pumpkin hunting with his children. Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver, who is Kennedy’s niece.
“My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know [...]

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THANK YEW VERRA MUCH
Thanks to all of you who contributed to the cause - I got my car back yesterday. It not only has a spanking brand new engine, it’s newly inspected. It feels quite wonderful.
So many of you helped a total stranger with such generous spirit, it truly humbled me.
New apartment, new “old” car, [...]

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