WHAT I’M LISTENING TO: From one of my favorite albums, which has the odd distinction of being her third album - and yet, it’s the one for which she won a Grammy as Best New Artist (go figure): “Leavin’,” Shelby Lynne, I Am Shelby Lynne:
Well I guess this is it babereality has hit home hardno [...]

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WHAT HE DID IN THE SENATE
No wonder Bush hates Kerry - Kerry was choking off the cocaine supply:
The Reagan administration’s tolerance and protection of this dark underbelly of the Contra war represented one of the most sordid scandals in the history of U.S. foreign policy. Yet when Kerry’s bombshell findings were released in 1989, they [...]

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COLOR US BLUE
Local TV news stations estimate the size of today’s Kerry rally crowd at 100,000.
And those are just the people who felt like braving these crowds.

Color Pennsylvania blue.

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ALTERNATIVES TO THE DRAFT
From the Washington Monthly: What if… ?
So what happens if Iraq gets worse, or North Korea implodes, or any one of a dozen other scenarios happens that might require further commitments of U.S. troops? How, short of garnering significant military help from allies, are we going to handle our manpower needs?The answer [...]

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ARGHHH
Blogger is even more screwed than usual today - can only successfully post 2 out of ten times. Check back later.

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LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA
“If this isn’t good for my heart, I don’t know what is.” Bill Clinton, looking out over the huge crowd at today’s lunchtime Kerry rally in Philadelphia’s Love Park.
A small group of supporters yelled, “We love you, John!” Kerry shot back, “You go out and work for the next eight days, and I’ll [...]

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STORYVILLE
Media Ho Andrea Mitchell made comments about the Philadelphia crowd numbers inflated by “union members” and “government workers told to attend.” And yet last month, when busloads of captive parochial school students were bused to Valley Forge for a Bush rally, nary a discouraging word was heard.
Trust me: From the smiling, happy faces of those [...]

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ANGER
I was in the waiting room of the local free clinic this morning, and some wingnut talk show was on the radio. I tried to ignore it, but finally spoke up. “Nothing but lies,” I announced to the others in the room, and proceeded to dismantle the “facts” cited by the host.
“My wife and I [...]

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UNJUST WAR
Yoo hoo! “Godly” people, over here:
VATICAN CITY, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A major Vatican document issued a week ahead of the U.S. elections forcefully restated on Monday the Catholic Church’s position that preventive wars are permissible only with “clear proof” of an imminent attack.
The position on war and peace, on legitimate defence and aggression [...]

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Ruy Tiexeira over at Donkey Rising:
A few days ago, I highlighted some recent polls that showed solid leads for Kerry in the battleground states as a whole, states that were split about evenly between Gore and Bush four years ago.
Since then, Democracy Corps has released new data showing more of the same (a 7 point [...]

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PRIORITIZING
Once again, Giblets puts it all in perspective:
There are seventy thousand dead in Darfur an I’m watchin TV. “Mary Cheney gay,” says TV. “Gay Cheney gay. Gay gay gay gay gay gay gay. Tesesa Heinz. Gay lesbian gay.” Which is a valid point. Mary Cheney IS gay which is pretty important when you stop thinkin [...]

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SPREADING THE NEWS
Now the Times has picked up on the Iraqi explosives story.
UPDATE: Josh points out the holes in the Times coverage:
The Times story treads lightly over the question of whether the explosives in question have played a substantial role in the various suicide bombings, car bombings and sundry other attacks in Iraq over the [...]

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YAWN
This is the big wingnut scoop? Hell, I used to own an ice cream store and I tell you, this isn’t even as big as a baby cone:
About a year ago, Kerry said in a speech that he had met with all the members of the Security Council prior to voting to authorize Bush’s Iraq [...]

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DANGEROUSLY INCOMPETENT
Josh gives us this from the Nelson Report, and it’s very bad news:
Some 350 tons of high explosives (RDX and HDX), which were under IAEA seal while Saddam was in power, were looted during the early days of the US occupation. Like so much else, it was just left unguarded.
Not only are these super-high-yield [...]

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JERRY SPRINGER BELTWAY EDITION
Tommy Franks to Kerry’s statements on Tora Bora: “Nuh-UH!” Sen. Bob Graham to Tommy Franks: “Don’t even GO there!”
John Kerry is correct that resources were diverted from Afghanistan to Iraq before we accomplished our mission there. How can I be so sure? General Franks told me.
In my new book, “Intelligence Matters,” I [...]

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RUNNING GOVERNMENT LIKE A BANANA REPUBLIC
They certainly are consistent, n’cest pas? Punishing public servants who try to stop Halliburton pillaging, I mean:
Greenhouse’s objections, which had not been made public until now, will probably fuel criticism of the government’s allegedly cozy relationship with Halliburton and could be greeted with calls for further investigation. Halliburton’s Kellogg, Brown [...]

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REFERENDUM
This election is really about Karl Rove, and the idea of politics as a war without scruples:
Rovism is not simply a function of Rove the political conniver sitting in the counsels of power and making decisions, though he does. No recent presidency has put policy in the service of politics as has Bush’s. Because tactics [...]

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KERRY FOR PRESIDENT
From the Newark Star-Ledger:
President Bush does not deserve re-election. Sen. John Kerry, with his considerable international experience and sharp analytical mind, offers the country a chance to start afresh at home and abroad.For these and other reasons offered on the following page, The Star-Ledger endorses Kerry for president.
***Bush’s proposals to privatize Social [...]

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I had breakfast at the little diner near my house this morning. The place is filled with Coca-Cola memorabilia, including a life-size cardboard cutout of the late Dale Earnhardt tacked to the wall - with an actual Coca-Cola jacket draped around the cutout’s shoulders. Staring at the thing, I realized Earnhardt bears an uncanny resemblance [...]

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ALL BETS ARE OFF
They’re starting to get an inkling that this race isn’t as easy to pin down as they thought:
County officials were skeptical when a young voter registration worker asked them to put an early voting station at Drake University in Des Moines.
Michael Mauro, Polk County commissioner of elections, bet a student activist a [...]

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GET UP, STAND UP
Your help is needed. What are you doing on election day?

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FEELING A LITTLE EDGY, KARL?
It seems the numbers aren’t on their side:
One Republican official described the mood at the top of the campaign as apprehensive. ” ‘Grim’ is too strong,” the official said. “If we feel this way a week from now, that will be grim.”
It was the third time in eight days that [...]

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ROMANCE = TERROR?
Under the Patriot Act, the police invaded the home of a woman researching a romance novel. There’s more, and none of it’s good.
Boy, we really need to take our country back.

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RUMORS
Yes, I’ve heard the rumorss, too. The Moonie Times (naturally) is poised to dump some excrement on Kerry - one rumor is about his alleged ties to terrorism. Absurd, of course, but they’re desperate and they’ll stop at nothing.
Christian men. Godly men. God bless ‘em.

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SERIOUSLY, HOW SURPRISED WOULD YOU BE?
At this point, just about anything seems possible:
According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran’s top Islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on [...]

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A VISIT WITH MOM AND DAD
I was over my parents’ place today; my 81-year-old mom got a digital camera and she wanted me to install the software. Plus, she wanted me to walk her through ordering DSL online; I wanted to drop off the copy of “Farenheit 9/11″ I got her for Christmas so she [...]

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MANLY MEN AGAINST SMALL ANIMALS
Oh, you thought I was talking about John Kerry? No, this is a blast from Junior’s past (thanks, Art):
September 12, 1994, U.S. EditionSECTION: PEOPLE; Pg. 93LENGTH: 88 wordsHEADLINE: Sitting DuckBYLINE: By GINIA BELLAFANTE
BODY:It is a rite of Texas politics that on the first day of dove season, candidates go ahunting — [...]

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Flag-draped caskets line the mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial during a tribute, hosted by the Iraq War Memorial Coalition and 1,000 Coffins.org., to fallen U.S. military personnel in the Iraqi war, in Washington October 23, 2004. The tribute featured a flag-draped casket for each of the more than 1,100 American servicemen and women [...]

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TAKE IT LIKE A MAN, ANN
World O’Crap on the infamous War of Pie:
Reader Tex shares with us the Arizona Daily Wildcat story about Ann’s near brush with pie.
Sadly, both pies were killed in the incident. The throwers were arrested. Ann, who was protected by her Strategic Defensive Manhands, didn’t get any whipped cream [...]

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You’ve probably heard about “Mosh,” the new Eminem song, by now:
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speechlet the president answer our high anarchyStrap him with a AK-47 let him go fight his own warlet him impress daddy that wayNo more blood for oil we got our own battles to fight on our own soilno [...]

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