Okay, I’ll be out of touch until late tomorrow morning, when I’ll be blogging from the Take Back America conference in D.C. Thanks to those of you who kicked in for gas and food - it’s much appreciated.
Should be interesting, eh?
I won’t have access to my Suburban Guerrilla email addy while I’m gone, so use […]

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Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese:
The president and vice president have artfully dodged the central question: ”Did the administration mislead us into war by manipulating and misstating intelligence concerning weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to Al Qaeda, suppressing contrary intelligence, and deliberately exaggerating the danger a contained, weakened Iraq posed to the United States […]

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Check out Josh Marshall’s groovy new place.

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Finally:
NEW YORK - A former FBI official says he was the source called “Deep Throat” who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday. W. Mark Felt, 91, who was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when […]

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I was supposed to be quoted in the Wall St. Journal this morning but alas, I was left on the cutting room floor.
No, really. I got an email Friday from a reporter who wanted a quote on corporate blogs from a “real” blogger.
I questioned the credibility of corporate blogs. “People like blogs because we have […]

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Corporate welfare pretending to be a free market. So what else is new?
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), the Senate’s third-ranking Republican, is pushing a bill that critics say would force the Weather Service to disseminate much of its data only to private companies.
The bill, these opponents contend, would limit the public’s access to user-friendly weather information […]

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People are starting to understand:
Picture this: a long line at the United Airlines counter at O’Hare, and the would-be travelers have just learned that their flight to California has been canceled because a crew hasn’t shown up. And what do these folks do? Complain vociferously? Attack the United workers? No, they sympathized with the absent […]

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Rolling Stone on the stealth efforts to make the U.S. over into a Christian nation:
The Dominionists are also stepping up efforts to turn public schools into forums for evangelism. In a landmark case, the Alliance Defense Fund is suing a California school district that threatened to dismiss a born-again teacher who was evangelizing fifth-graders. In […]

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“Hack,” hero to the grunts, will be laid to rest:
Tomorrow, the US military will lay to rest Colonel David H. Hackworth — among its most decorated heroes of all time — at Arlington National Cemetery.
The top brass is not expected to attend.
Hackworth’s most enduring foe was not the communists he fought. He earned a chestful […]

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Miss Molly:
As a longtime fan of both George Bushes’ eccentric grasp of English, I naturally enjoyed this gem from W.: “See, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” (Bush in Greece, N.Y., May […]

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Oh, don’t worry. We know they’d never use it to stifle dissent or anything like that:
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to restore its ability to compel Internet service providers to turn over information about their customers or subscribers as part of its fight against terrorism.
The legal filing with […]

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David Sirota points out the delicate feelings of the ladies and gentlemen of the Beltway press when it comes to lying about extramarital oral sex.
Lying about war, of course, is perfectly okay - provided you attend the right parties and went to the right schools:
Where is the outrage from these Beltway Establishment figures over the […]

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Now kids, you know what to do. Show Ford some love:
Dear Susan,
You are probably unaware that Ford Motor Company is a major supporter of the homosexual movement, including homosexual marriage.
From redefining family to include homosexual marriage, to giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda, to forcing managers to […]

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This is just bullshit:
LANSING — All women seeking abortions would be required to submit to ultrasound procedures under legislation being taken up this week in the state Senate.
The bill, pushed by abortion opponents, is the latest test of lawmakers’ personal beliefs on the sensitive issue. It passed the House on a 69-37 vote last […]

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It was gray and drizzly, so we went to a restaurant for Memorial Day burgers instead of cooking out. I told my friend what a shitty, shitty week I’d had. Suddenly, the little dancing lights appeared.
“Oh shit, I’m having another migraine,” I muttered. “This is just not fair. Two in one day? That’s never happened […]

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Soldiers are not chunks of identical clay; they each have a story, their own reasons for being caught in a war.
Brave? Maybe - sometimes, under some conditions. Scared, mostly. The younger they are, the more likely their presence had to do with restlessness, cockiness. The need to be part of a winning team, the desire […]

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Woke at 5:15 a.m. to a ringing phone. The adrenaline rushed through me in that way only a late-night phone call can cause - especially when you have a sick relative.
I felt a little nauseated when I got up. Checked the Caller ID (naturally, it was a stranger) and decided to check my email. Now […]

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Now, this is a great idea:
GLENDALE, Calif. - Maxwell Smart’s “cone of silence” is finally a reality.
Two people in an office here were having a tête-à-tête, but it was impossible for a listener standing nearby to understand what they were saying. The conversation sounded like a waterfall of voices, both tantalizingly familiar and yet incomprehensible. […]

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In honor of Memorial Day.

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Maybe smokers will stop making excuses for this now:
Secondhand smoke may be more dangerous than previously thought, amplifying blood clotting and damaging the walls of blood vessels within minutes of exposure, researchers reported yesterday.
Scientists in California found that exposure to small doses of smoke, equivalent to the amount encountered when several people gather to puff […]

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From Martini Republic, this exchange between Flounder and a reporter:
Q And my question is . . . . is the President also opposed to contraception, which stops this union and kills both sperm and egg?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think the President has made his views known on these issues, and his views known —
Q […]

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Editorial in today’s WashPo on the latest Gitmo revelations:
For the fact remains that although one has been promised, no independent military, Pentagon or other body has yet published an extensive investigation into the multiple accounts of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay. There have been verbal descriptions of investigations and summaries of investigations, but no documents. […]

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Despite rumors to the contrary, Philadelphia will host the “Live 8″ concert on the American side:
Twenty years after Philadelphia hosted one of two Live Aid concerts that dramatized the plight of starving Africans, a second big-name benefit is in the works.
It will be July 2 on Ben Franklin Parkway, in the middle of the city’s […]

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Great reflection on our nation:
Family physician Mary Frank couldn’t understand why one elderly patient with high-blood pressure wasn’t responding to his medication. She had been steadily increasing his dose, but his blood pressure remained unstable.
Finally, the man admitted he had been sharing his pills with his wife. He also would stop taking his medication a […]

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This is so much bullshit. How very nice of these “leaders,” to be so concerned about the uninsured.
The fact is, you can’t write affordable insurance for a high-risk group, and that’s exactly what the uninsured are. The only way to keep the costs down is to spread the risk in a larger pool.
In other words, […]

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