See, all those front end problems in my car aren’t my fault:
For the second consecutive year and the fifth time in a decade, truckers say Pennsylvania has the worst roads in the country, according to the annual Highway Report Card survey conducted by Overdrive, the nation’s leading magazine for owner-operators.
Among the chief complaints: the conditions […]

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Via TBogg, America loves a comeback - even if it only lasts a day.

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This hiring of Bill “Yes, Mistress” Bennett by CNN proves one thing: that the wingnuts have so instilled that Pavlovian response into the corporate media, they wouldn’t dream of replacing Bob Novakula with someone sane.
What well-trained little puppies they are.

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As you may have read by now, Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan has released incriminating documents regarding the torture practices of our great “ally” in the War on Terra - proving that Jack Straw knew about it, has been lying about it and is looking the other way.
Personally, I don’t know what’s the big deal. […]

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The very funny Mad Kane has a new song parody, just in time for New Year’s Eve.

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1. “There’s A Kind of Hush,” Herman’s Hermits.
2. “Tidal Wave,” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
3. “How To Fight Loneliness,” Wilco.
4. “My Funny Valentine,” Rickie Lee Jones.
5. “Up Above My Head (I Hear Music in the Air),” Maria Muldaur.
6. “Come Together,” The Beatles.
7. “The Universal Soldier,” Donavan Leitch.
8. “And When I Die,” Laura Nyro.
9. “Seven Bridges […]

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Go read why Laura Rozen is certain Tom DeLay is going to prison.

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Oh, look. Brad reports that Diebold is using prohibited code in software for touchscreen and optical scan voting machines.
One might begin to think they were part of, oh, I don’t know - a conspiracy to steal elections?

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I think it would be illustrative for all of you to read this, “The Plot to Seize the White House.” It’s about the plot by America’s own corporate fascists to seize the White House from FDR. The book is out of print; legend has it that the duPont family bought up all the remaining copies.

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The late, great Barbara Jordan’s speech to the House impeachment hearings in the matter of Richard Nixon:
Beginning shortly after the Watergate break-in and continuing to the present time, the president has engaged in a series of public statements and actions designed to thwart the lawful investigation by government prosecutors. Moreover, the president has made public […]

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Amen. Go read it now.

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They don’t even pretend:
Since Mr. Bush took office in 2001, the federal government has awarded more than $3 billion in contracts to the President’s elite 2004 Texas fund-raisers, their businesses, and lobbying clients, a Blade investigation shows. In Florida, massive sugar companies and development firms led by Bush Pioneers and Rangers have reaped millions of […]

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You see, the criminals aren’t the people who are breaking the law to spy on Americans - they’re the people who blew the whistle. Just so you know…

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What Duncan said.

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Tactics like this are despicable:
That’s when Delphi Chief Executive Robert S. “Steve” Miller, citing global competition and crippling “legacy costs,” ushered the $28.6 billion-a-year company into one of the largest industrial bankruptcies in U.S. history. In short order, Miller called for slashing workers’ compensation by almost two-thirds, threatened to void the company’s union […]

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I didn’t get into this the other day because I was still mulling over its meaning. And finally, I concluded it’s this:
The only way we will ever clean house of these bastards is to make sure no Republican anywhere, any time, any place, gets elected, appointed or anointed to anything. In the meantime, we need […]

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At the risk of repeating myself:
We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world-a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that […]

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From ReddHedd at firedoglake:
Up ’til now, there has been little to no Congressional oversight on this — only a big, fat Republican party rubber stamp with the occasional lone Democratic voice in the wilderness calling for more consideration of rights issues. With the latest NSA domestic spying disclosures, perhaps we have entered a period where […]

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About time:
The Senate Finance Committee began an inquiry into the American Red Cross yesterday, seeking a broad range of information about its governance, its handling of money donated for disaster relief and its compensation policies.
Congressional scrutiny of the organization started shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, as widespread criticism of the Red Cross […]

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Oh swell. Just what we needed.

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You know how I feel about Carl Jung: Any president who’s so determined to spy on everyone else has a lot to hide himself. Today’s WashPo:
The effort President Bush authorized shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to fight al Qaeda has grown into the largest CIA covert action program since the height of the Cold War, […]

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Miss Molly:
The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Thirty-five years ago, Richard Milhous Nixon, who was crazy as a bullbat, and J. Edgar Hoover, who wore women’s underwear, decided some Americans had unacceptable political opinions. So they set our government to spying on its own citizens, basically those who were deemed insufficiently […]

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God forbid, we should acknowledge that people are hungry, broke and cold in America:
Chicago, Dec 28 - The Chicago Transit Authority is refusing an opportunity to alleviate commuting costs for hundreds of thousands in the Windy City’s low-income neighborhoods. Instead of accepting deeply discounted fuel from the Venezuela-owned Citgo Petroleum Corporation, the city is instead […]

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Yeah, Digby’s right. Why the hell do Democrats insist on their discredited belief it’s all about wonkified content? This is show biz, folks. Republicans are from the sales and marketing culture. They get it.

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Jane to Jack Abramoff re: DeLay’s attempts to distance himself from the evergrowing scandal:
Don’t get mad, Jack. Get even.

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