I love this song by Hole:

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Welcome home:
WASHINGTON — Young veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are having a harder time finding a job than their peers who didn’t serve in the military.
Last year, about one in six veterans between 20 and 24 was jobless, nearly double the rate for nonveterans their age. It was brighter in the second quarter of [...]

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From Rolling Stone, the story behind Larry Franklin, Michael Ledeen and their plot to go to war with Iran. Just go read the whole thing, it’s scary stuff:
But the Bush administration’s hostility toward Iran is not simply an outgrowth of the current crisis. War with Iran has been in the works for the past five [...]

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Is a liar who will apparently say anything to smear his opposition.
I can see why the White House press corps likes him so much.

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Yglesias:
The dog that hasn’t really barked yet in Iraq is the Turkey-Kurdistan conflict. One of the most-warned-against “things go bad” scenarios before the war was that Iraqi Kurdistan might become a base for anti-Turkish operation in Turkish Kurdistan, prompting Turkey to intervene militarily in Iraq. So far, lots and lots of things have gone bad [...]

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Doesn’t sound like a mistake to me:
The UN general secretary, Kofi Annan, today accused the Israeli military of carrying out a sustained bombing of the UN base on the Lebanon-Israel border that culminated in the killing of four unarmed monitors.
Mr Annan said he had suggested to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, that they carry [...]

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Big tax cuts actually cost money, according to the Treasury Department. Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us 1+1=2.
Obviously, we need to purge the ranks of that particular agency and find economists who see the BushCo vision.

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So much for that dream of democracy:
BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 25 — The Bush administration’s announcement on Tuesday that it will shift more forces to Baghdad is much more than a numbers game. It reflects a new strategy to reclaim control of the Iraqi capital and a new approach for deploying the troops.
The plan is to [...]

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And this is when he’s being “cooperative”:
(07-26) 04:00 PDT Washington — Legislation drafted by the Bush administration setting out new rules on bringing terror detainees to trial would allow hearsay evidence to be introduced unless it was deemed “unreliable” and would permit defendants to be excluded from their own trials if necessary to protect national [...]

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Congressman Curt Weldon just loves helping out his friends and family:
Weldon is a powerhouse on the House Armed Services Committee, and defense contractors have traditionally been his biggest campaign donors—so it isn’t surprising to learn that his political sponsors are looking out for one of the congressman’s sons. The Delco Times, a newspaper in Weldon’s [...]

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I think I forget to mention that one of the comments made by someone at the Scott Ritter-Ray McGovern talk the other day was that in Pennsylvania, “we can’t exercise our citizenship because all we have is Rick Santorum and Bob Casey, and there’s no difference.”
(Dear God. One… two…. three…)
Actually, yes, there is.
Bob Casey won’t [...]

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Piano hero Ben Folds (with Five) singing one of my favorite verses ever (I’ve got this great idea/Why don’t we pitch it/ To the Franklin fucking Mint/ Fine pewter portraits of/ General Apathy and /Major Boredom singing/ Whatever and ever/ Amen.)

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Peter King from Sports Illustrated:
This should interest all of us.
In my town, Montclair, N.J., we had a once-in-a-generation wind, hail and rain storm last week, uprooting 120-year-old oaks all over our neighborhood. One of those monsters crushed the car of the pitcher on the summer softball team I coach. A neighbor told me it was [...]

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Rickie Lee Jones:

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I’ve been really busy the past few weeks, and I didn’t fill out these Harris polls. Don’t worry, I won’t skip the next one!

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Tweety spits out the Kool-Aid.

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Let the good times roll:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It’s official - even the nation’s leading group of real estate agents now says it’s a buyers’ market in housing, as a soaring supply of homes for sale means nearly flat prices and longer waits for sellers.
The news came in the National Association of Realtors’ report for [...]

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Guess the mystery whiny-ass titty baby.

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Jay Rosen has a great idea, one I’ve plugged before.

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Miss Molly wants Bill Moyers to run for President:
Do I think Bill Moyers can win the presidency? No, that seems like a very long shot to me. The nomination? No, that seems like a very long shot to me.
Then why run him? Think, imagine, if seven or eight other Democratic candidates, all beautifully coiffed and [...]

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Sy Hersh’s latest in the New Yorker:
American intelligence and State Department officials have told me that by early 2002 Syria had emerged as one of the C.I.A.’s most effective intelligence allies in the fight against Al Qaeda, providing an outpouring of information that came to an end only with the invasion of Iraq.
“There is [...]

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Buck O’Neill, still not in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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My irony detector is permanently stuck in the red zone:
JERUSALEM (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, leading the first high-level U.S. diplomatic mission since war broke out in Lebanon, said Tuesday the time has come for a new Middle East and an urgent end to the violence hanging over the region.
“I have no doubt [...]

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Oh, I do love this song. Every time I hear it again, I love it more. Bruce Cockburn:

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And you’re a fascist asshole, Jim. So we’re even.

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The Quaker himself, as seen from my office conference room.

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Now, there’s an idea for the Learning Channel…
I was 15 years old, and I wanted a good guitar the way my brothers wanted their driver’s license. I had to have it.
I worked after school and on the weekends as a busgirl at the International House cafeteria on Penn’s campus at $1.35 an hour, and finally, [...]

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If ever one of you hits the lottery and wants to buy me something nice, this would be great.
UPDATE: I supppose it was inevitable that this would turn into a guitar porn thread, so give it your best shot.

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We went to hear Scott Ritter (former U.N. weapons inspector) and Ray McGovern (former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) speak yesterday afternoon at a local event. It’s always good to hear Ray, who’s great with an audience, but I haven’t had a chance to see the hard-charging Ritter in person [...]

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