After The Garden:

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From Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech:
I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature [...]

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Billmon on the implosion of the neocon fantasy world.

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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God:
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
Israel continued to drop leaflets warning residents of [...]

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Thanks, Duncan. I needed that.
Sarah McLachlan:

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I got off the phone with my best friend after making plans to meet tomorrow, and a half-hour or so later, she called me back. She was sobbing.
A friend’s 35-year-old son was shot and killed tonight in a drive-by in Wilmington, DE. He was married, had kids and a job. He went to visit some [...]

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See, I’m such a music dork, I’d actually go see this if I had the money.

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The Bush administration is taking advantage of the Middle East chaos to push through John Bolton’s nomination. (As you may remember, he was a recess appointment last year and never officially confirmed by the Senate.)
Steve Clemons:
It’s hard to imagine something more cynical than the White House exploiting Middle East convulsions — in which many innocents [...]

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I don’t normally link to the wingnuts, but in this case, I’ll make an exception:
I am not buying into the innocent civilians meme. If by ignorance, complicity, neglect or helplessness the Lebanese wouldn’t throw Hezbollah out and establish a strong government, then they must pay the price for the sins of Hizbollah. And if people [...]

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No, it’s a joke. Really.

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Cenk Uygur calls a spade a spade:
Would you let him do the books for your business? Would you trust your company in his hands for eight years? (No matter how Republican you are, you know you just said no to that question.) Would you trust him to be your kids’ guidance counselor and take his [...]

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The neocon plan for Iraq is falling apart as we speak:
On the eve of a high-profile meeting intended to demonstrate reconciliation among sectarian and ethnic factions ahead of a White House visit by the prime minister, senior leaders admitted to despair about the chances of averting all-out civil war.
“Iraq as a political project is finished,” [...]

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Aimee Mann:

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Girl blogger writing from Beirut.

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Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of, an entity which he believes himself to be, the more so if he tries to work on himself, by, with, or for such an entity - which is only a concept in mind - has not yet begun to understand what it is all about. - ‘Posthumous [...]

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Via Noz, from the authors of the textbook he’s using to learn Arabic:
Dear Family and Friends,
Please forgive us sending you this group message and for telling you what you already know. It is in great part to ease my conscience for what feels like deserting the helpless. Please say something to someone, call and congressional [...]

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Oh, look! Pennsylvania Republicans are asking business people to sign petitions to get the Green Party on the ballot in order to split the anti-Santorum vote.

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Fred Clark slaps Bush silly over his position(s) on stem cells.

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Patrick King, one of our great local painters and designers (who does a bangup job on progressive T-shirts, by the way) outs Stephen Colbert’s website in hopes of nabbing the redesign work.
Not a bad scheme. Hope it works!

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Because I’ve been around a few years, I’ve seen there’s a certain kind of person who, confronted with the bad results of their flawed decisions, insist there was nothing at all wrong with the original plan - it was the execution. If only they’d done it harder/faster/louder, it would have been fine!
Professor Shrill has noticed, [...]

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Greg Palast on Bush’s appearance at the NAACP convention:
God lost this time. I counted: Bush mentioned God only six times in his speech to the NAACP today. The winner was ‘faith’ — which got seven mentions, though if you count “The Creator” as God, well, then the Lord tied it.
Coming in right behind God and [...]

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The reason we don’t hear any good news from Iraq is, there isn’t any. And even the Republicans are starting to admit it, if only because they’re afraid they’re going to lose the mid-terms. Arthur Silber:
What is infinitely worse, the story makes absolutely clear that the Republicans’ extremely grudging concessions to the starkly obvious reality [...]

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Norman Solomon:
The Israeli leaders who launched this month’s state-of-the-killing-art air assault on Gaza and Lebanon had to know that many civilians would be killed, many others wounded, many more terrorized. The smug moral posturing that Israel’s military does not target specific civilians is moldy political grist — and, in human terms, irrelevant to the totally [...]

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Lebanon is like Katrina, only with artillery instead of wind and rain:
The displaced, who are washing up here with their elderly and babies in tow, spoke of villages besieged for days while missiles crashed down. Many seemed too dazed and exhausted to form articulate escape plans or think through the dangers they faced.
Civil structure appears [...]

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Bush: Right. Everybody else: Wrong.

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Now, pretend this was the Clinton administration. Imagine the uproar! The outrage!
Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and his relatives have claimed millions of dollars in tax deductions through a type of charitable foundation they created that until recently paid out very little in actual charity, tax records show.
Instead, much of the foundation’s money [...]

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Maybe you’ve seen them - the pictures of little Israeli girls writing messages on artillery shells that will be used in Lebanon?
Here’s the rest of the story.

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To David Carr at the New York Times. Oh, that librul media!
To make a long story short, the mainstream corporate media in general, as well as the Times in particular, are missing the real story about the blogs lately, as everyone focuses on all the awful hate and anger emanating from the left, and specifically, [...]

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The Republicans have even lost Charles Barkley:
July 20, 2006 — THE reverb is still echoing over Dan Quayle’s walkout in the middle of a John Mellencamp concert in Lake Tahoe last weekend. The singer-songwriter introduced his tune “Wall Talk” by announcing, “This next one is for all the poor people who’ve been ignored by the [...]

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