What? You mean they’re not going to lie down and let the multinational energy groups run right over them? So they’ll lose their homes and the mining will destroy the area. Surely they’re not complaining about that…
AT least three people were killed and over 50 hurt overnight when security forces fired at thousands of protesters [...]

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Or are they really that dumb?
The boom in corporate mergers is creating concern that illicit trading ahead of deal announcements is becoming a systemic problem.
An analysis of the nation’s biggest mergers over the last 12 months indicates that the securities of 41 percent of the companies receiving buyout bids showed abnormal and suspicious trading in [...]

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If the Democrats get in, they’re gonna go right back to their old ways. They’re gonna raise your taxes, take away your guns, kill more babies and let the terrorists win.” - Caller on this morning’s Washington Journal on C-SPAN.
I’m guessing he’s a regular viewer of Fox News.

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It seems to be slowly seeping into the minds of the corporate media hierarchy that all is not well with the little people:
With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase [...]

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Gee. I wonder if the terrorists know about Trader Joe’s:
In the thick of an election campaign, President George W. Bush has revived and retooled his argument that the United States must fight terrorists overseas or face them at home. Despite the unpopularity of the Iraq war, some Republican candidates are borrowing his line.
“We leave before [...]

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It’s been raining off and on since yesterday, and now it won’t stop. I’m sitting by my window, listening to the rain, and it reminded me of this Boz Scaggs song:

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John Prine sings a love song that most of us can relate to, one time or another:

Lyrics below.

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Spikey Mikey says Dick Armitage was the person who leaked Valerie Plame’s name to Novakula. Booman says it doesn’t add up.

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In this interview with the BBC, Al Gore talks about how all the focus in political campaigns is on getting enough money for television ads.
Personally, I think Al’s in a unique position to harness the power of the internet. Between CurrentTV, Google video and YouTube, his ads would spread like a bad cold on a [...]

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Jesus Christ. Hit a couple of young black girls with a metal police baton while you’re shouting racist slurs - and get sentenced to community service in a homeless shelter?
Oh, I may have left out something relevant. Did I mention Josh Spaulding, the 28-year-old skinhead (aka “Jazz”), is a Boston blueblood and his dad’s a [...]

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Loved it.

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You Are a Pundit Blogger!

Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.
Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few.

What kind of blogger are you?

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Sudden birth control price hike sticks it to poor women.

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Under oath, Clint Curtis testifies to Congress in 2004 that he was paid to write software to change election results in Florida:
Are there computer programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?
Yes.
How do you know that to be the case?
Because in October of 2000, I wrote a prototype for Congressman Tom Feeney [...]

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Julia on BushCo’s attempts to shut down a major highway for his visit this week:
Now remind yourself that those invincible political masterminds wanted to
create a nine-hour photo opportunity of angry, frustrated motorists
many of whom would no doubt quickly be stalled or out of gas
next to a completely empty lane with police guarding it
the week [...]

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Noble Israelis, terrible mistake, so sorry, etc. You know the drill:
GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike hit a Reuters vehicle in Gaza City on Saturday, wounding two journalists as they covered a military incursion, doctors and residents said.
One of the Palestinian journalists, who worked for a local media organization, was seriously wounded. A cameraman [...]

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1. Last Night (I Didn’t Get to Sleep at All) - 5th Dimension
2. Please Mr. Postman - The Shirelles
3. Missing the War - Ben Folds Five
4. I’m Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage
5. Mercenary Song - Steve Earle
6. Frozen - Madonna
7. Night and Day - Frank Sinatra
8. Ain’t No Way to Do - Rory [...]

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Other than that I have no job and I’m running low on money, I’ve had a pretty good week. Today broke the streak - first, when I was pulling my drill out to install the shutters Cos gave me, I knocked a heavy picture frame onto my big toe. “Fuck fuck FUCK!!” I screamed, holding [...]

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Where’s the fucking money?
And where’s the accountability?

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Robert Kuttner:
GEORGE W. BUSH has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended vacation while the Middle East festers. It doesn’t much matter; the man running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney.
When historians look back on the multiple assaults on our constitutional system of government in this era, Cheney’s unprecedented role will come [...]

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Battlestar Galactica.

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Yeah, that’s why we can’t keep up with the cost of living.

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Dave Chappelle (via Booman):

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All Things Considered interviews astrologer Robert Hand about Pluto’s re-definition. Or you can read this from the Wall St. Journal, or this, if you were wondering about Maine.

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Norman Mailer, via Poputonian posting at Digby’s place
Democracy is existential. It changes. It changes all the time. That’s one reason why I detest promiscuous patriotism. You don’t take democracy for granted. It is always in peril. We all know that any man or woman can go from being a relatively good person to a bad [...]

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Duncan reminds us how Crazy Al Greenspan was pushing Americans toward adjustable-rate mortgages oh, not so long ago.

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Lovely stuff on G-Town radio.

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Chris Carney is a very good guy and he’s now in a statistical dead heat with incumbent Rep. Don Sherwood (PA-10). Go throw him a few bucks if you can, you’re investing in a Democratic majority.

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Glenn Greenwald on the same bunch of idiots trying to lead us into another war in Iran:
Steyn — and the long list of Bush loving comrades who mouthed these same pieties — was painfully, disastrously wrong about the most profound political and military question of our generation. He ought to be too ashamed to continue [...]

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That story making the rounds about Lieberman campaigning for Republicans? As it turns out, not so true.
Holy Joe merely showed up at an event/policy meeting for elected officials which several Republicans also attended.

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