Asleep at the Wheel:

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Elvis unplugged:

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More of that great strategic thinking that’s remaking the Middle East:
WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is planning a major buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Gulf as a warning to Iran, CBS News reported on Monday.
A senior Defense Department official told Reuters the report was “premature” and appeared to be [...]

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If you want to read the op-ed that was censored by the White House, you can find it over at Steve Clemon’s place - and more. The author:
There is no basis for claiming that these issues are classified and not already in the public domain.
For the White House to make this claim, with regard [...]

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SG wins a Golden Monkeyfist Award. Aw shucks, you like me, you really like me!

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In the meantime, back in the happy shiny democracy of Iraq:
The Pentagon said yesterday that violence in Iraq soared this fall to its highest level on record and acknowledged that anti-U.S. fighters have achieved a “strategic success” by unleashing a spiral of sectarian killings by Sunni and Shiite death squads that threatens Iraq’s political institutions.
In [...]

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The neo-con establishment has always held fast to this shining fantasy that the only problem with Vietnam was that we didn’t do it Harder Longer Faster, so is it any wonder that their BushCo acolytes want to repeat the same failed strategies in Iraq - only, you know, more so? Because this is their big [...]

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Fornicatin’ fundies:
An executive staff member at New Life Church in Colorado Springs has resigned after admitting to sexual misconduct and other mistakes - the result of an examination of the staff’s moral makeup after the ouster of senior pastor Ted Haggard, a church official said Sunday.
Christopher Beard [you can’t make this sh*t up!], who headed [...]

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The Iraq Study Group picked the plan most likely to fail. Big surprise there!
UPDATE: Do you ever get the feeling that Duncan’s a little, um, frustrated with the refusal of the Beltway Bobbleheads to face reality? I always tell people: “Stress is that condition which results from attempting to impose logic on an illogical situation.”

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A discussion over at Democrats.com on what bloggers want in a presidential candidate. Check it out, then tell me what you think we need.

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Time sure flies! I’ve been so busy, I don’t even have the traditional aluminum pole.
I just got an email from Brendan to remind me. Don’t forget about the Airing of Grievances. And remember, it’s not officially over until the head of the household is wrestled to the floor and pinned…

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What was Bubble Boy saying about record home ownership during his administration? Yeah, because the mortgage industry was engaged in one big scheme to keep the market moving, and now it’s time to pay the piper:
The United States could be facing one of its worst mortgage foreclosure crises, with an anticipated $100 billion or more [...]

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Two guys named Ben and Lodge with a cool little homemade video:

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I’ve written about these Fox News reporters before, but it’s more compelling in video form. Go watch it, then find a local farm food co-op you can join:

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Al Gore on Ellen DeGeneres last week:

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Thomas Geoghegan:
And when Bush’s Social Security plan went down, people on the left high-fived each other. “Hey, the Republicans have finally lost one!” But alas, it was the opposite: the Republicans have won.
They’ve won in three ways:
First, they’ve defined the issue. It’s burned into people’s brains: We can’t raise the public pension any higher; we [...]

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Of the few options in Iraq, Bush unerringly selects the worst. Larry Johnson:
But unlike Fallujah, the Shia can hurt us and hurt us bad. The vast majority of the supplies–the food, water, bullets, and bandages–sustaining our troops in Iraq flow from Kuwait in the south along the highway the runs through the middle of Shia-controlled [...]

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Well, here it is, the week before Christms, and here it’s going up to 65 today. Apparently it’s happening over much of the country and even the world, but I wouldn’t want you to worry your pretty little heads about it.

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Shorter Sebastian Mallaby:
If we blindly trust all other financial capitalists, isn’t this discrimination?

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This is so sad for the GOP, isn’t it?
A growing list of vacancies on the federal appeals court in Richmond is heightening concern among Republicans that one of the nation’s most conservative and influential courts could soon come under moderate or even liberal control, Republicans and legal scholars say.
A number of prominent Republican appointees have [...]

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I wish religious people understood that the separation of church and state is to their ultimate benefit, but good luck with that:
Shortly after school began in September, the teacher told his sixth-period students at Kearny High School that evolution and the Big Bang were not scientific, that dinosaurs were aboard Noah’s ark, and that only [...]

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Ah, Jesus.

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Does anything say Christmas quite like giant inflatable snow globes?

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Well the sun comes up
And you stare at your cup of coffee, yup
Right through the kitchen floor
You feel like hell so you might as well get out and sell
Your smart ass door to door
And the Mrs wears her robe slightly undone
As your daughter dumps her oatmeal on your son
And you keep it hid
Just like your [...]

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1. Cousin Caterpillar - Incredible String Band
2. You Win Again - Tracy Nelson
3. A Solitary Life - Richard Thompson
4. Carry On - CSN&Y
5. Don’t Dream It’s Over - Crowded House
6. Lose Again - Linda Rondstadt
7. Burn That Broken Bed - Iron & Wine
8. Beautiful - India Arie
9. Well Respected Man - The Kinks
10. Speed of [...]

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Never do the right thing if it makes it any easier for the Democrats:
The Republican-controlled Congress’s decision to adjourn a week ago before completing many of the spending bills that finance the federal government will reverberate in ways large and small, such as understaffed U.S. attorney’s offices, delayed renovations at the University of Bridgeport in [...]

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You’ve managed to make Saddam Hussein look good:
More than 90 per cent of Iraqis believe the country is worse off now than before the war in 2003, according to new research obtained by Al Jazeera.
A survey of 2,000 people by the Iraq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies found that 95 per cent of respondents [...]

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It’s going to take decades to root out all the wingnuts Bush has appointed to pivotal posts:
A surprise late-afternoon announcement Friday that J. Timothy Griffin will become the new U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas drew the ire of U. S. Sen. Mark Pryor, whose spokesman said the maneuver amounts to “basically [...]

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Is Pooty Poot gay?

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Can’t think of anything I’d rather have:
Incoming Democratic committee chairmen say they will hold a series of hearings and investigations early next year to build the case for their call for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and for possible action against defense contractors found to have wasted billions in federal funds.
The emerging [...]

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