The story behind the Walter Reed hospital mess.

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Amy Winehouse:

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That pretty much sums up the Republican mantra. Via Duncan:
In summary, lack of sensible supervision and regulation of banks, mortgage lenders and other financial institution – partly induced by an ideology of free market fundamentalism – has been the core cause of this private sector created disaster, not excesses of regulation or of government policy. [...]

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Oooh, baby! Love those major mathematical breakthroughs!

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you wore a yellow rain slicker? Fess up…

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Custom-made shoes. I don’t have even one really comfortable pair of shoes. A Subaru Forester. (Subes are the official car of Mt. Airy.) A really big plasma monitor for my computer.
What about you?

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My internet connection has been erratic since Thursday and now it’s out completely. Two Comcast technicians searched everywhere in my apartment (including behind all my furniture and in my storage closet), my landlady’s basement and her backyard (quite an ordeal, since all the gates are iced shut) before they finally decided it was a bad [...]

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A PSA for pet owners:
Over the past several days, the Fund has received feedback in the United States (none in Canada) raising concerns about pet food manufactured since early December, and its impact on the renal health of the pets consuming the products.
The list includes a lot of store brands and some well-known [...]

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Go here to write up a postcard telling congress to stop making excuses and get off their legislative asses. Al himself will deliver them on the 21st. Here’s mine:
Please. This is not about how it affects your party or your donors or your adversaries. This is not about image. This is about how it [...]

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Talk To Action is following their activities as they try to promote teaching the Bible in public schools. You know the curriculum must be educational if it’s promoted by Chuck Norris. Were there ninjas in the Old Testament?

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I was talking to an old friend yesterday. “You know, I never realized how many people I know until I started working this campaign,” I said.
“You’re really good at networking,” she said. It’s true; my friends call me the Queen of Network. I can usually find someone within three degrees of separation.
One major factor [...]

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Is “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” the worst one out there now? Will the sequel be “Is Your Memory Better Than A 1st Grader?” I guess I just don’t understand the mass appeal of these shows.

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Those of you who think we’re silly to worry about net neutrality need to read this.

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CBS News is reporting that Gonzales will be fired sometime next week.

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Uh, maybe they already knew who did it?
Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, revealed today that to his knowledge the White House has never ordered a probe, report, or sanctions as a result of the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame. “I have no knowledge of any [...]

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(cross-posted at Genexhibitionist)
I have a soft spot for historic preservation.
Our seventy-five year old house has pink and blue tiled kitchen walls that were drywalled over by some previous owner, presumably for the sake of sanity and the protection of household retina. But in the name of restoration, I ache to remove the drywall [...]

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WashPo’s Andrew Cohen:
In my humble opinion, and recognizing that there may be a few other worthy candidates, there is only one person who perfectly currently fits the bill. He is a Republican and a Bush-appointee, but not a partisan or a crony or a hack like so many other current appointees. He has a sterling [...]

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Why does the AFP hate America?

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Finally, a news organization that really understands the internet.
Too bad it’s in England.

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How much money did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spend on federal lobbying in 2006?

5 million dollars
10 million dollars
20 million dollars
72.7 million dollars

Obscene.

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People are missing the point about all the conservatives on the Sunday talk shows. The reason companies like General Electric and Archer Daniels Midland advertise on those shows isn’t to make typical consumers all warm and fuzzy about ethanol and MRI machines - it’s to influence political content.
And they get what they pay for.
Naturally, [...]

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Sometimes I let Brendan think for me so I don’t have to.

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That’s what George Soros warned against, and he was right. Now the subprime mortage chickens are coming home to roost:
As with the flexible morality that accompanied the Internet bubble, questions are now being raised whether these banks’ business relationships with stock-brokerage houses clouded the advice produced by the brokerages for average investors.
Massachusetts Secretary of State [...]

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I just can’t bring myself to go on at length about our current constitutional crisis - in this case, the extensive proof that BushCo was stacking the deck with political U.S. attorneys. That the current White House occupant does not and probably never has put the good of this country first.
You knew that, right? Did [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling Watergate-ish these days:
Washington, DC – In light of e-mails released by the House Judiciary Committee this week in response to the on-going U.S. Attorney firing scandal, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter today to Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government [...]

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“They never even asked to see my impaling stick.”
~Satanic Vampyre candidate for president, Jonathon ‘The Impaler’ Sharkey regarding a recent visit he had from the Secret Service.
Honestly, I really wouldn’t be all that surprised if nobody had ever asked to see his ‘impaling stick.’

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(via Ecohuman).
Bill McKibben is putting on a little shindig to get Congress to make some meaningful legislation on global warming.
Find your local event here. You can be sure I’ll be at Independence mall at high noon on the 14th.

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When Bush leaves the country, his job approval in the United States goes up. America likes it better when he’s not here.
But…
When Bush is visiting other nations, he’s an incredibly negative message for the country, and he AND America gets a bigger black eye for him being out there.
Sorry, Crawford, but there’s really only [...]

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See, this is what I predicted would happen when we started this godforsaken war - that not only would we needlessly put the lives of our troops on the line, but their sanity and their very souls.
I’m old enough to remember Vietnam, and what happened after. I remember all the homeless vets wandering the [...]

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