To my friend and co-conspirator (Run, Al, run!) Mary Beth Williams.
Have a good one, sweetie!

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What is it with Republicans and their need to play-act? Clearly, this Romney aide has “presidential” written all over him.

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Dear God, they couldn’t manage their way out of a paper bag.

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This satirical (and very funny) Max Blumenthal movie was deemed “too edgy” to be shown at Take Back America:

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Dead-Eye Dick:
The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
As described in a letter from Chairman [...]

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Cool toy. Generate your own disease! (Via Elayne.)

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It’s official. Celebrate the Solstice!

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A former ABC News correspondent known for his Iraq war cheerleading is going to work for the Pentagon as a spokesman.

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If you know anything about Progressive Democrats of America, you know they’re the real deal. None of their endorsed candidates backed off on the Iraq war votes.
So when I got this email today, I wanted to post it. When they ask you to give money to a candidate, you’re helping someone who will definitely vote [...]

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Yes, Ralph, but not you.

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I mean, WTF?
The White House revealed yesterday that Tony Blair and George Bush have discussed the outgoing Prime Minister taking on a UN role as Middle East envoy.
A spokesman for the US President said the two leaders had considered the possibility of Mr Blair acting as a peace envoy role for the Middle East Quartet, [...]

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Melanie’s right. We’ve got nutcases running the Supreme Court.

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Where do we draw it? At what point should the peasants descend on the castle with pitchforks?
I’d say, right about here.

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Sammy Sosa.

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Psychologists who were, of course, employed as contractors (which is how BushCo plans to avoid standing before the Hague, same as they did with the torture teams in Iraq) were central in designing the torture techniques. (More here.)
I’ll never look at a therapist the same way again:
According to congressional sources and mental healthcare professionals knowledgeable [...]

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More horse hockey from the corporate hacks.

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At the urging of a friend, I joined Facebook.com this week. Who knew I knew so many people? Feel free to poke me if you belong.

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From The Politico:
Charles Krauthammer is looking for a research assistant.
Please send resume to jobs@charleskrauthammer.com.
Would you want your child working for this man?

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This administration is beyond bad:
Osama bin Laden may have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks, said FBI documents released Wednesday.
The papers, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, were made public by Judicial Watch, a Washington-based group that investigates [...]

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Via Duncan, who notes:
The question is the degree to which this is a general problem due to the subprime mortgage market meltdown. Apparently there are collateralized debt obligation assets worth trillions out there, along with derivatives which track them.
From CNN:
LONDON (CNNMoney.com) — Merrill Lynch has seized about $800 million of assets from troubled hedge funds [...]

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Women of the Israeli Defense Forces.

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Hillary, boos, Take Back America conference.
God, I love that librul media!

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You won’t believe this. For those of you who think I’m too hard on the FDA, watch this from Scarborough Country:

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Read why Rove’s assistant wants immunity.

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Tony Scalia.

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Hillary’s campaign had a contest to pick her theme song (Celine Dion? Ewww!) and they did this funny takeoff on the last Sopranos episode:

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As someone who’s seen this again and again, I say “Amen””
PITTSFIELD, Mass. - A pharmacist who claimed she was fired by Wal-Mart after asking to be paid the same as her male colleagues has won a nearly $2 million award against the retail giant.
A Berkshire Superior Court jury concluded Wal-Mart discriminated against Cynthia Haddad and [...]

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I got to meet Cliff Schecter, and was thrilled when he told me he’d just read my post about Harry Reid that morning.
Also got to meet Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) from The Next Hurrah. Discovered that even though I was convinced I’d already met her, I didn’t.
Copy-edited a post for Bob Geiger, whose brain was [...]

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Short answer: Yes.
I really do believe things are at critical mass, and this just might be the thing that pushes politicians to the only logical solution. The healthcare proposals I heard yesterday were mushy, a sop to the insurance industry.

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At Take Back America yesterday, I found that a lot of people (bloggers, anyway) are really, really angry at the congressional Democrats. As in, third-party angry.
I wonder how this is going to affect the Democratic presidential race, because a lot of people I know are saying they won’t give them one more dime.
For now, that [...]

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