John Edwards in New Hampshire on economic issues:

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A small celebration may be in order.

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I can’t tell you how closely my September 30th birthday and losing baseball are intertwined in my psyche. Every year, my father and brothers would sing a hurried “Happy Birthday” to me and then rush back into the living room with their ice cream and cake to see what was inevitably the last game the [...]

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For reasons both political and practical, I try to purchase locally grown food. Mostly, I look for seasonal farmer’s markets, but next year I think I’m going to join a CSA (community supported agriculture) farm. It’s a kind of farming co-op - you pay a fee that gives you a certain share of the produce [...]

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Sy Hersh in the New Yorker about the administration’s Iran plans:
I was repeatedly cautioned, in interviews, that the President has yet to issue the “execute order” that would be required for a military operation inside Iran, and such an order may never be issued. But there has been a significant increase in the tempo of [...]

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Link:
A troop of lone-tein (riot police comprised of paid thugs) protected by the military trucks, raided the monastery with 200 studying monks. They systematically ordered all the monks to line up and banged and crushed each one’s head against the brick wall of the monastery. One by one, the peaceful, non resisting monks, fell to [...]

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I can’t find anything here to disagree with:
Happy Birthday, Libra! If others ask for your opinion, you usually don’t sugarcoat - unless there’s no other way. You are, after all, a superb survivor. Many come to regard you as fearless. What they aren’t privy to is the enormous pressure you put on yourself to [...]

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If you can stand it: 100 ways global warming will change your life.
You know who to thank.

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Some brave students saying no to war by blocking Constitution Ave. in D.C. this morning:

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This, of course, while they were assuring everyone that things were just fine:
(AP) Countrywide Financial Corp. Chairman and CEO Angelo Mozilo cashed in $138 million in stock options over the last year, switching his trading plans as the mortgage company went into a tailspin, it was reported Saturday.
Between November 2006 and August, Mozilo changed the [...]

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Zappa live:

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A phony soldier salutes Rush Limbaugh.

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Roseanne Cash. Crappy video, great song:

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The person who’s supposed to protect federal whistleblowers, threatening the whistleblowers?

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This Sonny Landreth song reminds me of something that’s been on my mind lately - couples staying together “for the children.”
I’m not even talking about the ones who seem to get along on the surface but live in such quiet desperation and resignation; there’s too many of those to count. No, I’m thinking about [...]

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Krugman on Blackwater mercenaries:
And the danger out-of-control military contractors pose to American forces has been obvious at least since March 2004, when four armed Blackwater employees blundered into Fallujah in the middle of a delicate military operation, getting themselves killed and precipitating a crisis that probably ended any chance of an acceptable outcome in Iraq.
Yet [...]

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Sounds about right to me.

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The Lucifer Effect, over at Pacific Views. How do basically good people take part in evil acts?

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More often than not, you’ll find GOP fire. (Or tapping feet.)
Oh, look. Wingnut Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) seems to have some ’splaining to do.

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Isn’t globalization everything you thought it would be?
The reversal of a long-term trend toward lower grain prices could have profound effects on the world’s ability to feed its poor. Global grain stockpiles are being drawn down to their tightest levels in three decades, leaving the world vulnerable to shocks brought on by bad harvests. And [...]

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See, there is simply no way the federal government could ever afford to do anything about things like this! And thank God for Ronald Reagan, who abolished federal revenue-sharing!

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The LA Times is reporting that the California electoral college initiative is dead.
One for the good guys…

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Hey, who hasn’t done something similar in an absent-minded moment?

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I continue to make the supreme sacrifice for the greater good by not watching any of the games.

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Wonder what changed their minds?
Fourteen “high-value” terrorism suspects who were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from secret CIA prisons last year have been formally offered the right to request lawyers, a move that could allow them to join other detainees in challenging their status as enemy combatants in a U.S. appellate court.
The move, confirmed by [...]

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No big surprise here, I hope. For those of you who thought this was a safe way to make a few extra bucks, think again:
“In many ways, rats and mice get greater protection as research subjects in the United States than do humans,” said Arthur L. Caplan, chairman of the department of medical ethics at [...]

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This song was made famous by the Dixie Chicks, but it’s actually a Radney Foster song. He wrote it when his marriage split up and his ex moved to Paris with their son:

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Dear God, they’re right:
Galling as it may be to Democrats, Bush still can claim to be acting with more clarity and courage than the congressional majority.
He believes the Iraq war is right and has thrown away things most politicians crave — approval ratings, and potentially his reputation in history — to get what he wants.
Democratic [...]

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You do not have to become a monster to fight a monster. Your America’s better than that.
- Bono, accepting the Liberty Medal.
UPDATE: Not on YouTube yet, but you can watch some of it here.
In town today (Will got to meet him) to accept Philadelphia’s 2007 Liberty Medal, he’s live on the local station giving his [...]

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