Black Crowes from their new album, “Warpaint”:

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Lutton was nice enough to go get some chicken noodle soup for me, and I managed to eat some - which meant I could finally take some ibuprofen for the fever. (He said he had the same thing a few weeks ago and says it takes three days before you can function again.)
There goes the [...]

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What Bowers says.

In this campaign, neither Obama nor Clinton are making any attempts to transform American political discourse away from its current, conservative dominated conventional wisdom. Instead, they throw conservative jabs at each other about being too partisan, Harry and Louise, national security fearmongering, supposedly raising middle class taxes and, at some point, probably about [...]

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Not just in Washington, but throughout the United States.
In a lawsuit filed in January, former Prosper Inc. employee Chad Hudgens accused his former boss, Joshua Christopherson, of waterboarding him in May 2007 while instructing other employees to hold him down. Prosper does not dispute that the incident took place, but said it was voluntary and [...]

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They’re inadvertently making a powerful case in favor of net neutrality.

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In light MBW’s criticism of the my last post in which she argues, probably accurately, that the Daisy comparison I made isn’t all that good, I’d like to offer up a slightly better one.

I guess what I was thinking with the Daisy comparison was that the two ads basically hit on the same nerve; [...]

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A daisy ad? This seems like a good idea? Seriously?

Update: Via Brendan, here’s the actual thing.

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I’m so sick, I can barely move. If any of you kids have time to post, please do so.

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(Update: I misunderstood. DK did not ban for the link but for the way the writer described it. Sorry!)
Even though this story was already linked in Romensko, the well-known newspaper industry newsletter, people are apparently being banned if they try to post it at Daily Kos I’m not seeing it in many places. Well, here [...]

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Mike Smith, 64, lead singer for the Dave Clark Five:

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Sunset with razor wire.

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And not universal insurance. From a poster on Democratic Underground:
This is my story. True as true can be. And it explains why I have a problem with the universal health insurance plans that are proposed.
I used to work in a casino. I dealt craps for 7 years; and I loved it. One day, I was [...]

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The USDA has shut down a Congressional audit. Wonder what they’re going to do about it?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department abruptly ordered congressional auditors to leave its headquarters and told its employees not to cooperate with them.

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Impeachment’s off the table, but hey, let’s throw the crowd a (useless) bone:
Two weeks ago, the House passed a contempt resolution against White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers. The two refused to comply with subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary Committee as part of the investigation of the U.S. [...]

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Okay, kids, here’s the deal.
I can’t handle this anymore - at least, not in its present incarnation. It’s too time-consuming and distracting, and my mental, physical and financial health is suffering as a result.
I have to tell you: This election is making me crazy. If I come back, I’ll focus mostly on the congressional [...]

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Might be a good idea to clean up a few of these loose ends before the coronation.

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What a distinction.
More than one in 100 adult Americans is in jail or prison, an all-time high that is costing state governments nearly $50 billion a year, in addition to more than $5 billion spent by the federal government, according to a report released today.
With more than 2.3 million people behind bars at the start [...]

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For anybody hoping that the Clinton campaign will soon go gently into the night, here’s a bit of a reality check for you.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is set to announce later today that she’s on track to raise roughly $35 million in the month of February, a huge month by any standard measure of political fundraising [...]

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What Skippy said.
On the campaign I worked on last year, something very similar happened to us. Someone put out a pretty nasty flier in the final days of the campaign, but we had nothing to do with it. We got blamed for it, the local papers and the opposition got worked up into a [...]

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Link:
Can the Fed head this danger off? In a subsequent piece, Prof Roubini gives eight reasons why it cannot***. (He really loves lists!) These are, in brief: US monetary easing is constrained by risks to the dollar and inflation; aggressive easing deals only with illiquidity, not insolvency; the monoline insurers will lose their credit ratings, [...]

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I suppose this is as good a time as any to point out that, if we put enough REAL liberals in Congress, it won’t matter who’s in the White House. (Which is why you should go give Darcy Burner some money right now.)
I thought I’d like to put together a list of real progressive Congressional [...]

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So I told this story to Susie at lunch yesterday and she insisted I post it.
Today I went to court to have my name reverted to my maiden name before my wedding next month. “Why go to so much trouble,” you ask?
Simple: convenience.
In New Jersey, when you go to the DMV, you have to bring [...]

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UPDATE from the Politico:
A spokesman for the Canadian Embassy to the United States, Tristan Landry, flatly denied the CTV report that a senior Obama aide had told the Canadian ambassador not to take seriously Obama’s denunciations of Nafta.
“None of the presidential campaigns have called either the Ambassador or any of the officials here to raise [...]

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Avedon says there’s…
… something I hadn’t seen anyone talking about yet, which is that Hillary repudiated her vote for the authorization of force for Iraq. (Complete debate transcript and video here.)
If you want to dig it out of the transcript, be my guest. It’s a particularly awkward interface or I’d do it myself.

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I guess the moral to this story is, if you’re gonna subtitle, do it right.

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Tim Russert is evolving as a journalist and as a questioner. He’s 90 percent there… to being the William Shatner of debates. Answer me!

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Vegan strip club. Only in Portland. Sigh. Someday I’ll move there…

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I find it amusing, if somewhat troubling, to see otherwise reasonable people jump on something published in Rupert Murdoch’s Times of London and push it as though it’s coming from a legitimate source on American politics. The Clinton White House even prepared a memorandum on the particular method of pushing false information and conspiracy theories [...]

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