Good Morning.

Today is our 4,041st day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,144
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,069

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 387, 912, 100, 000 .00

With the storm bearing down on us, I've been a bit lax in my research and bookmarking the last few days. Nevertheless, I've got an archive full of things, so let's take a look.
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110 comments (Latest Comment: 10/31/2012 03:13:48 by Will in Chicago)

Sorry I'm late this morning, I was having a bitch fight with some random friend of a friend on the interwebs. A guy that believes that "God" is in the Constitution. "Go check it yourself" said he. "I don't have to" said I. There is no mention of "God" "Jesus" "Christian" or the like in the mother effing Constitution! Hells Bells! If the founding fathers were actual Christians and wanted this nation to be built on Christian ideals, don't you think they would have mentioned Jesus somewhere in the Bill of Rights?

But I digress, as ususal.
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8 comments (Latest Comment: 10/28/2012 23:39:06 by livingonli)

If you turn on the political pundit shows these days, or watch discussion trends on Facebook, there's an awful lot of talk about rape. Rape, rape, rape, rape... It's both amazing and disgusting. Why is this? It's because of the discussions revolving around abortion and the exception for victims of rape and incest. Most any person with any sort of moral core would agree that a woman who becomes pregnant due to rape should not be required to carry the pregnancy to term.
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89 comments (Latest Comment: 10/26/2012 22:43:39 by Will in Chicago)

With only 14 days to go until the general election, candidates in all races are beginning to feel the heat of the looming "deadline". With the exception of the first presidential debate, the remaining 3 were all knockout wins for the Democrats. There's also the conflicting messages and gaffes from Republican candidates, which is unusual considering that they were a fairly unified party in previous elections.

The last two presidential debates showed a candidate Romney repeatedly in conflict with earlier positions and even statements on his website. They warned us that they would be shaking the etch-a-sketch, but it's still surprising and jarring that they don't seem to realize that they can't really erase past statements that he and his campaign have made.
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76 comments (Latest Comment: 10/24/2012 23:46:35 by livingonli)

Darrell Issa needs to be removed from his position on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee -- immediately. Earlier this month, we learned that in his zeal to go after President Obama for the tragedy in Libya, he blew the CIA's cover
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122 comments (Latest Comment: 10/23/2012 03:04:44 by Will in Chicago)