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Fried Chicken, Rice & Beans- Somebody bring the collard greens!
Author: Raine    Date: 07/16/2009 12:42:57

So what fun and games are in store for us today at the Sotomayor hearings? Can the three distinguished Senators from the bible belt be any more condescending, misogynist or racist today? So far they have prove that they sure don't disapoint!

I am not the only one wondering these things this week. I previously posted what Joan Walsh and Eugene Robinson have written. I posted a video yesterday from Laura Flanders.
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98 comments (Latest Comment: 07/17/2009 06:03:41 by livingonli)

It's not the Crime, it's the Coverup
Author: BobR    Date: 07/15/2009 12:39:55

For some reason, it seems that politicians are unable or unwilling to prosecute other politicians for crimes. Perhaps it is a "professional courtesy", perhaps it is the fear of retribution. After prolonged investigations, and evidence is gathered, it seems that the crimes themselves are glossed over, and the politician is persecuted (and/or prosecuted) for covering up the crime.
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106 comments (Latest Comment: 07/16/2009 04:13:53 by clintster)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 07/14/2009 10:51:35

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,309th day in Iraq.

We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4324
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4185
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3863
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3465
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 96

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 737
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 505
Journalists - Iraq: 139
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,360


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

$ 879, 004, 760, 000 .00



This morning, we'll take a look at Afghanistan. Regular readers of this space may remember our July 4th column, where I took a look back at our first 200 years and wondered who our allies should have been.
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103 comments (Latest Comment: 07/15/2009 03:32:23 by AuntAzalea)

Post Racialist? More like Neo Racialist.
Author: Raine    Date: 07/13/2009 12:04:54

Since when did a peace sign on a little girl cause so much angst in this world? Over the weekend the website FreeRepublic got a lot of attention for allowing a thread to run about Malia Obama and her peace tee shirt. The Vancouver Sun wrote an article about it.
“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.”

These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.

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152 comments (Latest Comment: 07/14/2009 03:24:15 by Random)

Family
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 07/12/2009 13:44:38

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu

Families come in many forms. There is your nuclear family consisting of one (male) Dad, one (female) Mom and at least two children, one of each sex, and a pet or two. A few families combine child rearing and religion to an extreme that produces insanity like the Duggars and Jon & Kate! There should be some sort of law for this (separation of sex and religion?) but alas, there is not. Sometimes the family has only one parent, or there may be no children, but plenty of pets. Then there is what we call “alternative” families that may be made up of two Dads or two Moms.

Some families are so close that they will stick together no matter what tragedy befalls them, others will sue each other until one or more dies, and still others like to appear on Maury or Jerry Springer jumping up and down until at least one boob pops out or one “boob” punches another.
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10 comments (Latest Comment: 07/13/2009 04:19:41 by BobR)

All about Boston
Author: TriSec    Date: 07/11/2009 11:28:46

Good Morning....heading out to the store in a bit for the Discovery School...

Some mildly interesting things going on in and around the City of Boston this weekend.

Our landlocked brethren have no concept of this event, but for a longtime port city, Boston is making a sorry showing of the Tall Ships visit this weekend. Mayor Menino and the organizers of the event have been fighting for over a year. The Mayor wanted, and got, $1m from the event as 'security payola', and in return, the event was cut from 7 days to 5, and the ships arrived mostly under the cover of darkness earlier in the week with no "Parade of Sail". (What would be the point, then? I can go on a "Tall Ship" at dock anytime in the USS Constitution...)

In any case, crowds are small this weekend, and a City councilor (and mayoral candidate) is blaming the mayor for the event's failure. Most of us in the "real world" recognize that we won't see the tall ships in Boston again as long as Menino is in charge.
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9 comments (Latest Comment: 07/12/2009 00:36:52 by livingonli)

The CIA, the Republicans, and the Truth
Author: BobR    Date: 07/10/2009 12:24:49

The Republicans in DC have shown themselves to be good at the things that don't help America, and poor at the things that do. Their policies ended up allowing a self-regulated banking market to trash the economy, an anti-science approach to result in a climate on the brink of disaster, and aggressive foreign policy to put us in a miasma in the Middle East. So what are they good at? Messaging and faux outrage.

A classic example is the "CIA lied to Congress" story. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA - an organization of professional liars - of lying to them. Although one would think Pelosi naive for assuming the CIA would always be truthful with them, the Republicans (and their propagandist mouthpiece FAUX News) rode it like a thoroughbred, calling for Nancy Pelosi's head. The reality is that the CIA has admitted that was the case. So how do you suppose the Republicans are handling this?
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61 comments (Latest Comment: 07/11/2009 06:04:54 by Mondobubba)

Stimulus 2.0 -- or how I learned to love the lie.
Author: Raine    Date: 07/09/2009 12:39:49

Yesterday, above or below the noise and the din of the Jackson Palin Media channels was another discussion that political wonks seems to be having. It was talk of a second stimulus. With questions being bandied about cable news, online media and the blogosphere like 'will we need a Stimulus 2.0?' and 'are we spending enough?' to the constant drumbeat of how 'the stimulus has been a failure', I was wondering where this idea of a Stimulus 2.0 came from. I have watched the President, I have paid fairly close attention to what is going on. I simply couldn't recall where the meme came from.
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96 comments (Latest Comment: 07/10/2009 02:12:07 by Raine)

Discordia - Brought to you by the number 60
Author: BobR    Date: 07/08/2009 12:23:29

It finally happened - Senator Al Franken was sworn in to the Senate yesterday, bringing the total number of Democrats in the Senate to 60. There is an automatic assumption associated with this that now the Democrats can pass any bill they want. What it really means is that they could block filibusters on any bill and call for cloture (remember the "up or down" mantra from back in the day when Democrats were the ones doing the filibustering?). The reality of course is that the number means nothing.
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190 comments (Latest Comment: 07/09/2009 04:56:47 by BobR)

Ask A Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 07/07/2009 10:47:23

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,302nd day in Iraq.

We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4323
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4184
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3862
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3464
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 95

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 725
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 491
Journalists - Iraq: 138
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,360

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

$ 876, 446, 175, 000 .00



This morning, we'll be taking a look back at our occupation of Iraq. On June 30, US troops left their bases in and around the cities of Iraq and went back to the Green Zone to start packing up.
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77 comments (Latest Comment: 07/08/2009 03:21:48 by AuntAzalea)

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