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Teabagging, July 3

post from Firedoglake on 04 July 2009 04:30:01 PM. © Firedoglake

So we went to Tea Party July 3 in La Canada Flintridge, a suburb about 20 miles from Hollywood in the foothills of the Angeles Crest, at an estate used for weddings and other events. It was, like all Tea Parties, a mix of fed-up-with-tax-folks,[...]

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Weekend News Digest

post from Docudharma - Front Page on 04 July 2009 04:12:21 PM. © Docudharma - Front Page

Weekend News Digest is an Open ThreadFrom Yahoo News Top Stories1 Iraq declines offer of U.S. help with reconciliationBy Andrew Quinn, Reuters2 hrs 31 mins agoBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq on Saturday ruled out foreign involvement in its efforts to reconcile[...]

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Midday Open Thread

post from Daily Kos on 04 July 2009 04:00:16 PM. © Daily Kos

If you've stocked up on fireworks for today's celebration, please take a moment to see what stupid looks like.

Don't miss Gail Collins' hilarious take on Palin's resignation speech:

So if she’s starting to run, it will be as the same reporter-avoiding, generalization-spouting underachiever that she was last time around.

Now we know she not only doesn’t have the concentration to read a policy paper, she can’t focus long enough to finish the job she was hired to do.

On Friday, Palin said that finishing out her term would be just too easy. “Many just accept that lame-duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck and ‘milk it.’ I’m not putting Alaska through that,” she said.

Apparently, she’s going to put the rest of us through it instead.

It seems that the National Archives has a problem with archiving. How Seinfeldian.

Greg Sargent at The Plum Line has a run-down of yesterday's big news - with the best title ever:

Bailin' Barracuda, Or The Quitah From Wassila

Two U.S. soldiers died today in Afghanistan.

And while our involvement in Afghanistan increases, Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq saying that our role there is switching to diplomacy.

It seems that the Washington Post isn't the only news organization trying to cash in on influence peddling, they're just the only one stupid enough to send out fliers bragging about it.

After nearly eight years, people are finally being allowed to make the climb to the crown of the Statue of Liberty.

President Obama leaves tomorrow for a week long trip to Russia, Italy and Africa.

Serena Williams beat sister Venus for her third Wimbledon title.

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Magster: "Love of Country Means Love of Fellow
Americans and Giving Them a Hand Up"

post from Open Left - Front Page on 04 July 2009 04:00:00 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

This is the first of several diaries highlighting comments that struck a chord about the meaning of[...]

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Lying John Edwards Tried to Climb to Power on
Blacks' Backs

post from The Francis L. Holland Blog on 04 July 2009 03:56:00 PM. © The Francis L. Holland Blog

Photos opportunities with Blacks
is not proof of genuine concern.

After John Edwards lost his bid for the presidency and vice presidency in 2004, he heightened his activities aimed at creating the impression that he was concerned with povery, particularly among Blacks. As I said at the time, this was a foolish political calculation since there aren't enough Black poor people put a president in the white house, and everything he did for Blacks and the poor would hurt him the white middle class and independents during a general election.

Although I couldn't prove it conclusively, I also strongly suspected that John Edwards' sudden concern for the poor was ruse to endear him to paternalistic "progressive" whites and Blacks. Now, there's a little more evidence that Edwards was always a lying hypocrite when he spoke of his "concern" for the poor.

In the fall of 2005, John Edwards helped start a College for Everyone pilot program at Greene Central High School in Snow Hill, North Carolina. The program was launched by the Center for Promise and Opportunity Foundation, a North Carolina nonprofit organization. Located in rural, eastern North Carolina, Greene County's income and education attainment are lower than North Carolina averages. Its school system has an above-average percentage of students who are economically disadvantaged.
The College for Everyone program is based on a proposal that Edwards first talked about in his 2004 presidential campaign. John Edwards.Com

This is just one example of a program that suddenly occured to Edwards on the campaign trail, but that he not bothered to try to advance when he was a US senator.

So what happened to above mentioned tuition charity after John Edwards' campaign was shut down?

After Edwards admitted the affair, his biggest financial supporter, Texas trial lawyer Fred Baron, told the Dallas Morning News that he had paid Hunter so she could get "out of North Carolina" and "into a stable place" in California, where she and her baby moved into a Santa Barbara home worth $3 million. Baron died two months later.
( . . . )

a related foundation that paid for a college tuition charity in Greene County, N.C., [ ] Edwards touted on the campaign trail but shut down the same month the affair was revealed . . . WaPost: John Edwards Faces Federal Investigation

In the years when Edwards was merely a potential presidential candidate, running on his valid record as a successful pro-consumer trial lawyer, I was favorably impressed with him. When he suddenly announced that saving the poor was the "mission of his lifetime", I began to strongly resent the opportunism of a rich white man trying to use Blacks' poverty as his ticket to the White House. I resented the "white man's burden".

If ending poverty were "the mission of Edwards' life", then the implosion of his presidential campaign wouldn't have prevented him from continuing his life's mission. Instead, John Edwards closed down the scholarships for Blacks program as soon as it was clear that it couldn't be used as a political stepping stone. Blacks and poverty were never anything more than an elaborate advertising campaign for Edwards political aspirations.

Unlike a lot of whites and Black bloggers, I wasn't impressed that Edwards "talked about poverty" because I knew he was like a man who talks to a woman about love as he tries to remove her bra. In fact, the more Edwards talked about poverty as the center of his soul, the more incredible I found his anti-poverty schtick.

This is why I didn't need to hear Barack Obama "talk about" povery and was more impressed with his reference to a "quiet riot". Even if they both were liars, I'd prefer to be lied to by the first Black president than the 44th consecutive white male one.

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Randomness: American Style

post from The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks! on 04 July 2009 03:49:00 PM. © The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks!

Happy Birthday America!

Closed for the Holidays - The only place in America that doesn’t hold a Fourth of July Sale.
What’s Up With That Sarah? - Her resignation isn’t the only problem Caribou Barbie faces.
Safe Fireworks - Hey, let’s be careful out there tonight.
Dog Rockets - There’s nothing like some grilled wieners for the Fourth of July.

WTF?

Why IE Really Sucks - No wonder IE is such a memory hog.
Smells Like Ass - Margie got a new job as a product tester, but found she had low job satisfaction.
Now There’s a Shocker - I’m waiting for the Mark Sanford tape myself.
I Fart in Your General Direction - Pepe LePeu lives!
A Buttload of Butts - And, there’s no ifs ands or butts about it. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Bachelor Number 3? - What do you do in your spare time?
Low-Rent Bar Mitzvah - This guy really should’ve hired a more experienced mohel.
AMI - The official organization of Simon Legree.
New Release - Now, from the producers of Chariots of Fire and the Chicken Dance comes a new movie sure to be nominated for Best Picture of the Year.
Real Estate Market Tanks - …and now we know why.
Eye See You - The new procedure is recommended by the American Dental Association and The British Opthamology Institute.
Extreme French Kissing - Scientists studying the condition confirmed that several of the young girls wore window shades in their mouth to control the problem.
Dead Ho Walkin’ - Sluttiness is next to Godliness.

Obligatory Japanese Posts

Curiously Strong - I have at least five cups daily and I feel like WOWSA!
They’re on a Roll - Toyota’s newest high mileage hybrid hits the market. They call it, “The Thinking Man’s Hybrid”.
Blood on the Highways - The Japanese driver’s education department released a new training video.

True Crime

Peek-a-Boob - “But officer, I had to put it somewhere!”
Marking His Territory - Thomas went to great lengths to piss Mabel off.
Twitterless - After authorities confiscated William’s cellphone he was reduced to using something else to check his email.
Bad Day at Jellystone - Yogi gets a bit cranky when Boo Boo is late with the pic-i-nic baskets.
Alcatraz Escapee? - Police were caught a little red-faced over the criminal that stole their harbor patrol boat.
Itsy Bitsy Spider - Spiderman cops to domestic abuse plea.
30 Days on the Country Jail Dairy Farm - Corn pone cow porn.
Holy Sh*t! - It’s heart-warming to see a mother and daughter with such a tight bond.

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Happy Fourth of July from the President of the
United States

post from They gave us a republic... - Front Page on 04 July 2009 03:35:43 PM. © They gave us a republic... - Front Page

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-fourth-of-july-from-the-president-of-the-united-states

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Carl Bernstein Gets Chuck Todd's Knickers in a
Wad

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While the rest of the Morning Joe crew was espousing their new found love for Helen Thomas and former MSNBC reporter Chip Reid, Carl Bernstein managed to get Chuck Todd's back hair up by reminding him that the White House press corps yelling at the Press Secretary is not exactly what anyone should consider real journalism.

While I whole heartedly agree with Todd that it is important to hold these people accountable, Bernstein's points about this entire ordeal looking petty, and about where real journalism happens, which is reporters getting out there and knocking on doors, and digging into whether someone's actually telling you the truth or not, fact checking what you're told, etc. is what should be considered actual journalism is valid as well, and he managed to make Todd look petty while making it.

Todd tried to defend what the White House press corps does on a daily basis, and not very well IMO. When you're making excuses for asking Michael Jackson questions you've already lost the argument Bernstein was trying to make.

I want to know where these birds were with their love of Helen Thomas when the Bush White House refused to call on her for the better part of eight years? I'd also like to know if they're going to continue to support her if she asks some tough questions on things like these bank bailouts, spying on everyone which hasn't stopped, or these mindless wars that we're still sending our troops off to fight and die in. Is that going to make the "news" cycle on Morning Joe? Somehow, I doubt it.

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Will MoveOn Cave To Obamas Pressure

MoveOn has been running strong ads in Louisiana against Mary Landrieu, who -- as Chris Bowers notes -- is against anything resembling a public plan. Obama wants them to stop...[...]

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Saturday Morning Diary Rescue

Enjoy. The humanity at the center the health care battle is often lost in the noise. Art3 brings it home in Age 22: Bankrupt from Our "Healthcare." Offensive in Afghanistan Will Fail Without Cash/Jobs. (ralphlopez) Teachers, veterans, and workers[...]

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