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McCain even lies about the stupid stuff

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 06 September 2008 08:40:00 AM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

This is precious. McCain is now lying about the mistake they made Thursday night, when they showed the Walter Reed Middle School behind McCain during his speech, instead of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. At first McCain's camp admitted it was a mistake (duh), now they're saying they intended to show us a picture of a middle school, totally unrelated to what McCain was talking about, because they wanted to highlight importance of education. I suppose, then, that they also wanted to highlight the importance of grass. They really are amazing. They lie about everything. This is something else McCain - who voted with Bush 90% of the time - has in common with George Bush and Dick Cheney. McCain might have been a maverick as a young politician (well, he wasn't really - he was involved in the Keating Five back then), but now, no one knows who he is any more. More from TPM.

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For Those Who Would Change the Wind

post from Everyday Citizen on 06 September 2008 08:37:00 AM. © Everyday Citizen

"We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it[...]

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The Economy Is Strong, Ed. #193

post from Talking Points Memo on 06 September 2008 08:34:00 AM. © Talking Points Memo

NYT:Senior officials from the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve on Friday called in top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, and told them that the government was preparing to place the two companies under[...]

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Paul Theroux, on travel writing

post from The Creative Lawyer on 06 September 2008 08:17:00 AM. © The Creative Lawyer

There's a good interview in USA Today with travel writer Paul Theroux, who is known mainly for all those books he wrote about taking trains. Click here to read it. My favorite quote: "If you're planning to write something about your travels, go alone, go overland, go cheap, and leave all electronics behind." Also: "Travelers don't know where they're going and tourists don't know where they've been."

Here at my hotel in West Lafayette, Indiana, I am filled with great aspirations to see the world. China here I come!

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Pull Up A Chair

post from Firedoglake on 06 September 2008 08:16:02 AM. © Firedoglake

Sometimes, you just need to start the day off with some Debussy. And this performance is truly transcendent. So glad someone had the foresight to pop this on YouTube and that I managed to stumble across it, because it truly is one of the most[...]

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What American Forces Are Doing in This War That
Palin Calls God's Work and That Obama Has Refused to End Immediately

post from Dennis Loo on 06 September 2008 08:14:00 AM. © Dennis Loo

Excerpts from the Statement of Alberto J. Mora, Navy General Counsel
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Hearing on the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody
June 17, 2008

"Mr. Chairman, our Nation?s policy decision to use so-called 'harsh' interrogation techniques during the War on Terror was a mistake of massive proportions. It damaged and continues to damage our Nation in ways that appear never to have been considered or imagined by its architects and supporters, whose policy focus seems to have been narrowly confined to the four corners of the interrogation room. This interrogation policy ? which may aptly be labeled a 'policy of cruelty' ? violated our founding values, our constitutional system and the fabric of our laws, our over-arching foreign policy interests, and our national security. The net effect of this policy of cruelty has been to weaken our defenses, not to strengthen them, and has been greatly contrary to our national interest.

Before turning to this damage, it may be useful to draw some of the basic legal distinctions pertinent to interrogation. The choice of the adjectives 'harsh' or 'enhanced' to describe these interrogation techniques is euphemistic and misleading. The more precise legal term is 'cruel.'
...

All of these factors contributed to the difficulties our nation has experienced in forging the strongest possible coalition in the War on Terror. But the damage to our national security also occurred down at the tactical or operational level. I?ll cite four examples:

First, there are serving U.S. flag-rank officers who maintain that the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq ? as judged by their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat ? are, respectively the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. And there are other senior officers who are convinced that the proximate cause of Abu Ghraib was the legal advice authorizing abusive treatment of detainees that issued from the Department of Justice?s Office of Legal Counsel in 2002.

Second, allied nations reportedly hesitated on occasion to participate in combat operations if there was the possibility that, as a result, individuals captured during the operation could be abused by U.S. or other forces.

Third, allied nations have refused on occasion to train with us in joint detainee capture and handling operations because of concerns about U.S. detainee policies.

And fourth, senior NATO officers in Afghanistan have been reported to have left the room when issues of detainee treatment have been raised by U.S. officials out of fear that they may become complicit in detainee abuse."

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Saturday Open Thread

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 06 September 2008 08:13:48 AM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

"No woman can call herself free who does not
own and control her body. No woman can
call herself free until she can choose consciously
whether she will or will not be a mother."

-- Margaret Sanger
Died September 6, 1966

LINK of the DAY
An author, poet, and nose guard
who isn't afraid to tackle
controversial themes and
lunging ball-carriers.

RIGHTWINGSNARKLE
...because G-list wingnuts' opinions
must be scorned and ridiculed.

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Barack Obama, A True American by glc3 Revver
Online Video Sharing Network

A short video ad about the next president of the United States, Barack Obama. more about "Barack Obama, A True American by glc3…", posted with vodpod

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Four More Neoconservative Years

David Sanger at the NY Times is one of those top-level reporters who often willingly carries water for the Bush administration - promulgating “unofficially official” leaks, for instance - in order to preserve his precious access. It appears that he’s willing to do the same for the McCain campaign.Hidden from view during much of the [...]

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Candidate Tracker

There's nothing that tells you more about which states are being targeted as 'high priority' than where the Presidential candidate is going. I'm going to continue to focus solely upon the Presidential candidates, and not the VP's in their visits (on that[...]

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