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McCain operatives stole American Flags for a
political stunt

post from uncomfortably numb on 06 September 2008 10:17:40 PM. © uncomfortably numb

GOP operatives stole thousands of American flags from Invesco Field in a cheap political stunt. They claimed that the Obama campaign was throwing them in the garbage after the DNC Convention at Invesco Field. They were to use the "rescued flags" at a rally today in Colorado Springs, but the Obama Campaign calls them on their dirty tricks. read more | digg story

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Insanity

post from Daily Kos on 06 September 2008 10:10:44 PM. © Daily Kos

Can someone tell me what it is conservatives are so afraid will happen if Obama wins? They sure sound angry and terrified about the prospect, but why?

It can't be that they're afraid women will be suddenly awarded the right of reproductive choice; women already have it and the GOP did nothing to change that when given the chance of a lifetime. Fuel prices have tripled under the Republican reign, they seem fine with it, and so we have to assume that that worry is not a factor in the conservative calculus. Nor can they be legitimately concerned that democrats will vastly increase federal spending, or enact horrendously expensive new entitlement programs supported by taxes socializing healthcare costs and bar the government from benefiting from the cost saving magic of the free market. Nope, those horses have all fled the barn, no use closing the door now.

Maybe they're worried democrats will be vacationing, sound asleep at the switch, while the intel community frantically tries to warn them of a vast, pending terrorist attack that could kill thousands of innocent Americans. Some might even be concerned that democrats will exploit such a tragedy for personal political gain and still fail to capture or kill the criminal masterminds that planned it. Others might speculate Obama will respond by foolishly attacking the wrong nation on a false premise and get us embroiled in a trillion dollar bloody boondoggle that wrecks out military readiness, destroys our international credibility, and gets thousands of US soldiers and untold hundreds of thousands of innocent bystanders killed or maimed for life. Worst case scenario: after all that misery and money, weak willed democrats will roll over and hand a date for US failure to the insurgents in Iraq.

Then again, maybe conservatives are thinking closer to home. What if progressive economic policies wrecked the economy, rocked Wall Street, caused hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes and jobs, and turned over our national economic future to the tender mercies of fundamentalist Sunni Monarchs and the communist Chinese? Or expand government intrusiveness making toilet paper out of the US Constitution? Maybe, in their darkest fears, they're afraid democrats would foolishly go on vacation and ignore their responsibilities while a massive hurricane lumbers into the US coast at a slow jog and sinks a major American city.

At least one source of conservative anxiety is imminently plausible: Democrats might rescind tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs overseas, divert corporate welfare from insanely profitable corporations to uninsured or sick children, raise taxes on billionaires and oil companies, and create a more equitable healthcare system. That such possibilities strike fear into the corrupt soul of conservatism says a lot more about their decedent priorities than the middle class values of their opponents.

I guess that's what confuses a lot of voters: Conservatives are worried that Democrats might do the same astonishingly lousy job Republicans have done for the last eight years. To avoid even the possibility that that might happen, conservatives prescribe electing more members from the same crew who wrecked the country, in what is clearly to any lucid external observer the ridiculous and desperate hope that the same party will fix it all by continuing, uninterrupted, the same policies that produced the damage in the first place. In the alternate reality fabricated by the seamlessly integrated conservative PR apparatus, this extension of the failed status quo is called change, in the rest of the world it's one of the better known definitions of insanity.

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In storm-battered Haiti, humanitarian crisis as
500 are dead

post from uncomfortably numb on 06 September 2008 10:01:51 PM. © uncomfortably numb

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ? More than 500 people were found dead in Haiti as international aid trickled Saturday to desperate residents who have not eaten in days since the latest in a battery of storms crushed the country.read more | digg story

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The Moran Of The 2008 Election

post from Crooks and Liars on 06 September 2008 10:00:00 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Bill W)“Teach an illiterate to read…” ‘Nuff said…

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Oy

post from Talking Points Memo on 06 September 2008 10:00:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

If this is the attitude of the investigative reporter CNN has put on the trooper-gate case, I guess we shouldn't be expecting much from them.[...]

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John Ridley's "Pocket Guide To Speaking
Palin-guage"

post from Open Left - Front Page on 06 September 2008 09:57:36 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

Author (Three Kings!), journalist, and social commentator John Ridley has a couple of must-read[...]

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Organized Communities

post from American Street on 06 September 2008 09:53:00 PM. © American Street

“Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in the communities? it’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.” ~ Geoge Carlin (”Brain Droppings”, 1997)Leadership: (noun) the action of leading a group [...]

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A Happy Ending: McCain Campaign Now Contributing
to Obama

post from Daily Kos on 06 September 2008 09:40:44 PM. © Daily Kos

As noted in yesterday's Midday Open Thread:

The ladies of Heart have contacted the McCain/Palin campaign and asked them to immediately cease and desist from using their song "Barracuda."

Unfortunately for the Wilson sisters, "as the song is licensed for public performance under a blanket fee," and since the McCain campaign paid those fees to use the song, there is nothing Heart can do about its use. But there is a bright side to this story. Roger Fisher, the band's former guitarist and co-writer of the song said that:

...he strongly endorsed the Democratic ticket, and would donate a portion of royalties he receives from the Republicans' airing of "Barracuda" to the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.

"With my contribution to Obama's campaign, the Republicans are now supporting Obama," he said.

Rock on.

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Report: Murdoch would like to purchase NY Times,
Bloomberg

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 06 September 2008 09:38:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Because we don't have enough media consolidation already. Please, please, please give us more of the same, Soviet-style, one-size-fits-all media so we can sleep soundly at night knowing that there's no diversity of opinion. Isn't that the American way?

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Oops ...

From the WSJ ...The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters.The only catch was that the city[...]

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