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post from Crooks and Liars on 08 June 2007 11:57:18 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Curses, foiled again!

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From Perp Walk to Cat Walk and Back Again

post from All Spin Zone on 08 June 2007 11:47:00 PM. © All Spin Zone

While everyone is rightly focused on the ousting of Gen. Peter Pace as the Chairman of the Join Chiefs since it will undoubtedly have an impact on the war effort and policy, I can’t help but note our still on going national obsession with The Paris Predicament.I must say I too am fascinated by our [...]

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[another country] to subsidize birth control

post from media girl (mediagirl.org) - progressive, feminist, empowered on 08 June 2007 11:36:37 PM. © media girl (mediagirl.org) - progressive, feminist, empowered

Via :

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the plan will give poor Brazilians "the same right that the wealthy have to plan the number of children they want."
Brazil already hands out free condoms and birth control pills at government-run pharmacies. But many poor people in Latin America's largest country don't go to those pharmacies, so Silva's administration decided to offer the pills at drastically reduced prices at private drug stores, said Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao.
The price for a year's supply of birth control pills under the new program would be $2.40, and anyone ? rich or poor ? can buy the pills by simply showing a government-issued identification card that almost all Brazilians carry.

Not America. Need you ask?

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What. The. Fuck. (Democrats back abstinence
only.)

post from media girl (mediagirl.org) - progressive, feminist, empowered on 08 June 2007 11:30:04 PM. © media girl (mediagirl.org) - progressive, feminist, empowered

Any wonder why the Democrats have fallen to Republican Congress levels? Via Talk to Action:

Today, the House Democrats will waltz into the mark-up of the Labor HHS Subcommittee and proudly present a bill that puts their stamp of approval on domestic abstinence-only-until-marriage programs--an ideological boondoggle that threatens the health and well-being of America's youth.
The most appalling aspect of this sell-out is that that the Democrats will not only fully fund the worst of the failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs--they'll give them a $27 million increase--the first in three years!....

Hello! "Important shit" alert!

What would happen if both parties disintegrated in 2008?

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Redefining Immigration Reform

post from MyDD on 08 June 2007 11:27:16 PM. © MyDD

This week Immigration has been in the news and on my mind quite a bit. It started with the Republican debate on Tuesday night. Listening to the candidates made me realize that recently the GOP has done a better job of framing the Immigration debate by[...]

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C&Ls Late Nite Music Club with Paul McCartney

post from Crooks and Liars on 08 June 2007 11:08:18 PM. © Crooks and Liars

(guest blogged by Howie Klein)The first time I met David Kahne he was sweeping floors at a recording studio in San Francisco. At the time, I had a small indie label, 415 Records. A few weeks later he brought me a tape of a song he recorded with a local band, Pearl Harbor & the [...]

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Reviews on G8 climate change are consistent

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 08 June 2007 11:06:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Serious observers of the G8 talks on climate change have all concluded that there was no change on climate change, only talk. Bush doesn't want to accept real numbers or benchmarks for anything, from Iraq to climate change. It makes you wonder how he ever made it in business if he rejects any and all benchmarks. Oh that's right...he was a failure in business too.

Greenpeace: G8 to act on climate change, later... maybe
The Guardian: 'It's all more talk, really. We have to see some action'
The Independent: Deal or raw deal? Bush refuses to commit to climate change target
Senate Democrats: President Bush: Not Getting the Job Done on Global Warming
The Salt Lake Tribune: Bush's half-measure: His global-warming plan too little, too late

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Late Nite FDL: Lets Keep Dancing

The G8 summit wrapped up today in Germany, where President Bush was likely offering back rubs and the Germans were, no doubt, reciprocating with offers of their famous pretzels. (Essen Sie die Brezel!) While most of the world was stunned to hear Bush[...]

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Wash. Post review misrepresents,
conflates allegations in Clinton books

In a June 10 Washington Post review of two recentlyreleased books about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) -- Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions ofHillary Rodham Clinton by Jeff Gerth and Don VanNatta Jr. (Little, Brown & Co.) and A Woman in Chargeby Carl Bernstein (Knopf) -- author Kevin Phillips misrepresented bothbooks' contents and falsely conflated their purported findings. Indeed,in noting the assertion in Her Way thatBill and Hillary Clinton "sought and planned for sequential[...]

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US ISPs To Start Charging For Emails

ZDNet via YahooUK:Five of the largest ISPs in the US are to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their emails, in a bid to combat spam.Goodmail Systems, which provides a service called CertifiedEmail, announced on Thursday that it had signed up Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable’s Road Runner and Verizon as customers. Emails certified using [...]

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