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PA-Sen: Specter still in front

post from DemConWatch on 09 February 2010 11:38:23 PM. © DemConWatch

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter remains in front of Congressman Joe Sestak, 51-36. The race seems to have stabilized since October, and Sestak has just over 3 months to close the gap.

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A follow up post on Chris Dodd

post from Everyday Citizen on 09 February 2010 11:36:06 PM. © Everyday Citizen

Chris Dodd appeared tonight on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to promote his idea for a[...]

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 09 February 2010 11:30:35 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Oh come on, Senator Al Franken, we KNOW it was you.

Not a hoax, but thanks John K. for the obvious answer.

Open thread below....

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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 09 February 2010 11:16:04 PM. © Daily Kos

Tonight's Rescue is brought to you by Alfonso Nevarez, Blank Frank, HoosierDeb, mem from somerville, dadanation, srkp23, and pico.

Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading.

FerrisValyn breaks down the forest for the trees in explaining support of the Obama Administration's plans for the space program in First Flight. (dadanation)

WilliamKWolfrum presents An interview with Louie Psihoyos: Oscar for 'The Cove' could save lives of dolphins. (srkp23)

Detroit Mark reports on an invigorating development in clean energy and jobs in Michigan Blows Into Green New Future. (HoosierDeb)

If you're having trouble Understanding Loan Modification, ask the BossLady. (Alfonso Nevarez)

The Anomaly shows how Goldman’s Dirty Gambling Tricks allowed them to hit on one Wall St. parlay card after another. (Alfonso Nevarez)

The Book Bear highlights a piece of software allowing kids on the autism spectrum to show off their design talent by Sketching Up: Help get software into the hands of kids and teens with autism for free. (Alfonso Nevarez)

Libby Shaw delivers a fisking of a pair who are "all hats, all hair, no cattle" in Palin and Perry: Snap, Crackle and Flop. (mem from somerville)

Troubadour delivers An Elegant Conjecture Re: Media Bias, which suggests how short term profit motives influence traditional media outlets. (Alfonso Nevarez)

Navy Vet Terp illustrates ways to thwart obstructionism with Senate Reform - a Lesson from President Kennedy. (mem from somerville)

Daveparts paints a powerful portrait of being In Bed with a Sick Mind. (srkp23)

Kitsap River outlines the reasons why our fight for health care reform is a necessity and concludes that Without Democrats, I'd be dead. (HoosierDeb)

FarEasterner shares an outstanding photo diary of a Miserable day. (srkp23)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: February 8, 2010.

brillig has Top Comments - It Must Be Love Edition.

Please suggest your own favorites from the last 24 hours, and use as an open thread.

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House to hold hearings on Blue Cross 39% rate
increase

post from AMERICAblog News on 09 February 2010 11:01:52 PM. © AMERICAblog News

Now THAT is what I'm talking about. These are the kind of things that show the American people the difference between having Democrats in power and Republicans in power.

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Late Night: UR Doin It Wrong Fighting Terrorism
with Bureaucracy

post from Firedoglake on 09 February 2010 11:00:28 PM. © Firedoglake

South Carolina has nifty new tool in the battle against terrorism: A form that must be filled out in duplicate and filed with the Secretary of State.[...]

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C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Patty Griffin

post from Crooks and Liars on 09 February 2010 11:00:00 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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All I can really say about Patty Griffin's new album, Downtown Church, is: Wow, what a knockout.

It was all recorded at the Nashville Downtown Presbyterian Church, and the lineup of contributing musicians is amazing and impressive: Besides Emmylou Harris, there's Buddy Miller (who also produced), Shawn Colvin, the great Gospel singer Regina McCrary, and Mike Farris.

"Little Fire" is fairly representative: Like the album, it's a nonstop treat for people who love heartfelt roots music. It ranges from rockabilly to folk to Gospel in its range, but what's most striking is the purity of its sound.

I was tipped to this album earlier this summer when Griffin, Harris, Miller and Colvin toured together for a series of intimate concerts, including the one I saw at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. It was a great show, and it featured several of the cuts on this record. And as you can see, they all seemed to genuinely enjoy playing together.

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Tuesday Stuff

Hey teabaggers! You want something to protest for real? Check out the story of Kyler Van Nocker, told to us by K.O. from today's Philadelphia Daily News (here)...

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...and oh yeah, it looks like the Brits have the guts to at least investigate the crimes of Dubya and Deadeye Dick on Iraq, as opposed to we utterly cowed, corporate-media-spoon-fed Americans (and making this even more preposterous - what asshats)...

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..."Worst Persons" (Repug U.S. House Rep Marsha Blackburn returns to suggest privatizing Social Security...uh, and tell me one more time how long it took the Dow to climb back up to 10,000; the family of Sen. Jim Inhofe demonstrates that climate crisis denial runs in the family - utter fools; but David Steiner of the New York State Department of Education gets the "Worst" citation for refusing to accept the makeup test scores of a student who missed the regularly scheduled Regents exam...Steiner didn't think her excuse was acceptable - it turns out, though, that the student was in a seven-hour meeting the day of the exam at the Central Homeless Family Intake Center trying to keep her family from losing their home...just the kind of diligent, committed individual we should kick right in the shins while we lecture them about making bad life choices, right? What country am I living in again?)...

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...and speaking of the climate, this has something to do with the white stuff outside, or at least the band name does anyway.

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Farms in China even worse than factories

It shouldn't be much of a surprise after all of the scary problems related to food products that were exported abroad. Even in the US, farm runoff is a terrible problem. Anyone who lives near the Chesapeake is familiar with the chemical runoff problems including fewer fish and higher levels of cancer in the area. Claims that the Chinese pollution is near its peak is about as believable as the claims that the government is not triggering an economic bubble. The Guardian:

Farmers' fields are a bigger source of water contamination in China than factory effluent, the Chinese government revealed today in its first census on pollution.

Senior officials said the disclosure, after a two-year study involving 570,000 people, would require a partial realignment of environmental policy from smoke stacks to chicken coops, cow sheds and fruit orchards.

Despite the sharp upward revision of figures on rural contamination, the government suggested the country's pollution problem may be close to - or even past - a peak. That claim is likely to prompt scepticism among environmental groups.