Evening Update

post from DemConWatch on 09 January 2009 11:58:57 PM. © DemConWatch

Those 5,000 inauguration tickets we wrote about this morning? Sold out in less than a minute.
Some Smithsonian Museum buildings will open early on Inauguration Day.
And they're really making it hard to go to the inauguration. Really hard. And if you do come? Don't bring the kids.
It's the closest anyone will get to tracking superdelegates in 2009. YourRNC is tracking RNC members' public commitments for the chair of the Republican National Committee. While the end product of the election will be a joke no matter who they pick, we give the site props for following in the grand tradition of DemConWatch.
Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) may also follow Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) into retirement. Chuck Todd:

"This is a potential disaster with four retirements this quickly especially given that Republicans are already defending more seats," writes Chuck. "This is what happened to the Democrats in 1995. It is a self -fulfilling prophecy. Republicans won't be able to recruit any challengers, and even if the environment shifts in their direction (a la Democrats in 1996), they won't have incumbents or challengers in place to take advantage."

Since when do Senate rules take precedence over the Constitution? The Senate wants to give Secretarys of State across the country veto power over appointments to the Senate. The Senate might run out the clock, hoping Blago is out of office quickly, but if it gets to court before then, Burris will be a Senator.

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CNN Says the Video is Genuine (Little Green
Footballs)

post from memeorandum on 09 January 2009 11:50:03 PM. © memeorandum

Little Green Footballs:
CNN Says the Video is Genuine — CNN insists that the Gaza video is genuine, and they've reposted it. This is their only response to the criticism that the “CPR” shown in the video is an obvious pantomime: … If they really had “little hope” the patient could be saved …

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Bush's Last Month Sees Unemployment Hit 22%,
According to Wingnuttia's Math

post from Open Left - Front Page on 09 January 2009 11:33:51 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

OpenLeft commenter David Kowalski makes a really important point: Though the Bureau of Labor[...]

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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 09 January 2009 11:31:27 PM. © Daily Kos

Tonight's rescue rangers are vcmvo2, YatPundit, dadanation, dopper0189, grog, and jlms qkw, with Got a Grip doing that editing thing .

Here are this evening's selections.....

LiberalTexan describes another looming disaster as Texas deals poorly with its coal ash deposits in Could it happen in Texas? (vcmvo2)

dday asks will there be No Vote In 2009 On Climate Change? His recommendation to force a vote: squeaky wheel. (grog)

Hannah McCrea shares the surprising news of several corporate heavyweights taking the side of the little guy in a fight for justice in Wal-Mart Weighs In to Fight Judicial Corruption? (dopper0189)

RogerShuler details the corruption of the U.S. Attorneys in Alabama, and why this should change with an Obama administration in Don Siegelman and the Impact of Corrupt U.S. Attorneys. (vcmvo2)

Something the Dog Said continues a line by line explanation of the United States Constitution in Friday Constitutional - Articles 5, 6 and 7. (dopper0189)

scanman1722 takes a look at the Employee Free Choice Act in The Coming Fight Over a New Labor Law. (dopper0189)

Based on personal experiences with the California Conservation Corps, JesseCW explains why Americorps is not enough, or how Jerry Brown saved my life. (dadanation)

Choosing to not operate under a "near mythical faith in economic theory," NBBooks looks at possible solutions to the economic downturn while examining many of the premises of Obama's Stimulus Plan in Stumbling Toward Stimulus. (dadanation)

gchaucer2 uses a local, Shakespearean production of The Merchant of Venice as Metaphor. For what may surprise you! (vcmvo2)

ACLU marks the 7th anniversary of the first prisoners arrival in End the Inhumane Force-Feeding Of Guantánamo Prisoners. (jlms qkw)

proseandpromise uses the immortal words of St. Francis in All the darkness in the world... (jlms qkw)

jotter has today's High Impact Diaries: January 8, 2009.

monkeybiz has Top Comments 1.09.08: A Supposedly Fun Thing.

Please don't forget to thank those diarists whose work you enjoyed, and use this open thread to promote your own diaries or your favorites of the day.

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Open Thread

post from Crooks and Liars on 09 January 2009 11:30:29 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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From Tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors, who reminds us:

you must, Must, MUST vote for Driftglass. Lookit, I said it in the comments (kinda-sorta): if Drifty loses to some freakin? Pajama?s Media neocon, anti-choice, racist, homophobic, supply-side, pro-Chimpy, pro-Blam-Blam, Alberto-Gonzoles wet-dreamin?, Ann-Coulter worshipping, Phyllis-Schlafly nasty-licking, John-Bolton fellating, nutjobber of the first order, then the terrorists will have won.

I don't know if I'd go that far, Ten, but Driftglass's main competitor did say Bush was right on Kyoto AND Gitmo. Sigh.

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George goes free!

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 09 January 2009 11:19:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Not *that* George (who we hope will be facing charges soon enough) but George the 140 year old lobster. I'm not a vegetarian (it might even be illegal in France...not quite sure) and while others in France eat anything that runs, swims, flies, slithers or moves in any which way, but not something like this. No one would really want to eat such an old lobster anyway so who needs to tank circus? Long live George!

A 140-year-old lobster once destined for a dinner plate received the gift of life Friday from a Park Avenue seafood restaurant.

George, the 20-pound supercentenarian crustacean, was freed by City Crab and Seafood in New York City.

"We applaud the folks at City Crab and Seafood for their compassionate decision to allow this noble old-timer to live out his days in freedom and peace," said Ingrid E. Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

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Friday Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 09 January 2009 11:05:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

I know I laid into him with the "Joke Line" references in the past, but kudos to the senior Time correspondent for hitting the nail on the proverbial head concerning the damage wrought by Bushco to our image throughout the world (giving Hulu a try here)...

...and here's a review of the Errol Morris film, "Standard Operating Procedure," filmed from the perspective of those who participated in the atrocities at Abu Ghraib (and I'm sorry, but I can't absolve Lynndie England, though I of course agree totally with reviewer Jonathan Kim, particularly at the end - and by the way, I find this to be worrisome)...

...oh, and "Bush The Liberator"? Puh-leeeeeze!...

...and "switching gears" a bit, I didn't really have anything to say about the fact that yesterday would have been the 74th birthday of a guy named Elvis Aaron Presley, so with that in mind, here's "If I Can Dream" (10 days to go, people).

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C&L's Late Night Music Club with David Bowie

Also known as that ?kinda odd, Turkish/reggae song off of 'The Lodger' with the title that sorta-but-not-quite means 'Long Life' that isn?t megastadium-tour-greatest-hits-popular, but still plenty good enough that you wish that someone on the damned radio machine would once in a while play something like this and not 'Cat People' or effing 'Golden Years' every damned time they have to drop in a Bowie, even though those are both pretty fine songs too and I don?t know of you remember but "Golden Years" was also the theme song to a weird little teevee series that starred a young Felicity Huffman, back in, damn, 1991? 18 years ago? Can that be right? That children conceived during that show's pilot (Plot: Old guard at a secret lab is doused with chemicals that make him age backwards.) are old enough to be out somewhere on a date tonight, watching ?The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? (Plot: Old Brad Pitt is doused with CGI that makes him age backwards.) and have never heard ?Yassassin??? song.

Well we can?t have that, now can we?

Bowie celebrated his 62nd birthday this week. h/t Mark Hoback.

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A Class Act

Governor Palin is a little upset about double standards"When I heard Barack Obama state in one of his interviews ... that his wife was off limits, meaning, his family was off limits, I naively believed that they respected that ... that it applied to all[...]

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A couple of thousand of you are going to Hell.

You did not vote yesterday, as commanded. That makes you "worser" than Barack Obama, the devil, and the government.

Repent or I'll have Brother Stucky visit you.

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