Snow falls on Baghdad for first time in memory

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Snow fell on Baghdad on Friday for the first time in memory, and delighted residents declared it an omen of peace. ''It is the first time we've seen snow in Baghdad,'' said 60-year-old Hassan Zahar. ''We've seen sleet before, but...read more | digg story

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Morning Thread

post from Eschaton on 11 January 2008 06:47:00 AM. © Eschaton

What day does Bush make his completely predictable "SURPRISE" visit to Baghdad?

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Friday Flashback: Bill Withers - "Ain't No
Sunshine"

post from Thumb Jig on 11 January 2008 06:44:00 AM. © Thumb Jig

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Freed hostages thank Chavez [VIDEO]

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Jan. 11 - Colombian hostages Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez were freed by Marxist rebels who held them in the jungle for over 5 years.read more | digg story

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Bush ends peace mission without breakthrough

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By Tabassum Zakaria KUWAIT (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush wrapped up his mission to Israel and the occupied West Bank on Friday, emboldened enough to have predicted a peace treaty within a year but with no major breakthroughs for his...read more | digg story

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Even More Nickanmes For Drinky McDumbA$$

post from American Street on 11 January 2008 06:35:00 AM. © American Street

There’s a post over at DailyKos (with almost 1000 comments) that has a list of nicknames for WPE. Amazingly*, there’s a few that are commonly used at the Funny Farm that have managed not to make it on the list. Being as I don’t have a login over there (and so can’t contribute [...]

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SOME DEMOCRATS ARE AS BAD AS THE REPUBLICANS--
THEY'RE NOT WORTH SUPPORTING

post from DownWithTyranny! on 11 January 2008 06:34:00 AM. © DownWithTyranny!

Yesterday while I was flying back from a way too long vacation, MoveOn sent an e-mail to me and, presumably, to many DWT readers. It's about Democrats in Congress who collaborate with the far right-- Insiders like Rahm Emanuel and Steny Hoyer without whom Bush would not have been able to wreck America to the extent he has. MoveOn is more... diplomatic than DWT but they too are calling for the defeat of Democrats who act like Republicans.

They're a problem. Democrats in Congress who vote with President Bush on the war. Who take checks from lobbyists. Who side with corporations instead of voters.

It's not enough just to fight Republicans-- progressives need to make sure the Democrats we elect are on our side too.

Right now, in Maryland's 4th congressional district election, we have a great opportunity to replace a right-wing Democrat with a new progressive champion-- and remind the rest of the Democrats in Congress that at the end of the day, the voters call the shots.

Rep. Al Wynn, the incumbent, loads up on corporate cash,1 and has voted with the President again and again-- including his vote to authorize the war in Iraq. Donna Edwards, the challenger, is a true fighting progressive who will go to Washington and take on the establishment.

MoveOn members who live in the district voted overwhelmingly to endorse Donna Edwards in the Democratic primary, and they've asked for our help.

Blue America has endorsed Donna as well and so far over 1,400 of us have contributed over $57,000 to her, mostly in small donations at our ActBlue site.

Donna isn't the only progressive Democrat facing a conservative collaborationist Insider backed by the Emanuels and Hoyers, poised to go to Congress and keep everything moving in the wrong direction. Wynn has far worse colleagues in fact, like Dan Lipinski (IL-03) who is being challenged by progressive Mark Pera. There are also open seats-- mostly due to the resignations of Republican crooks-- where the Democratic Party Establishment is desperately trying to get their own hack candidates into office. Blue America is helping to fight to elect progressives like John Laesch (IL-14),
Howard Shanker (AZ-01), Victoria Wulsin (OH-02), Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Dennis Shulman (NJ-05), Gretchen Clearwater (IN-09), Sam Bennett (PA-15) in tough primaries against reactionaries and opportunists.

Sure, all the Republicans are absolutely terrible. Even if you find one who claims, for whatever reason to oppose the war-- like Ron Paul-- you scratch the surface and find instead all the other traits of reactionary extremists from racism, anti-semitism and homophobia to insane notions allowing the rich and powerful to dominate and beat down regular middle class Americans. There are few Democrats as bad as even the least horrible Republican. But, as any regular DWT reader knows, there are significant numbers of Democrats in Congress unworthy of any kind of support whatsoever, the ones who have rubber stamped the Bush agenda as faithfully as any GOP zombie.

As crucial primaries approach, especially in Maryland and Illinois, I want to remind you that Blue America is well on the way of having collected $1,000,000 for progressive candidates for Congress and that most of those donations have been made in $10 and $20 amounts. Our biggest day ever was when lots and lots of readers put $5 each in for our candidates. If you can spare something to help with real reform in a post-Bush America, between now and February, nothing is more important than helping proven progressives like Donna Edwards, John Laesch and Steve Cohen beat back conservative, pro-war, pro-corporate Democrats.

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Kucinich Requests Recount of New Hampshire
Ballots

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"This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy. It is about the integrity of the election process," says Kucinich. read more | digg story

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Hell Freezes Over

Snow fell today in Baghdad for the first time in a hundred years.

According to the head of the local meteorology department, it was the "result of two air flows meeting. The first one was cold and dry and the second one was warm and humid." He attributed the phenomenon to climate change and, by the topsy turvy logic of Iraq, global warming might just be responsible for snow in desert heat.

While he is in the region, President Bush will no doubt explain it as one of the benefits of democracy. It didn't snow in Iran.

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Muse in the Morning

Muse in the MorningThe muses are ancient. The inspirations for our stories were said to be born from them. Muses of song and dance, or poetry and prose, of comedy and tragedy, of the inward and the outward. In one version they are[...]

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