Nomination At A Glance, December 19th

post from Open Left - Front Page on 19 December 2007 11:46:38 PM. © Open Left - Front Page

Why do I hold nomination at a glance posts until the wee hours of the day? Mainly, it is so that[...]

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Things I Learn Watching VH1

post from Eschaton on 19 December 2007 11:40:00 PM. © Eschaton

Hannah Montana is very popular (I knew that already).

Hannah Montana is played by Billy Ray Cyrus's Daughter.

Hannah Montana's father is played by Billy Ray Cyrus.

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The Candidates on Fidelity and Losing Their
Tempers

post from TalkLeft on 19 December 2007 11:35:00 PM. © TalkLeft

Katie Couric asked all ten presidential candidates about whether marital infidelity should impact voters and when was the last time they lost their tempers and why.

The videos are here. I thought the temper was very interesting....take a look. Who do you think was fudging and who told the truth?

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IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH
GIULIANI

post from DownWithTyranny! on 19 December 2007 11:28:00 PM. © DownWithTyranny!

Here in Bangkok it's 7am on Thursday evening. Back in L.A. it's 4am Thursday morning (still Wednesday night for most Americans). I wonder how many people even know the big news that just flashed across TV screens here-- that the man who was once the front runner for the (worthless) Republican presidential nomination, Rudy Giuliani, was admitted to a St Louis hospital... with "flu-like symptoms." He turned his private jet around and flew back to St Louis because he had these "flu-like symptoms." A few weeks ago I got on a plane with flu-like symptoms, a plane to New Delhi. I got over it.

I'm not suggesting he left one of his favorite drag outfits in St Louis and that's the real reason he turned around his private jet. But come on: "flu-like symptoms?" Who is he kidding? Is he that much of a woos? Or is there something they're not telling us about the flu-like symptoms?

Or is he getting ready to bow out of a race he now knows he can't win-- and planning to use "health reasons" as the excuse, just like he did when he realized Hillary was going to clean his clock when he tried running for the U.S. Senate, only to see the futility of that race and duck the ignominy of losing to her.

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Christmas With The 08 Candidates

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Clinton wins the holiday ad contest (with presents of change instead of platitudes) The holiday ads have rolled out and here is the current crop. Need the presidential aspirants to sprinkle your computer with Yuletide warmth? Here you go:Obama family Christmas adhttp://garlinggauge.com/videos/clintonchristmas.flv‘Presents’ Clinton holiday ad (no Christmas tree in background)http://garlinggauge.com/videos/edwardschristmas.flvEdwards Christmas adhttp://garlinggauge.com/videos/rudychristmas.flvGiuliani Christmas [...]

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Open Thread and Diary Rescue

post from Daily Kos on 19 December 2007 11:14:16 PM. © Daily Kos

(Tonight's selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

Today's Intrepid Rescue Rangers are ybruti, watercarrier4diogenes, BentLiberal, srkp23, Cordelia Lear, Got a Grip and Rippen Kitten and twilight falling as editor. h/t to Patriot Daily for editing assistance!

On this day in 1998, in a sickening display of partisanship, the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton for ~~consensual sex~~ obstruction of justice and perjury.

Please, commemorate this anniversary of an impeachment that should not have occurred by supporting one that is long overdue: Please sign Rep. Wexler's petition to hold impeachment hearings on Dick Cheney.

k franklin examines the plight of American civilian Jamie Leigh Jones and the contract which stripped her civil rights before she was raped by co-workers in Iraq in KBR/Halliburton, US Government, US Justice System Tell Rape Victim: "Get Over It". (Rippen Kitten)

This top-notch collaborative effort from avahome, roxy and TheFatLadySings meticulously details some outrageous Rocky Mtn Hijinx: Repubs Misuse Federal Database in Colorado Election. (srkp23)

Stop creating homeless, damaged vets; stop the war is xofferson's cogent reminder of the link between combat and homelessness. (BentLiberal)

Troutfishing exposes our government's attempt to turn soldiers into paid Christian missionaries in "Government Paid [US Military] Missionaries For Christ". (twilight falling)

First-time diarist altruista uses her personal story to weave a powerful message about healthcare and compassion in This is Bigger Than Me: Dispatches From Below the Poverty Line. (BentLiberal)

Barth, who started writing diaries this month, thoughtfully considers the role of law in mitigating racism and reflects on "the huge step backward that the Supreme Court took on the issue of race," in Race and the Law, 2007. (srkp23)

New diarist Taurus Rising discusses confronting fears and prejudices as the best means to eradicate violence and homophobia in Seeking Understanding. (Cordelia Lear)

Ocelopotamus tells the sad story of children who are abused to reinforce gender roles and explains how it fuels homophobia in La Vie en Rose (Pink Nail Polish and Sissyphobia). (Cordelia Lear)

Carnacki details the disturbing pattern of Senator Jay Rockefeller's intransigence on FISA in West Virginia's fight with Rockefeller over FISA. (Rippen Kitten)

Vyan reviews a case of life imitating art (to a point) in FBI Threatened to Arrest Zubaydah's CIA Interrogators. (srkp23)

markthshark analyzes White House lies as he explains why Bush Most Likely Knew of Shifting Iran Intel 9-Months Ago. (ybruti)

Second-time diarist noweeman clues us in on Local Politics Presidential Style: Fixing the Race in NJ. (srkp23)

Third-time diarist Fungible Chattel tells us that NJ Gets It! Universal Care For Children Begins Jan. 1. (srkp23)

In Anyone for good news?: NJ abolishes death penalty, Randolph06 discusses the reasons for an important landmark in our evolution as a society. (ybruti)

First-time diarist FluffyUnbound is looking for a Democratic presidential candidate who agrees that There has to be a Reckoning. (srkp23)

brillig has Top Comments- 12/19/07 Listening Edition.

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Bush administration blocks California emissions
law

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 19 December 2007 11:13:00 PM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Leave it to a Bush-led EPA to shoot down efforts to clean up the environment. Only a GOP team could pull off such a ridiculous stunt, using the old "we would really like to have a better system, so let's not take any action until we get there" routine. Please. This administration has no interest whatsoever in doing anything positive about the environment. Big Oil and Detroit might not like it. The Bush plan is to push the issue into the Washington bureaucracy and let it die on the vine, with a little help from dinosaurs such as Rep. Dingell (D - General Motors.)

Maybe our next president will care about an EPA that is focused on the environment and not polluting special interests. If only trees and air could pay lobbyists... If only we had a democracy that was actually about people and not the most powerful lobbyists.

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Late Night Music Club with Ben Harper and the
Innocent Criminals

A little sumpin sumpin for all our brothers and sisters in arms out there trying in a hundred ways and in a thousand places to push back the darkness. Whether you’re walking holes in your shoes canvassing for a noble long shot, or standing down quislings on the Senate floor, whatever you do, don’t [...]

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Late Nite FDL: The Return of Alec Rawls And the
Red Crescent Conspiracy

When last we left Alec Rawls, TBogg was revealed through complex numerology to be in a conspiracy with the Parks Department to turn the Flight 93 memorial into an Islamofascist shrine (winner of best. comment. thread. ever.) The wingnuts were a-leapin'[...]

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Wednesday Political Stuff

As we watch this compilation of "Faux News" nonsense concerning John Edwards and Barack Obama, I would ask that you remember that FDR once said, "I welcome their hatred," and I'm sure you know who the "they" was that he was referring to...

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...and speaking of the "pin head," here's a seasonal message from the Edwards campaign.

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