Financial 9/11

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Tuesday September 23, 2008 · 11:09 AM PDT

2008/09/23 · 11:09

In the summer of 2001, the Bush Administration failed to heed the many warnings of an impending terrorist strike. In the wake of the 9/11 strikes they quickly rammed through Congress the most serious abridgement of our Constitutional rights since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.

They also used the fear sowed by the strikes to launch the nation into a costly and unnecessary war in Iraq.

Fast forward. The Administration has again sat idly by, ignoring all the warning signs, as a financial 9/11 hit the country. But back to their old tricks, BushCo takes to heart the old notion that crisis and opportunity walk in the door, hand-in-hand.

Oswald

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Thursday May 08, 2008 · 6:44 PM PDT

2008/05/08 · 18:44

Seventy-four years ago, longshoremen on the West Coast walked off the job to protest the imposition of an "open shop" by shipping and stevedoring firms. The strike, known variously as the West Coast Longshoremen’s Strike and the West Coast Waterfront Strike, soon sparked a sympathy strike from sailors and then a general strike in San Francisco that shut down the city for four days and culminated with "Bloody Thursday".

Oswald

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Thursday October 05, 2006 · 8:23 PM PDT

2006/10/05 · 20:23

The Ninth Circuit Court's recent ruling upholding California's ban on same-sex marriage, despite being a blow to civil rights, is a boon to Democrat's chances this fall.

Any favorable ruling would have ginned up the Republican's GOTV efforts -- sorely needed in tight races like the 4th (Doolittle) and 11th (Pombo) Congressional Districts -- and given the Right Wing Noise Machine an excuse to talk about something other than Mark Foley.

The ruling is a small hiccup in the Progressive road and it couldn't have been better timed.

Mmmm, cake.

Oswald

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 11:18 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 11:18

Barbara Bush: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans

By E&P Staff

Published: September 05, 2005 7:25 PM ET updated 8:00 PM

NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George
H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in
Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the
poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them." Read More

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Perversely, Same-Sex Ruling in California is Good For Democrats

Mmmm, cake.