PPC: The New Wild Wild West of Campaign Finance

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Sunday June 22, 2008 · 11:52 AM PDT

2008/06/22 · 11:52

I'll make this short, simple and to the point because I'm in a very dark mood about this FISA business.

Search engine or pay per click (PPC) advertising is one of the most important new tools being deployed in this election and it appears to me to be almost completely unregulated.

FEC internet rules issued in 2006, exempt bloggers but not paid advertisers, from disclaimer requirements. McCain is raising money by ignoring this rule. At least, I think it's McCain. Why don't I know? The answer, the ad, the rules, and more angst, after the jump.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 9:36 PM PDT

2008/04/26 · 21:36

Hey there, hi there, ho there. Today I would like you to take a step back from politics and help to save the life of someone who has been discriminated against.

This is the story of medical marijuana, the law of unintended consequences and the astonishing obtuseness on the part of physicians who in acquiring godlike authority over life and death seem to have lost touch with their own basic humanity.

It's a heck of a story. Got time to make a difference? Read on.

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53 votes Show Results

Is the Transplant Committee Overstepping Their Authority?

53 votes Vote Now!

Is the Transplant Committee Overstepping Their Authority?

I abstain because I'm so freakin' mad I can't think straight.

23 votes

Yes. If they think marijuania is a gateway drug, why don't they believe in intelligent design?

20 votes

No. Timothy Garon had plenty of legal drugs to choose from.

3 votes

David Crosby

7 votes

Oh No Mr. Bill! Operation Chaos Targets Montana

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 3:38 PM PDT

2008/04/24 · 15:38

This just in:

I am officially opening up the Montana Division of Operation Chaos.

--Andy Hammond

Hammond's devious plan to confuse the pollsters:

He also urged Montana conservatives and Republicans to tell pollsters they were voting for Obama but then vote for Clinton on June 3.

Who is Andy Hammond and why does he love chaos so much? Find out after the jump...

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Saturday April 12, 2008 · 3:49 PM PDT

2008/04/12 · 15:49

Recently, on April 9th, the National Lawyers' Guild issued a press release calling on the University of California-Berkeley School of Law to dismiss John Yoo. They didn't pull any punches:

Congress should repeal the provision of the Military Commissions Act that would give Yoo immunity from prosecution for torture committed from September 11, 2001 to December 30, 2005. John Yoo should be disbarred and he should not be retained as a professor of law at one of the country's premier law schools. John Yoo should be dismissed from Boalt Hall and tried as a war criminal.

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And how did Berkeley respond? Find out below the fold:

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 11:54 AM PST

2008/03/03 · 11:54

Is the LATimes trying to turn Obama into a pinata on NAFTA?

Just 15 seconds on google, let alone Lexis or any other of the databases they have access to, would have told them that this story has been discredited. Yet they take what was originally reported as a phone call and elevate it to the status of a "memo" without reporting the story's history.

Outrage, pictures, after the jump.

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I Think the LA Times Story

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I Think the LA Times Story

is fair and balanced

22 votes

goes beyond unfair in elevating an alleged phone call to a memo

9 votes

should have been much clearer about the history of these allegations

13 votes

is a distraction we can ignore

6 votes

is suspiciously timed to say the least

39 votes

Massive Lapse in US Intelligence Today

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Tuesday February 26, 2008 · 8:54 PM PST

2008/02/26 · 20:54

Today, for nearly three hours, America's massive national security apparatus ground to a halt. Yes, for nearly three freaking (have you ever heard anyone say freaking?) hours, terrorists could go about their business, unhindered, unmolested, and untortured.

How could John Michael McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence have allowed such a bone-headed move? And congress, were they asleep at the switch? What about the news media How many people who are reading this have any idea that only lady luck saved them from the haters of freedom today.

My fingers are shaking so badly that I can barely type. The sordid truth, the whole sordid truth, and nothing but the sordid truth, after the jump.

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Thursday February 21, 2008 · 1:44 PM PST

2008/02/21 · 13:44

The New Nixon
Hillary has taken her strategy straight out of Tricky Dick's paranoid, press-bashing playbook

That's the title of Matt Taibbi's latest political screed, just-published in Rolling Stone.

Taibbi's cynical observations on the Nixon vs Kennedy parallels between Hillary and Obama don't spare either candidate, but he shreds Hillary and eviscerates Mark Penn:

Penn is the Democratic version of Karl Rove...his eyes bulge out of his fat, blood-flushed head; his neck spills out of his too-tight shirt collar...

Well, you get the picture (not pretty). More after the jump.

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Wednesday February 20, 2008 · 2:19 PM PST

2008/02/20 · 14:19

Did Anderson Cooper report a Wisconsin primary victory congratulatory call last night for the Obama campaign from--guess who--Al Qaeda? Yes, you heard it right the Ace of Base, the scourge of the middle-east, and the mothers of the mother of all middle eastern wars called Barack Obama's campaign to offer their congratulations. Well, if you were a deaf person or you were on the treadmill at the gym or in a bar you thought they did.

What really happened? Was it all a misunderstanding? Cui Bono? Photographic evidence after the jump.

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190 votes Show Results

Did CNN Made an Honest Mistake?

190 votes Vote Now!

Did CNN Made an Honest Mistake?

Sure, anyone could have done it.

12 votes

No, CNN made an intentional smear.

133 votes

Anderson Cooper interned for the CIA. That's all I'm saying.

21 votes

Who cares. No one reads closed captioning anyway.

13 votes

I'm calling CNN right now to find out.

11 votes

Keith Olbermann Exposed!

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Friday January 18, 2008 · 7:05 PM PST

2008/01/18 · 19:05

You know, I've always loved Keith Olbermann's show on MSNBC. I send his special comments to all of my friends. His feud with Bill O'Reilly was not only good tv; it was balm for my troubled soul. And so, when he showed up as part of the Daily Kos community I was thrilled beyond words. But then I thought, what do I really know about Keith Olbermann? I've been sorely disappointed by journalists in the past--especially journalists who who I thought told the truth all of the time but turned out to only tell the truth when it didn't threaten their sponsors. So I thought, before I welcome this guy to Daily Kos with open arms, I better do a little muckraking of my own. I need to find out if this guy has the right stuff...for Kos.

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Monday September 24, 2007 · 2:10 AM PDT

2007/09/24 · 02:10

Just posted in the LA Times, the following headline: Ahmadinejad a hero for Arabs

Not just Sunnis either, but...

What's striking in Ahmadinejad's case, however, is that the leader of a non-Arab Shiite nation has ingratiated himself with the Middle East's predominantly Sunni Arab population.

How dare they post an article like this right after ~~journalist~~ Scott Pelley pitched him all of those spit-covered fastballs on 60 Minutes (see Richard Cranium's diary). Now he's a hero?! Great timing, LA Times!

Wait a tic... blimey, this ~~redistribution of wealth~~ demonizing of political adversaries is trickier than I thought.

Serious implications, after the jump...

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Sunday September 09, 2007 · 6:08 PM PDT

2007/09/09 · 18:08

Several diaries have prominently featured the "new" OBL video, including "If we're "kicking ass," why is Osama bin Laden on TV?" from congressional candidate Eric Massa, which is currently recommended.

The question which invariably gets asked, in the diary or in the comments, is whether OBL is still alive, and if he is, how did his beard suddenly turn black and his sallow, sunken cheeks suddenly appear full.

I'd like to take a moment to explain the wizardry, some high tech and some very low tech, which makes it possible to continue to release videos, even though there is no other credible evidence that Bin Laden has been alive since late 2001.

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Thursday September 06, 2007 · 10:39 PM PDT

2007/09/06 · 22:39

Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much of it belonging to the Iraqi people—was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad, where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority...at least $9 billion has gone missing, unaccounted for, in a frenzy of mismanagement and greed.

Follow me on a roller coaster down the rabbit hole and learn the answers to the following questions:

How was it that the CPA came to be above the law?
How many tons does 12 billion dollars weigh anyway?
How can a company without a single accountant on staff audit 12 billion dollars in Coalition Provisional Authority expenditures?
How could anyone could possibly lose 9 billion dollars?
Are we ever going to find that money?

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What I Think About 9 Billion Iraqi Dollars Being Lost

26 votes Vote Now!

What I Think About 9 Billion Iraqi Dollars Being Lost

Now we're really exporting democracy!

2 votes

I hope the perpetrators eventually face justice.

0 votes

Hey, Enron did it to California--what's the problem?

0 votes

I feel confident the perpetrators will never face justice.

15 votes

I'm going to write a letter to my congress critter, by jiminy!

0 votes

This is war. Stuff happens.

0 votes

None of the above. There aren't words.

9 votes

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