Open Thread and Diary Rescue

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

This evening's Rescue Rangers are ybruti, nyc in exile, fatbyjhnsn, grog, Cordelia Lear, smokeymonkey and joyful with hhex65 as editor.

Tonight's diaries cover a variety of interesting issues with perspective and analysis not offered by the Traditional Media:

• Garet43details the impact of pollution and government inaction on a community in The True Cost of Superfund. (nyc in exile)
• In Erik Prince Wins Captain Morgan Look-alike Contest, which compares Blackwater's captain and a famous 17th century privateer, davidfry explains that without a Letter of Marque a privateer was merely a pirate. He also notes that the Constitution gives Congress, not the Executive Branch, the power to issue such letters. (ybruti)
• Tomorrow is a Blackwater Day for Congressional testimony. Jupiter2005 hopes we'll get details on the September 16 shooting and learn why we pay $1,200 a day for each "protective security specialist" employed by the company. (Cordelia Lear)
• indeterminate cutlery's piece Money is Made of Electrons and Neurotransmitters will change forever how you view currency. (grog)
• Frank Palmer provides today's science lesson about heat, CO2, carbon pools and global warming in Physics for global warming. (grog)
• wcalvin highlights just how far the U.S. has fallen behind in energy innovation in The future ain’t what it used to be. (nyc in exile)
• Vox Libertas muses on a uniquely American war memorial: One to our enemies, British soldiers who died during the American Revolution with In Concord, Meditations and Realizations. (fatbyjhnsn)
• Next week the SCOTUS will hear a challenge to the Military Commissions Act of 2006. jdodsonvls gives us a run down of what arguments will be raised in The Gitmo Appeals: Round IV. (Cordelia Lear)
• wiscmass delivers a great piece of Karl Zinsmeister (R-AEI) in BushCo Domestic Policy Advisor Finds the WMDs: Male Sexuality. (smokeymonkey)
• Tell Congress: Vote NO on ENDA describes the right and wrong way to end sex and gender discrimination. A great summary of legislation from A Yankee in Texas. (smokeymonkey)
• Michael Connery wonders if Rudy Giuliani at the top of the GOP ticket will seriously splinter the party in Young Evangelicals Abandon Bush; Third Party in '08? (Cordelia Lear)
• Neo-connecting the Dots to Iran (Part II) continues Jeff Huber's fine series on disinformation and the selling of a war with Iran. (joyful)

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