Open Thread and Diary Rescue

(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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