Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are nyc in exile, taylormattd, BentLiberal, dadanation, grog, Avila, and joyful, with jennyjem as editor.

On this day in 1807, one of my favorite poets was born. He wrote;

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
US poet (1807 - 1882)

Also born on this day, but in the year 1902, was author John Steinbeck, who wrote;

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
John Steinbeck, "Once There Was A War" 1943
US novelist (1902 - 1968)

Please enjoy these works by some other gifted writers.

• Avenging Angel delivers a well-researched and well-written diary that wonders if the proverbial leopard can really change its spots in RNC Orders Diversity Training for the Party of Hate. (dadanation)
• fatbyjhnsn gives us one beautiful and moving diary in Politics vs. Art: The New York Philharmonic in North Korea. (dadanation)
• In Wind, Solar, Efficiency: McCain To Miss the Trifecta?, diarist chapter1 exposes McCain for the hypocrite he is, on all issues environmental. (BentLiberal)
• gooners celebrates one Peace Corp experience in Peace Corps Week: Beni Ourain. (nyc in exile)
• nolalily provides an "all politics is local" diary on the efforts to elect better Dems in Louisiana and how we have helped in Dkos Contributions. Is there a Gilda in the House? (grog)
• WattHead celebrates 'people power' in an exuberant diary, A Spooked Coal Industry Fights Back, Trying to Buy 2008 Elections! (joyful)
• RoddieH describes an Iraq War veteran's extraordinary courage and perseverance in A Disabled Vet is Recognized for His Sacrifice in Seattle. (taylormattd)
• cedelson proposes questions Tim Russert should ask McCain. The guess here is that Timmeh won't. (grog)
• dogemperor checks in with yet another informative diary detailing the alarming marriage of extremist religion-to-state. Today we learn of New links between racists and PDI Gothard front. (joyful)
• In Watching Freedom's Watch: How Your Money Flows From Vegas To John McCain, jamesboyce makes your mission perfectly clear: don't stay at the Venetian or the Palazzo. (BentLiberal)
• YatPundit offers an historic look at transportation and canals in 1857 New Orleans in Wednesday Streetcar Blogging and NOLA Kossacks Open Thread. (Avila)
• Liberal Protestant admits to having "a bit of a bissextile fixation." How about you? Are you calendar curious? Quadrennial questioning? If so, check out Wild Bissextile Fun, a nifty history of 2/29/XX. (BentLiberal)
• Check out these beautiful pictures drawn by Central American kids, who are sick over the Bush Policy of Spraying Poison on Children. An insightful diary about how the war on drugs is poisoning the fragile eco-system that straddles Equador and Columbia. By redstatehatemonitor. (BentLiberal)

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