Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are dadanation, Got a Grip, joyful, vcmvo2, smokeymonkey, ybruti, with srkp23 as editor.

• LtdEdishn digs into the archives to show that Cheney's vision of an American torture machine has early beginnings, in Working the "dark side". (smokeymonkey)
• CrustyPolemicist writes an intense and thoughtful diary about America's ambivalent history with the death penalty in "Kill Them All!" Camus and Administrative Murder. (vcmvo2)
• iampunha's very personal and very powerful diary May 9, 1955: The muppets debut on television segues from the inaugural television appearance of the muppets into talking about trust, the cycle of abuse within families, and the possibility of change. (dadanation)
• Journalist Matt Taibbi spent A weekend at Hagee's "Jesus Camp" for grownups and dominionist group survivor dogemperor brings us all the horrific details. (joyful)
• Milos Janus Outlook reports that in the recent assembly of the United Methodist Church's legislative body, intolerance and the prohibitions against homosexuality remain, in The UMC and Gays - Our Witness NOW. (vcmvo2)
• testvet6778 continues his tireless efforts on behalf of our men and women in uniform as he sends out a Call for Action: You can help some Cold War Veterans. (joyful)
• JohnnyRook presents an illustrated compilation of eco-news you may not have seen, in EcoNoticiario # 5; Drought, Energy Costs and Climaticide in the Spanish and LA Press. (ybruti)
• A Siegel notes how the US Chamber of Congress is Chambering a round against future commerce as it continues to deny the problem of Global Warming. (joyful)
• Oswald describes an historic strike of longshoremen and explores the effect of NAFTA on The ILWU, Kansas City and Mexican Truckers. (ybruti)
• xrepub explains in detail how much a penny costs to make, and why the value of the US dollar is declining in Further Proof on How Little the $ is Worth. (vcmvo2)
• KevinBondelli describes a popular micro-blogging service and explains how you can be Using Twitter in a Political Organization. (ybruti)
• RandomNonviolence keeps track of the Bush administration's many scandals and all the Republican enablers, in Publicizing Congressional Republicans' Role in Enabling Bush's Scandals. (vcmvo2)
• Hail Ripley's straightforward and deeply unsettling FISA: Names and Faces - AT&T's James Cicconi comes straight from the "You Can't Tell The Players Without A Program" file. (dadanation)
• KevinBondelli describes a popular micro-blogging service and explains how you can be Using Twitter in a Political Organization. (ybruti)
• Storm Bear provides the latest installment of Black History: Secession of West Virginia. (vcmvo2)
• notksanymore uses a personal family tragedy to highlight the importance of everyone knowing the symptoms of and the steps one can take to lessen one's risk for a heart attack in Unhappy Mother's Day. (dadanation)

jotter has High Impact Diaries - May 8, 2008.

sardonyx brings Top Comments: Steve Soto on Daily Kos, part 2.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread.