Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are claude, PaintyKat, ezdidit, Larsstephens, Got a Grip, skrp23, drbcladd, and taylormattd as editor.

Please enjoy reading these outstanding, ranger-selected diaries:

• gjohnsit explains it all clearly and convincingly in Game Over: How Bush Bankrupted Fannie and Freddie. (srkp23)
• watershed takes us all to church and righteously testifies on why Fundamentalists should support Barack: the Bible tells them so. (Larsstephens)
• Special needs parent CatM carefully analyzes the presidential candidates' propsals regarding special needs education, explaining why Obama's position is superior in Obama and Education. (claude)
• Bill Tchakirides reports on the backlash resulting from recent republican attacks on community organizers in Community Organizers Strike Back... (ezdidit)
• RobertoW describes yet another lie by the Governor of Alaska, this one about how she didn't actually save taxpayer money by firing her chef: Commander-in-Chef: Palin never "fired" chef, only worked part-time herself. (drbcladd)
• Schneibster discusses various implications of Benazir Bhutto's husband being elected President of Pakistan in Bhutto's Legacy. (PaintyKat)
• michele2 offers up a diary from personal experience: On being Pentecostal Holiness. (srkp23)
• Winter Rabbit contrasts manifest destiny with the recontextualization of modern day history all while exploring Custer's Pipeline & Genocide Denial (Edited). (Larsstephens)
• intrepidliberal turns our attention away from the Sarah Palin distraction and toward the candidates' differing positions regarding our nation's infrastructure in Obama, McCain & the Infrastructure Thing. (claude)
• AndyT explains the roots of McBush's adopted nickname in True History: Real Mavericks Were Democrats and Progressives. (ezdidit)
• TocqueDeville brings the focus back, counteracting all of the effort that went into Making Barack Obama Disappear. (srkp23)
• TonyBradley discusses a theme repeatedly uttered by speakers at both the Democratic and Republican conventions: These Perilous Times. (PaintyKat)
• parryander reminds us that our media driven perfect storm of politics may just be a tempest in a teapot compared to Ike Over Haiti, People Under Water. (Larsstephens)
• davidseth provides us with a little history of a republican slogan in Echoes: "Country First" and "America First". (claude)
• walkabout reminisces and relates how Community Organizing Changes Communities: 1956-2006, while greenomanic shares a wonderful Tribute to a community activist. (srkp23)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: September 6, 2008 and Week's High Impact Diaries: August 30 - September 5, 2008.

va dare has Top Comments Sunday 9.07.08.

Please feel free to promote your favorite diaries in this open thread.