Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are ItsJessMe, noddem, HansScholl, taylormattd, mem from somerville and jlms qkw, with vcmvo2 as editor.

~ I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts ~Abraham Lincoln ~

     

Meeting a national crisis

• catchlightning thinks out-of-the-box and advocates For a Union of the Unemployed. (mem from somerville)
• Johnny Venom provides us with a Manufacturing Update for the week of 3.11.09. (taylormattd)

The real facts

• Moggy brings analysis and warning in Repeating Rwanda: The Consequences of Euphemizing Genocide. (jlms qkw)
• dopper0189 gives a short, but sweet description of why A Liberal Is a Conservative Mugged by Health Care Bills. (taylormattd)
• Bill Prendergast finds some striking similarities between the language used on conservative evangelical radio and an economic advice column in "Put your money where your God is". (noddem)
• 123idaho celebrates the 50th anniversary of an iconic doll and ponders her effect on our culture in Hot Flash Barbie? (HansScholl)
• msblucow describes a movement that actually became energized by defeat, and will "Demand Everything Immediately So You Can Get Something Eventually". (mem from somerville)
• Asking questions and providing thoughtful answers, indigoblueskies queries Is exercise political? Should it be? The health care reform connection. (ItsJessMe)
• Maimonides cooks up a holistic essay on the new administration in Day 51: Obama's Economic Chili. (jlms qkw)

The people & the truth

• ACLU shares the happy and hopeful news that the Feds are looking at the Phoenix sheriff in DOJ Finally Investigates Arpaio for Civil Rights Violations. (jlms qkw)
• fedupcitizen shares the appalling story of law enforcement in a little town confiscating travelers' property based on their race in Highway Robbery...Texas Style. Driving While Black it's not a myth... it's a reality. (noddem)
• Tara the Antisocial Social Worker uses the story of the Chinese Goddess of the constellation Lyra to illustrate the difference between liberals and conservatives: How a Woman Becomes a Goddess: Chih Nu. (taylormattd)
• number six details the dirt while asking (and answering) is the Texas Attorney General part of new Voter ID Scam? (jlms qkw)
• proseandpromise succinctly gives the lie to the claim that Obama's stimulus and spending legislation exceeds the last administration's piggishness in "Infested with pork???" Really??? (HansScholl)

jotter has High Impact Diaries - March 10, 2008.

cskendrick brings tonight's Top Comments - Songs of Remembrance Edition.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries in this Open Thread.