Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Louisiana 1976, Elise, taylormattd, dadanation, dopper0189,and ybruti with vcmvo2 editing.

The diaries up for rescue are:

• In a powerful diary about the forgotten war Magnifico focuses our attention on that troubled spot in Meanwhile in Afghanistan... (vcmvo2)
• Bruce Nilles, the director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, says that Stopping Blackstone Coal is imperative. (ybruti)
• Quietly perhaps, but as proseandpromise reports, yet another mean-spirited oversight of the Bush Administration has been remedied as the Obama Administration Opens Asylum for Battered Women. (dadanation)
• badtux, while demolishing the Next RW talking point: ObamaCare outlaws private insurance, explains why people need to read the House health care bill carefully and thoroughly before jumping to conclusions. (ybruti)
• Here's a small simple way to fight for health care reform. robgoblin describes My experience sitting in line for Hilda Sarkisyan (with pix). (Louisiana 1976)
• Marcion describes Plus-up: the steady spread of war throughout Central Asia. (ybruti)
• In Why I Want a Wise Latina, anonymousisawoman argues for the very traits such as empathy, experience, and wisdom that make Sonia Sotomayor the perfect candidate for the Supreme Court. (vcmvo2)

jotter has High Impact Diaries: July 15, 2009.

Elise brings Top Comments: You bug the hell out of me too!

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Enjoy and please recommend your own favorite diary in the past 24 hours in this Open Thread.