OK. Tell me if I'm over the line. (Poll)

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 4:38 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 16:38

I admit this diary is barely serious.

The McCain-Palin campaign and the RNC keep sending me fundraising letters trying to gin up fear of Barack Obama and giving me a postage paid reply envelope to send back my contribution so that the Republicans can save the world from Barack. (How I came to be on their list is below the fold.)

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Should I mail a 50-pound box (or two) of clothing for the Palin family to the McCain campaign using their own business reply envelope?

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Should I mail a 50-pound box (or two) of clothing for the Palin family to the McCain campaign using their own business reply envelope?

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Iran. Period.

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Wednesday January 31, 2007 · 10:15 PM PST

2007/01/31 · 22:15

Bush and the bushzis are probably delighted with all the flap about his foolish "surge" plan. A few folks have suggested here and elsewhere that the escalation of troop levels in Iraq is merely a disguised deployment of troops toward Iran, but I've never considered that a serious possibility. The number of troops proposed is far too small. Even with their addition we would not have any near enough troops to so much as defend the Iran/Iraq border. Moreover the coming war with Iran will be initiated and prosecuted mainly from the air. By and large, it's my feeling that while escalation must be opposed, vigorously, the preparations for war with Iran deserve way, way more attention than they are getting.

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Wednesday January 24, 2007 · 11:09 AM PST

2007/01/24 · 11:09

AP is reporting (MSNBC here) that:

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company’s helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad were shot execution style in the back of the head, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Wednesday.

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"The helicopter was shot down after responding to assist a U.S. Embassy ground convoy that came under fire in a Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad, said a U.S. diplomatic official in Washington."

Since there doesn't seem to be an open thread on the front page today I'll just throw my comments here and see what people make of it.

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Monday November 20, 2006 · 11:17 PM PST

2006/11/20 · 23:17

Via MSNBC, AP is reporting that six men described by the US Airways crew as “Middle Eastern in appearance” were seen engaging in “suspicious activity” and removed by police from a flight departing Minneapolis for Phoenix on Monday evening. AP says, “A passenger initially raised concerns about the group through a note passed to a flight attendant...”

The rest below the fold...

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 4:22 PM PDT

2006/10/17 · 16:22

The other night at about 10:00 I was in a Safeway store in an obscenely wealthy suburb of Portland, Oregon (world famous home of Thom Hartmann). The woman in front of me was buying the October 23 issue of Time Magazine. The cover story is a piece by Joe Klein entitled: Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next President. This is not about that article, Joe Klein or Barack Obama.

This is about my complete failure to attempt to save the moral and political soul of the clerk, a young kid in his early to mid-20's by the look of him.

The complete story below the fold...
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US Military On The Ground in Iran (with an "N" folks)

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Monday September 18, 2006 · 5:26 PM PDT

2006/09/18 · 17:26

Crooks & Liars has the video. Retired US Air Force Colonel Sam Gardiner appeared on CNN this afternoon, where he said that it is well known that US military forces are already inside Iran conducting intelligence gathering operations and training potential partisans to fight on our side when full scale military ops occur. Gardiner has published a report which can be found on the website of The Century Foundation.

Digby lays out Gardiner's bona fides here. He appears to be one to be trusted when speaking of military matters. Read More

House Report on Iran Nukes a Crock says IAEA

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Thursday September 14, 2006 · 5:12 PM PDT

2006/09/14 · 17:12

The Washington Post and AP via MSNBC are reporting

A recent House of Representatives committee report on Iran's nuclear capability is "outrageous and dishonest" in trying to make a case that Tehran's program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said.
The letter, obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday outside a 35-nation board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says the report is false in saying Iran is making weapons-grade uranium at an experimental enrichment site, when it has in fact produced material only in small quantities that is far below the level that can be used in nuclear arms.

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Friday August 11, 2006 · 10:23 AM PDT

2006/08/11 · 10:23

First, I am NOT a terrorist and I HATE terrorists. I think they should be shot at dawn, or at noon, whichever comes first. I would pull the trigger myself on anyone who knowingly harms innocents.

That said, the sad fact appears to be that the bastards have already won their war against America and the rest of the West.

Bush and the republican congress gave them the victory and we meekly and sickeningly acquiesced. NSA domestic spying and datamining, SWIFT, Patrot Act, Gitmo, airport searches... The list goes on and on, and those who protest are openly reviled as "soft on terror" and unpatriotic. (See Cheney's comments on Ned Lamont's win over Lieberman.) Read More

A little humor that speaks volumes

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Sunday July 16, 2006 · 12:56 AM PDT

2006/07/16 · 00:56

Ever wonder why we have the ability to laugh and why jokes are funny? Maybe because they touch our experience or mirror what we notice and care about in life. The tragic - which seems such a burden most of the time - somehow becomes fodder for the funnybone.

I'll be the first to say that I can't stand most of the crap that supposed "dear friends" forward to my inbox on almost a daily basis. You know the stuff - the kind that comes layered 8 deep in eml files? And every one of them has a subject line that reads: "Re: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: this is hilarious." And the sender is such a "dear friend" that he or she doesn't even bother to get rid of all those email addresses of previous recipients you've never heard of before zapping it off once again to clog servers near and far. And the thing is, hardly any of this stuff is ever funny. Yeah, those kinds of emails... Read More

Well I went down to the demonstration...

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 12:43 AM PDT

2006/07/04 · 00:43

One Pissed Off Liberal has a wonderful and moving diary tonight on the history and tragedy of the Viet Nam war. This began as a comment to that diary but evolved into a need to ask for help in creating action.

When are we going to get off our asses and into the streets? Peace demonstrations in the 60's and 70's played a huge part in bringing the Viet Nam war to an end. Is there really any reason why the insane occupation of Iraq and Bushco's plans for similar adventures in Iran cannot be stopped in the same way?

We can sit here in relative comfort for eternity pecking little mutually congratulatory notes to one another and pulling at each other's heartstrings and saying noble things, and we should certainly cherish and continue the good work done here. Read More

Incompetent and (so sadly) In Charge

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Tuesday June 20, 2006 · 12:47 AM PDT

2006/06/20 · 00:47

Dan Ephron at Newsweek penned an interesting piece for the June 26, 2006 issue pointing out that DHS, CIA and other agencies are having a hell of a time recruiting Arabic-speaking translators to help in the effort to protect our country from jihadist terrorism. Why? Because the government that Rove and Cheney have seized and pull the strings on denies security clearances to people who have actually been to the countries whose language they speak, apparently for no other reason than that they have been there. If they happen to have family there, the government says they are subject to "foreign influence."

Says Ephron/Newsweek:

"Lawyers and lawmakers who deal in the matter say that long after 9/11, the security-clearance system is still stacked against some of the best linguists--those who learn their language natively. 'The system inhibits individuals who, on their own initiative, traveled to the region, learned the language and want to contribute to the U.S. security effort,' says Rebecca Givner-Forbes, an analyst at the Terrorism Research Center, a for-profit, nonpartisan think tank in Arlington, Va."

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Monday June 19, 2006 · 9:27 AM PDT

2006/06/19 · 09:27

Much laudable discussion of late in many excellent posts about the vulnerabilities of Diebold (and other) electronic voting machines and the sleazy intentions of some who oversee them. Too many to link to - I'd overlook some that should not be overlooked.

It seems it's clearly time to take another look at Boom Chicago's classic 2004 animation of a Florida Voting Machine.

When I first saw it I had no idea how close it comes to portraying what is emerging as the obvious truth. Glad I could still find it!

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Iran. Period.

Blackwater Down

Daddy, is that man a terrorist?

Neocon Divisiveness Has Worked - On Me! Oh Damn!

US Military On The Ground in Iran (with an "N" folks)

House Report on Iran Nukes a Crock says IAEA

Terrorists have already won

A little humor that speaks volumes

Well I went down to the demonstration...

Incompetent and (so sadly) In Charge

Florida Voting Machine revisited - Boom Chicago