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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 12:57 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 12:57

Finally, there is more movement building to bring the profligate greed and arrogance, damage to the environment, bullying of farmers and state government, and conscienceless abuse of "fair market" practices of this wretched company to a halt.

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Monday August 10, 2009 · 11:25 AM PDT

2009/08/10 · 11:25

Senator Patty Murray of Washington State is holding one-on-one meetings with constituents this week. Unfortunately, I can't get there, but I've written this instead. It's my strong feeling that if our legislators hear real stories from real people, it will give them more ammunition and conviction to pass a bill that's more than a band-aid. My letter is below the fold.

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Monday July 20, 2009 · 1:12 PM PDT

2009/07/20 · 13:12

It's the same horrible game all over again.

After 9/11, what did we get from the neocons and corporatocracy? A safer nation?

Hell, no. We got corporate executives' dreams of oil profits that went up, literally, in smoke, leaving behind, a shattered nation, politically destabilized region, hundreds of thousands of refugees, tens of thousands of dead. We got a giant bureaucracy designed less to protect and more to perpetuate a state of fear in America. We got a giant step back in civil rights and human decency. And we got an economy that was on the brink, partly because while we squandered our human and material resources, our attention was diverted from the grand scale theft going on under our collective noses here at home.

Now they're doing it again.

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Thursday November 20, 2008 · 10:22 AM PST

2008/11/20 · 10:22

If you think GM deserves to die because of its inept, rapacious, backward-looking management, and their foot-dragging in not raising fuel efficiency standards, you have a point. But there's a lot more to the issue than that. It gets down to this:

Have we thought through all of the ramifications of what happens if GM goes bust?

Does any one of us really believe we and/or our families won't be adversely affected if it does?

Did we actually learn anything from this Presidential campaign?

Are we smarter than the Republicans?

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Tuesday October 21, 2008 · 4:08 PM PDT

2008/10/21 · 16:08

Remember Jason Robards ranting about non-denial denials in "All The President's Men"?

CNN has the story up at http://www.cnn.com/...

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Wednesday June 25, 2008 · 12:40 AM PDT

2008/06/25 · 00:40

According to an article by Scott Shane in the New York Times:

A bipartisan group of 200 former government officials, retired generals and religious leaders plans to issue a statement on Wednesday calling for a presidential order to outlaw some interrogation and detention practices used by the Bush administration over the last six years.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 2:23 AM PDT

2008/06/19 · 02:23

According to McClatchy Newspapers and former Defense and Administration officials, abuse of prisoners held without charges was a consequence of a legal firewall constructed by a War Council composed of Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, John Yoo, William Haynes and Timothy Flanigan which met in secret to deliberately and premeditatedly toss out US and International laws specifically designed to assure humane prisoner treatment at Guantanamo and in Afghanistan. This legal framework sought to justify detention in a way that thwarted Federal courts, international treaties and the Military Code of Justice, as well as obscuring accountability and preventing prosecution on all levels for what might be considered war crimes. The War Council was sanctioned following 9-11 by President George W. Bush, Vice-President Richard Bruce Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/...

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Monday May 26, 2008 · 4:19 PM PDT

2008/05/26 · 16:19

(updated with new title)

My Dad landed on the beach at Normandy on June 7, 1944, Day Two of the great invasion. I remember him telling what it felt like coming in from England by boat, the smell of kippered herring for breakfast, the sound of artillery echoing across the water, then landing in hell. Lying on the sand, he almost lost his life when a bullet grazed his helmet. One of his buddies never made it off that beach.

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Tuesday May 20, 2008 · 12:31 PM PDT

2008/05/20 · 12:31

America is a nation of contradictions. On the one hand, we can be an enormously generous and compassionate people. On the other, issues of racism, sexism and other forms of prejudice can be found uncomfortably close to the surface in our society. In this Democratic primary season, both of these contradictory aspects have clearly shown themselves.

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