Is this the real White House phone book?

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Monday July 02, 2007 · 6:56 PM PDT

2007/07/02 · 18:56

[Originally published at Corrente.]

Just in case I want to get through to someone in the White House tomorrow when I call about Scooter, and the switchboard is jammed.

See The White House Phone Directory (May 18, 2007). Most of the numbers in the Directory match what I've been able to glean from open sources, so perhaps it's authentic. The offices are taken from the White House site, and the numbers are formatted like so: 1-202-555-1212 / 1-202-555-1212, where the first number is via internet search, and the second, italic number is from the Directory:
The offices included in the Executive Office of the President.

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Saturday June 23, 2007 · 2:46 PM PDT

2007/06/23 · 14:46

[Originally published at Corrente.]

More like this, please:

"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked," the Democratic presidential candidate said in remarks prepared for delivery before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.

"Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us," the Illinois senator said.

"At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design," according to an advance copy of his speech.

However, I must disagree with one point Obama made. He said:

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Saturday May 26, 2007 · 8:46 PM PDT

2007/05/26 · 20:46

[Originally published at Corrente.]

The Immigration Bill is a real piece of work, entirely worthy of the malAdministration. I know Broderella says Teh Bipartisan is awsum, but:

The American Civil Liberties Union today expressed grave concerns about the due process and privacy implications of the Senate immigration bill.
The proposed legislation would create a vast federal database to verify the work eligibility of all job applicants in America - including U.S. citizens; expand indefinite detention; and deny effective judicial review of Department of Homeland Security errors denying immigration status.

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Sunday May 06, 2007 · 6:37 AM PDT

2007/05/06 · 06:37

[Originally published at Corrente]

In the nicest possible way, of course.

But she certainly lets Barack know that he's going to be dealing with His Betters if he ever makes it up to the big house. Quinn doesn't work nearly as fast as Modo, and she only slips in the shiv ten paragraphs down. The money quote:

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Sunday March 11, 2007 · 6:43 AM PDT

2007/03/11 · 06:43

[I'll give them back the "-ic" when they show me something. Originally published at Corrente.]

And the difference between the neo-cons and Emanuel, Biden, Hilbadwards*, and the Do-Nothing Democrat Party would be?

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Saturday March 03, 2007 · 9:55 AM PST

2007/03/03 · 09:55

[Well, it would be 16 if I could master how Scoop handles lists, even though I used Tidy on the HTML. Sorry]

We at Corrente have worked humbly and tirelessly to bring Civility in American political discourse to the next level, so that the Moderate and the Bipartisan will never, ever have to leave their comfort zone when they enter the rough and tumble of the blogosphere. So that's why, readers, when the conservative Cato Institute drew my attention to the "anger index"* I was terribly, terribly distressed. In fact, grieved. Mortified.

And so, prayerfully, in the spirit of Proverbs 15:1 ("grievous words stir up anger") I decided to return to a 2005 post we wrote that listed things we weren't angry about, and people we didn't hate. And--hat tip here to timeless values---even after two years, the list is still good!

But there were one or two things I had to add, so I've updated the list and reposted it here.

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Sunday February 25, 2007 · 10:47 AM PST

2007/02/25 · 10:47

[Originally posted at Corrente.]

UPDATE Meanwhile, Shooter's in Oman, presumably lining up airspace for the attack on Iran.

Our friends, the autocoprophagic neocons, are still working tirelessly towards Clusterfuck-alypse Now in the Middle East. Hersh:

The Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The "redirection," as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

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Friday February 02, 2007 · 5:11 PM PST

2007/02/02 · 17:11

[Originally posted at Corrente.]

Ah, memories. George Romney, 1967:

On 31 August 1967 Governor Romney made a statement that ruined his chances for getting the [Presidential] nomination. In a taped interview with Lou Gordon of WKBD-TV in Detroit, Romney stated, "When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get." He then shifted to opposing the war. ... Republican Congressman Robert Stafford of Vermont sounded a common concern: "If you're running for the presidency," he asserted, "you are supposed to have too much on the ball to be brainwashed."

John Edwards, 2007:

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Tuesday January 30, 2007 · 4:56 PM PST

2007/01/30 · 16:56

We've had a discussion on developing an equivalent for the "Democrat Party" slur.

Unfortunately, "Republic Party" doesn't degrade the Republican brand the same way that "Democrat Party" degrades the Democratic brand.

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Saturday January 13, 2007 · 5:36 PM PST

2007/01/13 · 17:36

[Originally posted at Corrente by Mark from Ireland.]

Read this post all the way to the end, then see if you can reread this quote from Condi without wanting to hurl:

We also know that we have an obligation to children, whosever children, to try and leave a world that is more stable

Because Iraqi children are dying as they dismantle unexploded ordnance for a few penny's worth of copper, they're picking garbage, and they're being sold into brothels. Oh, I forgot. "What about the schools?"--Lambert

I started to translate the news from Arabic late this afternoon - I do have other things to do, and this was the first report to hit my screen. Increasingly frequently I want to scream as I do this and I'm not publishing anything else tonight I'm simply too revolted.

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Wednesday January 10, 2007 · 8:11 AM PST

2007/01/10 · 08:11

[Originally published at Corrente (with links to all the Bible verses in parallel translation).]

You decide.

When I heard "the way forward," I was at once reminded of this famous quotation:

John 14:6 ("I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me")

(That's the verse that the Christianists use to claim that all children who were accidentally born to parents with the wrong religion are going to hell unless a Christianist missionary gets to them, no matter what kind of lives they lead. But let that pass.)

But there are many other usages of "the way":

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 3:54 PM PST

2006/12/22 · 15:54

[Originally posted at Corrente.]

Thank The God of Your Choice, If Any, that somebody's standing up to that blowhard and stuffed suit, Rush Limbaugh. Mikey Weinstein is the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which has taken the lead on calling the Christianists out on their coercive evangelization, and their denial of the separation of church and state enshrined in our Constitition. And not only is this a Consitutional issue, it's a national security issue. If you really want to "break the Army" by wrecking unit cohesion, coercive evangelization is a great way to do that.

Mikey Weinstein writes:

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