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Attention, Data-handling pros... ('lette?)
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]What do you make of this? (Via TPM)
http://tinyurl.com/2mm5ee
In his new book on the Justice Department under George Bush, New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau, who, along with James Risen, broke the warrantless wiretapping story, sheds more light on this episode (while leaving plenty unexplained). But putting Lichtblau's telling together with recently reported details about the National Security Agency's data driftnet, it's possible to come to a fuller understanding of what was going on.
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And, doesn't anybody think
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Laphroig might be a little too "peaty"?
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Gordon
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You 'n Walt
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This would make an excelent post in and of itself:
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain's simple-minded militarism, his ignorance about national security, and his moronic view that the U.S. should run the world through endless wars ought to be one of the most intensely debated issues in the campaign. But it won't be because -- as Marcus said -- the media has already decided that McCain is a Serious Expert in these matters and that national security is his strength, and evidence to the contrary won't be reported.
Discuss.
I'm sure you'll catch this and clean it up on the next read-through:
The disastrous and moronic equivalence between militarism and "toughness" should be a principal issue in the election because. But it won't be because, in Media Land, John McCain is deemed the National Security Tough Guy who keeps us safe despite everything we've seen over the last seven years and despite espousing views on war that the vast majority of Americans reject.
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New Post Up
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]N/T
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If only...
[Read the article: War advocates like Anne-Marie Slaughter demand that you forget the past]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd pay good money I tell ya, to see GG, on some MSM platform, deliver the sentiments expressed in this post directly to [insert "pundit" here].
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My brother came up w/ a great bumper sticker
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]McCain '08
The white vote!
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Sorry for the O/T, but about that Horton interview
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Horton said something that really struck me. He said we should all thank Glenn Greenwald for (paraphrasing) supplying the liberal grass-roots with the "intellectual ammunition" needed to defeat (at least temporarily) retroactive telecom amnesty...
So, thanks Glenn. And pass the ammunition!
Now, is McCain stupider than George Bush, or simply more disingenuous?
And when is Lewis Black going to do a face-off between Politicians and The MSM on "Root of All Evil"?
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@RMP and others
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apropos of the "Winter Soldiers" testimony
Check this alternet story
http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/80461/?page=entire
Oh, and aych, way back when - I think that was Bong Soo Han you wanted to see kick Chuck Norris' ass.
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New Post Up
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]BTW.
Go ahead and talk amongst yourselves...
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@ WT
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I know what you mean about tinyurl.
GG might've warned us that THIS
"absurd and obvious straw man"
was really THIS
http://instapundit.com/archives2/016893.php
Blech... 8')
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GC, I'm fairly certain
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You just spoiled my appetite for "pigs in a blanket".
Some huge ice-shelf collapsed into the Antarctic yesterday. And 90+% of the bats are dying. And I'm gonna go eat some Toad in the Hole.
Goodbye, cruel world. Mean bloggers. Whatever.
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Muddying the waters
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I saw about 15 min.
Which included all the snippets you excerpted.
Don't have any waying of knowing if that was all the way through to the end.
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The American people need to understand that...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Human beings, by and large, do not like being occupied by foreigners."
-Sinan Antoon
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I rarely disagree w/ Chomsky
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I think he strongly overstates the degree of cultural indoctrination that goes on in a healthy university environment.
Cornell, in the 80's anyway, was ACLU-like in their promotion of free speech.
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Aside @ GG
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wouldn't worry about the vid. On the Charlie Rose site, I listened to the entire interview w/ the Iraqis. Everything I saw there I'd seen previously via your embed.
Aych, I agree about Chomsky being more correct than incorrect. I suppose an argument might be made that I've yet to have the scales fall from my eyes so that I can "view the frame". I'd argue the contrary, however.
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GC
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]My time in Ithaca apparently overlapped that of Keith Olbermann's AND Ann Coulter's. I haven't been back since a reunion in 2002.
Dunno what's going on there now, so I can't argue w/ Berry, but man, CU was a helluva place. I mean that in a good way.
My psyche could maybe use a few bandages, though, after a few self-inflicted wounds it took while there. 8')
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jkalos
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Funny how teachers can affect you.
I had a ("subversive", I realize now) 8th-grade English teacher introduce me to Noam Chomsky. Then my (CU) Freshman English teacher assigned me a term-long project on George Orwell. (She let everbody else get away with a project of their choosing. Me? I was starting with "Shooting an Elephant". No ifs, ands, or buts.)
I haven't been fit for polite company ever since.
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Sorry for the O/T request
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]But will somebody please explain to me how the hell THIS works?
"Bush waives law to give millions to Pakistan's anti-terror fight"
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Bush_waives_law_to_give_millions_to_03252008.html
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For munths ago I coodint evin spel Student...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]...now I are one, at [inset your fave here] University.
And Paul Dirks, don't be dissing Jerry's kids, now. I'll slap you upside the head w/ one my Pig-Pen tapes.
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omooex
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]No offense intended. That was a quote from a poster I bought at the campus store, way back when. The image was an intricate line drawing of the classic village idiot, perched on a stool w/ a dunce cap. Had the Cornell logo on it in place of [] University. I always thought it was pretty funny.
Didn't translate too well, obviously. And looking at your previous comment I can see how you might have interpreted mine. My bad.
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Tell me. Orwellian, or simply Retarded?
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]President Bush: Iraq violence is a 'positive moment'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3628928.ece
H/T Raw Story
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Can. Not. Resist.
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Too good not to share.
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/74800
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"Return on success" revisited...
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Paul Dirks' McClatchy linky
Mortar rounds crashed into the heavily fortified Green Zone for the third straight day, injuring three U.S. government employees, all U.S. citizens, said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Mirembe Nantongo.
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Tom Tomorrow is on topic today
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2008/03/24/tomo/index.html?source=rss
'bop, about the news - it was satire, pretty well done. Too bad yer connections slow. Damn tubes.
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Ondelette, what Bill Owen said
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Particularly good one.
http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/26/iraq_debate/permalink/423d57c50da55f2c97cb88d9779fe823.html