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Another. WTF!?
[Read the article: Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg]
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Sorry fot the O/T, but
[Read the article: Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: Interview with David Sirota]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]it would be beneath Derbig himself for me to characterize this bit of news in the fashion I'd like to...
Suffice it to say, "It's about time"!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Sen._Stevens_indicted_7_false_statements_0729.html
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Sorry for the O/T, but
[Read the article: Things I learned today about democracy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It would be beneath Derbig himself for me to characterize this bit of news in the fashion I'd like to...
Suffice it to say, "It's about time"!
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Sen._Stevens_indicted_7_false_statements_0729.html
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Part of the Problem
[Read the article: Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OK, I read this same AP blurb in the DMN this morning. And my initial reaction was along the lines of "frickin' Chinese, I guess THAT'S par for the course..."
The problem?
Well, I'm (gonna make an assumption here) somewhat more informed/outraged about FISA and U.S. Gov't trampling of civil liberties than the "average American". And I didn't immediately laugh out loud at the staggering hypocrisy. I still retain a little piece of whatever it is, that allows U.S. citizens (most people, I'd hypothesize) to view others quite differently than they view themselves.
I've been actively, consciously attempting to purge myself of that tendency. But it's still not gone.
Out, damn spot!
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Glenn, I went back again, and listened, really listened, to your latest two interviews
[Read the article: Salon Radio: Tim Shorrock]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So now I'll have to do the same with Ellsberg's.
I'll second those who bemoan the difficulty of paying attention to the audio while multi-tasking.
Excellent stuff. But I have a question.
You will occasionally say "Right", when you are clearly agreeing with somebody's answer, or concurring with their explanation. But I thought, during the Sirota interview, (unfair of me, but I've forgotten the point Sirota was trying to make - I remember I thought it was a bit of a reach) that your "Right" was closer to a sarcastic rejoinder than an assent. Am I way off?
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I concur
[Read the article: Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]w/ Jim Pharo.
Rovian tactics, for whatever reasons, seem to "work" remarkably well.
So adopt them. Taking the high road yields four years of wound-licking and post-defeat self-examination.
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Obama's deftness
[Read the article: Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, everything you say here is true.
Obama, his campaign and many of his supporters think they are better off by rising above it. They're not John Kerry-like about attacks -- they're much better at aggressively engaging these sorts of attacks and mocking and dismissing them -- but they think they're better off not engaging in these attacks themselves.
And not only that, but I agree w/ it. 8')
OTOH, even though Obama has shown himself to be marginally superior at responding - the Press are who they are, and the Public reacts to the drivel in the same fashion as usual.
So we'll see how it plays out. I've seen this movie before, I'm afraid.
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Arne beats the Comics Section every time
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]This makea me laugh. Thanks, Arne.
Geee, Sh**ter, my bad. Didn't know you were in the "intelligence gathering" business. It's not apparent; we see scant evidence you've ever accumulated any.
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richhein
[Read the article: Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe you are correct.
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e_prof
[Read the article: Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't get me going. I've predicted for a while, that there won't even BE an election this year.
And I have nothing to base that on except a vague awareness of just how far down the rabbit hole we've fallen.
I hope I'm wrong.
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O/T @ GG
[Read the article: Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Via Raw Story, you may already be reading this...
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2008cv0409-49
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Plaintiff,
v. Civil Action No. 08-0409 (JDB)
HARRIET MIERS, et al.,
Defendants
Judge rules she's not immune to subpeona...
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To quote [somebody who claims not to be a member of the Executive Branch]
[Read the article: A federal court rejects Bush's "executive privilege" claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So?
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For clarity
[Read the article: A federal court rejects Bush's "executive privilege" claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's not my reaction. I'm guessing it's the Bushies...
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New post up
[Read the article: Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you're innnerested
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It's gotten worse TODAY
[Read the article: Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pop over to C&L and check their top two stories...
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/31/mccains-rick-davis-goes-on-the-attack-against-andrea-mitchell-and-obama-like-a-pit-bull/
and
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/31/jon-voight-wont-you-think-of-the-children-obama-will-make-them-socialists-oh-noes/
or click sig
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Yo, nitwits
[Read the article: A federal court rejects Bush's "executive privilege" claims]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Go here
http://balkin.blogspot.com/
for a tutorial, if you must.
Then FOAD.
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Glenn it's really getting to the point...
[Read the article: Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...where YOU had better be careful opening your mail.
And crossing the street.
And flying to the U.S...
I bet w/ enough pressure, Cohen would flip and reveal his "high gov't official". He's such a weasel.
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Hannity Self-pwn3d
[Read the article: Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News]
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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/01/blooper-hannity-punks-himself-on-anti-mccain-campain-ad/
Apologies for the O/T, but truly, this was too good not to share...
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omooex
[Read the article: Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]click through to GG's link to "ABC in full denial mode" (or something) in the update for a fuller analysis of your query.
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@ Derbig, Mona
[Read the article: Salon Radio: ACLU at Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In late, honest question. What exactly, was the damage that Hall did?
From Mona's Wiki link
After his death, his wife Joan said that he had begun to adopt strong feelings current at the time against the possibility of an emerging, militarized United States with a nuclear monopoly very early in his Los Alamos work.
I can certainly see how a rational person feel as Hall allegedly did.
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360person
[Read the article: Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News]
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Because...
[Read the article: Salon Radio: ACLU at Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...a rational person could quite easily arrive at the conclusion that the U.S as a lone super-power might pose a greater threat to the survival of the planet than that posed by the U.S. counter-balanced by, say, the Soviet Union.
He engaged in espionage, to all appearances.
I wonder (not rhetorically, I actually DO wonder) whether or not the world may have been better served by that fact.
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Nukyoolar armed superpower...
[Read the article: Salon Radio: ACLU at Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...that is.
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'big
[Read the article: Salon Radio: ACLU at Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wasn't trying to get everybody all riled up. Shit pops into my head and I type it down, sometimes. I'm not knowledgeable enough about history, technology, or intra-Statist relations to know the answer to my own question.
But I do know I don't trust the horde of blood-thirsty warmongering miscreants that constitute our merry band of elected representatives any further than I can throw 'em. And that feeling grows stronger every day.
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And there are those who believe...
[Read the article: Salon Radio: ACLU at Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...a daily dose of apple cider vinegar is good fer what ails ya.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm so unAmerican, I'm heading out to watch a Baseball game this evening.
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Crap. Wrong word.
[Read the article: Salon Radio: ACLU at Gitmo]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm the "miscreant". I was grasping for a word that meant something like "enemies of creation".
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Somebody tried to MURDER Sen. Pat Leahy...
[Read the article: Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and HE can't get an investigation going?
Oh yeah, he's the Chmn. of the Judiciary Committee. Out of his jurisdiction.