THE HORROR
Poor Iraqis. How will it all end?
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Children who survived a deadly attack by insurgents in Baghdad Thursday said they had been offered candy by U.S. troops — and when they went to get the candy, a car bomb went off.
A 12-year-old boy who was badly injured in the explosions said he [...]

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SPEAK UP
Here’s an ARG online post-debate poll. Go take it.

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THE REAL TRUTH
You may have seen the personal email from the Wall St. Journal reporter that’s been making the rounds. In case you haven’t, you should read the whole thing:
The insurgency, we are told, is rampant with no signs of calming down. If any thing, it is growing stronger, organized and more sophisticated [...]

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MONKEY BUSINESS
Of course:
An influential employee of voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems left the company recently to take a job as elections manager for a California county.
Deborah Seiler, a sales representative for the beleaguered voting company, was hired a week ago and started Monday in Solano County, northeast of San Francisco in California’s wine [...]

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DEBATABLE
I only caught the last 45 minutes or so. Bush looked extremely uncomfortable, twitching and smirking. He also looked sort of stupid - vacant stare, etc. Kerry managed not to sound like he was expounding from a pulpit, which is good.
I suggest you tune into Comedy Central to get Jon Stewart’s take.
Let me know your [...]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
 
Happy Birthday, Libra! Multi-talented, versatile, and blessed with a chameleon-like ability to fit into almost any environment or circumstance, you’re a Libra with Gemini undertones. Many of you look younger than your years without a single surgical touch-up. Your quirky humor, quick laugh and gift for imitating others make you the guest [...]

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‘THEY JUST WANT TO BOMB EVERYTHING’
From one of my expatriate readers in England:
I met up with a British soldier down my local tonight. We shared a couple of pints but I had to rush off to dinner so I didn’t have real chance to discuss things in any depth. He’s been home on leave for [...]

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THAT DAMNED LIBRUL MEDIA
I keep telling myself that soon this long national nightmare will be over:
L.A. Weekly has learned that CBS, NBC and ABC all refused Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD advertising during any of the networks’ news programming. Executives at Sony Pictures, the distributor of the movie for the home-entertainment market, were stunned. And even more [...]

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COINKY DINK
If I were a suspicious person, I’d wonder why there’s a developing pattern of Republican secretaries of state reinterpreting the election rules in a retroactive way. Via Kos from the Denver Post:
A citizen’s ability to vote is one of the most cherished rights in our democracy, but some Coloradans could see that right limited [...]

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Wow. So this is what the subpoena was about:
New York, NY, Sep. 29 (UPI) — The U.S. Justice Department has alleged a New York Times foreign affairs reporter tipped off an Islamic charity that the FBI was about to raid its office.
The accusation was disclosed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, where the Times was seeking [...]

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CELL PHONE HELL
I finally had to break down and get a new cell phone today after my home charger finally gave up the ghost for good. Naturally, since AT&T subscribes to the Microsoft philosophy (i.e. don’t support your older items so you can force people to buy the new upgrades), I couldn’t simply buy a [...]

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FLIP. FLOP.
Another fine catch from Will regarding lying scumbag Dick Cheney’s 1992 statements on Iraq:
We stopped when we did, and it was a unanimous recommendation on the part of the President’s advisors, civilian and military, we stopped when we did because we had achieved our objectives. We had said from the outset that our purpose [...]

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DOWN ON THE BAYOU
Here’s what’s normally the nature trail behind my house after this morning’s high tide. I heard on the news the creek is ten feet above the normal level. 

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CONNECTIONS
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an interesting story on neocon mastermind Douglas Feith. It turns out his family owns a major chunk of Comcast:
Feith grew up in Elkins Park and attended Philadelphia’s Central High School. He is the son of a Holocaust survivor who lost his parents and seven siblings to the Nazis.
Dalck Feith, now 90, [...]

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NUT CASE
Yep:
“Are we saying that a tall, six-foot-five Arab in the desert on kidney dialysis can’t be found?” Cleland asked.
That line got him laughter and applause, but it wasn’t a joke to Dawne Golden.
To Golden — a former Marine with 10 years in the service, mother of two and proud registered Republican — [...]

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CHANGE OF HEART
This is exactly the kind of crossover vote I expect - old-time Republicans who are appalled by Bush’s radical policies. That’s why Dwight Eisenhower’s son John is supporting John Kerry:
As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through [...]

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RAIN RAIN, GO AWAY
We got hit with the rain from Hurricane Jeanne last night - six inches in some areas - and man, it’s a mess. The expressway was still shut down this morning from mudslides. There was a tornado across the bridge in Jersey, a woman waiting for a bus in the East Falls [...]

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LIAR, LIAR
Ezra on Ralph Reed’s appearance on last night’s Daily Show:
“These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh [...]

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PAYBACK
Tom Burka:
Today, following the endorsement of John Kerry by the Crawford, Texas newspaper, President Bush signed executive orders designating Crawford a “shitty little town,” and cutting off all federal funding for the municipality.
“After all the goddamn brush I cleared for those people,” said Bush, brandishing his pen.
Secret service agents swarmed Crawford today in what the [...]

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GALLUP-ING AWAY
Ruy over at Donkey Rising:
How can Gallup……have Bush up by 13 nationwide, when he’s only up by 2 points among Florida RVs?–and according to their own poll!How can Gallup…..have Bush up by 13 nationwide, when he’s only up by 2 points among Nevada RVs?–again, according to their own poll [...]
How can Gallup…..have Bush up [...]

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LIKE DEMOCRACY, ONLY DIFFERENT
Americans living abroad are facing a lot of obstacles when they try to vote:
Four years after overseas voting became a battleground in the presidential election in Florida, millions of civilians and soldiers living abroad still face a bewildering and unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
Election [...]

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HA HA
Here’s Michael Moore as he takes his “Slacket Uprising” tour on the road:
So we had a reception beforehand (which was also a fundraiser for some local candidates), then about 80 republicans showed up to picket the event. I was so happy to see them. Every minute they spend protesting me is another minute I’ve [...]

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‘VICIOUS CIRCLE’
The Soros people sent the text in an email, so no link yet. But here’s part of the speech George Soros made today at the National Press Club:
President Bush inadvertently played right into the hands of bin Laden. The invasion of Afghanistan was justified: that was where bin Laden lived and al Qaeda had [...]

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HOMETOWN BOY MAKES BAD
The Crawford, Texas paper that endorsed Bush the last time… is endorsing John Kerry - and tears W a new asshole:
The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda.Today, we are endorsing his opponent, John Kerry, based not only on [...]

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NAME THE OCTOBER SURPRISE, WIN VALUABLE PRIZES
Mark Green (no, not the one from “E.R.” - the one who co-wrote “The Book of Bush” with Eric Alterman) is having a contest, and I think you’ll want to know about it.
The winner gets a free book and the chance to appear as a guest on Air America.
All [...]

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MORE YOU-KNOW-WHAT
Mark Kleiman:
That an Iraqi Major General turns out to have been working for the other side is disappointing but not really surprising. We knew we were taking that risk when we started re-hiring Saddam Hussein’s generals.What ought to be surprisng, though to date I’ve seen no discussion of it, is that he was arrested [...]

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EVEN MORE DEMOCRACY
From Juan Cole:
Time Magazine reports that the Bush administration had had a plan to use the Central Intelligence Agency to funnel money to candidates it favored in the forthcoming Iraqi elections. The rationale given was that Iran was bankrolling its own candidates.This plan was apparently derailed in part by the intervention of Democratic [...]

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SAVE THE KITTENS
Over at The Poor Man, Godless Kittens for Kerry! Via Department of Louise. Don’t forget to read the comments.

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YOUR LIBERAL MEDIA AT WORK
Krugman:
Let’s face it: whatever happens in Thursday’s debate, cable news will proclaim President Bush the winner. This will reflect the political bias so evident during the party conventions. It will also reflect the undoubted fact that Mr. Bush does a pretty good Clint Eastwood imitation.
But what will the print media do? [...]

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LEGACY
As you may know, the U.S. used missiles made with depleted uranium in Iraq. The U.N. considers them WMDs - for good reason - but the World Health Organization has blocked the release of information showing just how harmful they are:
An expert report by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults could contract [...]

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