Month: June 2005

Fighting World Poverty : The Live 8 Concerts

SusanHu wrote a little somethin-somethin’ on this a couple weeks back, but as it’s coming up, I’ve decided to create a diary about it (also thanks to some gentle prodding by SlackerInc). From the front page of...

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Kurtz: DSM and Durbin ‘mirror Images’?! ?!

[promoted by BooMan, with minor layout edits] I rarely Splutter, much less in outrage; but in His Wapo Column Yesterday Howie Kurtz wrote a Sentence that left me spluttering with outrage: The Durbin controversy has been fueled...

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Printable Flyer for Independence Day

The flyer linked here was created two  years ago, when we saw that Bush and his cronies were using Independence Day as an opportunity to even more clearly stamp in a Pavlovian association between patriotic love of country...

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Today’s Economic News

DIA +.99%, SPY +.85%, QQQQ +.95% 10-Year Treasury -1/2 yielding 3.97% Oil -$2.54 to $58/bbl Dollar +.85%/euro and +.6%/yen The markets reacted positively to an increase in consumer confidence which increased from 103.2 to 105.8....

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ZERO HOUR June 28, 2005; 8PM EST

There’s been a lot of reckoning about the cost of Bush’s illegal war in Iraq.  That’s right, as of two days ago, when the public withdrew support for Mr. Bush’s war (not President Bush, as he stole...

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