Open Thread

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   DaveW on September 26, 2006 at 3:13 pm

   Can I get a twofer? My wankers are Katie Couric and CBS reporter Mark Phillips for putting a happy face on climate change with a piece on how Britain is now able to grow wine grapes, coffee, and olives thanks to a warmer climate. No mention of how the grapes will do when they’re under water or ripped out by tornadoes or any of the other unpredictable effects of climate change.

   OK, I’m just an ol’ crab, but this piece stinks of finding a way to toady to the corporate climate-change deniers without addressing any real information. Ick.

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     CabinGirl on September 26, 2006 at 3:48 pm

     Katie Couric is a wanker any day, IMO.

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   jimstaro on September 26, 2006 at 3:30 pm

   Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

   Exclusive: AWOL Iraq Veteran Turns Himself In Instead of Returning to Iraq
   
   Agustin Aguayo Support Website

   Army medic Agustin Aguayo and his wife, Helga, speak to Democracy Now. Later today Agustin plans to turn himself in to the military weeks after he went AWOL at his base in Germany. He faces five yeas in prison.
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   Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
   Salt Lake City¹s Mayor Rocky Anderson:
   “This War Was Sold to the American People Largely by Fox and Other Members of the Media and We Were Lied To”  
   As Democracy Now! broadcasts from Salt Lake City, the city¹s mayor discusses why he spoke out recently at a protest against President Bush and the Iraq War.
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   And Another Great Pitt Observation Editorial

   William Rivers Pitt | The Deep Breath Before the Plunge

   William Rivers Pitt writes: “It seems the invasion and occupation of Iraq has spawned a new generation of radicalized men and women willing to die for the privilege of taking American soldiers, or you, or me, with them. The information contained in the newest National Intelligence Estimate, considered to be the most authoritative report on the subject, was so unutterably damning that even the White House was forced to cede the point.”

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     jimstaro on September 26, 2006 at 5:23 pm

     Dahr Jamail | A Broken, De-Humanized Military in Iraq

     Dahr Jamail writes: “While the deranged chicken-hawks who ‘lead’ the US continue their efforts to wage another unprovoked war of aggression, this time against Iran, what’s left of their already overstretched military continues to be bled in Iraq. When the situation is so critical that even the corporate media is forced to report on it, you know it’s bad.”

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   boran2 on September 26, 2006 at 4:03 pm

   Ugh, a pundit attempts to second guess, what, like 16 agencies?!!  He is a wanker for sure.

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   Limelite on September 26, 2006 at 4:09 pm

   Tad Furtado, former #2 staffer to U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass (R-NH), who resigned under a cloud of ignominy today after being exposed as “IndyNH,” or “IndieNH,” aka “Inept Rightwing Troll” by the liberal blogosphere.

   Dumbass used government computers to post as a “concerned troll,” which could represent a violation of House rules.

   Now he’s an object of derision — perhaps just as much for the FUN! one can have making puns on his name as for his political stupidity.

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   Brendan Skwire on September 26, 2006 at 4:35 pm

   Where is Senator Obama on torture?
   Where is Senator Clinton on torture?
   Where is Senator Byrd on habeas corpus?
   Why is there even a quorum at this point? Why are the democrats not out on the steps of the capitol making a stink, when it was so easy for them to go out there and say the fucking pledge of allegiance when that guy was challenging the “under God” part in the SCOTUS?
   Why are our Congressional leaders saying they’re not going to try to fight this one?

   Wanker of the Day? The Democrats. All of them.

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   Jeff Huber on September 27, 2006 at 5:11 pm

   “I despise Kagan.”

   A neocon chamberpot who claims to be an “expert’ on warfare and foreign poicy who could have passed through Air Force basic training.