Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
Here is a good explanation of current political party thinking in Western democracies
by Graham 
..neatly reviewed by a local satirist... more »
01/01/08 11:10:52 pm, Currently chilling out in the UK...
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...at my parents' house in Margate, Kent. Margate is part of the Isle of Thanet, which was a true island until the Middle Ages. This overview explains some of the history.
I have been on a campaign since Boxing Day to walk around the entire coastline of… more »
The fallacy of false dichotomy...
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...is well-illustrated by the quote from Senator Jeff Sessions in the FISA debate:
“The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation’s security.”
There are a number of comments here that explain rather well w… more »
While serious stuff happens, Congress found time to....
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...debate and pass by a vote of 372-9 this motion on Christmas and Christianity.
So let me see..while we are stuggling with a property price recession, the CIA has been destroying tapes of interrogations of suspects to hide evidence of torture, the… more »
What happens when people encounter a property price recession for the first time?
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If this article is to be believed, people in and around Vacaville CA, an overflow district for the San Francisco Bay area, are reacting to property price recessions the way everybody conditioned to the idea of property as an investment reacts - via a pro… more »
The amazing spinelessness of the Democratic Party...
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..continues to be displayed on an almost daily basis, as this article from Glenn Greenwald makes clear. The most amazing part of this is that 4 Democratic Party candidates who had announced that they opposed Michael Mukasey's nomination were absent from… more »
Paul W. Tibbets, 1915-2007
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Paul W. Tibbets, the commander of the 509th Composite Group, and the commander of the Enola Gay, which dropped the world's first atomic bomb on a wartime target, has just passed away at the ripe old age of 92.
As one might expect from a man who command… more »
Glenn Greenwald and the military press officer
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An interesting series of events has unfolded as part of an ongoing series of exchanges between Glenn Creenwald and a military spokesperson for Gen. Petraeus. The full details are only obtainable by reading the postings in Salon, but it is worth a read, i… more »
A truism about CNN...
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From a commenter in this diary at Dailkos:
I had to go get my standard bloodwork done this morning. While sitting in the doctor's office waiting to go in to see the lab tech, I realized that CNN's business model probably isn't to deliver news in the US… more »
A nice piece of modern satire...
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..concerning the shambles of the current Congress. more »