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Afghanistan, Iraq, whatever... I've been to Italy!
Bush confused Iraq with Afghansitan, in front of Allawi, sort of like parents mixing up their kids’ names.
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Football Fans for Truth
This site is hilarious, and includes poetry Kerry has read to deer while hunting!
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Earthquake today
We got a little quake today that I felt… my desk rocked gently for 10-15 seconds, then went away. I saw a report about a 5.9 or so out in the Central Valley…
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Far graver than Vietnam
Former head of the NSA calls the present situation in Iraq “…far graver than Vietnam. There wasn’t as much at stake strategically, though in both cases we mindlessly went ahead with the war that was not constructive for US aims. But now we’re in a region far more volatile, and we’re in much worse shape with our allies.” Reported in the Guardian.
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Kerry to English translation
Slate has a concise take on Kerry’s nuance vs. Bush’s disregard.
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Baghdad Year Zero
I found this article from the latest Harper’s particularly interesting in its examination of the US’s shaping of Iraq’s govornment/economy. It pits the “pragmatists” versus the neoconservative “year zeroists” in a plot that reads like a fiction thriller. Sadly this is our reality.
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Kings Canyon bears all
Minette & I, joined with friends Don & Rebecca, recently did a 6-day hike in Kings Canyon National Park. It was totally gorgeous, and aside from a little thunderstorm at the start and a weird condensation problem one night, we had glorious hot days and cool, star-filled nights. The trail started at the end of the CA 180, due east of Fresno, at 5,036’. We climbed as high as 12,466’.
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UM professor gets cocky on Iraq
University of Michigan professor Juan Cole has a thing or two to say about the current situation in Iraq. He claims to not want to sound cocky, but even though he does come off that way you have to admit he does have enough justification to say “I told you so!” and has many an interesting point to make.
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OB/GYN's must be allowed to practice free love
President Bush recently disclosed his concern that many OB/GYN’s across America are not able to make it with their patients.
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Everybody for Truth now!
Isn’t this election campaign just a hoot? First those SBVT folks sought the truth, now Texas citizens seek it, too.
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msqr.us: Death, and Resurrection
Minette and I ran off into the bear-infested wilds of Kings Canyon last week, and although we made it safely (but did have close encounters of the bear kind!) the morning after we returned I got up only to notice a strange sound, not unlike a bear snorting, coming from the office.
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1989
I found my 8th/9th grade diary this weekend. Here is a line from it: “I am so bored right now, just watching Miami Vice.”
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Chain emails: political clout for the right
Remember when chain emails were harmless and mildly amusing? Like “forward this message on to 10 people and you’ll be rewarded with sex within 2 days!” Now chain emails have a way of spreading bogus propaganda that manages to shape popular opinion. Harper’s magazine has an interesting dissection of this trend, where Jon Lackman tracks down the author of one of these emails to find out the story behind the email’s story.
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That matters to me, too
In case you didn’t catch Barak Obama’s speech from the 2004 Democratic National Convention, he was a fantastic speaker and it’s worth listening to or watching and distilling some of the topics he mentions. I’ve copied the transcript along with highlights of my favorite parts, along with links to the video.
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Wilsonian?
Is America isolationist? Imperialist? Promoter of self-determination? The Democrat Republican explores these ideas.
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ouch
My tummy hurts.
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G.I. Joe Veterans for Truth lash out
G.I. Joe, our Real American Hero, has <a “G.I. Joe article on Salon” href=”http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/14/gijoe/index.html”>come under political fire</a>!
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Manufacturing Consent
So I think Noam Chomsky is very interesting. I rented a documentary film (made in Canada, by Canadians (!)) and have to say I think it’s very good. Here’s a little clip from the film that highlights one thing I agree with whole-heartedly: it takes a lot of work to make informed decisions about politics, work I’m afraid many people can’t or choose not to make.
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Elite concerns
I’m still in the middle of Noam Chomsky’s latest book, Hegemony or Survival. He can be pretty far “out there” at times, but even then relentlessly points out so many well-thought and researched observations that you at least have plenty to think about, no matter what you agree/disagree with.
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