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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:57:20 -0700

And there's nothing anyone can do to convince these folks. You could hand them, in person, the original birth certificate and have a video of Obama emerging from the womb with Don Ho singing in the background ... and they still wouldn't believe it.

--Bill Maher from an LA Times oped piece.

http://tinyurl.com/mayr4l

United Breaks Guitars: Passenger Strikes Back With Song (VIDEO)

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:27:14 -0700

A poignant song about United Airlines. Listen and weep.

Iran Uprising Live-Blogging (Friday June 26)

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:52:38 -0700

Iranian Protest Election Results (2) & Tehran 24

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:30:25 -0700

http://MsKrazyKat.stumbleupon.com/review/33563603/

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:00:16 -0700

A running log of Twitter reports, videos, etc. from the streets of Tehran:

http://tehranbureau.com/2009/06/13/alerts-from-tehran/

Click on the cartoon above for Andrew Sullivan's blog. He's doing a good job on the aftermath of the Iranian election.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/bachmann-comic-cover-thumb.jpg

Wed, 27 May 2009 15:04:35 -0700

More on the Michelle Bachmann comic book:

http://www.citypages.com/2009-05-27/news/a-michele-bachmann-comic-misadventure/

The Day in 100 Seconds: All Wee-Weed Up | TPMTV

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:26:27 -0700

Thie link below will take you to an excellent Rachel Madow segment on how torture was used as part of the Bush/Cheney effort to manufacture evidence of an Iraq-Al Qaeda link:

http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=2528497

More on using torture to come up with a pretext (post-text?) for the Iraq war:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/68315.html

(Note: The link up top is just a generic Talking Points Memo link. I can't get StumbleUpon to work properly anymore when I "discover" a new page. Something seems to be broken.)

Swine-flu outbreak could be linked to Smithfield factory farms | Grist

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:15:27 -0700

The pig-shit flu!

How Bernie Madoff pulled off his massive swindle - Apr. 24, 2009

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:06:19 -0700

The Madoff story, in the most detail I've seen thus far. It's a fascinating read.

Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link | McClatchy

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:22:09 -0700

"The Bush administration put relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist.

"Such information would've provided a foundation for one of former President George W. Bush's main arguments for invading Iraq in 2003. No evidence has ever been found of operational ties between Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and Saddam's regime."

--Why did we torture? To come up with a good excuse for a senseless war. What else did Bush and Cheney do to manufacture reasons to go into Iraq? Here's what a former intelligence official told McClatchy's reporters:

"'The main one is that everyone was worried about some kind of follow-up attack (after 9/11). But for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there.'

"It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly — Abu Zubeida at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Mohammed 183 times in March 2003 — according to a newly released Justice Department document."