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Posted by tgl on 2006-09-08 13:42:49 +0000

wherein i post links i've found through the night

  • I admit I didn't read every single word, but here's a brilliant McSweeney's post.
  • Couric does more in one interview than Rather did in a whole career, she gets Bush to admit that Iraq and this war or terrorism thing are hard to connect. (Yeah, parsed the hell out of his quote).
  • No parsing needed to see that Bush is lying when he proclaims, We Don't Torture.
  • Is this Banksy?
  • Maybe I just like curmudgeons sigh.... Andy Rooney, I enjoyed this article in my dead trees addition.
  • Hilary never sounded better.
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-09-08 01:57:20 +0000
-That's Banksy. An inspiration. -Where's that McSweeney's post?
Posted by tgl on 2006-09-08 13:43:29 +0000
Try again.
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-09-08 14:14:45 +0000
Yessuh!
Posted by tgl on 2006-09-09 15:05:57 +0000
  • DB, you're onto Sullivan, right? So there's no need to post this link, I guess. The GOP's silence on Bush's statments on torture aren't that surprising, I guess. It depends on what your definition of "torture" is.
  • Yeah, I enjoyed the ridicult in McSweeney's, but I was so heartened by Zinn last night.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-09-10 05:02:02 +0000
What's becoming more and more clear to me, is that the country needs more true conservatives involved in the Senate. Not neo-cons, conservatives. Straight shooters who don't like it when the goverment gets bigger and the country starts invading three or four other countries. People who were lifelong Republicans, but are so disturbed by the Bush/Cheney disaster reversing everything they worked for, that they become more outspoken instead of less. Lugar, McCain, Collins/Snowe, Jeffords, like Andrew Sullivan and Bill Maher (though he might call himself a Libertarian by now)... Hell, I hope even Spector, Hatch, or Hagel speak out more. `
Posted by tgl on 2006-09-11 14:06:50 +0000
Don't forget that Cheney and Rumsfeld were around for the "golden years" for conservatives, those heady days of Nixon/Ford and Reagan. As much as I'm dismayed in the Democrats complete spinelessness on this issue, I can't say that McCain, Spector, et al. are really that better.
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