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    Newsweek Is Full of Shit

    By Joe Wood on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 3:29pm |
    Newsweek: Perhaps, one day, we will say that the recession saved us from a parenting ethos that churns out ego-addled spoiled brats. And though it is too soon to tell if our economic free fall will cure America of...
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    Not a Bedtime Story

    By we are stardust on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 1:02pm |
    This story wants to be written.  Every time I try to avoid it, it pops up again, nagging me with an insistence I really can't like.  Writing it wouldn't mean I had to publish it, but I have decided to,...
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    LAWS ON THE BOOKS

    By Richard Day on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 8:16pm |
             Huffpo presents these silly games that my Firefox does not like. But these laws that are still on the books, according to Huffpo: It's illegal to transport bears in Missouri unless they are properly caged. In...
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    Boomtoons

    By wws on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:26pm |
     BOOMTOONS:  An Interactive Forum for Women Over 50             When I was in the sixth grade, a friend with journalistic ambitions decided to enlist the help of his classmates to publish a weekly newspaper. The format was a single...
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    O CANADA!!!!

    By Richard Day on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 8:00pm |
    Hey, we took it to those Brits, did we not? Dirty bastards. But those chickenshit Canadians still have a regal presence on their currency. Oh well, they sure the hell know how to play hockey though. And how exactly...
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    Kyl & Bunning sponsor bi-partisan NAFTA-II Jobs Bill

    By SleepinJeezus on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 7:12pm |
    SleepinJeezusJobs ReporterDissociated PressMarch 3, 2010(Washington, DC) Two of the GOP's leading Jobs Reform advocates in Washington have joined forces in presenting a bi-partisan Jobs Bill that the Congressional Budget Office says could drastically reduce unemployment.John Kyl (R-Uranus) and Jim Bunning...
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    BLESSED ARE THEY WHO SHUT THE F...K UP!!!

    By Richard Day on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 9:10pm |
           Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew v, 3). "Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God" (Luke vi, 20). "Blessed are they that mourn: for they...
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    What War Is Always All About And Why It Must Always Be Opposed

    By oleeb on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 8:04pm |
    The aftermath in Hiroshima 1945.  The set of photos below is just one very vivid example of what war really is: mass murder and destruction. I am posting them as a reminder to all of what war really is.  It is...

    Believe who you want to believe - updated

    By Ripper on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 3:44am |
    After the mirthless and misplaced angerfest that Josh Marshall dumped on me in his emails this weekend, apparently while he was hip-deep in alligators, I was none too impressed by his doubling down on the unfounded insults today.I can take...
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    ARE WE ALL BEING THROWN UNDER THE BUS?

    By Richard Day on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 8:48pm |
    Evangelist John of Patmos writes the Book of Revelation. Painting by Hieronymus Bosch (1505). We don't have much of a blog capability on TPMCafe right now. It is chaos. Versha, my absolutely favorite TPMCafe'er just notified us:http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/ I just...

    Missourians, call your senator

    By Ripper on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 4:03pm |
    Missourians, it's time to call, fax and email your only Democratic senator and demand that she publicly declare her support for the public option.Last Wednesday, Feb. 24th, Melanie's March came to a close in Washington, D.C., with six senators in...
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    No, really - The Sky is Falling!

    By Ramona on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 12:54pm |
    Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits. Economists...
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    Know Demos? No, the Other One. Try it, you might like it.

    By amike on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 11:26pm |
    Two websites named Demos--one in the U.S. the other in the U.K.  Almost like two countries separated by a common language as you-know-who said.  I visit them both  on occasion, and spent some time at the U.K. version today.  I've...
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    Vice President Jor -El

    By Barth on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 9:05pm |
    Someone whose views I share writes:I admit to making jokes about Vice President Gore. They are all hereby withdrawn with sincere apologies to him and anyone I presented them to. This is from tmrw's NY Times and, while I have...
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    CRASH & BURN

    By Richard Day on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 6:21pm |
    Metadata Ssu-ma Niu appeared worried, saying, 'All men have brothers. I alone have none.' Tzu-hsia said, 'I have heard it said: life and death are a matter of Destiny; wealth and honour depend on Heaven. The gentleman is reverent and...
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    Deadlock Redux

    By wws on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 6:10pm |
    NOTE: I did not repost this. Apparently it was reposted automatically when the weekend spam was deleted. So dpo continue the discussion if you are interested in doing so --- particularly if the discussion moves on from the particular...
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    The Worst Government in the world

    By Barth on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 2:35pm |
    If Keith is renaming his segment "since some of the people did not get that the title was ironic" we can steal it and use it to announce that, nothwithstanding Gail Collins' well- meaning rankings, the State of New York...

    Melanie's March Videos

    By Ripper on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 11:30pm |
    The first video below is mine. I threw it together to give you a feel for our trip.The next is shorter and was produced by SEIU. It includes remarks by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate HELP Committee Chairman Tom...
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    TORTS

    By Richard Day on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 10:37pm |
    File links I like Dick Durban. A lot. He has no trouble thinking on his feet. When he appears on MSM, he has a clearer grasp of issues than other dems; he does not just blurt out a list of...
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    Questions for Doug Brooks of the International Peace Operation Association

    By we are stardust on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 9:25pm |

    I posted this diary yesterday concerning Jan Schakowsky's bill 'Stop Outsourcing Security Act,' and was surprised to wake in the morning to a comment posted by the president of IPOA, Doug Brooks, taking issue with a few of my assertions...

    I posted this diary yesterday concerning Jan Schakowsky's bill 'Stop Outsourcing Security Act,' and was surprised to wake in the morning to a comment posted by the president of IPOA, Doug Brooks, taking issue with a few of my assertions in the piece.  IPOA is a non-profit lobbying umbrella for Contractors, especially in war zones and disaster areas.

     He invited me to contact him by email or phone; I chose email, and sent 12 questions to him.  He responded quickly that he would answer them if I guaranteed to post his answers in their entirety.

    I responded affirmatively, with the caveat that the answers not be too long for a normal diary, though I later thought it would also be possible to divide them into two blogs.

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    MODUS OPERENDI

    By Richard Day on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 9:07pm |
                                              Anthony Weiner                                                                           Good stuff today on web and at Café today. I have a...

    Senators greet Melanie's March ahead of summit

    By Ripper on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 2:01pm |
    I just got back from Washington, where our contingent of 11 from St. Louis met up with at least a half-dozen more from our city (including Melanie's commonlaw spouse, Steve), eight who marched all the 135 miles from Philadelphia to...
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    Breaking News! A People Person Discovered in Congress!

    By Ramona on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 12:07pm |
    It's the morning of the Day After Weiner Socks it to Congress, calling the Republicans a "wholly-owned subsidiary of the insurance industry", and the video is going viral--I can only hope.  I'm going to do my part today to pester...
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    JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL IS NUMBER 12!!!!

    By Richard Day on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 2:52pm |
    Our own Joshua Micah Marshall has been named the twelfth most influential Liberal in America today.  No big deal? Hey, Rachel Maddow is only 11th on that list. And she has a full hour every night on MSNBC. Some...
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    Stop Outsourcing Security Act + Update Comment by IPOA's Doug Brooks ????

    By we are stardust on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 1:34pm |
    Representative Jan Schakowsy and twenty co-sponsors will offer a bill that would phase out private security forces and require the military to use its own personnel to train troops and police, guard convoys, repair weapons, etc.  There are over 217,000...

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