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  • Where Fear Can’t Take Us
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tomgram: Ira Chernus on Where Fear Can’t Take Us
    A world of fear: By the end of 1953, the United States had close to 1,000 A-bombs, H-bombs, and "tactical" nuclear weapons. I was 9 years old. The effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had, by then, largely disappeared under a cloud of official secrecy, as had evidence of atomic dangers in the United States, where test blasts were already being set off with remarkable regularity. And yet in private dreams and popular culture, a lack of (…)

  • NOLA: 800 bodies in the morgue - so what if you lose a body or two
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Loss of bodies adds to grief of many families. Authorities have few answers
    By DAVID ZUCCHINO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
    BATON ROUGE, La. - When he finally could leave his post guarding a nuclear power plant after Hurricane Katrina struck, Richard George Reysack III sped to the flooded home of his 80-year-old father east of New Orleans. Slogging through the muck, he found his father’s corpse face-down in the hallway.
    As devastating as that discovery was, at least Reysack had his father’s (…)

  • Dems/Iraq = Bush/Vietnam = AWOL
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Yesterday I thanked the 6 House Democrats—Lee, Conyers, Woolsey, Grijalva, McKinney & Waters—who joined 300,000 of us at the antiwar march/rally/concert last weekend. We do appreciate it.
    Today I want to ask the obvious follow-up question, which several commenters also raised—where were the rest of the House & Senate Dems?
    There are 202 House Democrats, plus 1 Independent, plus several nonvoting House Dems. Plus, there are 44 Senate Democrats, plus 1 Independent.
    A grand total (…)

  • Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn’t a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That’s right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the firm was forced to pay $22 million to settle a suit asserting that "it aided a client in defrauding investors."
    The details of the case are both nauseating and highly (…)

  • Bill O’Reilly defames our WWII troops
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bill O’Reilly defames our WWII troops
    In his debate last night with Wesley Clark, Bill said this to prove his point:
    Clark: And let me explain something. You go all the way up the chain of command
    O’Reilly: General! You need to look at the Malmedy massacre in World War Two, and the 82nd Airborne who did it! That is a flat out lie. (thanks to (Mccarthy.vg ) It was the Nazi soldiers that committed the massacre on US troops and not the 82nd Airborn on the Germans. Bill you just used false (…)

  • The Bush administration’s Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    1) The administration was not bent on war with Iraq from 9/11 onward.
    Throughout the year leading up to war, the White House publicly maintained that the U.S. took weapons inspections seriously, that diplomacy would get its chance, that Saddam had the opportunity to prevent a U.S. invasion. The most pungent and concise evidence to the contrary comes from the president’s own mouth. According to Time’s March 31 road-to-war story, Bush popped in on national security adviser Condi Rice one day (…)

  • Top 10 Bad Reasons for "Staying the Course" in Iraq (and One Good One)
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeff Huber 03 October 2005
    10. Democracy takes time. America needed 13 years to write its Constitution. The American Revolution analogy is ludicrous. Britain did not invade the American colonies in order to liberate us, and we did not ask them to stick around for more than a decade to help us form our government.
    9. If we leave now, we’ll embolden the terrorists. They’re not exactly shrinking violets now. The longer we’ve stayed, the bolder they’ve become.
    8. Withdrawing will show (…)

  • Ignoble liars: Leo Strauss, George Bush, and the philosophy of mass deception
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work." Irving Kristol - Founder of American Neoconservatism Leo Strauss and Our Current Political Condition
    Tue (…)

  • Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo, But Newspapers Handle the AP Photo Quite Differently
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Harriet Miers, at the time staff secretary, is seen on Aug. 6, 2001, briefing President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas."
    NEW YORK On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch “in August 2001,” the caption reads.
    USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply “2001,” but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or (…)

  • Changing the Face of the Peace Corps (for the worse)
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the New York Times. I certainly have not seen or heard of this on ANY news broadcasts or in any print media.
    Op-Ed Contributor Mission Creep E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Save Article By MARK D. GEARAN Published: October 4, 2005 Geneva, N.Y.
    OF the many ways that Americans serve the public good, service in the armed forces holds a special pre-eminence. For obvious reasons, the tremendous personal risks undertaken and sacrifices made by armed service members on behalf (…)