From the Linkspredder
Larissa has a link to a breaking UK news story that there were plans drawn up to depose Saddam two years before 9/11.
It’s too bad you can’t arrest a government and depose it. Or, apparently, stop it from killing all the witnesses.
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Daniel Pipes is one of vilest liars active in American politics today.
Iran is not our enemy. Don’t let the oil-co. stooges tell you otherwise.
The enemy of Israel is not my enemy, or my friend.
I can almost say the same of Israel, but I’m still waiting on that apology for the USS Liberty.
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I see that David Vitter has lifted his hold on several stalled Obama nominees for Louisiana. Foolishly, I assumed that Vitter had been embarrassed into doing so since once of O’Keefe’s “Raiders” was the son of the outgoing U.S. Attorney in Shreveport.
Not at all. Holder finally caved and allowed Vitter to make a direct appointment of a card-carrying wingnut to the DOJ advisory panel on U.S. Attorney appointments.
Shameless, and more crooked than a dog’s hind leg, and that’s almost as bad as being so craven and desperate for Republican approval that you succumb to this sort of booyah mau mauing.
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What did they think would happen:Â The Making of Colorado Springs.
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Palin/O’Keefe links:
When you’re not running for office, yes, your PAC can buy up thousands of copies of your crummy book to hand out to people in need of doorstops
Palin’s Teaparty speech to be broadcast live now (but given the trendlines I doubt they’ll pan over the half-empty room)
Watertiger on Sarah
O’Keefe prosecutor recuses himself
Majikthise on O’Keefe’s mentor, Ben Wetmore, ratfucker trainer/handler
More on Wetmore from Justin Elliot at TPM [interestingly if you search for him with Google Images you quickly see that he's mastered the art of the reverse google bomb, plastering the internet with your name attached to insulting pics of the opposition [but I do see progress in terms of his actual photo since just last night)]
Sarah Palin the Untold Magazine hits the shelves today and Palin doesn’t make a dime from them (the joys of being a public figure)
When your worst enemy is content to rerun your tweets without comment, maybe you might want to dial it down a notch
More Breitbart claims not mentioned by O’Keefe on Hannity last night
Ben Stein: Free O’Keefe (the Mumia-ization of the Right) (Free O’Keefe, btw, would make for a great jailhouse ass tattoo)
Majikthise on the mechanics of phone tampering
Does the FBI have O’Keefe’s computer?
And, if you clicked all those links, here’s your bonus Michele Bachmann link. Ron Carey, for those who don’t remember his nasty ass, was the most confrontational MN Republican chair ever. Carey made liberal use of Michael Brodkorb’s blog to slander Democrats almost daily.
Expect Bachmann’s re-election campaign to be the nastiest ever. So nasty you’ll probably need a case of this to get you through to November.
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Whores, Media:
Maybe they should keep the mics running after the panel all the time
Aleister Candy Crowley to helm CNN’s Sunday State of the Union show
Most of the quality journalists got fired ages ago, the hell freelancers are experiencing is a byproduct of professional journalists failing to write about the exploitation of the self-employed (there are still good reporters, but much of their best content is deleted by corporatist editors)
Politicizing the weather (you have no idea how much I’m looking forward to the greenest Winter Olympics ever)
If you’re white, you can’t be a terrorist
More on that quarter-million dollars a year middle class
Jamison Foser does a WaPo list
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Defenders of Democracy, Media division:
Harper’s, a magazine remarkably free of whoreticulture
Background on Bill Watterson’s first interview in 15 years
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Life in These United States:
Terri Carlson will marry you if you have insurance, and your looks aren’t important to her
Clusterfuck Nation: The Jive Economy
MN air quality hasn’t been updated since Pawlenty took office (which is why MN corridors of power have that distinctly whiffy monkey butt smell about them)
Red State American just keeps gettin’ teensier and tinier
C of C political spending now greater than that of both parties put together
Fear and Loathing in Maricopa County
Even as the DOJ lets Yoo and Bybee off the hook, Spain’s investigation ramps up
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Sachs appeals:
Inspector Kucinich on the case
Dayen on Blankfein’s $100,000,000 bonus
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Fighting the smears (and cashing the checks).
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Virginia wingnut explains insurance reform in terms I’ve used countless times to describe the insurance industry in general.
Dude just needs to step back a bit and take in the entire picture.
The government’s welcome to force me into Medicare, but they can go fuck themselves if they think they can force me to sign up for BlueCross BlueShaft.
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The DSCC finally comes up with some talking points worth asking about.
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Copyright:
News.com investigation keeps grandma from being booted for filesharing
Why bad copyright law makes movie making almost impossible
TV brings news across the world faster than word of mouth from two blocks away
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A musical apertif from Moldova’s hottest band.
I’m pretty sure they’re singing about the impact of barrel making on Moldovan culture.