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McDermott vs Depleted Uranium

Haven't seen much on this subject at 'kos, wondering a bit why. McDermott (D-WA) got an amendment re: depleted uranium munitions passed today, voice vote.  See below for a start.  

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Nonsense from the phone companies

Now Verizon and Bell South are denying the whole NSA thing.  Maybe....but part of the denial from Verizon is hogwash, pure and simple:  they contend that they don't make records of local phone calls,...

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Lamont/Lieberman: letter to The Economist

I don't know how many Economist readers there are out there, but they recently did an amazingly lame echo of the US MSM re: the Lamont victory.  Made me downright ornery, both because they got so much...

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GOLDMARK WA-05

Not much into diaries, not sure I have that much to say, but I seem to have hosed whatever it is that allows one to access comments on dkos & am getting pretty frustrated that I see little on the...

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you can call me Leuk

Never done this before, really:  my tendency is to drop in comments here and there, with an occasional diary to call attention to something that seems to be getting ignored.  That I should actually...

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La torturacha: musings, ramblings, and, probably, apologies

Fella could get downright morose watching the US go in the tank, thanks to our buds on the Bushite bench.  Fella could start thinking real hard about emigration.  Or political mayhem.  Even the odd...

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Reichert at his best

Don't know how many of my fellow NW-ians caught this business, but ol' Dave is truly living up to his mentors in DC. Appears that he took credit, in a dog-bonks-pony before his base, for busting the...

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Rearranging deck-chairs...

Someone is going to tell me that this should be in an open thread, no doubt, but, well, let's see where it goes....It seems that our George is remodeling the "Situation Room" at the White House....

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numeracy and glazed eyes

Not expecting a lot of "take" for this subject, but I've been struck lately by the apparent failure by most folks (not so much here, but in general) to fully apprehend what's going on with our money.

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beginning of the end for Chavez...

"Rule by decree passed for Chavez" according to the BBC.  Now I'm not much of a Chavez fan, not because of his policies to date, necessarily, but because I've seen this coming for some little time, and...

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alky jokes

This may have been diaried at length before, but I'd suggest that reiteration may be in order.I just encountered a comment wherein someone suggested that Hitchens was born in "alcholistan", by which I...

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information, please

This is probably as nuts as I think it is, but I'm vaguely considering a run at WA-05.  I've been unsuccessful in getting hold of Peter Goldmark to find out if he's considering another run, which I...

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WA-05: when the going gets weird

you can fill in the blank.  In April I posted a request for information re: running for WA05 & received a rather remarkable response all around.  Thought it might be time for an up-date; I've been...

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LTE --- imagine my surprise

This won't be hugely substantive, or even vaguely, but the the fact that the Wenatchee World (not a notably liberal rag) would publish this is, perhaps, news; besides, it's my first ever published LTE....

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I'm sick of this right-wing crap that goes around unchallenged.

Cross-posted for a friend from "another place"I got this stinking email from a very conservative friend of mine. . .  one of many. This one is from some former marine and former office holder out of...

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Ms Jane

I haven't written here for a couple years, but, what the hell.  All this kerfuffle about Jane Hamsher is too amusing to pass up.What is it, folks?  We're talking here about one of the premiere...

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Paulution

I haven’t written anything here for a longish time:  in general, I look to this site for information, and have no interest in the navel-bashing that goes on continually amongst those who, for no...

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just got word

that my oldest friend was one of those killed at the Cafe Racer in Seattle last Friday.  Hadn't seen him for a few months, but that was where we usually went when I was in town:  less than a block from...

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Gunfighter

Following is an LTE, addressing the opinion of a regular contributor that gun control doesn't work, what's needed is better mental health care, yadda:

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Regressive Directive

A friend just got back from the Big City, where she underwent assorted routine procedures at a highly-regarded clinic.  Along with the usual stack of preliminary paper, she was given a disclaimer of...

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