Admitted, in my opinion, the Clintonista will most likely do a better job than the Oborg on progressive social issues.

The Oborg are heavily influenced by the TheoCons. Yes, they're not the kind of cross-burning TheoCons that like Paul or Huckabee or Romney. But think more of the religious values of Clarence Thomas. Or Condaleeza Rice.

Black doesn't mean progressive. Vastleft and Lambert and everyone else in the Clinton camp, you're correct. On that point.

Yet there are other considerations.

Robert Naiman at HuffPo:

Not when the Republicans do it.

There was just the Bhutto verbal slip, that many thought was simply a misattribution, that may have precipitated the violence.

It's all we have to go on, but there are at least a couple of more kinks in the story, reported by no less than The New York Times and FOX itself in 2002.

Wikileaks spots another covert op:

WASHINGTON--The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet. The attacks, exposed this week in a report by the government transparency group Wikileaks, include deleting detainee ID numbers from Wikipedia last month, the systematic posting of unattributed "self praise" comments on news organization web sites in response to negative press, boosting pro-Guantanamo stories on the internet news site Digg and even modifying Fidel Castro's encyclopedia article to describe the Cuban president as "an admitted transexual"...

Check out the evidence if you're technically oriented.

Larisa Alexandrovna:

We are told that the CIA tapes were destroyed in 2005. Now, what tapes are these DOJ lawyers examining in September and October of 2007? Please take a look at this memo, HERE, do you see anything that says that the tapes were a). destroyed and b). in 2005?

I am sure someone has a logical answer to this. I am, unfortunately, not that person. Anyone?

Simple. The tapes were destroyed, but not before Li'l Boots had 'em made into a DVD for Uncle Dick's Xmas present.

And no, I do NOT have the primary reference for that assertion.

Cliff Schecter points to a meeting between Erik Prince, head of Blackwater, and GOP Congressional leaders including Rep. [Patrick] McHenry [R-N.C.] .

Apparently the record of the meeting was scrubbed soon after it was posted.

Although Blackwater has the itchiest trigger fingers in Iraq, it's important to remember the number of mercenaries in Iraq outnumbers the American troops. Nor can it be considered the top billing contractor in Iraq.

A few years back Benedictus noted and pulled together a number of posts from a number of people I respect on the increasing acceptibility of violence in society related to the mindless response to the War on Terror.

Check out the Great Orange Satan, commenting on this story

Watch this video.

Because it pays so well. Justin Rood:

One of the big concerns of people who think Bu$hCo-Cheneyburton either Let It Happen or Made It Happen on September 11, 2001 concerns the movement of billions of dollars of money on September 10th, insulating many Company associated people from financial harm.

Well, it's happening again.

Contrary to The New York Pravda's review, Invasion is excellent science fiction.

It is not a horror flick at all.

Two news items of interest along these lines today: 1) A Blackwater manager is blamed for the incident that kicked off the insurgency in Iraq by the other 4 man squad that didn't follow orders that day and thus survived it. 2) R.J. Hillhouse catches some big time press by an op-ed in the Washington Post on the takeover of the Agency by the Company.

Just check it out.

So much for any plans to Save the Earth that didn't save Poppy's bank accounts first.

Don't take my word for it, just go read about it, okay?

Renewable resources, baby.

Cashing in on the Biggest Arms Deal in Britain, Evah!

Cindy Sheehan quits the Peace Movement and the DINOcratic party.

What does an effective Attorney General do?

Why, fire any honest Republican Federal Prosecutors Dear Leader might have accidently appointed and who might feel obligated to investigate people like Duke Cunningham, or Jack Abramoff, or the outing of the CIA agent keeping you from a lucrative war, or prosecuting the tobacco companies or Halliburton or anyone else in Bu$hie's Ba$e, and replace them with Regent University TheoCon Faithful who realize the need for discretion in the government's Reconstruction for the Faith.

Oh, yeah, and forget everything when asked.

With the image of a young psychopath dressed in a death wish fetish saturating the main$tream media airwaves and inciting every unstable high school devotee of mass murder to disruption, Abu Gonzales testifies to Congress about his perjury before Congress concerning knowledge of firing of politically Unfaithful Republican prosecuting Federal Attorneys.

However, I am told by the reasonable that promotion of this image and its associated nonstop Terra has nothing to do with the fact the main$tream media is completely corporate Republican owned and operated.

And that they really, really, don't want to talk about Gonzales.

But it still looks like a Sith Lord mind trick to me.

Want to see a technical explanation of why there's a persistant unease on Wall Street, despite all the Good Economic News? If you don't know already, that is.

Just read about it, okay?

Of course, they burned through a trillion bucks painting schools, right?

It's been covered here before. It's Big Science about to go awry in a very big way, fitting for Big Time himself. Since they don't want to stop the profitable process causing global warming, they figure, why not quench the only source of warmth in the world?

This idea is so bad I don't know where to begin:

China successfully carried out its first test of an anti-satellite weapon last week, signaling its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said Thursday.

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People are beginning to wonder.

Brian Sussman tells caller to say 'Allah is a whore'.

KSFO caller suggests bombing Syrian mosques.