From Huffington Post:

Maxine Sullivan
“When Your Lover Has Gone”

A special shout out to all the veterans today. With so many homeless veterans, I think The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans is a worthy cause. Pay them a visit and help them out if you can.

I thought Veteran’s Day would be a good day to post this. Packages need to go early in order to get there in time for the holidays. If anyone has any other links please post them in comments section.

OPERATION USO CARE PACKAGE

TREATS FOR TROOPS

GIFTS FROM THE HOMEFRONT

PREPAID PHONE CARDS

OPERATION MILITARY PRIDE

SOLDIERS’ ANGELS

CELL PHONES FOR SOLDIERS

PINUPS FOR THE TROOPS

ANYSOLDIER.COM

Freedom Alliance

GUIDE TO MAILING ITEMS TO TROOPS

How do you limit it to 50??? Here’s the list of 50 dumbest things Bush has said from Bspcn.Com

50. “I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn-t here.” -at the President’s Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002

49. “We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.” -Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

48. “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” -Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

47. “I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.” -Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001

46. “Tribal sovereignty means that; it’s sovereign. I mean, you-re a - you-ve been given sovereignty, and you-re viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.” -Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)

45. “I couldn-t imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.” -at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001 (Listen to audio clip)

44. “You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.” -interview with CBS News- Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

43. “The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.” -Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007

42. “I-m the commander - see, I don-t need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being president.” -as quoted in Bob Woodward’s Bush at War

41. “F*ck Saddam. We-re taking him out.” -to three U.S. senators in March 2002, one year before the Iraq invasion, as quoted by Time magazine

40. “Oh, no, we-re not going to have any casualties.” -discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson supporting me.” -talking to key Republicans about Iraq, as quoted by Bob Woodward

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Ever see these in the grocery store? They drive me crazy. I don’t know if the stores in my area have narrow aisles or what……but you can’t get by these things. They are a pain in the ass. I got news. The grocery store isn’t a fucking amusement park, ok? Your kids don’t need to be entertained by riding around in an ovesized cart while you’re shopping. If they can’t handle sitting in a regular cart and behaving…….leave them at home. And to the owners of the stores…..you don’t need to kill yourself trying to lure in shoppers with kids. Everybody has to eat, ok? They’re going to shop whether you have these obnoxious carts or you don’t.

Ok, just had to get that out.

Will this wake up congress and the American people? Probably not. Maybe the meltdown of the dollar and the housing crash will do it. I wish something would do it……

Two CIA officers have revealed Dick Cheney tried to silence dissidents within US intelligence who contradicted him over Iran’s nuclear case.

“The publication of a position paper on Iran, bringing together the views of the various American intelligence agencies, was adjourned for more than a year,” ISNA reported from Le Monde.

According to a former CIA official who was involved in the preparation of the fact sheet, known as the National Intelligence Estimate, brings together the analysis of the sixteen American intelligence agencies, the report has been ready for a year and gives an account of assessments different from that espoused by the White House and Dick Cheney.

“They [the White House] have refused to publish the reports of these divergent appraisals,” said the ex-officer.

More at PressTV

Yah, we need our emails and phone calls safeguarded……against the government!

From Yahoo:

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people’s private communications and financial information.

The most contentious issue in the new legislation is whether to shield telecommunications companies from civil lawsuits for allegedly giving the government access to people’s private e-mails and phone calls without a court order between 2001 and 2007.

Some lawmakers, including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, appear reluctant to grant immunity. Suits might be the only way to determine how far the government has burrowed into people’s privacy without court permission.

The committee is expected to decide this week whether its version of the bill will protect telecommunications companies.

The central witness in a California lawsuit against AT&T says the government is vacuuming up billions of e-mails and phone calls as they pass through an AT&T switching station in San Francisco.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician, helped connect a device in 2003 that he says diverted and copied onto a government supercomputer every call, e-mail, and Internet site access on AT&T lines.

SUNDAY TALK

* MTP: Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
* FTN: Mike Huckabee (R-AR); Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
* This Week: Sec. of State Condi Rice; Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT); roundtable of Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts and George Will; architect Maya Lin on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
* FNS: Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM); Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); WH Social Sec. Amy Zantzinger
* Late Edition: ex-Dep. SoS Richard Armitage; ex-US Amb. to UN John Bolton; ex-US Amb to UN Richard Holbrooke; Army Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill and Command Sgt. Maj. Neil Ciotola; Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE); roundtable of Suzanne Malveaux, Jessica Yellin, and Joe Johns

TV ALERTS

* Political Capital w/ Al Hunt (Bloomberg, repeats throughout weekends): Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE); reports from Pakistan
* Chris Matthews Show 11/10-11/11: Dan Rather, Katty Kay, Howard Fineman, Michele Norris discuss “A New Poll Has Obama First in Likeability, Hillary Last: Will Democrats Pick the Likable One? Would President Giuliani Really Appoint Justices Like Alito and Scalia?” Quotes here.
* Your Business (MSNC, 7:30am, Sun): Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) 11/11
* Newsmakers (C-SPAN, 10am, Sunday): Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) on ENDA
* Road to the WH (C-SPAN 6:30pm): JFK’s 1960 speech on his Catholicism
* 60 Minutes (CBS, Sun): Dangers of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureas, or MRSA; Gregory Thompson on death row; Millenials
* Charlie Rose (PBS): Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) 11/12; ex UK Amb to the UN Jeremy Greenstock 11/12
* The View: Bill O’Reilly 11/13
* Several presidential candidates at Houston’s Presidential Summit on Energy Issues 11/13 on MSNBC. Moderated by Tim Russert.
* Dem debate on CNN held in Las Vegas, NV, 11/15 at 8pm. Questions from Wolf Blitzer, John Roberts and Campbell Brown. Suzanne Malveaux will work in the audience.

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In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly wrote:

The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart. Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name “Armistice Day.” Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.

Amen, brother.

Thanks to all who have served or are serving.

This post is mostly a repeat, since I find it hard to top Kelly. I hope to have several more posts on war and peace done today and throughout the week.

In the meantime, though, there’s also “How to Hear a True War Story.”

(Cross-posted at Vagabond Scholar)