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Holy crap. The horror. The horror.

If you were on the fence, this may tip you over - with a painful crash.

I first saw this over at Skippy’s, who’s been forced to reconsider his choice. Meanwhile, Blue Gal, who also had it, wrote, “Betcha can’t watch the whooole thing. Click here. But I betcha. Even my friends who support…oh nevermind.”
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The Bush administration has agreed to turn over to international inspectors intelligence data it has collected that it says proves Iran worked on developing a nuclear weapon until a little more than four years ago, according to American and foreign diplomats.

The decision reverses the United States- longstanding refusal to share the data, citing the need to protect intelligence sources.

The administration acted as the International Atomic Energy Agency is scheduled to issue a report as early as next week on Iran’s past nuclear activities. Administration officials hope that the nuclear inspectors can now confront Iran with what the Americans believe is the strongest evidence that the Iranians had a nuclear program.

More at the NY Times

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Surely you know all about this by now:

Gunman at Illinois College Kills 6 People and Himself, Wounds 15

DEKALB, Ill., Feb. 14 — Without saying a word, a gunman dressed in black opened fire in a Northern Illinois University geology class Thursday, killing five students and wounding 16. He fired at random, authorities said, until the moment he killed himself.

I just heard on the radio two things of interest. One; Bush has sent word of his condolences to those affected by the shootings, and two; The gunman stepped into a gun shop about a week ago and purchased his weapon of choice.

Now wouldn’t you think it would take “balls-that-hang-all-the-way-to-the-floor” nerve to place a call to these students, when you’re a part of the grand movement to make purchasing guns as easy as buying bubblegum?

Some of my friends from the right argue that’s the price we pay for freedom. Yet these very same people can’t seem to wrap their little brains around the fact that a “no flag burning” law restricts those same freedoms.

I have no problem with gun ownership. I don’t think the Constitution guarantees it, but also no where does it say it’s illegal/forbidden/whatever. I just happen to agree with the sane half of America that there needs to be better checks in place before someone can make a purchase.

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I actually thought I had seen it all. I actually thought it couldn’t get worse. I actually thought that once a person (or group) has been pegged as “stupid”, that was it. That there was no need to say any more.

But I was wrong. (Is “stupider” a word?)

Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies

Steve Mosher is telling me about wolves returning to the streets of European towns. Not as part of some Vermont-model wildlife-recovery scenario but as emblems of a harsh comeuppance mankind is due–they’re stalking out of the forests like an ancient judgment, coming to claim mankind’s ceded land.[...] The comeuppance has a name, one being fervently hawked among a group of Christian-right “profamily” activists hoping to spark a movement in secular Europe. It’s called the “demographic winter,” a more austere brand of apocalypse than doomsayers normally trade in, evoking not a nuclear inferno but a quiet and cold blanket of snow in which, they charge, “Western Civilization” is laying itself down to die.
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Keith Olbermann on FISA Fight & Special Comment

Keith calls Bush a “liar”, a “fascist”, and says he’s “full of crap!”

LOVE IT!

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Hat tip to Drew for sending me this Think Progress post, about a Choate student grilling Karl Rove on gay marriage. Here’s a more extensive excerpt from the original article:
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