Blue Herald

“Hark“, a commenter on The Carpetbagger Report blog site posted something I felt deserves more airtime:
Barbara Boxer spoke this afternoon from the Senate on Bush’s drilling plan nonsense. It was carried on C-Span 2, where I caught it while on the treadmill.. She was quite effective, and she addressed those mysterious 68 million acres that [...]

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Once in a while you happen upon a piece of writing that grabs your attention and holds you in it’s grasp through it’s entirety. A composition that brings together into one place the heartache, the indefensible actions, the ill-will of the past eight years. A sad recapitulation… a summary of the Bush years.
From the Daily [...]

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So says Fade, from House Of The Rising Sons:
True Patriots fight FOR Freedom, not against it
They are aresting American citizens for t’shirts that offend warhawks. They are arresting preachers in America for calling for an end to the Iraq war. They are arresting eighty year old men who openly voice their opinion peacefully.
They are arresting [...]

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From our friend Fade at the House of the Rising Sons blog. I feel your pain Fade, because I’m right there with you!
More kids die
More Women die
More Iraqis die
More of everyone dying
“Hillary is a fighter”
“Obama has a voice I can relate to”
Neither matters if they settle into office with all the faux [...]

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“Men who have sex with men in the last five years of their life will no longer be accepted as organ donors under new rules from Health Canada.”
Read the rest of Tony Grew’s article at Gay South Florida

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We’ll have to keep a close eye on this. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this. I said yesterday no way……time will tell.
From Capitol Hill Blue:
Capitol Hill Blue reports that Bush was so livid that Attorney General Makasey is pursing the CIA tapes case investigation [...]

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Glenn Greenwald has a great post up at Salon regarding military spending:
Global Security has taken the Fiscal Year 2008 U.S. budget and prepared a new chart illustrating the most significant and under-discussed political fact in the United States, one that substantially affects every other issue:

Our military spending exceeds the rest of the world’s spending [...]

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I stumbled upon the below and just wanted to pass it along. Good stuff!
New Year’s Letter from God
by: Jean Carnahan, The Huffington Post
Dear Creation,
With a New Year just around the corner, I want to clear up some things that have been troubling Me. There is a wicked and blasphemous rumor floating around the Universe that [...]

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cross posted at Democratic Underground
The fact that Osama bin Laden — who planned and executed the attacks of September 11th, 2001, murdering three thousand people — is still not even a target of the President of the United States some six long years later should tell everyone in this country one thing: George W. Bush [...]

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From NBC’s Mike Viqueira
cross posted at The Huffington Post

A group of House Democrats will introduce a resolution calling on the Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) will sponsor the measure. It will be dropped in the hopper tomorrow.
It’s too early to say whether it will actually get [...]

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