Hilarious. Atrios has been making fun of Giuliuani, his penchant for milking 9/11 and his money woes:
If Rudy! is elected president we can mint a special coin worth exactly $9.11.
It’ll double as tokens to his fundraisers, of course.
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If Rudy is elected president Independence Day will be moved to 9/11. And there will be fireworks!
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Good lord, who did the architectural drawings for this? Albert Speer?

“The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air,” Tony Perry reports in Monday’s edition of the LA Times. “The four L-shaped […]

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Why do the retired commanders hate the troops?

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Hm. The wingers are very adept at leveling charges of treason against liberals. Hell, Coulter has made a career of it. But this is the very subtext of our national political debate right now; that it’s weakling liberals who don’t want to attack Iran and therefore make us weak and vulnerable and liable to be […]

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Sullivan gets it:
By “for ever”, I don’t mean literally for ever. I mean around 100,000 troops for at least another five years, and, I suspect, much longer. This is the only logical consequence of the current state of play in Iraq and America, after Petraeus’s and Bush’s triumph over the Senate’s Republican doubters. If Iraq […]

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Didn’t get into Ahmadinejad’s visit to/speech at Columbia because frankly, everyone else in the blogosphere was all over it. Basically, what Ezra Klein said:
I genuinely don’t understand the quaking fear over Ahmadinejad’s interview at Columbia. When did America become so weak, so insecure, that we mistrust our capacity to converse with potentially hostile world leaders?
On […]

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I had no idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504

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So in addition to fending off right-wingers here on this site, I also do quite a bit of fending off via regular old e-mail. One group in particular for some reason decided to include me in all of their local right-wing clubhouse e-mails; I’ve come to know the guys, they’re musicians, I’ve downed a few […]

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Good call.
There really is this child-like need in American mainstream political discourse constantly to believe that we are fault-free and that when there is hostility directed at us from other parts of the world, it is always baffling and unjustified and crazy and malicious. And the accompanying cartoon-like belief is that anyone who has hostility […]

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Bill-O’s comments about his black dinner last week getting some mainstream press attention. As Atrios notes, “I love how when someone provides the full context of O’Reilly’s remarks, including audio and transcript, it’s a “hatchet job.”
Update: And it seems Bill-O called CNN and “screamed at the top of his lungs for a very long time.”
But […]

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She’d legitimize the Leader and his War.

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Artie See has an interesting post up at his site from yesterday getting into the idea of economic development - specifically, how much of it the convention center project has to generate if it is going to qualify as a “success”:
The sole purpose of this project is “economic development”. “Economic development” is defined as creating […]

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Wow. The history behind this photo, taken just over 50 years ago. The anniversay is being marked today.

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Been watching the Ken Burns’ series on PBS?

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I’m doing a speaking gig at the Lancaster Jewish Community Center this afternoon and want to ask the folks who show up a question (or three) about our endless series of wars in the Middle East, and the rationale for those wars.
Specifically, the right-wingers seem to have this idea that any enemy of Israel is […]

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Greenwald:
When we become a society that just leaps from one New Ultimate Hitler Enemy Who Must Be Destroyed to the next, we ensure that all of our political values and institutions become infected by this bloodthirsty mentality.

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Ah, Billmon, whatever happened to you…
A guy who went by the name Billmon was probably my favorite blogger until he bailed in December 2006 - burnout, I guess. Among other things, he wrote a piece titled “The Flight Forward” waaaayyyy back in April 2006 that suggested we might attack Iran specifically because our Leaders might […]

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Happy Saturday night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNr9A3N1ao

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…and all sorts of other strange things at the Vintage Ads Journal.

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Now that’s a backporch jam. More Byrds - with Earl freakin’ Scruggs! - circa about 1970, I’d guess. The bearded guitarist playing the Telecaster in the beginning is one Clarence White, an absolutely amazing picker - who was killed by a drunken driver in 1973, loading gear after a show, a true waste.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYQr8meeog

Byrds are probably […]

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