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Bruce Bochy was right; following the 2010 Giants was often times torture. But the pay-off today was so sweet - finally back in the playoffs, after seven long years of baseball irrelevance.I think most Giants fans would agree, that while the Barry Bonds teams were special and full of great characters, this newest incarnation of the Giants is one which we find very easy to root for, as a

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The grueling six-month MLB regular season ends on Sunday, and the only thing I'll bother writing about - because it's occupied much time on my brain of late - is Felix "El Rey" Hernandez, and the merits of his claim to the 2010 American League Cy Young Award.If you don't fanatically love baseball, you'll probably want to skip this one.For those of you who don't know (or more likely, don't care)

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Link here.One can express all sorts of outrage over the Obama administration's depressingly predictable defense of the Israelis, even at the cost of isolating ourselves from the rest of the world, but ultimately, on some level, wouldn't it have been even more indefensible -- or at least oozingly hypocritical -- if the U.S. had condemned Israel? After all, what did Israel do in this case that the

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And linked here, the true story of how 420 came into its current connotation.Of course it happened in Northern California.

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"I want to serve you well and true the way some very dull people want to serve their country and even sadder people want to serve their God. But sometimes are very happy at it. You're a very small god with a face that breaks my heart."Ernest Hemingway

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There is a science to all thingsa method that strips clean desires that breed dreams and innocuous fiends. I have a vision that frees me escaping this prism that has trapped light, thought and my imagination.

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Another year nears its close, as 2009 has mere weeks left before its expiration date. Fewer and fewer things are left to look forward to during this calendar year, which sounds depressing on the surface, but hey, there are only 28 days left. What could you possibly cram into that amount of time?Well, there's this new project I'm working on, which is only supposed to last 10-12 weeks.

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You were born in a time of giving thanksa spring baby it seemsSo appropriate because from you springs forth dreamsThe dreams of your familyyour own dreams of aspirationthey gather in your heart and yearn for destinyWhere bright lights glistenWhere love beckonsWhere trees sway in the windA place called Brooklyn.And I hope you realize I think of you dailyIt's different worlds we live inbut love

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The boys are back.Big ups to Tuna for the link.

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The luckiest man in the world has no ideaWhat it's like to be in my positionI've had my share of tragic visionsMy share of tragic stories and bad collisionsThis life bears the fury of my decisionsWith the winds blowing through this conjurationCasting shadows in all directionsWhat a cataclysm...What a motherfucking cataclysm!I could hope against hope and try to limitSpilling my blood in

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Jayson Werth is a stud, no question, but this is one more reason why Russell Martin gets no respect from me. The guy's stolen three bases off you, and you don't even pay attention to him?Go Giants!Fuck the Dodgers and their serious lack of discipline.

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Props to The Hairdryer Treatment.

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You give me the opportunity to earn $22 million a year by taking steroids, I’ll shoot the pharmacist if I have to. I’m not saying it’s right. I’m not saying I shouldn’t be punished for shooting the pharmacist. I am saying it is self-righteous to pretend that I don’t have the same human failings that these guys do, and further, if you are insisting that you don’t have them, I don’t believe

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Source.:President Obama on Thursday offered a more detailed look at his 2010 budget proposal, which includes recommendations to cut funding for 121 federal programs and save $17 billion in 2010."There is a lot of money being spent inefficiently, ineffectively, and -- in some cases -- in ways that are actually pretty stunning," Obama said.The $17 billion in savings amounts to roughly 0.5% of the

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Source:Secularism is gaining ground in the United States, eating away at the percentage of Americans who identify with the Protestant Christianity of the founding fathers, a poll published Monday showed.The percentage of Americans who adhered to no particular religion jumped from 8.2 percent in 1990 to 15 percent last year, the third American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) conducted over

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Props to the AP photog who shot this.

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From today's Greenwald column:In 2005, the dignified statesman who disdains straw men because they "cheapen" rather than "enrich" the "dialogue of our age" said this:Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.There, Rove was respectfully and substantively critiquing the widespread belief among liberals that

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Source, and quoted in full:Benjamin Netanyahu will apparently be Israel's next prime minister. There is, however, something encouraging about that fact. Netanyahu's election will free Israel from the burden of deception: If he can establish a right-wing government, the veil will be lifted and the nation's true face revealed to its citizens and the rest of the world, including Arab countries.

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Source:Muntadher al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist on trial for throwing his shoes last year at then-President George W. Bush, said the former American leader's "bloodless and soulless smile" and his joking banter provoked him. Al-Zaidi threw both of his shoes at Bush during a December news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad. Neither shoe hit the president, and other

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"To the victor belong the spoils." - Senator William Learned Marcy, b. 1786-1857Source:Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's Kadima Party was forecast to eke out a surprising victory in Israel's election Tuesday, but exit polls showed strong support for hard-line rivals that will make it difficult for her to form a coalition government.The exit polls announced on Israeli TV stations said the centrist

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Saw Slipknot perform for the first time last week, at Madison Square Garden. I was happy to see a band I should have seen a decade ago, and felt that Slipknot gave a good, if imperfect, performance. For all the criticism they take, some of which is deserved, Slipknot certainly make an impression - visually and aurally. Some photos of the show, grabbed from Flickr.com.

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Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof, two of the few remaining mainstream voices who have both credibility and intelligence, write about the current stimulus package. I'd like to note that I am opposed to government-sponsored stimulus spending, in general, but especially when the recipients of our taxpayer dollars are Wall Street investment banks. I have not examined the provisions of this

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We walk miracle miles emphasizing all the while The dalliance of mischief in agonized smiles We break out the charm and put out alarms We'll find another reason to hold off the dawn We take life one chunk at a time, like paragraphs Live one minute at a time and we're moving fast We creep steadily towards a better path Different routes end up working out in different crafts The dark cloaks over

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Source:Despite crippling losses, multibillion-dollar bailouts and the passing of some of the most prominent names in the business, employees at financial companies in New York, the now-diminished world capital of capital, collected an estimated $18.4 billion in bonuses for the year.That was the sixth-largest haul on record, according to a report released Wednesday by the New York State

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Source:Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing “George W. Bush” and “aura of inevitability”: 206Amount for which Bush successfully sued Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1999: $2,500Year in which a political candidate first sued Palm Beach County over problems with hanging chads: 1984Total amount the Bush campaign paid Enron and Halliburton for use of corporate jets during the

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Source:A Russian human rights lawyer renowned for his work on abuses in Chechnya was shot to death Monday by a masked gunman who followed him from a news conference, officials said. A young journalist who tried to intervene also was gunned down.The broad-daylight shootings of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova prompted grief and outrage in a country where lawyers and

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I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia

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Source:Palestinians have been venturing out to survey the devastation of Israel's war on Gaza as separate ceasefires called by Israel and the Palestinian fighters appeared to be holding.Israeli troops and tanks were on the move on Monday, heading away from some key points in Gaza towards the border, but it remained unclear whether they would withdraw completely for the Palestinian territory.Al

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Brilliance as a flow chart.Check out the link if you ever spent an afternoon humming along with Ice Cube, back in the day...

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In my opinion, nothing does more to undermine the arguments of the pro-Israel faction than their constant accusations of "Anti-Semitism" against those who would disagree with them. Not only does this stifle any semblance of intelligent and civilized dialogue, it unfairly clouds the reputations of those who seek truth and discourse while trivializing real anti-Semitism, which sadly still exists

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Some of the best commentary I've ever heard from Chris Matthews. Mr. Bush, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

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From today's New York Times, hardly a dependable source for objective information about the Israeli/Gaza conflict, information about another attack by Israeli Defense Forces against the United Nations Relief & Works Agency. Today Israeli forces are alleged to have attacked UNRWA Headquarters with white phosphorus shells - a clear violation of international law and an action that deserves serious

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Musicians, hip hop artists, poets, and visual artists concerned about the ongoing attacks on Gaza are coming together for two public performance events this Sunday, January 18th, in the spirit of Martin Luther King weekend, to highlight the dire human rights violations in Gaza. Featuring video messages from Palestinian musicians Shadia Mansour and DAM. The events will be "bridged" by a Subway

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The Oakland district attorney's office decided to do the right thing and charge Johannes Mehserle with murder, in the death of Oscar Grant. Source:Mehserle was arrested Tuesday evening at a home on Skyland Drive in the Zephyr Cove area near Lake Tahoe, authorities said.The ex-officer is being held in connection with the shooting of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old supermarket worker from Hayward who

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Source:More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's 19-day war in Gaza, Palestinian medical officials have said, as clashes continue throughout the Strip.Civilians make up about 40 per cent of casualities with children accounting for a third of the dead, aid agencies and Palestinian medics said.At least 4,630 people have been injured, Hasanein Myawaya, the head of Palestinian

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SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS COUNCIL ON GOALS FOR MIDDLE EAST TRIPHighlights of the Noon Briefing: Tuesday, January 13, 2009• Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefed the Security Council in closed consultations this morning on his visit to the Middle East, which will take him over the coming week to Egypt, Israel, the occupied Palestinian territory, Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria and Kuwait. Council

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From the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace comes a less than reassuring report on the silly spending habits of American government. Yeah, I know, it's a real big shocker.The United States spent over $52 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs in fiscal year 2008, but only 10 percent of that went toward preventing a nuclear attack and slowing the proliferation of nuclear weapons

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Source:US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was left shame-faced after President George W. Bush ordered her to abstain in a key UN vote on the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday."She was left shamed. A resolution that she prepared and arranged, and in the end she did not vote in favour," Olmert said in a speech in the southern town of Ashkelon.The UN Security Council

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Source:Human Rights Watch has called on Israel to stop using white phosphorus which it says has been used in military operations in the densely populated Gaza Strip.The US-based group said that its researchers observed the use of the chemical, which can burn away human flesh to the bone, over Gaza City and Jabalya on Friday and Saturday."We went by Israeli artillery units that had white

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"Yes, every nation has the right to defend it's people; Israel is no exception, all the moreso because Hamas would like to see every Jew in Israel dead. But brute force can turn self-defense into state terrorism. It's what the U.S. did in Vietnam with B-52's and napalm and again in Iraq with 'Shock & Awe.' By killing indiscriminately - the elderly, kids, entire families - by destroying schools

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If these pandering assholes knew half of what was really going on, their tiny little heads would explode.There are not enough politicians like Ron Paul, Keith Ellison and Dennis Kucinich - who actually educate themselves on issues and take a nuanced approach to policy-making. Unlike their sheep colleagues who are so afraid of losing the funding of Israeli lobbyists, or being called "Anti-Semite"

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The first instance actually happened in the morning of New Year's Day, but I neglected to post about it until now. You might as well see it for yourself.What can you possible say to that? Excuses have been made on behalf of the officer: his wife was due to deliver a baby and he hadn't slept; he was reaching for his taser and not his pistol. But the fact is, Oscar Grant was not - and is still

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Juan Cole lends some perspective:In 1996, Israeli jets bombed a UN building where civilians had taken refuge at Cana / Qana in south Lebanon, killing 102 persons; in the place where Jesus is said to have made water into wine, Israeli bombs wrought a different sort of transformation. In the distant, picturesque port of Hamburg, a young graduate student studying traditional architecture of Aleppo

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BAN KI-MOON CONDEMNS ISRAEL'S ATTACK ON U.N. AID CONVOY IN GAZA• Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemns the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) firing on a United Nations aid convoy in Gaza, the killing of two UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) contract workers and the injuring of another. Since the conflict began 13 days ago, four UNRWA local staff have been

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Khalid Rashidi, professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, injects a dose of truth into American mainstream media's discussion of the massacre in Gaza in today's New York Times:Nearly everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation,much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on

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Source:The United Nations aid agency has suspended its operations in the Gaza Strip in the wake of a series of Israeli attacks on its personnel and buildings."UNRWA decided to suspend all its operations in the Gaza Strip because of the increasing hostile actions against its premises and personnel," Adnan Abu Hasna, a Gaza-based spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said

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The following are excerpts from an extremely thorough and detailed article written by Avi Shlaim, professor of international relations at the University of Oxford and former member of the Israeli Army:Gaza is a classic case of colonial exploitation in the post-colonial era. Jewish settlements in occupied territories are immoral, illegal and an insurmountable obstacle to peace. They are at once

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Comments are now enabled. Let's see what, if anything, happens.

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Michael Scheuer is a former intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. During his 22 years of service, Scheuer acted as the Chief of the bin Laden Issue Station from 1996 to 1999 and as Special Advisor to the Chief of the bin Laden Unit from 2001 to 2004. He currently teaches a graduate level course on Al-Qaeda at Georgetown University.Osama bin Laden said in September of 2007: "

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From my vantage point, I see an unjust Israeli government - with the backing of a corrupt and ineffective Bush administration - waging a politically motivated war of attrition against an oppressed people.This war is waged in the guise of targeting a terrorist group, Hamas, that the United States government inadvertently legitimized into power by forcing premature free elections in Palestine - all

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Excerpted from the From the field blog, written by Augustus Richard Norton (previously quoted here in the past), a professor of international relations and anthropology at Boston University, and Sara Roy, a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University:Hamas’ strategic miscalculation in rejecting an extension to a six-month truce with Israel was a gift on

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement issued in his name following the noon briefing, said: "In the last day, three schools operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have been hit by nearby Israeli military strikes. A substantial number of civilians have been killed, particularly in the third strike, and many more have been injured. I am

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From yesterday's Daily Dish, written by Andrew Sullivan:Is the damage Hamas has inflicted on Israel "lasting, grave and certain"?Taking the vantage point of the conflict from May 2007 on, Hamas has fired several thousand Qassam rockets with such imprecision that no distinction between civilian and military targets is meaningful (which is to say they were all war crimes). Until the recent conflict

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Source:Israeli strikes have killed at least 40 people who took refuge inside a UN school in the Gaza Strip, medics have said.The strike on Tuesday hit a school run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, in the northern town of Jabaliya.Medical sources at two Gaza hospitals said two tank shells exploded outside the school, where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge from the

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Remarks made by George W. Bush on December 5, 2008 at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy:To earn the trust of Israeli leaders, we made it clear that no Palestinian state would be born of terror, we backed Prime Minister Sharon's courageous withdrawal from Gaza, and we supported his decision to build a security fence, not as a political border but to protect the people from terror.To help the

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Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz:Israel is now failing its own blood pipeline test. As Israel has been preoccupied with Gaza throughout the entire week, nobody has asked whose blood is being spilled and why. Everything is permitted, legitimate and just. The moral voice of restraint, if it ever existed, has been left behind. Even if Israel wiped Gaza off the face of the earth, killing tens of

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From today's Haaretz Daily.Barak's political fortunes seen rising with each missile that pounds Gaza by Roni Singer-HerutiThe Israel Defense Forces operation in Gaza has prompted a surge in the number of people volunteering at the Labor Party's campaign headquarters over the last week, party officials say.Thus far, the operation has been very popular with the public, and most of the credit has

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Parks And What You Meant To M...

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Source.In the Arab world, shoe flinging is a gesture of extreme disrespect. A notable occurrence of this gesture happened in Baghdad, Iraq in 2003. When U.S. forces pulled down a giant statue of Saddam Hussein during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, many Iraqi detractors of Hussein threw their shoes at the fallen statue.The shoe represents the lowest part of the body (the foot) and displaying or

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Well, it's pretty much official; Carsten Charles Sabathia will sign a 7-year, $161 million contract to sign with the New York Yankees.Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo.While the Yankees signing was always considered inevitable, the burst of media-driven hype about Sabathia and the San Francisco Giants in the days leading up to the signing had me believing that my Giants actually had a chance at inking

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Jayson Stark, why do you tease me so? The mustachioed low-brow baseball writer for ESPN has this nugget of knowledge in his most recent column:It's been nearly three weeks since the Yankees offered CC Sabathia 140 million of their hard-earned YES Network/New Yankee Stadium dollars. You may have noticed that CC hasn't said yes.Yet.The Yankees still seem supremely confident that he will, one of

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Plaxico Burress is clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed. After a tumultuous four season run with the New York Giants, which has included a Super Bowl victory as well as nearly half a million dollars in total fines, Burress is probably headed to jail... for shooting himself in the leg with an illegal handgun.Source.A fuming Mayor Bloomberg said Monday he wants Giants player Plaxico Burress

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I never meant to make you a widowI never meant to change your lifeIf I had seen the truth predictedI wish you'd heard this cancer's liesI never meant to pass along these burdensThese days ahead could paralyzeWill I remember what they showed me?This grim facade of grimmer liesOne of these daysI'm going to kill somebodyOne of these daysYou're going to learn not to fuck with a killer like meOne of

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Source.Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds.That’s what unhappy people do.Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns out to be the single activity they engage in less often than unhappy people, said John Robinson, a professor of

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Carl Cameron reports, "We're told she didn't know what countries were in NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, that being Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. We're told that she didn't understand Africa was a continent, rather than a country in itself..."

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Gary Kamiya writes about how the electorate finally took back our mistreated, but still beautiful country:Today the embattled American people stood, and fired a shot heard 'round the world.Only rarely does one know that one is experiencing history while it happens. Barack Obama's victory is one of those occasions. This amazing day marks a decisive change, not just in America's politics but in its

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I look to the right and what do I see?Father Time wearing a mask and a harlot in heelsI take a step to the left and here comes a brotherWearing designer suits and diffusing colorsThis development has broken all assumptions once heldTogether by rope and xenophobic clustersMy man arrives on stage looking like a lecherWith a sidekick in pantsuits and caribou sweatersThey decry the devolving of

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I look to the right and what do I see?A faith-based lunatic; he represents meI take a step to the left and here comes another"I take communion also and I represent your brothers--"This tenement has broken all the windows once heldTogether by glue and shattered family structuresMy man arrives on stage as he prepares the lectureHe stands on the lectern, looking confident and strongWhile a bulge on

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John McCain and Sarah Palin, for weeks, have been using hateful rhetoric to appeal to the worst types of people - the worst of this country, the worst of humanity. Xenophobes and racists who demean people for looking different, with different sounding names and different colors of skin. People so wrapped up in their own selves and unable to look past their craven self-portraits in these

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Source.The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.The records

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Cigarette smoke is billowingAnd my entire outlook is pilloriedIf I had the option of catching my enemiesOr finding adventure in middle AmericaI have sand in my boots from chivalryCarrying the corpse of American libertyHer name dressed in soot, our trust is crimson redAnd this fragmented life in disarrayAn enemy afoot in constant revelryStealing from books and stealing everythingThese lines gone

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