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Guantánamo Detainees To Be Heard Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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Presidential Debate Liveblog Part 3
What we’ve learned so far: all we need to do is cut earmarks and spending and everything will be awesome. The Surge is awesome. Wind power is awesome. Tax cuts are awesome. Petraeus is awesome. I did like Obama’s series of “you were wrongs” about Iraq. But generally I think he’s letting McSame getting away with way too much bullshit.

What we’ve learned so far: all we need to do is cut earmarks and spending and everything will be awesome. The Surge is awesome. Wind power is awesome. Tax cuts are awesome. Petraeus is awesome.

I did like Obama’s series of “you were wrongs” about Iraq. But generally I think he’s letting McSame getting away with way too much bullshit.

Stylistically speaking, Obama seems to be speaking a bit too quickly, and McSame generally appears to be having a better time. I don’t know how that’s translating out there in TV land, but it’s worrisome.

We’ll see how they close.

How to Talk to Teens About Sex
There are many ways of helping young people navigate these years of sexual exploration. Just don’t forget you were once a teen yourself.

Franken Ad: “I’m Not Proud Of Every Joke I’ve Ever Told”
Check out this new ad from Al Franken, responding to an attack ad from Republican Sen. Norm Coleman that hit him for telling “tasteless, sexist jokes” and writing “juicy porn” as a comedian: “Look, I’m not proud of every joke…

Don’t Hide the Fudge!
Okay, this one’s just for fun. You know, John McCain’s been having a rough few days on the image and message front. Had to cancel the visit to New Orleans and the Gulf Oil rig because of the recent oil…

Leadership! Experience! Change!

Good thing McCain dropped everything to go to Washington:

Mr. Boehner pressed an alternative that involved a smaller role for the government, and Mr. McCain, whose support of the deal is critical if fellow Republicans are to sign on, declined to take a stand.

Grueling Prep Work Precedes Critical Clash
At 9 p.m. tonight, John McCain and Barack Obama will stride across the stage of the University of Mississippi’s performing arts center in Oxford, shake hands and take up positions behind lecterns whose height was negotiated by the two candidates’ lawyers. Jim Lehrer of PBS will ask Obama, stage l…

Two Bills Aim for the Skies
As it prepares to adjourn, Congress is close to passing and sending to President Bush two bills aimed at keeping American astronauts flying to the international space station during a five-year gap when NASA will have no manned spacecraft of its own capable of reaching the $100 billion orbiting…

Mahmoud’s in a New York State of Mind
Iranian “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects American ideas — all of our ideas, that is, but nuclear fusion. When Ahmadinejad told a crowd at Columbia University in 2007 that the United States must investigate “who was truly involved” in 9/11, students may have confused the speech with ethnic studies class. There should be no confusion.

The Secret War on Dollar
WASHINGTON — On Wednesday night, President Bush addressed the nation in an effort to persuade Congress to pass a bill to reduce the risk to major financial institutions and to safeguard American families and businesses. On Thursday, he met with Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama and other congressional leaders to build a consensus plan for bailing out our financial system. The potentates on the Potomac now are pondering the price tag for saving Wall Street. Unfortunately, corrupt officials in other nations’ capitals are also hard at work — undermining what’s left of the U.S. dollar by printing and distributing their own versions of American currency. Counterfeiting another nation’s legal tender is not only a crime but also an act of aggression. During World War II, Adolf Hitler produced British bank notes to destabilize the U.K. Mao Zedong used phony money to undermine Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government through inflation. The Soviets created passable replicas of African and European monetary instruments to damage local economies. But no one ever has engaged in the kind of economic warfare against the United States as effectively or on such a scale as is being waged now by the regimes in Pyongyang, North Korea, and Tehran, Iran.

Obama 286—McCain 252 (270 Needed to Win)

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After the debates Obama’s Numbers should go even higher. Don’t forget we need a big cushion to overcome the all the vote stealing the Republicans will do. Come on Barack, take off the gloves tonight and give that idiot and his pig the beating of their livesl

Late Late Nite FDL: Wake-Up, America!
Featuring the words of Dennis Kucinich, Barney Smith, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Music, Star Spangled Banner, by Jimi Hendrix.

Wake-Up, America!

Featuring the words of Dennis Kucinich, Barney Smith, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Music, Star Spangled Banner, by Jimi Hendrix.

Demand Change Now.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Sex on the Beach: What 80s Bikini Comedies Tell Us About Gender and Class
Though 1980s beach films seem objectifying and antifeminist, they offer a utopian space where class and gender hierarchies begin to dissolve.

Should we let communities “be themselves”?
“We don’t need more diverse communities, maybe, we just need to let communities be themselves, without interference beyond making sure that the basics of human rights and health are respected and cared for.”Well, that’s an option — one that, apparently,…

Heartening
According to this post by Matt Stoller at OpenLeft, every major Democratic senate challenger this year (judged by very expansive criteria) supports Net Neutrality….

Leadership! Experience! Change!

Good thing McCain dropped everything to go to Washington:

Mr. Boehner pressed an alternative that involved a smaller role for the government, and Mr. McCain, whose support of the deal is critical if fellow Republicans are to sign on, declined to take a stand.

Bush’s former Treasury Secretary: ?I don?t think Bush understands? the financial crisis.
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said President Bush is “in a panic” over the financial crisis and isn’t well-equipped to deal with it. “I don’t think he understands or knows much about any of this and it shows,” O’Neill told ABC News. In his 2004 book, The Price of Loyalty, O’Neill revealed that Dick Cheney […]

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said President Bush is “in a panic” over the financial crisis and isn’t well-equipped to deal with it. “I don’t think he understands or knows much about any of this and it shows,” O’Neill told ABC News. In his 2004 book, The Price of Loyalty, O’Neill revealed that Dick Cheney argued in a White House meeting that “deficits don’t matter.” O’Neill also said that he was disturbed that Bush was so disengaged on domestic issues.

Obama Addresses the Clinton Global Initiative
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It’s great to speak to you this morning. I’m sorry that I can’t be there, but I did enjoy the opportunity to sit down with President Clinton recently in New York. He has helped to create a model for individual responsibility and collective action th…

Attorney for Stevens Tells Jurors Alaska Senator ‘Is Honest,’ Did Not Lie
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R) paid every bill sent to him for extensive renovations of his home and did not lie on financial disclosure forms, his attorney told jurors yesterday, as testimony began in the first trial of a sitting U.S. senator in more than two decades.

Debates Reinforce Public Perceptions
WASHINGTON — “Honesty, vigor, compassion, intelligence — the presence or lack of these and other qualities make up what is called the candidate’s ‘image,’” the commentator wrote. “While some intellectuals and politicians may scoff at these ‘images’ — and while they may in fact be based only on a candidate’s TV impression, ignoring his record, views and other appearances — my own conviction is that these images or impressions are likely to be uncannily correct.” The writer was Sen. John F. Kennedy. The publication was TV Guide and the date was Nov. 14, 1959.

Dr. Frankenstein’s Wall Street
When the mortgage bubble burst, Americans were “shocked” at how many Wall Street buccaneers had been gambling in a vast pyramid scheme with someone else’s money. Paper fortunes were made buying and selling questionable sub-prime mortgages on the silly assumption that such gargantuan inside profiting would always expand — even as the number of homebuyers able to buy overpriced properties was shrinking. Now after the recent crash in sub-prime mortgages and the stock of several investment firms, a trillion dollars in “assets” could be nearly worthless. An already indebted American government must restore some sort of trust to banks and markets by either printing money or borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars from foreign creditors to guarantee loans.

McCain is on the ropes, he’s going down, and he is desperate, so what does he do. Runs back to Washington becuase he is too chicken to debate Obama, he knows the carnage would be devastating for him. Not to mention what would happen to the pig with lipstick when Biden got through with her. He even punked out on Letterman. Dave wasn’t too happy, the show went on without the doddering old Keating 5 dude. Check out Dave.

Late Late Nite FDL: King of the Road

Dean Martin and Roger Miller with King of The Road performed on The Dean Martin Show.  

What’s on your mind tonight?

Dean Martin and Roger Miller with King of The Road performed on The Dean Martin Show.  Thank you, Eureka Springs, for covering for me while on my road trip.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Overnight
Rock on.

Wall Street Takes Welfare It Begrudges to Ordinary Americans
Why is it that the rich and reckless accept “welfare” for themselves while rejecting it for those who need it most, particularly woman.

World writes open letter to McCain
EARTH, July 25, 2008 — The entire world drafted an open letter to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) today, asking him to drop out of the U.S. presidential race and concede the presidency to Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois). “Ordinarily we do…

Obama In Berlin
The speech: Late Update: TPM Election Central analyzes the speech here….