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    they just keep wanking away, and hope we won’t notice

    From Glenn Greenwald this morning:

    Just as Nancy Pelosi ran to Time to justify her support for the FISA bill, Steny Hoyer yesterday spouted his justifications to The Politico and said this:

    In an interview with Politico on Monday, Hoyer called the FISA legislation a “significant victory” for the Democratic Party — one that neutralized an issue Republicans might have been able to [...]



    Thinking about Food and Food for Thought

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    Above is an audio segment of The Conversation from KUOW Public Radio up in Puget Sound. The first 41 minutes deals with current food issues. At around the 41 minute mark, there is a conversation with Craig Salins, Executive Director of Washington Public [...]



    democratic anklegrabbing redux (part 74,392 in an infinite series)

    The dems have achieved yet another mobius reach-around, servicing the Republicans while the GOP fucks the rest of us:

    Breaking months of acrimonious deadlock, House and Senate leaders from both parties have agreed to a bill that gives the nation’s spy agencies the power to turn a wide swath of domestic communication companies into intelligence-gathering operations, and that puts an end to court [...]