Yesterday, the House defeated the Schiff amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2007. This amendment would have prohibited funds from being used to violate FISA, thus using the power of the purse to end This Administration's illegal spying on Americans. It failed, 207 to 219.

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Kagro X has put up a couple diaries on Guerrilla Marketing. Then Maryscott OConnor put up a diary called Slouching Toward Kristallnacht.

These two diaries intersected somewhere in my head and I had (possibly) an original thought! What Mayer in MSOC's diary points out is that few protested or did anything to stem the rising tide of fear in Nazi Germany. What did people come to fear? Being associated with Jews. Well, it's Muslims this time.

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Hi there, BlackBoxVoting fans and anti-Diebold workers! It's December 2 now and we all know that the BBV/Harri Hursti hack was supposed to go down on November 30. I'm sorry to report that it didn't happen.

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Usual caveat: I did the usual searches, but tell me this has already been diaried and I'll probably delete.

James Ridgeway of the Village Voice posits that Kaine's success was due to his ties to Warner and the DLC. Warner of course was a big factor, but this is the first I've heard of a DLC connection. Anything to it?

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I know it's been a few days since the Gaza pullout, but it takes me a bit to digest things. The ANSWER diaries today galvanized me a bit. Immediately after the Israeli pullout, Palestinians celebrated:
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You may have noticed that the same media folks who were willingly spoonfed This Administration's lies about Iraq are now devouring and regurgitating the new lies about Iran. Don't these guys ever learn anything?

Gordon Prather has an article over at antiwar.com that documents how This Administration is spinning its latest hate campaign in the war against Eurasia. Dr. Prather is a physicist and noted policy wonk. CV in the article sidebar.

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The full dyslexic quote from Representative Rick Larsen's (D-WA) letter to my wife is also disingenuous given his support for the Bankruptcy Bill:

This, while Larsen stands in opposition to his grassroots and to his Party. This week, the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Washington State unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Bankruptcy Bill and urging all Democratic legislators to oppose it. Representative Larsen, a DLC and NDC member, intends to ignore this resolution and his party.

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This diary is not about Terri Schiavo. Nobody Knows is a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda that purports to be about 4 children living on their own in Tokyo. However, it's a political allegory about all of us, living in a world in which we are ill-equipped to survive. We lack the discipline, the knowledge, and the skills to stay alive in a world that most of us don't understand and cannot understand. The film is based on a true story.

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This appeared as a comment in a previous diary, but in view of the PropaGannon interest, I thought it deserved a more thorough look.

It seems that the Pentagon, in the guise of "public interest" is running a propaganda channel on the DISH Network.

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Let's make Bush's attack on Social Security the Right Wing's Stalingrad. Some things have coalesced in my mind after reading this piece by Max J. Castro in the Progreso Weekly.

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Long ago when I raised my right hand and took an oath to defend the United States of America, I understood that I took an oath to subject myself to discipline. I would do what I was told, and when on duty, do only what I was told. There would be no need to question. I put my faith in the chain of command; that I would receive only legal, meaningful orders, that advanced the cause of my country and my army.