Having a Great Time, Wish You Were all Here
Or
Throw the Bitch in the Ditch
When I am here in Crawford at Camp Casey, I almost feel sorry for George up there a couple of miles away from us in his protected Green Zone. He is protected from physical harm (which he need not fear from us) and he is protected from political harm. He doesn’t have to face people who disagree vehemently with his policies and who oppose his continued killing with every fiber of our beings. He is protected from the real world of pain and need. He has never had to face his failures or own up to anything. Really, are any of us surprised that he has been such a miserable failure in every way?

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Whole new bunch of Ji Lee’s free speech bubbles are up around the East Village.

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i-pod talk bubbles

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Nothing to Say

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Next Stop: Big Brother
One morning in late September 2005, Deborah Davis was riding the public bus to work. She was minding her own business, reading a book and planning for work, when a security guard got on this public bus and demanded that every passenger show their ID. Deb, having done nothing wrong, declined. The guard called in federal cops, and she was arrested and charged with federal criminal misdemeanors after refusing to show ID on demand.

On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether Deb and the rest of us live in a free society, or in a country where we must show “papers” whenever a cop demands them.

Wings of Justice Award

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I’ll go to jail to print the truth about Bush and al-Jazeera, by Boris Johnson (Editor of the Spectator)
There were those who believed the Government’s rubbish about Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. Then the WMD made their historic no-show… Some of us thought it was all about the dissemination of the institutions of a civil society – above all a free press, in which journalists could work without fear of being murdered. Then we heard about the Bush plan to blow up al-Jazeera…

Legal gag on Bush-Blair war row
Via MeFi

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The inflation of the Balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade is held next to the Museum of Natural History at 77th Street and Central Park West.

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Some of the crew involved in inflating the balloons.

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Charlie Brown bound.

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Big Bird drooping.

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Tired looking clown.

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Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.

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The Man Who Sold the War
Meet John Rendon, Bush’s general in the propaganda war
By JAMES BAMFORD in Rolling Stone

It was damning stuff — just the kind of evidence the Bush administration was looking for. If the charges were true, they would offer the White House a compelling reason to invade Iraq and depose Saddam. That’s why the Pentagon had flown a CIA polygraph expert to Pattaya: to question al-Haideri and confirm, once and for all, that Saddam was secretly stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

There was only one problem: It was all a lie. After a review of the sharp peaks and deep valleys on the polygraph chart, the intelligence officer concluded that al-Haideri had made up the entire story, apparently in the hopes of securing a visa.

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Report: Bush Talked of Bombing Al-Jazeera
A civil servant has been charged under Britain’s Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said Tuesday suggested that Prime Minister
Tony Blair persuaded President Bush not to bomb the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera.

BUSH PLOT TO BOMB HIS ARAB ALLY

Don’t Bomb Us – A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers

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