19th
November
2008
links for 2008-11-19
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7th
November
2008
Dude, he’s Muslim–that’s how we do.
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29th
October
2008
links for 2008-10-29
- YouTube - Charles Barkley on PoliticsAlabaman aspirations at 2:50.
[Campbell] Brown: So are you going to run for governor?
Barkley: I plan on it in 2014.
Brown: You are serious.
Barkley: I am, I can’t screw up Alabama.
Brown: There is no place to go but up in your view?
Barkley: We are No. 48 in everything and Arkansas and Mississippi aren’t going anywhere.
(tags: CharlesBarkley politics humor alabama)
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26th
October
2008
links for 2008-10-26
- A Scholar’s Boat Tour Offers New View of Istanbul - NYTimes.com
- Talking Business - So When Will Banks Give Loans?
"It is starting to appear as if one of Treasury’s key rationales for the recapitalization program — namely, that it will cause banks to start lending again — is a fig leaf, Treasury’s version of the weapons of mass destruction. In fact, Treasury wants banks to acquire each other and is using its power to inject capital to force a new and wrenching round of bank consolidation."
(tags: finance fallacies bailout HenryPaulson GeorgeWBush government loans law)
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25th
October
2008
links for 2008-10-25
- Service: The New Yorker
Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan.
(tags: ElshebaKhan KareemRashadSultanKhan Platon politics war photography iraq NewYorker american BarackObama ColinPowell history art islam) - Notes From a Small Town - Tom Bodett
“I’ve lived in small towns my whole life – in the Midwest, in Alaska, and now in New England. Contrary to popular belief, I’m not a more decent person because of rural life, but I act more decently than I probably would if I didn’t have to see these people again.”
(tags: blogs humor politics culture urban rural Americana falsehoods wedge_issues civility)
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16th
October
2008
links for 2008-10-16
- CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos
George Tenet insisted in 2003 and 2004 on receiving written approval from the White House of waterboarding and other “controversial interrogation techniques” that the CIA had begun to use in 2002. These newly-acknowledged memos sure make Condi look like a baldfaced liar.
(tags: politics GeorgeWBush military iraq intelligence GeorgeTenet CIA CondiRice WashingtonPost war)
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