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For no apparent reason, we're voting for a President, not a VP, here are my best guesses for the VP slots on the Democratic and GOP tickets.

D - Daschle
R - Cantor

Anybody else wanna go on record before Friday?

If not, you forfeit the right to make fun of how wrong I was...

John Brummett writes about Bill Gwatney's funeral. Gwatney, the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, was gunned down at party headquarters last week by a disgruntled wingnut. I don't know if the shooter listened to right wing demagogues or not (the perp was killed by the police in the ensuing chase), but the incessant call to kill Democrats and liberals by the Limbutt, Coulter, and the like should stop. Now.

People that criticize Little Boots and Rove get jailed or put on No Fly lists, for crying out loud.

Rev. Vic Nixon introduced Gov. Mike Beebe as Mike Huckabee. The preacher was so horrified that he had to cover his face. It was no matter. It gave Beebe the opportunity to quip. He responded in kind by calling Rev. Nixon, an eminent Methodist minister, "monsignor." Beebe reminded that he wasn't the one on a diet.

It permitted Bill Clinton, who spoke next, to joke that he was certainly glad Rev. Nixon hadn't introduced him as President Bush.

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Some of you may remember from the Yahoo "titty board" days that I used to post a lot of links to "The Whiskey Bar". Billmon is a "Kos Alumnis" who had his own blog, then got tired of it. Lately, he's taken to posting an occasional diary on Kos, again. I read them whenever I see them.

Today, he explained why what's happened in Georgia is a symptom of the disease that will end America, or at least American domination.

We live with the illusion of democracy.

Welcome to post-Reagan, union-hating America.

Cinderella, others arrested in Disneyland labor protest

ANAHEIM, California (AP) -- Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked and loaded into police vans Thursday at the culmination of a labor protest that brought a touch of reality to the Happiest Place on Earth.

The arrest of the 32 protesters, many of whom wore costumes representing famous Disney characters, came at the end of an hour-long march to Disneyland's gates from one of three Disney-owned hotels at the center of a labor dispute.

Those who were arrested sat in a circle on a busy intersection outside the park holding hands until they were placed in plastic handcuffs and led to two police vans while hundreds of hotel workers cheered and chanted.

The protesters were arrested on a misdemeanor count of failure to obey a police officer and two traffic infractions, said Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim police. They were cited and released, Sgt. Chris Schneider said.

I'll re-post this to the top of the board every morning for a few days.

I set up the pick 'em on Saturday. If you don't know what "Pick 'em" is, you try to pick the winning teams every weekend, and this year I set it up to drop the 2 low scores so you can "be on vacation" to weekends and still win. There's room for 50 people. I don't anticipate we'll get anywhere near that many, so feel free to spread the sign up info (hit "Read more! »" or go here) far and wide.

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BBC News

A muslim nation with nukes and an alliance with the United States will soon be under new leadership. How will this affect their relationship with the rest of the muslim world, and specifically Afghanistan?

Has Bush's foreign policy (which amounts to "I've got my finger on the button. Do as I say or we'll kill you.") succeeded *anywhere*?

We were talking about Karl Marx and I quoted that famous "Religion is the opiate of the people" saying of his.
It doesn't translate well into Lao, and I probably won't repeat it.