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Monday, October 29, 2007

Happy Halloween!

Posted by Blue Girl, Red State at 10/29/2007 09:40:00 PM

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Hissy Fits & Greatest Hits

• I wonder if George saw a hint of this when he looked into Pootie-Poot's soul? - linked at Reuters
• Finally! - linked at Political Animal
• Annapolis - linked at the Salon blog Report
• Reining in the mercenaries - linked at The Wall Street Journal
• Recruiting year off to a slow start - linked at the Salon Blog Report & the Carpetbagger Report
• Political Prosecutions: they are not just for the DoJ any more! - linked at Wall Street Journal online
• Army to review Iraq contracts for fraud - linked at Political Animal & CBS News
• I wonder what precipitated this? - linked by CorrentWire
• More Corruption, Delays and Overruns in the Iraq Embassy Project - linked at Crooks & Liars
• How stupid do Mitt and his minions think we are? - Linked at the Sideshow
• Forensics Say: Erik Prince is a F**king LIAR - linked at CNN & Brilliant at Breakfast
• Osprey deploys, but not without incident - linked at CNN
• "Worse than 1948" - linked at GulfNews.com
• Gates Blindsided...Again - linked at Slate.com
• Osprey deploys, but not without incident - linked at The Salon Blog Report
• Lots of stuff you wanted to know about Blackwater, but couldn't bring yourself to ask... - linked at Newshoggers
• TBI: Worse than we thought - linked at The Carpetbagger Report, The Wall Street Journal online & CNN Sphere (via WTWC)
• Operation: Move Those Goalposts! - linked at the Salon Blog Report
• The PR is surging along just fine - linked at Shakesville
• Countering the Petraeus Offensive that is coming to Congress in two short weeks - linked at The Newshoggers
• Cynicism About the Jordan Verdict - linked at Crooks & Liars
• Dick Cheney needs a muzzle, a sturdy chain...and a tranquilizer dart - linked at Informed Comment & The Des Moines Register
•Another bad day to be Maliki - Linked at the Salon Blog Report
•Just Consider the Source - Linked at Crooks & Liars
•Just the Beginning? - Linked at the Carpetbagger Report (WTWC) & LegalNewsline.com (BG,RS)
•Army recruiting and retention lagging for FY 2007 - Linked at Political Animal, The Salon Blog Report, The Carpetbagger Report & CBS News
•About that NIE...- Linked at the Salon Blog Report & Memeorandum
•Taking a step to right a wrong - Linked at Political Animal & Hullabaloo
•Unconscionable! - Linked at Jesus' General and Operation Yellow Elephant
•1735, Here We Come! - linked at Crooks & Liars; TENNESSEE GUERILLA WOMEN and Lawyers, Guns & Money
•Durbin to Cheney: “Go F#%K Yourself” - linked at the Salon Blog Report
•It was like watching a baby seal get clubbed, except I enjoyed it - Linked at OpEdNews
• Rudy has Picked his Running Mate - Linked at the Salon Blog Report
• Thirty Months for Scooter - Linked at the Salon Blog Report
• It's a miracle he can walk at all - Linked at the Salon Blog Report
• So Where do we go from here? - Linked at the Salon Blog Report
• Lots of Damage, but Precious Little Control - linked at the Salon Blog Report
• Where did this story go? - Linked at Crooks & Liars
• Political Prisoner - linked at Political Animal
• You know how I'm always saying it's a Bug Hunt? - linked at the Salon Blog Report
• GAO: Unsecured Munitions Responsible for Half of U.S. Casualties in Iraq - linked at Political Animal
• Sure would be nice to have a "Plan B" about now... - linked at the Salon Blog Report

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• Energy Resources and Our Future - by Rear Admiral Hiram G. Rickover
• War is a Racket - by Major General Smedley Butler
• I'm a fighting liberal - by Steve Gilliard
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• Drinking the Kool-Aid - by Pat Lang
• Dissent is Patriotic - by Fiona Morgan
• The Republic - by Plato
• Why I am not a Christian - by Bertrand Russell
• Candide - by François Marie Arouet de Voltaire
• John Locke - Views on Government
• Discourse on Method for Reasoning Well and for Seeking Truth in the Sciences - by René Descartes
• The Leviathan - by Thomas Hobbes
• The Law of Peoples - John Rawles
• The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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