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A week after McCain asked for my vote*, Obama plans to do the same. Perhaps with tea that's less weak?

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Glenn Greenwald describes his latest book, now out in paperback (makes a great gift!):
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Nice guys do finish first sometimes.

"Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday.

Mr. Krugman received the award for his work on international trade and economic geography. ..."

On his blog, The Conscience of a Liberal , he says: Read below the fold...

holy shit. i almost got ill when i saw this.

i believe this belongs in the "Read it and Weep" department.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/10/ar...

(i presume everyone here is aware of the fact that since October 1, we have an active military unit stationed here in the US for domestic operations, under the control of NorthCom.) Read below the fold...

Invictus has the details, but the "Camp Delta" torture policy from Guantanamo Bay has been posted online now. It's breathtakingly unadorned, and if a USAF commanding officer is willing to put a signature on this ... silk-wrapped excrement ... then impeachment is far too mild a fate for Bush, Cheney and their cohort of criminals, for not only have they destroyed our armed forces with their calumny, they have dishonored our officers and enlisted corps with their viciousness. Read below the fold...

Evidently LaDanian Tomlinson isn't the only guy on the Chargers offense, in spite of what those Vizio commercials imply. Of course, a career with 11K plus yards isn't too shabby, either -- and his is not yet over. Read below the fold...

ABC's John Berman, Ursula Fahy, Matt Jaffe and Sunlen Miller :

At the onset, Obama disappointed the crowd – telling them that his wife would not be speaking today.

""Michelle decided she wasn’t going to speak today. She just wanted to sit there and look cute. That’s okay," he joked (much to Michelle’s dismay?), "It’s okay with me!"

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"This election is too important to sit on the sidelines of history," said the former first lady, calling on her legions of working class and women voters to take up the banner of the man who beat her.

"It took a Democratic president to clean up after the last president Bush, it's going to take a Democratic president to clean up after this President Bush," Clinton said in a working-class corner of swing-state Pennsylvania.

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A little less triumphalism, please:

Even longtime Republicans are deciding that Obama is the right leader in face of the economic troubles that loom over the country.

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What's wrong with her?

I know! She wants to help homeowners. That's what's wrong with her. Anyhow, they're probably racist. Read below the fold...

With apologies to those who commented on the earlier version of this post, when the photograph I had posted changed to a completely different photo, negating the meaning of my post, I took it down.

But as I said before, the Cowboys apparently cannot have it all. Given that I would have dropped the ball in the situation pictured below, I'm sure, I can't really say anything about today's result except it's got to get better after this:

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Since I've adopted Goldman Sachs as my parasite, I'm learning all sorts of interesting things about them! For example, in his capacity of Secretary of the Treasury, former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson might bail out Goldman Sachs. Say, you think his old firm will take him back when he returns to the dreaded private sector? Bloomberg: Read below the fold...

Hey, it was the economy, stupid! Like (lambert blushes modestly) some of us were saying. McClatchy:

Barring a dramatic change in the political landscape over the next three weeks, Democrats appear headed toward a decisive victory on Election Day that would give them broad power over the federal government.

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So, if we the taxpayers are going to start buying (er, "injecting capital into") the big banks, shouldn't we be getting voting shares? Angry Bear asks a good question:

I wonder whom we are saving here?

In his remarks on Friday, [Paulson] carefully noted that the government would acquire only “nonvoting” shares in companies.

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Go read Michael Pollan's letter to the President elect immediately.

Great, great stuff. Read below the fold...