Blue Blogs: Worthy Mentions from the Liberal Blogosphere

Digby's Hullabaloo: 'Impeachment'Has there ever been a president who deserved it more? I don't think so.Looking at this as someone who believes that until we hold them accountable fortheir crimes, these zombie crooks will keep doing this over and over again untilour country is unrecognizable, my instinct is to scream it from the rafters. ButI'm still not convinced that the Democrats should try to impeach. The problemfor me is threefold and it has nothing to do with the merits of the case or thedesirability of doing it. It's about the political landscape. ReadOn...

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ThinkProgress: 'Snow Stonewalls On Possible Involvement OfCheney In Libby Pardon' A recent Washington Post exposé on Dick Cheneyrevealed that the vice president often gives secret guidance to President Bushthat frequently dictates the president’s final decision on key issues. Thismorning on CNN, Joe Wilson said the Post series was an affirmation of Cheney’snegative influence throughout the administration. “I see the fine hand of DickCheney everywhere. I admit my bias on that,” he said. “But of course I read‘The Washington Post’ four-part series last week, and I’ve seen the handof the vice president in the trail of the covert identity of a CIA officer, ashave the rest of the world now.”.. ReadOn...

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Treasure ofBaghdad: 'Fake Your Sect to Fool Militias' Iraqi Sunni youths havestarted an electronic campaign to protect themselves from Shiite militias.Faking faith to fool death squads is not a new phenomenon. It started after theincreased reprisal killings in the aftermath of the al-Qaeda’s terroristsbombed the Holy Shrine in Sammara when Shiites militias stormed houses andstreets and kidnapped and killed innocent Sunni people to avenge the bombing.The campaign included an extensive instructional email that containedinstructions to Sunni people of how to dissemble themselves like Shiites so thatin case they are kidnapped, militias release them believing they are Shiites. ReadOn, With Video...

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TPM Muckraker: Ididn't know which story to choose, so I direct you to TPM'smain page for a slew of "tonySNOWjobs". (4 of them, with video)

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BoingBoing:'More on Google vs Sicko'AGoogle employee has clarified her offer to use Google's services to defuse theimpact of Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko. Lauren Turner is the "accountplanner, health" for Google, and she made headlines with a post on theGoogle Health Advertising Blog where she offered the healthcare industry achance to run ads for anti-Sicko sites alongside Google searches for "sicko."

Today, Turner posted a clarification,stating that her opinions of Moore's movie were her own, and not Google's, andreaffirming the use of advertising to "handle challenges," calling it"a very democratic and effective way to participate in a publicdialogue." She went on to say that this view of advertising is the officialGoogle policy, though reiterating that Google is silent on the questions raisedby Moore's movie. ReadOn...

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NewsHounds: 'O'Reilly's "Shut up!" = Malkin's "Stop, stop,stop!" ' Bill O'Reilly better watch out and stop all the vacationingbecause guest host Michelle Malkin is mastering all his slick interviewtechniques. She over talked, monopolized, controlled the permissible language,and in so many words told her guest to shut up. ReadOn with video... (WARNING: as usual, abarf bag may be necessary...but I just has to)

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Military.com: 'Army Orders Thousands More MRAPs' (Mine Resistant AmbushProtected Vehicles)

ARLINGTON, Va. — Get ready for 2008: the year of the MRAP.

The Army plans to buy up to 17,700 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles,known as MRAPs, which have proved to take blasts from roadside bombs much betterthan up-armored Humvees. While the Army estimates that it won’t be until July2009 that all of the MRAPs could be manufactured, the Army wants to send as manyas possible downrange next year, said Army spokesman, Lt. Col. Carl Ey.“It’s important that the Army supports the warfighter as quickly and asefficiently as possible,” Ey said. Readon...

My 2 Cents: RE: MRAPs. I posted this solely for the support of ourtroops. The troops should have had these from the start instead of the sardinecans they had. To take that one step further, we should have had these ready tobe used for a "necessary" war.

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I found another "2 cents": The blogosphere ishumming with Libby's pardon and I hope this becomes the straw which gets some ofthe bastards "called on the carpet"

Photo: Courtesy of my artistic cynical side.