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[Skeptic.com » eSkeptic] Skeptic » eSkeptic » Monday, September 11th, 2006: The revelations of Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and other nefarious schemes great and small have understandably eroded public confidence in government. Couple that with an administration, that took office after the most .

[The Confluence] Carville: If this party has a message they did a hell of a job ...: Leach used his Banking Committee chairmanship (make that abused) for THREE YEARS investigating the Mena airport hoax which accused Clinton of being involved with the smuggling of cocaine ! (This was particularly bizarre since the Mena cocaine smuggling was actually part of the Reagan/Bush Iran Contra scandal!)

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: worse than Watergate, worse than Iran-contra." But most media outlets have reserved judgment as the search for WMDs in Iraq continues.While Bush narrowly escaped being dragged into Enron, it was not, in any event, his doing. But the war in Iraq is all Bush's doing, and it is appropriate that he be held accountable.

[NO QUARTER] An Update on the Michelle Obama Rant : NO QUARTER: this blog….I said that prompted by language used by commenters - and some bloggers - here, there would be a file created and if need be, a report made .I do know that they are producing a report on racism in the presidential primaries, particularly among HRC surrogates.

[IntentBlog] Open Thread : IntentBlog: It looked like Phil Angelides finally caught fire Friday in his campaign for governor when he received a genuinely enthusiastic reception from several hundred USC students and other supporters at a rally in front of the university’s Doheny Library. Getting noticed isn’t easy when your opponent is a movie-star incumbent who, even when he’s caught groping women or talking eugenics trash, is merely excused as a naughty bad boy.

[The Swamp] I believe I'll dust my broom: The Swamp: OK, I admit I'm really burned out on Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., and particularly Ben Stiller, but this movie was pretty damn funny--a lot of not so subtle references to Platoon and other war classics, ripping satire, a laugh riot. Nick Nolte was choice as Four Leaf Tayback and RD Jr's performance was priceless.

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Oderint, dum metuant: It grew out of his study of village based economics, which he later termed “Buddhist Economics.” He faults conventional economic thinking for failing to consider the most appropriate scale for an activity, blasts notions that “growth is good”, and that “bigger is better,” and questions the appropriateness of using mass production in developing countries, promoting instead “production by the masses.” Schumacher was one of the first economists to question the appropriateness of using GNP to measure human well being, emphasizing that “the aim ought to be to obtain the maximum amount of well being with the minimum amount of consumption.”

[Counterknowledge.com] 15 questions for truthers: a final response to Stewart Bradley ...: There it was made abundantly plain Treblinka was nothing less than a deliberate attempt to hoodwink the reader into believing the book was a real work of history”¦ Many formerly sympathetic and supportive scholars and journalists now complain bitterly of having been intentionally deceived by Steiner and his novel-as-true-history on the Treblinka concentration camp”¦ What he and others insisted in the book’s Introduction, Preface, and Afterword was a scholarly chronicle of certain tragic events had, in fact, been a melodramatic novel”¦ When he wrote the most important part of his book”¦ Steiner had finally to confess that he relied almost solely on his own imagination.”

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