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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 9:59 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 09:59

I was reading my treeware copy of the Washington Post this morning when I saw this photo of the delegates at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul:

Something jumped right out at me. Can you guess what it is? (I'll give you a hint after the jump.)

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Saturday February 23, 2008 · 3:57 AM PST

2008/02/23 · 03:57

I was browsing through my favorite blogs at 1:30 in the morning, and when I came to the Daily Kos front page I saw a photo of the new DKos tee-shirt now being offered for sale at the Daily Kos Online Store. For those of you who missed it, it looks like this:

This really caught my eye. I like the color scheme; the DKos orange is nicely understated on the grey, and the white lettering is very eye-catching. It's attractive and it's only $18.50. (But supplies are limited.)

I have one question though: Why is the guy holding up a large bloody knife?

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Do you like this shirt?

Yes! It's fantastic! I've already ordered three!

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No, sorry, it's so bad I'm writing my GBCW diary now.

13 votes

OMG, we're going to be CRITICIZED! That design HAS to be changed!

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Hmmph! This diary took five minutes of my life I will never get back.

22 votes

What shirt, exactly...?

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Pie

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I Thought I'd Been Autobanned Yesterday

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Saturday June 09, 2007 · 11:18 AM PDT

2007/06/09 · 11:18

Yesterday I had a really great comment I tried to post. It was for Jerome ah Paree's diary, Dammit people: it's 'a Paris', not 'Paris'. Evidently he was not satisfied with his three hundred recs in his tip jar, because he posted a whole bunch of other tip jars, each of which raked in what for me would be a month's worth of mojo. (Damn, Monsieur a Paris, you could take the next six months off and still keep your Trusted User status. Mine goes away if I oversleep.) Other people added their own tip jars, albeit with somewhat less success.

So I had this great idea (this is just great!): I would put up a tip jar of my own, sort of. Since the comment-to-be is now gone with the wind, I'll have to show a photo of what it would have looked like, to wit:

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Tuesday July 25, 2006 · 1:57 PM PDT

2006/07/25 · 13:57

Like everyone else, I've been scratching my head about what Israel hope to accomplish with the current campaign in Lebanon. Israel knows that air strikes won't work, that a ground offensive could hurt but not destroy Hezbollah, that the occupation of southern Lebanon would only lead to the drawn out misery of the first occupation of southern Lebanon (to say nothing about the West Bank and Gaza). Israel knows this. It knows this! Its military strategy makes no sense -- militarily.

But that is not Israel's objective. Israel, quite simply, wants to scare the shit out of everybody. Everybody. And not just scared, but scared shitless. The ultimate goal is nothing less than peace in the region - if not real peace, than at least secure borders.

Seen from that light, the campaign is working brilliantly.

I'll explain on the flip. Read More

New Massacre by US Troops: Oh God, Here We Go Again

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Friday June 30, 2006 · 8:57 AM PDT

2006/06/30 · 08:57

This is bad, folks. Very bad.

The AP is reporting that at least one US soldier has admitted that he and several of his comrades raped and murdered a young Iraqi woman and then killed the other three members of her family as well. They burned the rape victim's body, presumably to hide the evidence. Read More

In honor of Harry Reid & Independence Day (Nov. 1)

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Wednesday November 02, 2005 · 6:32 PM PST

2005/11/02 · 18:32

(Please forward to any fainthearted progressives and Joementum Democrats.)

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender....

Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, June 4, 1940

And if that doesn't stiffen the spine sufficiently... Read More

Why I'm celebrating Fitzmas - today!

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Thursday October 20, 2005 · 12:23 PM PDT

2005/10/20 · 12:23

Sure, we don't know what Fitzgerald will come out with. Maybe nothing. Maybe he will indict only Democrats! Maybe this whole thing will amount to a whole hill of nothing. Maybe, instead of fireworks, we will just see tumbleweeds rolling past while the wind howls in the background.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Y'know what? That's all the more reason to celebrate now! Read More

"Central Pillar of Iraq Policy Crumbling" - LA Times

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Sunday October 09, 2005 · 4:23 AM PDT

2005/10/09 · 04:23

The Sunday LA Times reports that many senior military and civilian officials have ~~stopped drinking the Kool-Aid~~ begun to recognize that the idea of defeating the Iraqi insurgency by implanting democracy might not work:

Senior U.S. officials have begun to question a key presumption of American strategy in Iraq: that establishing democracy there can erode and ultimately eradicate the insurgency gripping the country.

Reality is beginning to set in. The collapse of the myth that democracy is the cure for insurgency could bring about the final fall of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy.
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Condi Gets a Pass While FEMA Takes the Fall

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Wednesday September 07, 2005 · 11:35 AM PDT

2005/09/07 · 11:35

This morning's Washington Post has a front-page article by staff writer Elizabeth Williamson on how foreign offers of aid for the Katrina disaster were not accepted for days if at all:

Offers of foreign aid worth tens of millions of dollars -- including a Swedish water purification system, a German cellular telephone network and two Canadian rescue ships -- have been delayed for days awaiting review by backlogged federal agencies, according to European diplomats and information collected by the State Department.

The article blames these delays on FEMA:

Since Hurricane Katrina, more than 90 countries and international organizations offered to assist in recovery efforts for the flood-stricken region, but nearly all endeavors remained mired yesterday in bureaucratic entanglements, in most cases, at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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What's Wrong With This Picture?

The new DKos tee shirt made me do a double-take

I Thought I'd Been Autobanned Yesterday

Why Israel Is Crazy -- Like a Fox! (A Theory About Its Strategy)

New Massacre by US Troops: Oh God, Here We Go Again

In honor of Harry Reid & Independence Day (Nov. 1)

Why I'm celebrating Fitzmas - today!

"Central Pillar of Iraq Policy Crumbling" - LA Times

Condi Gets a Pass While FEMA Takes the Fall