Silvestre Reyes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, made an unequivocal allegation on NPR Saturday that the CIA "deliberately lied" to his panel on at least one occasion.  When asked if he believed the CIA had in fact violated the NSA, his response was "In my opinion, numerous times."

Pelosi had to walk back her statement due to lack of evidence, but according to Reyes, that is no longer a problem.

For this reason, the GOP would be fighting harder than anybody to keep em'.  A decent proof of why Mr. Beck is being entirely disingenuous when he says this.

heh, um.  I retract my comment.  Need to work on that reading comprehension.

I will use the standard "no coffee yet" excuse.

I think something is driving these people to the stores, in the midst of a recession, to  purchase  a life time supply of ammo.

NPR had a story on this issue Tuesday; a gun shop owner claimed that is exactly what is happening.  I have friends in law enforcement who say that even their departments are beginning to run into trouble obtaining ammunition.  

MP3 link, story link.

The Sun-Times is chopped liver?

Does anyone have any polling for the IL-5 primary this Tuesday?

to pay homage to its forebearer, something catchy related to soap.  Like saponi or sabon.  Or something derived from one of the more pleasing sounding soap operas like Hollyoaks, Brookside, Coronation, Hyperion, Eden, Goenkale etc.  Or one of these.  Or maybe something about boxes, although that's harder and has less pleasing connotations.  It's really cool that you're doing this; I think it has the potential to be very good for the progressive blog community.

Discussion and community participation is IMO by far the most important part of these sorts of sites, and leveraging the size of a healthy community to moderate itself is invaluable.  Although I know it's very flexible, I've always thought of Drupal as a more "top-down" CMS.  Nearly every sute built with it follows the traditional blog paradigm: A small number of admins post stories, with user interaction limited to posting comments.  Can you point me to any drupal modules or existing sites that provide for the kind of segmented structure that exists here and on dailykos (i.e. a frontpage run by site administrators with a secondary area for users to post diaries)?  Ditto for a more robust comment and moderation system, with user rating and ajax submissions.  This isn't a dig on drupal, I'm genuinely curious to know if there are any existing dkos clones built with it.

this diary is a 'horrid tableau' for your rape of rational discourse.

that's my feeling -- unlike GA he would likely campaign heavily here if the race became close.  

Oh, yeah!  he uses ORC as an abbreviation.  Is it the same username?  This makes me so fake-nostalgic for the days when we didn't have to invent reasons to fight with one another and it wasn't quite so obvious who was intentionally sowing discord and who was genuinely pissed about BHO-HRC issues.  Halcyon days, those were :P

I'm proud of we Obama supporters' restraint in not dredging up the many, many statements made here that Obama was a fundamentally inadequate candidate totally incapable of winning the general, but this kind of post makes it tempting.  The fact that it's transparently in bad faith does help.

Isn't it bizarre that the name Saxb(e|y) has popped up in the senate more than once?  I think that Chambliss' distinctive name probably nets him 2-3 points in any election he runs in; see the SNL commentary:

It looks like one to me, albeit with a somewhat randomized step length.

Ontopic: I couldn't help but be reminded of that one troll who would always call Hillary 'ole Rodham-Clinton,' occasionally slurring the 'ole' out to great length.  Does anyone remember his user name?  I could use a laugh this morning.

Neither of them is going to usher in a new golden age where everyone has cheap healthcare, the war in Iraq has ended, and gas is $1.50 a gallon.