* Story Highlights
* U.S.-led coalition forces and Mehdi Army militiamen clash in Baghdad’s Sadr City
* Three-hour clash left at least eight people dead and 10 others wounded
* Not known if killed and wounded were civilians or members of the Mehdi Army
* Vehicle ban for Baghdad moved up from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. to curtail bomb attacks

From CNN’s Mohammed Tawfeeq
CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Forty people have been killed in a military raid and street fighting across Baghdad’s Sadr City, the capital’s volatile Shiite slum, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Wednesday.

Iraqi and coalition troops overnight killed 32 militants in Sadr City — most of them in an airstrike — in an operation targeting a cell with alleged links to Iran, the U.S. military said. Twelve others were detained in the raid.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com…..digby.html

It’s heart wrenching. What my country has become is f*&king heart wrenching.

I want America back.

A federal judge has opened the floodgates for almost 2,000 pages of reports and documents on police surveillance of groups and individuals involved in protests during the 2004 Republican National Convention, the New York Times reports.

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Coffee may slow memory declines in women: study

(frowny face added by me)

But it does seem to help with immediate memory :)

What does? ;)

Coffee may slow memory declines in women: study

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helped protect older women against some age-related memory decline, French researchers said on Monday, giving women more reason to love the world’s most popular stimulant.

Men did not enjoy the same benefit, they said. :(

(frowny face added by me)

But it does seem to help with immediate memory :)

The “liberal” media and to a certain degree the GOP(since they do have the media presence) is picking Hillary for us. They want her to run because they think that she’ll be easy to trash and easy to beat. Besides,they’ve still got all that Arkansas Project infrastructure they can use. They’ll dredge it all back up again and the whole thing will be the Clenis and Vince Foster all over again. And lots of conservative”values voters” will show up JUST for The Spite Vote,to vote against her.

Agreed, AOB. With Hillary, most people “know” her – they either like her or really hate her. And I think the numbers on both sides are fairly even. There are very few people who will change their minds.

BTW, I have been meaning to e-mail you. I’ll get there this week. Busy at work.

I keep meaning to drop this link here so people can see it(and I will probably drop it a time or two more later on)I think this is an interesting tool.

http://www.theyrule.net

thanks for sharing that! very interesting (albeit discouraging) and worth bookmarking, imo

Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day helped protect older women against some age-related memory decline, French researchers said on Monday, giving women more reason to love the world’s most popular stimulant.

Men did not enjoy the same benefit, they said. :(

(frowny face added by me)

I keep meaning to drop this link here so people can see it(and I will probably drop it a time or two more later on)I think this is an interesting tool.

http://www.theyrule.net

Thanks aob –
esp. the saved maps