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Early Morning Swim: Special Muckraker of the Day Edition

By: Blue Texan Tuesday January 6, 2009 5:00 am
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  • Israel continues to run up the score on Gaza.
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60 Responses to “Early Morning Swim: Special Muckraker of the Day Edition”

eCAHNomics January 6th, 2009 at 5:19 am
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democracynow reports direct hits on school & clinic in Gaza.

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:21 am
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Anybody else noticed that Lady Jane makes every bobblehead nervous except Rachel? heh heh

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nomolos January 6th, 2009 at 5:21 am
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Israel continues to run up the score on Gaza.

To help the victims of Israeli genocide go here

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:22 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 2

Man, talk about shitty sentence structure. ugh.

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klynn January 6th, 2009 at 5:23 am
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Way to go Jane. I like the recognition regarding “being way ahead of everyone” on this! It’s. About. Time.

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:24 am
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In response to eCAHNomics @ 1

Ecahn, Israel released a statement over the weekend stating that Hamas used schools, clinics and mosques to hide weapons. I also read that 45% of the wounded were women and children. BBC has adequate, not great, coverage of the events as the unfold.

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oldnslow January 6th, 2009 at 5:25 am
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No one told DiFi or Rockefeller.

All they need to be told is to STFU.

SD, I thought it was Jane that seemed nervous last night. That said, it is great to see her on the teebee.

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:25 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 6

Maybe we should tell the Israeli’s that Hamas has hidden a vast store of weapons in the Knesset building.

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eCAHNomics January 6th, 2009 at 5:25 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 6

Reporter on DN is from London Independent. Sez that humanitarian orgs had given the Israelis the coordinates of the school that had been subsequently targeted.

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:26 am
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Has anyone read anything about the new Senators from Delaware and Colorado? It does seem that they have no elected experience but I missed the uproar about it.

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:27 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 8

I wish!

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twolf1 January 6th, 2009 at 5:27 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 6

It is mentioned in BT’s first link as an update. McClatchy has more: Airstrike kills 3 at Gaza school U.N. using as refugee center

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:27 am
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In response to oldnslow @ 7

I noticed that but Shuster seemed even more so. Jane’s usually on a remote, mayhaps live in the studio made her a little nervous. I’d be petrified.

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:28 am
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In response to eCAHNomics @ 9

Did they say which ones?

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KayInMaine January 6th, 2009 at 5:28 am
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Jane is awesome! Great job last night, Jane. You nailed it about Reid. ;-)

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foothillsmike January 6th, 2009 at 5:29 am
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In response to eCAHNomics @ 1

Smart bombs should be punished. Who could have imagined that they could do something like that./s
339 hrs 7 31 min

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RevBev January 6th, 2009 at 5:29 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 10

I’ve heard some complaints about Del; a clear opinion that the new person is only a place-holder for Biden’s son, etc. and not a serious choice.

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:29 am
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In response to eCAHNomics @ 9

Like al-Jazeera had given the coordinates of it’s station so the US would be able to avoid bombing it. The Israelis aren’t any more honourable than the US.

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eCAHNomics January 6th, 2009 at 5:30 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 14

Don’t remember. My guess is it’s the same one in the article twolf

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:31 am
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In response to RevBev @ 17

As long as he votes the way we want him to that’s ok with me. *g*

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eCAHNomics January 6th, 2009 at 5:31 am
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In response to eCAHNomics @ 19

linked at 12.

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eCAHNomics January 6th, 2009 at 5:31 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 18

Has a certain familiar ring. These things always do.

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bgrothus January 6th, 2009 at 5:33 am
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Good Morning all. Richardson has hired a lawyer known for experience in white collar crime.

ALL of the appointees to the Senate face election. I am not sure of their place in the Senate queue. . .two years or four from now. So no matter what the appointee’s experience is, with or without a side of politics, each will have to face the voters at a minimum in two years.

Jane is correct. Harry needs to follow the law.

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:35 am
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I saw this comment at Daily Dish but I did not link to the web site..
Israel’s just playing by Chicago rules: “They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!”
How you can compare bombing, schools, clinics, mosques to Chicago is beyond me. Thousands are now wounded with inadequate medical care and several hundred are dead.

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eCAHNomics January 6th, 2009 at 5:35 am
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In response to bgrothus @ 23

Loved her calling Harry to account and having examples of his boneheadedness.

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bgrothus January 6th, 2009 at 5:35 am
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And of course it follows, every appointee will have primary opposition.

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bgrothus January 6th, 2009 at 5:38 am
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I liked Jane for saying she would like to be playing poker with Harry. He seems to get a losing hand a lot.

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RevBev January 6th, 2009 at 5:38 am
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OT: Harry saying Ann is “sophomoric”, “goofy.” Idiot Ann denies Obama at any greater risk for danger. She’s calling Delay and Sarh Palen = victims….She doesn’t know she’s psycho…illegitimacy celebrated by the Left -wing.

Thank you for the heads up…

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Elliott January 6th, 2009 at 5:40 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 24

and that couldn’t possibly be a dig at Obama, now could it? /s

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:42 am
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In response to RevBev @ 28

Satann Coulter taking a beating on the teebee? Makes my day.

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foothillsmike January 6th, 2009 at 5:43 am
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In response to Elliott @ 29

Well he did say he would bring a gun to a knife fight. /s
339 hrs & 17 min

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RevBev January 6th, 2009 at 5:43 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 30

Mine, too. I was celebrating NBC for not having her own, but also cheering Harry. She is a ghoul, I hate to say.

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:44 am
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In response to Elliott @ 29

A sick, misinformed, idiotic comment. Of course I could add more adjectives but I don’t want to upset the mods.

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View this users Facebook profile Raven January 6th, 2009 at 5:45 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 33

Never been to the windy city huh?

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:46 am
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In response to RevBev @ 32

Was she in the studio, or on remote, when Harry is sayin’ all this stuff?

Man, that couldn’t have been good for her fragile ego. /s

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View this users Facebook profile SouthernDragon January 6th, 2009 at 5:48 am
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OK, RevBev, we’re burnin’ daylight here.

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things.

That said, fuck Israel.

Namaste

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View this users Facebook profile Quebecois January 6th, 2009 at 5:50 am
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Good morning, Mister Bill O’Reilly please, this is Senator Franken’s office…

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:51 am
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Rachel should ask Ann on her show. If Ann refuses, she should announce every day that she invited Ann on her show but she refused.

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Waccamaw January 6th, 2009 at 5:51 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 30

And speaking of people taking a beating…….Keef nailed it last night when he called cheney a “fatuous condescending lunatic.” I caught the “fatuous” part but iirc the remainder was sorta under his breath. h/t to DU for seeing the words written out (dial-up impaired). One of the things I love about progressives is their inclination to multiple syllable words. :-)

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foothillsmike January 6th, 2009 at 5:51 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 36

Not sure if you saw my earlier comment but ads now running here in CO in support of Israel.
339 hrs & 9 min

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:52 am
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In response to Raven @ 34

Yeah but just for a few short visits. If I had a choice between Gaza and Chicago though, I know what I would choose.

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JPL9 January 6th, 2009 at 5:53 am
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Raven, Enjoy the rain today. We are expecting 2-4 inches! Happy trees!

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Elliott January 6th, 2009 at 5:53 am
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In response to Quebecois @ 37

*g*

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View this users Facebook profile Raven January 6th, 2009 at 5:54 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 41

“People from Mississippi need to come to Chicago to learn how to hate”.

Dr. Martin Luther King

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Waccamaw January 6th, 2009 at 5:54 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 38

Did you hear Rachel last night call for anyone who had received an invitation to any scheduled event in Blair House before the middle of the month to give her a shout-out? That lady been readin’ the lefties blogs…hehehehe

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View this users Facebook profile Raven January 6th, 2009 at 5:54 am
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In response to JPL9 @ 42

Yea, and it looks like it’s pushing north of Athens!

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Sixty Something January 6th, 2009 at 5:57 am
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I watched most of Harry Smith’s interview with Coulter. Wish I had seen the beginning. He pretty much let it be known what he thought of her. He said she was the one doing the whining and playing the victim. At the end he said she needed a cross, or something to that effect.

And to think not long ago I was wondering when she would get her voice back. She had been relatively quiet for some time.

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Frank33 January 6th, 2009 at 5:58 am
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What would Raygun and Grover do in a room full of manly men? They need to go to the the facebooks and twitters to get the yunguns. They also enjoy touching each others knees.

“We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today,” Duncan ventured.

“Let me just say that I have 4,000 friends on Facebook,” contributed Blackwell, putting his hand on Dawson’s and Anuzis’s knees. “That’s probably more than these two guys put together, but who’s counting, you know?” Acknowledged Saltsman: “I’m not sure all of us combined Twitter as much as Saul.”

Anuzis claimed he had “somewhere between 2- and 3,000″ Facebook friends, which prompted Blackwell to remind the audience that he has 4,000 friends on the social networking site by waving four fingers behind Anuzis’s head.

Next, they compare the size of their guns.

The candidates were significantly more comfortable when asked how many guns they own. Duncan claimed four handguns and two rifles, Anuzis boasted of two, and Blackwell replied: “Seven — and I’m good.”

“In my closet at home,” replied Saltsman, “I’ve got two 12-gauges, a 20-gauge, three handguns and a .30-06. And I’ll take you on anytime, Ken.”

But in the end they blame Obama and it is always about the sex.

Republicans should’ve had a little bit more you-know-what. . . . Obama caught us with our pants down. . . . They’ve bested us. . . . We can no longer afford to talk one way and behave in another.”

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RevBev January 6th, 2009 at 5:58 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 30

She also said that W, Limbaugh, and Hannity are all in more danger than O, and that there was more danger, etc at the Repub Convention…somehow had forgotten about the guys at the Dem. convention. I would like to say “you can’t make this stuff up”, but, YEP, she does.

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RevBev January 6th, 2009 at 5:59 am
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In response to SouthernDragon @ 35

Yep: right in the studio. She made it hard for Harry to get a word in the conversation, but he kept after it.

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foothillsmike January 6th, 2009 at 5:59 am
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Doctors and medics denied access to Gaza by Egyptians.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28517567/
339 hrs & 01 min

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wigwam January 6th, 2009 at 6:01 am
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In response to Raven @ 46

Is there a link to jane’s appearance yesterday?

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Elliott January 6th, 2009 at 6:01 am
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In response to Waccamaw @ 45

yeah, particularly Prairie Sunshine’s Blair House Which Project series at Oxdown

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Elliott January 6th, 2009 at 6:02 am
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In response to wigwam @ 52

ermm, BT has it uptop

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View this users Facebook profile Raven January 6th, 2009 at 6:03 am
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In response to wigwam @ 52

It’s the vid at the top of this page.

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bluebutterfly January 6th, 2009 at 6:06 am
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John Bolton says a three state solution is the only answer; give Gaza to Egypt and give the West Bank to Jordan. He speaks of giving away Gaza citizens as if they are not human beings with any right to choose. US citizens are expected to pay for this manoeuvre…forever, apparently. If by West, he is including Canada; he can …. off.

Let’s start by recognizing that trying to create a Palestinian Authority from the old PLO has failed and that any two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn. Hamas has killed the idea, and even the Holy Land is good for only one resurrection. Instead, we should look to a “three-state” approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty. Among many anomalies, today’s conflict lies within the boundaries of three states nominally at peace. Having the two Arab states re-extend their prior political authority is an authentic way to extend the zone of peace and, more important, build on governments that are providing peace and stability in their own countries. “International observers” or the like cannot come close to what is necessary; we need real states with real security forces.

This idea would be decidedly unpopular in Egypt and Jordan, which have long sought to wash their hands of the Palestinian problem. Accordingly, they should not have to reassume this responsibility alone. They should receive financial and political support from the Arab League and the West, as they both have for years from the United States. Israel should accept political and administrative roles by Jordan and Egypt, unless it intends to perform such roles itself (which it manifestly does not).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01434.html

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wigwam January 6th, 2009 at 6:08 am
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In response to Raven @ 55

Oops. Thanks.

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GregB January 6th, 2009 at 6:22 am
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The more the Fiensteins and media gasbags bitch about Panetta, the more I think that Panetta is a good pick.

-G

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RevBev January 6th, 2009 at 6:36 am
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In response to GregB @ 58

Yes, and per above, who cares what John Bolton thinks? What a jerk.

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acquarius74 January 6th, 2009 at 10:18 am
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In response to nomolos @ 3

Thank you, nomolos. I used your link and donated $50.00, it’s not much and I wish I could do more. I posted a long comment and gave your link at Siun’s Gaza Update (Target Medics). I could not remember who gave the link. (Sorry).

If you care to know how I turned from a life-long strong supporter of Israel to a supporter of the imprisoned in the Gaza Ghetto, my post at Siun’s article is # 31 by acquarius74.

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