Malo – Suavecito (June 21, 1972).  This song always makes me think of warm summer evenings.  What’s your summer song?  What’s on your mind tonight?

Senator John Cornyn (R. Wingnuttia) is locked in a Titanic World-Historical Struggle with noted Viking Kitten Erick the Son of Erick over a deleted Facebook comment. It’s sort of epic.

You’d think after Porter Goss once again failed to refute Nancy Pelosi’s central assertion, “Fact Check” organizations would get the hint.

But no–they’re still out there refuting themselves!!

Here are the details that FactCheck.Org uses to claim that,

So we’re left with Democrats offering one (not always entirely accurate) story and the CIA and some Republicans offering a different (and, again, not always entirely accurate) story.

Looks like it.

During the week that Dick Cheney ordered Libby to out Valerie Plame, Mary Matalin told Libby that “Bush” should order everything on the Wilsons declassified (it’s not clear whether Matalin meant this to include Plame’s identity or not). She said “the President should wave his magic wand” to declassify the oppo on the Wilsons.

People who have committed no crime which can be proved in a court of law, including the crime of conspiracy, will be held indefinitely without a trial. Note that Obama wants to use military commissions to try some detainees, which means that these detainees can’t be found guilty of anything even under military law. This is punishment for a thought crime.

So, the world isn’t flat after all. Not that those of us around the Lake ever bought into Thomas Friedman-speak. But many in this country did, especially those running the political show, and now we have a chance to shape a progressive future on the ashes of such failied visions.

And that progressive future needs a widespread recognition of the acceptance of the need to Buy America. A good first step is taking the American Auto Revivial Pledge.

NYT article by Elizabeth Bumiller: “1 out of 7 freed detainees rejoins fight, report finds”. Assuming that stats taken from unnamed sources and which reek of bogosity can be trusted, guess what? It’s a rate that’s far, far less than the rate of US prisoners in general, as even Bumiller admits:

“Terrorism experts said a 14 percent recidivism rate was far lower than the rate for prisoners in the United States, which, they said, can run as high as 68 percent three years after release.”

Rep. Rajul Grijalva (D-AZ) has signed on to cosponsor H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. Rep. Alan Grayson sent a letter to his Democratic colleagues this morning asking them to join him cosponsoring the bill which gives the GAO the authority to audit the Federal Reserve.

Bernie Sanders has a similar bill in the Senate, but has no cosponsors.

Anything is permissible in defense of the Fatherland.