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Remember that term Moynihan coined, "defining deviancy down"? These movies are mainstreaming deviancy. Deviancy now opens nationwide in 3,000 theaters. How can you expect a nation to abide by the Geneva Conventions when 80 percent of our teenagers spend their idle hours playing ultra-gory video games?

First of all.

80% of 55 is more votes than 95% of 45.  i realize right now we're not even looking at 95% of 45.  We're looking at 75% of 45, and so fine, run some primaries.

But none of those primaries are going to get us what we want until we have a majority.  Until we can throw up a bill of our own and not give a shit if some Lieberman dick votes against it cause we got a couple repugs who will be willing to play the Senatorial game when we're in power.

making the case that Iraq is not, as Bush continues to claim, the centerpiece of the war on terror, and has, in fact, compromised America's ability to combat terrorists and protect our homeland.

of 2006 and beyond they will continue to lose.  Doom is predicted for the upcoming elections.

some nuggets:

As the Pew study makes clear, most bloggers see themselves as engaging only in personal expression; they don't inspire the biggest claims currently being made for Internet journalism.

There are republicans who we would have supported before supporting Joe Lieberman.

Over the last few days, I've been waiting to see some diaries about Ned Lamont.  Who he is.  What he's all about.  And all that.  I've been to his website and it all sounds pretty decent.  but truth be told, as far as i can tell he's not as direct about troop withdrawal as Murtha and Feingold.

I've been looking for something on the front page.  The Ned Lamont vision!

It seemed to me his position on the war was how this started.  His behaviour towards dems who criticized bush's handling of the war sealed his fate.  I know Lamont talks about Lieberman during the Schiavo thing, and there certainly is other criticisms of Joe Lieberman but for the most part, I can't imagine this primary happening without the Iraq War.   And I would be impressed to hear anyone make a convincing case that Lamont would be taking a commanding lead without the Iraq War as a backdrop.

Beneath all this, there runs a lurking comedy.  The brothers hear noises and, blaming local troublemakers, arrange to bawl them out; when Graham admits he is hopeless at cursing, Merrill tells him to go insane with rage, whereupon Graham runs around the outside of the house shouting, "I'm insane with rage," which is almost too bizarre to be funny.
               -- Anthony Lane, The Current Cinema in the New Yorker, reviewing the M. Night Shyamalan Movie, Signs.

Basically, there's enough of an argument to defeat Joe without making shit up.

So why are we making shit up??

Markos and Matt Stoller had already exposed the Joe Lieberman lies in tonight's debate here:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

Just some background.  Last year I posted a diary about Rosalyn Carter visiting Toccoa, GA in 1977.  36 students and faculty at a christian college had died in a flood due to a dam break.  A book was written by some Christian Fundamentalists about the tragedy and Rosalyn Carter wrote the introduction to that book.

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But alas, I have found myself yet again confronted with an assumption.  This assumption is that Chuck Schumer doesn't like John Tester.

http://www.dailykos.com/...

having read it twice -- and neglecting to read the comments in that story, and therefore the story stands on it's own -- i find myself less perturbed by markos's analysis than i thought i would be.

http://www.dailykos.com/...

that contained both:

1.  A really great idea.

and ...

2.  Tired Rhetoric.

Lets separate them out so we know which is which....

In the past, a long time ago really, I asked "Why does Harry Reid get a Free Pass?"  And I'll abandon that approach.  The answer is pretty clear, anyway.  He has reached out to Markos and the netroots in general.  His involvement at Ykos, it is clear that when it comes to people powered politics, he gets it, the importance of engaging the forum directly, even if he may not agree with the netroots on a specific issue as large and as life threatening as iraq.

The key word in that last sentence is "may".  Cause the point of this diary is that I simply do not know either way.

http://www.dailykos.com/...

The feeding of the revolutionary plant.

 is it so much revolution for the sake of revolution or just a ritualistic cleansing, the constant need... the obsessive-compulsiveness to ratify our own purity over and over again??

Dear Senator Feingold,

this is truth:

The federal marriage amendment, which would write discrimination into the Constitution, is an obvious attempt to change the subject from topics that the Congress should be addressing to a hot button social issue intended to appeal to certain factions.  

What drove the Terror was not a crazed intellectual desire to extend the Revolution to every corner of existence but a desperate desire to maintain its achievements in the face of opposition.