Breaking: http://news.xinhuanet.com/...

"Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure"

Sorry for the "Breaking" headline, and I hope no one else has blogged this. (I'll check after I post.) Now I don't want to sound paranoid, but these parallels to Vietnam are getting a little eerie. Listen to this interesting tidbit:

Expect Lieberman to can anyone who was associated with 2004 Kerry campaign and replace them with a team of pungent veterans who will take the fight to Lamont. As Lieberman tours the broiling state, you can almost hear the gloves coming off in preparation for a fight to the finish in November.

In fact, I can hear the gloves coming off. Coming off to slap Joe Lieberman in the face! Joe's not shaking up his staff- he's spinning their upcoming resignations.

Via The Carpetbagger Report:

Two independent sources have confirmed that some Lieberman aides decided well in advance of yesterday's primary that if the senator abandoned the Democratic Party for an independent campaign, they would resign in protest. Given yesterday's results and Lieberman's announcement, that's exactly what's about to happen.

http://men.style.com/... Excerpt after the break!

For those recent additions to the Kossack community, the Replies Box used to be a part of the Hotlist box.  Kos took it away before the election to prevent the servers from blowing up, but he never put it back.

Whenever a Kossack would reply to your comment, you would be notified.  Once a reply was viewed, it would vanish from the replies box. This way, Kossacks from across the country could carry on conversations hours, even days after the thread has been abandoned. People could debate or converse about whatever they wanted. It was wonderful.

We could call ourselves "The United States" and leave the old part with the "America" moniker since rednecks don't ever call it anything else. We could adopt the Constitution, with some minor adjustments, and set out to live in the country our forefathers intended to make. All the intellectual capital would be in the new nation and the old "America" would descend into the deepest depths of economic recession and mass chaos. Before long, they'd be coming back begging to reunite, at which point we would accept on the conditions that they abide by the Constitution and don't cross the line between Church and state.

Of course, people would need to plan it out a little better than myself and come up with some better ideas.

 How can we lose to such a dumb asshole?

If we can't beat George W. Bush, who can we beat? John McCain in '08? Bill Frist in '12? I don't think so!

Throw out McAuliffe. Fire Shrum. We need to remake the Democratic party. We need a revolution. We need to be more aggressive, stronger, and more LIBERAL.

We need Howard Dean.

And yeah, I'm angry. I'm angry as hell. [editor's note, by Smedley Hirkum] We could always secede. All the blue states become one prosperous, tolerant nation while the redneck states bring back Puritanism and the Inquisition and continue on their path to doom.

I'm a bit nervous. AP reports that the young people didn't come out and vote. Are we going to win? If these #s hold, Kerry would have to win CO and NM or Missouri along with WI, MN, and IA. If Kerry only gets MN, WI, IA, and NM, we have an electoral tie. And that sucks. Someone please reassure me!

49% Bush | 47% Kerry | 1% Nader

TUESDAY POLL was 51% | 45% | 1%

Looks like the VP debate may have done us some good after all. Actually, the poll seems to have been taken in part before the debate. So never mind about that.

In addition, Cheney's overwhelming yet subtle charisma will completely overpower Edwards' un-charismatic dull persona. Edwards' boyish charm will be no match for Cheney's undeniable manliness. The female vote will break strongly for the VP due to his massive muscles concealed only by his expensive and classy suits.

Before we wait for these polls to be debunked, I think we should just act as though we actually are 10 points down, a concept that was popular on dKos a couple months ago when Kerry was 10 points up. However, now that we're down in the polls, we seem to be devoting all of our energy to reassuring ourselves that John Kerry is actually ahead.

So, what can you do to help save the republic?

Well, it turns out that the New York Times has a special position that is supposed to deal with the newspaper's coverage. He's Daniel Okrent,

the Public Editor, and you should probably be sending emails to him.

His email address is: public@nytimes.com

Let's not imitate slanderous Republicans who think they're clever when they talk about "Filegate" and "Troopergate" and "Travelgate." Because no real self-respecting gate was actually involved in these "scandals."

Its just slander and libel. Gates have served a wonderful purpose in our democracy and in the world in general. And they're on our side.

"President Bush may skip one of the three debates that have been proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates... MORE... Bush's negotiating team plans to resist the middle debate, which was to be Oct. 8 in a town meeting format in Missouri // audience of 'undecided voters' for second debate was to be picked by Gallup. Bush officials were concerned that people could pose as undecided when they actually are partisans, WASH POST planning to report in new editions, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE... Developing... "

SO SUE ME, ASSHOLE. [editor's note, by Smedley Hirkum] Here's the [WaPo story http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3586-2004Sep7.html] (Why isn't this link working???). I beat you Drudge, you slimy-no-good bottom-feeding monstrosity!

I think you can put this under the "Karl Rove actually isn't a genius" category. Who better to provide a vision for the future for the GOP? (sarcasm) I've seen Zell on TV, and he seems probably as charismatic as a doorknob, and about as smart as one too.

Link

Don't worry, there's no reason to post a comment saying, "Smedley, you're an asshole" because I know I'm being one already.

Question is, are you going to the protests, and are you from new york? Remember James, New Yorkers will probably turn out in greater numbers than liberal bloggers because New Yorkers don't have to travel 3000 miles to get to the RNC.

Party leaders and officials have called him a "traitor," "confused" and a "coward," with the last charge stinging, Alexander said Tuesday.

"It hurt like the dickens," the first-term congressman said. "I wasn't a coward. That took a lot of courage to do that."

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Yeah Rodney, I'm sure that hurt. I thought it was especially courageous of you considering you switched parties 15 minutes before the filing deadline.