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From the Blog Graham, Florida
--- When he voted against waging war on Iraq, Sen. Bob Graham warned the Bush Administration it would be a dangerous distraction ? ?the wrong war, against the wrong enemy? in his words today. Graham was right then, and he?s right today. America?s real enemies, the 9/11 attackers who brought down the World Trade Center, are still the stateless terrorists of al Qaeda. ---
Powell's "facts" are now hotly disputed. What is now coming to light is that the Bush Administraton's rationale for war in Iraq, as laid out by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his pre-war address to the United Nations on Feb.5, was based on hotly disputed... [Blog Graham]
9:10:33 PM 
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Birthday Donuts
Happy Birthday Nicco!. Webmaster Nicco Mele celebrated his birthday today with a mountain of donuts and lots of love from his Dean for America colleagues. Among the new toys he got were a little gun with lights and sounds that shoots foam disks resembling gummi peaches and something called an "airzooka" that has already shot to the top of the chaos-creator list of office toys.
His birthday speech was brief yet stirring: "I love donuts!"
You can send your birthday wishes by helping Nicco meet his Dean Team Leader fundraising goal. Every contribution will help push up the bat. To contribute to the campaign with birthday wishes for Nicco, click here:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/nicco
Here are some photos of the pile of donuts and the birthday webmaster. Happy birthday, Nicco!
The birthday pile [Blog for America]
7:52:04 PM
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Quake Japan
Tremors.
We were woken up in the night by an earthquake that lasted pretty damn long. In our location, it was not a big one, but were it originated it was an 8.0. Recently, there have been rumors about a big earthquake going to hit the Tokyo region. If it was just rumors, it wouldn't be unnerving, but last weekend there was a 2 hour documentary special on TV. A big bunch of experts were explaining the why and how of a high probability of an 8.0 hitting Tokyo, including the event of magma erupting from mount Fuji. We picked up some good tips about preparation, and what kind of signals to look for if a quake is impending. The estimate is 7000 casualties in Tokyo, but given that 82% of the casualties of the 1995 Kobe earthquake were caused by falling bookcases, this number could be lower if people are better prepared. Also, all post-70 buildings are specifically constructed to withstand strong quakes. One hopes...
[chaotic intransient prose bursts]
6:26:18 PM
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Dean on AP, Salon.com, 'Untelevised' Blog
Morning News Roundup. As the bat rounds the first million, the AP reports that our campaign has already broken the record for funds raised in a single quarter by a Democratic candidate:
Democratic strategists say Dean could raise at least double what his party's other top hopefuls will collect during the three-month fund-raising period. The former Vermont governor has already passed the Democratic record set by President Clinton, who took in $10.3 million over three months in 1995 for his re-election.
And, as Trippi wrote in his email to supporters last night, your contribution now is critical because the race is in full swing-- and because the other 9 are likely to continue their attacks on Dean.
The AP reports that Dean is in Michigan this morning to address the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO's 18th constitutional convention.
Salon publishes excerpts of Dean's speech on Democracy, Freedom, Action. Dean writes:
We stand at a critical moment in American history. Either we come together and take action now to restore a politics of participation and a politics of the people, or we allow the Washington insiders and the special interests to continue to make the back room deals that are destroying people's faith in our government.
And while the President is amassing a war chest bundled in $100,000 and $200,000 increments by those he calls Rangers and Pioneers, Americans from across the country are redefining campaign finance reform through their $50 contributions...
With mouse pads, shoe leather and hope, we are building an American community strong enough to take on the power of money in politics and deliver the White House to its rightful owners -- We the People.
This September will go down in history -- as the month when the people stood up and believed they could take their country back.
In an editorial, the Madison Capital-Times wonders where the logic (such as it is) behind RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie's attacks on Howard Dean ends.
And in the blogosphere, Matthew Langer at Untelevised posts a thoughtful analysis on why Howard Dean's stance on the war with Iraq is the only position that fully challenges Bush's doctrine of pre-emptive war. [Blog for America]
3:09:22 PM
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open wide
Open mouth. My father used to say close your mouth or flies will get in...ever notice musicians with their mouth ajar? They are not drooling or mindless...it is a fact that you can hear better with your mouth open, which is especially handy when you tune your instrument... [Ottmar Liebert]
3:04:54 PM
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From Joseph Stiglitz
The Dark Side of the Boom. Waxing nostalgic for the booming '90s? Not so fast, says Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz -- the last decade's prosperity obscured deeper problems that are adding to the market's volatility. A Q & #038;A with Brendan I. Koerner from Wired magazine. [Wired News]
2:29:14 PM
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screenshots
 Silver Screen. Brilliant. A website with nothing else but screenshots of movie titles. Just great. Via Mark's exclamation mark.What good is it? Whatever use you put it to. Browse and admire title and logo designs, check out movies that have completely different titles in different release prints (see Battle of Britain or The Premature Burial for good examples), check out the differences [...] [The Cartoonist]
2:16:48 PM
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More Howard Dean Cash Flow
You Cracked the First Bat!. The first bat cracked!
You broke a million, you're breaking records, you are believing and bringing in thousands and putting yourself out on the line and its all making such a difference.
As of right now, and moving, we're at $1,001,708.00, and the contributions are pouring in faster than they have in days.
16,125 people have come together to raise money in the past four days, and nearly half of those contributors are new.
Don't ever forget how unprecedented this is.
That million is a testament to the greatest grassroots campaign of this era, a grassroots invested and committed like no other, and determined to directly engage and transform the political process.
Now take that million and use it to tell everyone you know -- write your people-powered Howard email about this million, what it means, and why you are putting your heart into this September to Remember. Print a copy in these comments and we'll share them later on the blog.
As Nicco says, "Here we go!" [Blog for America]
2:10:09 PM
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The Bush Political Bubble
It's pretty clear now that the emperor has no clothes. George W. Bush's entry into politics has been a bubble in American Politics. There's nothing substantial about his presidency. He's a highly speculative office holder and an aberration of history. He's a lot like Pets.com (out of business). Time to pay the piper.
Notes from Ed Cone and Josh Marshall.
Josh Marshall compares the Bush administration to a heavily leveraged business.
To extend the business metaphor, the White House has been surviving not on profits but expectations of future profits or, in other words, credibility. The White House has been able to get the public to sit tight with a lot of objectively poor news (a poor economy, big deficits, bad news from abroad) on the basis of trust.
But a combination of the manifest incompetence of the planning for post-war Iraq and the dishonesty of the build-up for the war have become increasingly difficult to defend or deny. And that's struck a grave blow against the president's credibility.
Now it's margin-call time, says Marshall, as demonstrated by the falling poll numbers. [EdCone.com]
1:53:21 PM
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