Quotes ... reverse chronological order (usually) ...
"It will shatter all trust in the American justice system,"Gnijdic said ... well, whatever trust that is left after Seven Years of Bush and the Republican Mafia, that is. 
Republicans have a media granted dispensation from making any sense whatsoever ...
political advisers learned something about the press from the last few
elections — namely, that no matter how false or crazy the claims of a
conservative politician, he can expect to receive the “Shape of the
Planet: Both Sides have a Point” treatment. At worst, articles will
suggest that “some Democrats” say that he’s talking nonsense.
This is the flawed premise which brings down the whole house of cards.
It assumes that globalization allows for America to be first but the
America we know - with worker rights and environmental protections -
can't be first in this race. And there is absolutely no interest I see
from the people powering the competition to have that America finish
the race at all. This is the most important point that most average
people involved in making ends meet do not understand. "America" is not
meant to win the globalization derby.
The ring of integrity ...
"During the many interrogations, I never laid hands on anyone," said
George Frenkel, 87, of Kensington. "We extracted information in a
battle of the wits. I'm proud to say I never compromised my humanity."
...
seems like only yesterday that the US of A had the wits to
accomplish the impossible. Today, witless and stupid, it tears down not
only other countries, but its own.
The drug war is intended to disenfranchise those selectively
prosecuted.
From
such a tyrannical perspective the drug war is a great success.
Rich druggies go on to become President or radio hacks while poor
druggies become felons.
It’s easily possible to set up an enforcement system for beef safety in
this country, but the Republicans decided the money for their buddies
was more important for the welfare of our people. The American people
would figure out Republicans do not give a shit about anyone but their
.5% richest of the country cronies if this story was reported
correctly, Newsweek, thank you so much. It’s not surprising money
precludes the truth with this typically lousy corporate journalism, but
maybe one day dead American children might actually move them to do
their jobs.
So when I tell you that Americans need to change both the cars they
drive and the way they drive them, don't think I do it from spite. It's
from love. It's because I sincerely believe that if we don't change
paths – now, today – soon enough no one will have that chance to do
what cars do better than anything else: give you the freedom to go
anywhere you damn well please, just because it pleases you to go.
Judgement on the pavement
...
After miles in the desert we stopped at a small restaurant in al Rutba
where the name Bush was painted in white in three different spots in
the parking lot, so customers could step on it. ...
Choose violence and all is lost to the worst that can happen to a
people, both to those who initiate it and those who suffer from it.
Retribution almost always follows that quickly spins out of control,
sometimes for hundreds of years. Jesus, the violence of war is not what
you think it is, it can never work positively! We hung Nazis at
Nuremburg for precisely the logic of “pre-emptive war,” yet these
amazing Americans quoted whine about Bush being called a moron,
oblivious to how apparently stupid they themselves are to not know
these utterly known and basic facts about chosen war, it’s just
incredible.[...] As if it couldn’t get more sickening, one of the killers says “..as long as the possibility of being successful's there, you can justify continuing the effort." ... Jesus nothing could be more horrifying or shameful than lying, killing “public officials” of the United States of America blathering on in clueless denial to send more humans souls to miserable senseless killing war deaths.
I
hope the Burmese can free themselves. I hope we can. Because there
isn't much help on the way from above, folks. Even if we got the
perfect progressive president in 2008, they'd have to rely on the
public to get their backs. In the end, there's only ever going to be
boring, ordinary people deciding that they just can't take the bullshit
and the inhumanity anymore and that maybe it's time to act to stop it.
It's not women they're
seeking to honor with that proverbial 'pedestal' ...
These people who say they have nothing but respect for the military are
the very ones who denigrate those who serve. They say they’re
"honoring" us, while they’re telling us we’re unable to think for
ourselves.
...
No, it's soldiers who dare to think for themselves and step out of
the mold set by those with the Neo-Con (really the neo-fascist) mindset
who mostly reside among the 'conservatives' of this nation. 
... Would that there were genuinely leftist voices in mainstream
American politics, not because I agree with many of their positions,
necessarily, but simply because the breadth of "acceptable" public
discourse in this country is dangerously claustrophobic. ...
The problem is the underlying system of representative democracy. It is
no longer capable, at least as structured around the world, of
providing for the common good.It simply enables two groups of politicians with radically different rhetoric to get elected and then use the power of the state to reward the people who made it possible for them to hold office.
It’s the system. Not the people in it which is the problem.
— [Comment to Krugmans's Blog] Posted by Edward Murray
[AND an answer] Exactly. The Republicans are no longer the party of small government (were they ever?) but rather the party of public jobs for cronies. The Democrats also share this honor.
The real division in politics is no longer between left and right, its between the political insiders, and their friends and cronies who get the government contracts, and the rest of us, who pay for it all.
— Posted by Paul
... comparing the seasonally adjusted August 2007 numbers with the
average rate of sales in 2005 tells us that home sales are off 38%.
There’s an infinitesimally small possibility, one supposes, that the
Pentagon will wake up to what tools and suckers they’ve been to swear
allegiance to Republicans (delivering a broken Army and Marine Corps,
for starters) and fire Rush from the AFR as a sign of independence, a
way to show that no, the Pentagon is not the disgusting boot-licking
Republican prostitute everyone thinks it is. ... Republicanism blueprint ...
1. Take advantage of a shocking tragedy to rush through emergency legislation.
2. Award a fat private contract with almost no oversight.
3. Kick the cost of everything you've done down the road so you can pretend to be for "small government" by never paying for anything.