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August 31st, 2010

IT'S A TRAP!

"By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor. ... It's providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support." – Taliban operative Zabihullah

Do Not Let Your Crazy Uncle Speak for 9/11 Families; "... we lost our family members on 9/11/2001, but will not lose our nation, too. America, the concept and the people and the land thrive when we chose to trust in our principles rather than cave to our basest fears." – September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

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August 30th, 2010

Coalition of the Drilling

"... once we pass 3.5 or even 4 million barrels a day in two to three years time, we should enter into a very constructive discussion about new market shares." – Iraq oil minster Hussain al-Shahristani

Coalition Continues to Grow: Canada's Heritage Oil & ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. | Germany's RWE | Russia's Lukoil | UAE's Gulftainer Company Ltd.

Life is What Happens When You're Busy Making Other Plans; Kirkuk export pipeline down for third time this month

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August 30th, 2010

For His Next Trick...

At least seven U.S. combatants killed in someone else's country over the weekend

We're Still Totally Winning, Though; 30 Afghans killed 'far from the actual battlefield'

The Dead Afghans Can Vote for the Dead Candidate; The five dead campaign workers can work on the dead candidate's campaign

PHOTO: Magic Hour; The Obama family returns from vacation

DO SOMETHING: Stop Rethinking Afghanistan Already and DO SOMETHING!

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August 31st, 2010

U.S. Memo Demanding End to Leaks is Leaked to Media

"... blabbing secrets to the media is not 'in' as far as I'm concerned." – Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, a beacon of hipness in a community of squares

DO SOMETHING: Drop a WikiDime on 'Grandpa' Clapper | Ask 'Grandpa' Clapper What He Thinks of the New Fall Shoe Styles

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August 30th, 2010

To the WikiCave

Whistle-blower website, WikiLeaks, moves its servers into a Cold-War-era nuclear bunker 30 meters underground

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August 29th, 2010

Judgement Call

"... when [Obama] brought in Summers and Geithner, he just thought he was getting the best of the best." – former senior regulator

Uh ... John Boehner for Speaker!; GOP's perpetuo-tanned House leader calls for Summers and Geithner to be fired

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August 30th, 2010

Another Roadside Attraction

More than $5 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds wasted on abandoned or incomplete Iraq "rebuilding" projects

How Many Billions of Dollars Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?; Saad Turki couldn't care less as he sells 6,000 slabs of ice each day to Iraqi families who have no other means of cooling their homes during scorching summer

DO SOMETHING: Rethink Afghanistan Before It Ends Up Like Iraq

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August 30th, 2010

United States Not Winning Friends, Not Influencing People

$200 million in aid for catastrophic Pakistani floods not enough to change minds in long term

Maybe This Has Something to Do With It; U.S. currently spending more than $200 million on killing people next door in Afghanistan every day

Muslim World Pledges $1 Billion; Apparently there's lots of money available when you're not waging stupid wars