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Let’s Bomb G105
Wow. I think I’m speechless. No commentary is needed, really. G105 has produced a song called “Let’s Bomb Iraq” to the tune of “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell! (Except they’re so stupid they credit the Counting Crows.) Do I even have to point out that G105 is owned by the right-wing media conglomerate Clear Channel? Or the irony of their slogan “music for all people?” I didn’t think so.

Where’s Joni? She would never stand for this. Neither should we. Tell G105 what you think.

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Dear Raed
Blogging in Baghdad. Nicely-written, too. Here’s a long excerpt:

American civil administration in Iraq is having a shortage of Bright ideas. I keep wondering what happened to the months of “preparation” for a “post-saddam” Iraq. What happened to all these 100-page reports, where is that Dick Cheney report? Why is every single issue treated like they have never thought it would come up? What’s with the juggling of people and ideas about how to form that “interim government”? Why does it feel like they are using the [lets-try-this-lets-try-that] strategy? Trial and error on a whole country?


The various bodies that have been installed here don’t seem to have much coordination between them. We all need to feel that big sure and confident strides forward are being taken; it is not like this at all. And how about stopping empty pointless gestures and focusing on things that are real problems? Can anyone tell me what the return of children to schools really means? Other than it makes nice 6 o’clock news footage.

Schools have been looted; there are schools that have cluster bombs thrown in them when fedayeen were still there, no one bothered to clean that mess up before issuing the call on [Information Radio] that all students should go back to schools. How about clearing the mess created by the sudden disappearing of the ration distribution centers? How about getting the Hospitals back in shape? How about making it safe to walk in the street?

I mean there are a million more pressing issues for these committees meeting daily than getting children back to unsafe schools.

Yes yes I know. Patience. God needed seven days to finish his work and all that.
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Rapping hobbits, boyeee
“Straight outta Hobbiton!” I think Lords of the Rhymes is what would happen if the Beastie Boys were from Middle Earth. They like those elf girls. There ain’t no party like a hobbit party (’cause a hobbit party don’t stop).

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How predictable
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to direct your outrage. According to the Memory Hole, President Bush lied about the evidence of weapons in Iraq (shock!). For a few hours MSNBC headlines read “Bush Misstated Report on Iraq,” then the story disappeared. It’s more surprising to me that they ran the story at all than that they buried it.

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Hey, we might get something right

If you’re from North Carolina, as I am, you’re probably sick and tired of the derision of other supposedly more progressive locales. Well look here: The New York Times reports that our state senate has approved a moratorium on the death penalty!

NORTH CAROLINA: SENATE PASSES MORATORIUM The Democratic-controlled State Senate has passed a bill that would stop executions until June 1, 2005, so that legislators can examine the fairness of the legal system in capital cases. Last week, for the second time in five months, a state court threw out a death sentence because prosecutors had withheld important evidence. The bill now goes to the evenly divided House, where passage is expected to be more difficult. The moratorium would be the first passed by a Southern legislature, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. Ariel Hart (NYT)