Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd show you the polling place where I "voted early" today, at King City's (pop. 2500) City Hall:

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This will be a short diary, hardly fit to stand next to what so many great people post here.

But I can't let this go unnoticed, sorry.  It's the kind of 'other shoe dropping' that so thoroughly characterizes what Dumbya has done to us in the very places we needed intelligence and honest diplomacy (thanks also go out to Condoleezza Rice and her clown-like leadership at DoS).

The bad news that just got worse?  Follow me...

Somehow, I get the impression that Clarence Thomas had convinced himself that the Anita Hill who inhabits his fantasies and nightmares is who she really is, when he sat down to write his memoir, "My Grandfather’s Son."

In a tone of voice I imagine is how Digby sounds,

"Jeebus, how much more deluded could he have been??!!??"

About a month ago, I posted my first (sorta, I had gotten scooped and deleted a prior one) diary, Worth A Read:  Leila Fadel, Baghdad Observer.  My motivation was to get as many Kossacks as I could to take a sip from a well of knowledge of what it's really like "on the ground", no Kool-Aid, just really cold water.

The Divide:  On Sunday I spent the day in two Yazidi villages in west Ninewah province. Here they have nothing. Along the dusty roads, beige clay houses blend into the landscape. There is no running water or electricity. Now they have less than ever. More than 400 people were killed last week in four coordinated truck bombings...

I know how addictive that wrenchingly cold water was for me and I sincerely hope it was for those few who read the diary and for all of you who are reading this one.

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Having seen McClatchy Newspapers as the source for almost the only honest reporting you can find in the 'traditional media' (much better name than MSM, now that Daily Kos is part of the TRUE MSM), I was browsing their online main page today when I saw the title Baghdad Observer.  It was followed by a very nice photo and this lede:  "Leila Fadel's trip to two bomb-wrecked Yazidis cities in northern Iraq provides the stark contrast with the sadness there and the pleasures of the military base."

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