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Keith Olbermann 10/09/08

Politics

Dishonesty is nothing new in politics. I spent much of 2000 — my first year at The Times — trying to alert readers to the blatant dishonesty of the Bush campaign’s claims about taxes, spending and Social Security. But I can’t think of any precedent, at least in America, for the blizzard of lies since the Republican convention. The Bush campaign’s lies in 2000 were artful — you needed some grasp of arithmetic to realize that you were being conned. This year, however, the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute, and repeating these assertions over and over again.

LHC

Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN1 was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery.

big brother

President Nicolas Sarkozy faced an embarrassing split in his Cabinet today over a computer system that a new French internal intelligence service will use to spy on the private lives of millions of law-abiding citizens.

dixit

«I found the future on a street corner in Brooklyn, in front of an abandoned porno theater.»

Rethinking history

Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas. Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeleton—along with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula—could provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated.

errrr…

I Miss My Mommy
Cause she’s the vice-present. Will you love Trig?

Bush and war crimes

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

«I checked the transcript this morning and the biggest bombshell in this campaign so far, in my opinion, is the following section of Bush’s speech:

John McCain’s life is a story of service above self. Forty years
ago, in an enemy prison camp, Lieutenant Commander McCain was offered
release ahead of others who had been held longer.

His wounds were so severe that anyone would have understood if he had accepted.

John refused. For that selfless decision, he suffered nearly five
more years of beatings and isolation. When he was released, his arms
had been broken, but not his honor.

Fellow citizens, if the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain’s
resolve to do what is best for his country, you can be sure the angry
left never will.

Now
have you ever heard someone recount what was done to John McCain in the
Hanoi Hilton and not use the word “torture”? I haven’t. “Beatings and
isolation” is a bizarre phrase to use to describe the torture that was
done to John McCain. I’m sure McCain thinks so.

Am I being persnickety? As with the Trig story, there’s a very easy
way to find out – if the press will simply do its job. A White House
reporter needs to ask the president, quite simply, if he believes that
John McCain was tortured in Vietnam. Just ask. Use that specific word.
See if he can answer.

The reason he put it this way, I infer, is that if he describes what
was done to McCain as torture, he has incriminated himself for war
crimes.

I repeat: The reason he put it this way is that if he describes what was done to
McCain as torture, he has incriminated himself for war crimes
.

Now prove me wrong. Please prove me wrong.»