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Because Their Lips Are Moving Special: At least 935 official lies to justify the war

The Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan non-profit that produces responsible investigative journalism, released The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path To War that concluded that:

"President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq."

And

"...the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq"

As a part of preparing the study the Center produced, and has made available on their web site, a 380,000 word database of the statements made by top Bush administration officials that enabled comparisons between what they said and what they actually knew according to official documents and statements.

Via Mark Morford, photo from Political-News.org

Texas Pride: State ranks as 7th largest carbon emitter in the world!

According to TIME magazine:

"The headquarters state of America's oil industry spewed 670 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2003, enough that Texas would rank seventh in the world if it were its own country, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The amount is more than that of California and Pennsylvania — the second- and third-ranking states — combined."

Via Cake News. Image of Dallas from the Texas Transportation Institute

A Concise History Of Black-White Relations In The U.S.A.

From Ampersand at Alas, a blog 

Election can be stolen in “under a minute” with Diebold machines

From For Your Entertainment: A computer virus created by researchers to test the security of Diebold election machines spreads to other machines, changes vote totals and then deletes itself after the changed votes are counted. The article includes a video of the demonstration.

Copyrighted image from Diebold Variations, where there are tons of fun "ads" for Diebold.

Construction Site Safety

Via For Your Entertainment

"Some forms of success are indistinguishable from panic" — Edgar Degas

Best quote ever! From bookofjoe. Image source (annoying flash movie).

Mom! Come See The Kittens!

Via For Your Entertainment