Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds

4001.

As of today, that's the count of Americans in uniform who have lost their lives because of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

If the past holds true, this means 37 to 300 Iraqis - mostly civilians - have also lost their lives since the number of U.S. dead clicked over from 4000 to 4001. However, we can't be sure because nobody is carefully counting the Iraqi dead.

Abu Aardvark writes:

Days since Mission Accomplished: 1792.

The Overnight News Digest is posted.

Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are Patriot Daily, PaintyKat, Avila, Louisiana 1976, TruthOfAngels, kath25, and joyful, with YatPundit taking the editmobile out for a spin on a gorgeous New Orleans spring evening.

• Will you give a few minutes for the Garden State's right to verified voting? The New Jersey vote is part of our Democratic process and time is of the essence. Midwest Millian has the details in New Jersey's Voting Machines: Take Action for a Verifiable 2008 Election! (Avila)
• A Siegel explains how the National Association of Manufacturers' dishonest usage of loaded numbers is intended to cause panic concerning the costs for addressing our greenhouse emissions in Reviews in: NAM/ACCF full of it! (PaintyKat)
• redcreek writes an excellent diary on an important issue of a plan that may have been created by Cheney's secret Energy Task Force to push this oil and gas drilling project that will pollute waters and kill wildlife in Water for Oil - Action Item. (Patriot Daily)
• Jeff Huber skillfully dissects Bush-Cheney policy failures and finds a metastasis growing which can only be called McQaeda. (Avila)
• Two diaries on electing more and better Dems: Aeolus reports on the goppie tactic of bogus lawsuits to drain time, money and resources of the Dem candidate in CA-46 Rohrabacher Allies "Bleed" Mayor Debbie Cook, while JorgensenForCongress tells us about her efforts to send Elton Gallegly home in CA - 24 Marta Jorgensen Is Running For Congress. (Patriot Daily)
• wobbledon discusses Democratic proposals to provide a form of tort reform or immunity to lenders from investor lawsuits in Taxpayers: Get ready for big bailout bandwagon. (Patriot Daily)
• Avenging Angel documents the return of the Mahdi Army to the fray in Iraq in Moqtada Al-Sadr Answers the Wall Street Journal. (TruthOfAngels)
• NotablyZen tells about his/her unique perspective on the relationship between black immigrants and African Americans from personal experience as a child of both in A Typical Black Immigrant (an African American Perspective). (PaintyKat)
• sunspark says offers a remarkable essay on the idealism witnessed every day in a high school in the light of youth. (kath25)
• Bendygirl revisits memories of when her own father's shop closed down and compares it to the American Axel workers who are losing their jobs in I Remember the Day the Shop Closed. (PaintyKat)
• jimbo92107 buys a clue for those who forget that their past is but a google or a YouTube click away. Now, Welcome to the Global Village. Stop Lying! (joyful)
• pleasedontbefake argues that the Olympics will help improve Chinese-Tibetan relations, using Mexico City as a heuristic, in Will the Olympics "Free Tibet"? Mexico has the answer. (kath25)

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