Breaking News: Two-fer

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Love doin' the Breakin' News...

Seems Hillary has decided there's merit to Dean's 50-State Strategy after all. Announced today that Hillary Clinton will be appearing at the North Dakota State Convention. [details as we learn them]

Last week, Barack Obama was announced as the keynote speaker, kicking off the convention at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, ND.

By the way, this past weekend, ND Republicans held their convention here in Fargo at the local Holiday Inn. Well, at least it wasn't the H.I. Express....

And even though Hillary encompassed little ol' red state ND in that group of unimportant little states not worth considering in campaign 2008, we'll give 'er a warm ND welcome Friday evening, just as Barack Obama will receive earlier. Guess coming in on the tails of Obama is one way to avoid running up an event tab for the reportedly cash-strapped Clinton team.

And we thank both campaigns for helping with the economy of Grand Forks by appearing at the ND Dem-NPL Convention this Friday and drawing sizeable crowds. We encourage those crowds to stay awhile and drop a few coin in the coffers of a city still recovering from its own flood back in '97.
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The Prince and the Paupers

Once again the moral bankruptcy of BushCo is on display.

This week Prince Harry was outed by GrudgeMatt—where is the toxic Hazmat cleanup crew for this sewer spewer?—with much the same craven gaminess as the outing of Valerie Plame.

Why do Republicans and their minions hate the footsoldiers?

Prince Harry was on the front lines in Afghanistan, serving side by side with his mates, an ordinary Harry, when GrudgeMatt took it upon himself to blare he was there thru the Internet.

Takes some real guts to betray a serving soldier, doesn’t it?

But then service on the front lines—as Plame and Harry both were doing in their areas of expertise—is something few in BushCo have done. Champagne National Guard, anyone? AWOL in Alabama? Other priorities…?

And then there’s the little stoolie who used his place in the White House to plagiarize again and again. Timothy Goeglein, another Rove disciple, so no surprise he proves to be yet another pustule on the body politic. His “borrowed” writings revealed in the morning, he was gone by the end of the day. So long and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Would that anyone could believe this was anything but damage control for a no-longer-usable tool.

Does this all rise to the level of Judas and Brutus?

You’ll have to search your own heart about that one. I know my answer.

Scum walks among us in rich raiment, and The Village politely nods and turns back to their quail wings and cocktail wienies. *yawn*

Except, scum rubs on a lot easier than it rubs off.

And moral bankruptcy has a nasty way of oozing into many a nook and cranny.

From the White House to too many in Congress to K Street to editorial offices of corporate media moguls and their court jesters...and back again in a merry ballroom dance…of princes, moral paupers, and those who should be pariah.