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NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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Okay.  My wife has known him and the person that setup the account for a couple of years, so I'm confident it's legit.

Here's some info:

His name is Don Boyle.  A vietnam vet that was born and raised in Gretna, LA. He was in Jefferson Parish, LA when Katrina hit. He was unemployed when Katrina hit and was unable to evacuate.  He's currently in St. Charles waiting for another friend to pick him up and take him back to TN.

The paypal account is greenbacksforgrobeck at yahoo.com.

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

by sgilman on Sun Sep 4th, 2005 at 04:49:20 PM EST
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where in Tn are you?  Or where in Tn is your friend?

I am telling you, I was in Memphis working this past few days and they are on alert to be getting ready for future patients of this disaster.  As you know I am a dialysis nurse. I normally do not owrk in Memphis.  There is a shortage of dialysis nurses, well all nurses for tha tmatter, an dI was required to go down there to work and will be going there for the next 2 weeks.  One Dr. of this unit told me that they will go into a certain mode for taking in lots of new patients in the acute sector, where they will work 24/7 and only run pts for 2 hours at a time.  They are getting ready for this.  If this is any indication as to the preparediness of things.  He said they had to do this type of thing in the past during a disaster of some sort, of which I did not hear what he called it, but they have done it before.

This is something in all of my "civilian" career I have never seen the dynamic of such a thing.  It is almost sureal!  I simply am so frustrated as the leadership of this nation as a whole, that I will be personally out there screaming the shit that this government is doing to our nation.

by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Sun Sep 4th, 2005 at 05:03:25 PM EST
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My wife knows which area TN he is headed for, but she just left for work.

He's has been trying to get help from FEMA for the past week with no luck, so they gave up and went to get him.  It's been a complete disaster.

I'll be sure to get a first hand account from him once he is settled and can share it here.

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

by sgilman on Sun Sep 4th, 2005 at 05:10:00 PM EST
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thanks and if there is anything I can do to help, just you let me know.  My email address is at the bottom of this comment.
by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Sun Sep 4th, 2005 at 05:33:48 PM EST
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"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
by sgilman on Sun Sep 4th, 2005 at 05:52:35 PM EST
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How about doing a diary about this story? It will get much more attention that way since the front page posts are moving so rapidly down the page.
by catnip (llamg88 at hotmail.com) on Sun Sep 4th, 2005 at 05:49:17 PM EST
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But I'll wait a few hours for my wife to get home so I can get some more info and incase there are any other questions.

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
by sgilman on Sun Sep 4th, 2005 at 05:58:08 PM EST
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