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• GNB Reading Room; What Are You Reading Now?

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  I know some of us are still slogging through Nixonland. (a worthy but weighty read) What else are folks reading. AND what is on your TBR pile? (To-be-read) What do you recommend for a leisurely day on the beach or by the pool (hooshing it up or not as the case may be)? What do you recommend for my gazillion hour flight next week to Netroots

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• Brief Thought on Jesse Helms

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  Reading some of the coverage of Jesse Helms' death, I couldn't help but think.... It's too bad he died before Barack Obama was elected President. That would have killed him. :-) As it is, on 2009.01.20 we're likely to hear a loud whirring sound from somewhere in NC.

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• Walking Around in Circles... What're You Doin?

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• Saturday Open Thread

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  Heidi Klum and Seal (Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel). photo source/date unknown. Click for LARGE. Breathe... Don't ever say we don't do anything for you. I'm running over to get some breakfast. Was up all night reading early Gilliard. Couldn't help myself. If you haven't yet: Please throw some bucks in the fundraising kitty

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• Update: Gilly's Writings

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  We've Updated the Page where You Find the Links to Gilly's Writings I am THRILLED with the new updates. Have spent the middle of the early morning reading. Damn, that Gilliard guy was good. As a writer, as a foreteller of shit to come, and as a human being. The update went on the page GNB maintains where you can always find every link to

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• Wonderful Recording of JFK Reading the Declaration of Independence

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  When you get a quiet moment this weekend, take a listen to this recording, made for New York radio station WQXR’s 1957 July 4th observance. The Kennedy Library received the recording in January 1964 from WQXR. Hearing aloud the ideal of our revolution, our independence reminded me today of why I keep fighting for progressive causes

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• Former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms Has Died.

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  Out Of Propriety, I Left “And Gleeful, Legislation-Twisting Racist Homophobe” Out Of The Main Headline, And Placed It Here Instead Because I Have Class. (CBS) Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died. He was 86. Helms died in Raleigh at 1:15 this morning, according to the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate,

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• Breaking: Jesse Helms Dies

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  Former 5-Term U.S. Senator Jesse Helmes (R-NC) Dies At 86 According to ABC News in Raleigh, NC, Helms died July 4. Happy Birthday America.Reuters Helms, a blunt-talking product of the Old South, was known as "Senator No" for opposing just about anything that obstructed his conservative view of the world. [ Jesse Helms in an undated file image

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• Hooshing It Up

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  2 days

  As a native California girl who has spent most of her adult life living within a mile or two of the beach, I flatter myself that I know from beachwear. The classic West Coast water uniform -- unchanged in the nearly 50 years since the Beach Boys had their first hit -- is simple. You need a swimsuit, board shorts, a tank top (

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• Celebration!

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  Love, American Style Today, I am happy. I am happy because I get to write. I love to write. I am happy because it is Friday, the Fourth of July, and I am an American thru and thru. I am happy because that fuck, Jesse Helms is dead. And tonight, there are fireworks over the lake. It is July 4, Independence Day

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