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...clear and comprehensive prohibition of discrimination on the basis of disability." That covered a lot of ground, and a lot of people - some 43 million, by Congress's estimate. To be sure, the new law did not please everyone. Businesses griped about the cost of altering their bricks and mortar and, more vociferously, about fighting lawsuits claiming violations of the act. Horror stories, some even true, abounded of serial plaintiffs filing hundreds of cases against businesses they had never visited. Yet one way or another, the accommodations got made, and the nation was largely better...
...STEPS BACK, ONE STEP FORWARD Condoleezza Rice returns from a surprise visit to Iraq and announces that Iraqis are making progress. That contrasts with the widespread downbeat accounts. However, her plane's landing in Baghdad was delayed for 45 minutes because of mortar fire--so maybe she missed the bad stuff...
...Saddest Moment - Having an infantry battalion commander hand me the dog tags of one of my Marines who had just been killed while on a mission with his unit. Hit by a 60mm mortar. He was a great Marine. I felt crushed for a long time afterward. His picture now hangs at the entrance to our section area. We'll carry it home with us when we leave in February...
...more, the Netroots are, paradoxically, attempting to maximize their effectiveness by going off-line. MoveOn is organizing its members to make a combined 5 million phone calls before Election Day, asking people to vote for Democrats. Markos Moulitsas, who runs Daily Kos, is talking about building real, bricks-and-mortar gathering halls where progressives can meet and organize political activities in person. Jane Hamsher, who runs the piquant online hangout Firedoglake, and other bloggers have started the "roots project," in which they employ nonweb political tactics like writing letters to the editors of their local newspapers. "We can hammer...
...while Operation Medusa rolls on, back at FOB Maizan, the U.S. and Romanian troops struggle to fill the time between mortar attacks with chores, video games, books, and of course, learning to play the fiddle...