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Yesterday, the Trib had a pretty good article on the “lesser known” candidates for the Salt Lake Mayoral race.  Some key quotes:
Clamoring for your vote is a colorful crop that includes: A convict, a man banned from city schools, an off-road-vehicle fanatic, a colorectal surgeon who treats debates like comedy hour, and a twenty-something student [...]

…I doubt it. Its probably just that most Americans don’t know Lebanon from baloney. It doesn’t hurt that Condi Rice has become the poster girl for shameless ambition.
As reported at HuffPost
A few months ago, she [Condi Rice] decided to write an opinion piece about Lebanon. She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of [...]

Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four minutes from the documentary to show.
On May 10, Republicans insisted this not be shown

I made a disparaging comment about Barack Obama the other day on Simple Utah Mormon Politics. Although I still stand by the comment as it relates to the machinations of Hillary Clinton, I have apologized here for the statement as it regarded Senator Obama. I spent 15 days recently with my three oldest [...]

In this video, Borat gets the Kansas City Council have a ten-minute moment of silence for a fictional event. No one questiosn him. They just stand there for ten minutes. CITY COUNCIL people in a major American city.
We’re screwed.

How are things going with Operation Phantom Thunder? “We’re still at the beginning of this offensive, but we’re seeing some hopeful signs,” according to President Bush. An even more optimistic Senator Lindsey Graham says, “We literally have the enemy on the run.” White House spokesman Tony Snow knows the so-called “surge” is [...]

… the media would even touch it.
You may recall the California electricity crisis that began in April of 2000 when a power plant shut down for more than two weeks. You know, the one that caused the cost of energy to go through the roof, and precipitated the recall of Governor Gray Davis and [...]

So the official filing date is past and we have our (probably) final list for the 2007 Mayor’s Race (from Tuesday’s Trib):
Mayor
    Ralph Becker
    Dave Buhler
    Keith Christensen
    Rainer Huck
    J.P. Hughes
    Quinn Cady McDonough
    Robert Muscheck
    John Renteria
    Jenny Wilson
The Mayor’s race isn’t the only one taking place in Salt Lake this fall - [...]

Via Think Progress. Tony Snow’s op-ed in USA Today earlier this week deserves special attention because it’s a handy catalog of Bush administration lies. Some of these are so big they’ve become part of the landscape and we hardly notice them anymore.
Here’s the title: “Victory in Iraq is vital: President has weakened al-Qaeda, [...]

Again, with no fanfare or comment, Bush issued a new executive order on Tuesday which gives the Feds the authority bypass all your legal rights and protections and seize you and your property by simply accusing you, or someone you know, of “threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq or…undermining [...]