Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Tonight’s Rescue Rangers are shayera, blank frank, ItsJessMe, dopper0189, BentLiberal, jennyjem and grog.
- In Looking to women as agents of peace, rb137 presents a thoughtful portrait of an organization that uses microcredit programs to empower women in war-torn countries. (blank frank)
- annetteboardman presents pictures and musings on Padang in better days. (jennyjem)
- MaikeH shares a really heartwarming story about tolerance in “If Richard is one of them, they can’t be all bad”. (shayera)
- Woodworker sees too much youth violence, and wonders if there isn’t a better way to teach our children: Death, violence and conflict resolution. (dopper0189)
- Clarknt67 urges Progressives to act in Right Wing Gunning for another Obama Aide, Call To Action. (BentLiberal)
- Have a pen ready to copy down some talking-points since Vyan rants that I’ve HAD IT up to my Left Eyeball with this “Socialism” Crap! (jennyjem)
- If you’re a science nerd too you’ll love FishOutofWater’s DK Greenroots: 4 Inches Deeper, which sounds like a environmental porn film but is in fact about the geology of Mars and Venus and other cool stuff. (blank frank)
- B Dizzle gives an outstanding and well-researched report on Rescission Technology: Inside the Nation’s Largest Consumer Insurance Reporting Agency. (BentLiberal)
- AHaynes dishes the dirt on the PR companies behind the “Coal is Good!” schtick in Scoop: the “CO2isgreen” and “America’s Power” Coal PR firms are cohabiting in DC. (jennyjem)
- cskendrick crafts a detailed expose in They Might As Well Call it BlueCrossCare. (BentLiberal)
- Though you probably ignored it as “just another Alan Grayson diary,” Alan Grayson: Focus on the big picture shows us what Grayson was doing before the “die quickly” speech. Diarist annie em is a Grayson constituent and longtime supporter, and provides analysis and plenty of video of dKos’s new favorite congressman. (blank frank)
- stevie avebury reflects on Congressman Grayson’s words and ponders the question Is It A Holocaust? (jennyjem)
jotter gives us the day’s High Impact Diaries: September 30, 2009, while sardonyx has Top Comments: The Prolific Commenters, January through September 2009.
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