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Skippy has the link to Michael Moore's letters from the troops.

Walter in Denver will be blogging through the holidays. If you will be too, let us know in the comments section.

Dave at Seeing the Forest says the news of mad cow disease in the U.S. will kill the beef industry

Things are going to happen fast now. By the time we wake up tomorrow there will be no beef industry in the US. This is because we have no real inspection system -- the corporations have bought off the government -- and our Agriculture Secretary is corporate lobbyist Ann Veneman.

Greg at Soundbitten points out some inconsistencies in Rush's various statements over the past few months, concluding:

Supposedly cured after 30 days of self-examination and hard reckoning, Limbaugh seems like he's still pretty much thinking like a junkie: he didn't do anything wrong, except for all the wrong stuff that he did, but that stuff wasn't really his fault…