Please note, there will be two IGTNT diaries today, this one, and noweasels' this evening.

This IGTNT will be a little different from the others in the series.  I am not a regular IGTNT author.  I am writing a guest diary, commemorating Sgt. Cawley because I know and love his children and wife.

This diary is for Cecil, Keiko and Miyuki.  May I honor and remind us of your father and husband lovingly and in a manner you and he would want.

Sgt. James W. Cawley, USMC died Saturday, March 29, 2003, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad.  He was 41 years old.  He was the first Utahn killed in the Iraq war.  He was a Marine Corps reservist and a police officer who loved and lived to serve his country, his community and his family.

Sgt. Cawley, you must have been a wonderful man.  You are still sorely missed.

For the office folks (and others) here's a transcript of Colbert's The Word on Lieberman.  Please forgive my misspellings, and feel free to correct them in the comments.

This diary is for Jim P. in response to his request for FDR speeches (http://www.dailykos.com/...).  This is the text of an FDR speech that can't be found on the web, but which my husband found in his grandparents' possessions.  The FDR Library and Museum does have a copy which you can request, but I thought I'd save you some time.  Sorry for any typos!

For anyone other than Jim P., yes, this is a very odd diary in that, other than the intro, the text is entirely FDR's.  I never would have bent Kos diary rules so badly were it not for the fact that (1) you can't find this speech on the web; (2) this is a truly excellent speech and well worth the read; and (3)  I found it especially pertinent to today's political and economic climate, and especially to the progressive movement as a whole and what I believe we in the Kossac community hope to accomplish.  I intend to diary this pertinence as soon as I can, and this (today's) diary will give me a copy of the speech to which I can refer.

You may recall Cindy Sheehan's run in with the Capitol Police over her anti-war T-shirt which declared the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq.  Beverly Young, the wife of a GOP rep was also booted from the SOTU that same night for wearing a T-shirt that said Support our Troops. Charges against Sheehan were dropped, and Mrs. Young was absolved of all wrong-doing as well, the next day, and one might have thought the government's war on nefarious T-shirts had ended there. But the problem of anti-government T-shirts has become ubiquitous, and the Feds seem determined to stamp out the problem where ever it rears its ugly head.

It doesn't get any clearer than this.

http://cbs2chicago.com/...

To all Democratic and all Republican senators who call themselves pro-choice, who value democracy:  you have one more chance on this tomorrow morning.  Do not think you can get away with the argument that you didn't know when you voted to end debate, or when you outright voted for Alito that he would overturn Roe.

The Condi "who could have predicted that would happen" Rice argument holds no water.  If you were too naiive to have figured it out on your own, even though Alito never actually came right out and said he'd overturn Roe, his appointer could not have made it any more plain.  I bet he's got a lot more cards up his sleeves, too.  So please, when you cast your votes tomorrow, THINK before you act.