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December 4, 2006 in Links

Griz win! ‘Cats bow out… Next game for Montana: UMass! That’s right! Honestly, I feel no conflicting emotions at all – go, Griz!

Shane finds the coolest little Christmas tree…

Happy Blog-o-birthday, F-Words! Sara relives the glory days…

Cece made it to Jon’s Helena thank-you stop…

US News & World Report interviews Jon Tester and his plans to help small businesses.

The Missoulian writes a good profile of the incoming state’s first female Senate Majority Leader, Carol Williams.

The Billings Gazette must be reading Intelligent Discontent’s opinions on education. Either that, or great minds think alike! (*Pogie cringes*)

The Billings Gazette also finds some fault with the Good Guv’s full-time kindergarten plan – not with the concept, but with the effort needed to fund and house fulltime kindergarteners.

Julie Fanselow dubbed one of the 13 most influential bloggers of the 2006 election! A lot of bloggers were left out, by the way, including Matt. But what can you do?

The Notorious Mark T is inspired by Diane Feinstein’s legislation to require paper trails and auditing of electronic voting machines. It is an excellent suggestion…

David Sirota divides the Democrats into “people-power” and “money-power” legislators, and includes “leaners,” like Max Baucus.

And former Labor Secretary Robert Reich sees a test of sorts for the Democrats on people vs. money: drug negotiation and Medicare.

Kossak MontanaMaven on the negotiation of the Korea Free Trade Agreement here in Montana.

Meanwhile, Baucus may block the free trade agreement with South Korea over beef.

Courtney Lowery has all the Western political links.

First Rummy, now Bolton resigns. Let’s hope a few more political hacks will get their walking papers, and we’ll get a semblance of government back. (Hat tip to Colby.)

This is your government on unconstitutional anti-terror measures: the case of Jose Padilla. It’s pretty extreme treatment, especially if you consider the charges against him are looking weaker by the day…

Meanwhile, the media is completely ignoring real terrorists, like freeper Conrad Castagana. These people use threats of violence and intimidation to coerce people they oppose from speaking out.

And the federal government is busy assessing your risk to the country.

Internal government auditors apparently won’t be flying any time soon, thanks to their new status as “terrorists.”

Rumor abounds that W knew Jim Webb’s son was recently under heavy fire and saw the deaths of some comrades before the Webb/W ruckus.

Glenn Greenwald notes that a number of democratic states are aligned against us and blames W’s aggressive and bungled foreign policy.

Gore on Bush: “This administration has been by far the most incompetent, inept, and with more moral cowardice, and obsequiousness to their wealthy contributors, and obliviousness to the public interest of any administration in modern history, and probably in the entire history of the country!” Hm…Gore in 2008 sounds better and better to this poor blogger’s ears…

Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson on Rummy’s “good ideas” for Iraq. Like Dickinson, I’m confused why some of these ideas haven’t already been put into place.

David Gergen: the press failed miserably in the run up to the Iraq war. (Shouldn’t we be firing some of the people responsible for this?)

The Polish Wolf points out we have the lowest teen pregnancy rates since 1946…mainly because of the availability of contraceptives. In any case, let’s hear less about what a “promiscuous” society we have, etc & co.

How you can prepare for peak oil.