Is anyone else trying to get ready for Thanksgiving? Here's an open thread with open topics until I get back this afternoon.

Norwegianity and Sideshow have good roundups of topics today, from Murtha and the Republican's transparent stunt of vote on his Iraq pull-out measure, to the immigration raid that busted 125 undocumented workers of a Wal-Mart sub-contractor to Diebold and California. Here's an open thread to discuss these and all other topics of interest to you.

It's a court day here, so if you have something to say, here's some space. You pick the topics, there sure are alot of them these day.s

Last week I put up a request for a new laptop. 24 hours later, an incredibly generous reader of TalkLeft purchased the exact one I had asked for. It just arrived this afternoon. It is so awesome, just 2.8 pounds and it's got everything I could want.

I am going to spend the next several hours getting acquainted with the new laptop. To my generous donor, thank you so much, and I'll be sending you a handwritten thank you note in the morning.

For the rest of you, here's an open thread.

It's a court day for me, which means an open thread day for you. All topics are welcome.

Update: A huge, huge thanks to whomever purchased the laptop for me. I am so appreciative. YOu have made my life much easier and me very happy today.

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What is it about laptops that they seem to die after two years of heavy usage? In September, 2003, I posted this on TalkLeft:

I haven't written about:

• the Paris Riots,
• the disclosure in today's New York Times that a primary intelligence source for Iraqi information was branded a "likely fabricator" months before his information was used by the Administration "to gin up sentiments for war."
• Sen. Jay Rockefeller saying today he was "dead wrong" in his vote for the Iraq War
• Warren Beatty trying to crash Gov. Arnold's rally
  

Does anyone have something to say about these or other topics? Go right ahead.

Great job announcement over at Josh Marshall's Talking Points and TPM cafe. I really like the last line:

No deadline for applications. We'll hire when we've found the right person.

Work beckons for me, so here's an open thread for you.

I'm off to meet with clients I should have met with Thursday and Friday while I was covering RoveGate. Here's a place to keep the conversation flowing.

I just got an email from Typepad apologizing for the slowness in the comment registration process for the past several weeks. They are taking major steps to improve it. If any of you have experienced difficulties in trying to comment here, I apologize. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Here's place to vent and register your reactions. It will remain up all day.

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