Open Thread and Diary Rescue

This evening's Rescue Rangers are Patriot Daily, HansScholl, jlms qkw, dadanation, shayera, and srkp23, with watercarrier4diogenes at the Editor's Desk looking smirkingly serious

Tonight's diaries cover a variety of interesting issues not covered by the 'traditional media' (tm Kos) with the kind of research, perspective and analysis we see here every day.

• fedupcitizen, inspired by the CNN documentary Black in America and the poetry of Jon Goode, revisits childhood memories and the importance of neighborhood in mom's gonna show you right from wrong. (Hans Scholl)
• iampunha covers history from 1865 to 2008 in July 26, 1948: I order you to serve with that black man. (jlms qkw)
• D Wreck reports on the chilling news that police conducted 288 hours of undercover surveillance on "terrorists," a.k.a peace activists. (srkp23)
• dday discusses how at least 3 of our candidate class of 2008 will be Putting the "more" in more and better Democrats in our caucus. (Patriot Daily)
• Andrew for Oklahoma informs us that Andrew Rice needs some donations to extend the run of a great TV ad to provide Rice with name ID needed to beat Inhofe in OK-Sen: Oklahoma Heat. (Patriot Daily)
• EuroTrash60's My picture was in the Berliner Zeitung! Obama crowd recaps what it was like to be part of that crowd of 200,000 people and closes with a photograph that surely will make you smile. (dadanation)
• Crashing Vor offers Divertissement: Come Fly with Me (Photos) and shares with the community some wonderful architectural news. (shayera)
• In dishing out a healthy dose of snark, EugeneF elaborates on How Michael Savage Would Have Explained the Bubonic Plague. (dadanation)
• Mother Mags reminds Kossacks that We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet. (shayera)
• atitlan brings the most crucial and most overlooked P.O.V concerning the U.S. occupation of Iraq, in Iraqis: 'Surge' Is a Catastrophe. (srkp23)
• Silent Spring offers up a thoughtful diary on The Catholic Vote and intersections with Democratic values. (srkp23)

jotter has High Impact Diaries - July 25, 2008 and asimbagirl has Top Comments: Decompressing after Netroots Nation.

Enjoy and please promote your own favorite diaries in this open thread (even if you're the author! Here's where that's actually appreciated). And, of course, since it's an open thread, PLAY NICE, OK? 8^)