Open Thread and Diary Rescue

Tonight’s Diary Rescue crew was Louisiana 1976, Yashua, BentLiberal, dopper0189, Shayera, jlms qkw, and dadanation.

The rescued diaries

• New Deal democrat writes a warning on how the lessons of a past financial crisis were not learned in The Insolvency of the FSLIC: a warning from the S&L crisis? (dopper0189)
• BruinKid offers My long-delayed Netroots Nation photo diary and makes us all nostalgic for Austin. (shayera)
• Something the Dog Said wonders whether or not the conservatives are finding themselves in an unresolvable conflict between their known disbelief in energy conservation and their love of free trade in The End Of Globalization? (dopper0189)
• faithfull discusses the sharp increase in Appalachian coal prices and provides a round-up of mountain-energy issues in Mountain Monday: Is Coal the New Oil? (BentLiberal)
• Grand Moff Texan points out that The “News”: Still Using THE WRONG AD to Smear Obama. (shayera)
• bcgntn tells us how US law allows waterboarding and other forms of torture against so-called “enemy combatants” in The Faith; Legal Torture Need Not Be “Reasonable.” (Louisiana 1976)
• Avenging Angel tells Kossacks what Purple Heart Band-Aids and Tire Gauges have in common and warns that we have to stay vigilant against the smears these stories raise. (shayera)
• dengre takes NPR to task for a one-sided discussion of journalistic guidelines on the campaign trail in McCain, Obama, AP, Media Ethics & NPR’s race-based bias… (BentLiberal)
• ksh01 reminds us of another hero who has a birthday today in Happy Birthday Helen Thomas! (jlms qkw)

The regular extras

jotter has High Impact Diaries - August 3, 2008.

elise has tonight’s Top Comments: Jerry Northington for DE-AL.

An extra hat tip
If you have a moment, you might want to check out this diary by Seneca Doane who shares a creative community effort to raise funds for more and better Democrats in DE-AL: Possum photo auction rebooted; need your help!

The reminder

Please use this as an Open Thread as well as your chance to promote your favorite diaries of the day. Respectful engagement is most welcome here. Please keep in mind that each Diary Rescue’s daily purview extends from 3pm PST yesterday to 3pm PST today.