chicanery to be exposed?

there is exposed and there is ignored ::

the DSM, the niger docus, brewster jennings, able danger, secret cheney/energy meetings, the lack of troops body armor, bridas, osama, AIPAC, the NO levees, the london jordan bali false flag ops, anthrax investigation, zarqawi is an israeli creation, abramoff and atta were pals, no 757 at pentagon, LARRY effin SILVERSTEIN!, PNAC

do I really need to keep going? I could wear out the comma button on this post alone.

Mr. Corn, Good morning again! Hope you have a wonderful New Years' Eve gathering with loved ones and dear friends. Here's somehting for everyone!

Happy's New Year Wishes or Predictions (12/29/05 Update)

Happy's Assessment of Cornesters: The Learning Potential of the Current Class of Regular (Liberal) posters, by genetics, are highly limited. Also, please forgive the meanest of the bunch. Pandemoniac needs an outlet and Mr. Corn is kind to oblige. Some that were studying Conspiracy Theory 911, seem to have found their way to the correct class room(s). Cluttering of the site continues, unfortunately! Leaving people with more precious view of their own time, limited ability to respond; particularly to light-weight `insignificant’ personal attacks.

DavidCorn.com: The civility asked for by the Corn Host and demanded by the visiting Right is much more evident; except for the Meanest of the bunch. Any visitor can see for oneself! Is Mr. Corn proud of his bunch? Check out his bio at Pajamas Media. Catalyst: Yours truly, Happy, Happy New, Happy News Everywhere, Happy at Night

Iraq: Against the usual pessimism of the Left and lowered expectations of the Right, Iraq `outperforms’ when the Sunnis and Shiites come together. Resulting in a reduction of coalition forces by, say half. Remaining forces are entirely in the Sunni areas as much for their protection as for fighting the die-hards. Catalyst: Saddam (or other well-known Sunnis) and Ali-Sistani (or other well-known Shiites) decide to give a united Iraq a Go until at least the next set of national elections!

Al Queda: One or two at the top (BL, Zarq, Zawa, Omar) is/are captured. Catalyst: major foreign intelligence coup + someone (close to AQ) that comes to see that cave dwelling is going nowhere fast.

Democrats: Events in Iraq, good, bad or ugly, continue to leave the party divided & confused. But, as it often seems, how badly depends on the polls. At the mid-Term Elections, nothing new but the party may well lose more ground. Catalyst: likely None; unless a viable 2008 Contender steps up and becomes a statesman/woman.

Republicans: Mounts legislative attempt to once and for all, firmly establish the Commander-in-Chief’s authority to do what is necessary to fight terrorism against foreign or US citizens. Such legislation will clearly cite technology as too fast-moving and that our defenses must be proactive and preemptive; however, if the CIC is found to have used such power for political purposes, the President shall immediately be subject to impeachment proceedings. Catalyst: Patriot Act extension & beyond

Joe Lieberman: Following in the honorable footsteps of Vermont Sen. Jefford, Joe declares himself an Independent shortly before the mid-Term Elections. Catalyst: Main GOP challenger drops out of the race while the country is treated to a Dem-against-Joe campaign.

MSM: According to one Cornester, perhaps one major `old Media’ players (TV networks & big city publishers) is in the process of surrendering to reality and is transitioning to a `fair and balanced’ approach. If confirmed after further observations, count the eye-popping number of editors and reporters that resign or are fired for a Leftness indicator. Catalyst: Diminished market shares and the competitive spirit lead to internal change or perhaps being bought out by others wanting to compete w/FOX.

Here is wishing ALL a Happy New Year! Everywhere in this great nation, there are smart people (hint: don’t rave and rant, at least in public! This one is for you Mr. Corn!) that passionately disagrees with each other and yet, could be attending the same parties over the coming week. If you find yourself on the cusp of a political discussion with The Opposition, restrain yourself. Like mother taught: “if you don’t have anything good to say, …..” Consider your restraint a gift to the other that cost you nothing! May God Bless America and Mr. Corn, as you (presumably) vacations somewhere, a special New Years’ greeting for your hospitality.

Corn Regulars on the left:

I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get you all to recognize the errors of your ways. Most of you have acted like kids; but much worse. Maybe you really are mental cases waiting to happen! Why have you pushed my hints and some up-side-the-head `whomps' to the point that our very gracious Host has to publicly HINT at you? Come on, are you grownups?

Some of you may recall my son being in the swim team, there is no shame in accepting defeat when met with superior swimmers (force). If your feelings are hurt because this force happens to be just one against all of you, does that tell you something about how `misunderestimating' you have collectively been? Get over it and help David turn this blog site to a unique forum where both the Right and the Left, can meet for civilized and intelligent discussions! Please put aside your wounded pride and learn from your mistakes!!

can't leave this out::
150+ 911 SMOKING GUNS all found in the mainstream media

9)Sept. 7, Jeb Bush puts the FL National Guard on alert. (MyFlorida.com, WorldNetDaily)

19)San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives travel warning eight hours before attacks. (SF Chronicle)

34)Occupant in WTC says weeks before attacks they had "unusual" amount of evacuations from WTC and says he thinks "they had an inkling something was going on." (Time)

45)Company hired to help clean up Ground Zero is control demolition experts, Controlled Demolition Inc. (Waste Age)

59)Rumsfeld announces Pentagon lost track of $2.3 trillion the day before it gets hit (CBS, DoD) attacks came near end of fiscal year & important budget information was located in the damaged area (Arlington County) large number of fatalities at Pentagon were civilian accountants, bookkeepers and budget analysts (Pitt Post-Gazette)

David,

I echo James Ha when he said "there is exposed and there is ignore". The criminal acts of the Bush Administration can be exposed all you want - and I want you to keep working towards exposing them - but I fear nothing will come of it.

What everyone needs to do, the ones that want to bring down this corrupt administration, is to work towards taking back control of Congress from the GOP. I for one will work to get Sensenbrenner out of office in '06.

If we take control of Congress away from the Republicans, we may have a fighting chance.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

And Happy - you have a Happy New Year too. While you are annoying and repeat this wierd predictions thing - you are entertaining, very condesending, but also entertaining. I laugh at your posts.

Flan #6 I don't recall skirmishing w/you! I didn't read most long Comments closely. Anyway, thanks! At least you confirmed to me that the `Regulars' are not ALL hopeless! I used the Don Rickles approach and if David did not `come out' today in my support, I am not sure many beside yourself would have ever seen the light! No serious, ntellectually rewarding discussions can take place when civility is not part of the pre-conditions!

Happy,

Let me make myself clear. I do not support you. I laugh at your posts and while I find you very condesending I also find you entertaining because you are so ridiculous. But you just go on and think whatever you want.

The only reason I did not post anything before is because there was nothing worth responding to. I tolerate you and am now regretting I addressed any comment to you.

Happy,

One last thing - your remark about not skirmishing w/me tells me that is what your objective is. Inciting fights, not having an honest debate, otherwise you would discuss real issues.

I will waste any more time on you.

Damn! I meant I will NOT waste anymore time on you and now I have!

Flan #9 Anytime the Opposition shows up, skirmishing is to be expected, No? I don't like fights, not since in my teen years. Don't backtrack on me! Doesn't point/counterpoint, cross fire, cross talk, etc.... all mean skirmishing? Several issues, forward-looking stuff, didn't get discussed during my `Regular' Guest appearances. No one took up the pros & cons of impeaching...lots of pro but just my con. To be credible, one must assesss what happens if you fail in your strategy, you know, the "What if...?"

Didn't I say something like "No sensible Righty/Lefty expects support from the Lefty/Righty"?

Like baf before me, I am becoming bored! I will keep up w/this site but dial back Comments. I can't afford to keep on giving away my time!

"forward looking stuff"?
I fear that means sweeping previous issues under the rug and cheerfully forgetting them - not as long as I'm around

the word "impeachment" has been bandied about so often that it means nothing anymore - if lying the way into a war for profit and bearing false witness are not enuf for impeachment then nothing is

Flan,

Thanks

capt

I will try to be nice to morons.
I will try to be nice to morons.
I will try to be nice to morons.

I know that this will come as no surprise to a world class economist such as yourself (LOL), but us po' folks haven't been having such an easy time getting all those high-paying jobs that you were bragging about, dude.

Jobless claims edged higher last week
New claims for state unemployment benefits rose to 322,000
December 29, 2005

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - New claims for jobless benefits rose by 3,000 last week, in line with forecasts on Wall Street, a government report showed Thursday.
Initial claims for state unemployment insurance benefits rose to 322,000 the week ended Dec. 24 from an upwardly revised 319,000 the prior week, the Labor Department said.
The number of continued claims -- a measure of how many people remained on benefit rolls after drawing an initial week of aid -- rose for a third straight week. Claims were up 85,000 to 2.7 million in the week ended Dec. 17, the latest week for which data are available.

Can we just chalk it up to another Xmas gift from the Cheney Administration? Yeah, 'tis the season, pendejo.

Could you tell us again that funny stuff about how the economy is booming?

Wait, I forgot to mention the housing boom:
Existing Home Sales Slip in November
Forbes - 28 minutes ago
By JEANNINE AVERSA , 12.29.2005, 10:05 AM.
Sales of previously owned homes fell by 1.7 percent in November, a fresh sign that the high-flying housing market is losing altitude. The latest snapshot of activity ...

Existing home sales slow; inventory highest since '86

That's OK, Nostradamus. Things'll pick up in the New Year. I hear retailers did "OK" this Xmas season.

Mr. Corn's last words of 2005(?):
"the Libby trial, the DeLay trial, the Abramoff scandal, the elections, the war, perhaps another Supreme Court vacancy, and who knows what other Bush administration chicanery to be exposed."
Unhappy,
I'm with ya' on the I-word where the Preznit is concerned. Yeah, he is an Idiot; but that's not the I-word I was referring to. I'm not sure we should Impeach him. Why don't we just let him continue with his single-handed destruction of the Republican party (such as it is)? I'm all for that.

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." —9/13/01

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."—3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."—3/13/02

"I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."—3/13/02

"Uhh—Gosh, I —don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those, uhh, exaggerations." — Tempe, AZ, 10/13/2004

George W. bush

The NYT had an article, UN observer in Baghdad calls the voting valid. My 2006 predictions say that the only invalid elections are held in the USA. More Diebold Rigged Voting Machines will be certified in more states and in more counties of the USA. Repugnants will gain more power and Tinkle King Bush will have absolute power. In 2006 we will see the certification of Nazi America. More Americans will adore and revere the Tinkle King. My prayer will continue to be MAY GOD SAVE US FROM OURSELVES!!!

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."—April 28, 2005 - bush

#17 James Ha, your remembrance of Tinkle King's words are priceless jewels.

there's an entire site dedicated to the inanity of bush' words ::
supak.com/bush.htm

An excellent read!!!

Why Fight?

ECHELON: America's Spy in the Sky

This may be old stuff to many of you...this article was written some time ago...

"...ECHELON : Every American interacts with this system on a daily basis, and yet virtually no one on this side of the Atlantic is aware of its existence. ECHELON is actually a computer component to a global spy system controlled by the National Security Agency (NSA) and shared with the GCHQ of England, the CSE of Canada, the Australian DSD, and the GCSB of New Zealand. These organizations are bound together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text remain under wraps even today..."

Many Americans Still Believe
Hussein Had Links to al Qaeda

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
December 29, 2005

Sizeable minorities of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein had "strong links to al Qaeda," a Harris Interactive poll shows, though the number has fallen substantially this year.

About 22% of U.S. adults believe Mr. Hussein helped plan 9/11, the poll shows, and 26% believe Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded. Another 24% believe several of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis, according to the online poll of 1,961 adults.

However, all of these beliefs have declined since February of this year, when 64% of those polled believed Mr. Hussein had strong links to al Qaeda and 46% said Mr. Hussein helped plan 9/11. At that time, more than a third said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and 44% said several of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqis.

Currently, 56% of adults believe Iraqis are better off now than they were under Mr. Hussein, down from 76% in February. Nearly half of those polled say they believe Iraq, under Mr. Hussein, was a threat to U.S. security, down from 61% in February.

See the full results of the Harris poll:

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Okay, we are down to the rocket scientists.

The bottom 20 some odd percent are so clueless they do not even notice they are marginalizing themselves.

capt

Bush is reading again

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. G.K. Chesterton

Jesus speaks sanity to a world of lunatics. G.K. Chesterton

Quotes from the Clinton Impeachment

Tom Delay (R-TX):

"This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law. Sometimes hard, sometimes unpleasant, this path relies on truth, justice and the rigorous application of the principle that no man is above the law. Now, the other road is the path of least resistance. This is where we start making exceptions to our laws based on poll numbers and spin control. This is when we pitch the law completely overboard when the mood fits us, when we ignore the facts in order to cover up the truth.

No man is above the law, and no man is below the law. That's the principle that we all hold very dear in this country."

Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.):

"I suggest impeachment is like beauty: apparently in the eye of the beholder. But I hold a different view. And it's not a vengeful one, it's not vindictive, and it's not craven. It's just a concern for the Constitution and a high respect for the rule of law. ... as a lawyer and a legislator for most of my very long life, I have a particular reverence for our legal system. It protects the innocent, it punishes the guilty, it defends the powerless, it guards freedom, it summons the noblest instincts of the human spirit.

The rule of law protects you and it protects me from the midnight fire on our roof or the 3 a.m. knock on our door."

James Sensenbrenner: (R-WI):

"What is on trial here is the truth and the rule of law. Our failure to bring President Clinton to account for his lying under oath and preventing the courts from administering equal justice under law, will cause a cancer to be present in our society for generations. I want those parents who ask me the questions, to be able to tell their children that even if you are president of the United States, if you lie when sworn "to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," you will face the consequences of that action, even when you don't accept the responsibility for them."

Chuck Hagel (R-NE):

"There can be no shading of right and wrong. The complicated currents that have coursed through this impeachment process are many. But after stripping away the underbrush of legal technicalities and nuance, I find that the President abused his sacred power by lying and obstructing justice. How can parents instill values and morality in their children? How can educators teach our children? How can the rule of law for every American be applied equally if we have two standards of justice in America--one for the powerful and the other for the rest of us?"

Bill Frist (R-TN):

"I will have no part in the creation of a constitutional double-standard to benefit the President. He is not above the law. If an ordinary citizen committed these crimes, he would go to jail."

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas):

"When someone is elected president, they receive the greatest gift possible from the American people, their trust. To violate that trust is to raise questions about fitness for office. My constituents often remind me that if anyone else in a position of authority -- for example, a business executive, a military officer of a professional educator -- had acted as the evidence indicates the president did, their career would be over. The rules under which President Nixon would have been tried for impeachment had he not resigned contain this statement: "The office of the president is such that it calls for a higher level of conduct than the average citizen in the United States."

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Interesting to relive some of the Reich-wings impeachment comments.

capt

A Reputation in Tatters

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’≥ reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’≥ reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the United States.

America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable.

As intent as Republicans were to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about a sexual affair, they have a blind eye for President Bush’≥ far more serious lies. Bush’≥ lies have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, injured and maimed tens of thousands more, devastated a country, destroyed America’≥ reputation, caused 1 billion Muslims to hate America, ruined our alliances with Europe, created a police state at home, and squandered $300 billion dollars and counting.

America’≥ reputation is so damaged that not even our puppets can stand the heat. Anti-American riots, which have left Afghan cities and towns in flames and hospitals overflowing with casualties, have forced Bush’≥ Afghan puppet, "President" Hamid Karzai, to assert his independence from his U.S. overlords. In a belated act of sovereignty, Karzai asserted authority over heavy-handed U.S. troops whose brutal and stupid ways sparked the devastating riots. Karzai demanded control of U.S. military activities in Afghanistan and called for the return of the Afghan detainees who are being held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

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A very good perspective on the Bush crime family from a crazy lefty.

capt

#24 Capt, just goes to show that the american public has successfully been dumbed down. Now we live in a nation of consumer morons. We will find that this is not conducive to good government, which is why we are on the road to tyranny. After all the russians had jobs, didn't they? Slaves had jobs didn't they? So we have this booming economy that invests in other countries and downsizes to send the scant jobs that pay a living wage overseas, creating a mass of low wage, low interest mouth breathers, and they call them the public? Can't wait for the next chapter in this fiasco to play out. Whack a troll when you get the chance.

Vice Axes That 70's Show

Defending warrantless wiretapping last week, the vice president spoke of his distaste for the erosion of presidential authority in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam.

"I do believe that, especially in the day and age we live in, the nature of the threats we face, it was true during the cold war, as well as I think what is true now, the president of the United States needs to have his constitutional powers unimpaired, if you will, in terms of the conduct of national security policy," he intoned. Translation: Back off, Congress and the press.

Checks, balances, warrants, civil liberties - they're all so 20th century. Historians must now regard the light transitional tenure of Gerald Ford as the petri dish of this darkly transformational presidency.

Consider this: when Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, supported by President Ford, pushed a plan to have the government help develop alternative sources of energy and reduce our dependence on oil and Saudi Arabia, guess who helped scotch it?

Dick Cheney. Then and now, the man is a menace.

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Dowd, sometimes she kick butt!

capt

Make Your Freedom of Information Act Request

George Bush is using the National Security Agency to conduct surveillance on American citizens without the consent of any court. After initially refusing to confirm the story, the President has admitted to personally overseeing this domestic spying program for years.

These actions are explicitly against the law. But the administration says that other laws somehow allow for this unprecedented use of a foreign intelligence agency to spy on Americans right here in the United States. According to reports, political appointees in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel wrote still-classified legal opinions laying out the supposed justification for this program.

Governor Howard Dean is filing a formal demand that they release these documents. You can add your name to a Freedom of Information Act request by providing the information below.

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Some keyboard activism if you agree with the cause!

capt

American Soldiers

This post is a reminder of what the minority of true Americans and patriotic Americans face with the likes of majority Americans who are known worldwide as American Repugnants, American Nazis, and American Taliban.

2,421 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for the bush lies. When will this madness end? Reports now say that America was wrong and inhumane in their attack upon Iraq.

Too many, American soldiers have been killed in Iraq for the bush lies. How do we bring back the American soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for the bush lies?

2,421 American soldiers are killed for the bush lies and bush is thinking about expanding his war machinery to Iran. Now Iran is the bad guy. The truth is that the bad guys reside in Washington, D.C. Does he have a 2006 surprise to attack Iran? Plans for a 2006 attack are on the drawing board. bush may have convinced the Israelis to attack Iran. The Israelis are to take out a nuclear plant first. Have the Israelis accepted bush’≥ word or is there proof of a nuclear plant? If other nations can have nuclear plants, why can’¥ Iran have a nuclear plant? I hear that the Israelis will also send in ground troops. Why is there always someone to do bush’≥ dirty work? bush wants wars but in order to have wars he must have someone else do his dirty work or he must call for a reinstatement of the military draft. HE SAID IN 2004 THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MILITARY DRAFT. MAYBE HE WILL HOLD OFF ON ANOTHER WAR BUT DON’î COUNT ON IT. Furthermore, if his war loving base WOULD VOLUNTEER FOR THE MILITARY SERVICE, WE WOULD NOT NEED A MILITARY DRAFT. There are enough American Nazis and American Taliban to FIGHT THE BUSH WARS.

I would be for the military draft after we see some of bush, sr.’≥ fourteen grandchildren volunteer for military service. I would also like to see that the sons and daughters of the rich volunteer for the military service. These gestures would serve as role models for other sons and daughters who will eventually be drafted with the reinstatement of the military draft. The rich should sacrifice more for this country because they have more to lose. Sons and daughters of the poor and the middle class have less to lose so they should be exempt from military service.

More and more information mounts that cheney orchestrated the Iraq war and now we read that he is orchestrating the Iran war. cheney has never served in the military but he does love wars. bush and his thugs have increased their hit list to 25 countries.

The military is ready awaiting orders to attack Iran. The feeling is that Iran will crumble in a few days after the attack. WAR, WAR, AND MORE WARS!

For all you War Party members who love hatred and killing you can feel glorified with 2,421 American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for the bush lies and how many more American soldiers will be killed for the possible attack on Iran.

WHY? WHY DOES bush HAVE TO LIE? WAS ATTACKING IRAQ SOME KIND OF THRILL RIDE AND 2,421 AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE DEAD? WHY MUST THIS SENSELESS KILLING CONTINUE? IS IT TO SATISFY bush’≥ MANIACAL EGO?

AMERICA HAS BECOME A NATION WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE ARE INSANE BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WORSHIP A LUNATIC.

It appears that bush has been successful in spreading American democracy around the world. Let us take a close look and see what bush has spread and what he will spread corruption, decadence, filth, porn, CORPORATE FRAUD, lies, hatred, killing, persecution, torture, wars, war crimes, crimes against humanity, mass murders, sadistic behaviors, bush worshippers, oppression, submission to the bushgod, RIGGED ELECTIONS, suppression of positive thought, imprinting of American and world brains with nonsense, DEGRADATION TOWARD 90% OF AMERICANS BY 10% OF THE RICH, an end time and rapture mentality, an anti-God belief by the powers-that-be, keep American and the world fearful and stupid, treat people like mushrooms such as keeping them in the dark and feeding them shit, outlaw the U.S, Constitutions and the Ten Commandments, DESTROY AMERICAN FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS, keep the War Party in permanent control, find more and more ways for the rich to take away money from the middle class and also PROTECT THE RICH FROM PAYING TAXES, find ways to kill off Americans with no medical insurance and keep the cost of prescription drugs out of reach for most Americans TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY, rape foreign lands, CONTINUE A DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE TOWARD OUR FELLOW MAN. America, right or wrong? I have shared with you the American way and our way has been opened to all countries on our planet.

I truly believe that America has forsaken the true God for the American way and only for the American way.

2,421 American soldiers have been killed for the bush lies!

The repugnants and bush are working 24/7 on screwing you and me.

When will this total madness end?

#26 capt, these very same words can be spoken for Bush's impeachment.

Stop Bush's illegal wiretaps -- act now!

It's now been 5 days since President Bush admitted to authorizing the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without court order -- a system he reauthorized as many as 3 dozen times since 2001. Yet despite the outcry from millions of Americans -- both Democrats and Republicans alike -- President Bush has stubbornly promised to continue this illegal and unconstitutional activity.

How can the President of the United States -- the highest elected official in our land, a leader who swore an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution" -- so egregiously and repeatedly violate our most basic civil liberties?

It's time for Congress to act -- to thoroughly investigate the President's actions now.

Urge Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter to hold hearings into the President's conduct, before beginning Supreme Court nomination hearings for Judge Alito - sign my petition today!

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A little bit more keyboard activism if you agree with the cause!

capt

Capt #26

Capt, are you trying to link the Rep comments on impeachment to Bush's comments of WMD? When did Bush lie under oath? When was it proven in a court of law that he lied about anything? Now you spent about 40 posts on the last topic accusing TRH of being a liar (how old are you man) and I am now accussing you of being a liar also. You try to blur the truth with your own biased views, which is a lie!!!!Now appologize to TRH for being a low life liar!!!

Sign Our Petition to Stop Alito

President Bush wasn't willing to stand up to the far right -- now it is up to the American people and our senators to stand up for the Constitution. Sign our petition urging your senators to oppose Alito's nomination to be associate justice of the Supreme Court.

Dear Senators,

The Senate must reject President Bush's attempt to reward right-wing special interests by nominating Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court of the United States. Alito's record as an ideological activist would make his confirmation a threat to civil rights protections, reproductive and privacy rights, environmental protections, religious liberty, and laws safeguarding workers.

I urge you to vote not to confirm Samuel Alito to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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One more for the road!

capt

Americans are too immobile to impeach Bush because they possess ATSD.

ATSD stands for American Traumatic Stress Disorder. The father of this stress disorder is George War Bush, more commonly known as a mass murderer and a war criminal. Americans suffer from this disorder because they live under a tyrannical murderer and a war criminal who lies incessantly and who is enamored with endless wars. Plus, the War Bush heads the most corrupt misadministration in the history of the United States of America.

American Soldiers

2,421 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush's evil lies.

16,000+ American soldiers have been maimed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush's evil lies.

40,000+ American soldiers are suffering from PTSD.

Over 100,000+ Iraqis have been killed in Iraq since Bush declared shock and awe bombings on March 19, 2003.

Are you feeling more safe and secure with Bush in the WH and Cheney as his chief hatchet man overseeing America and her people.

American elections are rigged to favor the repugnants.

We will have to see how events play out. Seymour Hersh (when he was asked to comment about the 2004 election)

Bush will declare martial law in 2008 and the elections will be suspended.

Our military men and women are used as cannon fodder for a terrorist American government.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. George W. Bush, August 5, 2005

There is no sense trying to make sense from those who have no sense.

THE GLORY OF BUSH IS MAN FULLY DEAD!!!

This war in Iraq really pisses me off!!!!!

Rigged elections doom American democracy. American soldiers are being killed and maimed TO PROMOTE AN AMERICAN NAZI STATE.

THE GLORY OF GOD IS MAN FULLY ALIVE. St. Irenaeus

I shall pass this way but once. Any good that I can do let me do it now for I shall not pass this way again. St. Ambrose

We must work tirelessly for man to be fully alive.

American soldiers are being killed like flies for Bush's lies. To date 2,421 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

DON'T PATRONIZE ME WITH TALK ABOUT HUMAN LIVES. COLIN LAPDOG POWELL

It sounds like human lives are not important to Lapdog.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version. Oliver North

There is no sense trying to make sense from those who have no sense!

Wolfowitz + World Bank = War + Poverty

As Diebold goes, so goes the election!

American democracy is dead as we know it. We are now OUTSOURCING our dead American democracy around the world with our dead and maimed soldiers who are fighting in foreign lands so these lands can revel in our dead democracy.

My fellow Americans, Bush does not view our Constitution as a piece of paper. He views our Constitution as a piece of toilet paper so he can wipe his ass with it.

When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom. Linda Schrock Taylor

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow

All Americans are accomplices in Bush’≥ murders and war crimes.

To sin is a human business; to justify sin is a devilish business. Leo Tolstoy, Russian author 1828-1910

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. Jack Anderson

PEACE TAKES COURAGE!

HONOR THE TROOPS, DEMAND THE TRUTH!

Shock, awe and Hobbes have backfired on America's neocons

Iraq has shown the hubris of a geostrategy that welds the philosophy of the Leviathan to military and technological power

The spin machine is on full tilt to represent Iraq as a success. Peters, in New Glory: Expanding America's Supremacy, asserts: "Our country is a force for good without precedent"; and Barnett, in Blueprint, says: "The US military is a force for global good that ... has no equal." Both offer ambitious plans for how the US is going to remake the third world in its image. There is a violent hysteria to the boasts. The narcissism of a decade earlier has given way to an extrovert rage at those who have resisted America's will since 2001. Both urge utter ruthlessness in crushing resistance. In November 2004, Peters told Fox News that in Falluja "the best outcome, frankly, is if they're all killed".

But he directs his real fury at France and Germany: "A haggard Circe, Europe dulled our senses and fooled us into believing in her attractions. But the dugs are dry in Germany and France. They deluded us into prolonging the affair long after our attentions should have turned to ... India, South Africa, Brazil."

While a good Kleinian therapist may be able to help Peters work through his weaning trauma, only America can cure its post 9/11 mixture of paranoia and megalomania. But Britain - and other allied states - can help. The US needs to discover, like a child that does not know its limits, that there is a world outside its body and desires, beyond even the reach of its toys, that suffers too.

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The only real shock and awe is the complete contempt for the truth from this administration and its supporters.

capt

Cheney's defence

21 December 2005

US VICE President Dick Cheney is always ready to defend the indefensible. Even as the administration is finding it hard to deal with the political storm over domestic spying, Cheney has been bold enough to justify the practice.

Instead of being overwhelmed by the outraged public opinion, the vice president has slammed the previous administrations saying if they had allowed domestic surveillance (or spying on the Americans) September 11 attacks could have been averted.

This is as strange as it gets. Instead of explaining the domestic spying that has angered the Americans on both sides of the political divide, the vice president has turned the whole argument upside down. It’≥ absurd to suggest that eavesdropping on its own citizens could have saved America from the terrorists. The Soviet Union collapsed like a house of cards despite the fact that it had turned spying on its own people into an art. America, the nation that was built on the ideals of democracy, freedom and individual rights cannot turn to abominable practices such as surveillance and phone-tapping to protect itself. America’≥ strength lies in its free spirit and respect for civil liberties.

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Cheney is the worst kind of demagogue, he will say anything to preserve his right to take away our rights.

capt

#15
Yeah, 'tis the season, pendejo.

Pande, you're my hero.

Member of Silent Minority!

Cookies placed on NSA visitor's computers

AIRPORT USES CHAT TO SCREEN TRAVELERS: Metro security agents listen for signals you're a threat

The Patriot Act at work - Get this...a friend of mine and her husband decided to pull some of their money out of their mutual funds and park it in a local bank. They deposited a number of sizeable checks (all over $10,000) -- the next day they got a phone call from their "personal banker" who asked them to come back to the bank to fill in some forms required under the Patriot Act -- she asked the personal banker what's on the forms -- two things she mentioned (1) where did you get this money? (2) how do you intend to use it? WTF????????? My friend said she'd get back to her -- so far, friend and husband have not gone to the bank. They are livid! She told the banker (on the phone) that she was tempted to withdraw her money and go elsewhere -- the banker said, "All banks are required to obtain this information because of the Patriot Act."

A Timeline

A comprehensive, searchable database of many of the events, that led up to the US invasion
of Iraq.

This extensive reference contains data on the political and diplomatic decisions and developments, military activity, plans, statements of officials and reports from the media.

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They might have missed an item or three but this is a very complete timeline.

capt

International Team to Review Iraq Results

BAGHDAD, Iraq - An international team has agreed to review Iraq's parliamentary elections, announcing Thursday that members would travel to Iraq in response to protests by Sunni Arab and secular Shiite groups that the polls were tainted by fraud.

My only question is, WHY CAN'T WE GET SUCH OVERSIGHT HERE?!?!?!

Any transaction over $10k has been required by law to "report" to authorities for several years now. It is a law from before the "Patriot Act" (I am pretty sure)

I will see what I can find on the actual law.

capt

Carol, any time you move more than 10K you have to fill out a form for that, and whether it came from a mutual fund or a loan you have had to do that for some time, not just the patriot act. That law has been in effect since RR or Shrub the first. So the patriot act just sucked it up into it's little corner but still it has been around a while. Of course, criminals know how to move large amounts of money around the world without it attracting any attention so there is not much use of it except to harass law abiding citizens or dimwits with too much cash on hand.

REPORTING CASH TRANSACTION OVER $10,000(PDF)

All based on IRS from #8300.

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The law goes way back to that long ago "war on drugs" and was intended to control/trap large cash transactions by drug dealers.

capt

#41, 44, 45

Yes, but...Carol's friend's story goes beyond the fact that banks have been required to report transactions of $10,000 or larger for years. To have to tell "officials" where you got the money and what you intend to do with it BECAUSE OF THE PATRIOT ACT is too damned intrusive for my taste.

We should be outraged by this. Carol, I hope your friend ignores the bank. Time for civil disobedience.

when did bush lie under oath?

is that why he wasn't under oath at the sham 911 commission? so he wouldn't have to lie under oath?

Back in late 2002 we took out an equity loan to buy a fixer-upper house in Lansing. Husband filled out no form. He deposited the check and just had to wait for it to clear. In 1999 husband put an inheritance check in the bank and filled out no form.

capt, I just did a quick read of the pdf file you linked. It obviously applies to the IRS - U.S. Treasury codes, so Carol's friend has found that the Patriot Act does, indeed, go beyond the original intent of the $10,000 reporting requirement.

Conyers calls for IMPEACHMENT

Powerful, Congressional representative and Detroit Democrat John Conyers has introduced a House resolution to create a Select Committee with subpoena authority to investigate the misconduct of the Bush Administration. Conyers' resolution cites "the Iraq war and ... possible impeachable offenses;

Caroline, you're exactly right. It's intrusive and down right stupid because you give the bank a check with a company name on it, like Smith-Barney, or some bank. Duh. Now, I would think some peon like me going to the bank with $30,000 in cash to deposit would seem damn odd. Still, what if you saved it up over the years in your mattress? You're immediately a drug runner, or now a terrorist. We're so doomed.

Compliance Checklists for Financial Institutions - Bank Compliance -Outline of the checklist:

Carol, tell your friend to check out this site -- she'll be horrified at how intrusive the Patriot Act is..
"Banks have a long history of regulation by the Bank Secrecy Act and related regulations, and as a result the checklist for banks at 100 pages and growing is the longest in the series provided here. The reporting and recordkeeping responsibilities for banks have been evolving for decades and there is a great deal of specificity in much of what is required of banks and their employees. "

I did not mean to disagree, just providing the information about the form.

I think it is an invasion of personal property and privacy. The government has turned the banks into an enforcement arm of poor policy.

Not to mention - I think monetary transactions should be as private as a doctor patient relationship.

Add to that : how much time is being wasted by the government checking into the many (surely millions) of legal aboveboard transactions?

I bet they spend millions to invade and inject themselves (the government) into places they have no business being in.

It is in the same vein as making people produce ID for no reason. That really chaps my hide.

What is even worse is the language saying a "string" of "related" transactions requires the disclosure form. What is that about?

capt

Like when the repugs get lots of checks for the amount under 10K and then deposit them, from the same source, like maybe the marianas islands and then claim that they were seperate events. Sure works for some but not for others.

#43 eyes_open, because Americans choose to close their eyes to the truth.

RE: Banking...

I used to make 3 deposits a day in excess of 10,000 (cash and checks)from my last New England Job, around the Holy Shopping Season of Antioch...

Each time I was required to fill out one of those stupid forms...

Meanwhile the drug dealers I, uhm, had HEARD of, would simply roll their cash over into fine autos, houses, etc...

Selling such later both gave them legitimate "cash" AND better "interest" than a bank would have!

I'm going to my first High-School Basketball game since I was in High School!

Unfortunately the local team is playing in the concession game, but I'm looking forward to spending some time with my brother.

Y'all keep the honesty going, now!

-T

Nazi America is tightening the noose around our necks.

This is a strange one. We went to Best Buy yesterday and bought a WWII game. The teeny-bopper check out girl asked for Bob's ID to make sure he was over 18 before she rang up the rated M (mature) game. BOB IS 66 YEARS OLD!!! I might add that he looks great for his age being as he's not bald and hair not yet turned gray, but he certainly doesn't look anywhere near a teenager. We have got to be the DUMBEST people in the world.

Bush's Military Records

I sure am glad I'm poor and don't fly, what a mess! I ran across this today about the early days of our wonderfull Federal Reserve here It is a long read, but interesting nevertheless.

In case you're wondering, I had to throw a small fit, calling the people running the place "IDIOTS".

You couldn't pay me to go near a frickin' airport.

Bush's Resume

I've read with pleasure. Maybe it's offtopic, but i just wanted to say, that it's really interesting to read everything this with the comments... You discuss here a lot of interesting things on different useful themes. Thanks for that =)

I think the info gleaned on this site is amazing. Contrary to what Happy thinks, going off topic is where it's at for me.

Bush's resume on topplebush.com is 12 pages and growing.

My agenda is to share with you how much I loathe Bush with also a touch of humor. Bush is a mass murderer and a war criminal. My theme prayer is MAY GOD SAVE US FROM OURSELVES. Only God can save America. Please add Bill Moyers' speech to your computer benchmark. I will give a link to it in my next post.

"going off topic is where it's at for me"

Me too!

David's posts are always very good (even when I disagree with him on some things) and I can find an education in both the links to articles and sharing of opinion and commentary on this blog.

I am floored as I learn and continue to learn daily.

Thanks to David and all of you guys!

capt

Let's get Jesus back

Wowzer, more spys, spying on us. Surprised? Whats next, Hitler youth?

ha ha my agenda is obvious - click my name to order the FREE DVD:
'CONFRONTING THE EVIDENCE: Reopen 911'

hey hey NSA...put this in my dossier::

OSAMA BIN LADEN IS A SUPER GENIOUS

Gerald, They did hijack Jesus, and in his place they put, Bizarro Jesus, king of the almighty dollar.

Ha ha James, well I've clicked on your name, but all I get is a site about dashboard Jesus painting. And just for the record, my personal agenda is to remain completely innocuous and contribute absolutely nothing of any value whatsoever.

Well, well...Art Buchwald was really annoyed that he hadn't made the Nixon's Enemies List, but maybe some of us have made the grade on Bush's list. Looks like the busheviks are privatizing DATA MINING...

Missouri Congressman William Clay worries that the Bush Adminstration is skirting the law by letting private contractors handle the data mining.

"The agencies involved in data mining are trying to skirt the Privacy Act by claiming that they hold no data," said Clay. Instead, they use private companies to maintain and sift through the data, he said.

"Technically, that gets them out from under the Privacy Act," he said. "Ethically, it does not."

Now, if we could just get everyone else to remove their evil cookies!

"They" want to privatize everything. Isn't THAT great. Deregulating and privatizing sets the predators loose on all of us.

"hmmmm" Tell y'all sumpn weird...

AOL won't let me send and email to my list with the "drunk Bush" video in it. Nor the email with the link to the "law is King" article by Sidney B. I get an error message with both that says sumpn like "see keyword: Mail Rate", like I've been sending too many emails. (on AOL, it's one of the TOS...terms of service things) 'Cept, I can and have sent other emails to my mailing list, that didn't have "drunk" or "King" in it. I've tried editing the link to say something else, and titling the email diff... still they won't go out. I emailed another 'send' from my "waiting to the sent" list after the error message insinuating I've sent too many for my limit, and they go out just fine.
Has anybody else had probs like that?

*"mail waiting to be sent" list

Alan, don't doubt for a moment that AOL is sucking up to big brother. I believe with the RIAA/MPAA "anti-piracy" witch hunt they were one of the quickest ISPs to roll over and provide user information.

Alan,

I concur with Eyes...AOL is a corporate leader and like all corporate leaders these days, are in the administration's pocket - or visa versa - it's getting to be all one big blur.

I think they would say that they are trying to prevent folks from sending offensive e-mails, but who is to define offensive? Offensive to whom?

This just tells me that all of those folks that are sending me penis enlargement e-mails must not be using AOL.

#43 Eyes

Interesting interview going on right now on Air America - about a book called "Fooled Again". It's about Diebold and the stolen '00 and '04 elections. The author is basically saying the same thing you did. If the election fraud that has occured in Ohio and Florida and other states occured in other countries - the international watch groups would have been shouting it to the roof tops.

That is why they won't be allowed in this country, although they should. The PNAC wants to keep the GOP in office. If they don't, the whole lot of them will be thrown in jail as soon as the incoming administration is sworn in.

Where is Jimmy Carter in all of this? I would think he would be front and center calling for watch groups.

Yeah, thats right, I called David a sellout. Sorry David. I am a very mean person sometimes.

Hey David, whats up with the husband of your friend Vivica Novak getting a lucrative appointment in the Bush cabinet at the same time Mrs. Novak saved Karl Rove's ass? Smells a bit fishy to me... I never saw that story on this blog.

My frustration with modern day journalism is not unique. Our democracy is now a dictatorship, and journalism was just another willing and complicit partner in the process.

before anyone points out that I'm an idiot I'll point it out myself - I misspelled the word genius at 73 - fairly ironic

flan,

Jimmy just wrote a great book. I believe it is #1 on the bestseller list. He has a lot to say, but the corporate controlled media rarely gives anyone a chance to speak up against the neocons these days.

I hope you guys did not hand all of your dollars to corporate greedheads this Christmas. I was very cheap this Christmas. It is so simple. Stop buying a bunch of made in China crap you don't need! Americans spent 8 percent more this Christmas than last year! They are gladly funding the destruction of democracy!

speling is harrd

This just tells me that all of those folks that are sending me penis enlargement e-mails must not be using AOL.

haha Flan, you 'bout made me spit Dr. Pepper all over the screen! lol

damn, I finallly get caught up with the posts, and I gotta leave before contributing anything. I like looking and finding interesting articles myself, but you guys have that covered big-time. *good work guys
I'm heading out to Clear Lake (go by NASA on the way) to help and ollllld friend (known him since we played Little League baseball together) set up his new computer. If not from his later, then I'll get back here tonight on my own 'puter.
peashhh,
Alan

Jeanne, Duluth, Minnesota was highlighted on the national news. A recruitment center is next to a store front that honors the fallen soldiers and the maimed soldiers by numbers. The person in the store front says that he is doing what Bush says we should do and that is to honor our soldiers. The military recruiters are upset.

Let us not forget that we honor the fallen with monuments. What is so wrong with honoring them at a small monument, a store front with the numbers killed and maimed?

War is not a video game!!!

Can you start to realize that our government wants brain dead citizens on par with Tinkle King Bush?

Can't you just love how stupid America really is? What is there not to love about America?

Test your Geography Knowledge Apparently, I don't know where anything is unless it's in the U.S. (sheesh)

A quick note on cookies:

http://www.ccleaner.com/

A free piece of software that will assist in managing your cookies. You all should know what cookies you allow and what cookies are new.

The software has some other features for keeping your system clean. The "cookie" function is very simple, it offers two columns - one that has a list of all of the cookies on your unit and a column for the cookies you want to keep. It will delete all that are not on your list. This makes managing the cookies very easy.

Alan, check with James HA about AOL email. Any anomaly could be tested if James has the time to work with you.

I have been having some access issues and am making some changes here. I will share when I have fixed the problem on my unit.

capt

DEN,

That would be the Bushitler youth!

HA!

capt

Wowzer! Think I'll stick to political issues. Geography has changed since I was a kid.

DEN, I went everywhere on that quiz. It was awful. I didn't know ONE place in China. Not one. That was my worst quiz. I got the continent and oceans perfect. Thank goodness for that!

Capt, I'm already running two spyware programs for THAT problem and now I have one called Mail Washer that filters the spam. I suppose a cookie manager couldn't hurt. Plus I love the computer and knowing how to work everything. Carol, the Geek.

David,

You should know better than to regurgitate an AP story which is patently false. A cookie (I checked and have one from the NY Times and MSN on my computer} only tracks the visits from a particular computer to their own site. It cannot and does not track visits to other sites from that same computer. Why? Because it can't!

Your attempt to stir up anger is ridiculous. Cookie Monster? I thought that would be one of your favorite characters from that taxpayer supported television show.

Cookies are small files placed on your computer when you visit websites. They were designed to make surfing easier when you go back to a site.

Now the cookies are used to store all kinds of info like the contents of your electronic shopping cart.

They are helpful, for the most part, but they carry the potential for abuse because they can monitor and document the activities of web surfers. THAT'S why you have to worry. That power, in the wrong hands like Big Brother's, is NOT good.

Pentagon Shakes Up Emergency Hierarchy

By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press Writer

8:01 AM PST, December 29, 2005

WASHINGTON — Heading a military service isn't quite the position of power it used to be. In a Bush administration revision of plans for Pentagon succession in a doomsday scenario, three of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's most loyal advisers moved ahead of the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

A little-noticed holiday week executive order from President Bush moved the Pentagon's intelligence chief to the No. 3 spot in the succession hierarchy behind Rumsfeld. The second spot would be the deputy secretary of defense, but that position currently is vacant. The Army secretary, which long held the No. 3 spot, was dropped to sixth.

The changes, announced last week, are the second in six months and reflect the administration's new emphasis on intelligence gathering versus combat in 21st century war fighting.

Technically, the line of succession is assigned to specific positions, rather than the current individuals holding those jobs.

But in its current incarnation, the doomsday plan moves to near the top three undersecretaries who are Rumsfeld loyalists and who previously worked for Vice President Dick Cheney when he was defense secretary.

The changes were recommended, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, because the three undersecretaries have "a broad knowledge and perspective of overall Defense Department operations." The service leaders are more focused on training, equipping and leading a particular military service, said Whitman.

Thomas Donnelly, a defense expert with the American Enterprise Institute, said the changes make it easier for the administration to assert political control and could lead to more narrow-minded decisions.

"It continues to devalue the services as institutions," said Donnelly, saying it will centralize power and shift it away from the services, where there is generally more military expertise.

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OMG, these neocons are destroying everything to consolidate power and "assert political control." Seems to me they have big plans and their momentum is not even checked by the Libby (and others I hope) indictments. They could not care less about popularity or what we the people might want.

AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

capt

Cookies are the function that adware/malware/spyware uses to track your shopping and preferences from any of the sites you visit. The "Cookie" is a text file that passes a "variable" and that "variable" can be anything from your computer. Sure is has a one-to-one relation with the source but the information it passes can be anything (personal information, keystroke and passwords, sites visited, etc.)

capt

You go James Ha tell it like it is.

My favorite bumper sticker that I have seen during the holiday... "RELIGION IS WHAT KEEPS THE POOR FROM KILLING THE RICH".

How about "RELIGION...WHAT RICH FOLK HIDE BEHIND WHILE THEY SEND THE MIDDLE AND POOR FOLKS KIDS OFF TO WAR"

Happy New Year to all!!

I still have my fingers crossed and hoping and praying that Fitzgerald meant what he said during his October press conference "that TRUTH IS THE ENGINE OF OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM"....please Fitz deliver Rove.

I know Cheney would be a long shot, but if Fitz frog-marched Cheney and Rove out of the White House in 2006 along with a few more neo-cons I would truely believe that there is a God....

"I know Cheney would be a long shot, but if Fitz frog-marched Cheney and Rove out of the White House in 2006 along with a few more neo-cons I would truely believe that there is a God...."

Yes, AND if that happens I will DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!!!

capt

Carol, trouble is most people don't understand what goes on inside their computer so they are vulnerable. It makes them easy prey for the unscrupulous. I'm going to try the capts' cookie site and see how that works. Never have enough anti-syware stuff.

NSA's Lamest Spy Tool: Cookies

Don Weber, an NSA spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday that the cookie use resulted from a recent software upgrade. Normally, the site uses temporary, permissible cookies that are automatically deleted when users close their web browsers, he said, but the software in use shipped with persistent cookies already on.

"After being tipped to the issue, we immediately disabled the cookies," he said.

Cookies are widely used at commercial websites and can make internet browsing more convenient by letting sites remember user preferences. For instance, visitors would not have to repeatedly enter passwords at sites that require them.

But privacy advocates complain that cookies can also track web surfing, even if no personal information is actually collected.

In a 2003 memo, the White House's Office of Management and Budget prohibits federal agencies from using persistent cookies -- those that aren't automatically deleted right away -- unless there is a "compelling need."

A senior official must sign off on any such use, and an agency that uses them must disclose and detail their use in its privacy policy.

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The issue is not so much a cookie but a persistent cookie, one that stay and keeps information. They claim the software set the expiration date to 2035.

"Until Tuesday, the NSA site created two cookie files that do not expire until 2035 -- likely beyond the life of any computer in use today."

Just a OMB rule. The neocon-men never found a rule or law that they cannot break.

capt

Gee what button do I press to disable trolls?

#15
It's hard isn't it. I will try to be nice to morons.
Pandemoniac,
You are the king of the nasties. And if Happy needed a shirt, you'd give him the shirt off your back.
You rule.

Alan, check with James HA about AOL email. Any anomaly could be tested if James has the time to work with you.

I already admitted that I was an idiot! - I wouldn't be able to give any computer advice to anyone - all I know is that aol blocks out spam fairly well, and I've never had a virus, hopefully because McAfee is doing a good job - I have a program that I got off a cdrom called spyware killer and I eliminate at least 30 spy/adwares and cookies every week

#90
Duluth MN is quite an interesting place. Very liberal and very conservative at the same time. I love the town. Love it.

Lawbreaker in Chief

By Jennifer Granick
2005-12-21 08:40:00.0

Ignorance of the law is no defense. Someone should tell the president.

This week, The New York Times revealed that the Bush administration ignored the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, and intercepted telephone calls and e-mails from American citizens without a warrant. FISA requires that investigators provide a judge with evidence that there's reason to believe the person they plan to place under surveillance is an agent of a foreign power. Applications for these warrants are at an all-time high, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (often called "the secret court") almost never denies the requests.

Nonetheless, Bush has authorized the National Security Agency to ignore this relatively insignificant hurdle. The government has been monitoring calls to or from United States citizens to international locations, perhaps eavesdropping on as many as 500 people at any one time, according to the Times.

The surveillance policy is part of a larger Bush administration strategy that includes imprisoning people indefinitely without charges or attorneys in Guantanamo Bay and transporting suspects to countries known to torture, a process the administration calls "rendition." As with these policies, the interceptions are almost certainly illegal.

Statutes prohibit government interceptions of the phone and e-mail conversations of United States citizens unless officials have first sought and obtained court approval, either under the Wiretap Act, for criminal investigations, or under FISA, for national security investigations.

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A good piece from Wired

capt

#95
Carol,
It isn't your fault. They don't teach it in school. Somehow Americans have the idea civilization started with the Mayflower. I'm homeschooling my daughter and she's learning Roman and Greek history. As well as ancient history in the middle east. Just a basic lesson. Our military is stomping on the ancient history in Iraq. They don't understand the significance. That was the birthplace of our civilization and our barbaric nature is destroying it.

Mass Mind Control Through Network Television

Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit. It's no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens.

U.S. to probe contractor's Web tracking

By ANICK JESDANUN
AP INTERNET WRITER

NEW YORK -- Unbeknown to the Bush administration, an outside contractor has been using Internet tracking technologies that may be prohibited to analyze usage and traffic patterns at the White House's Web site, an official said Thursday.

David Almacy, the White House's Internet director, promised an investigation into whether the practice is consistent with a 2003 policy from the White House's Office of Management and Budget banning the use of most such technologies at government sites.

"No one even knew it was happening," Almacy said. "We're going to work with the contractor to ensure that it's consistent with the OMB policy."

An official with the contractor, WebTrends Inc., said later Thursday, however, that although a cookie may be used, no data from it is actually sent back to the company.

The development came a day after the National Security Agency admitted it had erred in using banned "cookies" at its Web site. Cookies are small data files that can be used to track Internet users. The acknowledgments followed inquiries by The Associated Press.

The White House's Web site uses what's known as a Web bug to anonymously keep track of who's visiting and when. A Web bug is essentially a tiny graphic image - a dot, really - that's virtually invisible. In this case, the bug is pulled from a server maintained by WebTrends and lets the traffic analytic company know that another person has visited a specific page on the site.

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A bit more on the cookies, and bugs.

capt

Unadulterated Violence is now accepted on regular TV. Killing in the name of the mother government is praised, that is unless the violence is committed in self defense to protect someone from the system. Sharp shooters, bombers, and assassin are worshipped if they are fighting for the system, are in the military, or are associated with groups that control the masses locally, such as the local police department. I don't condone violence, however it's hypocritical to support one form of homicide when it favors the elite, and condemn another when it's done to protect your land, freedom, or loved ones. This odd reality transfers itself into the shady world of video games that are stepped in plots and tasks to kill as much as the player can. The players are getting younger and younger with 7 out of 10 children playing games with a 'Mature' rating.

While the real news rolls quickly by on the bottom of your screen, the anchor is selling you on the idea of having your very own police state hell hole right here in your local jurisdiction, or how 2 sports opposing teams chased around on a court for 2 hours in attempt to score points means something to you. No education, no information, SPIN. Today the media represents a tool of brainwashing and indoctrination that is utilized on behalf of the owners interests.

Who would imagine that in the United States of America, both candidates of both parties in the 2004 election would be members of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University? Out of 290 million Americans, this is the best we could come up with?

#97 TRH, it isn't wise to jump to the conclusions that one (such as you) jumps to, now is it? As Carol and others point out, cookies can be used in a benign manner or they can be abused for ulterior motives.

Cookies are commonly used at commercial web sites, and theoretically can make Internet browsing easier and more convenient by letting sites remember user preferences. One example: visitors would not have to enter passwords at sites that require them.

However, privacy analysts/advocates point out that cookies can also enable a "spyer" to track web surfing -- even if no personal information is collected. In other words, cookies can become a monster in the wrong hands.

#97 Also, TRH, regarding your swipe at public broadcasting and the cost to taxpayers:
The United States spends less money per taxpayer on public broadcasting than any other industrial nation. United States' taxpayers pony up approximately 15 percent of the public broadcasting budget.

Public broadcasting budgets in other countries: Canada provides 66 percent of the expenses; the Brits pay close to 95 percent of the budget of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

In fact, public broadcasting in the United States gets a major chunk of its budget from corporations -- which is evidenced in its "underwriting announcements" that look more and more like commercials every day.

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If the white house could track my computer it would find me going to the White House site to watch scotty and then to crooks and liars to watch the rest of the comedy acts.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Timo Cruz: from the movie Coach Carter

Micki, you rock! Didn't I always say so? Thanks for the info.

You lucky people. If David posts nothing new and this thread gets up to 200 my dial-up will be struggling to pull it all up and you won't be hearing from me. Worse than that is I will miss a lot. I'm already upset. Might need Flan to write another wrap-up for me.

Flan #10 & All Lefty Corn Posters

All day, something bugged me. I knew what it was. An unconditional olive branch (clean) to ALL OF you. Bear w/me.

When I first read DavidCorn.com's Comments section, I was floored by the vulgarity. If a new visitor is a moderate, right-leaning Dem, an Independent or a moderate GOP, this site was definitely UNINVITING! Some would be intimadated! Sure, if you wanted to bait Right-wing foulmouths, your (?old?) counterparts, it was effective.

If I wanted just to skirmish & stir things up just for the hell of it, I could have used any of 3 computers in my office and had a hoot. I used the same one throughout, Happy always.

There were instances where I wanted to `attack'! But, to change the tone of the Comments sections was a higher challenge. Example: the Toyota Prius on order. Why send all that money overseas and not to Ford? Plus, Toyota will make a large `windfall profits' of thousands of dollars due to excess demand (wait list). Where was all that concern for American workers? I just have one US-made vehicle, so I am `Guilty' of outsourcing, a very, very, very dirty word among you Regulars.

My `Rules of Engagement' were effective. David's endorsement made that clear. (Hey, David, how about an autographed book?) Keep that in mind and along the way, you might even persuade some future visitors to your points of view. As it were, you were preaching to each other. Any new, hard Left visitors don't need convincing.

I have gotten to know the 15~20 of you that are Regulars. Scrolling past all Comments w/links, it didn't take long to read the personal stuff. Family, children, grand kids, Santa... Not much diffrent than all of us! As a compromise suggestion, regarding my `stay on-topic' demand, why don't you all at least stay on-topic during the first 40~50 comments. New visitors w/interest beyond what David posts, may scroll down some to check out on-topic comments.

The first flunkie, James Ha, kind of spoiled the Comments. You really shouldn't take advantage of David's site. I never did `click' but I think you have your own site of some kind. David posts something on 9/11, fine, that will be your opportunity.

When in Rome, do as Romans Do. This blog is Rome and, the tolerent Emperor's tone & civility should be reflected. Many of you are Founding Regulars and entitled to be David's Guest Host/Hostess. Make Rome inviting! David almost certainly have some friends to his Right just as I have some friends to my Left.

Gerald/Retired Catholic: please stop muttering "all Americans are stupid", only a minority are and at first, I could've sworn I found all of that minority here! Trust me, Gerald, no God-fearing man believes that!

We are far enough down in the Comment section that hopefully, this farewell message will be taken as what it is, friendly.

Treat others as you would want to be treated!

Lastly, "Happy" is such a good, warm word and I want to restore its full meaning to you. Happy New year!

Judge Alito and Executive Power

....So one has to explain Alito’≥ nomination against the background fact that by any plausible account McConnell would have been a more distinguished nominee with easier prospects of confirmation. Key to any answer, I suggest, is the belief by insiders in the Bush Administration that he would be better on the one issue they REALLY care about, which is the aggrandizement of Executive power. The events of the past two weeks, following the disclosures about literally unwarranted wiretapping and data-mining by the National Security Agency, bring into sharp focus the intent by the Administration, led by Dick Cheney, to assert almost unlimited executive powers linked to the 'Commander-in-Chief' Clause of Article II of the Constitution. Dick Cheney has apparently been obsessed since his own service as Gerald Ford's Chief of Staff with returning the presidency to the 'Imperial' status that was, he thought, the victim of Watergate. For him the Bush Administration is about rolling back what are perceived as illegitimate incursions on raw presidential power....

....This makes it essential, obviously, that every member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Senator Spector, grills Judge Alito in the hearings. He must be probed on his views of Article II, including the Commander-in-Chief Clause and, for that matter, the Oath of Office, given that University of Minnesota Law Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen reads the Oath to license the President essentially to do whatever he wishes so long as there is a good faith belief that it is 'defense' of the Constitution. Quoting Lincoln, Paulsen argues that just as one can amputate a limb in order to save the life of a person, so can a President in effect ignore any given part of the Constitution, including, of course, any of the protections of the Bill of Rights, in order to save the Nation. To put it mildly, this theory of the 'amputated Constitution' should give us all pause, and we should find out what kind of constitutional doctor Samuel Alito would be on the Supreme Court..

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