Mr. David Corn,

It doesn't matter what Bush says, we know it is all bunch of malarkey. I am not with you 100% on the "The State Of The Opposition" but a good piece just the same!

Thanks

Kirk

New animation from "Peace Takes Courage"

WHY?

I don't know if a dial up takes too long to load, I am on a very fast connection and it takes a while to start.

capt

The dems will never shine on their own until they stop putting their own interests ahead of the countries. The alito fiasco is just one of many that prove to me they aren't very concerned about the feelings of their constituents. The two , I belive it was pelosi and rockefeller, who knew about the NSA spying scandal long before the NY Times published it, kept it to themselves to save their own skin, they are no better than the NSA themselves. It's disgraceful and the behavior of cowards.

What the Dems need is a Rapid Response effort such as the one Clinton/Gore used in 1992 and 1996. Hit 'em fast -- as James Carville said, "Speed kills."

Clinton/Gore's team used "prebuttals" and rebuttals to their advantage -- they controlled the message through a fax war and satellite media tours to local TV stations. Anything a Repug said, it was rapidly rebutted at the LOCAL level and faxes were sent to every possible news organization -- immediately. People in small-town America got the word from Clinton and/or Gore directly through their local TV news & talkshows. Local stations love to get one-on-one live interviews (even now with corporate media holding the cards).

Of course, for this to happen, the Dems would have to be organized. Sigh.

Speaking of "money for nothing", I'm going to try embedding a link again:

Airline CEO Latest Victim Of Airport Gestapo

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | February 2 2006

Just when you thought TSA screening horror stories couldn't get any more anathema to common sense, the latest victim of the little Hitler airport Gestapo proves otherwise.

Let's brush aside for the moment the fact that Margaret Jackson is the CEO of a major world airline company and judge whether her appearance would set alarm bells ringing. A blonde haired bespeckled Australian women in her 50's. About as far away from Mohammed Atta as you can possibly imagine.

Yet when the TSA rifled through her bag last year at Los Angeles Airport, their discovery of aircraft diagrams got them salivating. "Why have you got all this this?" one asked. "'I'm the chairman of an airline. I'm the chairman of Qantas," replied Margaret. "But you're a woman," replied the TSA goon.

And so along with pregnant white women, senators and 4-year-old boys, Margaret, a woman who has officially opened airport runways (pictured) became the latest airline terror threat to America.

After a one hour interrogation and with TSA officials unimpressed by Margaret's production of official Quantas letterhead documents, she devised a way out that speaks volumes about the nature of this whole farce.

She simply wrote a note to the TSA official saying that she was CEO of Quantas and signed it.

They let her go.

In this instance she was defining authority. She was giving the goon squad authorization to release her, knowing that kind of mindset only responds to following orders and protocol, even if they completely defy common sense.

Which is why we have a situation where not one item of cargo that enters the plane is inspected but Grandpa has to remove his shoes because he might be a suicide bomber.

This is why we will continue to hear stories about innocent people being unable to remove themselves from no fly lists and bewildered travelers being terrorized and shamed by policies that do nothing to protect America but do everything to bullwhip Americans into thinking it is normal to have their 4th amendment violated every time they leave the house.
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Forth Amendment? Can someone refresh my memory? Seems to me this is a case of racial profiling, while 19 Arabs were allowed to get on planes with box cutters, gas canisters and gas masks, they insist on picking on middle aged white women!

Sorry, failed again. The story is the Jan. 25 entry called "Dead Soldiers" at driftglass.blogspot.com---IBW

Maine Peace Group Under Federal Surveillance

wlbz2.com | Feb 2 2006

The domestic spying topic we've heard so much about nationally, is now closer to home. The Maine Civil Liberties Union has learned the FBI has a surveillance file for the Maine Coalition for Peace and Justice.

The MCLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request in June on behalf of seven peace and justice groups and 15 people here in Maine. They just received notice the FBI has a file on one of those groups and they intercepted at least one of the group's e-mails.

Wednesday, the MCLU filed another Freedom of Information Act to find out if the pentagon also has files on groups in Maine.

"We don't believe spying on peace activists here in Maine will make our country safer, we do know it will make us less free," said Shenna Bellows, the Executive Director of the MCLU.

The MCLU filed the request on behalf of the Maine Coalition for Peace and Justice, as well as the American Friends Service Committee: Maine Program on Youth and Militarism.

Bellows says she's concerned that if the government is spying on peace groups, Americans will be afraid to criticize the government in fear that they will become targets of government spying.
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By George, I think they've got it! Divide and conquer, that's the name of the game. If we are to afraid to gather as a group to protest, they have won. Now, where is bill when you need him to explain, in 42 pages, just why spying on peace groups is essential for the security of the nation?

Ivory Bill, e-mail me if you need help, I'm happy to oblige.

Sal, Thanks, but I gotta get to bed now; maybe some other time.---IBW

"...The big picture: Many--if not most--Americans don't mind having a cowboy in the White House. And without a clear position on the war, the Democrats, as a party, will have a hard time using the war to argue that the cowboy's posse in Congress ought to be chased out of town."

A REAL cowboy in the White would be nice, for a change! At least the horse-shit would be genuine, presumably less pungent and the "swagger" would be from riding ATOP the horse!

While doing the taxes, worrying about buying dog/goat/donkey food AND keeping the lights on, I cannot help but feel as though we're all either being dragged BEHIND this "Cowboy" or being PUSHED from behind by the "Posse". (all stick, no carrot, IYGMM!)

Getting the money out of the electSHUN process and KEEPING it out of the LEGITslative process is the only hope for American DemoCRAZY.

Until that can happen, doesn't matter if Repugs, Demoralcrats, Indypundits or Commies sit in the seats...the MONEY will always be their ass-padding.

-T

David, david. Where to start. Social Security reform isn't dead. The Republican are just waiting for the elections to pass to undertake it. Even IF (and that's an big if) the Dems get back into power in 06 and 08, they won't be able to impliment any of their ideas. The Republicans are operating under a scorched earth method. There will be NO MONEY for the democrats to increase spending on social programs, little people left who remember how they function, and a military made up of wacko zombies with pop guns. They will ensure that whoever is in power in 2008 they will be running the government as a fiscal conservative. It will be that way for many years to come. I'm personally going to take all my Republican friends and drown them in Norquist's bathtub.

"In fact, some Democrats were griping than (sic) the filibuster would harm the party's prospects in November"

Yep but just a plip.

Boy, it's going to be a long year for lefties. David is already accepting defeat before the elections even get under way. His accussation of repubs doing mud sligging his hilarious. He obviously doesn't read the posts from you cornnuts. Who could blame him with all the foul language and name calling by his fan club. David problably didn't get allot of attention in High School or College so this must be exciting for him. It is really entertaining to read the melt down of so many lefties at once. You got to love it!!!

Saladin #8

Spying on peace groups isnt right unless they are commiting crimes like the eco terrorists here on the wset coast. They have been caught and are going to jail like they should. I don't think Martin Luther King would have appreciated the authorized wire tapping of himself by JFK either. I'm cofused, was that legal?

The Connecticut Clean Money, Clean Elections (CMCE) campaign finance reform or the California Clean Money Campaign are the only type of reform plans that are worth spending time and effort on.

While politicians must continuously fund raise to run for office, they will always be susceptable to pressure and temptation from large donors. Fundamental reform first, then address the details about gifts, using the gym, etc.

Specialists doubt legality of wiretaps

Many rebut assertion of presidential powers

WASHINGTON -- Legal specialists yesterday questioned the accuracy of President Bush's sweeping contentions about the legality of his domestic spying program, particularly his assertion in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday that ''previous presidents have used the same constitutional authority I have."

Shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Bush authorized the National Security Agency to intercept overseas calls from the United States without first seeking a warrant, asserting he had the right to do so under his wartime powers. On Tuesday night, he defended his program by saying past presidents have exerted the same powers.

But legal specialists said yesterday that wiretaps ordered by previous presidents were put in place before warrants were required for investigations involving national security. Since Congress passed the law requiring warrants in 1978, no president but Bush has defied it, specialists said.

Bush's contention that past presidents did the same thing as he has done ''is either intentionally misleading or downright false," said David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor. Only Bush has made the assertion that his wartime powers should supersede an act of Congress, Cole said.

Bush repeated his assertions about the legality of his spying program at a speech yesterday in Nashville. The president has been seeking to build public support for the program in advance of Senate hearings into the matter next week.

But Bush's comments in the State of the Union, which highlighted a week of election-style campaigning to defend the program, were almost entirely disputed yesterday by legal specialists across the ideological spectrum.

For example, Bush strongly implied that if his program had been in place before the terrorist attacks, the government would have identified two of the hijackers who were placing international calls from inside the United States.

But the 9/11 Commission found that the government had already grown suspicious about both of the hijackers in question before the attacks took place. Bureaucratic failures to share information about the hijackers, not ignorance of their existence, was the problem, the commission said.

Moreover, Bush said in his address that ''appropriate members of Congress have been kept informed" about the program. But Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has said that under law Bush was required to brief all members of the intelligence committees -- not just their leaders, as he did.

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Conservatives and progressives both say it is not legal if all that supports the action is the presidents word. Period. Anybody that would argue in favor of any persons word being able to trump established law is a monarchist.

capt

"I'm not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid?" ~ Melinda Shore

pentagon officials are outraged over a cartoon -
see the cartoon AND the pentagon's letter of outrage HERE
the pentagon could've avoided a lot of headaches and HEARTACHES by just equipping the soldiers properly to begin with - why doesn't the pentagon support our troops?

Another bit of harsh reality by that infamous doom and gloom, liberal, lefty looney, Paul Craig Roberts.

The US has become a rogue nation. Gentle reader, if you prefer comforting lies to harsh truths, don't read this column.
By Paul Craig Roberts

Least of all did President Bush tell any truth about the economy. He talked about economic growth rates without acknowledging that they result from eating the seed corn and do not produce jobs with a living wage for Americans. He touted a low rate of unemployment and did not admit that the figure is false because it does not count millions of discouraged workers who have dropped out of the work force.

Americans did not hear from Bush that a new Wal-Mart just opened on Chicago's city boundary and 25,000 people applied for 325 jobs (Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 26), or that 11,000 people applied for a few Wal-Mart jobs in Oakland, California. Obviously, employment is far from full.

Neither did Bush tell Americans any of the dire facts reported by economist Charles McMillion in the January 19 issue of Manufacturing & Technology News:

During Bush's presidency the US has experienced the slowest job creation on record (going back to 1939). During the past five years private business has added only 958,000 net new jobs to the economy, while the government sector has added 1.1 million jobs. Moreover, as many of the jobs are not for a full work week, "the country ended 2005 with fewer private sector hours worked than it had in January 2001."

McMillion reports that the largest sources of private sector jobs have been health care and waitresses and bartenders. Other areas of the private sector lost so many jobs, including supervisory/managerial jobs, that had health care not added 1.4 million new jobs, the private sector would have experienced a net loss of 467,000 jobs between January 2001 and December 2005 despite an "economic recovery." Without the new jobs waiting tables and serving drinks, the US economy in the past five years would have eked out a measly 64,000 jobs. In other words, there is a job depression in the US.
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The MSM has blood on it's hands for failing to call bush on all these lies. This article outlines the tsunami that is edging ever closer to our shores.

David...seems like your back. Hope your fishing injury has healed.

Will Rogers said it best "I DON'T BELONG TO ANY ORGANIZED PARTY, I'M A DEMOCRAT".

How the Democratic Party tries to reign in and focus such a diverse body of people seems to be a huge problem. The diversity of the Democratic Party is the beauty and strength of the party, how to get everyone on the same page, and give up their individual agendas is the challenge.

Canada has a 5 year restriction period on politician/lobbyist.

Here in Ohio, I do believe that we will see Congressman Strickland become the Governor.

It is too bad that Sherrod Brown and Paul Hackett are both running for the Democratic spot to run against Dewine...who I believe will be tromped on. ( that is if Diebold machines are thrown out and Blackwell is not in control of the elections) He is running for the Republican spot, instead of being thrown in jail

I am not sure what is with the Democratic chair...Why not beg Hackett to run against Schmidt who he came so close to beating?

I really felt the most hypocritcal part of the address was for Bush to open with Coretta Scott Kings passing and then to ignore the catastrophe along the gulf coast and the reconstruction or lack of. What an insult to the work of both Coretta and Dr. Martin Luther King.

Investment advice from the state of denial.....Switchgrass

LBH, why on earth would it be legal for kennedy? Wiretapping without a warrant is ILLEGAL for everyone. Does the fact that he did it make it ok for bush? Not in my book. Your dividing tactics are a waste of bandwidth here, especially when directed at me, as I am truly non-partisan.

Saladin

Where did you get your law degree? How long have you been practicing constitution law? Last, why is is this till being allowed by both Repubs and Demorats to continue if it's illegal?

LBH, you don't need a degree in constitutional law to understand the 4th amendment, it's very clear and forthright. What is it about this amendment that bushbots don't understand? Maybe it is YOU who needs a constitutional education. It is allowed because it is obvious that our govt. couldn't care less about the constitution. They can stomp it into the deepest, darkest dungeon, that does not change it's meaning or intent. If you disapprove of this amendment, just say so, that I can at least respect, since it would show some honesty.

Talk about moral relativity, from a true blue neocon:

"It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true." ~ Henry Kissinger

The truth or facts do not matter one bit.

Why bother?

capt

David: Good posts today!

On (Iraq) Reconstruction-----
The Washington Post ...headline, "Cash Dwindle for Rebuilding Iraq," that read:

The U.S. official who oversees reconstruction spending in Iraq has called for money beyond $18.4 billion originally earmarked, saying postwar funds will be exhausted by the end of 2006 with many projects likely to be unfinished.

"It was never our intention to completely rebuild Iraq," said Brig. Gen. William McCoy...

Having some business and budgeting experience, I'd say depending on:
1) Level of Iraqi oil exports,
2) The price of Oil, and
3) Level of `insurgent' sabotage activities
to name but a few meta-factors, could be why no funding can reasonably be planned (by anybody) for periods beyond the end of 2006.

You state at the end of this topic: "Bush might be technically correct...But he neglected to mention that he is pulling the plug on funding these efforts."

I don't care what the Sir Webster's definition of `pulling the plug' is but isn't it commonly assumed to mean: stop, terminate, cancel? Can I now say that David Corn LIED? What you posted here should in no way lead anyone to conclude Bush is `pulling the plug on funding these efforts'. Not funding something beyond 2006 while continuing current spending is not `pulling the plug' in any reasonable sense of the words. Have you funded your 2007 IRA, 401(K), SEP, house notes?

Come on Capt! You break down and engage the trolls every once in a while, I'm just having a bit of fun. I've brought up the 4th amendment many times, but not once have those whining, bedwetter trolls given me an answer. I'm beginning to think they haven't a clue what it says, or they are fine and dandy with the notion of tossing it, as long as it doesn't interfere with THEIR personal rights. Hypocrites, one and all. I'm just pointing it out.

Saladin

Quit talking to your terrorist buddies over seas and you have nothing to worry about!

Spying: What if Hillary becomes president?

By Victor Thorn

Amazingly, it seems as if the GOP elite in various media and political circles have no opposition whatsoever to the government spying on its own citizens. Nor are they opposed to the Constitution being trampled, or the tyrannical expansion of presidential powers far beyond anything our Founding Fathers ever envisioned.

But what these myopic morons are failing to realize is that the framework and laws which are being established right now won’¥ go away when George W. Bush crawls pitifully from office in 2008. No no no, they'll still be in effect long after his abysmal reign has ended.

So guess who are going to be the first ones screaming bloody murder when Hillary and her minion of dirty tricksters start laying wiretaps on them or opening their e-mail. All of a sudden, they'll consider these acts "unconstitutional" and beyond the pale of executive privilege.

Thus, the only thing I suggest to all the proponents of Big Brother-style eavesdropping and snooping is this: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. What comes around goes around, and someday soon you may be on the receiving end of everything you now support.

Look at it this way: what if Hillary Clinton declares that conservatives are terrorists; or those who oppose abortion are enemies of the state. Worse, what if she states that a belief in God is fundamentally dangerous and therefore justifies government surveillance. Maybe in their short-sighted zeal the GOP hasn't considered these future ramifications, but I sure as hell have. And guess what: once you open the door for more snooping and federal intrusion, it's very difficult to close it again.
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A very good point. My guess is that the whining will reach banshee proportions!

LBH, are you saying that terrorists support the 4th amendment? I am done with you now, that statement proves once again the idiocy of a bushbot.

David:

On your `piece' on the SOTU speech, you mentioned `poll' directly at least 4 times (and indirectly several more times):

Bush's standing in the polls...

A recent Washington Post/ ABC News poll...

Polls show most Americans believe the war...

polls show the public feels that Democrats...

This knee-jerk governing by polls IS, without a doubt in many minds, one of the root problems of the Dem party today; giving rise to the distinct impression of Dems `blowing in the wind' and certainly Kerry is the poster child of this poll-watching-style. Right or wrong, history will judge Bush & Co. while he stays true to his convictions.

Back later on the substance of your SOTU post; if time permits.

From: Nightline Wounded soldiers told they owe money to army.

Jan. 31, 2006 It was one of the thousands of roadside bombs in Iraq that paralyzed Staff Sgt. Eugene Simpson.

"My first instinct was to jump farther back into the Humvee, you know, for protection," Simpson said. "But in doing that, I opened my back up to all the scrap metal and debris, which hit my spine and severed my spine, paralyzing me."

He was soon on a plane home.

Fast-working, skilled Army doctors saved his life, as they have so many.

Slow, bumbling Army bureaucrats would make his life miserable, as they have so many.

"And the military basically is, like, they turn their back on you, you kind of feel that you've just been used," Simpson said.

...A study commissioned by the First Infantry Division estimated that eight out of 10 of its wounded soldiers from Iraq have gone through the same or a similar ordeal.

Capt. Michael Hurst, now out of the Army, conducted the study.

"You have to understand that these soldiers are suffering from incredible injuries, some of them have lost limbs, some of them may never walk again," Hurst said. "And in the midst of that struggle, to then get a paycheck for nothing really hurts morale."

And the Army can play tough to get its money back.

In the case of Sgt. Ryan Kelly, who lost his leg in Iraq, he had just finished going through rehabilitation when the Army sent a letter threatening to ruin his credit and call in debt collectors.

He had been overpaid by $2,200 while in the hospital, but, like most, never realized it.

It took Kelly almost a year to cut through the red tape and get the debt forgiven.

"Soldiers receive a paycheck and reasonably think that this is their accurate pay for the month," Hurst said. "And being in the situation they're in, having just been injured and in some cases spouses have to quit jobs in order to spend time at Walter Reed, many of these families are really hurting for funds. So a lot of that money gets spent right away."
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bushco, supporting the troops.

If only they would go after the Iraqi oil money that has vanished, to the tune of billions of dollars, with as much determination, they would be able to afford to continue to pay these soldiers who have sacrificed so much for this BS war. But I guess thousands of dollars gambled away in the Phillipines is money better spent than helping a now crippled vet.

Right or wrong, history will judge Bush & Co. while he stays true to his convictions.

Yeah, right. SOTU address: He's going to see to it that we reduce our dependence on Middle Eastern oil by 75% by 2025.

Then, the next day, administration officials are backing away from that statement. Hmmm...wonder what happened there? An angry call from the Prince, perhaps?

Convictions, my ass.

# 25 Capt...The radical right wings theme song....

PERCEPTION IS REALITY.....

The NOBLE LIE is the chorus

;# 33 Saladin to all...Did folks hear Bremer on the Diane Rehm show several weeks ago. His lies are well worth listening to...just to confirm (yet again) that the criminals sent to set up american corporations in Iraq (before any one had a chance to breath.)

GO LISTEN AND SCREAM.... REMEMBER...FOLLOW THE MONEY

Who really knows who is being spied upon? The chimpy gang will not release any documents for any current investigation, why trust anything they say. 9/11 provided a convenient excuse for his snoopers. Now they are STILL snooping. Another concerted effort to establish total control of everyone and everthing. Some bushbots think they are only snooping on communications going overseas, I say PROVE IT!....Until the chimpy gang comes clean, we will never know, will we?

http://www.truemajority.org/oreos/

It is a very good cartoon animation - might not be for dial-ups.

capt

Refusing a request from a congressional committee can be added to the tally of impeachable offenses that match the articles of impeachment for Nixon.

capt

4th Amendment also allows:

1. Valid searches and seizures without warrants.

2. Detention short of arrest: Stop-and-Frisk.

3. Search incident to arrest.

4. Vehicular searches.

5. Cosent searches.

6. Border searches.

7. Open Field searches

8. Plain View searches.

9. Public School searches

10. Government offices searches

11. Prisons and Regulation of Probation.

12. Drug testing.

Electronic and Surveillance and the 4th Amendment

1. Olmstead case

In 1928 Court ruled on a five to four vote that wiretapping was not within the confines of the 4th ammendment.

2. Federal Communications Act

3. Nontelephonic Electronic Surveilance

4. The Berger and Katz case

5. Warrantless "National Security" Electronic Surveilance.

The question of the scope of the Presidents Constitutional powers, if any, remain judicially unsettled.

The Supreme Court will have to decide once and for all if the wiretapping without warrants is a Presidentail power-not you Saladin.

Spying, lying, and saying no

Note: This article is based on a review of State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen.

The challenges posed to US democracy by secrecy and by unchecked presidential power are the two great themes running through the history of the Iraq war. How long the war will last, who will "win", and what it will do to the political landscape of the Middle East will not be obvious for years to come, but the answers to those questions cannot alter the character of what happened at the outset. Put plainly, President George W Bush decided to attack Iraq, he brushed caution and objection aside, and Congress, the press and the people, with very few exceptions, stepped back out of the way and let him do it.

Explaining this fact is not going to be easy. Commentators often now refer to Bush's decision to invade Iraq as "a war of choice", which means that it was not provoked. The usual word for an unprovoked attack is "aggression". Why did Americans - elected representatives and plain citizens alike - accede so readily to this act of aggression, and why did they question the president's arguments for war so feebly? The whole business is painfully awkward to consider, but it will not go away. If the US constitution forbids a president anything, it forbids war on his say-so, and if it insists on anything it insists that presidents are not above the law. In plain terms this means that US presidents cannot enact laws on their own, or ignore laws that have been enacted by Congress.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) is such a law; it was enacted to end years of routine wiretapping of US citizens who had attracted official attention by opposing the war in Vietnam. The express purpose of the act was to limit what presidents could ask intelligence organizations to do. But for limits on presidential power to have meaning, Congress and the courts must have the fortitude to say no when they think "no" is the answer.

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The president of the united states of American cannot authorize himself extraordinary powers. To try to say he can change the "probable cause by oath or affirmation" to anything else, even a higher standard is extra-constitutional. That makes for another article of impeachment.

capt

Computer Worm Set to Destroy Files

Feb. 2, 2006 —†No matter how tempting the subject line, don't open any suggestive e-mails if you want to keep your computer files intact.

It's also time to update your anti-virus software in anticipation of a computer worm, set to be unleashed at midnight, that destroys the most-common file types —†those ending in ".doc," ".pdf," and ".zip."

The worm, known as Kama Sutra, CME-24, BlackWorm, Mywife.E or a number of other monikers, even tries to disable anti-virus software that is out of date, he said.

The virus tricks computer users by appearing as an e-mail attachment with subject lines such as "Hot Movie," "Give me a kiss" and "Miss Lebanon 2006."

Some variations refer to the ancient Kama Sutra guide to elaborate sexual positions to attract attention and convince you to open it.

"It claims to be a movie or picture with some sort of sexual content," said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer at the nonprofit SANS Institute research group. "That is how it tricks you."

The virus causes a keyboard and mouse to freeze up and then disables anti-virus programs when the computer is restarted, leaving a machine vulnerable, said Ken Dunham, rapid response director at VeriSign Corp.'s security unit iDefense.

Don't Panic —†Yet

The good news is, computers in the United States are not believed to be heavily affected, with the majority of infections believed to be in hundreds of thousands of machines mostly in India, Peru, Turkey and Italy, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for Finnish security company F-Secure Corp.

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Always be very careful - no matter how much of a pain it is to keep all of your anti-virus and security stuff up-to-date it is important to be defensive.

capt

Fitzgerald Hints White House Records Lost

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WASHINGTON - Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is raising the possibility that records sought in the CIA leak investigation could be missing because of an e-mail archiving problem at the White House.

The Presidential Records Act, passed by Congress in 1978, made it clear that records generated in the conduct of official duties did not belong to the president or vice president, but were the property of the government.
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Uhm, yeah, riiiiiiigggghht!

-T

I asked Bob (or even Citizen X) to comment on this, but I haven't seen anything yet. ie... the energy to produce ethanol. This article in today's H-town Chronicle said it again, what I asked about yesterday.

Drive to find diverse fuels likely to be bumpy trip

Researchers at Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley have argued the amount of fossil energy required to produce ethanol from corn, switchgrass or wood biomass is greater than these fuels' energy output.

#42 Hajji...I would think there are deeper systems to access the V.P's e-mails and records........

But the prosecutor added: "In an abundance of caution, we advise you that we have learned that not all e-mail of the Office of Vice President and the Executive Office of the President for certain time periods in 2003 was preserved through the normal archiving process on the White House computer system."

"through the normal arching system"..Fitzgerald point out.

Chimpy sez: were addicted to oil. Well thats a big NO SHYT! Seems like a deliberate attempt to be a GOOD GUY.....Speaking platitudes does not fly. ACTIONS speak louder than WORDS. While the sheeple discuss the various portions of the SOTU, that distracts even more from the partnership chimpy has with the oil industry. What, somebody just fall off the TURNIP TRUCK here?

"Addicted to Oil"

Agreed, such an addiction is dangerous to American Society in ways that addictions to drugs and alcohol can never beging to be.

The "War on Drugs" (allegedly) sought to destroy the suppliers.

Anybody think the suppliers who grow fat off America's "addicition" will be hurt in ANY way?

-T

Jeezus Gawd!

That was the 30TH DRAFT of the SOTU speech!!!???

He should've hired "The West Wing" writers...they're out of work, now aren't they?

-T

Kathleen,

No matter HOW they were archived, they belong to YOU and ME and I want the damn records open to scrutiny!

What do we know about this Ohioan who's jumping up and down in DeLay's slimy shoes, starting today? Any chance he's a good, old-fashioned conservative Rupugnant?

-T

Think the Internet Will Always be Open?

You think the Internet will always be the great freewheeling information superhighway you've grown to love? Well, think again. Media giants want to privatize our Internet. (See the quotes Get more info) Take a look below (or here) at what some brazen telecom execs had to say, and then send a message telling them how you feel about the Internet.

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Some keyboard activism.

capt

The Glory of America

WOW, the 4th amendment says all THAT?? Stalin and Hitler could've used more patriots like LBH!
bush says we have to get off the oil habit? Wonder why the "secret" energy meetings cheney had included some very intricate and detailed maps of middle east oil and gas fields as well as pipelines? And I really wonder why they tried so hard to KEEP those meetings secret? So hard in fact that an FOIA request had to be filed in order to get any info. at all? Could it be that maybe, just maybe, they DON'T have our best interests at heart?

Lying SOS HERE.

David:

Your State of the Opposition paints a downcast but realistic outlook.

David: "...a majority views him as "a strong leader" who can be trusted in a crisis and approves of his management of the war on terror.."

Webster's Definition of "Leader": One who is ahead of or at the head of, one who directs the performance or activity of....

Should those reacting to the `grassroots' by calling for withdrawl from Iraq or filibuster of Alito be considered "Leaders" or followers? When Dems react to polls and ratchet up or down their rhetorics, are they "Leaders" or followers?

David: "The big picture: Many--if not most--Americans don't mind having a cowboy in the White House."

You are right, like past cowboys such as Reagan, Johnson or Teddy?

David: "Such outbursts are not yet a major concern for the party. Its not quite 1968. But they are signs of potential trouble. Parties don't tend to do well in elections if they are alienated from die-hard supporters."

Shhhhh, keep it to yourself! Please!

And here you go again, citing polls: "That Washington Post /ABC News poll asked people what priority....topped the list of 14 choices. Lobbying reform was dead last... And most Americans...tell pollsters they believe there's not much difference between the parties when it comes to engaging in corrupt behavior."

David, didn't I warn you some weeks back NOT to get all excited about this Jackgate! Most politicians are alike in their NEED for money; sort of like, well, people! Still, even I am surprised that this issue ranks last out of 14; I would have placed it somewhere in the bottom third, but not last! The problems of corruption is the system we have and what I keep harping on, human nature!!

The Democrats have a big opening, I fear they are too incompetent to exploit it.

They could score big big points with the US people by promoting an honorable exit strategy for Iraq.

And here it is....they should push for a vote of the Iraqi people on whether they want us to stay, or leave over the next six months.

By most polls, the Iraqi people would vote, overwhelmingly, for us to go.

And, if the Iraqi people voted for us to say, the war would be on a new, and much more solid, moral basis.

That is an exit strategy that is honorable to the Iraqi people, and to our democratic sensibilities.

Bob in North Dakota

"...taxpayer money must be spent wisely, or not at all" bush lied last year in front of the nation and the world in his SOTU. Fast forward to this year...

Obviously, they have not spent it wisely in Iraq. Let's see a former comptroller of bush's CPA government in Iraq will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy, money laundering, bribery, and paying for "sexual favors" with OUR MONEY GODDAMMIT! He did this so he could give "reconstruction" work to corrupt contractors!

Do you think we'll ever find out if the money the COMPTROLLER stole from American citizens includes the NINE BILLION DOLLARS the CPA "lost" in Iraq due to "severe inefficiencies and poor management."

BTW, the COMPTROLLER (Robert Stein) got his job with bush's CPA after he was fired from a Florida company for falsifying payroll records and creating fake invoices for nonexistent purchases. Prior to his firing in FL, Stein was convicted on a criminal charge of "access device fraud."

Why do the bushlemmings put up with this crapola?????????????? Low standards? No standards? I don't get it. If $9billion dollars was unaccounted for in any other administration, there would be hell to pay. bush and his boyfriends are CROOKS and their followers keep saying, "screw us again we don't care, you're keeping us safe." Man oh man.

"...Libby's lawyers are seeking classified material to aid their defense, which many legal analysts see as an attempt to force the prosecutor's hand in dropping the case or reducing certain charges in the interests of national security...."

Go to Raw Story for more info on the missing emails.

hey micki, that dude fits right in with the bush crime family. Two requirements, no to low job experience and a criminal background!

A 911 CONSPIRATOR IN KING BUSH'S COURT?

While Cindy Sheehan was being dragged from the House gallery moments before President Bush delivered his State of the Union address for wearing a t-shirt honoring her son and the other 2,244 US soldiers killed in Iraq, Turki al-Faisal was settling into his seat inside the gallery. Faisal, a Saudi, is a man who has met Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants on at least five occasions, describing the al Qaeda leader as "quite a pleasant man." He met multiple times with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.

Yet, unlike Sheehan, al-Faisal was a welcomed guest of President Bush on Tuesday night. He is also a man that the families of more than 600 victims of the 9/11 attacks believe was connected to their loved ones' deaths.

OK funseekers, want Enron info? Access a nifty database HERE. As with other searches, quotation marks needed for name searches, IE:"Dick Cheney". Will keep ya busy for hours!

from MoveOn.org's email...

Just consider these polling numbers and facts:

The desire for change in the country is intense—60% think America is on the wrong track. In 1994 only 55% of the country felt that way.1

President Bush is very unpopular. Only 39% approve of him in one poll—that is lower than anyone, except Nixon, during this point in their presidency.2

The news isn't better for Congress. Only 24% want Congress to continue in this direction—63% want a significantly different direction.3

The Republican-controlled Congress' approval ratings are at 29%—the lowest level since 1994 when Republicans swept into power.4

The wheels are coming off the right-wing machine. Tom DeLay is under indictment. Republican are having trouble finding good candidates. Business groups and religious conservatives are splitting. Even Karl Rove is under scrutiny.

On the issues, from Social Security to Iraq to drilling the Arctic, the public is rejecting the Bush agenda.

Americans say they trust Democrats over Republicans by 51% to 37%—the first time since 1992 that number has topped 50%.5

Sources

1. Right Track/Wrong Track. www.PollingReport.com. February 2, 2006
http://www.pollingreport.com/right.htm
2. President Bush—Overall Approval Ratings. www.PollingReport.com. February 2, 2006.
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
3. Democracy Corps, January 31, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1433
4."Public's Focus is Health Care, Troop Cuts in Iraq." The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2006.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1432
5. "Bush's Midterm Challenge." The Washington Post, January 29, 2006.
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1431

#43 Alan,

I heard a guy on NPR this morning, I think it may have been the same one from Cornell in that link. He has a calculation that includes the use of farm equipment, etc that use traditional fossil fuels. I think its a really short-sighted approach. In the beginning we will have to use fossil fuels in this way, but as the technology increases, the amount of engines burning this type of fuel will increase. It seems to me that they are not allowing for tractors to ever run on anything but fossil fuels, when surely they will also run on alternative fuels. I'm a fan of synthetic gasoline, produced from biomass or coal stoke, etc., even using synthetic gasoline the car you drive today will have to use a syngas blended with 2% petroleum fuel. The aromatics and sulfur compounds used in petroleum fuel are necessary to prevent rings and pistons from contracting in modern and older engines, but a brand new engine can be run on 100% syngas with no problem, and most importantly, no aromatics or sulfur compounds which are the chief pollutants. The point is that we have to start somewhere. Like the title of your link suggests, its going to be a bumpy ride, but if we don't get started we'll never reach a satisfactory destination. Now let's see if the administration really has the cajones to do this or was it just more smoke up our 5th point of contact.

let me clarify one point in my post to you Alan.
Because of the aromatics and sulfur compounds in modern fuel, synthetic gas has to have a petroleum blend in cars that have run a petroleum fuel. Without it rings and GASKETS (not pistons) contract. An engine that has never run on petroleum fuel can run 100% syngas however.

let me clarify one point in my post to you Alan.

Ok, thanks Citizen X. It difinitely sounds interesting. I'm thinking, they'll have to find a way to use more solar energy instead of fossil fuels to produce the ethanol they're talking about. I mean, it doesn't make sense to produce anything that uses more energy to make than it delivers. Like I said, that's just a subsidy to corn farmers. If that syngas can be made efficiently, I'm all for it!

Look up Fischer-Tropsch fuels. It's a method to produce syngas and Im not sure if this is the same method those researchers in your link are talking about. I'm going off memory here, but I believe there's a prototype fischer-tropsch refinery which can be mounted like on a semi and made mobile. The by-products are energy(steam) and water. Setting aside the battlefield military applications for this type of technology, just think of what it could do for disaster relief operations. You of course need an energy to start the process, but once started the energy produced as by-product can be used to run the refinery. The water by-product can be run through a sand or membrane filter, chlorinated and sent to a water blivet or other storage tank for use as potable water. I wish I still had links to this stuff but when I finished that god awful paper I wanted to destroy any memory of it. =P

Is this the cartoon that is causing such an uproar in the Middle East?

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/images/islm_cartoon_1.jpg

I think it is spot-on, and well describes the current state if Islam in many (but not all) parts of the world.

Bob

Saladin #51

"Wow, the 4th amendment says all that?"

I thought you said you read the 4th amendment and didn't need a law degree to know what it says?

From: FINDLAW
Warrantless ''National Security'' Electronic Surveillance .--In Katz v. United States, 151 Justice White sought to preserve for a future case the possibility that in ''national security cases'' electronic surveillance upon the authorization of the President or the Attorney General could be permissible without prior judicial approval. The Executive Branch then asserted the power to wiretap and to ''bug'' in two types of national security situations, against domestic subversion and against foreign intelligence operations, first basing its authority on a theory of ''inherent'' presidential power and then in the Supreme Court withdrawing to the argument that such surveillance was a ''reasonable'' search and seizure and therefore valid under the Fourth Amendment. Unanimously, the Court held that at least in cases of domestic subversive investigations, compliance with the warrant provisions of the Fourth Amendment was required. 152 Whether or not a search was reasonable, wrote Justice Powell for the Court, was a question which derived much of its answer from the warrant clause; except in a few narrowly circumscribed classes of situations, only those searches conducted pursuant to warrants were reasonable.

The Government's duty to preserve the national security did not override the gurarantee that before government could invade the privacy of its citizens it must present to a neutral magistrate evidence sufficient to support issuance of a warrant authorizing that invasion of privacy.

153 This protection was even more needed in ''national security cases'' than in cases of ''ordinary'' crime, the Justice continued, inasmuch as the tendency of government so often is to regard opponents of its policies as a threat and hence to tread in areas protected by the First Amendment as well as by the Fourth. 154 Rejected also was the argument that courts could not appreciate the intricacies of investigations in the area of national security nor preserve the secrecy which is required.155

The question of the scope of the President's constitutional powers, if any, remains judicially unsettled. 156 Congress has acted, however, providing for a special court to hear requests for warrants for electronic surveillance in foreign intelligence situations, and permitting the President to authorize warrantless surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information provided that the communications to be monitored are exclusively between or among foreign powers and there is no substantial likelihood any ''United States person'' will be overheard. 157
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Isn't the LAW a funny thing? Talking about the "judicial testing" of a law regarding "Presidential Power" at the very same time the courts are being loaded with folks who have a history of siding or opining with the best interests of Governments and Corporations in mind?

-T

Revealed: Bush and Blair discussed using American Spyplane in UN colours to lure Saddam into war.
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Channel 4 News has seen minutes from that meeting, which took place in the White House on 31 January 2003. The two leaders discussed the possibility of securing further UN support, but President Bush made it clear that he had already decided to go to war. The details are contained in a new version of the book 'Lawless World' written by a leading British human rights lawyer, Philippe Sands QC.

President Bush said: "The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach."

He went on: "It was also possible that a defector could be brought out who would give a public presentation about Saddams WMD, and there was also a small possibility that Saddam would be assassinated."
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He wanted war SOOOO BAAAAADDDD!

Motherfucker!

The State of Cindy Sheehan's Union:
Hysterical and Bipolar

#32 Saladin, who in their right mind would fight for a country and find their government is stiffing them with the bills? Plus, with our use of DU thousands of our soldiers will be effected with malignancies for themselves and possibly passing them onto their children.

#49 capt, I believe that the Nazis will want to close the internet and free expresion, both verbal and written.

American Soldiers

More American soldiers are killed in the Middle East.

2,509 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for Bush and his evil lies.

Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. Henry Kissinger

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

Before you seek revenge, dig two graves. Confucius

Contamination

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

Hitler Bush and the Nazi cabal will prowl the world seeking endless wars. With endless wars and depleted uranium the Nazi States of America will contaminate people, land, air, and water. In time our entire world will become contaminated through the use of depleted uranium in fighting our endless wars.

The Nazi States of America is an evil nation.

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.

Nazi 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 Nazi 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’≥ lies. To date 2,509 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. Nazi America will remain for our country and the world.

My fellow Nazi 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 Nazi Americans are accomplices in Bush's murders and war crimes.

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

Nazi Americans continually justify sin.

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

PEACE TAKES COURAGE!

HONOR THE TROOPS, DEMAND THE TRUTH!

The CIC (Coward in Crawford) lies about lying about his lies.

Depleted uranium has contaminated many millions of Iraqis and our American soldiers.

God Is Tender, Says Benedict XVI
Comments on Psalm 144(145) at General Audience

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 1, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The human being's greatest consolation is God's tenderness, says Benedict XVI.

Addressing more than 8,000 people gathered today in Paul VI Hall for the weekly general audience, the Pope reflected on a topic that also marked the central message of his first encyclical, "God Is Love."

The Holy Father used his address to comment on Psalm 144(145), which proclaims: "The Lord is good to all, compassionate to every creature."

According to the Bishop of Rome, this Old Testament passage is "preparation for the profession of faith in God of St. John the Apostle, saying to us simply that He is love: 'Deus caritas est.'"

Benedict XVI explained that it is a word "that must be meditated on, a word of consolation, a certainty that contributes to our life."

According to the Pontiff, God "is not indifferent to human history; what is more, he desires to work out with and for us a plan of harmony and peace."

Thus, he added, "we are not at the mercy of dark forces, or alone with our freedom, but we have been entrusted to the action of the powerful and loving Lord, who will establish for us a plan, a 'reign.'

"This 'reign' does not consist of power or dominion, triumph or oppression, as often happens, unfortunately, with earthly kingdoms, but it is the seat of a manifestation of mercy, tenderness, goodness, grace, justice."

Benedict XVI concluded quoting St. Peter Chrysologus: "Great are the works of the Lord," but "his mercy is greater than all his works."

With his intervention, the Pope continued a series of meditations on the psalms and canticles of the Bible used in the Liturgy of the Hours. Other meditations appear in ZENIT's archives.

THE SWITCHGRASS BOONDOGGLE
by Bob in North Dakota

A typical hay yield is 2 tons/acre. About 40% of that is carbon, after you adjust for moisture. If 25% of that carbon could be somehow made into a gasoline substitute, that is about 400 lb/A, or roughly 50 gallons of gasoline substitute per acre, give or take.

Further assume that every acre of wheat in North Dakota were abandoned, and planted to switchgrass. Six million acres x 50 gallons per acre equals 300 million gallons of gasoline. Sounds like a hell of a lot, right?

Well, guess what. American gasoline consumption is....300 million gallons per DAY. That's right.....eliminate all the wheat in North Dakota, and grow switchgrass to make a gasoline substitute, and you replace ONE DAY'S gasoline use by America. Replace all the wheat in Kansas...by gum, you have TWO DAY'S gasoline replacement....and one hell of a lot of roads broken down hauling hay to central locations, one hell of a big pile (literally a billion pounds) of rotting, smelly, switchgrass extraction residues that would destroy the quality of life of any poor sucker who lived nearby.

What a boondoggle. It doesn't make sense.

Bob in North Dakota

London: Channel 4 News tonight reveals extraordinary details of George Bush and Tony Blair's pre-war meeting in January 2003 at which they discussed plans to begin military action on March 10th 2003, irrespective of whether the United Nations had passed a new resolution authorising the use of force.

Revealed: Bush and Blair discussed using American spy plane in UN colors to lure Saddam into war.
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They both should be strung up by their "petards"

ooops. sorry Hajji...didn't see that you had already posted the latest about the mofos and their lust for war...

Regarding the article @74: the only thing that doesn't ring true about it, is that I doubt that bush knows the word internecine:

President Bush said that (about the aftermath of an Iraqi war) he: "thought it unlikely that there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups."

micki,

It certainly is big enough a (yet, another) story to be repeated.

I've been slowly feeding these bits to a friend who somehow argued that Bush really HAD to go to war, there was no other choice...etc.

There has NEVER been a doubt in my mind that this illegal and immoral invasion, occupation and continued murder and maiming of Iraqi peoples was a CASUAL choice the MFIC gleefully desired to make.

He wanted it, go it and fucked it up royally just like every other venture (yes, INCLUDING the White House!) of his ill-gotten life.

I'm just about on overload...can't take much more of this being right crap. I can't stop thinking about Spc.Spank, either. He's apparently heading "up north" from Kuwait in the next week or so.

I'd sure like to "have a beer" with Bush if it included a nice big bowl of pretzels to lodge at both ends of his digestive tract!

-T

Tonight on Chris Matthews one of the guest commented "that the Republicans are more concerned about losing in 06, than the Democrats are believing that they can win in o6." The Democrats really blew it on this Alito fillibuster. Starting so late in the game and all. Remember win Senator Harry Reid showed some muscle in October and called a closed session in regard to Phase2 of the SSCI. People really were inspired to see some gusto out of the Democratic party. Folks are ready for them to take a united stand... apathy and hopelessness are in abundant supply these days The two things that I heard several times about Senator Boehner were that he has never slipped in an earmark. David Gergen said that he used to hand out tobacco checks on the Senate floor on Hardball. The Republicans are moving to draw the line in the sand between them and Delays trouble s.

Hajji and Micki great interview with Carter on Larry King Live. He was so clear...stating the reasons he was against the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq long before the Bush administration went in. Worth listening to.

As of late I have been contacting the MSM almost every other day about doing a program on the status of Phase 2. (even Russert, Matthews and Olberman) Russert did have Senators Roberts and Rockerfeller on almost 2 years ago..

While we know that it is in stalled position and Senator Pat Roberts assigned the Pentagon in charge of investigating themselves.The senate SHOULD be investigating the OSP ON their own concurrent with the Pentagon's investigation internal investigation.

Did anyone notice how uptight Lynne Cheney looked at the State of Denial?? I have been thinking Fitzgerald is closing in ....I can dream

;Hey would someone go link article at the National Journal called..." Iraq, Niger and the Cia F" Feb 2 2006..By MUrray Waas. It is a good one.

I promise I will learn to link someday

Hollywood Democrat Alec Baldwin is blasting his party's Senators for failing to block Samuel Alito confirmation to the Supreme Court, saying he's appalled that Sen. Ted Kennedy and other liberals could muster only 25 of the 41 votes needed mount a successful filibuster. The problem is there are too many "chicken-bleep Democrats in the Senate," the agitated actor told the New York Daily News. "We have a bunch of budding Zell Millers down there," he complained, referring to the Georgia Democrat who backed President Bush in the 2004 election.
Turning his ire towards Miller, Baldwin explained: "I loathe and despise him on a daily basis."
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Not that I ever followed the career of this never really was now certainly is has been actor but wasn't he the same chicken bleep who swore he would leave the U.S. if Bush became President? Mighty chicken bleep on his part or was he referring to Jeb when he said that?

IRAQ NIGER & CIA

Hajji, I have noticed that a bushbot is capable of incredible and impossible twists and tweaks of the facts to support whatever that dictator in DC afflicts us with. A simple, eloquent amendment becomes a hellacious maze impossible to negotiate without a 42 page document trying to legalize unlawful, unconstitutional and totally detestable behavior on the part of our govt. But then, this is how ALL tyrants come to power, with the enabling they could count on from the ill-informed, uneducated masses whose primary brain function is fueled by fear. As the article I posted above points out, let's see how they feel when these same laws are turned on them by democrats. That will be a whole 'nuther animal. Then will we experience the wailing and knashing of teeth emanating from the brain dead, bush supporting fascists!

Thanks James....

Breaking News
Election Update: Do-Over on First Ballot
By Ben Pershing
Roll Call Staff
Thursday, Feb. 2

House Republicans are taking a mulligan on the first ballot for Majority Leader. The first count showed more votes cast than Republicans present at the Conference meeting. Stay with RollCall.com for updates.
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SHEESH! They can't even get the SIMPLEST elections right!

This musing is for those interested in the Senatorial campaign in Florida, Happy's state of happy childhood. Katherine Harris has received the blessings (belatedly) of the Bush brothers and will likely go heads up aginst Sen. Ben Nelson (D). Ms. Harris is one tough cookie and I admire her perseverance against the many that did NOT want her to run.

Presently a 20 point underdog against a better-financed (for now) incumbent, she has her work cut out for her. Happy made a donation today and I urge fellow GOPers to do like wise (at electharris.org). Florida is a GOP state and what a coup it would be to unseat Sen. Nelson while helping to crush those Dems dreaming of `winning' this year.

David: Your regulars use your site to promote all sort of things so I figure I'd give it a fling as well. I promise I won't try to raise funds for the Boy Scouts!

whats the general point here?

the comentary here makes you look like complete iddiots...would you like some help? making this goal look attainable? you never know who is watching you fools

and david must be a fag..hence the boy scout (in poor taste) comment. It must be hard to keep your dick out of your mouth I see. this is like a carnival of the ignorant

get out the pots and pans..we need to look like fools in front of the world. Do you really think that foolish and ignorant behavior like this is going to help you? I am simply flabbergasted to think that you can honestly defy america in this manner........a clue to the clueless..unless you are there.you have no idea what in the hell you are talking about..please pull your head out of your butt....I ask..why do ALL of the troops I talk to say "we are making progress" if you choose to make them look like fools..why do you make that choice? THEY ARE THERE and you ARE NOT..yet you choose to spew vomit all over about how much better you are than the troops(and you probably have a support troops sticker on the bumper).just wondering

I pitty you, when you step in-front of god, and he asks you...what have you done to make the world a better place...........what will you say?
and if you dont believe in god..go figure..when you are on your death bed..and thinking about the life you chose..what will come to mind first? the woman, born of a father and mother in Iraq, subjected to humiliation..made to stay in the corner of the hut..un-educated..and assuming the role of a slave......biggot

"While 53 percent consider Bush to be neither honest nor trustworthy, a majority views him as "a strong leader" who can be trusted in a crisis and approves of his management of the war on terror."

This poll result is quite frightening. Who are these folks who think Bush is untrustworthy and dishonest by nature yet at the same time can be trusted in a crisis, wielding supreme executive power over the largest military force in the history of the universe?

The people who clutch their guns, pray and fight for the unborn, clamor for tax cuts and/or blame the countries problems on minorities and gays are at least consistent.

How F'd up is the doofus who both thinks Bush is a sociopath but also thinks he's their man when it comes to fighting the terrorist bogeymen with unlimited power?

I appear to be quite abbrasive..and truth be told..I am. I get so sick of people putting out information that only helps them get ahead in life. I ask..what about the women in Iraq? I NEVER hear about their plight..the trials they have to go through just to get an education..I never hear about anything good that happens in that region..why is that? I have to question some morality..and wish you the best when you ask God for forgivness for the dis-honest life you portrayed ....for your own political benefit.

terrorist boogieman? what the heck is that? if you are that desperate to place a name on a face..you obviously have no idea what the real word issues are. I am saddened by the people that wave a flag....then carry it to a protest..stomp on it....take it to their car..burn it..then go home and post a message honoring it. They then say "I support the troops" I just dont believe in what they are doing....HUH? they are helping women get an education..they are helping the people of iraq VOTE, They are GIVING THEIR LIVES SO ANOTHER CAN HAVE A SAY ON HOW THEIR LIFE WILL BE RUN.........and all I hear about is a road side bomb......and when a reporter gets injured..he gets more coverage than a troop that gave his or her life for the freedom of another?..........AMERICA ("s) media is dead...I am proud to say that I have burried them...will never read them..or view them again. I have my honest news outlets ...they portray the TRUE HEROS....our military family..keeping AMERICA SAFE.day by day..hour by hour...with a payment due in respect. Well here is my payment...I bow my head in respect to all the Military personnel who keep my wife and children safe at night..with this vow, I honor your courrage and Promise to keep YOUR wife and children safe at night. If you Give your life to keep my life safe, I vow to take care of your family as if it were mine.until I die. Thank you for your courage, honor, and strength

The VERY SAD thing is...I will GET NO RESPONSE to my post about how TRULY WONDERFUL the Men and Wommen that give their lives for all of us TRULY are...........Their will Be NO response I am sure...So I will Respond in Kind..to what is REALLY in the back of their minds.....THANK YOU TROOPS>>>>BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. If IT werent for you..I would probably have no say in the matter..because Democrats would have taken me by the back of the head..and held my head below water so I had NO voice. So I say THANK YOU GEORGE BUSH for helping me get some freedom..
WOMEN IN IRAQ HAVE A CHOICE >FINALLY>>AFTER !)) YEARS...democrats in america are trying to make that look like it does NOT exist.but it DOES.. I finally have a VOICE!!!!!!!!!!! FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF IRAQ..........We HOPE ALL DEMOCRATS ARE EXPOSED FOR WHAT THEY ARE..HIPPOCRITS WITH A SPECIFIC AGENDA..AND NO CARE FOR WHO WE ARE....I am confused as to why the democrats would forget the real people like me...and just go to an agenda...all I can think of is MONEY. One prime example is the school on the island.....DEMOCRATS PAY NO PROPERTY TAX WHAT SO EVER...WHAT A DEAL>>and when a local school (that has been their for 100 years and the democrat has been there 10) wants to expand their football field by 20 FLIPPIN FEET (OVER SOME PAVEMENT)...the democrat..who PAYS NO TAXES ON HER LAND( VIA A SWEET DEAL WITH THE MINNESOTA DNR..HUM..GO FIGURE>>WHO SLEEPS WITH WHO) and has only been on the property for 10 years (THE SCHOOL HAS 1OO YEARS UNDER ITS BELT)The KAHN///// Hint on name..thinks that the school of 100 years has no rights over her tenure of 10 years. her home is 10 years old..a condo..is that HISTORIC? SHE IS SURLY KIDDING? RIGHT???( OH MY FRIGGEN GOD NO>>SHE IS NOT KIDDING..THIS STUPID WOMAN ACTUALLY THINKS THAT SHE HAS RIGHTS AS A 10 YEAR HOME OWNER OVER A LAND OWNER OF 100 years Plusss) ++++ 100 years is defeated by phyllis Kahn..a 10 year resident..OK TELL ME POLLITICS ARE NOT CORRUPT>>>I WILL WAIT UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER FOR THAT ANSWER WITH a 100 TON TRUCK READY FOR DEMOCRATIC BULSHIT ON A PER TON SCALE>ALL YOU KIDS SUCK..I PAY 1 YES ONE fricken US dollar for you stupid kids to stay put..so go away............LONG LIVE AMERican politice>>>>not..CHANGES ARE ON THE WAY..SO please dont despair

The VERY SAD thing is...I will GET NO RESPONSE to my post about how TRULY WONDERFUL the Men and Wommen that give their lives for all of us TRULY are...........Their will Be NO response I am sure...So I will Respond in Kind..to what is REALLY in the back of their minds.....THANK YOU TROOPS>>>>BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. If IT werent for you..I would probably have no say in the matter..because Democrats would have taken me by the back of the head..and held my head below water so I had NO voice. So I say THANK YOU GEORGE BUSH for helping me get some freedom..
WOMEN IN IRAQ HAVE A CHOICE >FINALLY>>AFTER !)) YEARS...democrats in america are trying to make that look like it does NOT exist.but it DOES.. I finally have a VOICE!!!!!!!!!!! FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF IRAQ..........We HOPE ALL DEMOCRATS ARE EXPOSED FOR WHAT THEY ARE..HIPPOCRITS WITH A SPECIFIC AGENDA..AND NO CARE FOR WHO WE ARE....I am confused as to why the democrats would forget the real people like me...and just go to an agenda...all I can think of is MONEY. One prime example is the school on the island.....DEMOCRATS PAY NO PROPERTY TAX WHAT SO EVER...WHAT A DEAL>>and when a local school (that has been their for 100 years and the democrat has been there 10) wants to expand their football field by 20 FLIPPIN FEET (OVER SOME PAVEMENT)...the democrat..who PAYS NO TAXES ON HER LAND( VIA A SWEET DEAL WITH THE MINNESOTA DNR..HUM..GO FIGURE>>WHO SLEEPS WITH WHO) and has only been on the property for 10 years (THE SCHOOL HAS 1OO YEARS UNDER ITS BELT)The KAHN///// Hint on name..thinks that the school of 100 years has no rights over her tenure of 10 years. her home is 10 years old..a condo..is that HISTORIC? SHE IS SURLY KIDDING? RIGHT???( OH MY FRIGGEN GOD NO>>SHE IS NOT KIDDING..THIS STUPID WOMAN ACTUALLY THINKS THAT SHE HAS RIGHTS AS A 10 YEAR HOME OWNER OVER A LAND OWNER OF 100 years Plusss) ++++ 100 years is defeated by phyllis Kahn..a 10 year resident..OK TELL ME POLLITICS ARE NOT CORRUPT>>>I WILL WAIT UNTIL HELL FREEZES OVER FOR THAT ANSWER WITH a 100 TON TRUCK READY FOR DEMOCRATIC BULSHIT ON A PER TON SCALE>ALL YOU KIDS SUCK..I PAY 1 YES ONE fricken US dollar for you stupid kids to stay put..so go away............LONG LIVE AMERican politice>>>>not..CHANGES ARE ON THE WAY..SO please dont despair

I just want to PUKE when I read things like the post I just put foreward (and before my post). I get sickened by people that "assure" me I am in good hands....Well..I know it when I see it..so be on guard. I agree it is a (DLICATE BAlANCE)

I could fill your balloon up with crap..but in the end.Phyllis is full of the crap I need to exchange to you .so I can go home..needs you to hurry up..PLEASE////lets roll Joe

OK OK OK;...reality for all OF YOU fools..LESSON 1...I RULE,,SHOW ME THE MOVES..I am waiting...and excited as you made such a big deal out of this

A driver is stuck in a traffic jam on the highway. Nothing is moving. Suddenly a man knocks on the window.

The driver rolls down his window and asks, "What happened?"

"Terrorists have kidnapped Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Cindy Sheehan, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, and their boss George Soros. They are asking for a $10 million ransom. Otherwise they are going to douse them with gasoline and set them on fire. We are going from car to car, taking up a collection."

The driver asks, "How much is everyone giving, on average?"

"About a gallon."

YOU SUCK!!!

~Tawnya~

I used a link from an old article, that was written about Bush exaggerating his Air Force service, to get here. I am no fan of this site. I just wanted to make a comment concerning that article. I being a former full active duty member of the U.S. Air Force appreciate Bush's limited service. That is more than I could say about the author of the article and the host of this website, who never spent a day in uniform. He doesn't have the inner strength it takes to serve any cause higher than himself. He is a coward that hides behind the very freedom we veterans provided. Why do you think he is able to write what he wants to? It is because of the sacrifice men and women of the armed forces make to defend our constitution and this great nation. I fully endorse the right to free speech, he can say what he wants just as I can, but I just want to remind those out there why they are able to do so. Any military service to this nation should be respected. Although I disagree with many of the views of John Kerry, I do have absolute respect for him and the service he has given to his country. He is a veteran that has earned the right to say whatever he wants. I am curious about the qualifications of David Corn to write on such matters as national security and military affairs. He obviously has no real experience in these matters. Does his degree from Brown make him an expert? Does the fact he