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I am sure that unlike the recent FBI report on Gitmo however, no one was chained in the fetal position for 18-24 hours, but a Detroit "terrorist" can now sue the county that jailed him. The Federal Judge upheld three other counts, including Koubriti's claim that he was "repeatedly...
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Mr. Paul represents the good people of TX in the 14th District. On January 5th, he made this speech on the floor of the House. You can watch his speech here. A thank you to H4H for the link :) and all emphasis is mine.
HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS
Before the U.S. House of Representatives
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This administration, in light of all the spying, prying and nosing into our personal business...has now told us that it’s none of OUR business who comes and goes in the White House. After all, its become part and parcel of this administration, to keep things to themselves..things that have...
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On the heels of the newest signing statement by our President that allows him to read our mail, comes the news that the White House has declared the Visitors List as closed to the public.
The article states that the reason for this decision came on the heels of a federal judge ordering our...
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Since Steve posted about Edwards tossing his hat in the Presidential ring..I thought I would let folks hear what his goals are..and its under 2 and a half minutes..
FYI Jason..his people posted this video on YouTube per my email from them this morning :)
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Another republican takes issue with Bush's occupation of Iraq. This WaPo article has this as the opening paragraph:
"Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said...
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This list is pretty funny on some levels..sad on others. It shouldn't be a surprize that Ann Coulter leads the list with the most quotes. The list is courtesy of MediaMatters.org
William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights: "Well, look, there are...
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The police being the Iraqi police in Basra. "Hundreds of British soldiers assaulted a police station in the southern city of Basra on Monday, killing seven gunmen, rescuing 127 prisoners and ultimately reducing the facility to rubble." according to this article in the International...
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The war in Iraq, which is costing roughly $8 Billion bucks a month, has largely been funded by emergency funding bills. This has removed the oversight function which should be carried out by the legislative branches on all spending bills.
Three elected members of the legislature have written a...
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I just read about the guy who lit himself on fire in front of the courthouse. What an idiot! I don't care if someone has a differing point of view on something, but please, address such issues in a rational way. This guy was, apparently, so upset over the decision to name the school breaks...
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I personally don't own a gun myself, but one of the few issues that I'm opposite with most other liberals and democrats is gun control. Our second amendment rights are being taken away. The main arguement with gun control is that restricting guns will reduce crime and in turn, reduce...
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Tonight at 7 pm EST, DefCon Co-Director Clark Stevens will appear on CNBC News' ‘On The Money' to talk about the religious right's violent video game "Left Behind: Eternal Forces." Clark will be debating Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice - an...
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Here, with his "people's" approval Jason, is their YouTube video of this vital announcment. I have full permission to show this from an email I rec'd.
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We've all heard the phrase "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder." Now I'll give you reasons why conservatism is a mental disorder.
1. Conservatives want to torture prisoners of war (which is obvious with Bush's pro-torture policy).
2. Conservatives want to spy on...
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To vote their candidates, here is the link. The candidates are:
George Bush
Condo Rice
Kim Jong Il
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Hugo...
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I rec'd this piece of news this morning in my inbox from The Hill, an inside the beltway news group/blog. I will give Tommy this; he is probably the best corrupt politician in the last 20 years to figure out new ways to beg for money from the party faithful.
DeLay launches new conservative...
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So, would someone like to try and make the arguement that going into Iraq was NOT about the oil? On page 20 of the ISG report the phrase I quoted above is the second sentence. I have been reading the ISG report, not for its ideas on how to get out of there..but for the information about how bad...
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Has anyone seen any ads in the newspaper, or anywhere else for that matter, calling for volunteers to sign up to be considered for the seat vacated by Ken Weir on the Bakersfield City School Board?
If the board is going to follow Option One of the process outlined by the Education...
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Would you vote for this guy?
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The numbers, although not final, are thus:
"With 78% of voting stations reporting, Chavez had 61% to 38% for challenger [Manuel] Rosales," the Associated Press says. "Chavez had nearly 6 million votes versus 3.7 million for Rosales, according to the partial tally."
How...
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Guess he saw the writing on the wall. The Dem's were not going to allow him to become the permanent ambassador representing our interests in the U.N.
Bolton was quite obvious that his views and mission, as he saw it, was to protect the U.S. interests only. Is that a good thing or a narrow...
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I am taking a cue from a fellow poster. I am not going to post, read or comment on anything political until after Christmas. I am sick of it. I have noticed that the times I blog about anything outside the political stuff, I get few, if any, comments. I guess it just goes to show how bad...
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This isn't about the overbilling in Iraq, its about the overbilling in Kosovo by KBR. Yes, its taken this long to settle some of the issues raised by everyone's favorite government contractor, Halliburton and its subsidiaries, for bilking the taxpayers. In a WaPo article, KBR was real happy...
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The transcript and video of KO's special comment can be seen here.
Amen Keith. If someone thinks they can take our freedoms in the name of fear..they have another think coming. People have died for our right to speak what we think...and Newt be damned.
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The transcript and video of KO's special comment can be seen here.
Amen Keith. If someone thinks they can take our freedoms in the name of fear..they have another think coming. People have died for our right to speak what we think...and Newt be damned.
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They both agreed to appear in public this morning and put on a united front. Whether these two heads of state really saw eye to eye on anything is another story and one they wouldn’t tell us publicly if their miserable lives depended on it.
They agreed that partioning is not an option....
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Michael Hirsh has an exclusive web article up at Newsweek/MSNBC’s site. His contention is the Iraq Study Group’s(ISG) report won’t solve the problem’s in Iraq, or get our troops out of there any sooner than half a dozen other plans floated lately. A particularly grizzly...
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Interesting that the Shrub's own minion would leak this memo. It;s a highly unflattering account of Maliki's efforts or lack of them, to quell the civil war going on in many of the areas of Baghdad and Sadr City. This snippet explains:
"Despite Maliki’s reassuring words, repeated...
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Very interesting interactive map of the world and the wars engaged in by the U.S. It will tell you which party or President was engaged in the deadliest conflicts and a plethora of other facts. Check it out here.
You might or might not be surprised at which party is the most prolific in terms...
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Its a war on Penquins now. From Media Matters:
Beck, Cavuto, Medved Push Absurd Notion of Environmentalist Propaganda in Animated Penguin Movie
Washington, D.C. -- Not content with their annual discussion of a supposed "War on Christmas," conservative talking heads have taken on a...
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Since the mid-term elections, we…the universal we, have been waiting with baited breath, and sometimes the occasional cocktail, for a plan to get out of Iraq. The Iraq Study Group is going to release their findings, hopefully, in the very near future. What could they possibly...
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The British Channel4.com News folks have put themselves in harms way over in Iraq to get out a story that is worth the 47 minutes of your life you will spend watching it.
It's sad that we have to get this kind of information from a foreign country, our MSM doesn't seem to want to provide...
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received this from my pop today via email. please read and consider.
dad wrote: Please read. If you agree, please send on.
Good evening.
As you are aware the BCSD Board of Education will be selecting an "appointee" to serve the remainder of trustee Ken Weir's term of office. ...
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Feingold introduced legislation regarding Iraq recently. To read his latest writeup about the war and how its going, hit this link. The beginning of his article:
On Tuesday, I introduced legislation requiring U.S. forces to redeploy from Iraq by July 1, 2007. My legislation recognizes...
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For a paltry(tongue in cheek) $18.7 Billion..Mitt Romney's Bain Capital is now the proud owner of Clear Channel Communication. Read the writeup here.
While many may welcome someone else taking over Clear Channel, we need to look at the new players. Bain Capital was founded by current...
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The vote wasn't even close 149-86. Writeup here. Wonder how this affects Pelosi, since she backed the loser in this one.
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Wish I had a photoshop of Jack in prison orange..but alas, I do not..just a lil tidbit of the writeup:
The federal Bureau of Prisons said Abramoff, who has been cooperating in the government's influence-peddling investigation, arrived at about 6:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) at a minimum security federal...
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It has been a week since I have had any time at all to write anything and that stinks. I am so tired of being tired, and this entire year has been like this. I have had virtually no time to sit and relax, although I have been able to spend a good deal off time off riding over the last three...
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November 14th, 2006
To My Conservative Brothers and Sisters,
I know you are dismayed and disheartened at the results of last week's election. You're worried that the country is heading toward a very bad place you don't want it to go. Your 12-year Republican Revolution has ended with so...
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Soon-to-be Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has taken sides on the debate of Who should be the next Majority Leader of the House. Her letter to Murtha, shows she is abandoning her deputy, MD's Steny Hoyer. Hoyer made it very clear on election night that he was going to campaign for this...
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WaPo had a good article up Sunday. Its about the now infamous "Iraq Study Group. Those 10 humans, of dubious ancestry, have been formulating a plan for pulling our collective ass out of the fire that is the Iraq War.
I have blogged, ad nauseum, about this group. It is headed by two men on...
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It seems that the government is being more prudish than its people.A study was just released, saying that most Americans favor comprehensive sex education over abstinence-only education, regardless of their political bias.According to a story by Reuters:Of the nearly 1,110 U.S. adults they...
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Conrad Burns, one of Jack Abramoff's closest political buddies, has conceded defeat in Montana. At noon, left-coast time, Senator Macaca is going to speak.
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The question was raised Tuesday by Web editor Davin McHenry here on the blogs about the young voters and if they actually were going to vote. Seems there was quite a good turnout according to a Yahoo article I read this morning:
About 24 percent of Americans under the age of 30, or at least 10...
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Robert Gates is a member of James Baker's Iraq Study Group and currently is the President of Texas A&M University . He was a favorite of Bush 41(Geo. H.W. Bush). As for Robert Gate's service to his country, Consider the following;
He may be best known for playing a role in arming...
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I read today about Iraqi police forces torturing and killing detainees. Hmmm..It wasn't us, and I guarantee you, they didn't just learn how to mutilate and kill each other since 2003. These people have been doing this since the first two muslims looked over a dune at each other and it won't...
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I think it sounds pretty damn good. First female House Speaker..and she is from Cali no less :) But the best part of all is..
The Dem's now have supoena power and control the agenda. They better do something with it too, or I will be all over their backs.
President Bush will be holding a...
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Wow..this is interesting:
Contact: Trevor Fitzgibbon, Laura Gross or Alex Howe, 202-822-5200, all for MoveOn.org Political Action
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- MoveOn.org Political Action is offering a $250,000 reward for new material evidence leading to a felony...
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To amuse yourselves later, you can go to this site and print out a Bingo card that contains 25 of the Repubes running for national office. Be the first on your block to cross off five and you get to yell BINGO! Or, if you play online later tonite here, I will offer a toaster to the winner.
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I know some folks do not get HBO, but would like to see this show. Youtube has it up in sections:
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There is also a technical paper on the subject from Princeton University, but the link isn't...
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