US waging war on US

This is BS (and OLD BS at that!) of the highest order. Then again, look who we're talkin' about here...

So .. if I interpret the new fun "No Freedom of Speech" ruling by the Supreme Court (.. ya know .. "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" = advocating drug use and therefore not covered by Freedom of Speech because drugs currently are illegal) - if I say "Kiss my Ass!!" - Am in big trouble because I am advocating Anal Sex??

They made anal sex constitutional a couple of years ago. Even anal oral.

Just don't do it stoned.

McCain could pull out of race by September, UK paper asserts RAW STORY
Published: Monday June 25, 2007

A Sunday report by one of Britain's best political reporters in Washington posits that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is on his last legs and may abandon his bid for the presidency as soon as September "if his fundraising dries up and his poll ratings continue to drop."

McCain's staff vigorously denied the allegation.

"He's a battler, so I'd expect him to carry on, but everyone is waiting to see what his new fundraising totals are," Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen told the Sunday Times' Sarah Baxter. "That's pretty critical. If he doesn't have the money, he won't be able to run."

Pullen also delivered another devastating blow, saying he believed that McCain could lose his home state of Arizona.

"It looks to me like Arizona will be in play," Pullen said. "The immigration issue is clearly hurting him with the base of the party."

The communications director of McCain's 2000 campaign told Baxter it's "possible" that he could drop out: "There are all sorts of challenges McCain is facing, from fundraising to Fred Thompson and the Iraq war, but the biggest single boulder in his path is the immigration issue."

One veteran Republican consultant told the Sunday Times he thought the odds of McCain remaining in the race beyond autumn were 3-1 against.

"He'll be gone by September," predicted Tom Edmonds. "The wheels are coming off his wagon and it's hard to see how he can recover. He won't be able to pay all the good talent he has hired and they'll want to drift away from a loser."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/McCain_could_pull_out_of_race_0625.html

Go ßomb thyself.

NBC News: 'Has the vice president gone too far?' David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Monday June 25, 2007

NBC News reported on Monday that "Dick Cheney is back in a very uncomfortable place for him: the headlines." Both a Washington Post series on the vice president and Cheney's feud with the National Archives over his handling of classified information are drawing attention to his style of governing.

NBC called Cheney "a master of stealth, even inside the White House," describing how he put through his policy of holding detainees indefinitely without charges by handing his proposal to the president without the normal staff review. NBC also noted that "Cheney's influence turns out to be surprisingly wide-ranging," encompassing everything from cutting the capital gains tax to ending the ban on snowmobiles in national parks.

"Has the vice-president gone too far?" asked NBC, adding that "the National Archives thinks so," because Cheney alone in the executive branch has refused to file required reports or permit inspections of his office's handling of classified material. However, the NBC story did not make any mention of Cheney's having justified his refusal on the novel grounds that he is not a part of the executive branch.

The following video is from NBC's Today Show, broadcast on June 25.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/NBC_Growing_concern_over_Cheney_power_0625...

Top Democrat claims 'overwhelmingly positive' response to move to defund the Vice President Michael Roston
Published: Monday June 25, 2007

While some would argue that Dick Cheney has sought unlimited power for his office in President George W. Bush's White House, the Vice President could soon be facing some major limits on his government bank account. A top House Democrat has announced his intention to offer an amendment to strip funding from the yearly budget for the Office of the Vice President.

"On the Hill, there's an overwhelmingly positive reaction," a spokesman for Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) told RAW STORY Monday afternoon.

He went on, "This is an important amendment and question, and it's a choice that the Vice President should make. He cannot be allowed to accept executive branch funding and not adhere to executive branch rules. There is no fourth branch of government."

On Saturday, RAW STORY's Josh Catone first reported on Emanuel's planned amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2008. Emanuel announced his plan in reaction to the House Oversight Committee's revelation last week that Cheney's office had argued that for the purposes of certain laws, the Vice President's office was not an agency in the executive branch.

Multiple Democratic Congressional staffers told RAW STORY that the bill will come up for a vote on Wednesday or Thursday. And staff for Rep. Emanuel, who is the chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives, believed he would have the votes to shrink the Vice President's budget to zero.

Emanuel's amendment could inject some excitement into a droll funding bill that normaly gets scant attention on an annual basis. The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, in addition to funding the White House, covers the budgets of the Supreme Court, the Treasury Department, the District of Columbia, and a variety of other independent government agencies.

In the FY 2008 budget, which was approved last week, the House Appropriations Committee stated without any controversy that it "recommends an appropriation of $4,432,000 for the Office of the Vice President, the same as fiscal year 2007 level and the amount requested by the President."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Top_Democrat_announces_overwhelmingly_posi...

CNN: Supreme Court Slap Back Blow to Campaign Financing reforms.

Right-Wing Radio Hosts Hewitt, Boortz Advising Senators On Immigration Bill
“Talk radio is running America,” Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) recently told the New York Times. “We have to deal with that problem.”

Since Lott uttered his comment about right-wing talk radio’s disproportionate influence on the Senate immigration debate, he has become a pariah on talk radio and in the conservative blogosphere.

Unfortunately, the radio talkers have become more influential as well, with some even helping to craft legislation:

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the key conservative negotiator behind the compromise bill, told reporters Friday that California-based radio host Hugh Hewitt “had several ideas” that “we are trying to include” in amendments to be offered in an upcoming series of crucial votes.

Hewitt, a conservative who has criticized many aspects of the bill, had Kyl as a guest on Thursday and asked: “Does the bill provide for any separate treatment of aliens, illegal aliens from countries of special concern?”

Kyl replied: “It’s going to, as a result of your lobbying efforts to me.”

Hewitt isn’t the only right-wing talker to directly influence a senator. After Atlanta-based host Neal Boortz “popped” Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) over his “qualified support” of the immigration bill, Boortz was brought in to consult with Chambliss, “even though the senator was not an on-air guest during the debate.” Chambliss now opposes the bill.

Both Hewitt and Boortz hold positions that are well out of the mainstream. On his blog, Hewitt has suggested that former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) would be an ideal Supreme Court justice. Regarding immigrants, Boortz has said, “Give ‘em all a little nuclear waste and let ‘em take it on down there to Mexico.”

Though conservatives may take up 91% of the talk radio airwaves, talk radio is not representative of the American people, who broadly support the key components of the legislation.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/hewitt-boortz-immigration/

i'm not sure whether its a propaganda war or whether these bastards have started believing their own lies. investors business daily whose editorial page is solidly conservative had a column on this operation arrowhead ripper and basically said that the army had finally decided to hunt down every al qaeda member in iraq and kill them. of course it followed with its own editorializing about how democrats and liberals just don't understand the need to do this, but the message to people who believe this crap is that we think the problem in iraq is al qaeda.

the bigger issue is that this is the vietnam quagmire all over again. in the late 60's and early 70's it became all about body counts and believing that all we had to do was kill enough people and we would win the war. it was so wrong on so many levels.

Justices Loosens Limits on Campaign Ads
Jun 25, 3:43 PM (ET)

By MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court loosened political advertising restrictions aimed at corporate- and union-funded television ads Monday, a ruling that could give interest groups a louder and more influential voice in the 2008 presidential election.

The 5-4 decision upheld an appeals court ruling that an anti-abortion group should have been allowed to air ads during the final two months before the 2004 elections. The law unreasonably limits speech and violates the group's First Amendment rights, the court said.

"Discussion of issues cannot be suppressed simply because the issues may also be pertinent in an election," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. "Where the First Amendment is implicated, the tie goes to the speaker, not the censor."

A first test of the impact of the court's opinion could come as early as December, a month before presidential caucuses and primaries in Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina begin the nomination process.

The case involved advertisements that Wisconsin Right to Life was prevented from broadcasting. The ads asked voters to contact the state's two senators, Democrats Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, and urge them not to filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees.

Feingold, a co-author of the campaign finance law, was up for re-election in 2004.

The provision in question was aimed at preventing the airing of issue ads that cast candidates in positive or negative lights while stopping short of explicitly calling for their election or defeat. Sponsors of such ads have contended they are exempt from certain limits on contributions in federal elections.

"The ruling could have important implications for the 2008 presidential election and could reorder the advertising strategies of corporate America and labor unions over the next two years," said Michael Toner, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, which oversees campaign finance law.

The decision is a setback for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who helped write the 2002 campaign finance legislation with Feingold that contained the advertising provision. McCain, now a presidential candidate, has come under criticism from conservatives for attempting to restrict political money and political advertising.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070625/D8Q01MAO1.html

so what happens to the country when the supreme court becomes irrelevant, a direction in which this adminstration has pushed it. perhaps we should be impeaching roberts along with bush and cheney.

Judge Criticizes Warrantless Wiretaps

Jun 23, 3:28 PM (ET)

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Royce Lamberth, a district court judge in Washington, said Saturday it was proper for executive branch agencies to conduct such surveillance. "But what we have found in the history of our country is that you can't trust the executive," he said at the American Library Association's convention.

"We have to understand you can fight the war (on terrorism) and lose everything if you have no civil liberties left when you get through fighting the war," said Lamberth, who was appointed by President Reagan.

The judge disagreed with letting the executive branch alone decide which people to spy on in national security cases.

"The executive has to fight and win the war at all costs. But judges understand the war has to be fought, but it can't be at all costs," Lamberth said. "We still have to preserve our civil liberties. Judges are the kinds of people you want to entrust that kind of judgment to more than the executive."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070623/D8PUN9IG0.html

White House: It Would Be ‘Awkward’ If Bush Were Investigated By Executive Agency »
White House spokesperson Dana Perino struggled again today to explain why Vice President Cheney was exempted from a presidential order meant to safeguard classified national security information.

Perino stuck by her argument from Friday that President Bush never intended for the executive order to apply to Cheney any differently than it applies to the president’s own office. Asked why Bush was exempted, Perino claimed it would be “awkward” for the president to ask an executive branch agency “to come in and investigate himself.”

On Friday, Perino refused to say whether Cheney is a member of the executive branch. Today, she returned with an answer: like “every vice president,” Cheney has “legislative and executive functions.” Does that mean he is a member of the executive branch? “Look, I’m not a legal scholar,” Perino said, again calling it an “interesting constitutional question.”

Perino claimed ignorance about other key questions in this scandal. She said she didn’t know when President Bush had altered the executive order to exempt Cheney, or why the order was amended in 2003.

Also, Perino rejected a call today from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recuse himself from the Justice Department’s internal debates over whether Cheney is violating the executive order. “No, I don’t think that’s necessary,” said Perino.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/white-house-it-would-be-awkward-if-b...

Submitted by dan on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 4:43pm.
so what happens to the country when the supreme court becomes irrelevant, a direction in which this adminstration has pushed it. perhaps we should be impeaching roberts along with bush and cheney.

My thoughts as well. And lets not stop at Roberts. Lets get rid of an old thorn, Clarence Thomas. Then the rest might just become a little more reasonable in their decisions.

So beautiful, GBC.... !

Submitted by Alice on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 2:31pm.
(& the scenery is good too..) heh.. :)

I like this one:

Ya, I was happy with that one too... that's in the College Fjords inlet.... at about five in the freakin' morning!

Toni... cruising with da family was nice... however I learned that my Dad and I cannot be on vacation together again for that length of time. We about drove each other crazy. >:-P

I understand. With me though, it was my mother!

Ah well, when he's gone you'll look back on the uneasy time you had with him hopefully as a good thing.

It's all good now. It came down to just laughing it off... and we do get along, most of the time.

I'll have to tell you the story we now refer to as the "wine steward block" one of these days, tho. It will be remembered as an embarrassingly priceless moment in my family's history. Poor guy's never gonna live that one down. ;-p

Times suggests Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch bought off top US senator John Byrne
Published: Sunday June 24, 2007

The New York Times plans "a look at how Rupert Murdoch has used his media empire to advance his personal and political agendas" in Monday's editions, a source familiar with the paper's planning tells RAW STORY.

The piece opens with the suggestion that Murdoch staved off legislation that could strangle his US business interest by buying off a senator.

"Congress was on the verge of limiting any company from owning local television stations that reached more than 35 percent of American homes. Mr. Murdoch’s Fox stations reached nearly 39 percent, meaning he would have to sell some," the Times reporters write. "In a late-night meeting just before Thanksgiving of 2003, Congressional leaders agreed to raise the limit — to 39 percent."

Sen. Trent Lott had opposed raising the limit.

"But in the end, he, too, agreed to the compromise," reports the Times. "It turns out he had a business connection to Mr. Murdoch. Months before, HarperCollins, Mr. Murdoch’s publishing house, had signed a $250,000 book deal to publish Mr. Lott’s memoir, 'Herding Cats,' records and interviews show."

The story is a fascinating one for New York's newspaper of record. As a massive investigative piece written by some of the Times' finest reporters and organized by the Times Managing Editor herself -- Jill Abramson -- it stands to have a major impact on a pending deal between Murdoch and the Times' New York competitor he is seeking to buy, The Wall Street Journal.

Also Monday, the Times reported that the family that controls the Wall Street Journal is close to agreeing on terms "designed to protect The Wall Street Journal’s newsroom independence if the company accepts a takeover bid from Mr. Murdoch."

The reporters note -- as if in warning -- "The sale would give Mr. Murdoch control of the pre-eminent journalistic authority on the world in which he is an active, aggressive participant. What worries his critics is that Mr. Murdoch will use The Journal, which has won many Pulitzer Prizes and has a sterling reputation for accuracy and fairness, as yet another tool to further his myriad financial and political agendas."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/New_York_Times_plans_0624.html

'twas moi.

That's the first time the new bloggie's kicked me out since I registered! Oy!

i can't stand Rahm Emmanuel. he's a grandstander and the worst kind of fair weather politician.

this is a constitutional crisis, not an opportunity to get publicity:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-06-24-cheney_N.htm

Rastafari Live!

This kid had the key, and he had to be silenced.

Roberts has NO sense of humor and was never young.

I see a Waco style standoff only it's in Washington at the White House and Dick is holding all of the shotguns while the ATF division blares more politely.

I bet he would support Medical Marijuana law reform.

The judge that was suing the cleaners for losing his pants, he got tossed by another judge!!

Re: Cheney vs Emanual....water seeks it's own level.

I think that the best thing is to tell Cheney he no longer has executive privigle and start an investigation of his office.

Republicans' Fundraising Peril

Lost amid the focus on presidential fundraising in the final week of the second quarter was the release of financial figures for the first five months of the year by the four congressional committees.

The numbers are -- frankly -- stunning.

Through May, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Committee had raised $48.6 million as compared to the $36 million collected by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. And, even though the two Republican committees have been outraised by $12 million by their Democratic counterparts, they have actually outspent the DSCC and DCCC $31.3 million to $23.7 million.

LINK

Mormon church obtained Vietnam draft deferrals for Romney, other missionaries
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff | June 24, 2007

As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon "minister of religion" for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.

Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies. When his deferments ended and he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual lottery that determined which young men were drafted. His high number ensured he was not drafted into the military.

The deferments for Mormon missionaries became increasingly controversial in the late 1960s, especially in Utah, leading the Mormon Church and the government to limit the number of church missionaries who could put off their military service. That agreement called for each church ward, or church district, to designate one male every six months to be exempted from potential duty for the duration of his missionary work.

Romney's home state was Michigan, making his 4-D exemption as a missionary all but automatic because of the relatively small number of Mormon missionaries from that state. It might have been more difficult in Utah, where the huge Mormon population meant that there were sometimes more missionaries than available exemptions. Most missions lasted two and a half years, as Romney's did.

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.c...

Rupert's Incredible Tax Dodge
New York Times | Jo Becker, Richard Siklos, Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner, and written by Ms. Becker | June 25, 2007 08:37 AM

By taking advantage of a provision in the law that allows expanding companies like Mr. Murdoch's to defer taxes to future years, the News Corporation paid no federal taxes in two of the last four years, and in the other two it paid only a fraction of what it otherwise would have owed. During that time, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, the News Corporation's domestic pretax profits topped $9.4 billion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/25/ruperts-incredible-tax-d_n_5355...

and other Dems as well.

This is why I am very hestitant about Hillary. I would love to see a woman as president, I just don't think Hillary is the one and I fear that she will.

Mr. Blair, who has had many in England scratching their heads over his deeply committed relationship to the foreign policy of American president George W. Bush, will discuss his conversion with none other than Pope Benedict XVI when he visits him in Rome. Rumors have circulated for months that Blair would leave the Church of England, but now it is all but official.

Talk about a flip flopper. His confessional is probably going to be in a water closet.

the italic's tag doesn't work either. It's no fun commenting like this.

The Vices of Cheney: Where Impeachment Must Begin

For several years, in my discussions with Representatives and Senators, it has not been unusual to hear Vice President Dick Cheney referred to as President George Bush's "insurance policy." That is, against the beginning of impeachment proceedings in the House. The prevailing assumption has been that it would be necessary to impeach and convict Cheney, first, so as not to leave the government in his hands should the president leave office before the end of his term. This assumption was, and is correct -- not just due to the fact that the route to holding the president ultimately accountable for "high crimes" goes through Cheney but also because the vice president's "high crimes" are probably much greater.

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If the Democrats had gained control of Congress in 2005, the impeachment of Cheney might have happened. But in the summer of 2007, the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee have an "out" in that the prevailing political judgment among the majority is that the timing is too close to 2008 to begin such a prolonged and disruptive proceeding.

Thus, as a senior Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee recently argued to me, "we are holding what otherwise would be impeachment hearings under the heading of oversight" and
publicly "embarrassing" the Bush-Cheney White House. He went on to say that his colleagues (Republicans, as well as Democrats) on that committee -- where the impeachment process must start -- often discuss the abundant circumstantial evidence for high crimes having been committed at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

Of course, it would not be so convenient for Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic majority to finesse the constitutional scandal IF special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald--in the trial of Scooter Libby -- had prominently cited, instead of hinting at, the vice president as an unindicted co-conspirator in obstructing justice OR even in committing the original crime of intentionally revealing the identity of a known CIA covert agent. The ball of string might have unwound beyond control, to the point where Chairman John Conyers of the Judiciary Committee could not have shirked from the duty to launch certified impeachment hearings. The "I" word would at least have been on the table.

Alas, the series that began in The Washington Post on June 24 -- " Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" -- should result in placing it firmly on the agenda of the House. Consider this excerpt from Bart Gellman and Jo Becker's long-overdue exposure of the modus operandi of the sitting vice president:

"Stealth is among Cheney's most effective tools. Man-size Mosler safes, used elsewhere in government for classified secrets, store the workaday business of the office of the vice president. Even talking points for reporters are sometimes stamped 'Treated As: Top Secret/SCI.' Experts in and out of government said Cheney's office appears to have invented that designation, which alludes to 'sensitive compartmented information,' the most closely guarded category of government secrets. By adding the words 'treated as,' they said, Cheney seeks to protect unclassified work as though its disclosure would cause 'exceptionally grave damage to national security.'

"Across the board, the vice president's office goes to unusual lengths to avoid transparency. Cheney declines to disclose the names or even the size of his staff, generally releases no public calendar and ordered the Secret Service to destroy his visitor logs. His general counsel has asserted that 'the vice presidency is a unique office that is neither a part of the executive branch nor a part of the legislative branch,' and is therefore exempt from rules governing either. Cheney is refusing to observe an executive order on the handling of national security secrets, and he proposed to abolish a federal office that insisted on auditing his compliance.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-e-jackson-jr/the-vices-of-cheney-w...

Sources: Or, Tedious Kremlinology
by emptywheel

I've talked about Cheney's and Addington's Methods. Now I'd like to inventory the sources that Gellman and Becker used for their articles, as a way to understand where the shifting loyalties of the Administration lie. One thing that becomes clear by mapping this out is the centrality of Josh Bolten to many of the more damning accusations against Cheney. Thus, while these articles may reflect the fingerprints of Poppy (likely) or Scooter (implausible, IMO), I think it is primarily an attempt by the COS and possibly Condi to bring Cheney under control, aided by former Administration lawyers they know to have soured on Cheney's ways.

The anonymous sources at the bottom serve as a way of filling out who the named sources are below. For a list of all the people mentioned in the articles, see this page.

John Ashcroft: John Ashcroft is a named source (albeit a vague one) for a key confrontation in Gonzales' office and a likely unnamed source for some of the other disputes. It'll be interesting to see if he increasingly makes such public comments, seeing as how his testimony before HPSCI the other day clearly backed up Comey's.

James Baker: Is quoted in part two and shares his notes in part one (though the notes may come from someone's library). Baker states clearly that Cheney has been about the accumulation of power.

Brad Berenson: Curiously, the designated GOP firewall defense lawyer is a boisterous source for these articles (though, from personal experience, I can attest he is approachable). He seems intent on minimizing his own role--and that of John Yoo (whom he calls a "supporting player").

Josh Bolten: Bolten seems to be an important source for these stories, which raises very interesting questions about Bush's own view of the article. The quote that best sums up Bolten's critical attitude towards Cheney's power is this one: "The vice president didn't particularly warm to that," Bolten recalled dryly. Bolten is, of course, describing how Cheney refused to play an ordinary VP role, with some apparent bemusement. There's a later quote--The White House proposal, said Bolten, the chief of staff, "did not come out exactly as the vice president would have wanted."--that sounds like Bolten gloating.

David Bowker: Source for some of the issues affecting Powell.

Bryan Cunningham: Cunningham seems to be the source for the details about how Cheney and Addington bypassed Bellinger. He has left government to go into private consulting, so presumably his loyalties may be very anti-Cheney. Note that Bellinger himself is a Rice loyalist; if he is a source for this it would lend credence that she participated in this effort.

Gordon England: England describes his dismay about Addington's maneuvers on torture.

Tim Flanigan: Flanigan offers nowhere near as many on the record comments as Berenson and Yoo. It may be he's stuck in the position of defending the indefensible, and therefore remains more quiet. His most telling comment, however, is this one:

he still believes that Addington and Yoo were right in their "application of generally accepted constitutional principles." But he acknowledged that many battles ended badly. "The Supreme Court," Flanigan said, "decided to change the rules."

That is, he's just bummed (and talking) because Addington's efforts backfired.

Mike Gerson: Mike Gerson is described as an opponent to black sites, yet describes Cheney's motives favorably. There are a few more comments that similarly criticize Cheney while treating him as honorable which may come from him.

Bob Graham: There's no surprise seeing Graham provide details about the domestic wiretap program. He is one source (potentially the only one) reporting on the first briefing on the program given by Cheney.

David Gribben: Curiously, the article describes David Gribben as a friend from grad school. It doesn't mention he was also a Defense and Halliburton employee while Cheney was in charge, or that he was instrumental in the transition. Gribben's named quote seems to defend Cheney's method of sending "messages" while firing disloyal employees, which sure suggests Gribben remains loyal. As the one named OVP staffer in the article (Matalin aside) Gribben may be the source for some of the comments about Cheney's intentions.

Mary Matalin: Matalin is one of the surrogates for Cheney and Addington (both of whom declined to be interviewed). She stresses how important Cheney is, without commenting on the legality or efficacy of what he has done.

Brian McCormack: McCormack is one of the many people that has moved from Cheney's staff eventually onto Bush's (which surely helps Cheney keep tabs). Curiously, McCormack moved through the corrupt world of Defense acquisitions before ending up in a public liaison function (which, according to Susan Ralston, works with outside constituencies, which means he may remain in the corrupt world of crony contracting. McCormack's named quote is fairly vanilla, though he seems to be one of the few people who would talk about how Cheney set up his fiefdom even before Bush v. Gore was decided.

Alberto Mora: One of the military lawyers fighting back against Cheney, Mora is a likely source for some of the later meetings on torture.

Dan Quayle: Dan Quayle is a named source used to (humorously, IMO) depict how far out of the norm Cheney is. There are few interesting questions of loyalty in what he says.

William Taft: A Powell loyalist, Taft shows up admitting that he was an easy mark because he misunderstood the stakes of the fight.

John Yoo: Yoo is a named source for one incident where Cheney and Addington ignored his advice (not to spread the use of torture to the military). He may well be the source for some of the very detailed descriptions of the Addington/Yoo/Flanigan/Gonzales interactions.

Continue reading "Sources: Or, Tedious Kremlinology" »

http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/06/sources.html#mo...

Instead of italics, why not use the bold feature for emphasis!

so what happens to the country when the supreme court becomes irrelevant, a direction in which this adminstration has pushed it. perhaps we should be impeaching roberts along with bush and cheney.

My thoughts as well. And lets not stop at Roberts. Lets get rid of an old thorn, Clarence Thomas. Then the rest might just become a little more reasonable in their decisions.

Act on this! A key might be the SCOTUS's behavior around the Florida 2000 putsch. There had been a movement to impeach justices for, among other things, conflict of interest with Bush. The campaign stopped after 9/11.

(etc.) Impeachment Mill:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/mccormack

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2606/supreme.htm

fernando had a great video in the last thread of that ditz pretending to be a press secretary.

is she another liberty college graduate? i just can't fathom how someone so incompetent could be employed.

That idiot Frank Gaffney was on Tweety's show and said the same thing. He was on with the girl from CREW, I think her name is Christy as well.

I hope we can gat a video of this later, but it will be repeated at 7 PM EDT. on MSNBC

My opinion again. I think that the admin sees they are losing ground and are now in the middle of a power play to hold control of the country. They don't completely have the Legislative branch so they are using their home made Judicial Branch to slant things their way. This is just the start!!

With Gaffney. Listen if you have a chance!

Dad of accused coke trafficker takes over as Rudy's South Carolina campaign chair.

-- Josh Marshall

Uh oh. Rudy's new South Carolina campaign co-chair has a history of making, shall we say, "racially charged" remarks.

-- Greg Sargent

The last article I read on TruthOut before switching to the Seder blog was this story from McClatchy News.

Once again the reality of the complex insurgency of 20 identified different groups has been successfully simplified and obfuscated for the authoritarian followers. It reminded me of the willful ignorance of the average American and left me feeling hopeless....

Juliane

I heard garofalo and some guy named sam where going to start a liberal radio show. The critics think it is doomed to failure. I say let them give it a try and see what happens.

John Dean says stop funding Dick Cheney
By: John Amato @ 12:22 PM - PDT Rachel Maddow had John Dean on her radio show Friday and he talked about Cheney’s lunatic position that he’s not even an entity in the Executive branch.

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Dean: Let me tell you the fastest way to get him to comply. Cut off his salary. Cut off his salary for all of his staff. And the Congress has the power to do that.

As Maddow notes, he gets a lot of cash from Haliburton, but so what. I say go for it…

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/25/john-dean-says-stop-funding-dic...

I'm glad someone else is talking about it....

Why is ABC News paying Fred Thompson to run for President?
By: Nicole Belle @ 10:03 AM - PDT Cliff Schecter:

Just about two months ago, Fred Thompson appeared on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes and pontificated openly in that sweet Southern twang–you know the one that makes Republicans instantly vibrate–about making changes in his “contractual” relationships because of his candidacy. The Domed One said, “obviously, there’s some practical things, some contractual things that I’m doing.”

Well, it’s looking like those “contractual things” are as important to him as the sanctity of marriage. At least with first wives who aren’t still granted nap-time after show-and-tell is finished.

Of particular interest currently, is that Thompson not only maintains a constant presence on ABC Radio delivering opinion and analysis, but also provides daily podcasts for the ABC Radio website along with his own goofy version of a blog. He is doing this, mind you, after already having declared his intention to run for President numerous times… read on…

http://cliffschecter.blogspot.com/2007/06/fred-thompson-corruptionator-j...

You know, with the right wing owning all of talk radio, this could be great chance to offset the right wing influence. God I hope janenane and this sam guy are smart enough to pull this off. Don't screw it up guys!

Abraham Lincoln. When countries all over the world were ending slavery by peaceable means Lincoln needed to kill seven hundred thousand Americans to do it. One of the most important myths coming out of the university system is sustaining the Lincoln Mythos which underpins our Democracy Mythos. Very few people educated in the U.S. school system think Lincoln was anything except a hero, our Great Emancipator. We don't stop to examine that the slaves he emancipated were in states that already had seceded from the Union so "emancipating" them didn't do them much good. Let alone that up until Lincoln's presidency States had the right to secede from the Union until he took that freedom away making the states themselves enslaved to a centralized government. If we think about Lincoln other than how we are taught professors alert us that we are "state rights' wackos" or something.
EVA LIDDELL

Another myth straight out of our schools is the notion that slavery existed for "ninety years" replaced by Jim Crow as if slavery wasn't really slavery until the Constitution was ratified. Who then were those people in chains two hundred and fifty years before the Civil War? We are taught that our "founding fathers" ran America with an institutionalized system of slavery until a turn in consciousness made people realize that slavery was bad. That's odd. Millions of people knew in the 1600's that slavery was bad, namely the slaves. I guess it only counts if white people figure it out.

I sure hope janeane and this sam are the right choice for our new radio network. Some say they nothing about radio and are sure to fail. Others say there is nothing to radio and any idiot can do it. I guess in time we will find out if they are the right choice. Cross your fingers.

Taunting

I agree that the best way to get to our 3-year-old president is to start taunting him for playing second fiddle to his Uncle Dick, just like he did with dear old dad all those years before he found a new daddy figure in Dick.

-Atrios 17:13

http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2007/06/cheneys-fourth-branch-claims-story...

We need Germany as the ultimate evil because if Germany is the ultimate evil the U.S. is less evil. That could be one of the reasons that the university system supported Steven Spielberg's project to bring in thousands of computers as instructional tools teaching the German Holocaust to students of color. Black and Hispanic kids are taught that if they think they had it bad look at the Jews they had it worse. Two hundred and fifty years of chattel slavery undermined. The American Mythos preserved.

There is a pamphlet called "The Chickens of the Interventionist Liberals Have Come Home to Roost" by Harry Elmer Barnes. Written in 1973 it was directed against the liberals who thought nothing about smearing or destroying the lives and the reputations of the old liberal academics who wrote prescient books in the 1930's about the policies of FDR, what the consequences of those policies might mean for us and for the world. Barnes' screed meant to remind these people who were bitter about eventually getting McCarthyized that they once had been just as vicious against free speech when it served their purposes, war. Chickens roosting he wrote.

I think this new left wing radio is going to be a hot ticket. I don't see how they could fail. After all look at how many right wing talk show are making it. There is no way this sam and Janeane could not do as well. This is going to be great.

One day they will look back and mark this as the turning point in talk radio. The point where the trends all turned away from the right and move to the left. Janeane and sam will be worshipped in the radio hall of fame. Groundbreaking that is what this is.

This may be looked on as the only chance we have to prove ourselves equal to right wing. Let's make is count guys, we don't want to known as the gang who failed! The time is right. Everyone is watching us. Let's get out there and show them who we are and how we handle ourselves. The world is ours!

Submitted by toniD on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 4:54pm.
Submitted by dan on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 4:43pm.
so what happens to the country when the supreme court becomes irrelevant, a direction in which this adminstration has pushed it. perhaps we should be impeaching roberts along with bush and cheney.

My thoughts as well. And lets not stop at Roberts. Lets get rid of an old thorn, Clarence Thomas. Then the rest might just become a little more reasonable in their decisions.

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Scalia on ethics violations on several occasions; and,Alito, and Roberts for that matter, for lying to Congress during their confirmation hearings. Thomas, imo, can stay or go since he is easily manipulated and doesn't have a thought of his own. Without the other three, he's harmless, unless of course, if you're a female staffer.

As has been extremely evident by this administration, these people have no regard or respect for the law.

Senior partner is not Bush in the partnership of the presidency!

The office of the VP needs paramters because there are none. Congress must change this and put paramters on the office or this will happen again.

Cheney is taking the office of the VP where it has never been taken before and there are no boundries.

He reccommends that the congress defunds the VP. So, Emanual was right and this has to be done.

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For years now, conservative talk radio has been beating liberal talk like a drum. The left has tried with Mario Cuomo and others such as the scandalous and quite boring Air America. Every single attempt has been an utter failure in spite of huge hype and mega bucks.

In the meantime, Rush Limbaugh has flourished and Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin have consistently high ratings. WABC radio in New York City is the most listened to station in the nation and runs a 100% conservative lineup. Note this is in a city that is deeply blue.

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Conservative Activism Grips Our Supreme Court
Submitted by Bill.Scher on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 5:12pm.

It's what we've been discussing here.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/651

You think the radio is important and I agree, how would you change it? All you are doing is griping about it. What would you do.

The office of the VP needs parameters because there are none. Congress must change this and put parameters on the office or this will happen again.

While congress is at it they should address the abuse of recess appointments, address signing statements and the myriad other vague constitutional issues that this misadminstration have deliberately interpreted in a manner other than what is in the best interest of the constitution and the nation.

re: per dean
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Submitted by pee.ey.yoo.el on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 8:40pm.

While congress is at it they should address the abuse of recess appointments, address signing statements and the myriad other vague constitutional issues that this misadminstration have deliberately interpreted in a manner other than what is in the best interest of the constitution and the nation.

There is soooo much this admin has pulled. We must start with the VP office and concentrate on this and then go to the next. I still say we need to find a way to impeach Cheney.

Run Along! Go Spam Someplace Else!
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Murdoch gave to Hillary
Submitted by toniD on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 5:43pm.

and other Dems as well.

This is why I am very hestitant about Hillary.

WE HAVE FONT CONTROL!.

Thanks Sam. You are a prince.
Now can you look into the table and center tags would be good too.

by digby

So the Supremes took a strong stand for the First Amendment today and stood up for the right of little guy corporations, aggrieved rich guys and voiceless conservative special interests to influence elections with misleading advertising. The first amendment is sacred and shouldn't be tampered with for any reason. God bless America.

Well, not exactly. The words "bong hits for Jesus" aren't covered because they could be construed as promoting something that some people think is bad. (At least if you are under eighteen years old.) I'm awfully impressed with the intellectual consistency of the Roberts Court so far, how about you?

I think we need to start thinking about how to deal with the new era of wingnut judicial activism. If anyone actually thought the Warren Court was activist for trying to right long standing social inequality, they haven't seen anything until they see what John, Clarence, Nino, Sammy and Tony do to expand the rights of rich people and corporations while turning back the clock on everything else. It's going to be a generational battle. I hope everyone realizes this.

I will never forgive Joe Lieberman, Huckelberry, St John and the the rest of the milquetoast losers of that gang of 14. This is on their heads.

Read this article and you will see who he donates to...

Rupert's Incredible Tax
Submitted by toniD on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 5:39pm.
Rupert's Incredible Tax Dodge
New York Times | Jo Becker, Richard Siklos, Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner, and written by Ms. Becker | June 25, 2007 08:37 AM

By taking advantage of a provision in the law that allows expanding companies like Mr. Murdoch's to defer taxes to future years, the News Corporation paid no federal taxes in two of the last four years, and in the other two it paid only a fraction of what it otherwise would have owed. During that time, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, the News Corporation's domestic pretax profits topped $9.4 billion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/25/ruperts-incredible-tax-d_n_5355...

by digby

A reader brought this astonishing story from Bill Moyer's Journal to my attention a day or so ago which is worth discussing as we consider what is wrong with our political system. The article in Harper's on which it's based is online here.

I knew lobbyists were whores and this article spells out in detail just how low they will go. But what is surprising to me is the extent to which journalists are complicit in the trade. Here's the basic set-up of the story:

How is it that regimes widely acknowledged to be the world’s most oppressive nevertheless continually win favors in Washington? In part, it is because they often have something highly desired by the United States that can be leveraged to their advantage, be it natural resources, vast markets for trade and investment, or general geostrategic importance. But even the best-endowed regimes need help navigating the shoals of Washington, and it is their great fortune that, for the right price, countless lobbyists are willing to steer even the foulest of ships.

American lobbyists have worked for dictators since at least the 1930s, when the Nazi government used a proxy firm called the German Dye Trust to retain the public-relations specialist Ivy Lee. Exposure of Lee’s deal led Congress to pass the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA), which required foreign lobbyists to register their contracts with the Justice Department. The idea seemed to be that with disclosure, lobbyists would be too embarrassed to take on immoral or corrupt clients, but this assumption predictably proved to be naive. Edward J. von Kloberg III, now deceased, for years made quite a comfortable living by representing men such as Saddam Hussein of Iraq (whose government’s gassing of its Kurdish population he sought to justify) and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (for whose notoriously crooked regime he helped win American foreign aid). Two other von Kloberg contracts—for Nicolae Ceaus¸escu of Romania and Samuel Doe of Liberia—were terminated, quite literally, when each was murdered by his own citizens. In the 1990s, after Burma’s military government arrested the future Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and cracked down on the pro-democracy movement she led, the firm of Jefferson Waterman International signed on to freshen up the Burmese image.
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Lugar: U.S. Must Reduce Military Presence In Iraq
In a major speech tonight on the Senate floor, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, announced his support for an immediate shift in Iraq policy, calling on President Bush “to downsize the U.S. military’s role in Iraq and place much more emphasis on diplomatic and economic options.”

“Our course in Iraq has lost contact with our vital national security interests in the Middle East and beyond,” Lugar said. “Our continuing absorption with military activities in Iraq is limiting our diplomatic assertiveness there and elsewhere in the world.”

Lugar warned that “persisting indefinitely” with President Bush’s escalation strategy “will delay policy adjustments that have a better chance of protecting our vital interests over the long term.” He specifically rejected claims that withdrawing U.S. forces will increase instability. Downsizing the U.S. military presence in Iraq would “strengthen our position in the Middle East, and reduce the prospect of terrorism, regional war, and other calamities,” Lugar said. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/lugar-iraq-2/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/business/media/25murdoch.html

haven't read it yet

the HuffPost link didn't work

Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2007-06-25 21:04.
By Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation

Thanks to rigorous work by the Brennan Center for Justice and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, it is clear that the US. Attorney scandal – as outrageous as it is on its own – is part of a much broader effort by the Bush Administration to use government institutions for partisan gain.

In their report – Using Justice to Suppress the Vote – the two pro-democracy, pro-civil rights organizations demonstrate that the Administration used federal agencies charged with protecting voters' rights to promote voter suppression, influence voting rules, and gain advantage in battleground states. This was achieved through a four-pronged strategy: dismantling the infrastructure at the Department of Justice; fomenting a fear of rampant voter fraud (which has subsequently been disproved – it actually occurs "statistically…about as often as death by lightning strike"); politically motivated prosecutions; and restricting registration and voting.

The actions of two Bush appointees who recently testified on the Hill – Hans von Spakovsky and Bradley Schlozman– are illustrative of the effort to restrict voter turnout in a manner that favors Republican candidates. In January 2006, von Spakovsky was given a recess appointment to the Federal Election Commission (the agency charged with enforcing the Federal Election Campaign Act – he's now having one helluva time in his confirmation hearing). Prior to that, he worked for three years as the appointed Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division at Justice.

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, six former career attorneys – who worked under both Republican and Democratic Administrations spanning 36 years – wrote that von Spakovsky "played a major role in… inject[ing] partisan political factors into decision-making on enforcement matters and into the hiring process…. Moreover, he was the point person for undermining the Civil Rights Division's mandate to protect voting rights." The career attorneys say that von Spakovsky "assumed primary responsibility for the day to day operation of the Voting Section" and was handed "the authority to usurp many of the responsibilities of the career section chief…."
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Lionel is the pro Air America should have had from the start. Now it is too late, the hole is too deep. Janeane and Sam knew no more about radio than some guy off the street.

Mr. Murdoch may be best known in the this country as the man who created Fox News as a counterweight to what he saw as a liberal bias in the news media. But he has often set aside his conservative ideology in pursuit of his business interests. In recent years, he has spread campaign contributions across both sides of the political aisle and nurtured relationships with the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/25/business/media/25murdoch.html?hp

the blog as an anon.

forgot to log in -

bye

House Passes Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act
June 25th, 2007 by Jesse Lee
The House has passed the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act, H.R. 1281, which would prohibit and punish deceptive practices that aim to keep voters away from the polls on Election Day. This bill protects every American citizen’s right to vote by making voter deception, for the first time, a crime, by increasing the penalty for voter intimidation, and by calling upon the Justice Department to correct and prevent misinformation campaigns.

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=515

I think one anon is a misguided Lionel attack dog.

But I have read War Dog, and I am no War Dog. I just look around here and see what any fool can see. It doesn't take a political scientist to see this wreckage.

Thank you for the compliment
new
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/25/2007 - 9:44pm.
But I have read War Dog, and I am no War Dog. I just look around here and see what any fool can see. It doesn't take a political scientist to see this wreckage.

Negative attitude. It's not the best but it has helped.

Maybe you don't see it but I do.

With most the radio stations owned by corporations that were kissing bush's ass to get more and more, of course there will be no balance between the wingers and us. But I think you underestimate the power that AAR had at the beginning. It has helped.

If you think that being called War Dog is a compliment then you are really very deluded, past your views which come thru loud and clear in your posts.

Go play somewhere else.

It doesn't take much of a crisis...

to find out who the assholes are!

Zoellick OK'd as next World Bank chief By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer
Mon Jun 25, 2:10 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Robert Zoellick, a seasoned player in international financial and diplomatic circles, won the unanimous approval of the World Bank's board on Monday to become the poverty-fighting institution's next president.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_bi_ge/world_bank_25

A fox in the hen house.

Didn't somebody figure that out like yesterday.

I've smelled twisted troll in shit stew for a while but I'm new here.

Lionhell's attack dog is a chiuaua that licks his bitter old fat ass. Step on it if you see it.

anonymous posters should be killed.

They should be baked alive in stone ovens

in pans of olive oil and basil.

They should then be fed to the homeless

in Santa Monica.

Journalists: We saw prisoner abuse
Embedded reporters say they saw US and Afghan troops abusing prisoners.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.armytimes.c...

TV reporter axed for supporting candidate
Omaha reporter fired after urging Facebook buddies to vote for candidate.

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.c...

Dodd: Impeaching Cheney won't help
Long impeachment process would distract from more important things: Dodd.

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007106250179

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Some of the broad political principles that bring us together:

* The importance of non-hierarchical and collective leadership models.
* The concept of “intersectionality” and taking seriously the politics of race, gender and sexuality alongside class oppression.
* The idea that it is important to pre-figure the world we are trying to create, both in our politics as well as personal relationships.
* That all of the work we do on the local level in our communities is connected to a larger vision of social transformation.

then he can't be impeached....

& I have so very little confidence in....well..anything at this point...that I'm willing to bet he could use that argument should impeachment come up, & would STILL be in the whitehouse...

Anon?

things would be different with a democratic Senate.

We don't have time to stand up independants I'm afraid. We need someone with skin in the game.

Like Gore, Edwards, Fiengold or Sammy. Bringing sex or race into this crisis is like a total distraction unless they truely are the best leader.

on air americans

Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Official policy promises an eventual departure, while warning of the dire consequences of a "premature" withdrawal. But while Washington equivocates, facts on the ground tell another story. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a hundred to a handful of "megabases" with lavish amenities. Much of what is taking place is obscured by denials and quibbles over the definition of "permanent." The Bases Are Loaded covers a wide range of topics. Gary Hart, James Goldsborough, Nadia Keilani, Raed Jarrar, Bruce Finley Kam Zarrabi and Mark Rudd all add their observations about the extent and purpose of the bases in Iraq.

"What are the odds that a US military commander of one of these bases is going to say, "Well, OK Iraqis, looks like our job's done here. Here's the keys. Enjoy the movie theater. Have fun in the swimming pool. Enjoy your democracy. Take Care?"

It's just not going to happen. That's my point. These are billion dollar bases. These are Mega Bases. They're permanent bases, and they are there absoultely to stay."

- Dahr Jamail in the film "The Bases Are Loaded".

See The Bases are Loaded
http://alternate-focus.blip.tv/file/274043/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQHeo-CMQyc

The Alito Effect
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Supreme Court
Posted on Mon Jun 25, 2007 at 05:03:33 PM EST
Tags: (all tags)
People For the American Way reminds us what not stopping the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Court has done so far:

Understanding the Alito Effect PFAW Experts Ready to Discuss the Supreme Court’s Dangerous Lurch to the Far Right
Since George W. Bush’s two nominees to the Supreme Court have taken their places on the bench, the Court has veered sharply to the right, with a series of crucial cases being decided by identical 5-4 majorities. These cases reveal a troubling future for Americans’ rights and liberties. For example, just this term:

· In Carhart v. Gonzales, the Court upheld a federal law banning an abortion procedure without any exception to protect a woman’s health,

· In Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., the Court severely limited the ability of victims of pay discrimination under Title VII to obtain compensation for the discrimination, ruling that employers couldn’t be held accountable for discrimination that occurred outside the 180-day charging period.

· In Bowles v. Russell the Court held that a person who trusted and relied on an order from a federal district court judge giving him 17 days to file a legal appeal was nonetheless prohibited from appealing because the judge had given him the wrong deadline -- overturning prior rulings under which it could have allowed the person to appeal because of the "unique circumstances" of the case.

· In Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, the Court held that taxpayers cannot bring a lawsuit challenging Executive Branch spending as an unconstitutional promotion of religion when the expenditures have been made out of general appropriations to the Executive Branch.
And consider what further damage is to come.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/6/25/18333/3327

Ralph Nader on the Seventeen Traditions

SCOTUS Denies Taxpayer Standing To Challenge Bush Administration Faith Based Initiatives
By Big Tent Democrat, Section Constitution
Posted on Mon Jun 25, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM EST
Tags: (all tags)
The Supreme Court has handed down its decision in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, ruling that Flast taxpayer standing for Establishment Clause violations does not extend beyond a challenge to specific Congressional appropriations to discretionary Executive expenditures.

The opinions are very interesting at first blush. Justice Alito, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy, opine that Flast was directed very specifcally at Congressional action and that allowing challenges to discretionary Executive expenditures was too attenuated to provide standing. Justice Scalia and Thomas, in concurrence, argue that Flast is bad law and should be overruled. Interestingly, they argue that there is no basis for distinguishing taxpayer challenges to Executive expenditures from taxpayer challenges to Congressional appropriations as the harm is the same to the taxpayer. Nonetheless, even though Flast remains good law after Hein, the result in the case is the same.

The dissenters, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer, believe Flast is good law, and like Scalia and Thomas, believe that Hein can not be distinguished from Flast. They also point to Bowen v. Kendrick, as the case controlling the result in Hein. I'll add to this post later as I get a chance to read the opinions more closely.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/6/25/1230/83562

been sleeping allot.

the air/dust is running my nose.

allergies?

jb. What are those pic's about?

MSNBC’s David Shuster Grills A Cheney Apologist
By: Logan Murphy @ 5:45 PM - PDT David Shuster has been filling in for Tucker Carlson and today he put the screws to Ron Christie, former aide and apologist for Vice President Dick Cheney. Watching this clip I got the feeling that I was watching a real journalist at work as Shuster not only asks Christie hard questions, but follows up and calls him on his talking points and misinformation. Christie insinuates that Cheney’s role as President of the Senate somehow outweighs the job of VP and that the only reason Cheney is refusing to comply with the law is to insure the solvency of the Office of the Vice President as if it were somehow in danger. The topic turns to Scooter Libby and Shuster wasn’t having any of Christie’s spin:

Download (1367) | Play (1693) Download (507) | Play (1056)

Shuster: You’re a great guest, you’re a great guy, but on the politics and the law in the Scooter Libby case, you’re wrong.“

David Shuster has done some great work on “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann and it’s obvious he’s been taking notes. MSNBC would do well to consider moving Tucker out of the way to make room for a real journalist to take over this time slot.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/25/msnbcs-david-shuster-grills-a-c...

v. beginning and SAM recently explained in detail why he wants to keep it that way. I think I mentioned that earlier.

I am not thrilled about it either.
I saw a huge number of Anons on the show blog when I first listened a couple weeks ago and I rolled my eyes cause I thought we had finally strict blog registration which is the way I would prefer it - but not so, obviously.

I deal.

Because if Sam wants it that way thats how it is on this blog until he changes his mind.

Bashing anyone who forgets to log in (as I just did) or posts Anon for whatever reason except for obvious nastiness and spamming ... I think its simply not cool under the circumstances (see above explanation) to assume the worst this time and ignore it other times ... and bash other posters.

LETS COOL DOWN, PLEASE!

btw. AFAIR Sam's Anon comments came in response to a qs by air-ono - I bet some clever blog techie can find it - I tried but don't have the time to check more ... am already late for a date ;-)

Oh, and re the RESIDENT TROLL who I have ignored since time zero, too, and whose name excapes me also ;-):

Please don't complain NOW about the "resident troll" being possibly online here and annoying you after you fed it happily for 4 plus years plenty of carbs to my huge chagrin ... and I have said so many many times which turned out a tremendous waste of my typing skills.

P.S. and no, I am no Lionel whatever - never listened to him and I doubt I ever will.

bye for now
good night everyone :)

bridge

"It's really fun to move a model train just by thinking,"

By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 25, 2007

Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters arrived in the Situation Room. The agency presented a delicate problem to White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, a man with next to no experience on the subject. Vice President Cheney's lawyer, who had a great deal of experience, sat nearby.

The meeting marked "the first time that the issue of interrogations comes up" among top-ranking White House officials, recalled John C. Yoo, who represented the Justice Department. "The CIA guys said, 'We're going to have some real difficulties getting actionable intelligence from detainees'" if interrogators confined themselves to treatment allowed by the Geneva Conventions.

From that moment, well before previous accounts have suggested, Cheney turned his attention to the practical business of crushing a captive's will to resist. The vice president's office played a central role in shattering limits on coercion of prisoners in U.S. custody, commissioning and defending legal opinions that the Bush administration has since portrayed as the initiatives, months later, of lower-ranking officials.
The vice president's office pushed a policy of robust interrogation that made its way to the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, above, and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. More Cheney photos...Cheney and his allies, according to more than two dozen current and former officials, pioneered a novel distinction between forbidden "torture" and permitted use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading" methods of questioning. They did not originate every idea to rewrite or reinterpret the law, but fresh accounts from participants show that they translated muscular theories, from Yoo and others, into the operational language of government.
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Plots to Assassinate Fidel Ordered by the White House

...the website of the National Security Archive of George Washington University published a group of documents dated January 1975, in which William Colby, the CIA director at that time, refers to the assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, reported the BBC.

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...a memorandum from the White House corroborating that former US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, brother of murdered President John F. Kennedy, personally headed a plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.

The text refers to a conversation between former President Gerard Ford and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on January 4, 1975, when Kissinger told Ford that ex CIA director Richard Helms had said "Robert Kennedy personally managed an operation on the assassination of Castro."

Another document, signed by Associate Deputy Attorney General James A. Wilderotter on January 3, 1975, shows CIA agents conducted a physical surveillance of Mike Getler, journalist of The Washington Post.

Have a fun date!

"The New York Times's Maureen Dowd slaps down Vice-President Cheney again in a Times Select editorial, "A Vice President Without Borders, Bordering on Lunacy", while giving props to the "National Archive data collectors" for pushing back & resisting his efforts to keep everything his office does classified:

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/opinion/24dow d.html"

Too much freaking time and posts gets wasted on the anon issue. Grow up and ignore as needed.

jbenet, it has to be allergies. I have been nailed today somewhere near you. I may be headed to Nicasio tomorrow to see Carlene Carter but I will have to see. Hoping for some fog to roll in.

This guy wrote: The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World

Here's a blurb from a paper of his that I can't get in to the full text...

Remote Control: The Rise of Electronic Cultural Policy
by: Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York University

Since the early 1990s, the United States has been formulating, executing, and imposing a form of "electronic cultural policy." This phrase means two things: a state-generated setof policies to encourage or mandate design standards for electronic devices and dictate a particular set of cultural choices; and the cultural choices themselves, which have been embedded in the design and software of electronic goods. The goal of electronic cultural policy has been to encourage and enable "remote control," shifting decisions over the use of content from the user to the vendor. The intended macro effects of such micro policies are antidemocratic. Their potential has created the possibility of a whole new set of forms of cultural domination by a handful of powerful global institutions. Yet so far, the actual consequences of these policies have been different from those intended, igniting activism and disobedience on a global scale.

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2006 - Vaidhyanathan Receives Griffiths Research Award for The Anarchist in the Library

A Brief Consideration of Local Culture, the Free Culture Movement, and Prospects for a Global Public Sphere, By Siva Vaidhyanathan

Fernando...does it start the music automatically?

Link to Vid

If you tune in to any of your favorite webstreams on Tuesday June 26 and discover nothing but silence, don't panic. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Thousands of webstreams will go silent for the day as commercial and non-commercial webcasters, radio broadcasters, streaming services and even hobbyists turn off the streams to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase foisted on them by SoundExchange, a front organization doing the bidding for the recording industry, which is attempting to strong-arm webcasters into new and ridiculously impractical royalty rates, the results of which could severely cripple webcasting as we know it.

Participants in this day of silence include some pretty big names. Yahoo, Rhapsody, MTV, Live365, Digitally Imported, Pandora and AccuRadio are just some of the multi-stream providers included. Independent streamers such as Radio Paradise, KQLZ.com and Head-On Radio Network are going quiet as well. Many non-commercial radio entities are also turning off the streams for the day. And radio groups Saga Communications and Greater Media are also going quiet in support of the effort. As of yet, big guns like Clear Channel and CBS Radio have not announced their participation.
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Doolittle’s former top aide working with feds. David Lopez, former chief of staff for Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), has provided “several hundred pages” of documents to federal prosecutors “investigating Doolittle and his wife in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal.”

Lopez’s name has previously surfaced in connection with Abramoff. He took a trip to Puerto Rico in 2001 paid for by Abramoff’s firm, although House rules prohibited trips paid for by registered lobbyists; Lopez said he’d consulted with the Ethics Committee and intended to abide by the rules.

Lopez was also referenced in an e-mail Ring wrote to Abramoff in 2000 about finding work for Doolittle’s wife, Julie, who went on to work for Abramoff on retainer. Julie Doolittle’s fundraising and event-planning company, which she ran out of the couple’s Virginia home, was the focus of the FBI’s subpoena in April.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/06/25/ap3855863.html

for posting it...

Murdoch goes to China. In the second part of its investigative series into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, the New York Times examines Murdoch’s “ardent and unrelenting” effort to break into the Chinese market.

Mr. Murdoch has flattered Communist Party leaders and done business with their children. His Fox News network helped China’s leading state broadcaster develop a news Web site. He joined hands with the Communist Youth League, a power base in the ruling party, in a risky television venture, his China managers and advisers say. […]

Mr. Murdoch cooperates closely with China’s censors and state broadcasters, several people who worked for him in China say. He cultivates political ties that he hopes will insulate his business ventures from regulatory interference, these people say.

In speeches and interviews, Mr. Murdoch often supports the policies of Chinese leaders and attacks their critics. A group of China-based reporters for The Journal accused him in a letter to Dow Jones shareholders of “sacrificing journalistic integrity to satisfy personal and political aims,” a charge the News Corporation denies.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/murdoch-goes-to-china/

Talk about illegal aliens!! Can't we deport this man?

There's been a lot of discussion of late about Vice President Cheney's unwillingness to abide by the rules followed by the rest of the executive branch when it comes to safeguarding and handling classified material -- particularly his claim that his office is, all appearances to the contrary, not part of the executive branch. And many have noted that the Libby case shows that the VP's office has some serious deficiencies when it comes to handling classified data.

But this isn't the only case.

It seems now largely to have been forgotten. But let's not forget the case of Leandro Aragoncillo, the naturalized US citizen of filipino descent who engaged in espionage on behalf of opposition leaders in his native country while worked as a Marine security official in Vice President Cheney's office. To the best of my knowledge this is the only known case of espionage taking place within the White House. And it happened in Cheney's operation.

Perhaps even more revealing, Aragoncillo was originally tasked to the Veep's office in 1999 when Vice President Gore was still in office. But he apparently only began snatching classified documents after Cheney showed up.

In any case, two observations. The first is that this isn't a on-off affair. The Cheney OVP seems to have a serious issue safeguarding classified material -- one so serious it has led to two felony convictions. So Bill Kristol may think it's annoying to have government 'bureaucrats' checking on how classified material is being safeguarded. But the Cheney crew could really use the help.

Second, I think we see here a hint of a too-little noted pattern -- the connected and mutually-reinforcing bonds of authoritarianism and incompetence. The Libby case (and the Plame case generally) is somewhat separate in that it was the intentional breaching of national security secrets. But is it a coincidence that the most paranoically secrecy obsessed office in the executive branch is the one that actually managed to have a spy working in its midst?

-- Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014831.php

of the postal rate change recently...

...Pacifica Radio's KPFA -- plan to shut off their Internet streams for the day. In March the Copyright Royalty Board ordered online radio stations– including non-commercial stations - to pay drastically increased royalty rates for every song. The new rates go into effect July 15th. Some stations will see their rates increase by 1200 percent. Last week members of the Save Net Radio Coalition urged Congress to pass the Internet Radio Equality Act which would vacate the rate increase and set the royalty rate at the same level paid by satellite radio services.

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House OKs $10M For U.S. Gov't Radio Broadcasts in Venezuela

The Democratic-controlled House has passed a series of funding bills dealing with Venezuela, Cuba and Saudi Arabia. The House voted to spend $10 million to bolster Voice of America broadcasts to Venezuela and Latin America. Venezuela responded by accusing the U.S. of escalating its media campaign against the Chavez government.

Show mp3

- 12 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq on Saturday
- Two More Iraqi Journalists Killed
- U.S. Accused of Using Extreme Force Against Afghan Civilians
- Report: Pakistan May Be Expanding Its Nuclear Arsenal
- Number of Black Military Recruits Drops 38%
- Senate Votes to Raise Fuel Efficiency Standards
- House OKs $10M For U.S. Gov't Radio Broadcasts in Venezuela
- Attempt to Cut Off Funding to Former School of the Americas Fails
- Web Radio Stations Protest New Royalty Rates
- NYPD Arrest and Beat Prominent Civil Rights Attorney

Np.Alice..The sad part is that while RFK Jr.is trying to have inteligent conversation
with old Tweety.That Crazy Beeyach Melanie Morgan is there too.Spouting off
the Wingnut talking points.What a phycho,it's like she's in a totaly different discussion.Strange.

She reminds me of "Stiflers Mother"from The American Pie Movies!!
Take some Zanex Lady!Jess. :)

Eyes are closing. And I work early again tomorrow.

http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/GlobalFlow/paper/Vaidhyanthan.pdf

The global network of networks that President George W. Bush calls “the
Internets” represents the first major communicative revolution since the
publication in 1962 of Jürgen Habermas’ influential historical work, The
Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. In that work Habermas
described a moment in the social and political history of Europe in which a rising
bourgeoisies was able to gather in salons and cafes to discuss matters of public
concern.

The public sphere represented a set of sites and conventions in the 18th
century in which (almost exclusively male) members of the bourgeoisies could
forge a third space to mediate between domestic concerns and matters of state. It
was a social phenomenon enabled by a communicative revolution: the spread of
literacy and the rise of cheap printing in Europe. Habermas asserts that such a
space had not existed in Europe in a strong form before the 18th century and that
by the end of the 19th century it quickly underwent some profound changes.

The democratic revolutions in the United States and France, parliamentary reform efforts in England, and the unsteady lurches toward republics in Germany and other parts of Europe eventually codified many of the democratic aspirations of the public sphere: openness, inclusiveness, and fairness.

I use the word “revolution”cautiously. It is far too early in the 20-year history of the Internet to assess its effects in a balanced and sober manner. Hype and fear still dominate the discussions of the effects of the Internet on culture, societies, politics, and
economics.

In addition, the Internet hype may have distracted scholars from another revolution.

I believe that the proliferation of the magnetic cassette tape and player in the 1970s has had a more profound effect on daily life in all corners of the Earth than the Internet has so far.

...ox

I just heard this from my bud Mat.

Uncle Julio's shot of El Tesoro tequila is $23.

JAIL THEM WITH DICK!

...I believe that the proliferation of the magnetic cassette tape and player in the 1970s has had a more profound effect on daily life in all corners of the Earth than the Internet has so far.

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Nice!

I thought I might be the only one who saw that separated at birth usually from Christopher Guest movies.

Action Alert

CALL YOUR SENATORS AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVE NOW TO ASK THEM TO CO-SPONSOR THE
INTERNET RADIO EQUALITY ACT, S. 1353 IN THE SENATE AND H.R. 2060 IN THE HOUSE!

Call Now
Enter Your Zip Code

The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger!

Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on July 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). If the increased rates remain unchanged, the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date. Internet radio needs your help!

The Internet Radio Equality Act has recently been introduced in both the House and Senate to save the Internet radio industry. Please call your senators and your representative to ask them to co-sponsor the Internet Radio Equality Act.
Link to Action Alert

It just hit me when I was doing the post.
It took me forever to find a Stiflers Mother pic.
C.Guest is great."But My Amp Goes Up To 11,not 10 But,11.......Spinal Tap Me! :)

Allergies? yes I guess The dust heat combination.

Those pics. It's friday the 23rd of June, one day after the solstice (what's a stice crank ?) The road taken is from the Nevada side.

I notice the shadows on the face of the dam and think - the worlds largest sun dial. Note how the shadows are parallel to the axis of the transmission towers. The visitor center is what 120 million early 1990's dollars will buy you.

The winged statues are 40 feet tall (or was it that they weighed 40 tons?) The flag pole is topped with a gold ball and I assume it is this shadow which marks the anniversary of the dam dedication.The terrazzo plaza, surrounding the flag pole / statues is marked off with the locations of key elements of our visual universe and their relative positions at the h-m'-sec" of the dedication.

The Platonic year, is marked on the floor, dating back to the pharos, the gold ball casts a shadow that will intersect the platonic year arc and reveal our progression on it.

I had no thoughts about all this stuff at the time. Didn't plan my arrival time. Just there for some good art deco moments. The pic with the rock wall touching the figure. Notice the flag pole is parallel to the top of the frame. I couldn't have got that shot if I'd planed it. I was wondering at the moment of those shots if I just fried my ccd,

hardly able to see it's so bright..

And there is a bridge being built there.

May 17, 2007, 3:48 pm
‘Yippie’ Denies Pie-Throwing Intent

By Sewell Chan

Aron Kay, a k a “Yippie Pie Man,” is not surprised that he was among the many individuals and groups monitored by the Police Department in the months before the Republican National Convention in 2004.

Mr. Kay, a longtime activist, said today that he resents the surveillance. But what bothers him even more is that the Police Department evidently thought he might try to hit President Bush with a pie, a scheme he denies. A Feb. 20, 2004, intelligence digest [pdf] released yesterday by the Police Department under a court order states, “Eccentric activist Aron ‘pieman’ Kay is calling for like-minded activists to target President Bush for a ‘pie in the face’ attack during his appearance at the R.N.C.”

Nonsense, Mr. Kay says.

“I do dispute that,” he said in a telephone interview today. “I never urged that. Do I want the Secret Service on my back? The feds are where I draw the line.”

That statement may be a sign of moderation from Mr. Kay, who over several decades became renowned for his pie-throwing antics. He has thrown pies at the conservative author William F. Buckley, the former national security adviser McGeorge Bundy, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, the conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, the Nixon Watergate operatives G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt and Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr., the attorney general of California and former governor and presidential candidate.

Perhaps the peak of Mr. Kay’s pie-throwing career came in 1977.

That year, he tossed a pie at Mayor Abraham D. Beame during a debate of candidates in the Democratic mayoral primary in the Great Hall of the Cooper Union. One of the candidates, Mario M. Cuomo, later the governor, lunged at Mr. Kay as police officers removed him.

Also in 1977, Mr. Kay faced criminal charges after he threw pies at William E. Colby, the former C.I.A. director, and at Frank Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars, in separate incidents. Mr. Kay was convicted of harassing Mr. Colby; the charges in the Sturgis case were dropped.

Mr. Kay says he has not committed pie-throwing since 1992, when he struck Randall Terry, onetime leader of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue. Interestingly, Mr. Terry himself was examined by the Police Department. A Jan. 23, 2004 intelligence memo noted that he had announced plans to protest the R.N.C. and that he had run unsuccessfully for Congress, in 1998.

“Part of his campaign platform was his intention to ‘execute’ doctors that performed abortions,” the memo stated. “His new group The Society for Truth and Justice condemns abortion, homosexuality, Islam and land taxes.”

The memo added, “Prominent anti-RNC activist groups reacted negatively to this announcement and will likely target Terry’s group for protest.”

Asked if he had any pie-throwing ambitions now, Mr. Kay said, “I haven’t had any plans and right now I’m not too able to do that. I have arthritis.”

But he added: “I’m not retired from political activity. I’m still involved in the pot movement. I still believe in human rights. I also believe in impeaching Bush and Cheney.”

http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/yippie-denies-pie-throwin...

With complete apologies to the great Jennifer Coolidge.

"Thank god for model trains,if they didn't have them, they would have never gotten the idea for big trains."

zeek
Submitted by MMRules on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 12:10am.

Bwahahahahaha..... *cough&gag* Bwahahahahahaha.....

Yep.Separated at Birth!HaHa :)

Keep Your Mothers Away From Dick Cheney:

The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse

That new Rufus Wainwright song, "Going to a Town," has the refrain "I'm so tired of America," which, if you can ignore Wainwright's usual nasal whine, bespeaks a general exhaustion permeating this land. But it's not so much being tired of America as much as it's utterly soul-sapping to meet people from other countries and feel as if you have to apologize for your country for being such motherfuckers. On every path, on every issue, on every turn of events or crisis, the government (and fuck dividing it here between "the Bush administration" and "Congress" - we're only half a year distant from the previous four years of Republican hegemony) has jumped in the mother*ucker truck and dragged us all with it.
Con't

i don't think the rest of the world has illusions about what the neocons are doing.

7 years ago they were talking about the destruction of the middle class here.

it's tuned out americans that are indulging in the wishful thinking.

Hi, guys.

It's so beautiful down here. I'd never seen the Caribbean before. The water is the most amazing blue! No pics for now, but I'll post some next week.

The connections is shitty down here, so I won't be back often, but I'll drink one (or two) for the blog.

Many blessings

Have Fun!! :)

Nothing in life is certain except death and...and...
uh...

Man! This is like a quiz, this signature thingy.

I think it has something to do with government. Post offices. Things like that.

My Dear??

D post

And thanks, MMR. How's things? I haven't seen or heard any news for a couple days now. Less stressful, but I feel extremely disconnected.

My brothers are fucking hammered, probably heading into downtown Cancun right now. Not smart, but they aren't listening to me, so...

These fools were dumb enough to sell us an all inclusive package for our food and drink, at only $80US per day. Bad move. If any of us have consumed less than $150 in liquor per day so far, I'd be surprised. That doesn't even address the bottled water and food.

It's hot and humid, and I'm sunburned, but I'm having a pretty good time.

Lol.

Everyone just walked by and saw me blogging. The idea of bringing a laptop was completely foreign to them.

Well, looks like my battery is about toast. I'll be here about five more minutes, and then I'll try to check back.

WfC

that is a great deal,you guys got!
Keep out of trouble,but have fun!
Don't be abloggin.You can do that at home.
But I did see Conbo pop in for a second.
I've been adding on to my YouTube music collection.
I wonder if they have a limit of Vids you can keep as favorites?
I'm getting up there!
Well again,have fun.And,save some money just incase ya
have to bail out your hammered brothers :)

Ann Coulter plays Hardball on Tuesday
-This is real.Got link through C&L.

Hardball Questions For Anne Coulter.

from Returned Goodling Set 1 of 4
(the links all take you to the top of the same pdf)

Dear Mr. Bradbury:
I am writing in response to your letter of May 22,2007.
...
On April 7,2007, you sent me an email asking whether Ms. Goodling "had in her
possession any 'other'[underlined] documents relating to official Department of Justice business." (Emphasis
added).

==

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From: Scott-Finan, Nancy
Sent: Thursday, February 08,2007 2:24 PM
To: Goodling, Monica; Nowacki, John (USAEO)
Subject: MI: Clinton US Attamey nominations in the last 3 years of his Administration
MonicalJohn,
Can you respond to the questions about this so that we can provide it to the Republican Policy Committee as soon as possible? Thanks.
Nancy

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TALKING POINTS:
TIM GRIFFIN PHONE CALL [2/16/07]
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Last, I want you to know that I appointed you to serve as interim U.S.
Attorney because I knew that you were well-qualified and I am pleased that
you are willing to continue to serve as the interim U.S. Attorney until
someone is nominated and confirmed.

As you know, the process of getting alternate names, vetting them, and
preparing a nomination always takes several months. I am happy to have
you on the team while this process continues.

I hope that you will have the opportunity to do some good things in the
district. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help you be an
effective U.S Attorney.

==

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From: Sampson, Kyle
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:49 PM
To: McNulty, Paul 1; Moschella, William; Hertling, Richard; Scolinos, Tasia; Battle, Michael (USAEO)
Cc: Elston, Michael (ODAG); Roehrkasse, Brian; Goodling, Monka; Washington, Tracy T
Subject: RE:
Importance: High
Okay -- two things:
1. We are set for 5pm at the White House. I need WAVES info from each of you: DOBs and SSNs.
2. Kelley says that among other things they'll want to cover (1) Administration's position on the legislation (Will's written testimony says that we oppose the bill, raising White House concerns); and (2) how we are goirlg to respond substantively to each of the U.S. Attorney's allegations that they were dismissed for improper reasons.

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From: Kelley, William K. [rnaitto:William-K,KeIley@who.eop.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 05,2007 157 PM
To: Sampson, Kyle
Subject.
Kyle--We've been tasked with get&g a meeting together with you, Paul, Will, DOJ leg and pa, and maybe Battle - today '
-- to go over the Administration's position on all aspects of the US Atty issue, including what we are going to say about the proposed legislation and why the US Attys were asked to resign. There's a hearing tomorrow at which Will is scheduled to testify, so we have to get this group together with some folks here asap. Can you look into possible times?
Thanks, and sorry to impose.

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United States Attorneys-Criminal Caseload Statistics'
Official Corruption"
Defendants in Cases Filed - Fiscal Years 2000-2006'
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interesting stats.

fernando -- cool thx

Never Lies -- Lupe Fiasco
Sonoda Total -- The Pinker Tones

ali
Looking at Thompson's Lobbying Past
Monday June 25, 2007 10:16 PM
By TRAVIS LOLLER

GOP senator says Iraq plan not working By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer
30 minutes ago

Sen. Richard Lugar, a senior Republican and a reliable vote for President Bush on the war, said that Bush's Iraq strategy was not working and that the U.S. should downsize the military's role.

The unusually blunt assessment Monday deals a political blow to Bush, who has relied heavily on GOP support to stave off anti-war legislation.

It also comes as a surprise. Most Republicans have said they were willing to wait until September to see if Bush's recently ordered troop buildup in Iraq was working.

"In my judgment, the costs and risks of continuing down the current path outweigh the potential benefits that might be achieved," Lugar, R-Ind., said in a Senate floor speech. "Persisting indefinitely with the surge strategy will delay policy adjustments that have a better chance of protecting our vital interests over the long term."

Only a few Republicans have broken ranks and called for a change in course or embraced Democratic proposals ordering troops home by a certain date. As the top Republican and former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar's critique could provide political cover for more Republicans wanting to challenge Bush on the war.

Lugar's spokesman Andy Fisher said the senator wanted to express his concerns publicly before Bush reviews his Iraq strategy in September.

"They've known his position on this for quite a while," Fisher said of the White House.

However, Fisher said the speech does not mean Lugar would switch his vote on the war or embrace Democratic measures setting a deadline for troop withdrawals.

In January, Lugar voted against a resolution opposing the troop buildup, contending that the nonbinding measure would have no practical effect. In spring, he voted against a Democratic bill that would have triggered troop withdrawals by Oct. 1 with the goal of completing the pull out in six months.

Next month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to force votes on several anti-war proposals as amendments to a 2008 defense policy bill. Members will decide whether to cut off money for combat, demand troop withdrawals start in four months, restrict the length of combat tours and rescind Congress' 2002 authorization of Iraqi invasion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070626/ap_on_go_co/lugar_iraq&printer=1;_yl...

No checks, no balances and
likely no supervision of Cheney
Midway through a massive and momentous Washington Post series on Vice President Cheney, it’s clearer than ever that one thing missing from Cheney’s worldview is any appreciation for checks and balances — not just among the three branches of government, but also within his own.

http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2007/06/25/no-checks-no-balances-no-super...

SEC to Be Asked About Its Leanings

Jun 26, 3:45 AM (ET)

By MARCY GORDON and PETE YOST

WASHINGTON (AP) - All five members of the Securities and Exchange Commission are being asked by Congress to defend the watchdog agency against accusations that it may be tilting toward business interests and away from investors.

A hearing Tuesday by the House Financial Services Committee, under Democratic Chairman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, marks the first time in more than a decade that all SEC commissioners have been called to testify together.

Business interests have been pressing for an easing of corporate governance rules and restraints on class-action lawsuits against corporations and auditors. On the other side, some critics and investor advocates see recent moves by the SEC under Chairman Christopher Cox, a longtime free-market Republican congressman, as favoring business and Wall Street.

As the gap widens between corporate executives' compensation and employees' pay, and workers lose jobs at companies bought out by big private-equity firms, Tuesday's hearing affords Democratic lawmakers a chance to highlight themes likely to be sounded in next year's election.

Frank is not criticizing the agency but says he wants to provide a forum for concerns to be expressed. "I think they've been doing some good stuff," Frank said in an interview Monday, citing the SEC having approved revisions to financial-control rules that are designed to ease the compliance burden on companies.

But in another area, increasing shareholders' access to company ballots so they can more easily put proposals to a vote by all investors, Frank said he wants the SEC to move faster.

An issue expected to come up is the SEC commissioners' recent 3-2 vote to side with investors in a significant securities lawsuit pending in the Supreme Court that harks back to the Enron scandal. The Bush administration overrode the SEC by declining to side with investors in lawsuits against third parties such as investment banks, attorneys or vendors that collude with companies engaging in fraudulent conduct.

Last week, the court ruled against investors in another securities-fraud case involving high-tech company Tellabs Inc. (TLAB), which was sued in the case.

Two e-mails were provided to The Associated Press concerning that case, involving a senior counsel at the SEC and the prominent Washington attorney who represented Tellabs, Carter Phillips. The two men previously worked together at the law firm representing Tellabs where Phillips is a partner, Sidley Austin.

The e-mails were obtained by the American Association for Justice, a national trial lawyers' group, through a Freedom of Information Act request and provided to the AP.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070626/D8Q0C8S01.html

Students hand Bush letter urging ban on torture RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday June 26, 2007

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While meeting with a group of high school seniors from the Presidential Scholars program in the East Room of the White House, President Bush received an unexpected surprise: a letter signed by 50 of them urging Bush to halt "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States.

According to AP, "The White House says Bush did not expect the letter but took a moment to read it and talk with a young woman who'd handed it to him."

White House spokesman Dana Perino said Bush let the student know "the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," a statement seemingly contradicted by Bush's signing statement which gave him power to largely ignore a Congressional ban on torture spearheaded by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

"The designation as a Presidential Scholar is one of the nation's highest honors for graduating high school students," AP says. "The scholars travel to Washington each June for seminars, lectures and workshops."

More here.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Students_hand_Bush_letter_urging_ban_0626....

Are we so politically weak that we must live in fear of the opposition? Are we so easily defeated that must fear the voice of our detractors? Nobody had it right, don't run, stand and fight! People like Bridge are doomed to a life of fear.

The Ratings Always Drop Twice

The Return of Inspector Dan Rather
by David Burge

They say dames are like a flowers. Maybe they’re right. Nice to look at, fun to smell, covered in complicated reproductive do-dads. But brother, get too close and you’ll also find out that they have thorns. And bees. And enough pollen to flood your sinus with a hot painful load of mucus that’ll take a jumbo economy size box of Claritin and a six pack of hankies to forget.

It’s a hard lesson you learn every day in my line of work.

My name is Rather. And I’m a dick.

It was 5:15 and I had just finished typing up the final Abu Ghraib report (Dan Rather #23: The Prisoner Wore Panties) into my trusty Remington 17. Ever since my suspension at CBS (Dan Rather #21: Judgment at Black Rock) I was working down in Cable Hell’s Kitchen. A freelance investigative gig at HDNet, a smalltime news outfit wedged between MTV-6 and the Cubic Zirconia Channel. Not much money, but they didn’t ask too many questions and they didn’t have any nosy “fact checkers.” I had just pulled out my hip flask for a snort of Zima malt beverage when I saw a familiar silhouette in my office door. It was short and curvy with a pair upturned perky hairflips straight out of the CBS makeup department.

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t little Katie Couric,” I growled as she walked in. “Why are you slumming down here on the cable news docks? I thought a hotshot media deb like you’d be out sipping champagne out of your shoe, with the rest of the swells up on West 57th.”

She stood there, perky and defiant, atop a pair of muscular cheerleader’s calves that looked powerful enough to snap a co-anchor in two. But, at the same time, she looked strangely vulnerable. She heaved, just a little. Suddenly she burst into tears.

“Oh Danny, Danny, Danny!” she sobbed. “I’m in an awful fix! The auditors found over three million missing from the Nielsen account, and they’re blaming it on me! If… if I can’t come up with the missing viewers, the network boys downtown are gonna cut me loose, and I’m gonna end up on god-forsaken basic cable filler network like… like…”

“Like HDNet?”

“…Yes!”

She collapsed into my arms.

“Can the waterworks, sister! Maybe you should’ve thought about that before you ditched your nice little fluffy morning news bit in Perkyville! Maybe you should have realized the anchor desk is no place for a dame! Well, welcome to big time journalism baby!”

I slapped her hard.

“But… but you’re my last hope, Dan!”

I slapped her again, softer. Then she slapped me back, extremely hard. But not before I got one more good slap in. After trading a few more slaps I had her calmed down.

“Okay Couric. Maybe I’m a soft touch, but I’ll help you find those missing viewers.”

“You will?” she sniffled.

“Yes. Because this time it’s personal. And you’re gonna help me.”

“I am?”

“I’m gonna make a journalist out of you yet, baby.”

She moved up closer, eyes closed, lips parted longingly. For some reason, I decided to slap her again. She kicked me straight in the nuts.

Damn, those legs were powerful.

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“It just doesn’t add up,” said Moonves, pacing the floor of his office and daubing the sweat from his glistening forehead. “The research boys Q-tested Katie with all the upscale demographic groups. We balanced all the war disaster stories with soft focus celebrity news. And still our numbers are leaking worse than a viewer in our core bladder control product advertising target.”

“Those viewers have to be somewhere, Moonves,” I said. “Maybe it was an inside job. Maybe it was the other nets.”

“No dice Rather,” he said, pouring another shaky four fingers of Ensure into his highball glass. “the audience embezzlers been hitting every precinct in town – ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC. They hit Time and Newsweek so hard that even the dentist offices won’t touch ‘em. If we don’t do something soon we’re gonna lose the Poligrip account!”

“Dan, do you think…do you think this has something to do with the internet mob?” said Couric, a pall of perky horror washing over her mug.

“I’m way ahead of you, baby. We’ve got some bloggers to talk to.”

She kicked me in the nuts again.

“Ow!” I screamed. “What was that for?”

“I thought you were going to slap me again,” she said.

I had to hand it to her. She was learning.

****************
“Where are we going Rather?” asked Couric, slinking into the passenger door of my black Hudson.

“Townhall. We’ve got a surprise date with Cleveland Huey and his crew.” I packed my Sony FV-100 noise canceller mic into its holster in case of trouble.

A few minutes later we arrived at the nondescript hall deep in the Blogosphere Bowery. We pushed through the filthy padded door and made our way to a smoky backroom. Huey was seated at a card table, around which sat a rogue’s gallery of sleazy online opinion slingers: Beantown Barney, the head of the Boston family; Mongo Steyn, the hulking French Canadian punditry thug; Duffer Hitchens, the East End goon with a taste for brutal polemics; and Jimmie Fargo, capo of the Twin Cities blog syndicate.

Jackpot, I thought. I knew they were up to their fedoras in some kind of audience heist. Trouble was, it would be next to impossible extracting information out of them. Hewitt and his gang were notoriously tight-lipped, and were blood-sworn to the Blogosphere code of silence. Getting two words out of this bunch of mutes would be harder than getting a proportional font out of a ’68 IBM Selectric.

“Nice little hideout you got here Huey,” I said sauntering up to the table. Couric’s fingers clutched my arm tightly. “There’s probably enough room here to stash a million or two missing TV news viewers.”

“You’ve got it all wrong, pally,” said Huey, tossing cards around the green felt. “This joint here is a, whattayacallit…”

“Social club,” offered Mongo, discarding a pair.

“Yeah yeah, social club. That’s it. Place for me and the boys to get away from the wives. Play some cards, talk about the weather. How’s the weather in Minneapolis these days, Jimmy?”

“The usual,” said Fargo, shooting me a straight razor glare.

“See what I mean, Rather? Strictly small talk.”

“Yeah yeah, boss, small talk,” said Beantown.

“Shaddup, stupid!” he glared. “Just play your hand, real easy-like.”

“That’s not the word on the street, Huey,” said Couric, angrily. “Word is you and your pals are packing microphones and rolling up a lot of hit counts.”

“Oh sure, doll, we do a little radio, and blog once in a while,” said Huey. “Just a little fun. But I ain’t touched a TV studio ever since I left PBS. Ain’t dat right, Hitchens?”

“I don’t know nuthin’ about nuthin’,” said the menacing Limey, slamming back a shot of Yoo Hoo chocolate beverage. “Gimme three.”

“If I were you, Rather, I’d go snoopin’ out in L.A.,” said Hewitt. “That’s where all the action is. Any of you mugs got an 8?”

“Go fish!” snapped Gnat, Jimmy Fargo’s pint sized gun moll.

---------------

Read more (sometimes the right wing is amusing):

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2007/06/the_ratings_alw.html

Roxie Seattle! Is that you?

.

...YET, Bridge was forward enough to state his/her user name. Can't you proudly stand on your name and have a decent DEBATE? Aren't we troubled enough by faux oblivion, hidden truths, and fake news, aka "lies"?

Two major oil companies – Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips – have rejected a deal to continue operations in Venezuela's oil-rich Orinoco belt with a reduced stake.

They refused to give up part of their operations to Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA as part of President Hugo Chavez's nationalisation drive.

PDVSA plans to take at least a 60 per cent share in four heavy-crude upgrading projects operated by transnational companies worth over $30bn, a big jump from its current 40 per cent stake.

Venezuela is the fourth-largest exporter of oil to the US.

According to a source close to the company, ConocoPhillips has decided to leave the country entirely and would most likely seek arbitration to resolve the dispute.
...

It's a shame.Nasty little people having to attack someone else to make themselves feel better.
Poor potty training?
Not sure.But,could be one of the few causes
for this behavior.......

Sail away! Sail away! Sail away! Bedee...bedee..Orinoco flow Sai awaay...

What if Bush goes to Pelosi and says (or SAID) "You try impeachment and before the bills leave the House/Reps, I'll order the carrier group in the Persian Gulf to attack Iran, the bombers to fly, the missiles in the air, and send things to HELL on the world economy...China and Russia may get drawn in....and you'll inherit yourself a chaos like you've never seen."?

good song

By Richard Cohen--Tuesday, June 26, 2007; A21

There are two ways to predict the winner of the 2008 presidential race: Check the polls or read some history. The polls tell you that with George Bush's approval ratings abysmally low; with the war in Iraq becoming increasingly unpopular; with the GOP lacking a dominant candidate; and with the party divided over immigration, social issues and even religion ( Mitt Romney's Mormonism), the next president is bound to be a Democrat. History begs to differ.

The history I have in mind is 1972. By the end of that year, 56,844 Americans had been killed in Vietnam, a war that almost no one thought could still be won and that no one could quite figure out how to end. Nevertheless, the winner in that year's presidential election was Richard M. Nixon. He won 49 of 50 states -- and the war, of course, went on. Just as it is hard to understand how the British ousted Winston Churchill after he had led them to victory in Europe in World War II, so it may be hard now to appreciate how Nixon won such a landslide while presiding over such a dismal war. In the first place, he was the incumbent, with all its advantages and with enormous amounts of money at his disposal. In the second place, back then the Vietnam War was not as unpopular as you might think -- or, for that matter, as the Iraq war is now. In 1972, almost 60 percent of Americans approved of the way Nixon was handling the war.

Maybe more to the point, most Americans did not endorse the way the Democrats would handle the war -- nor the way the antiwar movement was behaving. Nixon seized on those sentiments and, in a feat that historians will be challenged to explain, characterized George McGovern as something of a sissy. In fact, the Democratic presidential nominee was a genuine World War II hero, a B-24 pilot with 35 combat missions under his belt and a Distinguished Flying Cross on his chest. Nixon, in contrast, had served during the war but never saw combat. He had, however, seen the polls.

This is similar to what happened in the 2004 campaign. The Bush-Cheney ticket consisted of two Vietnam slackers. George W. Bush had served in the Air National Guard, and Dick Cheney had obtained five draft deferments. Their opponent was the much-decorated John Kerry-- Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Yet during the campaign, the Republican ticket and its allies in the Swift boat veterans movement managed to paint Kerry as a quivering liar. The character attack was so bold, so outrageous, that it of course worked.

Now we come to the current race. The war in Iraq is not -- or not yet -- an issue for Republicans. With the exception of Ron Paul and, more recently, Jim Gilmore, they all more or less support the president. It is among the Democrats that the war is a divisive issue -- John Edwards sniping at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Obama sniping at Edwards and Clinton. Everyone now opposes the war, but the issue is not so much their positions as the intensity of their feelings. Antiwar Democrats in key primary and caucus states, particularly New Hampshire and Iowa, will not vote for a lukewarm antiwar candidate. This explains why Clinton recently reversed herself and voted to end funding for the war. The one Democratic presidential candidate from the Senate who did not was Joseph Biden. He said he opposed the war but saw no choice but to fund the troops.

Precisely right, Joe. But more than right, prescient as well. As if to suggest what an issue this will become, Rudolph Giuliani called Clinton and Obama's vote a "significant flip-flop." Since then the Republicans have mostly trained their fire on each other. You can bet, though, that if either candidate gets the nomination, this vote will be hung around Clinton or Obama's neck, and the hoariest of cliches will be trotted out: weak on defense. It will have added resonance for Clinton because she is a woman.

This is where history raises its ugly head. The GOP is adept at painting Democrats as soft on national security. It is equally adept at saying so in the most scurrilous way. And while most Americans would like the war to end, they do not favor a precipitous withdrawal and neither have they forgotten Sept. 11, 2001 -- the entirety of Giuliani's case for the presidency, after all.

Will history trump the polls? It will if, as in the past, the Democratic Party so wounds itself fighting the war against the war, it nominates a candidate beloved by a minority but mistrusted by a majority. It has happened before.

cohenr@washpost.com

U.S. launches corruption probe into Britain's BAE

WE'RE probing THEM?!

Submitted by Alice on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 9:36am.
U.S. launches corruption probe into Britain's BAE

Some analysts said the DoJ investigation followed lobbying from BAE's U.S. rivals seeking to disrupt its latest deal with Saudi Arabia and weaken an increasingly powerful competitor.

and let BAE probe Halliburton....

:/

Top 10 Reasons to Impeach Bush and Cheney Monday, 25 June 2007, 10:36 pm

Top 10 Reasons to Impeach Bush and Cheney. Share Yours.

A Buzzflash News Analysis

Anyone who had doubts that the American Government was hijacked by Cheney and Bush in 2000, now should have no doubts.

The revelations of the past few months have conclusively revealed that we are dealing with a rogue, runaway government. They feel that they own the United States governmental apparatus, that the rule of law does not apply to them, and that the Constitution is irrelevant.

If Congress continues to play it cautious with the White House, they will, in essence, be giving every American carte blanche permission to break the law, because the President and Vice President of the United States are role models for criminal behavior.

We are asking BuzzFlash Readers to share their top ten reasons for Cheney and Bush being impeached.

MMRules on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 9:01am.
It's a shame.Nasty little people having to attack someone else to make themselves feel better.
Poor potty training?

LOL snicker giggle teehee Perfect!

I thought you used that so no one would know who you are. Am I wrong about that?

If I had a pretend name then my post would be valid. I think you fear ideas. And I know why. Take a look around this place.

I know you have no where to go and nothing to do, but for God's sake you have to do better than this.

I am off to follow my own advice. I leave you to wallow in the ashes of defeat. I hope you learn from this failure. Ask Lionel, he is the winner.

Okay, seriously....
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 9:03am.

I have heard/read either what "you" wrote or variations thereof.
And your point is ......? Maybe you would feel better if you read "Art of ____" by S. T.
However, I do believe what you C & V is a "Repetition is the Key" article, so COOL!

HERE

( I miss being able to change my nic on the fly )

...Most here, as I said, know who I am ... WiccanDruid is closer than you think.

But, dear pedestrian twit, USE A BLOODY USER NAME like WiccanDruid-like so DEBATE and CONVERSATION WILL OCCUR. There are tooooo MANY ANONs and you are giving it a "bad" name.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP ..... your weak lil hits then hiding under the many used "ANON". ::boring::

Morning!

While the Supreme Court was moving to demolish the free speech rights of real people, it set a new precedent for the strengthening of the First Amendment "rights" of artificial constructs, as it moved to weaken restrictions on use of political advertisements by major corporations. The new decision (which specifically ruled on the political advertising activities of an anti-abortion Wisconsin group) looks as if it will roll back a limitation put forth in the 2002 Campaign Reform Act (a.k.a. the McCain and Feingold bill) which prohibited corporations and unions from financing political ads during the two months before general elections and the month before primaries.

The ruling was defended by Chief Justice John Roberts, who claimed that, "the First Amendment requires us to err on the side of protecting political speech rather than suppressing it." Such a rationale is difficult to take seriously though, in light of the court's flagrant contempt for the rights of real persons, as seen in the student free speech case, and its preference for artificial ones. The decision is also dubious, not only in its faulty historical reasoning (the Founding Fathers clearly did not have corporations in mind when they were laying out the free speech protections in the Bill of Rights), but also in terms of its implications for democracy.

DiMAGGIO

Support the liberal media - no problem. Sam get a full time gig so I can go back to being informaed 5 days a week instead of a remote access on Sundays. By the time I remember to tune in I have to leave my family and weekend projects.

Anyway - New publication Idea. Sam you did such a great job with FUBAR I think you need a follow up. Collect and publish the emails from the right to our progressive media.

The hate mails that Frankin use to get, get copies of the emails that were sent to c-span when they would not "supposely" cover the looney Savage award. Emails from MIchelle Maulkin supportors to the kids @ UC - Santa Cruz. Emails to Keith O -

IT would be an absolutely great window into the souls of the conservative supports.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/ELECTION/2008/candidates/images/clinton.215.jpg

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