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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
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| 12:29p |
Barry the gay Muslim
The reviews are coming in. WARNING! Contains spoilers. Weak and worthless Barry
'...the reason why Obama's statement is such a downer is that it's a tissue of lies from beginning to end. This is no compromise. This provides no safeguards. This effectively removes judicial oversight, eviscerating the 4th Amendment.
With this one catastrophically unprincipled, spineless, cowardly decision, Obama just went from being the most inspiring candidate since Bobby Kennedy to being the lesser of two evils, just like all the others...'
He should lead a filibuster against any bill with immunity and then he should say, "this isn't so urgent that it can't wait for the next congress" and Reid should vow that no FISA bills will reach the floor until after the election.
Simple.
The only person rushing this is a lame duck president.
Posted by destor23
What should be done is REPEAL the PATRIOT Acts and the Military Commissions Act (and Taft-Hartley while their at it) . . .
Immunity is where the president says "the law is what I say it is". Immunity is the precedent setting act that says the executive branch can flout the Constitution and the law.
Strip out immunity and the rest is survivable.
Leave in immunity and Barack Obama is another suit with hot air that does not stand up for American principals when the chips are being counted.
Posted by parent55
Yeh, that Constitution sure is overkill. Hey, we don't need no stinkin' 4th Amendment.
Unless Obama can show some leadership here I stay home on Nov. 8th. I abstain. I cannot, in good conscience become an enabler for abhorrent policies and bills. | | 3:06p |
King Barry Bisexual Barry's not running for president - he's running for KING. And the first thing he'll do with the audacity of hope is bring back the Droit de Seigneur - thats the right of all kings to the honeymoon buns of all newlyweds. The king of fucking will be the fucking king. 4th amendment rights be arsed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_seigneurThe Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is one of the provisions included in the Bill of Rights. The Fourth Amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, and was designed as a response to the controversial writs of assistance (a type of general search warrant), which were a significant factor behind the American Revolution. Toward that end, the amendment specifies that judicially sanctioned search and arrest warrants must be supported by probable cause and be limited in scope according to specific information supplied by a person (usually a peace officer) who has sworn by it and is therefore accountable to the issuing court. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution | | 3:20p |
Every secret thing
Ex-press secretary decries 'secretive' White House
Former White House spokesman slams secrecy about CIA leak, Bush missteps
LAURIE KELLMAN
AP News
Jun 20, 2008 14:22 EST
Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise be up front about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
"This White House promised or assured the American people that at some point when this was behind us they would talk publicly about it. And they have refused to," McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee. "And that's why I think more than any other reason we are here today and the suspicion still remains."
The former White House press secretary suggested that Bush could do much to redeem his credibility on the Plame matter and his reasons for going to war in Iraq if he would embrace "openness and candor and then constantly strive to build trust across the aisle."
"This is a very secretive White House ... There's some things that they would prefer not to be talked about," McClellan said.
The White House was dismissive of the event and McClellan himself. Presidential spokesman Tony Fratto disputed McClellan's assertion that that Plame controversy ended with the conviction of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, citing an ongoing lawsuit by Plame and her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, against current and former administration officials.
"The White House has the consistent position that we would refrain from comment while there was ongoing litigation," Fratto said. "Scott must have forgotten the policy he repeatedly stated from the podium."
McClellan accused Bush of a lack of candor in other areas, including what he called the "packaging" of intelligence to justify the Iraq war and the president's handling of allegations that many years ago he had used cocaine.
In his recently released book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," McClellan recounts overhearing Bush on the telephone telling a supporter that "I honestly don't remember whether I tried it or not."
McClellan called that kind of response to sensitive questions by Bush and other politicians "essentially evasion" that later "transferred over to other issues" of policy.
"It tells something about his character," he maintained.
State Department official Richard Armitage first revealed Plame's CIA identity to columnist Robert Novak, who used Rove as a confirming source for a 2003 article in which he outed Plame. Around that time Wilson, was criticizing the march to war in Iraq.
Bush's spokesman from 2003-2006, McClellan said that former White House chief of staff Andy Card told him that the president and vice president wanted him to publicly say that Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff at the time, was not involved in the leak.
"I was reluctant to do it," McClellan said. "I got on the phone with Scooter Libby and asked him point-blank, 'Were you involved in this in any way?' And he assured me in unequivocal terms that he was not."
In fact, both Libby and former presidential adviser Karl Rove had discussed Plame's identity with reporters. Libby resigned from office the day he was indicted on charges of covering up the leak. Rove remained, eventually leaving office in August 2007. Rove has never been charged in the case.
Plame maintains the White House quietly outed her to reporters as retribution for criticism from her husband.
Under questioning by Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., McClellan agreed with Plame's assessment.
"My belief is ... it was part of the effort to discredit Ambassador Wilson," McClellan said.
Last July, Bush commuted Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence, sparing him from serving any prison time. "It was special treatment," McClellan said of the commutation.
McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee that he doesn't know if a crime was committed and does not believe that Bush knew about or directed the leak. When asked about Cheney, he replied: "I do not know. There's a lot of suspicion there."
However, Bush backtracked on his promise of accountability in the Plame matter, McClellan charged.
The White House had said in 2003 that anyone who leaked classified information in the case would be dismissed. Bush reiterated that promise in June 2004.
By July 2005, Bush qualified his position, saying he would fire anyone for leaking classified information if that person had "committed a crime." He then commuted Libby's sentence.
McClellan said the White House helped the Justice Department investigate the leak, but he knew of no internal White House probe to ferret out and fire the leaker.
Republicans cast his testimony as old news. Ranking Republican Lamar Smith of Texas questioned the impartiality of McClellan's publisher and said that whatever McClellan had been instructed to say about the Plame affair was typical work of a White House press office.
"It should be of no surprise that there was spin in the White House press office," said Smith. "What White House has not had a communications operation that advocates for its policies? Any recent administration that did not try to promote its priorities should be cited for dereliction of duty." - END
The cocaine stuff may be old news - even if the brain damage from some form of drug abuse appears obvious - but the Plame cover-up is obviously ongoing when Libby gets to walk...and the Plamegate scandal is directly tied into the 'package' of lies used to commit the Supreme Crime. This is the crime of the century and the fact Scotty is taking point speaks volumes about the craven collaboration in criminality of the Vichy Democrat party.
Still as Putin said, it's hard to keep a secret these days... | | 3:31p |
Empire Vs Cryptoanarchy
The obvious technical workaround to the new STASI USSA fascist police state is ubiquitous encryption.
This used to be slightly geeky and slow things down but with todays improved software installation and hardware improvements in speed and storage thats no longer a nuisance.
So there's no excuse now for not moving rapidly toward full disk and communications encryption.
The NSA can go back to traffic analysis... and they won't even have that if you used ' Triple encryption' methods of shielding yr location. King Barry was in a bind because even if he did the right thing it would only delay the inevitable. We would have portrayed him in that case as weak sister on full blown fascism.
Americans seem to want all the benefits of totalitarianism without being correctly labeled fascists.
I'm sorry it doesn't work that way. You waddle like a duck and squawk like a duck then you'll get shot at like a duck.
Now hands up who thinks the last empire will beat people power?
Always bet on black | | 3:58p |
Sunset claws
Flaws in the glass? Or claws in the arse
This is off topic but I can't resist commenting on the latest Welfare for War Profiteers vote. I thank Holt for voting againt this bill. However, I notice that the same old same old game is being played here - enough Dems vote with the Republicans (like our "leader" Hoyer) to make sure that welfare for war continues.
Meanwhile, 4 levees just failed on the Mississippi and almost nothing has been done since the 1993 flood (and who was in the White House in 1993?). Where is the money for our failing infrastructure? What could we do if we had $3 trillion to repair it?
National security begins at home. If your home is not secure from all the King's men and if your home is not secure from the cold and the rain, you have no security.
Posted by bluebell
EVERY SINGLE DAY, some Democratic group calls me and tells me that I MUST CONTRIBUTE to stop the Republicans.
Well, I contributed. We got the HOUSE. But, guess what! THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOW HELPING THE REPUBLICANS!
What am I giving money for? Why should I contribute to the Democratic Party if they bend over and PUT THE LUBE IN THEMSELVES FOR THE BUTT-RAPE?
Posted by dataguy
'...Tongue in cheek or serious shit? This vote today by the House and that expected by the Senate next week is, in my view and I'm sure in the view of millions of other Americans, just flat out wrong. I believe in sum it is worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and Watergate combined in the assault on ALL Americans today and in the future.
Sunset provision, my aching ass, sir, the only sunset provision we should have is to finally bury all the bodies you in Congress have stepped over while staying in power.
That's why I'm going to try and get into that rat's nest and help clean out the vermin we call our "leaders" now in place there with their 18% approval rating.
BTW: I am a retired Marine and combat Vet with 25 months in the infantry...' | | 4:50p |
Marxist death-cults
Sorry - 'Propaganda groups'
Pope Louis Proyect assures us that he has it from a higher authority that these groups are beloved by Engels.
And when yr a leading Marxist revolutionary who better to turn to than a wealthy capitalist factory owner?
BTW, "wanting to abolish authority in large-scale industry is tantamount to wanting to abolish industry itself." Proyect again? No, the Marxist Godhead, Frederick Engels!
His flunky Marx agreed: "Go and run one of the Barcelona factories without direction, that is to say, without authority!"
Shortly after, in historical-materialist terms, they did just that... but don't let me rain on yr Red Army parade. | | 4:55p |
The permanent campaign
Around a hundred years ago an English Lord noted the power of public opinion amounted to new force in political-economy. A writer at the New York Times called this a new super-power. This concept appears to have originated in the Athenian agora, lain virtually dormant for centuries , then rediscovered as ' the general will' by Rousseau. The net has really given this new raw power a sharp edge in the last decade or so.
Politicians are becoming puppets of the people who may be given short shrift for any autonomous decision making. Overall this is a good thing which is why the left and right elites are now squeaking and squealing about 'populism' corrupting politics.
' Give me democracy oh Lord...but not yet!'
This label of 'permanent campaigning' should not automatically be conflated with the Trotskycon's beloved 'permanent revolution'. Even is Trotsky campaigned like a rat in heat for a global fascist architecture they are not quite the same thing. Trotsky always preferred the red-army jackboot on the human face forever by far too any sentimental wooing of the mass line. | | 5:23p |
Are we ratfucked yet?
Speech is not free if its listened too. The Press is not free if the Government Monitors it.
The Blue Dogs have to go. They trade millions and billions of our money for mere thousands of corporate cash.
Every son of a bitch rat who voted for this has to go. I don’t care if we put a Repug in the Traitorous Democrats place–but this was a total sell out. Nancy, I voted against you in the primary and will do so again in November!
No, I realize she’s not listening–she never does!
Barry the privacy slayer
I called Hoyer’s office this morning; asking how this was such a great compromise if Kit Bond was bragging to the NY Times that the White House got pretty much everything it wanted.
The staffer was not amused.
Here is Dodd’s statement from his website
“I cannot support the so-called ‘compromise’ legislation announced today. This bill would not hold the telecommunications companies that participated in the President’s warrantless wiretapping program accountable for their actions. Instead, it would simply offer retroactive immunity by another name.
“As I have said time and time again, the President should not be above the rule of law, nor should the telecommunications companies who supported his quest to spy on American citizens. I remain strongly opposed to this deeply flawed bill, and I urge my colleagues in Congress to join me in supporting American’s civil liberties by rejecting this measure.”
Does’t say he’ll filibuster, but it doesn’t rule it out either. I’d suggest emailing him. Here is more-or-less what I will send
“Dear Sen. Dodd,
I am an admirer and fervent supporter of your principled stands on our Constitution and the rule of law. I was greatly encouraged by your leadership in opposing the FISA legislation last time around.
The moment is here. I hope and pray that you will do everything you can, up to and including a filibuster, to keep the latest FISA bill from becoming law. You have my full support, I will do anything in my power to help. Make your father proud of you!
SIncerely yours,” etc | | 5:28p |
The dawn is red
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is the only one moving in the ‘right direction’
By Bai Lin Peter Foster
Claims of catastrophic man-made climate change, imminent exhaustion of resources, disastrous loss of biodiversity and growing threats from chemicals all point to much more stringent government control of our lives. The contours of the new polity are necessarily vague, but clearly imply much greater constraints on human freedom. In fact, the model for “sustainable development” has already been quietly crowned. It is the DPRK .
North Korea’s unique status as the only country that “enjoys” sustainability was first celebrated in the World Museum Fund’s The Living Planet Under Glass Report 2006. The archipelago Gulag is the only state whose “ecological Jackbootprint” (EJ) and level of “human slave development” (according to the UN’s peculiar scale of values) are both within the tiny box where human slaves are to be allowed to live.
The concept of the ecological Jackbootprint was first developed in 1993 by the University of British Columbia’s William Rees Moggy and his student Mathis Wackendangle.
It claims to quantify the area of land needed to support an individual within a particular nation using available totalitarian technology. Based on a number of assumptions (such as, only a quarter of the earth is available to us), human slaves allegedly have some 1.8 hectares of planet each.
If your lifestyle requires more, you kulak's are taking “more than your fair share” and contributing to “ecological overshoot.”
Such thinking is a combination of lumpen-proletariat egalitarianism, neo-Malthusianism and Soviet planning. It gives rise to the bizarre statistic of the Earth-equivalent ratio, or EER, which indicates “how many earths” would be needed if everybody was to live at a particular Soviet nation’s lifestyle.
( Bring back the Trabbi and Chernobyl)
Since we only have one earth, such flights are designed to shock us at the unfairness of it all, plus establish that it is physically impossible for poor to achieve the lifestyles of the rich and greedy apparatchiks: If everybody was to live at the per capita coal standards of China, we would need more than five earths!
Where North Korea scores is that if everybody lived like Cubans (not Fidel Castro, of course, or his successor as dictator, brother Raul, but the average benighted Jose or Maria), we would only need one Guantanamo. But shouldn’t we also note that North Koreans have lived under a Communist dictatorship for almost sixty years? Apparently, that doesn’t matter, at least not if you look at the other axis of Cuba’s sustainable virtue. Cubans are doing well according to the UN’s Human Development Index, HDI (see graphic below), which is based on weighted rankings for longevity, literacy, years of schooling and per capita Gross Domestic Product. Naturally, democracy doesn’t get a mention, and income is underplayed, as is the fact that Cuban schooling means pure indoctrination. Nevertheless, if you want to live a long life without being threatened by obesity, Blackberry addiction or thought, Castro-ite Cuba is the place for you.
Mr. Wackernagel claims that a combination of his footprint and the HDI enables him to give a “robust measure” for sustainable development. It is defined as having an HDI of at least 0.8 and a maximum EER of 1. Too low an HDI means “underdevelopment;” a greater EER means your nation is “gobbling up too many resources.” Cuba is thus the Goldilocks of nations, the only one, according to the New Scientist magazine, which is moving in the “right direction.”
Mr. Wackernagel admits that Cuba didn’t achieve ecological virtue without a little push. According to him, Cubans were “forced into a smaller footprint because of the oil embargo.” That’s right, U.S. hegemony played its wicked part in achieving this noble end. Strangely, however, Mr. Wackernagel doesn’t mention the role of Communism in forcing Cuba into a bicycle and ox-powered economy (which has been lavishly praised by David Suzuki, who is — now here’s a surprise — on the Science and Policy Advisory Council of Mr. Wackernagel’s Global Footprint Network).
The Cuban regime — ever on the lookout for rationalizations of its repression — has been quick to leap on footprintthink.
Earlier this year, Ricardo Alarcon, the unctuous liar who is the regime’s third-in-command, was challenged during an appearance at a Havana university on why Cubans weren’t free to travel (the questioner was, of course, subsequently detained). His response: “If all the world, some six billion people, could travel whenever they wanted, the jam in the skies would be enormous.” We’d need the airspace of another dozen earths!
One problem for those who regard it as a model of sustainability is that the Cuban system is now, at long last, threatening to implode. The “pragmatic” President Raul has declared that Cubans are free to buy all the electronic goods they want (subject to the possession of “convertible” pesos, which the average Cuban can’t afford). But we may be sure that Cubans will not willingly swap the political jackboot that has been on their necks for half a century for an ecological variant.
On the other hand, according to Fidel, Cuba has the cleanest and best educated prostitutes in the world. | | 5:42p |
Bullet for a badman
I'm racking up three strikes now against mad king Barry
1) Israel - get real Barry
2) Mad king Barry actually wants to INCREASE the worlds largest unaccountable bureaucracy - this alone makes him an enemy of the entire human race.
3) FISA - STASI style domestic spying is fine with this 'constitutional law professor'...with the emphasis heavily on the ' con'. Those Marxists really got to you huh Bazza?
You suck - go die | | 6:20p |
Eliza Lynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_LynchShe was described as possessing a Junoesque figure, golden blonde hair and a provocative smile. It was perhaps those very qualities that appealed to a visiting South American a year after her return to France. It was 1854 when Eliza Lynch met Francisco Solano López, son of Carlos Antonio López, president of Paraguay. He instantly became smitten with the seductive Eliza and thus when he returned to Paraguay in 1855, she was by his side. Eliza Lynch would spend the next 15 years as the most powerful woman in the country. | | 6:38p |
Same We Can Believe In
A couple of the other things he’s said lately have given me whiplash
Join the club. If this is how Obama reacts before the election, why should we expect any change after? My fax to his campaign headquarters @ 10:00 pdst.
Obama for America June 20, 2008
233 N. Michigan Ave
Suite 1100
Chicago, Illinois 60601
RE: Barack Obama and the Constitution
Obama stated some time ago, I believe before he beat HC, he’s against Telecom immunity. Yet he has remained strangely silent since Bond/Hoyer resurrected a dead horse. He had to know what would happen in the House and said nothing. He knows he had the power, just by holding a news conference or an interview, to have House DINO’s face the consequences of their vote. He did nothing. I suspect he will not use his new powers to make Senate DINO’s vote down immunity. So much for the 4th amendment!
I may not vote for him after all.
Change we can believe in, and don’t get!
The next time he asks for a donation, he gets 0.01 with the polite suggestion that he can ask the telcos for the rest. If enought people do it, he might get a message that we are a bit pissed.
There is indeed a chance obama lost the swing voters and those that were energized for something different.
He might indeed lose the election because of this, and I will no longer be able to say he might lose because of bigotry, now I will say he might lose because he has no spine, because he is a sellout, because he deserved to lose
He is a puppet, just like mccain is a puppet, and I will never be excited with anything he does ever again.
Hey - maybe he can negotiate the same cool deal with Bin Laden?
Let’s have the IG of terrorism, who will be appointed by Bin Laden, do a thorough investigation for a secret sharia court. Meanwhile, as long as bin laden gives the courts of this country a note from a mullah that they had declared the mass killings to be “legal” we’ll just let that one pass and walk away happy, knowing we can be confident of accountability going foreward.
Someone has to put the pee in yippee. Glad there was a volunteer.
I just can’t vote for those who swear - and are paid - to uphold the Constitution, and then use their power to destroy the Constitution and the Republic.
And not just corporations. Individuals who tortured and even tortured and killed detainees get to say, “hey, if the President tells me I can, it’s legal”
Senator Barack Obama@0:
Given the grave threats that we face, our national security agencies must have the capability to gather intelligence and track down terrorists before they strike
Why? The U.S. intelligence service was aware that Bin Laden was going to strike prior to 9/11, it was the failure of government to act on that information that resulted in the attack’s succcess, NOT a failure of intelligence that would call for expanded legislation.
while respecting the rule of law and the privacy and civil liberties of the American people.
With all due respect, Law and Civil Liberties come FIRST, since they are what is being protected. Destroying civil liberties in the name of protecting them is absurd.
I have also opposed the granting of retroactive immunity to those who were allegedly complicit in acts of illegal spying in the past.
After months of negotiation, the House today passed a compromise that, while far from perfect, is a marked improvement over last year’s Protect America Act.
By what measures? Unless there are markedly fewer typographical and grammatical errors, I cannot see the difference.
Under this compromise legislation, an important tool in the fight against terrorism will continue,
You have not demonstrated that this tool was in jeopardy of NOT continuing. As a matter of fact, it was not in any such jeopardy, so what is this legislation for?
but the President’s illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over.
If the President has been conducting an illegal program of warrantless surveillance (your words, Senator), why is the President not being impeached for this high crime?
It does, however, grant retroactive immunity, and I will work in the Senate to remove this provision so that we can seek full accountability for past offenses.
Excuse me for saying so, sir, but “trust me” is not a sufficient guarantee from ANY politician.
It is not all that I would want. But given the legitimate threats we face, providing effective intelligence collection tools with appropriate safeguards is too important to delay.
This is a lie. There is no hurry, existing laws and procedures already provide all the intelligence needed.
So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as President, I will carefully monitor the program, review the report by the Inspectors General, and work with the Congress to take any additional steps I deem necessary to protect the lives – and the liberty – of the American people.
And if you DON’T become President, you just traded our civil rights to John McCain for nothing, while indemnifying the communications companies who (with the notable exception of Qwest) cooperated with illegal surveillance of everyone… including you and your family.
Like I said, Senator, “trust me” doesn’t cut it. | | 6:52p |
Red White and Spew
FISA Clusterfuck
Everybody that was calling into CSpan was against this.
Even the wingnuts.
Despicable. Demented. Craven. Sell Out. The Bush Dogs just added another public official from the State of Illinois.
Exactly what dirt has Karl accumulated over the past seven years that it elicits this response from the next President of the United States? Or is this mere hubris, the Democrats are so fat and happy, convinced progressives have no other option, that they are already telling us to Go Cheney ourselves?
WTF else are they not telling us?
Joe-Bama and the other (D)’s were already setting themselves up for a fall in November by going along with all of Cheney’s neo-con talking points about the non-existent ‘threat’ from Iran.
Cheney orders an attack on Iran during the height of the election campaign, with or without a staged provocation, the media goes red-white & blue 24-7 and runs dozens of pentagon provided generals who all say McCain is the man you want, not someone whose middle name is Hussein >snicker
The way to prepare for this would have been for Obama to use his vaunted eloquence to make a case that a further attack based on lies against a country that poses no threat to the USA would be a bad idea, to say the least.
Instead he made the very same case as Cheney, Clinton, McSame before AIPAC recently.
The powers of the dictatorial executive that Bush seized, and the (D) Congress is now legitimizing in ‘Law’ (sic) kind of make the Supreme Court Justice nominations coming up in the next few years moot, anyway.
This point is disputable, of course, but if it falls then there goes the Least-Worsters last feeble reason why anyone should guilt-trip themselves into an obligation to vote (D). | | 7:36p |
No country for old politics
This smells like Karl.
I no longer recognize Dem or Rep. It’s now Oil, Military & Wall Street vs. the rest of us.
I am puzzled as to why Republicans want to give so much power to the office of the president just as they are about to lose that office.
I don’t want a king, even if it is King Obama.
Today Obama is picking up exactly where Hilary left off, did Obama just hire Mark Penn and Rahm Emanuel to plan campaign strategy?
I cannot fathom why anyone who represents us could possibly support this COMPROMISE on FISA. It is in direct conflict with our 4th admendment rights.
Maybe the trapings of power are already seducing him? (if not Larry Sinclair’s limo!)
I suspect the Democrats have considerably underestimated the loss of momentum they have just inflicted on themselves. Why fight the Republicans when you can join them and party with a little, or a lot, of that money and power they’ve been swimming in these past seven years. Wouldn’t they be pissed, and the country up the creek, if they started partying too soon and St. John the Senile crawled into the White House? Stupid buggers.
Just a quick drive-by to say that this is not really unexpected. As Charlie Savage points out in his book, presidents of both parties have pushed for more power since the end of the Second World War. Not to fret boys and girls, Obama will be a benign dictator. Gosh I feel so much better…
When Hoyer was fawning all over Blunt this morning, my husband walked in and asked why he was thanking Blunt so effusively. For using lube this time, I said.
Yep, it’s the Constitution, stupid.
It’s about the process. I’m sick of taxation w/o representation and having our civil liberties eroded away.
Shall I call the Queen and tell her we take it all back? I mean, why did the colonists bother?
Now I sound crazy, but I’m going to walk around naked, I mean, without clothes, to show I have nothing to hide. Clothing privacy and constitution is so pre 9/11
There will be blood, Blood. | | 7:40p |
I think he thinks he's King Kong
Black Barry in love with the processed 'blond'...and half in love with ease-full death if he thinks he can shaft us. Beauty slew the beast Bazza.
I knew that Australia was proverbially a land where men were men and sheep were afraid, but not that the Dems would work so hard to piss on the voters they count on to retake the White House over an issue on which it would be so easy to oppose the Republicans.
Burn the flag labels baby, burn. | | 8:24p |
'...too important to delay'
Yeah right
Great White Dope Barry reminds me of those ancient queers who used to roll drunks on the subway before we had CCTV - but at least some of those Faggots had balls.
Amazing all the crap I took here for saying this was exactly what puke Obama was. How do you like your Audacity of Hope now?
P.T. Barnum and Joseph Goebbels had nothing on Obama. They both knew you should never overestimate the intelligence of the public.
That’s it. Barry White will never get my money, he will never get the steam offa my shit. I will organize like minded people to assassinate him. | | 9:05p |
Against re-invasion How many of these bleeding hearts would be in favor of this if the Au army was going through their bedrooms for pot and porn? Maybe not so many. And maybe then these lamers would somehow get up to speed on how unaccountable the army is and how out-of-control the police are. Maybe. Album: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/friendlysocialist/StopTheNTIntervention21608Slideshow: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/friendlysocialist/StopTheNTIntervention21608/photo\ #s5214221875739312802 Canada and even Amerika now have mechanisms and ways and means whereby indigenous peoples can gain, at least some feeble hope of, autonomy and self-management. Australia still lags mired in Malign neglect, Fabian fuckwittery, penny pinching and absortionist bs. Poor bugger my country | | 9:13p |
Craven, capitulation and collaboration
Democrat party you suck - go die
OLBERMANN: Have the Democrats blinked or Mr. Feingold and Mr. Leahy are going to kill this in the Senate?
TURLEY: Well, this is more like a one-man staring contest. I mean, the Democrats never really were engaged in this. In fact, they repeatedly tried to cave in to the White House, only be stopped by civil libertarians and bloggers. And each time they would put it on the shelf, wait a few months, they did this before, reintroduced it with Jay Rockefeller‘s support, and then there was another great, you know, dustup and they pulled it back.
I think they‘re simply waiting to see if the public‘s interest will wane and we‘ll see that tomorrow, because this bill has, quite literally, no public value for citizens or civil liberties. It is reverse engineering, though the type of thing that the Bush administration is famous for, and now the Democrats are doing—that is to change the law to conform to past conduct.
It‘s what any criminal would love to do. You rob a bank, go to the legislature, and change the law to say that robbing banks is lawful.
The FISA confirmation is the Rosetta Stone to Barrack Obama.
My rage has me shaking now and I’m done with DemoCorpRATes. What makes you think Obama won’t sell us out in terms of the Supreme Court for some kind of sickening middle ground? I just went over to the Obama website, told them to unsubscribe me and why. I suggest we all do so. He wants to run an internet campaign; well, we can withdraw from that campaign. I’m really thinking Green. What the heck, if we’re going to loose anyway, we might as well loose with folks who are not CorpRATe Whores. Yes, I now include him in that category.
Obama, FISA and Telecom immunity.
If this is change one can believe in, than I don’t want it.
If I’m going to get screwed I might as well get lower taxes too. I was hopeful. Now I’m voting for McCain, contributing for McCain and working on Rorabacher’s re-election.
Obama, Go back to Chicago. Stay there Fuckwad.
As for the constiution? It’s just a piece of paper. As for the US? It’s just a corrupt (failing) empire. | | 9:17p |
Impeccable Leninism
Since April 1918 the path of true revolutionary Marxism has been made clear in the slogan 'whatever it takes'.
Simply observe the record of Marxist-Leninism...pure Machiavellian Machtpolitik for the last 90 years. And at least 10 million casualties per decade - conservative estimate.
WHATEVER IT TAKES
Pretty fucking simple comrade...don't know what you need all these revolutionary Leninist parties for. | | 9:25p |
Just the latest stench from foggy bottom
FISA is just the latest loud FUCK YOU from the democrat party scum - theres plenty of precedent.
Wilsons RED SCARE campaign - FDRs concentration camps - Truman's ramping up of the CIA - Kennedy's Catholic colonialism - LBJs war crimes - Carter signing off on Korean repression - Clintons kiss-ass of Iran Contra. There's really nothing new here. These scum are as bad and demonstrably worse ( in SE Asia) than the other pond slime. But at least the right-wing fascists don't pose, preen and posture as 'progressives' for fucks sake.
Thats what really stinks - Sheik nuke Washington DC ...please. | | 11:36p |
If - when '...When Proudhon advocates the extermination of Jews, when Bakunin calls for the revolutionary dictatorship of a secret society, when Kropotkin supports an imperialist war, and when the CNT-FAI participates in a bourgeois government, these are all regrettable but ultimately non-essential to the pure, true anarchist position...' - FROM http://libcom.org/forums/theory/icc-councilist-left-anarchism-17062008You want to talk anti-semitism...well really... http://marxwords.blogspot.com/Then when Bakunin calls for the exact same secrecy as any other revolutionary before during and after right up till today I say Hip hip hooray. And then when Kropotkin rebels against illegal aggressive war whose to say he's wrong? Belgium? You moron? And when the CNT/FAI get boxed up by fascists whose side are you on? Or is that a stupid question moron. | | 11:48p |
Re-invasion day
Black ban tourism - its already biting
THOUSANDS of Australians gathered in capital cities today to mark the 12 months since the Howard government announced its emergency intervention into indigenous communities.
"Racist", "draconian" and "insulting" were some of the words demonstrators used to describe the intervention on the first anniversary of the controversial reforms – but most importantly, they called it a failure.
A slightly-modified Labor version has continued the crusade against child sex abuse in 73 Northern Territory indigenous communities since the coalition lost the federal election last November.
Traditional owner Vince Forrester, from the community of Mutitjulu in the shadow of Uluru, warned that tourists would be banned from climbing Uluru in protest over the intervention.
"We've got to take some affirmative action to stop this racist piece of legislation," he said.
"We're going to throw a big rock on top of the tourist industry... we will close the climb and no one will climb Uluru ever again – no one."
Mr Forrester told a gathering of about 300 people at Redfern in Sydney that life had simply become harder.
Quarantining welfare funds now meant his people had to shop in Alice Springs.
"It's a five or six hour drive away... so much for building up our own economic base in our own communities," he said.
"Every Aboriginal man is now tainted with a brush, they have emasculated us, they have said we are all woman bashers, we are all alcoholics, we are all child abusers...
"The Government says it is spending a lot of money – it's not getting to us, it's going to the bureaucrats."
Lyle Cooper, president of Darwin's Bagot community, said Aborigines across Australia were living in third world conditions.
"Something has to give out of this intervention," Mr Cooper said.
"(The Government) tells us how to live, how to eat, where to shop and how to act."
In Darwin, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chairman Norman George told a small gathering of protestors that the intervention had set indigenous people back "decades".
"They have been stripped of their rights and are being controlled by the Government," he said. | | 11:50p |
Walter Lippmann is cancerous and obese
Walter Lippmann
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> I rarely drink rum and never smoke cigars.
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> Walter Lippmann
> Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Do you have any arguments at all in defence of a regime where people
who insults and condemn the ruling party are thrown in jail for years?
Hasta la cancer siempre |
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