HULK SMASH!!!
Okay now
Are we safe yet?
My phone calls are boring...
Speaking of wiretaps, anybody watch The Wire?
stop racymind
DOJ investigation
(pees pants laughing)
That's wack.
Mukasey says the law is what the Preznit says it is...
For the viewers of Turkmenistan's popular nightly news programme, Vatan, it was another routine bulletin. But as the newsreader began the 9pm broadcast, viewers across the central Asian country spotted something unusual crawling across the studio table: a large brown cockroach.
The cockroach managed to complete a whole lap of the desk, apparently undetected, before disappearing. The programme, complete with cockroach, was repeated at 11pm that night.
It was only at 9am the following day that horrified officials from Turkmenistan's ministry of culture discovered the cockroach's guest appearance. And that, perhaps, should have been the end of the matter, the mildly entertaining footage being consigned to the occasional airing by the Turkmenistan equivalent of Denis Norden on a telly bloopers show.
But the consequences of this particular cockroach's impromptu five minutes of fame were immediate and severe.
The country's president, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, took news of the insect so badly that he responded by firing no fewer than 30 workers from the main state TV channel, the news website Kronika Turkmenistan reported yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/...b/22/
television
"Salon cannot set a cookie on your browser"
salon can blow me.
Say- that's political, isn't it?
ot, I've got a dark one up at the studio- brand new this morning.
It's called Faith. It's for some people I know that need it right now.
Steam Powered Studio
Morning, bats and kittehs.
Arrest them all!
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I don't think McConnell is very savvy. He keeps exposing the truth. Or maybe he's a mole?
Mukasey vs Mukasey
Telecoms refusing to illegally wiretap
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=56603
Lord, Frank Luntz is repugnant.
And it's so moving to hear the Bush administration earnestly explain that they are so hamstrung by FISA's requirements that we are all deeply vulnerable to the Terrorists, but they have no choice but to comply with its burdensome provisions -- because to do otherwise would be "illegal."
I love it when someone summarize such a load of crap in one sentence....
Doods took the laws on the books and then sweded them. Can't wait until John Edwards is the AG.
FISA requires far more, and it would be illegal to proceed as you suggest].
Good grief.
"protest america act"
LOLOL
Molly, did insurance pay for the damage?
Nope. Didn't even submit it.
War on Flirting - RIYADH (AFP) Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police ordered the arrest of 57 youths this week for flirting with girls in malls in the holy city of Mecca, The Saudi Gazette reported on Saturday.
The young men were detained on Thursday evening by regular police officers following a request from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the English-language daily reported.
They were accused of wearing "indecent clothing and playing loud music and dancing" to attract the attention of the opposite sex, it added.
Members of the commission, known as the Muttawa, patrol public areas to ensure the kingdom's brand of ultra-conservative Islam is enforced, and this includes strict segregation of the sexes.
The Muttawa also cracked down on Valentine's Day by banning florists from selling red roses.
In a fatwa or religious edict issued seven years ago, Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, declared the celebration named after the Christian patron saint of love a "pagan Christian holiday."
http://afp.google.com/article/
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Weapons of Mass Flirting
I like how the law now means something to them.
It's laughable...or pathetic. I forget which one.
Lord, Frank Luntz is repugnant.
You would be too if you walked around with a dead beaver on your head all day.
What scares the shit out of the administration, and may account for Ashcroft running into a rabbit hole, etc., is that they spied on democrats, especially around the time of the 2004 election.
They must have Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid tied up in a closet somewhere. It's the only explanation for why the Democrats haven't capitulated on immunity yet.
No one watches the watchmen...
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That will not be a problem.
Jeebus.
I'm going to need some coffee.
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You would be too if you walked around with a dead beaver on your head all day.
I am not a dead beaver!
-Anonymous Washington, D. C. lobbyist
I think al Qaeda is about as real as The Brotherhood. 1984 was an operations manual for the Bush government.
War on Flirting - RIYADH (AFP) Saudi Arabia's powerful religious police ordered the arrest of 57 youths this week for flirting with girls in malls in the holy city of Mecca, The Saudi Gazette reported on Saturday.
The young men were detained on Thursday evening by regular police officers following a request from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the English-language daily reported.
They were accused of wearing "indecent clothing and playing loud music and dancing" to attract the attention of the opposite sex, it added.
teh kidZ get it, even though Cisco and other american companies are helping SA (and china) control the access to content online
SA will got through turmoil, you cannot legislate morality which is inimical to reality
My outrage meter is broken these days.
Bush lies and secretly spies on us for mysterious, and probably nefarious purposes.
Water is wet.
Dog bites man.
etc.
I just hope we make it through 'til 1/20/09. Maybe something will change then. Maybe.
NYTimes has a report on the DoJ investigation in to the legal opinion on waterboarding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/
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d00d, if I give NPR thirty bucks a month, I can get a hi-def radio!
Meh.
I think al Qaeda is about as real as The Brotherhood. 1984 was an operations manual for the Bush government.
puppethead
Now you're catching on!!
Savage on Obama: "We have a right to know if he's a so-called friendly Muslim or one who aspires to more radical teachings"
Savage Weiner constantly tests the strength of my opposition to capital punishment, does he.
I think al Qaeda is about as real as The Brotherhood. 1984 was an operations manual for the Bush government.
Yep. It's like that monster your parents said lived under your bed (not that my parents did, mind you).
Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible "dirty numbers" linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said.
The turrists probably don't use their "dirty numbers" more than once. That's just a guess, though.
I think al Qaeda is about as real as The Brotherhood. 1984 was an operations manual for the Bush government.
puppethead
Ding ding ding!
We have a winnah!
Nope. Didn't even submit it.
Good. Rates have a tendency to go up, as we learned the hard way when we lived in Iowa during the last weeks of the flood. We had some damage and contacted them, but never made a claim as it wasn't bad. We had a rate increase as a result.
Savage on Obama: "We have a right to know if he's a so-called friendly Muslim or one who aspires to more radical teachings"
Saying "That's even stupid for Savage!" isn't even the tip of the iceberg.
Good grief...this country needs a new Kavorkian. Put us out of our misery!
Savage on Obama: "We have a right to know if he's a so-called friendly Muslim or one who aspires to more radical teachings"
he speaks to 19%ers, FUCK THEM
he knows that is a lie, but that does not matter to the deluded, they like to affirm their retarded ideas (like racists in the 60's)
We had a rate increase as a result.
"Hey! You made us work!"
Good. Rates have a tendency to go up, as we learned the hard way when we lived in Iowa during the last weeks of the flood. We had some damage and contacted them, but never made a claim as it wasn't bad. We had a rate increase as a result.
pie
Here's how insurance in America works for most people: They give you your own money back, at an exorbitant rate of interest should you make a claim.
The turrists probably don't use their "dirty numbers" more than once. That's just a guess, though.
Lime Rickey | 02.23.08 - 10:36 am
And my extension on this guess is that some large percentage of these "dirty numbers" call Democratic Congressional offices at least once, thereby opening the guilt by association gambit for further eavesdropping.
Truth is, Al Qaeda is more valuable free than in chains at Guantanamo.. Why, if they didn't exist, the fascist Bushies would have had to create them..Wait a minute, WHO was that funding them, again? Follow the money, as they say!
I will never recover from insurance claims what I have paid for insurance. Never.
"We had some damage and contacted them, but never made a claim as it wasn't bad. We had a rate increase as a result."
--pie
Are you saying they increased your rate because you told them about the damage, but didn't make a claim? Why would they do that?
My house insurance rates more than doubled in 8 years. Glad to be done with them.
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible "dirty numbers" linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said.
yeah, how well has that worked out? teh terr'sts are smarter than the mob, and the mob knows to encrypt all communication
i still don't see how anyone could think Obama is a Muslim.
I mean where do the wingnuts get this notion?
to them 'Muslim' has become a boogeyman to frightened themseleves with and so they hide in basements using their keyboards as weapons
and they scare stories of 'Eurabia' is really pathetic
The one fucking time I had a fender bender, after 30 years of driving, I was told if I claimed the damage to my car Farmers would increase my rate.
Bueller? Bueller?
It's his day off.
Well they admit it. Isn't there supposed to be a DOJ investigation or something? Bueller? Bueller?
"Congressman Bueller has personally asked me to express his thanks for your thoughtful expression of your interesting and challenging point of view. Please feel free to drop by his website to help support our ongoing battle to protect America from the terrorists."
Savage on Obama: "We have a right to know if he's a so-called friendly Muslim or one who aspires to more radical teachings"
Saying "That's even stupid for Savage!" isn't even the tip of the iceberg.
Good grief...this country needs a new Kavorkian. Put us out of our misery!
Zap Rowsdower
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Everytime these stupid idiots say shit like this it inspires me to want to vote for Obama even more.
Do we need to find out if McCain is just an excentric nut or an evil nut bent on destroying the world. We have a right to know
Ins. Co. Logic: " While YOU did not file a claim, many others in your area did, costing us a butt-load, which we must recoup somehow."
Moonbotica,
The truth is of no consequence to the reality-challenged.
I've had this idea for a while, but someone finally put it into practice. DIY infrared security camera "blinding".
Al Qaeda as an idea is real but as a centrally organized group ala like SMERSH in the Bond novels it is not
its more like a franchise operation, various Fundie Muslim groups use the name to increase their clout
Obama being black is more than enough to keep any of Savage's listeners from voting for him anyway. He's wasting his time with the Muslim swift-boating.
Why would they do that?
We were in a group of insureds in which claims were paid, so everyone's rates go up to spread the risk.
Sheets!
Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
Oooh, we need one of those! (With Dolores Umbridge in charge)
Coffee and long underwear. Yee-HAW!
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Ins. Co. Logic: " While YOU did not file a claim, many others in your area did, costing us a butt-load, which we must recoup somehow."
Yep, pretty much.
The one fucking time I had a fender bender, after 30 years of driving, I was told if I claimed the damage to my car Farmers would increase my rate.
Adam Hominem,
free market handjob...teh rich don't get comprehensive (i paint with a broadbrush 
, they only pay for liability: they can afford to fix their own cars and don't need to make claims
i still don't see how anyone could think Obama is a Muslim.
I could imagine how someone could initially have that impression, given his last name and that part of his childhood spent in Indonesia.
But maintaining that opinion requires an active effort to suppress reality.
For a short time there was a guy whose name I don't remember on in the morning on WCFL radio in Chicago. He was very much a percursor to Savage--racist as hell.
They quickly took him off the air after the riots following the death of Martin Luther King.
A man ahead of his time, for sure.
Ins. Co. Logic: " While YOU did not file a claim, many others in your area did, costing us a butt-load, which we must recoup somehow."
plantsman, silly
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It used to work that way, but since insurance companies have diversified, gone into the mortgage business and such, (love deregulation), you now share the risk not just with your neighbors, but with the whole US. All to serve you better.
Ahh, memories...
It was just about a year ago there was this:
When Gonzales argues that the Constitution gives the president undisputable powers to conduct warrantless surveillance despite a statute aimed at requiring him to seek court approval, such an interpretation "is not sound," Specter said in the interview. ". . . He's smoking Dutch Cleanser."
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One of my favorite moments. Specter knew this was illegal at the time, and has been working his ass off ever since to make it go away.
Not enforce the law- work around it somehow.
What a piece of shit, my Senator!
Bin Laden is not a Bond villain residing in some volcanic headquarters
i would of thought smaller, subtle and co-operative efforts would of netted him and training operatives fluent in Arabic would be like helpful, heck try and infiltrate them
make it more like an international policing operation, treat them like common criminals
all this war does is raise Bin Laden and his Death Cultists to mythic proportions
Truth is, Al Qaeda is more valuable free than in chains at Guantanamo.. Why, if they didn't exist, the fascist Bushies would have had to create them..Wait a minute, WHO was that funding them, again? Follow the money, as they say!
Duane V | 02.23.08 - 10:39 am | #
The fact that Bin Laden was on our payroll for so many years makes it hard for me to believe much of anything the government says about him.
I'm not denying his role in 9/11, but I'm convinced there's much, much more to it than we'll ever be told about.
owls!!!!!!!!!
and how many future Bin Ladens are being created in Iraq and Afghanistan?
make it more like an international policing operation, treat them like common criminals
all this war does is raise Bin Laden and his Death Cultists to mythic proportions
Moonbootica, Employed | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 10:46 am | #
You assume they want to catch him. I think the war is accomplishing exactly what it's proponents intended.
Lord, Frank Luntz is repugnant.
plantsman, silly | Homepage | 02.23.08 - 10:30 am |
I read that as pregnant.
Perhaps I shouldn't be staring into that bright yellow, and unfamiliar, object in the sky, it seems to be affecting my eyesight.
Jeebus, any minute now I think this President and the VP will get busted - ratted out by Repugs who, themselves never intend to break the laws of this country this badly. It's a horrifying nightmare that we can't impeach these two, how *ucking bad does it have to get?
Most Americans don't believe a word Bush or Cheney says, the two are certifably criminal so isn't that a national security crisis in it's own right? They couldn't sale a national security crisis right now if their lives depended on it.
It's too the point where if either Bush or Cheney were assassinated, I doubt a majority of Americans would care, these two are beyond the realm of justice, whereby no single crime they perpetrate is prosecutable. Democracy in this country has become a complete charade.
If Bush was wiretapping BEFORE 9/11, why was he not able to stop 9/11, unless of course, whatever Bush was doing had absolutely NOTHING to do with national security at all?
FISA does not know what Bush is doing, congress doesn't have a single bit of evidence as to why Bush finds it necessary to WIRETAP everyone. Bush and Cheney BROKE the Law, broke their oaths of office. WHY are they still in Washington, WHY are they still in office.
I want those two out of office AND I DO NOT want to wait till their term expires.
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