CAFFERTY on CNN: "Why don't you go find Osama bin Laden?"
I don't see people writing about what Jack Cafferty said on CNN today. I know he's a lifelong Republican but what he said was important. If this has been blogged before, please send me the link and...
View ArticleSubversive fun with the NSA
Oh sure, the NSA wiretapping has you spooked. Who knows what they could do with the information; could all of those take out orders from Omar's Falafel House be somehow misinterpreted as aiding Enemies...
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(UPDATE) Call to ACTION: Bush Wants In Your Bedroom
Cross-posted at Deny My Freedom: I think that the analysis on the NSA wiretapping and data mining revelations over the last few days here at DailyKos have been amazing. The lessons we have learned...
View ArticleWhat is NSA recording?
Inspired by this diary I did the math. (in a comment there) It isn't just the phone numbers they are recording. Suppose you were to record the phone calls to and from all people in the USA. Each record...
View ArticleCHENEY PIÑATA
Incredulous is a word that is insufficient to express the doubts I have about this article citing a Washington Post/ABC poll that said,
View ArticleWas The NSA Listening When I Called My Senator?
I have this sick feeling in my stomach. I just called both of my Senator's offices to express my discontent with the NSA's Domestic Wiretapping program. As I dialed the numbers on my cell phone I...
View ArticleNSA's San Francisco Surveillance Detailed
Keep in mind this is just San Francisco. Similar surveillance equipment has been installed in New York, LA, San Diego, Seattle and other major metropolitan areas. I know some will say "this is the...
View ArticleProtecting yourself from NSA wire tapping
I've watched with great dismay the stream of stories about the National Security Agency tracking citizen's calling patterns and quite probably listening in without warrants as well. While this is...
View ArticleIs Senator Specter taking his job seriously, or is this just election year...
Yesterday, much to my surprise, Sen. Arlen Specter, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a rather tersely worded letter to Vice President Dick Cheney, admonishing the veep for lobbying...
View ArticleThe Associated Press Again Misses the Point of Democracy
This is just another example of a pervasive pattern. A pattern that requires far more attention than it is getting: Horrendous media coverage of the issues. And the ensuing tendency by the far right...
View Article1776
Several months ago, during the height of the controversy over the Feingold censure resolution, I posted a diary comparing the conditions that led to our declaration of independance from a tyrannical...
View ArticleYou Have A Pre-January 20th Mindset
This is the problem with you libs. You don't understand that the world changed on January 20, 2001. That was a terrible, terrible day in our nation's history. And after the tragic events of that...
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Well Sen. Specter, since you asked...
In today's Washington Post, Senator Arlen Spector has an op-ed piece where he attempts to lay out his defense for both President Bush and himself. Entitled Surveillance We Can Live With, the is a blow...
View ArticleUSA Today : Only 27 percent gave Bush a favorable rating
Some 59 percent said they disapproved of his work. This number was buried inside the report under the heading Americans blame Hezbollah for Lebanon conflict: poll. These so called MSM have lost any...
View ArticleLesson in democracy for Specter, from 1946
Despotism: A lesson for Specter from 1946 I wanted to share a little video lesson on despotism and rubber stamp legislatures with Arlen Specter (although I'm sure a lot of others like Bush, Cheney,...
View ArticleNYT's Damned If You Do, Don't, Or Just Damned
The incomparable Bob Somerby should always be consulted when thinking about a meta-story about media bias, and the Daily Howler seldom disappoints.For forty-plus years, they've yelled "liberal...
View ArticleWhy should I encrypt my email?
I've been meaning a write a short explanation of why email should be encrypted. Today I had a little time and put the following up on my personal webpage. I thought it might do well to share it here...
View ArticleWhat Are They Hiding, Exactly?
American politics is a tiresome game: one side cheats, lies, and steals, while the other plays a pee-wee league game of special rules and gentlemanly handshakes.Case in point: NSA Warrantless...
View ArticleProof Bush is wiretapping political opponents?!!!
Proof? I don't need no stinkin' proof. I just want some high-profile Democrat to lay that charge out there and let the Bush Administration try to deny it. Because once that charge is out there, and...
View ArticleCheney: Wiretap Ruling Will Be Reversed
Does Torquemada Cheney know something we don't? The Senior Prince of Darkness weighs in again on that pesky court ruling upholding constitutional law:Vice President Dick Cheney predicted Monday that a...
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