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Half of America thinks we are in a recession

Jack Cafferty looks at a new CNN poll that tells us what we already know. A lot of people believe that we’re in a recession.

Rush Mocks 12 year old

It seems he Rush was at it again last night on FOXNews’ Hannity & Colmes, where he not only denied attacking Graeme Frost, but went on to mock his voice — Graeme has a paralyzed vocal cord.

Bush Administration Carries Out Politically-Motivated Immigration Raid

This is just insane……

WASHINGTON — Three days after a 24-year-old college graduate spoke out on her immigration plight in USA TODAY, U.S. agents arrested her family — including her father, a Vietnamese man who once was confined to a "re-education" camp in his home country for anti-communist activities.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who chairs the House immigration subcommittee, on Tuesday accused federal officials of "witness intimidation" for staging a pre-dawn raid on the home of Tuan Ngoc Tran.

The agents arrested Tran, his wife and son, charging them with being fugitives from justice even though the family's attorneys said the Trans have been reporting to immigration officials annually to obtain work permits.

Lofgren said she believes the family was targeted because Tran's eldest child, Tam Tran, testified before Lofgren's panel earlier this spring in support of legislation that would help the children of illegal immigrants. On Oct. 8, Tam Tran was quoted in USA TODAY. Her parents and brother were taken into custody Thursday. The family was released to house arrest after Lofgren intervened.

"Would she and her family have been arrested if she hadn't spoken out?" Lofgren said of Tran, who was not at home for the raid but has been asked to report to Immigration and Customs officials next week. "I don't think so."

The depth that the political hacks that Bush has allowed to destroy our Government will sink is beyond belief. Each and every day I am more amazed at just how evil these people are.

Kelly Nantel, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the Tran family's arrest "absolutely, unequivocally had nothing to do" with Tam Tran's advocacy.

Not a chance this was just a coincidence, this was plan old retribution and intimidation from a political hack.

Julie Myers is an unqualified hack(even rightwing nut job Malkin thinks so) who needs to be dragged in front of Congress and forced to explain just how this decision was made, and like all the other Bushies she will lie……but like Gonzales and Doan it will make for some great you tube videos

Representative Steve King, of Iowa's 5th District: Supports Al Qaeda.

It says so on the Internet….so it must be true?

Representative King as an American Tax Payer I demand you prove you are not a supporter of Al Qaeda.

If you can not immediately prove you are not a support of Al Qaeda, I demand your immediate resignation.

Faux News - Can it get any stranger

Pravda Fox Business News had one of the nation’s leading experts on FISA on last night to discuss the pending congressional action. News Hounds has the details:

Today (October 17, 2007), Fox brought on country music singer Charlie Daniels as an expert on FISA and eavesdropping.

Cavuto introduced Daniels over a very carefully worded chyron: "House Bill Would Restrict Government Terror Surveillance," as he explained that the House is, "set to vote on a bill that would make it tougher for the government to eavesdrop on potential terrorists. The proposal could impact telecommunications companies in a big way. [Cavuto's ridiculous attempt to make this sound like business news.] The president already threatening a veto. My next guest says yeah, you'd better veto it; that Democrats and civil libertarians are making it more dangerous for the rest of us."

Daniels said he travels all around the country and people, "don't feel like they're very represented." "I mean, these guys, they sit down there and you know, draw up things against talk show hosts?! Is that all they got to do?"

Cavuto wondered whether he was,"saying they're risking our security?"

Daniels said. "I'm absolutely saying..."

Cavuto interrupted: "They're saying they're trying to protect the Charlie Daniels of the world from being snooped on."

Daniels: "Well, I understand and it's a shame we have to go that far to take care of business," but, "we either gotta protect the country or we're not going to have a country to protect and if it means eavesdroppin', we have to eavesdrop. If it means, you know, lookin' at people's email, we have to look at people's email."

Can it get any more bizarre at Faux News then this?

 

Shocked and Awed.....H.R. 2102

I fully expected to be writing comments blasting my two least favorite congressional Republicans, for being nothing but Bush sycophants when I saw only 21 votes against H.R. 2102 (press shield).

Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 - Prohibits a federal entity (an entity or employee of the judicial or executive branch or an administrative agency) from compelling a covered person (a person engaged in journalism, including their supervisor, employer, parent, subsidiary, or affiliate) to testify or produce any document unless a court makes specified determinations by a preponderance of the evidence.

Requires the content of compelled testimony or documents to be limited and narrowly tailored. Exempts certain commercial or financial information.

Applies this Act to communications service providers with regard to testimony or any record, information, or other communication that relates to a business transaction between such providers and covered persons. Sets forth notice requirements. Permits a court to delay notice to a covered person upon determining that such notice would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of a criminal investigation.

But I was shocked and awed when I looked up the votes and saw Michele Bachmann (MN-6), and Gina Brown-Waite (FL-5) in the “aye” column.

Despite the threatened Veto, they both actually came down on the side of our Constitution. I had planned to write the post had they voted “nay” hence l feel obligated to thank them for being on the right side of such an important issue.

Why my two least favorites, I was born and raised in the 6^th congressional of Minnesota (8^th back then), I am raising my family in Florida’s 5^th today.

Republic party donors being tight fisted

The Washing Post reports:

More than a third of the top fundraisers who helped elect George W. Bush president remain on the sidelines in 2008, contributing to a gaping financial disparity between the GOP candidates and their Democratic counterparts.

Scores of Bush Pioneers and Rangers are not working for any Republican candidate, citing discontent with the war in Iraq, anger at the performance of Republicans in Congress and a general lack of enthusiasm. More than two dozen have actually made contributions to Democrats.

So what’s this all about:

 

1. Maybe Carville’s right and they are all waiting for Jeb to ride to the rescue      or
2. The big money donors have big money because they don’t throw money into lost causes?

Rudy you phony little shit...........

Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo found this little tidbit…….Rudy you are such a fake

"Well, I'm a Republican mayor, but I"m really not. I'm the mayor of New York City. I ran as a Republican, I ran as a Liberal — which really confuses all kinds of people — and I ran as an Independent, as part of the Independent Party, which actually is now the party that's supporting Ross Perot. So I ran a fusion candidacy, like my predecessor Fiorello LaGuardia. So I'm not the most partisan of Republicans."

More bad news for the Republic party....

Warner is a lock if he runs, and with a million already in the bank, it looks likely

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and former governor Mark R. Warner are dominating the race for campaign cash as the two Democrats step up efforts to take from Republicans the General Assembly this fall and a U.S. Senate seat next year.

In campaign finance reports filed Monday, Kaine and Warner reported that they each had more than $1 million in the bank, which political observers said was another sign that the state's Democratic Party is on the rebound.

 

This could be fun....can the left wing bloggers get as nutty as the right on this one?

Procurement Official Questioned About No-Work Deal Found Dead

The Air Force's second-highest-ranking procurement official was found dead Sunday night at his Virginia home in an apparent suicide, an internal Air Force memo said.

Charles D. Riechers, 47, principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisitions, "was found deceased in his home, cause of death appears to be suicide, time of death is unknown," according to the memo, sent late Sunday by the Air Force Operations Center in the Pentagon.

Now if this were during the Clinton administration, boy, oh boy would the right wing nut jobs like Malkin and Limbaugh be spinning the conspiracy theories

 

I am biting my tongue.......very hard

Verizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders

Firm's Letter to Lawmakers Details Government Requests

 

In an Oct. 12 letter replying to Democratic lawmakers, Verizon offered a rare glimpse into the way telecommunications companies cooperate with government requests for information on U.S. citizens.

Verizon also disclosed that the FBI, using administrative subpoenas, sought information identifying not just a person making a call, but all the people that customer called, as well as the people those people called. Verizon does not keep data on this "two-generation community of interest" for customers, but the request highlights the broad reach of the government's quest for data….

From January 2005 to September 2007, Verizon provided data to federal authorities on an emergency basis 720 times, it said in the letter. The records included Internet protocol addresses as well as phone data. In that period, Verizon turned over information a total of 94,000 times to federal authorities armed with a subpoena or court order, the letter said. The information was used for a range of criminal investigations, including kidnapping and child-predator cases and counter-terrorism investigations.

 

Bush keeps head in the sand...just like the past 7 years

Low in Polls, Bush Makes More Time for Friendly Crowds

Out there in the rest of America, polls show that about twice as many people disapprove of President Bush as approve of him. But here in a cavernous convention center hall, Mr. Bush found nothing but admirers Monday when he answered questions during a town-hall-style meeting.

One man began by commending Mr. Bush “on your steadfastness and your faith.” Another concluded by saying, “Thank you for being my president for the last seven years,” with an emphasis on the word “my.” A third expressed dismay that Mr. Bush could not run for president again.

“It’s time for new blood,” Mr. Bush replied. “Plus,” he added wryly, “I’d be single.”

The friendly audience in northwest Arkansas — not a single questioner criticized Mr. Bush — is typical of such let-Bush-be-Bush events, which the White House is staging with increasing frequency. Mr. Bush’s aides like them because the president is much better in an informal setting, especially one where he can get his message across, conversation-style, without pesky reporters asking the questions.

What’s amazing is that they were able to round up 300 sycophants and put them all in one place. What is even more inane is the fact that this is how the white house staff has insulated “W” since day one

Insurance Giants at it again

This is truly ridiculous, this is capitalism run amok……………

Companies including Allstate, State Farm and Liberty Mutual have “nonrenewed” policies not only in hurricane-battered places like Florida and Louisiana, but in New York and other Northern states that have not seen hurricanes in years. Since last year, those three companies and others have turned down all new homeowners’ insurance business in New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts and the eight downstate counties of New York.

An independent insurance agents’ group puts the Grays among about 50,000 residents of the New York metropolitan area — and about one million homeowners in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states — whose policies have been canceled since 2004. While most homeowners have been able to find coverage with other major insurers, or with smaller companies, in most cases it is at higher rates and with larger deductibles.

The day you go to work for an insurance company is the day you check your soul at the front door.

Imagine that, our Government abusing civil liberties, again.

Raw Story has the story:

Pentagon acted with little oversight in spying on Americans, documents show

The Department of Defense has conspired with the FBI to "circumvent the law" in accessing hundreds of Americans' telephone, e-mail and financial records, say two civil liberties groups that released reams of new documents obtained in a contested public records request.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has challenged the Bush Administration's post-Sept. 11 spying authority, says the Pentagon has issued 455 National Security Letters in concert with the FBI to obtain Americans' private information it is not entitled to receive.

"The documents make clear that the Department of Defense may have secretly and illegally conducted surveillance beyond the powers it was granted by Congress," ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said. "It also appears as if the FBI is serving as a lackey for the DoD in misusing the Patriot Act powers. At the very least, it certainly looks like the FBI and DoD are conspiring to evade limits placed on the Department of Defense's surveillance powers."

Bet he talks a good game......

...but in reality we are replacing one fascist in charge of "Justice" with another

Detentions to Be Top Topic for Mukasey

As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Six years later, the man President Bush wants to be attorney general acknowledged that the law authorizing those warrants "has its perils" in terrorism cases and urged Congress to "fix a strained and mismatched legal system."

Mukasey's caution about the material witness law probably will please Democrats who control the Senate Judiciary Committee. At confirmation hearings set to begin Wednesday, they plan to press the retired federal judge about the Bush administration's terrorist detention policy.

I just don't get it - Are Congressional Dems Stupid or what!!

Why, oh why do we believe we have the moral authority to make historical declarations of genocide?

When there is current genocide happening in Darfur, that we are doing nothing about and we have genocide in our own history that we have as a nation yet to recognize or apologized for? Yes, I know the Coulters and Limbaughs of the day called it Manifest Destiny (and yes I know the Democrats of the day were the culprits, it is not the party stupid it’s what they stand for at any given point in time) , but face it, it was genocide plain and simple.

Thus, according to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a "vast genocide . . . , the most sustained on record." By the end of the 19th century, writes David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, native Americans had undergone the "worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people." In the judgment of Lenore A. Stiffarm and Phil Lane, Jr., "there can be no more monumental example of sustained genocide—certainly none involving a 'race' of people as broad and complex as this—anywhere in the annals of human history."

When we have this type of baggage in our own past why are Democratic Congressional leaders allowing this to be such a distraction to the real issues we need to deal with.

Was the World War I-era killings of Armenians genocide? YES.

Does it make any sense to pass a congressional resolution on the topic ? NO.

This is a total distraction that we do not need!!

On Faux News this morning Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the measure was "irresponsible."

"Listen, there's no question that the suffering of the Armenian people some 90 years ago was extreme. But what happened 90 years ago ought to be a subject for historians to sort out, not politicians here in Washington."

Now you went and did it, you went and made me agree with John Boehner on a topic, and that pains me, not because he is a Republican, but because he is an Ass.

GOP losing the hearts and minds of our Youth

Exit polls from recent elections and survey research show the nation's young people are less likely to embrace the Republican Party than any generation since the '60s.

Pravda for Business to commence

Pravda for Business

Putin's power grab

With Tight Grip on Ballot, Putin Is Forcing Foes Out

“This is the first time in post-Soviet history when only the Kremlin decides who can participate and who can’t,” Mr. Ryzhkov said. “The Kremlin decides which party can exist and which party cannot. For the first time in post-Soviet history, a wide specter of political forces cannot participate in this election. I call it selection before election.”

I thought George had looked into his eyes and saw his soul……maybe he just saw a kindred spirit.

A contrast in two leaders

“Gore, even without the presidency, used all the modern tools of communication, the Internet, video and globalization to reach out and galvanize a global movement,” Mr. Rothkopf said. “Bush took the greatest platform in the world and dug himself a policy grave.”