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Yes He Is A Fascist - Finally Someone Gets It!!

Keith Olbermann lays it out “Bush is a Fascist”!!!

By your own terms and your definitions — you have just sided with the terrorists.

You got to have this law or we’re all going to die.

But practically speaking, you vetoed this law.

It is bad enough, sir, that you were demanding an Ex Post Facto law, which could still clear the AT&Ts and the Verizons from responsibility for their systematic, aggressive, and blatant collaboration with your illegal and unjustified spying on Americans under this flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists who are stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass e-mail.

But when you demanded it again during the State of the Union address, you wouldn’t even confirm that they actually did anything for which they deserved to be cleared.

“The Congress must pass liability protection for companies believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend America.” Believed?

Don’t you know?

Don’t you even have the guts Dick Cheney showed in admitting they did collaborate with you?

Does this endless presidency of loopholes and fine print extend even here?

If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business — come out and say it!

There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes that toxic blend.

You’re a fascist — get them to print you a t-shirt with “fascist” on it!

What else is this but fascism?

Did you see Mark Klein on this newscast last November?

Mark Klein was the AT&T Whistleblower, the one who explained in the placid, dull terms of your local neighborhood I-T desk, how he personally attached all AT&T circuits — everything — carrying every one of your phone calls, every one of your e-mails, every bit of your web browsing into a secure room, room number 641-A at the Folsom Street facility in San Francisco, where it was all copied so the government could look at it.

Not some of it, not just the international part of it, certainly not just the stuff some spy — a spy both patriotic and telepathic — might able to divine had been sent or spoken by — or to — a terrorist.

Everything!

Every time you looked at a naked picture.

Every time you bid on eBay.

Every time you phoned in a donation to a Democrat.

“My thought was,” Mr. Klein told us last November, “George Orwell’s 1984. And here I am, forced to connect the big brother machine.”

And if there’s one thing we know about Big Brother, Mr. Bush, is that he is — you are — a liar.

“This Saturday at midnight,” you said today, “legislation authorizing intelligence professionals to quickly and effectively monitor terrorist communications will expire. If Congress does not act by that time, our ability to find out who the terrorists are talking to, what they are saying, and what they are planning, will be compromised…You said that “the lives of countless Americans depend” on you getting your way.

This is crap.

I have been telling you all this for months now, it nice to see someone in the media is finally getting it!

American Fascism At Its Finest

Lawmakers Move to Grant Banks Immunity Against Patent Lawsuit

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has sponsored an unusual provision at the urging of the nation's banks granting them immunity against an active patent lawsuit, potentially saving them billions of dollars.

Adopted with little fanfare, the amendment would prevent a small Texas company called DataTreasury from collecting damages from banks for infringing on its patented method for digitally scanning, sending and archiving checks. The patents were upheld last summer by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after they were challenged.

The provision, passed without dissent by the Senate Judiciary Committee in July and inserted into legislation scheduled for a vote by the full Senate this month, is a rare attempt by Congress to intervene in ongoing litigation, congressional experts say.

Although the amendment would not invalidate DataTreasury's patents, it would spare the banks from paying for infringing them should courts decide that's warranted. If DataTreasury collected a royalty of just a couple pennies per check, the cost would run into billions of dollars.

The federal government would have to pay $1 billion to DataTreasury over 10 years as compensation for taking its property under the amendment, according to estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.

Banks process more than 40 billion checks each year. At one time, those checks had to be delivered physically to be drawn upon. But five years ago -- in the wake of the grounding of aircraft laden with billions of dollars in checks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- federal law was changed to allow electronic transfers as well.

Some major financial institutions, notably Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Chase, have licensed DataTreasury's technology for the purpose. Lawsuits alleging infringement are pending against others, including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Wachovia and Citigroup.

When the Judiciary Committee began to draft landmark legislation overhauling the country's patent laws last year, lobbyists for these banks jumped into action.

Remember this from The Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism:

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

It’s not the Neo-Con’s made up oxy-moron of “Islamic fascism” we have to fear but the reality of a American Fascism which is real and upon us.

Such Christian Behavior - Not!!

Catholic School Teacher Let Go For Pregnancy

A Wabasha catholic school teacher says she's out of a job because she got pregnant. Now this teacher wants to make sure this doesn't happen again to someone else. She says she's angry at the school administration for what happened. Now without a job or a husband and a baby on the way, she says she's left wondering if what the school did was the Christian thing to do. Emily wants us to protect her identity because of future employment. "I was completely blown away. I was shocked," Emily says. With six months under her belt at St. Felix Catholic School in Wabasha, this 23 year old, fifth grade teacher says she felt she was on the right path. "I'm very true to my faith and my church in Lake City," says Emily. And after learning she was pregnant out of wedlock, she felt the right decision was to be honest with the school's principal. "She told me that she was glad I made the right choice in telling her," Emily says. She says after being asked by administration to write a letter to the school explaining what she had done, she was then asked by the principal and the school's priest to resign. "She said it would be best if you did not come back. because otherwise, if you did not resign, it would get worse," says Emily. We tried to talk to the Winona Roman Catholic Diocese and the St. Felix School principal but both declined to comment at this time. Emily says she did sign a contract stating she would follow the Catholic approach to learning and living. When asked, "If you signed something on conduct that said you weren't supposed to do that, isn't it their responsibility to take action?" Emily responds, "Yes, but I don't think they did it in the right way. Personally and morally are they following the contract themselves?" "You mean the bigger contract?" I ask. "Yeah, God's contract," she says. On Monday night around 30 people showed up at the St. Felix School Board meeting in support of Emily. They passed out pacifiers and little baby shoe necklaces to show their support. The family says some of the School Board members didn't even know of Emily's situation, and during the meeting, the administration simply wouldn't talk about it. "I'm embarrassed to be Catholic at this moment," says Emily's family friend JoAnn Ostgulen. Ostgulen is one of many people reaching out to support Emily. "As a fellow Catholic, it disappointed me as to how another child of Christ was handled," says Ostgulen. Emily says, "I love the school. I love what I do, and I love the kids. That's what I'm there for, and I'm not there to exploit the rest of my life." We also tried to contact the St. Felix School Board and the member we spoke with said they were told not to comment. When asked if she would take her job back if she had the chance, Emily said no. We also asked if she would be taking legal action. She said they don't know right now, but they are looking at their options.

 

Our Police State - Orgies & Softball

Ex-Florida prison boss: Drunken orgies tainted system

Softball, drunken orgies and a prison system run like the mafia. That's what Florida's former prison secretary says he inherited when he took over one of the nation's largest prison systems two years ago.

This house, on prison grounds in Florida, is described as a party house where prison officials held orgies.

In fact, on his first day on the job, James McDonough says he walked into his office -- the same one his predecessor used -- and there was crime scene tape preventing anyone from entering.

"That was an indication we had a problem in the department," McDonough told CNN in an exclusive interview before he stepped down last Thursday.

McDonough revealed a startling list of alleged abuses and crimes going on inside Florida's prisons:

• Top prison officials admitting to kickbacks;

• Guards importing and selling steroids in an effort to give them an edge on the softball field;

• Taxpayer funds to pay for booze and women;

• Guards who punished other guards who threatened to report them.

"Corruption had gone to an extreme," McDonough said, saying it all began at the top. "They seemed to be drunk half the time and had orgies the other half, when they weren't taking money and beating each other up." Watch a corrupted prison system »

He added, "Women were treated like chattel in this department."

McDonough described a bizarre prison culture among those that ran the system -- one that he says seemed obsessed with inter-department softball games and the orgies after games.

"I cannot explain how big an obsession softball had become," he said. "People were promoted on the spot after a softball game at the drunken party to high positions in the department because they were able to hit a softball out of the park a couple times."

"The connection between the softball and the parties and the corruption and the beatings was greatly intertwined."

Boy this was 7 years into the reign of the Krazy King’s Brother Jeb here in the fiefdom of Florida was it not?

 

Our Police State - Let's Play Dump The Quad

Deputy Tips Disabled Inmate From Chair; 4 Suspended

- A deputy roughly dumps a man out of a wheelchair and he tumbles to the floor.

Brian Sterner lands on his ribs, then rolls over and lies on his back while Hillsborough County Detention Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones checks his pockets before she and another deputy clumsily put him back in the chair.

These moments were recorded by cameras on Jan. 29 in Orient Road Jail. The video has repulsed many and resulted in the suspension of Jones, a 44-year-old deputy with 22 years on the job, and her supervisors.

Sterner, 32, can drive a car but he hasn't been able to walk for 14 years.

He said he told Jones as much when he was booked into jail on a traffic-related charge.

She didn't believe him, he said.

Sheriff David Gee said was at a loss for words after viewing the video.

"This was not training issue," Gee said late Tuesday. "It's a human decency issue. I can't imagine any explanation she might have.

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No reports were filed about the incident, so investigators are trying to ascertain what the supervisors knew, Docobo said. Each of the three appears at various times on the video but none intervenes with Jones. Dickey walks into the frame from the side and appears smile as he walks away.

"That none of the supervisors acted upon what they saw is of great concern," Docobo said. "This is not the norm at the sheriff's office. It's an aberration."

Phone messages left for Jones and Hinson were not immediately returned. A number could not be found for Williams.

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Sterner was brought into the booking room in a wheelchair owned by the jail. Jones ordered him to stand, Sterner said. He told her he couldn't.

"She was irked that I wasn't complying to what she was telling me to do," he said. "It didn't register with her that she was asking me to do something I can't do."

Sterner said he thought he'd suffered two cracked ribs, but it turned out to be bruising, Trevena said. An X-ray showed no fractures.

Jones offered no apologies, Sterner said. "Not one word."

He was released from jail five days later after posting $2,000 bail, records show.

Sterner said his stay was made even more humiliating when he had a bowel accident and was left to sit in his waste for three or four hours until a staff member helped him clean up.

Video from Tampa Bay 10 News

Sis’ ya forgot to hit him with the taser.

GOP -- The War Party

With John McCain the presumptive nominee of the GOP and his desire to be our “Commander Warmonger and Chief”, I suggest now would be the time to rename the the Republic party something more fitting, I nominate –The War Party.

Great Job Election08 !!

Little Girls - Making Dads Proud

Ok another moment of personal vanity (hey it’s my blog, I will brag on my little girl if I want to J).

My little one and her dance teammates from Sell’s Broadway Dance Company started the 2008 competition season and the little ladies rocked!!!

They surprised even themselves when the mini ballet routine “Tiger Lily’s Pow-Wow” took home the Entertainment Award at the OnStage New York’s Orlando regional.

• Mini Entertainment Award: "Tiger Lily's Pow-Wow"


• Mini High Score Primary Overall: "Tiger Lily's Pow-Wow"


• Platinum Award: "Tiger Lily's Pow-Wow"


• Mini Second Place Primary Overall: "Can't Stop The Beat"


• Mini Gold Award: "Can't Stop The Beat"


• Mini Third Place Primary Overall: "We're In The Money"


• Mini Gold Award: "We're In The Money"


• Junior Gold Award: "Coffee In A Cardboard Cup"


• Junior Fifth Place Advanced Overall:"Coffee In A Cardboard Cup"


• Teen Platinum Award: "Swing Kids"


• Teen Critics Choice Finalist: "Swing Kids"