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28 September 2006
Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:50:47 GMT Rushing Off a Cliffvia Kjell Olsen1958 days agoCongress passed a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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05 September 2006
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:22:02 GMT Iraqis who Sweated out Hussein are Leaving under Bushvia Kjell Olsen1981 days agoAt least 40,000 Iraqis have been killed in the past three years, with scores more murdered every day. Hospitals overflow with the wounded. Conditions are so bad, an estimated 1-million Iraqis have fled their homes for sanctuary in Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Iraqis, particularly middle-class families, who survived Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, are leaving en masse. Even Mr. Bush admits things are “terrible” in Baghdad.
Don’t you just love the smell of democracy in the morning?
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23 August 2006
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:30:18 GMT Election-theft testimonyKjell Olsen1994 days agoProgrammer in florida wrote prototype voting machine software that could flip the vote to either party 51/49 for then speaker of the Florida House Tom Feeny. Testifying before the Ohio House(?) to a committee looking into 2004 election fraud.
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25 July 2006
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:23:00 GMT What's so funny anyway?Kjell Olsen2023 days agoThe post-modern ability the culture at large has adopted which has us giggling over abuses of power, sniggering at lies, whooping at war, and chortling at all the terrifying evidence of a country coming apart at the seems strikes me as irresponsible somehow.
I’ve already bought my pitchfork and set alight my torch. (Actually, what I mean is that I bitch alot on this website. And really all I do is copy and paste stuff that parallels my feelings. What dissent.)
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16 June 2006
Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:49:00 GMT Semper Why?via Kjell Olsen2062 days agoThe Marines who did the killing at Haditha will no doubt be scapegoated—like Lynnde England, of Abu Ghraib—for an unjustifiable and unwinnable war, created by venal politicians. If we’re to punish anyone for Haditha, we should start with President Bush and the congressmen, including Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who sent Roel Briones and Kilo Company on a murder-suicide mission in which there can be no justice.
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15 June 2006
Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:56:00 GMT Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monumentvia Kjell Olsen2063 days agoI actually think this is the first thing bush has done that I can agree with. (How many months until the next election?)
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09 June 2006
Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:15:00 GMTI do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don’t feel I owe anybody an explanation.
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08 June 2006
Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:09:30 GMT On Simple Human Decency (Harpers.org)via Kjell Olsen2070 days agoI hardly mean to imply that George W. Bush is a delusional party hack whose aim is to rob and mislead us for the benefit of his friends. That idea deserves to be stated outright: George W. Bush is a delusional party hack whose aim is to rob and mislead us for the benefit of his friends.
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01 June 2006
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:56:42 GMT Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?via Kjell Olsen2077 days agoNot that I didn’t already know. But hey, if Rolling Stone is saying it…
We’ve got a media that uses its bullhorn in reverse—to turn down the volume on this outrage rather than turning it up. That’s why our citizens are not up in arms. Rep. John Conyers
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13 May 2006
Sat, 13 May 2006 22:23:54 GMT WarKjell Olsen2095 days agoMen who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back. Howard Zinn, before we went into Iraq
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10 May 2006
Wed, 10 May 2006 19:56:00 GMT More Hot Air Over the Arcticvia Kjell Olsen2099 days agoForget about Seals and Polar Bears. Even without taking the environment into account, drilling ANWR doesn’t make ONE OUNCE OF FUCKING SENSE. (à moins que vous êtes Halliburton, mais tant pis).
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06 May 2006
Sat, 06 May 2006 07:56:00 GMT Bush likens 'war on terror' to WWIII.via Kjell Olsen2103 days ago -
01 May 2006
Mon, 01 May 2006 15:29:00 GMT Loyalty Day, 2006via Kjell Olsen2108 days agoWTF? I thought there we already had a May 1st holiday...
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Mon, 01 May 2006 11:03:17 GMT
Colbert Rips the President a New Onevia Kjell Olsen2108 days ago
The President was upset? Good. I hope the President was sleepless with rage. At least then he’d know how most of us have been spending every night for the last three years.
I think the whole thing is a little overblown. Colbert didn’t even accuse the president of killing thousands. But better than nothing I guess.
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28 April 2006
Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:19:00 GMT The Conyers Report: What Went Wrong in Ohiovia Kjell Olsen2111 days agoBush stole the election(s), I wish I could say people are starting to realize it. The 1+ year old Conyers report (dated 05 January 2005), detailing all of the electoral transgressions that took place in Ohio last election.
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23 April 2006
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:10:00 GMT Bush Impeachmentvia Kjell Olsen2116 days agoSomebody found a trick in the House rules that will let a state legislature introduce presidential impeachment proceedings. And Illinois is going for it.
Should HJR0125 be passed by the Illinois General Assembly, the US House will be forced by House Rules to take up the issue of impeachment as a privileged bill, meaning it will take precedence over other House business.
Sounds like fun. (California and Maine look to jump on the bandwagon.)
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07 April 2006
Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:52:00 GMT EFF: Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&Tvia Kjell Olsen2132 days agoAT&T indeed has been passing phone conversations through the NSA for the purpose of spying. Huh.
the NSA uses powerful computers to “data-mine” the contents of these Internet and telephone communications for suspicious names, numbers, and words, and to analyze traffic data indicating who is calling and emailing whom in order to identify persons who may be “linked” to “suspicious activities,” suspected terrorists or other investigatory targets, whether directly or indirectly.
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06 April 2006
Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:16:36 GMT Libby Claimed Bush Authorized Plamegate Leakvia Kjell Olsen2133 days agoMaybe fitzmas is just coming a year late.
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27 February 2006
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:28:15 GMT The Case for ImpeachmentKjell Olsen2171 days agoBefore reading the report, I wouldn’t have expected to find myself thinking that such a course of action was either likely or possible; after reading the report, I don’t know why we would run the risk of not impeaching the man. We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country’s good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world’s evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation’s wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal
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26 February 2006
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:05:05 GMT Bush's Mysterious "New Programs"via Kjell Olsen2172 days agoGiven Bush
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12 February 2006
Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:29:56 GMT Do Bush followers have a political ideology?via Kjell Olsen2186 days agoNow, in order to be considered a “liberal,” only one thing is required
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07 February 2006
Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:28:00 GMT Let's talk about debt.via Kjell Olsen2191 days agoFiscal year 07: defense spending +7% (It’s already eating 55% of your tax dollars). National debt: +45% since monsieur bush weaseled his way into washington. My faith in our gov’t? minus way to fucking much.
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Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:16:00 GMT
I’d like to be able to explain to my wife how we can buy a brand new MacBook Pro while saving money, but either I’m not as smart as George W. Bush or she is much, much cleverer and less credulous than Republicans.
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05 February 2006
Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:55:00 GMT Seeing Only Evilvia Kjell Olsen2192 days agoSobering interview with an ex-cia expert on the middle east. We’re fucked.
The irony is, we’re dumping billions and billions of dollars every time we go to the gas pump into a jihad against us in Iraq that’s killing American soldiers. I’ve read, “One kid is dying in Iraq so the father of the kid next door can drive his Hummer.” And what’s more, the money’s coming from Japan and China, and in a certain sense from the Middle East, and then it’s filtering back. Blackwater, SAIC, Custer Battle
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01 February 2006
Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:25:06 GMT Administration backs off Bush's vow to reduce Mideast oil importsvia Kjell Olsen2196 days agoWASHINGTON – One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America’s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn’t mean it literally.
I can just see the Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal: WHAT DID THAT FRIGGING IDIOT SAY??? And oh, yeah, the white house has been destroying emails likely related to the Plame affair.
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:02:05 GMT
Analysis: State of the Unionvia Kjell Olsen2197 days ago
When you read the small print, all the promises Bush has ever made have been empty.
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31 January 2006
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:31:21 GMT Sheehan arrested in House galleryvia Kjell Olsen2197 days agoSo my idea about tshirts might not have been so naive after all. It was, in fact, seditious enough to get Cindy Sheehan arrested on her way in to watch Bush’s speech.
I knew this whole free speech thing was too good to last.
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Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:32:00 GMT
Just great
I watched the State of the Union address in it’s entirety once, the january before we invaded Iraq. Holy shit. What wasn’t a lie was a false promise. I was pretty pissed after the third time in one minute that everyone stood up and clapped for 20 seconds straight.
Being a bit jaded, I’m not going to watch the state of the union tonight. I’m guessing all the best and most embarrassing bits will filter out through the blogosphere soon enough, and I’ll get my share of partisan liberal discourse.
But pausing iTunes for a second, I heard Bush making tribute to Coretta Scott King, a woman who falls so far above Bush on the scale of worthiness it’s embarrassing that he would even use her name to further the act of spitting his vitriol.
King should be well tributed. But by Bush? I’m the devil praising an angel, spewing mud in her face by just mentioning her.
20 seconds later? 9/11. Danger. Death. Terrorism. Fear. Bin Laden. Hussein. Die. Bomb. Attack. Security. War. Applause. Back comes iTunes.
But hey, at least we have racial equality.
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30 January 2006
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:31:00 GMT Why "No Child Left Behind" Does Not Work for our Schoolsvia Kjell Olsen2199 days agoWhat is going on in today’s public classroom is this: the opportunity for teachers to open children’s minds and create lifelong thinking skills is being systematically and surgically removed by educational bureaucrats, politicians and administrators under the reform banner of “No Child Left Behind”.
I was a sophomore when NCLB took effect, and my high school didn’t have anywhere to go but down. As an upperclassmen, I was past the basics courses in which 45 kids would get thrown into a room with one teacher (a lab science course!). I in fact managed 4 quite pleasant years. But anyone could tell that things were deteriorating fast.
Children need more than basic skills. They need the chance to become motivated learners. They need the chance to be nurtured, to be loved. Education is not a business, a computer game, or a military operation. But to NCLB advocates, with their power-point presentations and their charts and spit-shined loafers and double-breasted suits, it is all this and more.
Intangibles are all I’ve ever taken from school. I took calculus my junior year, passed the AP exam, and can’t remember which one is an integral and which a derivative. I’ve gone to public school all my life, and been quite impressed at the caliber of my teachers. Most of them had a quite significant impact on me.
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25 January 2006
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:30:00 GMTSix Letter Word
Shalt thou not kill? And while we’re at it…
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Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:37:53 GMT
Saddam Hussein is a Tyrant and a Threat to Democracy and Deserves Removal from the Presidency for His Litany of Unjust and Barbaric Crimesvia Kjell Olsen2204 days ago
Saddam Hussein’s intolerable use of weapons of mass destruction against enemies; unprecedented aggression against and occupation of a country which posed no threat to his own; routine kidnapping, torture, murder and secret prison system; wholesale slaughter of citizens from other countries; imprisonment of political rivals held for years without charges; and secret spying on his very own countrymen without court order or legislative approval, demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that this so-called “President” was a dangerous rogue, a tyrant, and a grave threat—of the highest order—to worldwide peace, stability and democracy.
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24 January 2006
Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:12:29 GMT Movement to impeach George W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediavia Kjell Olsen2205 days agoC’mon, please?
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23 January 2006
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:37:00 GMT Democrats: Get Up and Walk Outvia Kjell Olsen2205 days agoI can’t decide wether this is just kneejerk or brilliant. All the democrats get up at the same point in time and walk out of Bush’s State of the Union address.
If I were them, I’d print a set of disparaging t-shirts. They’d stand up and remove their suit-jackets at a given point, remain standing the duration of the address wearing the shirts. They wouldn’t once clap. They wouldn’t jeer. They wouldn’t smile. They’d sit for the first half hour, stand the rest, none of this up and down and clapping every two minutes. It would be best if they could scatter themselves, but I’m betting their seats are in a block. They could give the shirts out to audience members, to join in from the stands.
I can even offer a bit of text for your opening statement. “Three years ago during this very speech,” your leading spokesperson can say from those steps, “Mr. Bush told us that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons – which is one million pounds – of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 missiles to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, al Qaeda connections, and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program. He said all this three years ago, during this all-important annual address, and all of it was a lie. The American people deserve an explanation.”
But all that really shows is how naive I am. tshirts?
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22 January 2006
Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:44:00 GMT Daily Kos: National Sanctity of Human Life Dayvia Kjell Olsen2207 days agoAlthough it may only applies to innocent fetuses in the sanctum sanctorum, what a touching sentiment.
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16 January 2006
Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:24:03 GMT 'We the People' Must Save Our Constitutionvia Kjell Olsen2213 days agoAl Gore grows a pair. On how our government has failed us, and we have failed our government. Now we have some work to do.
An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution – an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the King from whom they had broken free. In the words of James Madison, “the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
If the President has the inherent authority to eavesdrop, imprison citizens on his own declaration, kidnap and torture, then what can’t he do?
The Dean of Yale Law School, Harold Koh, said after analyzing the Executive Branch’s claims of these previously unrecognized powers: “If the President has commander-in-chief power to commit torture, he has the power to commit genocide, to sanction slavery, to promote apartheid, to license summary execution.”As a result of its unprecedented claim of new unilateral power, the Executive Branch has now put our constitutional design at grave risk. The stakes for America’s representative democracy are far higher than has been generally recognized.
If this President’s attempt to dramatically expand executive power goes unquestioned, our constitutional design of checks and balances will be lost. And the next President or some future President will be able, in the name of national security, to restrict our liberties in a way the framers never would have thought possible.
The President’s judicial appointments are clearly designed to ensure that the courts will not serve as an effective check on executive power. As we have all learned, Judge Alito is a longtime supporter of a powerful executive – a supporter of the so-called unitary executive, which is more properly called the unilateral executive. Whether you support his confirmation or not – and I do not – we must all agree that he will not vote as an effective check on the expansion of executive power. Likewise, Chief Justice Roberts has made plain his deference to the expansion of executive power through his support of judicial deference to executive agency rulemaking.
In the United States Senate, which used to pride itself on being the “greatest deliberative body in the world,” meaningful debate is now a rarity. Even on the eve of the fateful vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq, Senator Robert Byrd famously asked: “Why is this chamber empty?”
The political economy supported by these short but expensive television ads is as different from the vibrant politics of America’s first century as those politics were different from the feudalism which thrived on the ignorance of the masses of people in the Dark Ages.
Fear drives out reason. Fear suppresses the politics of discourse and opens the door to the politics of destruction. Justice Brandeis once wrote: “Men feared witches and burnt women.”
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14 January 2006
Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:40:00 GMT The States Step In As Medicare Faltersvia Kjell Olsen2215 days agoCan the bush administration do anything without completely fucking it up? This is embarrassing.
“The first week was pure hell,” said Mike Souders, owner of Metropolis Drugs in southern Illinois. Computer systems crashed, phone lines were jammed, and there was no way for him to confirm that patients were covered.
The old and infirm are walking into the same pharmacies they’ve always walked into the get the same medications they’ve always gotten and being charged exorbitantly for it, all because Bush’s medicare legislation has been a complete fuckup. Maine has spent $3.6 million in the past two weeks to cover 68,000 individual prescriptions. Try multiplying that by 50.
Not only that, but when Bush passed the law in 2003, its stated cost was $534 billion over 10 years. All of the sudden it’s going to cost us $1.2 trillion.
All of the worst predictions came true. Robert M. Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center
Huh, sort of like with both that war somewhere over the rainbow and that Hurricane that hit the gulf coast. And then there was that whole Bin Laden determined to strike within the US thing.
How on earth are these
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13 January 2006
Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:03:00 GMT Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11via Kjell Olsen2216 days agoI can’t quite figure out why peoples heads aren’t popping off at this whole Bush being our president thing.
The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret executive order authorizing the NSA to monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have ties to terrorist groups.
The lying sacks of shit. After the whole wiretapping without warrants thing broke, Cheney said that if they could have just done it before 9/11, they’d have stopped it. Oh? You actually were doing it before 9/11 and just didn’t think you wanted to tell us? I call constitutional crisis.
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09 January 2006
Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:47:00 GMT Angry and Furious at the Collaborationist Democrats | The Huffington Postvia Kjell Olsen2220 days agoFor me, Paul Wellstone was the last bastion of decency in congress. I don’t know why, or how, but the Bushies have managed to turn washington into something very, very wrong. It might just be rancor, but I can’t think of one good thing that’s been accomplished the last five years. And surely whatever little good has been done was also grossly countered by all the shit that’s happened.
Politics in their current form need to get lost, completely and entirely. I’ve really lost all faith in our government.
In truth, Pelosi, Rockefeller, and the New York Times collaborated with Bush for four years to ignore the Constitution. No one did anything on behalf of the millions of Americans being surveyed. At the end of the day, no one tried to stop it or even examine it. That says a great deal about our politicians’ commitment to democracy and the Constitution.
Now I’m sure there are some perfectly decent democrats out there. I volunteered for the Mark Dayton campaign in 2000. He seemed a good guy. Sure, he’s rich as all hell (I think he spent 2 million on his campaign). But he hasn’t been able to get anything done in washington at all, and he’s frustrated and calling it quits after one term.
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07 January 2006
Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:47:25 GMT Scandal of force-fed prisonersvia Kjell Olsen2222 days agoWelcome to the gulag:
New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guant
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03 January 2006
Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:01:00 GMT What I heard about Iraq in 2005via Kjell Olsen2225 days agoThe state of american politics today is profoundly embarrassing. The situation in Iraq and it’s handling by the bush administration triply so. Holy shit.
I heard that this
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24 December 2005
Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:49:56 GMT Information Awareness Officevia Kjell Olsen2236 days agoThe government is running this office, with this in mind:
The IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralized location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) Internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver’s licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data. In essence, the IAO
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Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:27:00 GMT
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Reportvia Kjell Olsen2236 days ago
Bruce Schneier hit the nail on the head the other day, speculating that the Reason bush didn’t want to obtain warrants through FISA in his wiretapping is that the NSA is running a huge data analysis operation on phone calls and emails, tapping into central communication hubs.
So basically any call you make or email you send, depending on how it’s routed, goes through this system.
Why do it this way unless you’re purposefully attempting to avoid a papertrail? If who you are listening in on is clearly important to national security, than judicial oversight should be no obstacle at all. It’s only when the person you are listening in on is clearly NOT important to national security that avoiding judicial oversight becomes important. chakalakasp, on metafilter
Chances are nobody listens to it (unless you’re a terrorist). But the NSA knows whom is calling whom, and when and where they’re calling from. Try not to place any calls to Iraq or Afghanistan, for instance.
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22 December 2005
Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:28:00 GMT Live Vote: Should Bush be impeached?via Kjell Olsen2238 days ago85% say yes. It’s an internet poll, so I bet it’s a bit biased. But I think this thing is getting big. Critical mass?
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21 December 2005
Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:07:00 GMT Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fictionvia Kjell Olsen2238 days agoSo have they told us anything that wasn’t a lie? This is really disturbing.
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Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:23:08 GMT
Deserves Impeachmentvia Kjell Olsen2239 days ago
As political strategy and as public policy, the impeachment of Mr. Bush is an unappealing prospect. (Besides, if he could be thrown out somehow, who would want Dick Cheney to succeed him?) And yet, the actions and attitudes of this President raise the question of how else we can preserve the bedrock principles of a democratic republic.
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20 December 2005
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:54:00 GMT Censure motion introduced in House over Iraq, torturevia Kjell Olsen2240 days agoFormal congressional rebukes against Bush and Cheney have been put out by the House democrats over the handling of Iraq war intelligence, plamegate, and crime under international law.
The Select Committee seeks to subpoena the President and other members of the administration in hopes of ascertaining if impeachable offenses have been committed.
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Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:15:00 GMT
Alaska Action for ANWR - The Arctic National Wildlife Refugevia Kjell Olsen2240 days ago
The most money that drilling the Arctic Refuge would ever save American consumers is one penny per gallon, and that would be almost 20 years from now when oil production out of the Refuge would peak.
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19 December 2005
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:28:00 GMT Presidential Pipeline: Bush's top fund-raisers see spoils of victoryvia Kjell Olsen2241 days agoThose (548) who paid more then $100,000 to Bush’s reelection fund dictate his presidency. Doesn’t quite sound representative to me.
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Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:15:00 GMT
At 87, Wallace still tells it like it isvia Kjell Olsen2241 days ago
What Mike Wallace would ask Bush if he would consent to an interview:
What in the world prepared you to be the commander in chief of the largest superpower in the world? In your background, Mr. President, you apparently were incurious. You didn’t want to travel. You knew very little about the military… The governor of Texas doesn’t have the kind of power that some governors have… Why do you think they nominated you? ... Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the country is so fucked up?
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17 December 2005
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:30:00 GMTBush on the Fourth Amendment
Bush has authorized the NSA to spy on citizens without their knowledge.
I intend to do so for as long as our nation faces a continuing threat from al-Qaida and related groups. George Bush
I’m no lawyer, but here’s our 4th amendment right. Try to tell me Bush is still operating within the bounds of the constitution he swore to uphold.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. findlaw
Say hello to King George.
Both the Bush Administration
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16 December 2005
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:30:28 GMT After December 15, Iraq will be at mercy of US corporationsvia Kjell Olsen2244 days agoUS invasion serves to privatize Iraqi industry with American corporations.
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Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:14:29 GMT
Patriot provisions set to expirevia Kjell Olsen2244 days ago
Senate showed Bush who’s boss today. 52-47 against renewal.
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13 December 2005
Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:46:57 GMT Without a Doubtvia Kjell Olsen2246 days agoThis is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can’t be persuaded, that they’re extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he’s just like them… This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts. He truly believes he’s on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence. But you can’t run the world on faith. Buce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush
You can’t run the world on faith.
This is one key feature of the faith-based presidency: open dialogue, based on facts, is not seen as something of inherent value. It may, in fact, create doubt, which undercuts faith. It could result in a loss of confidence in the decision-maker and, just as important, by the decision-maker.
[Bush] had the confidence to ask questions that revealed he didn’t know very much. Richard Perle
No, Mr. President. We need your leadership on this question, and all of us will then commit to support you. Unless we drain the swamp of injustice in which the mosquitoes of terrorism breed, we’ll never defeat the threat of terrorism. Jim Wallis
We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do. A white house aide, to the author, on how the Bush administration works
Read this.
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Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:13:50 GMT
But We're Not Countingvia Kjell Olsen2247 days ago
The Pentagon has a no count policy, in which it doesn’t tally those killed in the wars it starts. The other day Bush estimated 30,000 dead. That’s the lowest number you’ll find out there – and it’s only counting civilian death. An Iraqi humanitarian organization puts the number at 128,000.
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12 December 2005
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:22:00 GMT 30,000 Iraqis Killed In Warvia Kjell Olsen2248 days agoAnd the number coming from Bush himself, I wouldn’t think it anything but conservative.
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Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:18:00 GMT
Khaled El-Masrivia Kjell Olsen2248 days ago
US captures German Citizen while vacationing, discovers he is innocent, holds him in Afghanistan for 2 months anyway, proceed to drop him in an Albanian forest.
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09 December 2005
Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:09:00 GMT Bush on the Constitution:via Kjell Olsen2251 days agoStop throwing the Constitution in my face. It
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08 December 2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:46:38 GMT Alito's Americavia Kjell Olsen2252 days agoDon’t let it happen.
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05 December 2005
Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:49:00 GMT Hearts and Brainsvia Kjell Olsen2255 days agoAmerican Military looting organs from wounded Iraqis? I sure fucking hope not.
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Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:06:00 GMT
The Bush Administration: Worse Than You Imagine Possible...via Kjell Olsen2255 days ago
You can’t imagine how completely and utterly despicable.
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Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:44:46 GMT
Republicans cheated in the 2004 electionvia Kjell Olsen2255 days ago
the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
It’s stunning, but it seems that the result of both the 2000 and the 2004 presidential elections were illegitimate. George Bush should never have made it into the White House.
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04 December 2005
Sun, 04 Dec 2005 14:15:34 GMT IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT -- EVER?via Kjell Olsen2256 days agoNO doubt.
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02 December 2005
Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:29:00 GMT Judgment at Nuremberg Part IIIKjell Olsen2258 days agoThen, on March 16th, Bush and Blair gave Saddam Hussein 24 hours to disarm. And to leave Iraq.
The next day the inspectors were withdrawn. Three days after that, the war began.
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30 November 2005
Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:59:37 GMT the Grave Threat of the Bush Administrationvia Kjell Olsen2260 days agoThe war, in other words, no longer serves the Republicans’ political interest and must be got rid of. So much for “staying the course.”
The Bush administration’s hype about terrorism serves no purpose other than to build a police state that is far more dangerous to Americans than terrorists.
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27 November 2005
Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:43:06 GMT Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corruptvia Kjell Olsen2263 days agoThe more we learn about the road to Iraq, the more we realize that it’s a losing game to ask what lies the White House told along the way. A simpler question might be: What was not a lie? Frank Rich
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23 November 2005
Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:11:18 GMT Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panelvia Kjell Olsen2267 days agoWhat the President was told on September 21, was consistent with everything he has been told since-that the evidence was just not there. one former high-level official
He was told that there was absolutely no connection between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. What?
You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. Bush, 9/25/2002
Are these fuckers in jail yet?
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18 November 2005
Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:50:23 GMT Tortured men look like 'Holocaust victims'via Kjell Olsen2272 days agoWitnesses said many of the 169 men and youths were emaciated and looked like “Holocaust survivors”. Some had suffered beatings so severe that their skin had peeled off, and three men had been kept locked in a cupboard where they could not move. All the others were packed, blindfolded, into three rooms nine feet long and 11 feet wide. Kim Sengupta
America – Holocausting terrorists.
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Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:13:00 GMT
House passes sweeping budget-cut billvia Kjell Olsen2272 days ago
The broader budget bill would slice almost $50 billion from the deficit by the end of the decade by curbing rapidly growing benefit programs such as Medicaid, food stamps and student loan subsidies. Republicans said reining in such programs whose costs spiral upward each year automatically is the first step to restoring fiscal discipline.
If I ever get into dollar problems, the first thing I’ll stop buying is food. And health care. Then learning. Goodbye america, you once were a great place.
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17 November 2005
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:55:44 GMT It's Fighting Wordsvia Kjell Olsen2273 days agoThey call it flip-flopping, but how about owning up to your mistakes. How about changing course when you’ve been proven wrong? There is nothing honorable about defending a bad decision. The GOP point to how the senators and congressmen believed, as the administration did, that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But that intelligence came from the executive branch and when the intelligence is wrong the executive branch is responsible for it. Stephen Elliott
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16 November 2005
Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:43:27 GMT Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hackedvia Kjell Olsen2274 days agoIn Dixie County, with 9,676 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.
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Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:40:00 GMT
The biggest story of our livesvia Kjell Olsen2274 days ago
And he most certainly was [Kerry, winning], at least if the votes had been fairly and legally counted. What happened instead was the biggest crime in the history of the nation, and the collective media silence which has followed is the greatest fourth-estate failure ever on our soil.
The silence of traditional media on this subject is enough to establish their newfound bankruptcy. The revolution will have to start here.
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15 November 2005
Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:48:47 GMT I Was Wrong, but So Were You - Parsing Bush's new mantra.via Kjell Olsen2275 days agoBush admits he might have been wrong, but is still lying to us.
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Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:44:31 GMT
Lewis Lapham to Become Editor Emeritus of Harper's Magazinevia Kjell Olsen2275 days ago
I’ve arrived at the point where I would prefer to read Machiavelli than listen to Karl Rove. Lewis Lapham
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14 November 2005
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:20:17 GMT Out of Mindvia Kjell Olsen2276 days agoTestimony of the torture used by American forces.
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Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:12:13 GMT
White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies'via Kjell Olsen2276 days ago
White House insiders tell disturbing tales of invasion of privacy, abuse of government power and use of expanded authority under the USA Patriot Act to dig into the personal lives of anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state.
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11 November 2005
Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:25:15 GMT ... And why it should never be one - Los Angeles Timesvia Kjell Olsen2279 days agoWhat real CIA field officers know firsthand is that it is better to build a relationship of trust
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Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:38:00 GMT
DrugReporter: Bush and Blowvia Kjell Olsen2279 days ago
The reason corporate America backed Bush Sr. is because “he’ll do whatever the big boys want. And so will his son.”
When asked about censorship, Bush replied that there “ought to be limits to freedom” when it comes to criticizing him personally.
You get close to, and turn up something bad on Karl Rove, that will get you killed right there. Mr. Fly, an unnamed source
Bush is a lying disgusting criminal fuckwit scumbag.
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10 November 2005
Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:59:00 GMT Bush Administration Breaks Recordvia Kjell Olsen2280 days agoBush Administration Borrows more from Foreign Nations than Previous 42 Presidents Combined
You think this is a joke? It isn’t.
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08 November 2005
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:55:56 GMT US Politics - Creepyvia Kjell Olsen2281 days agoI read a lot of news, and it makes me wonder whether the faction currently governing America is heavily populated with greedy vicious lying thieving sanctimonious underhanded heartless venial creeps. That is what the evidence suggests. But like I said, you wouldn
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07 November 2005
Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:26:56 GMT The Daily Whim: We Do Not Torture, We Exemptvia Kjell Olsen2283 days agoSo there you have it. This administration does not feel compelled to answer to Congress and allow them to
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Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:48:00 GMT
If He Lied, He Must be Tried - A Majority Now Favors Impeachmentvia Kjell Olsen2283 days ago
John Zogby confesses to having been “surprised” at the latest result, calling the 19 percent shift in favor of impeachment over four months’ time “remarkable” and “much higher than I expected.”
Well, he sure fucking lied.
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Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:54:15 GMT
Impeach BushKjell Olsen2283 days ago
If there was ever a time in history to impeach a President of the United States, it would be now. Barbra Streisand
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06 November 2005
Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:05:00 GMT Kerry Suspects 2004 Vote Fraudvia Kjell Olsen2284 days agoI could have told you this a goddamn year ago. I just pray to god America won’t have to go through three more years of Bush – god knows what kind of shithole we could be by then.
My Election 2004 posts.
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04 November 2005
Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:22:26 GMT GOP blocks inquiry into Bush's handling of war / Pelosi, Dems lose appeal vote after out-of-order rulingvia Kjell Olsen2286 days agoFuckers.
I think it brings shame to this House to be engaged in a coverup when it comes to revealing what’s happening in Iraq. Nancy Pelosi
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03 November 2005
Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:04:09 GMT Crib Sheet: Alito the Right-Wing Activistvia Kjell Olsen2287 days agoWhy Alito shouldn’t be confirmed.
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02 November 2005
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:40:50 GMT Alito's Ratings Similar to Miers', Lower Than Roberts'via Kjell Olsen2288 days agoI wonder what the chances of holding bush from successfully nominating a second justice to scotus before his term ends? He sure has been picking assholes lately.
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29 October 2005
Sat, 29 Oct 2005 10:33:06 GMT Forgeries, Lies and Cover-ups The Scandal isn't the Leak, But the Illegal Warvia Kjell Olsen2292 days agoThe crime to name a covert CIA official pales in comparison with conspiring to lead the nation to war under false pretenses.
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28 October 2005
Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:13:00 GMT Top Cheney aide Libby indicted - Leak Investigation - MSNBC.comvia Kjell Olsen2293 days agoProsecutors said that Libby, if found guilty on all charges, faces a maxium sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1.25 million fine.
No Rove? And when does this come back to bite bush and cheney? I hate to think I’m jaded. But if Clinton can just about get sacked for having an extramarital affair and the current administration tricks us into a large scale land war on the other side of the world without consequences? What the fuck?
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Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:07:27 GMT
The White House under siegevia Kjell Olsen2293 days ago
If Mr Rove goes, Mr Bush will have lost his sheepdog just as his flock is starting to jump the fences.
Good riddance.
Ordinary Republican voters feel no great horror about future deficits or the process by which decisions about national security are made. But they may grow more restless if evangelical preachers take against Mr Bush
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27 October 2005
Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:20:36 GMT Exxon Mobil posts largest quarterly profit evervia Kjell Olsen2294 days agoOil companies earn windfall profit, thanks to bush.
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Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:09:15 GMT
Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findingsvia Kjell Olsen2294 days ago
In essence, the GAO study makes it clear that no bank, grocery store or mom & pop chop shop would dare operate its business on a computer system as flimsy, fragile and easily manipulated as the one on which the 2004 election turned.
The exit polls showed Kerry winning in Ohio, until an unexplained last minute shift gave the election to Bush. Similar definitive shifts also occurred in Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico, a virtual statistical impossibility.
Now that proof of a stolen election is coming from the white house itself, what will it take to throw bush out?
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26 October 2005
Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:03:17 GMT Fitzgerald Must Broaden Investigationvia Kjell Olsen2295 days agoWe are no longer just talking about a Republican culture of corruption and cronyism. We now have reason to believe that high crimes may have been committed at the highest level, wrongdoing that may have led us to war and imperiled our national security. Congressman Jerry Nadler
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22 October 2005
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:15:46 GMT Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troopsvia Kjell Olsen2299 days agoThe bush administration has fucked Iraq up so bad that 82% of Iraqi’s are opposed to the presence of coalition troops, and less then 1% believe that anything we’ve done has improved the security of Iraq. Additionally,
71 per cent of people rarely get safe clean water, 47 per cent never have enough electricity, 70 per cent say their sewerage system rarely works and 40 per cent of southern Iraqis are unemployed.
The real kick in the balls comes when we figure out that if we do leave, things will get ten times worse.
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Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:57:18 GMT
Corrupt, Incompetent and 'Off Center'via Kjell Olsen2299 days ago
The republicans, that is.
Hacker and Pierson shine a light on the methods employed by the governing right-wing clique to maintain and expand their power without paying the price for their unpopular policies and base-focused system of rewards. Examining the 2001 tax cuts, the Bush energy plan, the Medicare drug bill and the deregulation of almost every industry that has a lobbying team and campaign-contribution budget, they expose tactics like “tailored disinformation,” designed to confuse a poorly informed public; Mafia-like manipulation of the levers of power in the House, Senate and White House that not only defenestrates the Democratic opposition but cuts off their sources of financial support; and a network of “New Power Brokers,” like the aforementioned DeLay, Grover Norquist and countless think tanks, media moguls, funders and lobbyists who work together to game the system at a level that is either too complicated or too boring to attract intelligent scrutiny.
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Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:57:21 GMT
The National Parks Under Siegevia Kjell Olsen2299 days ago
This new policy document … would eliminate the requirement that only motorized equipment with the least impact should be used in national parks. It would lower air-quality standards and strip away language about preserving the parks’ natural soundscape – language that currently makes it hard, for instance, to justify allowing snowmobiles into Yellowstone. It would also refer park superintendents to other management documents that have been revised to weaken fundamental standards and protections for the parks.
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21 October 2005
Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:25:00 GMT Fitzgerald's Historic Opportunityvia Kjell Olsen2300 days agoCould fizmas really be coming?
Fitzgerald did not earn his reputation as an Irish alligator by going after the little guy. Presumably, he is trying to find evidence that Karl Rove launched a covert operation to create the forged documents and then conspired to out Valerie Plame when he learned the fraud was being uncovered by Plame
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18 October 2005
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:46:58 GMT The Normalization of Treason, the Republicans' gift to Americavia Kjell Olsen2303 days agoThe Republican party’s gift to the American people, and the Bush administration’s legacy, will be the normalization of treason. They are trying to convince Americans that betraying our country during wartime for personal gain is no more serious than running a stop sign or going 60 in a 55 zone.
I can’t believe the change in politics since bush got elected. In 2000 I was in eighth grade, and took a politics class. I volunteered for both Gore and Mark Dayton (running for the only open MN Senate seat, still serving).
I remember staying up late watching the election coverage and going to bed completely and utterly stunned.
I’ve always gone to public schools within Minneapolis, and I remember in that 8th grade class of twenty or thirty, just one girl pledged republican. In my high school the only known republicans ware that same girl, and the health teacher.
I’ve never understood how bush managed to get elected. But holy shit, he is sure fucking things up. I still can’t understand how people can put up with all the stuff he has done and is doing. I’ve stopped capitalizing his name, not to mention losing any shred of respect I ever had for him.
(Yet all I do about it is show up at a student democrats meeting and flame about it?)
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12 October 2005
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:09:34 GMT Bush approval dips below 40 percent - Politics - MSNBC.comvia Kjell Olsen2309 days ago39% approve, less then 30% believe the country is heading in the right direction.
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07 October 2005
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:42:00 GMT Bush's Class-War BudgetKjell Olsen2314 days agoIt may sound shrill to describe President Bush as someone who takes food from the mouths of babes and gives the proceeds to his millionaire friends. Yet his latest budget proposal is top-down class warfare in action. And it offers the Democrats an opportunity, if they’re willing to take it.
Here’s a comparison: the Bush budget proposal would cut domestic discretionary spending, adjusted for inflation, by 16 percent over the next five years. That would mean savage cuts in education, health care, veterans’ benefits and environmental protection. Yet these cuts would save only about $66 billion per year, about one-sixth of the budget deficit.
On the other side, a rollback of Mr. Bush’s cuts in tax rates for high-income brackets, on capital gains and on dividend income would yield more than $120 billion per year in extra revenue—eliminating almost a third of the budget deficit—yet have hardly any effect on middle-income families. (Estimates from the Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution show that such a rollback would cost families with incomes between $25,000 and $80,000 an average of $156.)
Why, then, shouldn’t a rollback of high-end tax cuts be on the table?Because bush is just a stupid fuck?
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Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:31:00 GMT
Right-Wing House Twists Arms, Thwarts Democracy To Pass Oil Industy Windfallvia Kjell Olsen2314 days ago
Shame, shame, shame. Chanted by senators in opposition to today’s Gasoline for America’s Security Act.
But the bill is essentially a giveback to the oil industry
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Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:57:20 GMT
AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Making a Mockery of ConservationKjell Olsen2314 days ago
The real target of the refinery bill is the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review (NSR). The NSR program requires owners of aging power plants and industrial facilities to modernize pollution controls whenever they expand their facilities and increase emissions. But the refinery bill doesn’t just exempt refineries from New Source Review requirements. It exempts ALL energy industry facilities—approximately 20,000 large industrial facilities and power plants across the country—not just on the Gulf Coast.
And next up: drilling ANWR. Fuck.
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Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:55:14 GMT
McCain passes amendment to end torture of detainees; Bush threatens veto || kuro5hin.orgvia Kjell Olsen2314 days ago
If you can tell me one good thing bush has done in the last five years, I’ll give you a cookie. He is a complete fuckwit.
Yesterday evening, John McCain passed an amendment to the next military appropriations bill which if followed would end such practices by simply requiring the treatment of detainees to be held to the standards in the Army field manual. Bush claims he’s going to veto it. This would mean the first, and so far only, veto of Bush’s entire presidency would be performed in support of torture.
The debate over the U.S. policy on interrogation is made extremely difficult by the aforementioned fact that nobody seems to know what the U.S. policy is.
Bush is, in fact, the first president since James A. Garfield not to veto anything, and Garfield spent over three years of his one term in office dead.
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06 October 2005
Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:07:12 GMT BBC - Press Office - George Bush on Elusive Peacevia Kjell Olsen2315 days agoI’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, “George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.” And I did, and then God would tell me, “George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq
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05 October 2005
Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:47:37 GMT Can This Nomination Be Justified?via Kjell Olsen2316 days agoFucking shit no.
In addition, the president has forfeited his right to be trusted as a custodian of the Constitution.
I’d go as far as to say his right to be trusted at absolutely anything. An utterly complete failure.
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03 October 2005
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:08:33 GMT JUST DELETED FROM DAVID FRUM'S BLOGvia Kjell Olsen2318 days agoShe rose to her present position by her absolute devotion to George Bush. I mentioned last week that she told me that the president was the most brilliant man she had ever met. To flatter on such a scale a person must either be an unscrupulous dissembler, which Miers most certainly is not, or a natural follower. And natural followers do not belong on the Supreme Court of the United States. David Frum
Sounds to me like a conflict of interest.
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02 October 2005
Sun, 02 Oct 2005 23:25:00 GMT Crooks and Liarsvia Kjell Olsen2318 days ago...a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions. George Stephanopoulos
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01 October 2005
Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:58:00 GMT Audit Assails the White House for Public Relations Spending - New York Timesvia Kjell Olsen2320 days agoBush is now officially a criminal, when will he do his time?
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29 September 2005
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:13:00 GMT Our Parks in Peril (By Jim Motavalli)via Kjell Olsen2322 days agoThe legislation supported by the bush administration is absolutely absurd.
Section 6306 requires NPS to sell for private use any park that receives less than 10,000 visitors per day. Most of the 15 parks that meet that designation are in Alaska, and all are national treasures.
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Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:35:55 GMT
Judge orders release of Abu Ghraib photosvia Kjell Olsen2322 days ago
My task is not to defer to our worst fears, but to interpret and apply the law, in this case, the Freedom of Information Act, which advances values important to our society, transparency and accountability in government. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein
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26 September 2005
Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:51:56 GMT interdictor: Please Don't Tell Me That FEMA Pays $500 Per Hammer!Kjell Olsen2325 days agoOur government is completely and utterly retarded.
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18 September 2005
Sun, 18 Sep 2005 20:32:50 GMT A Letter to All Who Voted for George W. Bush from Michael Moorevia Kjell Olsen2333 days agoMy Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of the world?
Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can’t string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can’t pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever.
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17 September 2005
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:39:00 GMT Hijacking Catastrophevia Kjell Olsen2334 days agoTeriffic look at how neocons have taken their agenda to the highest level of american government.
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Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:36:01 GMT
Failurevia Kjell Olsen2334 days ago
I had to get in on the act myself.
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16 September 2005
Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:34:00 GMT Googlevia Kjell Olsen2335 days agoType failure. Press I’m Feeling Lucky. Realize that the world becoming a better place. (If it were me, bush would come up with the term cocksucker).
Google posted a nice response, acknowledging that google hasn’t done a thing – people just really don’t like george bush.
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14 September 2005
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:32:00 GMT U.N. World Summit on Yahoo! News Photosvia Kjell Olsen2337 days agoU.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting.
The note:
I think I may need a bathroom break?
Do you really need permission?
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11 September 2005
Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:35:00 GMT Taking Stock of the Forever Warvia Kjell Olsen2340 days agoThis, and the sheer number and breadth of terrorist attacks, suggest strongly that Al Qaeda has now become Al Qaedaism – that under the American and allied assault, what had been a relatively small, conspiratorial organization has mutated into a worldwide political movement, with thousands of followers eager to adopt its methods and advance its aims. Call it viral Al Qaeda, carried by strongly motivated next-generation followers who download from the Internet’s virtual training camp a perfectly adequate trade-craft in terror. 1
Four years after we watched the towers fall, Americans have not succeeded in “ridding the world of evil.” We have managed to show ourselves, our friends and most of all our enemies the limits of American power. 2
In a letter to bin Laden that was intercepted by American forces in January 2004, Zarqawi asked: “When the Americans disappear. . .what will become of our situation?” 9
Now, day by day, the illusion is slipping away, and with it what authority the Americans had in Iraq. What is coming to take its place looks increasingly like a failed state. 10
He [Bin Laden] had struck at the American will, and his strategy, which relied in effect on the persistent reluctance of American leaders to speak frankly to their people about the costs and burdens of war and to expend the political capital that such frank talk would require, had proved largely correct. 13
In this new world, where what is necessary to go on the attack is not armies or training or even technology but desire and political will, we have ensured, by the way we have fought this forever war, that it is precisely these qualities our enemies have in large and growing supply. 14
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09 September 2005
Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:03:00 GMT None Dare Call It Stolen (Harpers.org)via Kjell Olsen2342 days agoThis democracy can survive a plot to hijack an election. What it cannot survive is our indifference to, or unawareness of, the evidence that such a plot has succeeded.
Preserving Democracy describes three phases of Republican chicanery: the run-up to the election, the election itself, and the post-election cover-up. The wrongs exposed are not mere dirty tricks (though Bush/Cheney also went in heavily for those) but specific violations of the U.S. and Ohio constitutions, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Help America Vote Act. Although Conyers trod carefully when the report came out, insisting that the crimes did not affect the outcome of the race (a point he had to make, he told me,
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06 September 2005
Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:18:16 GMT War on the Poor in New Orleans 2: The Attempt to Declare Martial Lawvia Kjell Olsen2345 days agoDid Bush withhold federal aid to NOLA in an effort to seize control of it himself? By declaring federal marshal law, the feds would be able to build NOLA back in their image, with their chosen contractors. Obtuse amounts of money could be shelled out to Halliburton.
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Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:35:40 GMT
Destroying the National Parksvia Kjell Olsen2345 days ago
Bush is doing his best to fuck up America. His department of the interior is passing a draft of new legislation regulating our National parks, and it isn’t pretty.
Mr. Hoffman’s rewrite would open up nearly every park in the nation to off-road vehicles, snowmobiles and Jet Skis. According to his revision, the use of such vehicles would become one of the parks’ purposes. To accommodate such activities, he redefines impairment to mean an irreversible impact. To prove that an activity is impairing the parks, under Mr. Hoffman’s rules, you would have to prove that it is doing so irreversibly – a very high standard of proof. This would have a genuinely erosive effect on the standards used to protect the national parks.
Who the fuck voted for this piece of shit?
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05 September 2005
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:13:19 GMT BEHIND THE CURTAIN....via Kjell Olsen2346 days agoThe hallmarks of the Bush/Rove governing philosophy
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04 September 2005
Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:17:54 GMT Impeach Bush Now by Paul Craig Robertsvia Kjell Olsen2347 days agoThe raison d
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Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:17:53 GMT
Impeach Bush Now by Paul Craig Robertsvia Kjell Olsen2347 days ago
The raison d
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03 September 2005
Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:27:00 GMT The World Can't Wait! Drive out the Bush Regime. Mobilize for November 2, 2005!Kjell Olsen2347 days agoI’m sure tired of all this shit. Fliers.
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Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:26:39 GMT
Not In Our Name A STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE AGAINST WAR AND REPRESSIONKjell Olsen2347 days ago
Are you going to put up with this anymore?
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Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:07:53 GMT
Bush faked levee repair for photo opvia Kjell Olsen2348 days ago
This is getting to just be disgusting.
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Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:02:19 GMT
'My Pet Goat'--The Sequelvia Kjell Olsen2348 days ago
Not just incompetence by the Bush administration, but outright dereliction. Fuck you Bush.
Simply stated, the president and his top advisers chose vacation over action.
This is not mere incompetence, but dereliction of duty. The press should call it by its proper name.
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30 August 2005
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:54:00 GMT Attytood: When the levee breaksvia Kjell Olsen2352 days agoAlthough 2004 was the worst Hurricane season in the southeast US, Bush dramatically cut funding to local Hurricane protection authorities. Enter Katrina, and N.O. is 10 feet under and the water is still rising.
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08 July 2005
Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:22:00 GMT CNN.com - First Stop, Iraq - Mar. 24, 2003via Kjell Olsen2404 days agoFuck Saddam. we’re taking him out. George Bush, spring 2002
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17 June 2005
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:32:00 GMT UPI Hears... - (United Press International)via Kjell Olsen2426 days agoFringe ideas like this always get me going. I can’t believe them, but if they were actually true they would end up being so spectacular that I can’t stop thinking about their repercussions.
Reynolds commented from his Texas A&M office, “It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government’s collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings.”
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21 April 2005
Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:59:00 GMT FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders - Friends ofLiberty (undated) 3sep04via Kjell Olsen2483 days agoAll the power in the hands of the government is starting to bother me, with their wingnutty ways and the republican tendency to stand behind anything Bush says, but putting an unbelievable amount of power into the hands of Bush himself, without the checking and balancing of congress and the judiciary? That can’t be a good thing.
Hope it’s a fake like some of the folks at metafilter say (see the via link). But ohhhh.
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20 April 2005
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:29:52 GMT The New York Times > Education > Teachers' Union Sues Over No Child Left Behindvia Kjell Olsen2484 days agoSo if you hadn’t yet heard, Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act is a shitty law that does nothing but suck resources away from schools for creating and administering tests on a state level, and then pulling funding from “underperforming” schools. Between that and cuts in national and local government budgets for education, public schools are really eating shit right now.
I’ve missed out on most of the NCLB act, it’s really just starting to kick in now that I’m on my way out of High School, but my school has been tumbling a steep slope for the last few years. Budgets for things like the language department (my favorite) and the art department have been cut drastically, auxiliary district funds have been consolidated into the principal fund1. I can’t say that all this is due to the Bush’s educational platform, Minnesota’s governor is also a jackass poorly funding education, but it’s great that the NCLB act is starting to be contested.
Both the Utah bill, which requires educators there to spend as little state money as possible in carrying out the law’s requirements, and the teachers’ union lawsuit filed today, rest heavily on the same section of the federal law, which forbids federal officials from requiring states to spend their own money on the law.
I sure hope this law gets taken down, in my experience it’s really helped to mess things up. I can’t say it’s just because of school funding, but in the last six years my experience in public schools has dramatically worsened, and something is really going wrong in one of the most important parts of America right now.
1 By thousands and thousands of dollars to just my high school, I can’t remember exactly, but all the teachers took the time the day after the 2004-2005 year budget came out last year to draw out financially what is happening, Language dept. had something like 1/4 of the funds from the district that they did before.
2 Which leaves individual departments within individual schools around the district with even less to buy supplies and pay teachers.
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28 March 2005
Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:24:46 GMT Jeremy Scahill: Sgrena Sets the Record Straightvia Kjell Olsen2507 days agoAccording to Klein, when Calipari was killed and Sgrena wounded, they were on a secured road that can only be accessed through the heavily-fortified Green Zone and is reserved exclusively for top foreign embassy and US officials. “It’s a completely separate road, actually a Saddam-era road, it would seem, that allowed his vehicles to pass directly from the airport to his palace,” says Klein. “And now that is the secured route between the U.S. military base at the airport and the U.S. controlled Green Zone and the U.S. embassy.”
“It was simply a tank parked on the side of the road that opened fire on them. There was no process of trying to stop the car, she said, or any signals. From her perspective, it was just opening fire by a tank.”
That could explain why the US military in Iraq has blocked the Italian government from inspecting the Italians’ vehicle, even though the car is the property of the Italian government which bought it from the rental agency after this incident. “I think they have something to hide if they won’t give the car over for inspection,” Sgrena told Klein. “It’s very strange. If there is nothing to hide, why not let Italian justice officials see the car?”
What is all this? Are we really this clueless in Iraq right now? Christ, I hope that Sgrena si somehow mistaken, that she is exaggerating out of shock, because otherwise we just can’t know whats going to happen next in Iraq.
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20 March 2005
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:07:06 GMT The Daily Whim: Get Your Own Personal BillKjell Olsen2515 days agoIs it just me, or has much of our congress, and even the rest of out federal government, en masse become raving lunatics? All this Terry Schiavo bull, Iraq war bull, Bush being re-elected bull, social security bull, and bush has only served two and a half months of his second term!
I ask, are there any limits to their power, or their perversion of priorities? If they will strip state’s rights on a 48 hour whim, what right will they strip next when it becomes inconvenient, or a good point for political triangulation?
“We should exhaust every avenue before we take a life of a human being,” House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said. “That’s the very least we can do for her.”
Do you think Delay would do the same for you? If it was to his political benefit, he sure would. Since he’s in the frying pan on multiple ethics charges, it behooves him to fire up his core base on his behalf, and this is a primo opportunity. Likewise, Congress has been unable to do the Big Things (a budget, SS reform, etc.), so this makes great news-inducing busy work. It’s important to look like you’re doing something, even if it’s only subpoenaing multi-millionaires on steroids and the comatose.So I’m going to have my own special session. It’s time to update your Living Will, people, and include a new clause: “My wishes, as expressed here, supersede any and all new laws or bills Congress or any other body may pass trying to save me. And any Congressperson who attempts to do so will be haunted mercilessly when I finally do go. Starting with Tom Delay, on general principles.”
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08 March 2005
Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:18:00 GMT votefraudvia Kjell Olsen2527 days agoA florida programmer who claims to have coded prototype voting software with secret built in vote altering functions (give the party of your choice 51%) comes out about it. But who believes what they hear on the internet? I sure hope I could believe this…
Did Bush win? Bush could not have won. Take Florida or Ohio. A switch of either would change the outcome. In reality Bush probably lost both.
What can we do about it? Not only has another election been stolen but our democracy is now gone. The machines decide, not the voters. First and foremost, we must insist that the machine be replaced by machines that can be verified vote for vote. Integrity of the vote is paramount to democracy. The breakdown of trust in the system will rob this country of any legitimacy. We must force out of office any Republicans that have been benefited by this betrayal.
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25 February 2005
Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:27:00 GMT The profits of freedom | MetaFiltervia Kjell Olsen2538 days agoUS to go after Iran now too?
This notion that the United States is going to attack Iran… is simply ridiculous. Now having said that, all options are on the table. George W. Bush, qtd on The Daily Show, Feb. 24, 2005
Ugh.
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09 February 2005
Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:14:43 GMT George W Bush and the 14 points of fascism - Project for the OLD American Centuryvia Kjell Olsen2554 days agoProof this guy is a jackass – why did we elect him again? I getting worried for my tired country.
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Wed, 09 Feb 2005 07:44:25 GMT
The New York Times > National > New White House Estimate Lifts Drug Benefit Cost to $720 Billionvia Kjell Olsen2554 days ago
720 billion is the new 400 billion, now that the Bush agency has come out at almost twice the proposed cost of the newly approved medicare program.
Mr. Emanuel said: “The new cost estimate destroys the credibility of the Bush administration. Officials were so far off in estimating the cost of the Medicare law. Why should we believe what they say about the financial problems of Social Security?”
Representative Pete Stark of California, the senior Democrat on the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, said: “I told you so. We can’t trust numbers provided by administration officials. They’ll say anything to get a bill passed. And if the new drug benefit costs more, the extra money goes to their friends in the pharmaceutical industry, not to senior citizens.”When will we learn, this guy just isn’t right for us?
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21 January 2005
Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:08:30 GMT centricle : photosvia Kjell Olsen2573 days agoPhotoblog of the inaguration yesterday.
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20 January 2005
Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:42:54 GMT dangerousmeta! » On this inauguration day,via Kjell Olsen2573 days agoExcellent quotes, telling Bush off in the worlds of famous politicians and people.
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:51:00 GMT
Inaguration Day and Rotten old Politics
I grew up spoiled, playing in my backyard with puppies, ponies, and a decent man acting president of the United States. What happened?
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11 January 2005
Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:12:00 GMT The New York Times > Opinion > For the Record on Social Securityvia Kjell Olsen2583 days agoNYT Op-ed: Bush is a jackass. Ok, but he’s is a lying son of a bitch, whatever you think of his ‘leadership abilities.’
In this and other ways, the administration is manipulating information – a tacit, yet devastating, acknowledgement, we believe, that an informed public would reject privatizing Social Security.
...under a privatized system, only drastic benefit cuts – not borrowing – would relieve Social Security’s financial problem.
Mr. Wehner wrote, “we will have borrowed trillions and will still confront more than $10 trillion in unfunded liabilities. This could easily cause an economic chain reaction: the markets go south, interest rates go up, and the economy stalls out.”
This is sick! And people voted for this guy! And that’s only the second paragraph.
That [Mr. Bush’s] thinking is wishful to the point of being magical.
It appears that the president and his aides are trying to sow ignorance to gain support for their flawed privatization agenda. Lawmakers, policy makers and the American people have to let the administration know that they know better.
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