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01 June 2006
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:56:42 GMT Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?via Kjell Olsen859 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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16 May 2006
Tue, 16 May 2006 23:02:00 GMTIf granted probation, I plan to continue to mow yards during the summer and fall, and, whenever I am able, to pick up cans. I will continue to live with my wonderful wife whom I been married to for twenty-nine blessed years. I will slowly learn how to read and write the best way I can. I will spend time at home with my wife, looking at TV, and sitting outside together. Mainly the only activities I have are mowing yards, running people around, looking at TV, and sitting in the yard with my wife in the cool of the evening.
74 year old man convicted for selling crack. He couldn’t make ends meet because in retirement he got $600 a month and needed to spend $350 of it on the treatment of his wife’s cancer. He was let off, this is from his confession.
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Tue, 16 May 2006 20:14:00 GMT
Spinning the tiresvia Kjell Olsen875 days ago
Sources within the gov’t leak to reporters that the gov’t is breaking the law. The gov’t is mad. The gov’t claims not to be breaking the law. The gov’t refuses to allow any investigation of said law-breaking. The gov’t breaks the same law in the same way to discover which of it’s members originally leaked that the gov’t was breaking the law.
More sources leak to more reporters that the gov’t is more and more egregiously breaking the law, fostering more and more illegal activity, and thusly more egregious leaking of it’s illegal activities. Is anybody else’s head spinning yet? FBI Acknowledges: Journalists’ Phone Records are Fair Game
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06 April 2006
Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:16:36 GMT Libby Claimed Bush Authorized Plamegate Leakvia Kjell Olsen915 days agoMaybe fitzmas is just coming a year late.
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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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14 January 2006
Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:40:00 GMT The States Step In As Medicare Faltersvia Kjell Olsen997 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 Olsen998 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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07 January 2006
Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:47:25 GMT Scandal of force-fed prisonersvia Kjell Olsen1004 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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24 December 2005
Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:27:00 GMT Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Reportvia Kjell Olsen1019 days agoBruce 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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12 December 2005
Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:32:21 GMTIncarceration
1 in 37 American adults are in prison. 1 in 3 black men will go to prison, along with 1 in 17 white men. Hispanics and Blacks make up 25% of the american population, yet 60% of the incarcerated.
For every black man that goes to college, 3 will go to prison.
In 1974 there were just under 500,000 inmates in the US. In 2001, that number passed 2,000,000. Between 1985 and 2000 federal funding for corrections increased 166%, compared with 24% for education.
As of 2001, Bureau of Justice statistics show that 7 out of 10 released prisoners will be re-arrested within 3 years.
Bush (our president!) claims to be a Christian, yet proved to be the most prolific murderer in all of Texas. What would Jesus have done?
Are you fucking kidding me?
(As always, wikipedia rocks)
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08 December 2005
Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:23:35 GMT Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S.via Kjell Olsen1034 days agoThe crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis. Harold Pinter
Language is actually employed to keep thought at bay. The words ‘the American people’ provide a truly voluptuous cushion of reassurance. You don’t need to think. Just lie back on the cushion. The cushion may be suffocating your intelligence and your critical faculties, but it’s very comfortable. Harold Pinter
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05 December 2005
Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:49:00 GMT Hearts and Brainsvia Kjell Olsen1037 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 Olsen1037 days ago
You can’t imagine how completely and utterly despicable.
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02 December 2005
Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:36:32 GMT It's official: Diebold election bugware can't be trusted | The Registervia Kjell Olsen1040 days agoWhen does Diebold get sued for election fraud?
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Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:29:00 GMT
Judgment at Nuremberg Part IIIKjell Olsen1040 days ago
Then, 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 Olsen1042 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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24 October 2005
Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:29:00 GMT Ninjas rob Idaho bankvia Kjell Olsen1079 days ago -
Also somewhat recently
