Friday, August 31, 2007

oh the spew - Roves History lesson

Damn Karl - still dippin in the Bushco trough.

K ROVE says -

If the outcome there is like what happened in Vietnam after America abandoned our allies and the region descended into chaos, violence, and danger, history’s judgment will be harsh. History will see President Bush as right, and the opponents of his policy as mistaken — as George McGovern was in his time.-.....

-The outcome in Iraq and Afghanistan will color how history views the president.

History’s concern is with final outcomes, not the missteps or advances of the moment. History will render a favorable verdict if the outcome in the Middle East is similar to what America saw after World War II.-....

It is so sad (hehehe) that the surge is not working, If we ever get out of Iraq/the middle east - it will be under a president that is not George Bush, he just does not really have the balls or the base anymore to get anything done before he leaves. That is a damn big IF Mr Rove-Bush.

From most accounts of current historians Bush will be known as TLTGP the little tin god president - that cheated to win his election, ignored Katrina, lied about WMDs, removed most of our constitutional rights and spent more time on vacation then any other president.

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Congress and American people fooled again


-In the soldier's hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen's meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting participants such as that soldier know where each of the lawmakers stands on the war. "Moran on Iraq policy," read one section, going on to cite some the congressman's most incendiary statements, such as, "This has been the worst foreign policy fiasco in American history."-


This Does Bother me- our government (BUSHco and the main in the pentagon ) is using parsed and out of context quotes to define a congressman's stance to military personal.
This is outrageous, with insurgents and Al Queda to worry about 24/7
Bush thinks our troops need to know and study personal facts about a senator?
In a time of war? In a war zone?
Sick

From the WashingtonPost via BalloonJuice

-Brief, choreographed and carefully controlled, the codels (short for congressional delegations) often have showed only what the Pentagon and the Bush administration have wanted the lawmakers to see. At one point, as Moran, Tauscher and Rep. Jon Porter (R-Nev.) were heading to lunch in the fortified Green Zone, an American urgently tried to get their attention, apparently to voice concerns about the war effort, the participants said. Security whisked the man away before he could make his point.

Tauscher called it "the Green Zone fog."

"Spin City," Moran grumbled. "The Iraqis and the Americans were all singing from the same song sheet, and it was deliberately manipulated."-

Iraq is Playtime to Bush and company

UPDATE_ Defense Department admits to creating Bushified Bios
ThinkProgress - U.S. Troops Given Misleading, Inaccurate Bios Of Democratic Lawmakers Visiting Iraq
ThinkProgress has confirmed that the bios are prepared by the Strategic Effects (STRATEFF) office of MNF-I.


mean while-

Today NBC recognized 2 of the over 3500 young men and women we have lost. No mention of any other deaths of US or Iraqis or that there is any debate about the war.

Sad to say but if this family did not have 3 children in the war of which 2 died and the 3rd was removed to non active duty as last survivor,there would be no NBC story. The 2nd son that died lost his life in the helicopter crash where 13 others died too. Any chats with the other 13 family's?
No.
Any mourning of the 13 others ?
No

Any Mourning for a English lady who died 10 years ago
YES

Entertainment first - YAY NBC

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Scatter Shot Media Rant 1.0

Oh Dear, NBC dumped Itunes , while Viacom smartens up with a profit sharing deal with SouthPark creators.

The big fear of FCC spectrum re-distribution that media giants have avoided for 30 years is now coming to pass. This makes wireless broadcasting viable for anyone

  • Why give NBC only one channel in NYC, why not give them as many channels as they can fill.
  • SO NBC had another venue to get there content viewed, which they got paid for over and above there general distribution costs with free advertising from apple.
  • People where only a phone line can reach could still enjoy these high resolution value added content pieces , NBC makes money and gains exposure. Win Win
  • Thick headed Accounting executives seem to forget the bottom line is to bring a customer back, folks dont come back means investors are unhappy.
  • 2 dollars vs 3 dollars seems like a small amount to a movie or TV executive, to most folks i know thats 1 more dollar extra for food for the kids. Just because some can pay more does that mean all the rest be damned.
Arggh

Better written version by J.h at ilounge
Even today, I think it’s on the fine edge of foolish, and all it would take is one really dumb move by your company and I’d stop paying to watch your shows.
Another write up
NBC Now Offers TV Shows on Amazon's Unbox
With TV shows essentially a "free" commodity that flows into viewers homes via a subscription fee they are already paying to cable providers, it's ludicrous to ask people to then shell out $5 bucks an episode - especially when people can find them for nothing at all on P2P and file-sharing networks.

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Newsbusters - Damn the LibRUL Media

LOL
OMG - We bust the news ( Any actual Truth ) with squeals and half hearted opinion :p

  • A news site thats main feature is a uncomprehend able comic strip. Link via SadlyNo
  • Poor layout - For profit website ( They could at least better integrate the ads they look like they were slapped in)
  • Run by Mister GOP Double Standard Bozell-Bush a good friend of Murdoch-Bush

Link goes to SadlyNo NOT NEWSBUSTERS - They do not even deserve my 3 readers

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Bushs War Backhanded Progress Reports

By ignoring large swaths of the country, concentrating the -SURGE- on cities and giving weapons to the insurgents that will turn them right back on us if Al Queda Iraq is ever defeated, Bush co could and will make a pained cry for what they will call progress.

Progress that can no way be sustained for a year with current troop counts.

50 Billion more for a few more Friedman units and 100s more Troop losses.

The whining has all ready begun with the pentagon and Pussy Perino leading a media charge.

-The memo argues that the GAO will not present a "true picture" of the situation in Iraq because the standards were "designed to lock in failure," according to portions of the document read to the AP by an official who has seen it.-

A true picture like
My Pet Goat
or
WMDs
or
Mission Accomplished
or
I did not out a CIA Agent
Has the Bush Administration ever given a True Picture of any situation of national importance.

-"A bar was set so high, that it was almost not to be able to be met," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said. -
From
they will greet us as liberators
to
just getting the Iraqi government to talk to itself is setting the bar way to high.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

No More Fear Mongering Mr. Bush

Shorter Bush

- If no one listens to me the world will come at night and kill all the Americans as they sleep.
- Please let me try to win at least one war - Come on now Please

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Sick Media view of the Bush Administration

The Los Angeles Times called it a "blessing" and an "opportunity" for President Bush, and "a chance to salvage his relationship with Capitol Hill and the legacy of his second term.

- Like the Great work Bush did when these blessing came his way
  • 9-11 Saudi Attacks
  • Faked Weapon reports
  • Katrina
  • The Mission Accomplished banner
  • 6 months war
  • 6 more months war
  • Surge
  • US Attorny Firings


Roger Simon at The Politico says Bush is putting his legacy above loyalty: "Once famous for his loyalty to subordinates, Bush is now showing himself very capable of jettisoning the ones who create too much controversy."

-And when did Bush fire or jettison anyone in his cabinet - these guys and gals are all resigning for family and money reasons. Shows more convenience then capability.

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Idaho bathroom etiquette

According to Senator Craig there was nothing wrong with his behavior. I guess its a Idaho traditional form of greeting strangers.

Where are all the headlines and ledes like this

THIS IS NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOR FOR THE PEOPLE OF IDAHO

IDAHO GOVERNOR REQUESTS SENATORS RESIGNATION


FDL its the hypocrisy not the gay

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Craig List

While I will never entirely understand the existence of gay Republicans, it’s certainly not surprising that every single one of them in elected office would be in the closet. If Republicans don’t believe gays are entitled to get married or serve in the military, they sure as hell won’t knowingly vote for one to represent them in Congress.

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » How Our Media Operates

What would you think would be bigger news — and hit the press quicker?

– A congressman (Bob Filner) lipping off to and pushing around airport security personnel, OR:

– A male Senator (Larry Craig) caught trying to solicit sex from a male undercover cop in an airport bathroom known as a meeting-place for sex trysts?



Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Late Nite FDL: Hidden in Plain Sight
If the Republicans get any more sick, venal, and corrupt, their constituents may as well just start electing hyenas and poisonous snakes to Congress. Who could tell the difference?



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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Pundits for Bush - WingNuts are Us


WingNuts We were for it before we were against it

We were for gays in the closet before they became gays in the bathroom.

We were for Presidential oversight before our boy became president.

We were Against adultery -CLINTON- after we were for Adultery-VITTER- before it became gay adultery- CLARK.

We were for the Presidents war before it became the democrats quagmire.

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Will any NYC or DC paper ever Blame Bush

TPMmuckraker August 27, 2007 4:42 PM
Why did Alberto Gonzales resign this weekend? He just did and that's all there is to it, says the White House.

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » NYT Whitewashes Gonzales and the White House

Just shoot me. Twice.

As part of its extensive, multi-story coverage of the Alberto Gonzales resignation, the New York Times devotes two of its three front page articles to essentially excusing Gonzales’ abysmal tenure as Attorney General or claiming that his departure now absolves the White House of wrong doing. And in the process, the Times editors send the subtle message that it’s okay to sanction felonies and war crimes if it is done to promote war or protect the President

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MSM Where are you


Who got a favor to ignore the news in june of a senators guilty plee?

Matt Lauer - talking to -experts- Fleisher and Carvel about the latest republican found guilty of gay solicitation.
looks like we got a problem, we should try to find a way to fix it?
Yes and the problem is We - As in the news media - have forgotten how to explain/report the problem ourselves.

The Next Hurrah: The Political Rehabilitation of Ari Fleischer
But Ari is also, all of a sudden, a seemingly acceptable source of the party line for the beltway media. He's on Fox News accusing Congress of politicizing DOJ. And he's dealing that line to the NYT, too.

Talking Points Memo | Seems Like Old Times

Back in 1982, then-Rep. Craig (R-ID) came forward early in the congressional page sex scandal to deny any role in the scandal.
Oh and local Papers and TV news forgot about that.

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Late Late Nite FDL: Pansies, Perverts, and Pedophiles
Can we please as a culture agree stop pretending that Republicans aren’t a bunch of effete pussies? Bill Frist? Hello? He makes Ru Paul look like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Late Nite FDL: Nah, Nah, Hey, Hey, Get the F*&k Out, Already
So much going on today, it’s really hard to pick something to write about. We’ve got another Republican legislator busted trying to solicit sex from strange men in a public bathroom. Tsk. Tsk.

Balloon Juice
Why is everyone soliciting sex in bathrooms, for chrissakes? Is there some underground bathroom/gay sex culture out there?

Crooks and Liars » Fleischer blames Dems for Gonzales’ mistakes
I’d almost forgotten how breathtakingly dishonest former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer can be. Yesterday, on Fox News, he blamed congressional Dems for “politicizing the Justice Department, unfairly so and dangerously so.”

Republican Senator Larry Craig In Bathroom Arrest [Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid]

The question is was Craig scared into gay sex by looming black men like the Republican down in Florida.

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Friday, August 24, 2007

TPM take GOP to task again


Talking Points Memo | Militarism and Anti-Democracy, Now in a Country Near You

Like for instance, all those war critics who think that if only US troops would leave Iraq, all the killing would stop.Have you met these people? You can find people who think the Earth is flat.Heck, you can even find people who don't believe in evolution. Most of them seem to be running for president as Republicans.

Oh how the Semi-great have fallen

TPMmuckraker August 24, 2007 11:53 AM
How does Allawi pay for his lucrative contract with GOP lobbying powerhouse Barbour Griffith & Rogers? The obvious guess is that his old buddies at the CIA pay for him. But he may not need the agency's cash. One member of his coterie is suspected of participating in what an Iraqi public-corruption judge calls "possibly the largest robbery in the world" -- the theft of approximately $1
billion from the Iraqi treasury.
Look at the new puppet worse then the old puppet

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Bush guarantees troop deaths to 4000

Bushs never ending lies and the war that spawned from it are doing fine.

Crooks and Liars » Sen. Warner calls for Withdrawal in Iraq starting on Sept. 15th
When push comes to shove, Warner will side with the White House if they pressure him as Republicans in Congress often do after registering their dissaproval of BushCo. And the Iraqis

Think Progress » Kristol: Let’s ‘Stretch Our Army And Marines’ For ‘Another Year Or So’ In Iraq
On Fox News this morning, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol said that the escalation in Iraq should be extended at least “another six months” or even “another year or so.” “Is the cost of losing in Iraq great enough that we need to stretch our Army and Marines for another year or so,”

Hullabaloo
See? All it took was a very, very, very successful surge, signs from the US congress that they were fed up with Maliki (and the hiring of the top GOP lobbying firm in DC) and we are suddenly seeing .... political progress!

Reuters AlertNet - Secularists pull ministers out of Iraq government
"Levels of insurgent and sectarian violence will remain high and the Iraqi government will continue to struggle to achieve national-level political reconciliation and improved governance,"

Internetjoe
Stor-E-Tella: As Bush all but guarantees troop deaths to 4000

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OMG Warner-Bush pulls classic Spector-Bush Tactic

Media drools again over pointless gop misdirection

Fool me once shame on you
fool me twice shame on me
fool me 3 times and i am a fool!!

The media has proven again what fools they are and the Bush Dog democrats are proving to be just as foolish.

MSM fawns over GOP token
Warner Calls For Withdrawal!...Of Only 5,000 Troops | TPMCafe
5,000 troops? This is speaking out in favor of withdrawal? Warner said the surge has produced momentum in our favor



Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » Happy Trials To You…


And worse, we now know that the CIA more than five years ago sent a memorandum to the WH stating that the majority of the detainees in Guantanamo ”didn’t belong there.” I hope
to get more on the particulars of the brief filings on this case once they are docketed, but the Suspension Clause arguments alone with regard to habeas corpus ought to be instructive — not just for the Court


This of course is of little interest to the media cause they would not be treated as such.

More Iraqis Are Said to Flee Since Troop Increase - New York
Times


BAGHDAD, Aug. 23 — The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February,

Some surge- The tiny spots we are holding we can hold. Our armed
forces are not meant to stalemate a win.

Crooks and Liars » Daily Show: How Closely Does Iraq Resemble
Indiana?


Daily Show correspondent (and Marine reservist) Rob Riggle reports from Baghdad and asks American soldiers what they think about Rep. Mike Pence’s bone-headed comparison of Baghdad to “any open-air market in Indiana in the summertime.”

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Could this be true - NSA FBI DOJ

Where have all the good programmers gone ?


BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux

sk0t was informed by his Probation Officer that he has to have special software installed on his PC so that the government can monitor his online activities. However, what is a more bitter pill to swallow for him is that the monitoring software is Windows only and as sk0t is an Ubuntu user, the Justice Department is forcing him to switch operating systems.
Could it be that all the REAL coders quit or were fired to be replaced by MS certified loyal bushies?

LOL

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MSM Sucks Again and Again and Again

Froomkin -

Bush's most controversial assertion -- that U.S. troops could have prevailed in Vietnam had they stayed longer -- is a neoconservative fantasy that almost all historians ridicule.


MSM Sucks 08-23

Democratic Caucus's Senate Journal - Senator Harry Reid, Majority Leader
Today, President Bush used yet another historical comparison to try to boost sagging support for his Iraq War strategy. But no matter what comparison he uses, it does not change the fact that Iraq is going through its bloodiest summer yet,

President compares Vietnam, Iraq wars - The Boston Globe
"I couldn't believe it," said Allan Lichtman, an American University historian, adding that far more Vietnamese died during the war than in the aftermath of the US withdrawal.
This is the 5th graph down the page - there is no way -if you read the first 4 graphs only -to see there is any opposition to the ideas at all.
Forget war pullout, Bush tells Vietnam veterans

A Republican source said White House strategists, believing anti-war Democrats will liken Iraq to the Vietnam War "quagmire," launched a preemptive strike "to inoculate Bush."

Bush gambles with Vietnam reference over Iraq | Iraq | Guardian Unlimited
Mr Bush's speech came on the day that the US suffered one of its highest daily death tolls since the 2003 invasion, with 14 troops killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed.

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ABC 123 NSA TSP V2.0

Spyland Security v2.0

White House Seeks to Withhold Records | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The Justice Department detailed the argument in a lawsuit seeking to force the White House Office of Administration to say what it knows about the disappearance of an undisclosed amount of messages

Crooks and Liars » McConnell says FISA discussion will kill Americans
To hear McConnell tell it, the very discussion of the administration’s surveillance powers will kill an untold number of Americans — but sunshine’s a good thing.

Interview: NSA's McConnell claims warrantless surveillance datamining is "surgical" without mentioni

Surprise!

Honestly, reading the McConnell interview in the El Paso Times, of all places, is like having your head pushed through mush.

The Next Hurrah: DNI McConnell: Not Fighting Them Over There, So We Can Wiretap You Here
Now, first of all, Al Qaeda didn't just "now" "discover" the tribal lands, though we may have when we let Bin Laden escape to them. Al Qaeda and the Taliban knew and used it, well before they retreated to it as their primary safe haven ... over five years ago.


ALSO
Stor-E-Tella: ABC 123 NSA TSP

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Barbara Bushs extended family 2.0

Trust is something to be earned - Who do i trust -actual military personal or some one from the -Bush dog and pony show.

Trust Airborne or Brookings Institute?

The claim that we are increasingly in control of the battlefields in Iraq is an assessment arrived at through a flawed, American-centered framework. Yes, we are militarily superior, but our successes are offset by failures elsewhere. What soldiers call the “battle space” remains the same, with changes only at the margins.
Trex says more
Late Nite FDL: That Other Op-Ed
Digby and Greg Sargent have been wondering aloud if the dirty Em Ess Em were going to hoist last Sunday’s Op Ed by real soldiers returning from Iraq on to their shoulders and parade it around town in the same way that they greeted that meretricious Think Tank Puff Piece by O’Hanlon and Pollack. The answer?

Of course not. The soldiers who wrote it are just enlisted men. They didn’t go to Cornell or even Columbia. They’re not members of the Serious Foreign Policy Elite. They’re probably not even from Good Families. What the hell do they know?


More from me
Stor-E-Tella: Barbara Bushs extended family

Stor-E-Tella: I will never believe Mr Petraeus-Bush or any of the other -Bushs

Stor-E-Tella: Pollack is war critic - he told Bush war is Critical

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14 dead a day is not ok


14 U.S. Soldiers Dead in Copter Crash in Iraq



Worst US air losses in Iraq

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

WingNuts ID Certification

What to do if a link goes back to a Neocons site warn the reader with
The Wingnuts Logo

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Spyland security

Bush Administration Has Been Using Illegal Wiretapping and Spying Activity for Political Purposes.

In an under covered trial in a California courtroom, a Constitutional drama of major significance is unfolding.

It is a federal lawsuit filed by Americans who claim that the Bush Administration, with the cooperation of AT&T, illegally spied on them. The Bush Administration has taken the Orwellian position that the trial must not be allowed to proceed because it would require the White House to reveal if they indeed have illegally monitored the plaintiffs – and that, the Bush Politburo argues, would violate "state secrets."

NSA - Nothing new about it.

SO the US Government have spied on people for political or social purposes, not a surprise.

The network we use for the web was developed by DARPA, i am sure the defense department would never leave a back door to their system.

If it were then why would a organization like the EEF be needed at all.


DARPA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. DARPA was responsible for funding development of many technologies which have had a major impact on the world

EFF: About
When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar

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Cheney branch

Cheney as the Spier not Bush,no surprise there.

The Next Hurrah: Details on Cheney's FISA Documents
It appears that Dan Eggen has gotten a copy of the letter from Dick's office, detailing which documents he has that respond to FISA subpoenas.

The Next Hurrah: Documents from Dick, not Bush?!?!?
But the thing I'm most interested in is the reasoning behind the dual treatment of the White House and OVP. As Leahy said, the Administration claimed that it is not part of the Executive Office of the President

TheHill.com - White House lets Leahy’s deadline pass
Vice President Dick Cheney’s office on Monday responded separately from the White House to a Senate subpoena for documents on warrantless wiretapping and resurrected the controversial contention that Cheney is not part of the executive branch.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

Kill the Saudis V3.0 the facts Osama WHO?

UPDATE 09-20-07
Via Empty Wheel
And Now the Saudis
Even Bushs BFFs are having second thoughts

Via McClatchy
Studies: Suicide bombers in Iraq are mostly foreigners

Hafez, whose new book is "Suicide Bombers in Iraq," has identified the nationalities of 124 bombers who attacked in Iraq. Of those, the largest number — 53 — were Saudis.

Also
Stor-E-Tella: Kill the Saudis V2.0: "Why my Kill the Saudis meme is a joke.
This is Bush and his BBF Bandar of Saudi Arabia Waaasup wit the Manlove Dude!!"

Stor-E-Tella: Kill the Saudis: "Well ...even though al-Qaeda is not in Iran and more then 20 percent of the Anti-US attacks are from Saudi Arabian terrorists, the senate votes to get angry and cry if Bush decides to attack Iran."

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Soldiers and Technology Secure - White House Not

Army Audits: Official Sites, Not Blogs, Breach Security
From the page

- For years, members of the military brass have been warning that soldiers' blogs could pose a security threat by leaking sensitive wartime information. But a series of online audits, conducted by the Army, suggests that official Defense Department websites post far more potentially-harmful than blogs do. -

LOL interactive White House site

By internetjoe - Posted on: Thu, Aug 9 2007 3:52 PM
So person or persons from Washington DC, why are you all of a sudden reading my blog?

Just coincidence that no one from DC ever came to - or noticed my little web production for a year and a half - yet soon after my leaving a not so kind information request - series of questions I would like answered about the White House site on there submit form... the city of Washington shows up on my stats page.


My questions were simple along the line below

With the new Fisa law how long do you hold my IP address after i submit a question?

Why do you call it White House Interactive, when No One has called a Submit Form interactivity for 8 years?

Why does this site not work well on my macintosh?

Doh - Maybe im just paranoid

Maybe im not Update 8-23
The Next Hurrah -Time to Fire the White House Webmaster by emptywheel
I thought it worth mentioning that the Administration has twice made claims in the last week that their website refuted. First came Senator Leahy, who noted that Cheney's claims not to be part of the Executive Office of the President were disproved by the White House website.

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Blogging with Google Notes

TPMmuckraker August 17, 2007 12:22 PM
"perhaps only as a receiver of leads from the NSA -- perhaps as a partner in the government's alleged data-mining of U.S. citizens phone and internet usage records."

TPMmuckraker August 17, 2007 2:16 PM
Don't get your hopes up yet. But the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has told the government that it needs to submit an argument for why the court shouldn't disclose rulings from earlier this year on the warrantless surveillance program

Talking Points Memo | The FISA 'Fix'
When Congress "revised" FISA a few weeks ago, lawmakers gave the White House the unchecked surveillance power Bush wanted -- and then some.

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » More Duplicity in the FISA Stampede
Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include — without court approval

Defense Agency Proposes Outsourcing More Spying - washingtonpost.com
"Mind-blowing," was the reaction of Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, when she learned of the DIA proposal. In a telephone interview, she described it as "definitely something to be concerned about."

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

5 dead a day is not ok nor is two hundred and 6

Tuesday Aug 13-2007
The death count in the Iraq bomb blast is up to 200 and we lost 6 of our honorable troops.

This seems fine with Bush and the media,

It cant be fine for the families of those soldiers and Iraqi citizens.


The IRAQ War DeadBabies

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Roves GOP Defenders

Bushs Brain

Via Froomkin

"Rove's defenders argue that Republicans' current troubles -- sagging presidential approval ratings, loss of the House and Senate, a clamorous fight over who the party will nominate to run for president in 2008 -- all stem from a single cause: the deeply unpopular war in Iraq; not from Rove or his methods."

Is that the Iraq war started with lies and leaks by Cheney-Powell-Rice-Bush and Rove?

The war that allowed privatization of the military had nothing to do with roves hiring of career government fund distributors?

A war on terror that Gonzales-Bush would not need Rove to help pick loyal Bushies to run.

Gee, looks like Rove had his hands in the war pretty deep.

More Rove from around the web
"'I think a number of Democrats never accepted (Bush) as legitimate and instead adopted a strategy of blind obstructionism,' he answered.

"Moreover, some Democrats 'hated' Bush, and they were joined by a group of Democrats who 'for tactical reasons, said that we can never give (Bush) a political victory, and anything that passes any part of his agenda is a political victory for him and we can't tolerate that.' . . .

"Did the Bush administration try hard enough to reach across the aisle?

"'You know, you'd be shocked and surprised to learn how much the president reached out to Democrats,' Rove said.
-Many times Bush reached out to Democrats on Issues that he would later ignore with a signing statement.

Many people inside and outside the White House feared Rove, a number of them truly admired him (professionally and personally), but of very few can it be said that they ever trusted him.
-No one but the Boy King Bush trusted Rove.

"'We live in a poisonous atmosphere in which Democrats . . . are engaged in a wave of investigations and requests for documents that ill-serve the country and serve as an excuse for them to investigate rather than legislate,' Rove said."
-A quest fror documents Rove himself destroyed - Opps

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

TSP - did not know to call it that then

Internetjoe.blogster.com January 2006 - then they called me traitor and paranoid. I said a year and a half ago that bush wanted to be free of FISA.
1-13-2006
No Fear - Here To Stay

I do not care how many times George Bush and company bring up Osama or Terrorists, I will not be afraid.

I did not believe in our invasions of Iraq or Afghanistan as right or necessary. To say these things I thought was my right as an American. What is heard though is that I am an ENEMY of America.

This crap about aiding the Enemy by open debate is just plain stupid. Debate -MEANS- to have 2 sides or opinions compared. How can you have a debate Georgie if you only have one point of view That-s a lecture with a scolding thrown in for good measure.

For Bush and his buddies to get what they want ,they need all the sheep scared into a corner so they can keep an eye on them (FISA free). But to be a sheep you need to have no will of your own and blind devotion, and I-m thick headed and thick skinned.

I also know the -Actual- definition of a terrorist and fear is what they NEED for there terror to work..

It-s the PerzNit who in pushing fear and terror on the American people so it follows that he is helping the terrorists, while my not caring is and would be frustrating to a terrorist. {i.e. NO HELP AT ALL}

Let Bush and anyone else call me what ever they like , cause im an American too and have the RIGHT to not be Afraid and say what I think.

1-14-2006
Hide In Plain Site

Ever wonder why Bush and Rummy love these acronyms, well it has to do with the current problem they are having with -digital file tapping-.

I feel pretty safe knowing when I write and email or text message they will not be flagged.

The closest I have come will be in this sentence of this post where my busines sadvisaery Alllle Keaddda could come up in a search if it had the right number of wildcards and spellings.

With the Bushes acronyms filtering and pulling data streams and files on eye rack well even a dummy can google G W O T

1-22-2006
Bush's Fault

You can talk to me till your blue in the face but there is no way you can convince me that George Bush went to war for any other reason then Sadam said - bad things - declared war - put a price - on his daddys ass.

Still after several years he still has not gotten me to understand.
-what Osama, A Saudi - currently in Afganastan has to do with Iraq.

Answer Me That

1-24-2006
No Fear 3

What is the secret, that the digital taps are unknown by our enemies.

This technology has been around for a long time and requires that an ISP open its trunk to the government. Why the secrecy?

A war on TERROR - Bush has been quoted as not caring day to day where Osama is - that will never end due to victory.

A war on TERROR - where you and your friends are now daily labeled terrorists your selves.

We don-t know where they are or who they are but we can be at war with them and attack OTHER countries in a hit or miss hope we get them -- kind of way.

As an American, based on MY constitutional rights - I am not a terrorist and free to say what I wish WHERE AND WHEN I wish!

What is the secret ? that You and I have no liberty

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Barbara Bushs extended family

OMG Its Bill Kristol-Bush

In Bush and the surges defense it was all Please believe.

Who did Kristol-Bush want us to believe.

George Bush
Bill kristol-Bush
bi-partisan Petreas-Bush
War critic Pollock-Bush

Cspan gives us Vandihay-Bush and Mercurio-Bush

i will believe when i hear from verified sources OTHER then Barbara Bushs son and his boy friends.

More - OHanlon-Bush

Some Non-Bush versions of the Iraq War

A CNN reporter on the scene 24--7
What the U.S. troops are doing is giving a set of numbers, a series of data, a number of lowered attack figures that may give the military the political cover it needs in Washington. But at the end of the day, by cutting these deals the seeds are being sown for a much broader, more entrenched civil war that America will leave behind.

Professor US Air FORCE Air War college

I see no exit. We have been down that road before. It is called Vietnamisation. The idea that we are going to have an Iraqi force trained to defeat an enemy we cannot defeat stretches the imagination. They will be tainted by their very associations with the foreign occupier. In fact, we had more time and money in state building in Vietnam than in Iraq.

Internetjoe - Squidoo Iraq War Death Lens
Even 1 death a day is not OK
Create reminder of deaths due to an unnecessary war
The deaths of someones child - Information about the death and casualty counts of the Iraq war. -

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TSP,FISA and NSA

TSP is a Bush sponsored Program - It was not there before 9-11


Congress was wrong to allow Bush to gut FISA.

FISA should have been enough for Bush,they had 3 days after a tap is performed to decide if it was related to terror and get some post warrant form to a judge. In a world of microsecond management and near instant data transmission, 3 days is a very long time.

For Rove to get away with destroying OUR emails -
My Dime , My History, The US Governments Documents - we have to believe he understood a little about that RNC Blackberry he abused.

The I don't recall -Bush family... they can use email to send a message in an instant to cover their asses for hatch act violations but cant figure out if someone is a terrorist in 72 hours.


There is no US government agency defined meaning for terrorist. SO this war on terror is a hollow thing.

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Monday, August 13, 2007

4 dead Troops a Day is not OK II

Again this weekend

Of course they claim major violence is down since the surge began.
But which number do they use and which surge start date was that again?

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Friday, August 10, 2007

GOP and the ManCrush - Meet Chris Matthews-Bush

He is just another of the hyphen bushs that are just plain out of there mind when they hear Bushie speak.


Crooks and Liars » Chris Matthews Three Minute Bush Love-Fest

When he talked about the fact that we can support emerging democracies in the Middle East, and that’s the only way we can prevent future 9/11’s, you’re getting to the heart of why this administration is fighting that war in Iraq.

“This president is ready to fight like a rock through the rest of his term,” Matthews proclaimed

From where I sit there have been -NoNew 911s- since 9-11???
There are also no new emerging democracies to support save the one Bush himself created and they dont seem to want his help to much anymore.

So Bush says in short, the united sates will force our democratic principles on the entire middle east and this will prevent future attacks on our soil.
And all they can do is fawn over him

I find Bush to have a poor command of English and he comes off as quite unintelligent every speech.

Stor-E-Tella: GOP and the ManCrush - they belong together

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Now when did you become a war critic Mr Pollock

Firedoglake \ Late Nite FDL: OHanlon and Pollock Think Tank Travelers

It is scarcely surprising that my perceptions of a recent trip to Iraq are different from that of two of my traveling companions and those of several other recent think tank travelers to the country.


Previous
Stor-E-Tella: Pollack is war critic - he told Bush war is Critical

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The end of the war has moved Again

This is insane - the media never questions these missed deadlines for fear of Georgie Bush taking away there ability to repeat his lies.

Iraq Timeline: The Broken Record on "the Next Few Months"

The Bush administration as well as supporters and some critics of the Bush Iraq strategy have told Americans time and again during the past four years that the "next few months" in Iraq will be the "decisive, critical period" of the war

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

GOP and the ManCrush - they belong together

Here we go again
VIA - Taking down words.com -

Clark County GOP Chair and newly elected Young Republican National Federation Chair Glenn Murphy is under investigation for criminal deviate conduct, a Class B felony,
Stor-E-Tella: More Foley BS from MSM

Stor-E-Tella: Sure Mr. Speaker

Stor-E-Tella: Is being a Republican a mental illness

Stor-E-Tella: Mancrush Pardon my testosterone

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I will never believe Mr Petraeus-Bush or any of the other -Bushs

They are all just puppets , we should just put -Bush after every one of there names to define the singularity and stupidity of there tung twisting ways.

what a sick way to treat our soldiers

A US General states -

Tracking the weapons’ serial numbers were not of the greatest concern in 2004 and 2005 when priority was to provide weapons to Iraqi security forces, according to Petraeus.

So under Bush the spit and polish - define to the nickel US Armed Forces has become the - who cares about rules or objectives KBB (King Bush Bulshitary).

Are our soldiers really proud of these 2 faced Military mouth pieces?

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FISA - why its sad and the rug of light III




More foolishness
Why change FISA


Why were the they so worried about the technology changes. Because they have not noticed the changes , maybe rove was to busy with his RNC email scam for the last 8 years but 1998 was the last time anyone called a simple submit form Interactive on the web

Foolishness
Via Cr0oks and Liars
It’s called, ‘circular accountability’
So lucky us even getting the decision 4th hand.
God/Cheney/Rove to rug
rug to bush
bush to - Gonzales or McConnell
Gonzales and McConnell to Public

Original Post - Stor-E-Tella: FISA - why its sad and the rug of light

The Rug Of Good and Evil
When i wan
to decide
Its in teh oval office
i do hide
and look for answers
to our plight
by consulting
the national rug of light

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

4 dead Troops a Day is not OK

More every day -

4 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraqi Capital | World Latest | Guardian UnlimitedUK
Four more U.S. soldiers were killed in roadside bombings in the Baghdad area, including three in a single strike, the military said Tuesday, raising to at least 19 the number of American troop deaths in the first week of August.


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FISA - why its sad and the rug of light II

Headline is funny in a sad and tragic kind of way
Oliver Willis - There Is No "Please Allow George Bush To Spy On Me" Constituency In The U.S. ElectorateLink

Boston Globe New law expands power to wiretap - Diminishes oversight of NSA spy program

Balkinization - Why do they fear Bush

The passage of the new FISA bill by the Senate and now the House demonstrates that the Democrats stand neither for defending civil liberties nor for checking executive power.

They stand for nothing at all.

Conversely, the new bill shows that the Republican Party can get the Democrats to surrender almost any civil liberty-- indeed, to give the President just as much unchecked power as he might obtain under a Republican controlled Congress-- simply by playing the fear card repeatedly and without shame

Greenwald via Salon.com - Attention Democrats: GOP fear-mongering does not work



Previous StorEtella
Stor-E-Tella: FISA - why its sad and the rug of light

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Monday, August 06, 2007

Bush and Intelligence - like fire and gasoline


President Bush said Monday that with the right intelligence American and Pakistan governments can take out al-Qaida leaders, and wouldn't say whether he would consult first with Pakistan before ordering American forces to act on their own.

"With real actionable intelligence, we will get the job done," Mr. Bush said
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As opposed to the Fake do nothing stupidity we have been using for the past 4 years.

Why do they keep bringing up intelligence when they do not know what it is or how to use it if they had it.

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FISA - why its sad and the rug of light

Who has the freedom to do Anything anymore except George Bush and his buddies. From a Constitution written to preserve our HUMAN RIGHTS too a piece of paper the president used too wipe his ass.

With no chance for a new AG, the congress gave a guy that cant recall details of a critical mission he was sent on or who exactly sent him. This is the lawyer that will review my case before i even know the GOV has made me a case.

Why would anyone believe he or Bush/Cheney would NOT intrude on the innocent.


How does giving the President and the AG more power make me safer from terror?
One is a legal expert that cant remember yesterday let alone the law, the other is a rich - selfish spoiled play baby and mommas boy.
Thank you for trusting my freedoms to a liar and a guy that listens to rugs and voices in his head.

Firedoglake - A Nation Represented By Sheep
From the page: "Oh, and as a result of the 6th Circuit Court overturning a District Courts ruling that the original TSP was unconstitutional, you dont have standing to challenge this wholesale eviseration of the 4th Amendment. No court review; just Alberto and Rove. "


Balkinization - Helpful FISA Posts
From the page:I'll try to keep a rough list here of links to posts and comments that provide helpful clarification or analysis of the new bill and its ramifications, or that really move the ball forward.

Crooks and Liars - House Passes Bush’s FISA Law - American Civil Liberties Destroyed
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) says it all. It’s official, George Bush and Alberto Gonzales now have the legal authority to spy on you and I without a warrant at any time.

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Friday, August 03, 2007

First God - now its The National Rug of Light

They are not delusional at all -
Via Froomkin cause i cant stand to read these sick folks

He spoke very eloquently about Good vs. Evil and even brought the story back to the rug, which was designed with only this Presidential input -- to let it reflect light so as to influence his decision making. Light as in good vs. darkness as in evil.

Hennen continues: "If every American could have the opportunity I did today -- to sit with the President of the United States and hear him firsthand describe his resolve to win in Iraq and around the world, we would have a very different situation with public opinion.


Well then why were only Republican Wingnuts invited, why not reporters that represent every Americans point of view. _ OH look the president is adding a session who will he ask-

And Hennen notes: "We learned that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would follow us in a separate meeting with the President. They have earned that privilege with their incredible support for our military efforts in the global war on terror."


Oh Never mind.

The President was passionate about our military successes -- he walked us through example after example of real stats and facts that are benchmarks. Many of us asked why he does not share those with the public. He explained the military's reluctance to be seen as taking out the enemy for the benefit of a statistic used to explain our success.
Congress benchmarks bad - Bushs Benchmarks good

The Rug Of Good and Evil
When i wan
to decide
Its in teh oval office
i do hide
and look for answers
to our plight
by consulting
the national rug of light

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Bonus
Stupid Medved Statement - Journamilism at its best
As it happens, I'm proud -- not embarrassed in any way -- to try (in any small way) to help our embattled chief executive in this essential endeavor, which will help to determine the sort of security and prosperity that we pass on to our children.

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GOP 2008 slogan We Dont lie we just DONT RECALL

The party of forgetfulness.

So anyone within six degrees of separation from the president can claim executive privilege.

This according to White House Council Bugs Bunny - I mean Fred Fielding- .

If Karls assistant had a chat with me in a cab on the way to the air port about how secure the cash slide is in the cab... i can claim executive privilege.

What is the point of asking or believing anything a republican says.
I dont recall should be the GOPs 2008 campaign slogan -

We republicans promise to NOT remember any of our promises not recall any of the jobs we might have performed.


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Emails - The Lost Files

White House Email System is funded by congress - congress should have the right to review all white house emails.DOD and NSA should have in place a special secure channel - just for the purpose of super secret inter department data transfers.

The use of a OUTSIDE email system in itself a violation of the hatch act, added to the fact the .com servers were behind the congressional firewall- ie congress - paid for and unknowingly maintained them with OUR TAX DOLLARS should also be a Hatch violation

Now i think that what Karl Did in Deleting his emails was worse then breaking Hatch- he broke the presidential records act. He deleted public records - whether it was emails about firing USA's , emails about voter oppression or just emails about his lunch - he had no right under the act to lose or worse what he did DELETE ON PURPOSE those emails.

Based on FOA any information sent outside secure channels should be available to not just a congressional committee but anyone.

  • What does who the winner of a senate race is have to do with national security or a presidents choice of council?
  • What does voting rights and caging have to do with the war on terror and national security.

The concept of some conversations being secret from even congress for a time to allow a president free and full council is not the issue.
Breaking laws and removing citizen rights. Thats the Issue.

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Thursday, August 02, 2007

Oh Elton - Geriatric King of Media

Fave part of article

But the flamboyant singer has embraced the web in other ways.

The 60th birthday concert Sir Elton played to a 20,000-strong crowd at New York’s Madison Square Garden was streamed live over the internet.

The singer also announced earlier this year that his entire back catalogue of albums would be made available for digital download.


Shorter Elton John -Radio is killing our music and daily life - it pervades all our hours with mediocre schlock and makes the poor kids sit in front of that darn radio and not go out and play. But ill play on your station anyway

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1 Death a day is never OK 5 - History Its a bitch

Getting us into this conflict IS bushs fault. He can not fix it or finish his stratergy before he leaves office. There is a reason they call it Lame duck.

History will show a President who went on a wild goose chase for WMDs as a pretext to an un wanted war.
A war that has destabilized Philistine
Created a civil war in Iraq
allowed the true perpetrators of 9-11 to go free
And Killed thousands of our Children

I would think that with the Assertive use of Executive Privilege by this White House Not much more then the Above great moments and the reading of My pet Goat will be in the Bushie Juniors Library

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Morning News show report
Nicole Richie got 3 to 5 minutes and im just looking for 60 to 90 seconds on the war, Anyone ???

Thanks to Bushs intimidation and a lazy under a deadline news media - we dont spend enough time on the actual war so how can we find out the true cost?

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Sorry But its one in the same TSP

I care that Gonzo lied BUT i care more that taking my son to WoodStock 2 or reading a Greenpeace web page may now put me on a possible terrorist list.
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If you are to fight any war your opponent must be chosen , then he must be found.

OUR Choice of enemy -is terror



When you choose a feeling of fear to fight against how do you find it -
The current administration finds the fear by changing and morphing the fearist or terrorist to meet their daily needs.

NSA
Just one goal of Bushs NSA
-Without a doubt, we live in a net-centric world. New information technologies arrive at lightning speed, allowing us to share information across town, across the country, or around the world faster than ever before. NSA's Information Assurance Directorate is dedicated to providing information assurance solutions that will keep our information systems safe from harm. Our national security depends on it.

History NSA.gov

Since its inception, the Agency has taken responsibility for securing the nation’s communications while exploiting foreign signals intelligence.


The NSA is the main I got a secret to keep division of our government and covers ALL forms of external communications in the united states, that includes any conversation , personal,verbal or electronic . They watch and or recommend who should watch the communication stream for the last 50 years

Ok where were we, Oh ya FINDING TERRROR

SO we Look for terror - Bush looks under his desk - Here ..WMD..Here Terror - Cumon Na

Well maybe, but the official way is to define what or who to look for.

A Plan or Program with the word Surveillance that is Above the CIA and the FBI - (CIA-FBI need to co-ordinate and with Bushs little government policy that means a 3rd agency - NSA)

A plan to watch the fearists would be called what -
LOP - looking for Osama plan
No thats to Clintonian
AMIP - AlQeada Message Intercet Program
No its to wimpy for Rove and naming boy

TSP - Terrorist Surveillance Program
Well that covers a Plan/program to watch ANYONE ANYWHERE , that Bush defines as a terrorist.

all parties including justice do not deny a single program or they would would bring up the other related programs the president signed.

So the point is
If TSP is, or is not the real secret name of the program - there still was only one NSA program.
Though the president may have been taking about a different part of a terror program that does not change the fact that AG Gonzolas obstructed Justice when he and Card went over Comeys head to Ashcrofts hospital bed AND that the AG again either obstructed or lied by saying he does not recall who sent him.

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KING: In that regard, The New York Times — which, as you said, is not your favorite — reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the President’s intelligence-gathering program. Was it you?

CHENEY: I don’t recall — first of all, I haven’t seen the story. And I don’t recall that I gave instructions to that effect.

KING: That would be something you would recall.

CHENEY: I would think so

If Cheney said to Card - Arr Take the thing and get it signed arrrrr
then what King asked was not what Cheney Instructed. He would remember that.

He like the rest of Bush and Company can very specifically forget to remember even the most important information.
Maybe its a super power or something the DOD cooked up.
Cause for me Sending some guys to the hospital to sign papers is something i would remember if i did it or not. Should i not expect as much from my President and his Administration.

No I expect Better!!!

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

TSP 2 - I can not recall

From TPM.com

McConnell helps muddy the water in his letter (Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) uncharitably calls it "gobbledygook" full of "weasel words"). There was no single surveillance program, McConnell writes, but "various intelligence activities" that had been authorized in a presidential order. And those activities weren't characterized as being in a program until the President was forced to publicly disclose a "particular activity," i.e. "the targeting for interception without a court order of international communications of al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist organizations coming into or going out of the United States."

The phrase "Terrorist Surveillance Program," McConnell says, refers only to that specific activity. (Entertainingly enough, he doesn't independently characterize the TSP as a program - just a "particular activity".) Notably, McConnell's letter is the first time that the administration has publicly admitted that "Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrant less surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005."


TSP - Terrorist Surveillance Program - is it one activity or a Bush use of a Umbrella term for the data acquisition aspects of the war on terror. I believe that Bush the Namer guy used the name he knew.

Cheney Contradicts Gonzales Line on Hospital Visit

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3 dead Troops a Day is not OK

3 more brave souls reported as dead on Tuesday july31-2007

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie get 5 to one air time vrs the war.

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I DO NOT RECALL - Yet Bush Gives them a raise

CLIENT: Hey did you finish that spread sheet i asked you to do.
JOE: I dont recall a spread sheet, No thats not the spread sheet i ment.

CLIENT: Is the new interface to the email system finished yet
JOE: I dont recall a email system or mentioning a specific interface

CLIENT:When will the logo be finished
JOE:I dont recall any Logo


In most any country in the world, if these are my answers to people I represent they fire or sue me.

But if you are a Loyal Bushie - you are rewarded with
Brownie - Gold Star Badge
Rove - Raise
Libby - Freedom to Lie
Cheney - More secrets, less rules


BONUS
Rumsfeld needs to say it too - here is part of his written statement to congress today

"I do not recall when I first learned about the possibility that Cpl. Tillman's death might have resulted from fratricide," he said.

We need to ask presidential nominated hacks and electoral candidates to take standard memory tests , then base our belief of their RECALL on that persons latest memory score. Memory scores lower then a baseline mean the person is replaced.

Brains and how you use them should be more important then how much money you have.

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