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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 11:45 pm
QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 9:53 pm
No surprise here
60 Minutes, in collaboration with the National Security News Service, has obtained the secret list used to screen airline passengers for terrorists and discovered it includes names of people not likely to cause terror, including the president of Bolivia, people who are dead and names so common, they are shared by thousands of innocent fliers.
Steve Kroft’s investigation, in which an ex-FBI agent who worked on its al Qaeda task force says the list of 44,000 names is ineffective, will be broadcast this Sunday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
The former FBI agent, Jack Cloonan, knew the list that was hastily assembled after 9/11, would be bungled. “When we heard the name list or no-fly list … the eyes rolled back in my head, because we knew what was going to happen,” he says. “They basically did a massive data dump and said, ‘Okay, anybody that’s got a nexus to terrorism, let’s make sure they get on the list,’” he tells Kroft.
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Mirth October 5th, 2006 - 9:35 pm
Protests to Drive Out The Bush Regime were scheduled all over the country today. I’ve checked news sites and newspapers of the major cities and there is NO news coverage of any events.
No surprise.
D-day reports that Raleigh, NC had a ‘mediocre’ event with about 100 people.
I participated in Albuquerque, NM and mediocre is also a good description with about 200 people marching. We gathered at a busy intersection at the University; no more than 10 of us were UNM students. There were hundreds of supportive and enthusiastic horn honks, almost no driver not honking and raising a clenched fist or giving us the peace sign. Of those hundreds there was one middle finger and two thumbs down.
No one parked their car and joined us.
There were also supportive gestures and hand-waves from the various businesses as we marched to the center of downtown.
None joined us.
Once it is ferreted out, I’m hoping there will be better news from other cities and towns.
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 9:10 pm
Keith Olbermann’s special commentary tonight was outstanding, as usual. Again, it sent chills down my spine. Thank you Keith, for being a voice of truth in the darkness.
While the leadership in Congress has self-destructed over the revelations of an unmatched, and unrelieved, march through a cesspool …
While the leadership inside the White House has self-destructed over the revelations of a book with a glowing red cover .
The president of the United States - unbowed, undeterred and unconnected to reality - has continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the enemies of freedom: the Democrats.
Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, “177 of the opposition party said, A-You know, we don-t think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists.-”
The hell they did.
One hundred seventy’seven Democrats opposed the president’s seizure of another part of the Constitution.
Not even the White House press office could actually name a single Democrat who had ever said the government shouldn-t be listening to the conversations of terrorists.
President Bush hears what he wants.
Tuesday, at another fundraiser in California, he had said, “Democrats take a law enforcement approach to terrorism. That means America will wait until we-re attacked again before we respond.”
Mr. Bush fabricated that, too.
Full transcript at MSNBC
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Buck October 5th, 2006 - 8:30 pm
Just saw a post over at ‘NO QUARTER‘ that asks the question, Are You A Republican? The following is a guide to help you decide.
- If you enjoy shoplifting while working at the White House, you might be a Republican.
- If you enjoy soliciting teenagers and children for sex over the internet, you might be a Republican.
- If you enjoy sending other people’s children to war while your kids go to college and hang out in bars, you might be a Republican.
- If you start a war in Iraq while lying to the American people that Saddam was tied to Osama Bin Laden, you might be a Republican.
- If you failed to complete your own National Guard service and your Vice President received five deferments to avoid service in Vietnam, but accuse political opponents who challenge your failed foreign policy in Iraq of being cowards, you might be a Republican.
- If you call dark skinned people Macacas and N*ggers, you might be a Republican.
- If you ignore intelligence community warnings that Bin Laden is determined to strike inside the United States, you might be a Republican.
- If you follow policies that squander a budget surplus and create an $8.5 trillion dollar budget deficit, you might be a Republican.
- If you expose the identity of an undercover CIA officer in charge of tracking down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, you might be a Republican.
- If you believe the President should be entitled to jail, without recourse to Habeus Corpus, anyone he decides is a threat, you might be a Republican.
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 4:15 pm
The chick who filled in for Olbermann did a good sound bites piece on Republicans blaming Dems for scandals. And yah yah yah……. I already heard at home what a hottie the chick is.
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 3:46 pm
Ok, either he’s off his meds, or……
I think we got good stuff to work with. Did he meet with Diebold execs today?
ABOARD AIR FORCE TWO - Vice President Dick Cheney said he “can-t tell” how a Republican sex scandal will impact next month’s elections, but insisted “it makes no sense” for House Speaker Dennis Hastert to resign.
In his first public remarks on the burgeoning scandal, Cheney told The Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview that fellow Republican Hastert, R-Ill., should reject Democratic calls for his resignation.
“I-m a huge Denny Hastert fan - I think he’s a great speaker,” Cheney said in his private cabin aboard Air Force Two. “And it makes no sense at all for him to think about stepping down.”
Cheney aides described the vice president as repulsed by allegations that former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., sent salacious e-mails and instant messages to teenage boys working as congressional pages. At the same time, Cheney is determined not to let the scandal overshadow campaign issues that he considers far more important - national security and the economy.
“I think we-ve got good stuff to work with,” he said during a flight from Houston to Washington. “The Foley thing, again, as to how that cuts, I can-t tell.”
Cheney flatly rejected predictions by pundits that Democrats will take control of the House and Senate in November.
Full article at the Examiner
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 3:12 pm
Bet me this “investigation” won’t be completed before the election. A branch of the government investigating itself. Yah…..those always work.
By LARRY MARGASAK and DAVID ESPO
WASHINGTON Oct 5, 2006 (AP)- The House ethics committee on Thursday launched an investigation of a congressional page sex scandal that has imperiled Republican election prospects, approving dozens of subpoenas for documents and testimony.
The committee’s chairman, Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., said a newly formed subcommittee’s investigation “will go wherever our evidence leads us.”
Asked if embattled House speaker Dennis Hastert was among those subpoenaed, Hastings would not comment.
“We are looking at weeks, not months,” said the committee’s senior Democrat, Rep. Howard Berman of California.
A House GOP official said that Hastert, fighting to save his job, will take responsibility for the unfolding scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., but will insist that he will stay on as leader of House Republicans at a news conference scheduled later in Batavia, Ill.
More at ABCNews
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 3:07 pm
Let’s hope corruption and scandal stay as important to voters in November as they are today!
By JIM KUHNHENN
WASHINGTON Oct 5, 2006 (AP)- Congressional Republicans, already struggling against negative public perceptions of Congress, now face voters who say new scandals will significantly influence their vote in November.
With midterm elections less than five weeks away, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that about half of likely voters say recent disclosures of corruption and scandal in Congress will be very or extremely important when they cast their vote next month.
The poll of 1,501 adults, including 741 likely voters, occurred Monday through Wednesday as House Republican leaders came under increasing pressure to explain what they knew of sexually explicit messages from former Rep. Mark Foley of Florida to teenage pages.
More troubling for Republicans, the poll found that by a margin of nearly 2-to-1 likely voters says Democrats would be better at combatting political corruption than Republicans.
Full article at ABCNews
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Buck October 5th, 2006 - 11:43 am
Found this juicy tidbit and wanted to share:
From NBC’s Mike Viqueira
Embattled Speaker Dennis Hastert got a boost today: Rep. Mike Pence, chair of the House conservative caucus, and Rep. Joe Pitts, head of a group called the “Values Action Team,” have come out in support of him. Their statement: “What our former colleague Mark Foley has done is appalling and disgusting on its face. But in the context of the responsibilities of high office, his actions are even more despicable. And in the context of the Republican Party, which has done so much to protect and nurture children, it is utterly unconscionable…(emphasis mine) Regardless of our reservations about how this matter was handled administratively, we believe Speaker Hastert is a man of integrity who has led our conference honorably and effectively throughout the past eight years. Speaker Dennis Hastert should not resign.”
Source: First Read: THE DAY IN POLITICS
 There is no level in which a Republican will not stoop. What have they done to protect and nurture our children? By setting the example that lying and cheating does work? By sending their mommies and daddies off to fight in an unjust and illegal war, possibly never to return home? By sending jobs overseas, thus putting their families in the poor house? It’s been proven ‘No Child Left Behind’ is an utter failure. Would someone please tell me one thing a Republican has done for the benefit of our children?! (’Our’ children, not their own… which is an entirely different matter)
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 10:55 am
 What does “previously unannounced” visit mean?
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a previously unannounced visit, Iraqi officials said.
Rice has been on a tour of the Middle East, having already visited Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. She was likely to hold meetings with Iraqi government officials, including Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
U.S. officials have been putting pressure on Maliki’s Shi’ite-led government to reign in militias blamed for much of the sectarian violence ravaging the country.
Washington has made the training of Iraqi security forces the focus of hopes to start withdrawing 140,000 U.S. troops.
Read full article at Rueters
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 10:12 am
Jon Stewart took on the Foley scandal.
Reynolds: I did what most people would do in a work place. I heard something, I took it to my supervisor.
Stewart: “I took it to my supervisor?” Tom Reynolds…Congressman? or Assistant Manager at Applebees?
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 10:02 am
It’s about time……..
SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 30 - South Korean and American officials are expected to decide in October on a date when Seoul will regain wartime command of its military from Washington, in what could be a landmark change in the half-century-old military alliance.
Since the Korean War of 1950-53, the authority to lead the Combined Forces Command of both countries in war has rested in the hands of an American general. The South Korean government has proposed 2012 as the date for the turnover, while the United States has said it will be ready to surrender the command as early as 2009.
Despite the agreement, the decision has roiled South Korean society in recent weeks, exposing the deep cleavages here in the opinions toward the United States and North Korea. It comes at a delicate time in relations between South Korea and the United States, which have drifted further apart on how to deal with North Korea and its nuclear program.
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 9:46 am
It ought to be an interesting day……..
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., told a leading conservative Wednesday that he would resign as the top congressional leader if it would help the Republican Party stave off defeat in November.
But conservative activist Paul Weyrich said Hastert has rejected calls for his resignation because he believes it would prompt “a feeding frenzy” that ultimately would lead to the downfall of other GOP leaders as well.
“He said if he thought that resigning would be helpful to the Republicans maintaining the majority, he would do it. But he did not think it would be helpful for Republicans,” Weyrich said in an interview after holding what he described as an emotional telephone conversation with Hastert, who is home in Illinois campaigning and trying to deal with the fallout from the Mark Foley scandal.
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QuestionGirl October 5th, 2006 - 8:00 am
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