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Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) announced Thursday that he will try to attach a measure updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) as an amendment to the war supplemental bill.
Lewis, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, said he would make the move if the war funding bill is taken up by the panel. [...]

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If anyone ever tells you we’re not barbaric, point them to this story.
“[T]hat can be very threatening to someone’s ego and their sense of identity.”
So, that makes the case for murder? If children weren’t taught bigotry and hate at such an early age, maybe they wouldn’t feel so threatened. Something which most carry with them [...]

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Video on the GOP website, “FISA 2008: AMERICA AT RISK,” Via the Atlantic:

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Why not just use the music from JAWS!

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Fred Thompson, Republican. Lying his ass off so that he can be our next president.
Thompson warns of welfare state
LAGUNA WOODS, Calif. - Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Saturday that election of a Democrat to the White House in 2008 would open the way for a welfare state where bigger government, higher taxes and defense [...]

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Yeah, everybody’s got a bomb
We could all die any day
But before I’ll let that happen
I’ll dance my life away
Better hurry up with that Mukasey confirmation… Iran’s centrifuge tally has just hit the big 3,000.
“We have now reached 3,000 machines,” Ahmadinejad told thousands of Iranians in Birjand in eastern Iran, in a show of defiance of [...]

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When the White House uses advertising specialists to instill in our minds terrifying visual images of mushroom clouds above American cities, American psychologists should be concerned, to say the least. When our chief executive dwells yet again on “death and destruction” in a speech he makes as we observe the sixth anniversary of our national [...]

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cross posted from Crooks and Liars
On Sunday’s edition of “Fox News Sunday”, William (PNAC) Kristol takes the ball and delights in telling Fox;s fellow Kool-Aid drinkers that “Hillary…..bad!!!”.
Follow the link to the full story and video of another right-wing, neo-con, fearmongering nutball.
Crooks and Liars

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Klein draws a parallel between the way individuals are broken in interrogation through shock (read: torture) and by the way societies can be reshaped through the same methods. When you have a major disaster or war - whether it be a smaller war like the Falklands war, an attack like 9/11 which made Americans obedient, [...]

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A very interesting and scary video from You Tube.

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Fox Snooze is at it again! this time with their drumbeating to bomb the Middle Eastern country of Iran into the stone age. Robert Greenwald’s work is heroic and tireless to point out the injustices and idiocy of right-wing neocon war-mongering.
Enjoy and be informed! - JS

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