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Telecom Immunity Bill

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Senate Kills Immunity-Free FISA Bill

That's a heck of a racket they've got going in DC. Break the law and then immunize the criminals.

Got integrity? Be a savior and run for Congress. We need a few good men and women over there!

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Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Darn, a couple of days ago Obama was ahead on the Delegate count, how the friking hell can Hillary be 100 delegates ahead of Obama now.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads the race for delegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer. She has 236, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates, giving her a 100-delegate lead over Sen. Barack Obama.


Super Tuesday Won't Decide Nominations

WASHINGTON — Don't look to crown any presidential nominees on Super Tuesday.

The race for delegates is so close in both parties that it is mathematically impossible for any candidate to lock up the nomination on Feb. 5, according to an Associated Press analysis of the states in play that day.

"A lot of people were predicting that this presidential election on both sides was going to be this massive sprint that ended on Feb. 5," said Jenny Backus, a Democratic consultant who is not affiliated with any candidate. Now it's looking as if the primaries after Super Tuesday _ including such big, delegate-rich states as Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania _ could grow in importance.

"Maybe some states were better off waiting," said Backus.

That doesn't mean Super Tuesday won't be super after all. Voters in more than 20 states will go to the polls on the biggest day of the primary campaign, and thousands of delegates will be at stake.

But it's possible Feb. 5 might not even produce clear front-runners.

Here's why:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads the race for delegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer. She has 236, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates, giving her a 100-delegate lead over Sen. Barack Obama.

There will be nearly 1,700 Democratic delegates at stake on Feb. 5, enough to put a candidate well on his or her way to the 2,025 needed to secure the nomination. But even if somehow either Clinton or Obama won every one of those delegates, it wouldn't be enough. And with two strong candidates, the delegates could be divided fairly evenly because the Democrats award their delegates proportionally _ not winner-take- all.

The biggest prizes among the Democratic states are California (370 delegates), New York (232) and Illinois (153). All three states award Democratic delegates proportionally, with most delegates awarded according to the popular vote in individual congressional districts, and the rest based on the statewide vote.

The wild card for the Democrats involves the superdelegates, nearly 800 elected officials and members of the Democratic National Committee. They are free to support any candidate they choose at the national convention, regardless of the outcome of the primaries.

The AP has interviewed more than 90 percent of the superdelegates who have been identified by the party, and most have yet to endorse a candidate. Many say they will not make endorsements until after their states vote.

The Republicans have a better chance to produce a clear front-runner because several states, including New York, New Jersey, Missouri and Arizona, award all their GOP delegates to the candidate who wins the popular statewide vote. But a Republican candidate would have to attract support across the country to build a formidable lead.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the race for delegates to the Republican National Convention with 59. He is followed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 40 and Arizona Sen. John McCain with 36.

There will be more than 1,000 Republican delegates at stake on Feb. 5, enough to give a candidate a substantial boost toward the 1,191 needed to win the nomination _ but only if one man emerges victorious in numerous states.

"I think you could have two or three viable (GOP) candidates" following Super Tuesday, said Ohio Republican Chairman Robert Bennett.

"Somebody's going to have some big wins, but you're going to go into March 4, and you're not going to have an apparent (GOP) nominee," Bennett said.

Ohio is waiting in the wings with its 85 Republican delegates on March 4, a date it shares with Texas, which will award 137 GOP delegates.

Other big states with later contests include Maryland and Virginia on Feb. 12, Wisconsin on Feb. 19 and Pennsylvania on April 22.

Four years ago, Sen. John Kerry clinched the Democratic nomination on March 2 _ the earliest date in modern times _ with a string of Super Tuesday primary victories. In 2000, George W. Bush and Al Gore both clinched their parties' nominations on March 14, each sweeping a string of Southern primaries that day.

This year, Super Tuesday has grown to include more than 20 states, and it was moved up to Feb. 5 as states leapfrogged each other in an attempt to increase their influence in picking the nominees.

With so many states voting so early, the stage was set for a lengthy general election campaign after nominees were settled early in the year.

Some think that is still a good bet, especially if candidates who don't fare well on Feb. 5 decide to drop out.

"It may take a while for Obama or Clinton to get 50 percent plus one of the delegates. But if it does narrow to a two-person race, then the Democratic nomination will be determined relatively soon," said David Rohde, a political science professor at Duke University.

Rohde said it is possible for the nomination contests to drag all the way to the conventions this summer. But he added, "It is also possible for aliens from Mars to land tomorrow and interfere with the election."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/24/super-tuesday-wont-decid_n_83063.html

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Kucinich Drops Out Of Presidential Race


For more coverage of Dennis Kucinich, go to the Openers blog.

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/01/kucinich_drops_presidential_bi.html

woz said:

suz - I'm sorry to be off the topic so quickly but this entire piece is worth reading. It's by an excellent writer and novelist; and a fellow Tasmanian; and he brings to light things that not many know about Heath.

It's also a good non confrontational response to the media's determination to turn him into some kind of junkie loser.

Heath Ledger made a bad career move, apparently, by publicly opposing the Iraq war as being a war for oil.

Ledger another great who died too young
Martin Flanagan
January 25, 2008

http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/ledger-another-great-who-died-too-young/2008/01/24/1201157560500.html

Karen said:

Hey all, Both Richard and I have come down with the creeping crud, and we are reading the site but struggling to write and participate. However, tomorrow is another day and who knows what the drugs will yield?

Kangaroo

Give me a break Ally

They don't need suicide bombers in Israel, Israel have all the American WMDs they would ever need to wipe out Palistine. and they have done a pretty good job of it I think. Just like America has done in Iraq, How many tonnes of WMDs have they dropped in the last month, on innocent citizens of Iraq.

I am no fan of Israel's US-supplied WMDs, but I have to ask this question.

Is it any better to have me killed by a homophobic Muslim suicide bomber, than by an Israeli WMD? Many white liberals say yes, and that's unforgivable.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

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Chapter Four: The Time of Troubles

Crazed leader launches nuclear bombs on Mediterranean and Europe

American Electoral College voting stalemate
(Century VII, Quatrain 41)

The presidents of the United States, a supposedly free country, have been abusing their power to an increasingly greater extent. During a time of social unrest even more so than the period of Vietnam and Watergate, the Electoral College will be evenly split over the election of the new president. The process will stalemate, with many people clamoring for whichever candidate they voted for, causing enormous tension in the country. Internationally it will be a sensitive situation.
Because of the split, and the extremely volatile and explosive social unrest, putting either candidate in office instead of the other could start a civil war or a revolution. After a long time of impassioned speeches invoking patriotism and the founding fathers, a compromise solution of holding another election will be taken, and a candidate will be installed without disaster.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Is it any better to have me killed by a homophobic Muslim suicide bomber, than by an Israeli WMD? Many white liberals say yes, and that's unforgivable.

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Many white liberals say yes, that is in America, one of the worst Homophobic Countries in the world, just look to that Psychotic homophobic creep who was going to lead a demonstration at Heath Ledgers funeral for acting in a movie, to bad for him his funeral will be Down Under.

Are you saying that all the innocent Palistinian citizens, women and children that are being killed by Israeli WMDs would wish to have you killed by a homophobic suicide bomber, if they are homophobic suicide bombers which I am afraid I do not believe. I doubt that Ally, they are to busy trying to friking survive, let alone to think of homophobia.

Georgie wanted Friking democratic Elections in Palistine, and he got them, They voted democratically for Hamas to lead their Govt, but still America and Israel are not satisfied, but friking Musharref he's okay, isn't he, forget Osama he's not bothering to look for him, but he sure as hell helped Georgie invade, and occupy Iraq, didn't he.

It is not the Israeli people I am against, darm my brother in law is Jewish, I am sure many of them think as I do, they just want to live in peace, on that side of the world. It is the foreign policies of the Govts of Israel and America that I am against. Maybe you could walk in the street of Palistine and Iraq if they hadn't had tonnes of WMDs dropped on them.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Darn it all Ally I haven't seen Tonnes of WMDs dropped on Israel and America, But I sure as hell see Palistine and Iraq being occupied, and bombed off this plant, by Israel and America.

that is in America, one of the worst Homophobic Countries in the world

There are lots of Christian, Confucian, and particularly, Muslim countries where it is a capital crime to be LGBT. The US is not one of them, at least not yet.

The fact is that LGBT Palestinians are consistently asking for asylum in Israel, despite all the BS that the Israelis hand out to the Palestinians. That says something.

The Israeli government is a whole bunch of Republican-backed neocon crooks. No mistakes about that. But the Israeli people are mature enough to let even queer Palestinians survive among their midst. The Palestinian society is NOT there yet, and I don't know of any predominantly Muslim society that is even close to being there. Please prove me wrong on this one!

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Ally sorry I can't speak on that with any true authority, because I do not know enough about the subject, but I would assume we are talking about govts laying out those laws, the
Saudis, Georgies best friends. The Iranians,
I don't know about Iraq they where a secular nation, they sure as hell are not now that Georgie has occupied them, I know they are an Islamic Society now, and they are killing gay people, Well done Georgie, and the other muslim coutries I cannot talk about with any authority. But I find it hard to believe that the many billions of muslim people around the world would just as soon kill a gay person.
Hell I don't even know what LGBT means.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Olbermann: Why does Bill O'Reilly hate homeless Veterans?

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

John Edwards responds to Bill O'Reilly on COUNTDOWN

Kangaroo

LGBT = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender.

And honestly, most Muslim countries bring in sharia law - BY POPULAR DEMAND. It's the PEOPLE who are calling for butchering the likes of me. In the Christian world, Poland is a similar example - homophobia by POPULAR DEMAND - that's why Poland is on my sh*tlist.

Besides, "liberal Islam" that respects women and gays - it's a Western invention, and does not exist in the Middle East or anywhere else in the traditional Muslim world.

We do agree that the regimes involved - the Saudis, the Iraqis, the Afghanis, the Emirates, and even the Iranians - benefit handsomely from W, one way or the other. W is the greatest enabler of religious extremism, both Christian and Muslim. In fact, Christy once told us that W is most likely a secret Saudi prince.

This is interesting.

I came in from my car and turned on Fresh Air/NPR.

An author revealed that George W Bush LIED ABOUT WALKING ON THE BEACH WITH BILLY GRAHAM. It never happened.

He was actually "converted" three years earlier by a minister who was a "Jesus freak" who carries a huge cross around the world and has converted many hippies in Haight Ashbury in the past from drugs to Christ.

Once again he lied.

The author also reveals how Bush was unable to stand up to the model set by his father, as an oilman, athlete etc.

I think this book would be worth reading.

After Bush's "conversion," he continued to swear frequently, never encouraged any of his family to serve God, he does not tithe or do anything most "Born Again" Christians do. He may be "sincere" but he has also used his beliefs in a completely politically calculated way.

Jacob Weisberg wrote "The Bush Tragedy" and is the Editor of SLATE.

Christy said:

OMFG! Is that the 70s?

You know, this is so homophobic it is surreal. I have a brother that is soooo freaked out by the thought of gay men, I have to wonder of my brother isn't hiding some urges himself.

It is so irrational it is scary.

Christy said:

This country is homophobic, that is.

Sorry, the 70s flashback traumatized me and it affected my typing abilities.

Yeah do you recognize those two closet cases at the bottom flanking Gerald Ford?

Carol said:

Christy - I can't find your email address. Do you still have mine?


Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

"The Bush Tragedy"

He knows nothing other than lies, lies are his lifes specialty, and a Christian puleeese, well, Maybe Hitler considered himself a Christian too.

Carol said:

NMP -

It's Rummy on the left. Is it Cheney on the right? He's smiling, so I can't tell....


blech.

monkey said:

That would be Rummy and Dick flanking the Ford Focus.

Carol said:

'Night everybody.

Christy, I'll catch up with you tomorrow.

monkey said:

Well wouldja looky looky... how many of US predicated THIS might happen just before His Stupidness leaves orifice????

Iraq seeks sharp reduction in U.S. military role
Negotiations to begin on taking American forces out of combat

EXCLUSIVE
NBC News and MSNBC
updated 3:22 p.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 24, 2008
BAGHDAD - The United States and Iraq will soon begin negotiating a power shift for U.S. forces, nearly five years after they invaded Iraq and installed a new government, Iraqi and U.S. officials told NBC News on Thursday.

Both countries are working on assembling negotiating teams to shape a new long-term bilateral strategic agreement redefining the fundamental role of U.S. troops, whose mission would shift from combat operations to logistics and support, the officials told NBC News’ Richard Engel.

President Bush did not address the report at an economic briefing for reporters Thursday afternoon in Washington, but Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, confirmed that negotiations would begin soon. Petraeus would not provide details, but he said the U.S. role in Iraq would be changing.

more on...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22825800/

Operation Rescue The Liars Legacy is underway

woz said:

Good god! So, how is McCain going to get his hundred years war happening?

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

LGBT = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender.

Will not forget.

Georgie being a Saudi Prince, well I won't tell you what I think about that, my mind swirls in a totally different arena. Just remembering all Jeff Gannons little trips to the White House, through the front door.


And Christy that is shamefull, your brother, shame on him, My Sons best friends brother is gay, and he sure as hell has the hots for my son, I just have a good laugh when all the guys are talking about it, I am sure Tony can protect himself.

monkey said:

Oh that's an easy one, woz...

As soon as the Iraqi forces start firing at Americans.

General Klusterfunk

Christy

My homophobic family doesn't realize that LGBTs are right on their doorstep (and I'm not talking about me).

My family business has a Filipino employee whose youngest brother is gay. Only I know at work though - for now. At least this employee's family accepts the gay brother well, it seems.

Kangaroo

Jeff Gannon? What about Mann Coulter and HIS lovefest of anything Republican? (And calling all the male Democratic politicians "faggots" - the Mann must look in his own mirror!)

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

It was Jeff Gannon, the so called reporter gay pros, that had all those nightly visits to the White House wasn't it? and Mann Coulter well there are no words to express that little bit of sleeze whatever he/she is.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Hmmmmmm, we where discussing the Telecom Immunity Bill, weren't we, seems we got a little off track here.

Carol
Yes it's Cheney when his comb-over would still kind of work and he didn't have as many stomachs. I do not want to think about his sexual identity, though we know about his daughter's and I do not know quite why his wife is said to have written a lesbian pulp novel. Curious.

NY Times article on the book:

“Elaine Showalter, an English professor at Princeton University, was browsing a used-book stall in Paris in the early 1990’s when she came upon an astonishing find: an Old West romance, replete with whorehouses, lesbian affairs and attempted rapes, written by an author whose name was all too familiar to academics in the humanities.”

THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’S WIFE;
Bold Themes in a Lynne Cheney Novel
September 27, 2000, Wednesday,

“I want everyone here to note that I'm wearing pink for this occasion, pink, the color of soothing, softening and reconciliation. Lately it's become Dick's favorite color — replacing his old favorite, terror-alert red.”

Lynne Cheney

Headed to bed but please pass this on

Posted by Kayakbiker at http://www.silencedmajority.blogs.com - shows how much the Iraq war costs per day and what it would buy - absolutely shocking.

& to think the government might try to buy us off with tax rebates ..

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Bold Themes in a Lynne Cheney Novel

raunchy, sick old cow, disgusting.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Lately it's become Dick's favorite color — replacing his old favorite, terror-alert red.”

Lynne Cheney

Ahahahahaha

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Lately it's become Dick's favorite color — replacing his old favorite, terror-alert red.”

Lynne Cheney

Ahahahahaha

woz said:

Surprising they haven't been bombed yet.

World's first oil paintings in Afghan caves: expert
January 25, 2008 - 6:50PM

Forget Renaissance Europe. The world's first oil paintings go back nearly 14 centuries to murals in Afghanistan's Bamiyan caves, a Japanese researcher says.

Buddhist images painted in the central Afghan region, dated to around 650 AD, are the earliest examples of oil used in art history, says Yoko Taniguchi, an expert at Japan's National Research Institute for Cultural Properties.

http://news.theage.com.au/worlds-first-oil-paintings-in-afghan-caves-expert/20080125-1o6t.html

Matthew Carnicelli Author Profile Page said:

For those of you who may be interested, Pluto moves into the sign of Capricorn tonight at around 10:45 pm EST, for the first time since 1777. It's stay will initially be a brief one, inasmuch as it returns to Sagittarius during the period of its retrograde motion between mid-June and late November 2008. Then, on November 28, 2008, it will commence what I anticipate to be a sustained sixteen year period of deconstruction / exploration of a wide range of terrestrial phenomenon, but principally those associated with existing human conceptions of fear, scarcity, sustainable economics, and the delicate balance between liberty, order, and collective responsibility. Given the economic storm clouds that everyone is now finally acknowledging to be on the horizon, my guess is that we should expect conditions to become more even dire over the next few years, as whatever bottoming out process that is required unfolds - and Americans, and indeed, human being everywhere, have the opportunity to first identify, and then correct those flawed assumptions and broken institutions that will become apparent amidst the rubble, or renegotiate those relationships with neighbors or institutions that need be altered. How exactly this process will turn out is anybody’s guess – but my bias is that a cosmos that is at all coherent is one that must be impelling (though not compelling) all of life towards ever-higher levels of functionality.

Christy said:

If a certain leo does not marry me this year, I am going to throw him into the cosmos.

BTW, is there any doubt left that harry reid is a full fledged bushevik?

Like Monkeymus Maximus says, they can't find their emails but they can damn sure find yours.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

U.S. Asking Iraq for Wide Rights on War
By THOM SHANKER and STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: January 25, 2008
WASHINGTON — With its international mandate in Iraq set to expire in 11 months, the Bush administration will insist that the government in Baghdad give the United States broad authority to conduct combat operations and guarantee civilian contractors specific legal protections from Iraqi law, according to administration and military officials.
This emerging American negotiating position faces a potential buzz saw of opposition from Iraq, with its fragmented Parliament, weak central government and deep sensitivities about being seen as a dependent state, according to these officials.
At the same time, the administration faces opposition from Democrats at home, who warn that the agreements that the White House seeks would bind the next president by locking in Mr. Bush’s policies and a long-term military presence.
The American negotiating position for a formal military-to-military relationship, one that would replace the current United Nations mandate, is laid out in a draft proposal that was described by White House, Pentagon, State Department and military officials on ground rules of anonymity. It also includes less controversial demands that American troops be immune from Iraqi prosecution, and that they maintain the power to detain Iraqi prisoners.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/world/middleeast/25military.html?_r=1&ex=1358917200&en=30c33820b32f91bf&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

"Worst Person in the World" John Gibson Faux News, You Decide?

MSNBC - Countdown with Keith Olbermann (1.23.08) Olbermann makes Fox News host John Gibson his "Worst Person in the World" for mocking the death of Heath Ledger on his radio show by playing the iconic "Why can’t I quit you?" quote from Brokeback Mountain

http://www.glaad.org/action/calls_detail.php?id=4189

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Boycott Corporate Media

Cancel your Subscriptions,
& Turn Off your Television!

In 1944, Henry A. Wallace, one of three Vice Presidents to serve under Franklin D. Roosevelt, assessed the threat of fascism in America, and predicted that the time might come when the MEDIA was in collusion with the RULING POWER.

http://www.unitedboycott.org/

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Boycott Corporate Media

Cancel your Subscriptions,
& Turn Off your Television!

In 1944, Henry A. Wallace, one of three Vice Presidents to serve under Franklin D. Roosevelt, assessed the threat of fascism in America, and predicted that the time might come when the MEDIA was in collusion with the RULING POWER.

http://www.unitedboycott.org/

ralpheh Author Profile Page said:

MICHIGAN PRIMARY RESULTS

(I hadn't realized that "Uncommitted" did so well in that election!!!!!)

The final statewide numbers (from CNN).

Clinton: 55% -- 328,151 votes
Uncommitted: 40% -- 236,723 votes
Kucinich: 4% -- 21, 708
Dodd: 1% -- 3,853 votes
Gravel: 0% -- 2,363 votes

Overall, I'm just amazed that 40% of those that voted, took the time to go out and vote for "nobody" given there was no campaign to speak of, just some small grassroots work on LTEs and email lists. Especially given that Team Hillary Michigan sent out glossy mailers and held rallies for Hillary. I also credit the media which around here and I know in Lansing, got the word out that Edwards and Obama supporters were advocating Uncommitted.

ralpheh Author Profile Page said:

TURNOUT IN THE MICHIGAN PRIMARY:

In Michigan, according to the CNN website:
Total Voters: 1,456,098 voters, a 21% turnout among registered voters.
Republican-ballot Turnout: 864,303 voters, or 59% of total turnout.
Democrat-ballot Turnout: 591,795 voters, or 40% of total turnout.

Kangaroo

Our family has had that boycott in place since 1991, because of the ridiculous reporting on the Gulf War which made it look like a video game - collateral damage, precision bombing and all the rest of the Orwellian doublespeak propaganda.

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

Our family has had that boycott in place since 1991

I have only had it in place since 2000, except for the primaries and presidential debates. of 2004

sparrow Author Profile Page said:

Just need to know...is it only my page that is refreshing funky or is anybody else's not refreshing right?

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

New York Times endorses Clinton, backs McCain over Giuliani

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Times endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination over Rudy Giuliani and the rest of the GOP field, strongly criticizing the former mayor of its home city.
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The endorsement anticipated readers asking how the New York paper could reject Giuliani, a man it endorsed for re-election in 1997 and praised for his work cleaning up crime in the city and during the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"That man is not running for president," the paper wrote.
"The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city's and the country's nightmare to promote his presidential campaign," the paper writes, describing Giuliani as "a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/25/nytimes.endorses/

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

I'm refreshing all right sparrow

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

No Plans for Special Prosecutor to Investigate Destroyed CIA Tapes, Mukasey Says

LARA JAKES JORDAN AP News
Jan 25, 2008 15:50 EST
Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he doesn't plan for a special prosecutor to investigate whether the CIA broke the law when it destroyed videotapes of terror interrogations, defying some in Congress who want an independent look at the politically charged case.
Mukasey, in a 41-minute briefing with reporters, also ducked repeated questions about whether he considers waterboarding an illegal form of torture — an issue expected to be at the top of the agenda when he appears next week before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Speaking tersely and in an even, low tone, Mukasey would not discuss whether he has seen any evidence that destroying the interrogation tapes violated court orders or otherwise interfered with any case. He said the ongoing criminal investigation, headed by career federal prosecutor John Durham of Connecticut, was opened on grounds of "some indication — which is a lot less than probable cause — some indication that there was any violation of any federal statute."
"And that's the only basis on which we proceeded," Mukasey said.
Asked if he has reconsidered his decision not to put a special prosecutor in charge of the investigation, Mukasey said, simply, "No."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/AG_nixes_special_prosecutor_in_CIA__01252008.html

Kangaroo Author Profile Page said:

News Corp. And Judith Regan Settle Lawsuit About Protecting Giuliani

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/25/news-corp-and-judith-reg_n_83303.html

Matthew Carnicelli Author Profile Page said:
“I want everyone here to note that I'm wearing pink for this occasion, pink, the color of soothing, softening and reconciliation. Lately it's become Dick's favorite color — replacing his old favorite, terror-alert red.”

Lynne Cheney

As CodePink says, PINK SLIP CHENEY!

Friend sent this - haven't watched it but probably will. It's 6 parts & about an hour, I hear.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=87529&mesg_id=87529

All about Sibel Edmonds - my friend says to watch all the way to the end and especially the end.

$20 Million to Celebrate Victory in Afghanistan and Iraq

glumbert - What is President Bush's job?

Don't worry - Mitch McConnell earmarked money for this big kegger in the last military spending bill.

sparrow Author Profile Page said:

new thread

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