ActBlue still active for donations to non-Democrat Sinema

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Saturday December 10, 2022 · 2:46 PM PST

2022/12/10 · 14:46

Does someone have a direct line to ActBlue?

Krysten Sinema chose to elevate her vanity and spit in the face of hundreds of thousands of Democratic donors around the country that supported her candidacy in 2018 by quitting the Democratic party.

Now she has no qualms sending fundraising e-mails from an account rather inaccurately named “Team Sinema”. Surprisingly, even as of today, the fundraising links point to ActBlue and are active.

(Also, and I tried, they do not accept donations in the amount of $0.01).

Re-elect Pence 2020

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Thursday December 19, 2019 · 12:19 AM PST

2019/12/19 · 00:19

Re-elect Pence 2020

Pence/Graham 2020

Cruz/Rubio/Paul biding time 2020

The revenge caucus 2020

Condolences, Senator Udall

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Wednesday July 03, 2013 · 6:52 PM PDT

2013/07/03 · 18:52

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Teams looking for the brother of Colorado Sen. Mark Udall in western Wyoming’s Wind River Range have found his body, the family said Wednesday night.

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Are we falling for good lawyerese?

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Saturday September 22, 2012 · 11:00 PM PDT

2012/09/22 · 23:00

Do the Romneys pay federal income tax when no one is watching?

TPM’s BENJY SARLIN (and many others) seem to believe Romney's campaign assurances that they do:

Harry Reid Was Wrong. Sen. Harry Reid’s notoriously unsubstantiated claim that Romney paid no taxes for 10 years is not true. In his latest return, Romney paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent. As for his previous taxes, Romney’s trustee, R. Bradford Malt, provided no primary documents but offered some basic details backed up by a letter from accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Malt said Romney’s lowest effective tax rate was 13.66 percent and his average rate was 20.20 percent across the 20-year period.

In fact, this is what Romney Disclosure campaign site shows (click on “Letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers” on the right):

The lowest of any annual “effective federal personal income tax rate” for any year during the period is 13.66. As you requested, we computed each annual “effective federal personal income tax rate” as total taxes owed divided by adjusted gross income as shown on the federal income tax returns as prepared.

Let us parse what is being said here. Specifically, why is that Price Waterhouse Coopers needed to follow precise language that defined “effective federal personal income tax rate”? What is missing in this definition is in bold:

The lowest of any annual “effective federal personal income tax rate” for any year during the period is 13.66. As you requested, we computed each annual “effective federal personal income tax rate” as total federal income taxes owed divided by adjusted gross income as shown on the federal income tax returns as prepared.

Total taxes owed may mean any combination of United States federal income taxes, payroll taxes (not likely – Romney did not work for salary in years), foreign tax paid, and so on. Read More

Supreme Court Privacy Fight Looming: JPL 28

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 6:28 AM PST

2009/11/09 · 06:28

Is there a right to privacy?

A decision in a case on the Supreme Court's docket, nearly certainly to be heard and decided next year, will have long-lasting, profound ramifications for all Americans.

How then can it be constitutionally impermissible for the government to ask a subject’s friends, family and neighbors what they know about him? Surely there’s no constitutional right to have the state be the last to know.

So asks Chief Judge Kozinski of the 9th circuit federal appeals court, inviting the pro-executive contingent of the Supreme Court to overturn the pro-"subject" decision of his court's majority.

The case was prompted by a vast broadening of the scope and the universe of individuals subject to a McCarthy era investigation requirement. Following Bush's executive order, Homeland Security Presidential Directive #12,

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Friday April 17, 2009 · 9:44 PM PDT

2009/04/17 · 21:44

As is now widely known, on August 22, 2002 Jay Bybee signed off on a memo opining that the CIA is free to waterboard, strip naked, douse with cold water and slam into walls its interrogation targets.

On March 21, 2003, Bybee became a federal judge in the 9th Circuit court of appeals.

A year later, in May, 2004, Circuit Judge Bybee was a part of a three-judge panel that heard the asylum case of Luis Reyes-Reyes, a undocumented alien fearing persecution and torture because of his sexual identity should he return to his native El Salvador after 24 years in the US.

UN Convention Against Torture, signed by the United States in 1988 and ratified in 1994, was the foundation of Rayes's case. Remarkably, judge Bybee did not recuse himself. While Bybee agreed with the outcome (ruling against the INS), he refused to join in core parts of the legal analysis. In particular, Bybee did NOT sign off on the language of the opinion author, Circuit Judge McKeown:

Neither the IJ nor the BIA may redefine "torture" in defiance of the explicit text of the regulations and the clear intent of Congress. See Zheng, 332 F.3d. ("The definition of torture has been properly left, not to the INS, but to Congress....").

Still, the most remarkable part is what Bybee did write:

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Saturday August 30, 2008 · 12:32 AM PDT

2008/08/30 · 00:32

Social Security Administration maintains statistics on life expectancy and death probabilities. John McCain, who turned 72 today, has a 3.3% chance of dying before his 73rd birthday, 0.6% chance of dying before the elections and a 1.3% chance of dying before the inauguration.

McCain will be just over 76 on Election Day, 2012. He has a 15% chance of dying before then. He will be 80 for the 2016 elections – and a 32% chance of not making it.

If McCain gets elected in November, and maintains his incumbency 4 years from now, chances are 1 in 3 that we will see Ms. Palin as President.

The other group whose age and health is closely observed is the "liberal" judges of the Supreme Court. They did their best to outlast Bush, but they will not be there forever.

The chances of the oldest sitting saner justices surviving another 4 years:

Stevens: 47%
Ginzburg: 81%
Breyer: 88%
Kennedy: 86%

Now back to electing our young and vigorous candidate. Don’t worry too much if you see McCain leading in the polls by a point – actuarial tables might take care of it.

"Soviet Expert" Rice thinks Georgia is India

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Saturday August 16, 2008 · 12:29 AM PDT

2008/08/16 · 00:29

In yesterday's visit of a Georgian hospital, Dr. Rice greeted the victims of ongoing fighting with a traditional South Asian greeting (Namaste):

See YOUTUBE starting 00:19 sec. mark.

Dr. Rice served as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor for
president H.W. Bush, and may or may not speak Russian.

Bush about to drown NASA, EPA, Forest Service in the bathtub

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Saturday August 18, 2007 · 12:24 AM PDT

2007/08/18 · 00:24

Grover Norquist will be one step closer to his wet dream come October 27, 2007. This is the date by which all entities in the executive branch are required to issue uniform, government-wide form of identification. This requirement stems from an executive edict known as Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), benign in language and reasonable on its face. However, as with "clear skies" and "healthy forest" initiatives, the implementation details betray what one might in years past call "unintended consequences", but by now has no choice but to take as this administration’s real intent. The result will be intrusive investigations on tens of millions Americans, ruined careers and compromised security.

This story is about NASA rocket scientists, Department of Education scholars, Forest Service volunteers on one side, and the culture of secrecy and privacy invasion, private profit and Carlyle Group on the other.

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Thursday February 08, 2007 · 12:45 AM PST

2007/02/08 · 00:45

Would you consider naming your kid "Adolf"?

With this question in mind, let's see how really disgusted the nation was with the Blue Dress incident. Here is a graphical representation of the number of newborns in the US who were given the same first name as a public figure.

Turns out, the impeachment circus endeared Bill to the core demographics of young adults. Monica fared not as well. Of course, Bill Oh Really? of Fox would take credit, and "Friends" had been on the air for way too long, but I'd discount those.

Next, was Ronald Reagan really that appealing?

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The Vultures Gather?

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Saturday November 04, 2006 · 2:13 PM PST

2006/11/04 · 14:13

If you needed the last straw to stop paying attention to "The Economist", here it comes. The cover page of the latest issue is the picture of menacing clouds over the Capitol, with ravens circling over and vultures poised to peck on it. The header: "The vultures gather, America's mid-term elections". The lead article then proceeds to half-heartedly making the argument that the republicans are about to get what they deserved, followed by "None of this amounts to an enthusiastic endorsement of the incoherent Democrats". And "[the democrats] ha[ve] no better ideas than the president for dealing with the mess in Iraq(and some worse one)" I guess they have in mind that secret plan that he's not telling anyone about. Despicable. And then there is the "Madam Speaker?" article on Nancy Pelosi, who "seems made for caricature". They are mentioning the liberal base, "hog-wrestling-mad at the president". Somehow, I doubt they had anything bad to say about Hastert (before Foley). Despicable. Read More

Osama out of the freezer?

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Sunday October 29, 2006 · 7:35 PM PST

2006/10/29 · 19:35

Things like this are too close for comfort.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

KHAR, Pakistan - Pakistani troops backed by helicopters firing missiles destroyed an al-Qaida-linked training facility in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghan border Monday, killing "many" militants, officials said.

A convenient setup to "find" a body or a suprisingly well-preserved medical history of the arch-villain.

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