Bush: God Told Me To Invade Iraq

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Thursday October 06, 2005 · 1:54 PM PDT

2005/10/06 · 13:54

For those of you unsure if Bush is a moronic incompetent or a stark raving loony, chalk one up for stark raving loony:

President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq - and create a Palestinian State, a new BBC series reveals. . . .

[Palestinian Prime Minister] Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq ..." And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, "Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East." And by God I'm gonna do it.'"

When most people say that they hear voices, we put them in padded rooms.

American Airlines Wants Cancer Patients to Drop Dead

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Monday October 03, 2005 · 9:47 AM PDT

2005/10/03 · 09:47

I wanted to relate a recent experience I had with American Airlines that illustrates why the industry is in such trouble -- and why things are not likely to get better any time soon. I was scheduled to fly from Raleigh Durham, NC, to New York, and back to Raleigh via Boston the weekend of October 11, via American. All well and good until I learned that I was not going to be able to make the outbound flight.

Why not? Because a few years ago, I joined the National Bone Marrow Registry (www.marrow.org), a nonprofit organization that matches allogenic (nonrelated/nonfamily) donors with cancer patients in need of bone marrow transplants. Read More

The National Guard Restoration Act of 2005

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Thursday September 01, 2005 · 7:38 AM PDT

2005/09/01 · 07:38

I will personally contribute $100 to the reelection campaign of the first Democratic Congressman or Senator to sponsor the following Bill. It is not much, but it is what I can afford. I encourage other Kossacks to do the same.

The Bill in extended text will require that all troops currently deployed in Iraq who are residents of the areas hit by Katrina will be returned home to provide damage relief. Read More

Biden Gets It on Judges

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Friday July 29, 2005 · 3:39 PM PDT

2005/07/29 · 15:39

Speaking at the American Constitution Society's National Convention, Senator Biden raged against the right-wing's judicial agenda:

"What is really at stake the wholesale liquidation of any constitutional protection of privacy." Biden added that those on the right, the "Constitutional in Exile crowd, believe that there should no protection of privacy in the constitution."

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Thursday April 21, 2005 · 2:50 PM PDT

2005/04/21 · 14:50

There were not sufficient reasons to unleash a war against Iraq. To say nothing of the fact that, given the new weapons that make possible destructions that go beyond the combatant groups, today we should be asking ourselves if it is still licit to admit the very existence of a 'just war'.

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Call Rush TODAY, Make Him Prove His Cowardice

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Monday April 18, 2005 · 8:48 AM PDT

2005/04/18 · 08:48

As I previously diaried here a group of Yale students have called Rush Limbaugh on a major bluff.

A group of liberal lawyers, law students and law professors held a conference at Yale about a week ago, and this bothered Rush immensely. So much so he insisted that the "liberal elistists" at Yale have "banned" him. The leaders of the conference responded with a letter to Rush: Read More

How To Handle Rush Limbaugh

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Friday April 15, 2005 · 2:27 PM PDT

2005/04/15 · 14:27

So a group of lawyers, law students and academics got together to discuss the Constitution at Yale last weekend. Something Rush didn't like very much:

[S]ome people got together to rewrite the Constitution. A bunch of liberal elitists gathered up at Yale to have this little pretend new Constitution. What it should say, what it should be, what the principles and guidelines of the new Constitution ought to be. So while there are those of us who are devoted to defending the current US Constitution, there are a bunch of leftists and liberals out there that are toying around with the idea of rewriting and changing it. (interruption) Well, I don't know if they've banned me, I haven't read everything that everybody there posited or wrote.

But the "liberal elitists" at Yale were not about to be outgunned. So they sent a little letter off to Rush: Read More

Tom Delay is Part of An Illegal Conspiracy

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Tuesday April 05, 2005 · 12:04 PM PDT

2005/04/05 · 12:04

Via ACSBlog:

§ 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights

(1) Preventing officer from performing duties If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person from accepting or holding any office, trust, or place of confidence under the United States, or from discharging any duties thereof . . . or impede him in the discharge of his official duties . . . the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation, against any one or more of the conspirators.

Roe, Schavio, and the link no one is drawing

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Thursday March 24, 2005 · 6:43 AM PST

2005/03/24 · 06:43

Those crazy lawyers at the American Constitution Society give us this to chew on:

Everytime [the Republicans] call for appointment of judges to the Supreme Court who will overrule or undermine Roe v. Wade, they assert that the matter should be left to the states. They assert that even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, it won't eliminate abortion in the states in which the duly elected state representatives do not take steps to outlaw the practice. But the Schiavo case reveals the true priorities of the right: they are happy to abandon the principles of federalism if the issue is related to questions of "life." But if they are willing to cast aside federalism in the Schiavo case, won't they be willing to do the same in the context of abortion? And if they are, won't that inevitably lead to attempts to pass federal legislation banning abortion? The actions of conservatives in the context of the Terri Schiavo case should give us pause as Bush nominates new justices to the Supreme Court -- especially, given conservatives' admitted goal of denying women's constitutional right to privacy and reproductive choice.

Another Prominent Conservative Calls For More Torture

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Thursday March 17, 2005 · 11:34 AM PST

2005/03/17 · 11:34

Eugene Volokh is a leading conservative constitutional scholar and a darling of the right-wing Federalist Society. I'm going to let his words speak for themselves:

[T]hough for many instances I would prefer less painful forms of execution, I am especially pleased that the killing -- and, yes, I am happy to call it a killing, a perfectly proper term for a perfectly proper act -- was a slow throttling, and was preceded by a flogging. The one thing that troubles me (besides the fact that the murderer could only be killed once) is that the accomplice was sentenced to only 15 years in prison, but perhaps there's a good explanation.

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Sunday January 23, 2005 · 11:18 AM PST

2005/01/23 · 11:18

A federal Court has struck down the anti-porn law. In U.S. v. Extreme Associates, the government charged an internet porn company with ten felony counts of obscenity. The government's argument was that "entertaining lewd and lustful thoughts stimulated by viewing material that appeals to one's purient interests . . . . is immoral conduct even when done by consenting adults in private," and therefore Congress could make laws to prevent such conduct.

The court wanted no part of this tripe. In a decision relying heavily on Lawrence v. Texas, Judge Lancaster of the Western District of Pennsylvania held that "upholding the public sense of morality is not even a legitimate state interest," and therefore the federal anti-obscenity law could not be turned against the defendant.

Pentagon Considered Developing Weapons of Mass Santorum

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Monday January 17, 2005 · 10:38 AM PST

2005/01/17 · 10:38

The Pentagon considered developing a chemical weapon which would make enemy soldiers sexually attracted to each other, thus undermining their morale. Needless to say, this hasn't gone over well with watchdog groups:

"Humiliating your enemy with gay sex sounds a lot like what happened at Abu Ghraib," observed Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, a watchdog group that monitors research into biological and chemical weapons and that was responsible for the proposal's disclosure.

Steve Ralls, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), said, "It is a homophobic and delusional proposition for the Pentagon to assume a gay opponent is any less formidable than a straight one."

But of course, a war with Iraq was necessary to destroy their stockpiles of chemical weapons.

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