Senator Specter, bald-faced liar

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 11:37 AM PDT

2006/06/15 · 11:37

Glenn Greenwald has acquired a copy of Senator Specter's marked up legislation concerning illegal NSA spying and FISA. As we will all recall that just last Sunday on CNN Specter stated, in no uncertain terms, that he was not proposing giving amnesty to anybody. Now, I recall hearing that and seeing how strongly he was stating that and breathing a sigh of relief. I thought that perhaps the original story was in error and that Specter will finally do the right thing. For once. One word: HAH!

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Monday June 12, 2006 · 9:27 AM PDT

2006/06/12 · 09:27

This isn't a political diary. It does not address the Iraq War, voting rights, illegal NSA domestic spying nor anything else typical in Kos diary pages. This is, simply, a memorial to a dear, sweet, little old stray dog that stumbled briefly into my family and then, in an act that I can't help but feel was a betrayal in spite of the reasons, was killed ("euthanized") at our hands 3 weeks later. Forgive this diversion from the normal topics but because it is said that our postings on the internet tend to be permanent, I am taking advantage of that to give this little guy, whom we named Weezer, a permanent tribute as a means of trying to make up for his being dumped and forgotten. The internet never forgets and so, Weezer, you will never be forgotten. Read More

Despair. Let the country go because it is already lost.

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Tuesday April 18, 2006 · 10:04 AM PDT

2006/04/18 · 10:04

This is just frickin' fantastic. Over at Raw Story is an article among their top headlines about how some Democrats are expressing skepticism over Iran "intelligence" but that they could support a strike.

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Wednesday April 12, 2006 · 1:01 PM PDT

2006/04/12 · 13:01

Reading furiously whatever I find about the rumblings of yet a new war, this time targetted at Iran, I came across a recommend to the blog of Grand Moff Texan. He suggests that the goal of any attack on Iran is, in fact, a means of splintering Iran in two, with the southern Khuzistan region, supposedly peopled by Arabs (ethnic rivals to the ruling Shia) who supposedly despise their Iranian overlords, being the gemstone to acquire. The Khuzistan region is home to the breadbasket of Iran's oil.

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Friday March 24, 2006 · 11:34 AM PST

2006/03/24 · 11:34

I am a former Cold Warrier, in that I served in the USAF during the Cold War, catching the last 7 years of it. I was an EWO (Electronic Warfare Officer) on B-52s out of Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. I sat nuclear alert on a monthly basis, babysitting B-52s loaded with gravity bomb nukes and nuclear cruise missiles, until shortly after the Berlin Wall fell which soon after resulted in the Soviet Union taking a tumble. One of the most memorable episodes I experienced after the collapse of the Wall, but before the USSR died off, was the arrival, for the first time in US history, of Soviet Tu-95 Bear bombers at Barksdale for an air show. During the week of that episode, I met with, made friends with, and drank heavily with Soviet aircrewmen who had been just couple years prior our intractable enemy.

more on the flip

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Monday March 20, 2006 · 1:48 PM PST

2006/03/20 · 13:48

There's still a problem here with the very resource-intensive Kos comment system (and web page itself...by FAR the slowest loading page I visit). I am not able to post comments anymore. I can enter a comment fine but when I hit the "Preview" button, poof! All gone. I get a refresh of the page I was trying to comment within and no message to preview and post. It is lost into the bit bucket of the internet. This is the ONLY way I can post here!

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Friday February 10, 2006 · 12:22 PM PST

2006/02/10 · 12:22

Hey, BOPNews (http://www.bopnews.com/), via Judicial Watch, is reporting that Jack pleaded out to 10 years (was looking at up to 15):

The BOPNews short of it:
$25M mandatory Restitution
IRS additional
Guilty plea with allocution
108-135 months, concurrent with other outstanding charges, not to be considered as part of any other sentencing.

A bit more below

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 7:50 AM PST

2006/01/31 · 07:50

This is going to be a short post wherein I wish to express what I truly feel is the first and overarching mistake the Dems have made with regards to Alito and the filibuster.

Obama is a perfect example of what I state, categorically, is THE primary mistake the Dems have made and will keep making. Obama stated that he thought the filibuster was a bad idea and that the Dems hadn't made a case for it (paraphrasing). This is incredibly wrong-headed and shows a major part of where the entire nominating process has gone awry. You see, the judiciary hearings themselves where the senators are supposed to grill the nominee and get his/her measure is NOT the place to setup a filibuster. Sure, if the target is easy ala Bork then it is a no brainer that the nominee either die on the judiciary vine, get shot down in a full vote, or filibustered. Bork was so bad that a filibuster was unnecessary.

more below:

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Tuesday October 04, 2005 · 2:35 PM PDT

2005/10/04 · 14:35

As I read over some of the wingnut response to the latest Crony Nominee, and then try to digest Harry Reid's seeming solid support (he suggested her to Bush, fer Cthulhu's sake!), I begin to wonder if there could actually be some sort of ingenious method to Reid's madness.

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Senator Specter, bald-faced liar

For you, Weezer

Despair. Let the country go because it is already lost.

Updated: Iran and Khuzistan

The ways of Empire and the inevitable fall

A cry into the Kos forest (updated)

Abramoff pleads to 10 years

Where the Dems started going wrong

Couldn't actually be this Machiavellian...right?

Today I take my stand