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Wednesday June 09, 2010 · 1:13 PM PDT

2010/06/09 · 13:13

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Federal Bureau of Prisons says disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been released from prison and is in a halfway house.

Spokesman Edmond Ross said Wednesday that Abramoff was released Tuesday from a minimum-security federal prison camp in western Maryland and is at a halfway house somewhere in the mid-Atlantic region.

Abramoff was sentenced in 2006 to nearly six years in prison for a fraudulent Florida casino deal. He got another four-year sentence in 2008 in a separate case.

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Sunday May 23, 2010 · 7:01 PM PDT

2010/05/23 · 19:01

Digby has a modern day tale of discrimination up:

We were detained by security as we attempted to enter the store and were told we had to leave. Dogs weren't allowed. We asked to see the manager who arrived after some delay and who grudgingly admitted us to the store but only after we made it clear that the right to travel with a guide dog is protected by both federal and state laws and that this right pertains to private businesses as well as the subway system. The store's manager was mean spirited and he offered us no apology. He simply walked away.

I wonder Dr. Paul if you can imagine what it felt like to be so thoroughly humiliated in a store. People watched as we conversed politely with the security guard and the manager, but they were looking for drama, as if the proscenium arch of the sixth avenue Barnes & Noble was just another diversion. Dr. Paul have you ever had your rights questioned in public?

The article from Planet of the Blindknocks it out of the park.

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Wednesday November 25, 2009 · 12:56 AM PST

2009/11/25 · 00:56

My knees are giving out - can't be a sailmaker much longer. So a career change is in order. Stupid idea at a stupid time but them's the breaks. I love music so radio seems to be a good fit (yes, no money but I'm well used to that). I got accepted into a radio disk jockey program at a public school (thank you taxpayers very much). I will be hosting a 3 a.m to 6 a.m. slot.

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what music do you blog by in the wee small hours?

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what music do you blog by in the wee small hours?

Classical

3 votes

Jazz

3 votes

Blues

3 votes

Country

2 votes

Folk

1 vote

Dance

0 votes

Soul

1 vote

Gospel

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Reggae

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Ska

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Funk/punk

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Metal

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Hip-hop/rap (no gangsta)

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Electronica

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Pie

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 5:34 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 17:34

I just finished another stellar election clerk tutorial in Oakland, Alameda County, California. Alameda County has been apparently receiving 1000 voter registration cards per day for the last couple of weeks.

For this election in Alameda County there are so many volunteers for the clerical positions (usually 2 or 3 per polling place) that there may be up to six per polling place in Alameda County. There are going to be a lot of people voting, so I've made a list of what you can do to help the election below.

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Tuesday March 11, 2008 · 5:00 PM PDT

2008/03/11 · 17:00

We failed to override the Bush vetoof the law restricting the CIA to the Army Field Manual Techniques.

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 11:37 AM PST

2008/03/08 · 11:37

Update: No one was reading this so I changed the title from Bush: Limiting torture could cost American Lives to the above, a shameless trick for a shameful subject.

Bush said in his radio address this morning he is going 'Unitary' pleasure in vetoing the will of the people:

From President Bush's radio address today, where he announced that he'd vetoed the Senate authorization bill, which would have effectively outlawed waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" techniques for the CIA by limiting the CIA to the Army's guide for interrogations, the Army Field Manual

Contrast earlier Bush:

"The U.S. is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example. I call on all governments to join with the U.S. and the community of law abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating and prosecuting all acts of torture."

— George W. Bush, U.N. Torture Victims Recognition Day, June 26, 2003{ed. update to correct date}

Graphic material over the jump.

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 6:01 PM PST

2008/02/18 · 18:01

Go to ThinkProgress.org to watch it:

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Tuesday February 12, 2008 · 3:09 PM PST

2008/02/12 · 15:09

Why was there a collapse on FISA today? These last few weeks of kabuki aside (all amendments that mattered needed 60 votes to pass - thanks Harry) there had to be something driving the votes like MONEY beside amnesty (which the telcoms were mute about). Last year I wrote about how the sellout on FISA was advanced sluttery at $.0047 per each American in contributions to Congress. This election cycle the numbers don't even look that expensive. Of course I got it wrong. Follow me over the jump to find out how badly I screwed up - and what you should know about Congress and the Telcoms.

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Monday February 11, 2008 · 10:42 AM PST

2008/02/11 · 10:42

Pelosi needs NEEDS to have an opponent in the June primary. I need YOU, DKOS CA-08 to help out, on the flop.

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Saturday January 19, 2008 · 5:19 PM PST

2008/01/19 · 17:19

The 'Publicans sent my husband a "Republican Party Census Document". Since he has been a registered Democrat for 30 years, he checked his voter registration with the County to make sure he could vote in the Democratic Primary (we have closed primaries in California). He is still legally a Democrat, so no election fraud is going on (in this case), and we can have fun with poll that has landed in our hands below the fold.

Note: it was legally addressed to him, with all his descriptors, etc., was unsolicited, and was retrieved from his trash.

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Thursday November 01, 2007 · 1:17 AM PDT

2007/11/01 · 01:17

In 2006 your privacy was worth $.0047 per person assuming 300,000,000 people in America. For 2007, we don't know yet, but as of right now $28,271,656 means your privacy is now worth $.0094 per person this year, a 150% increase and growing, by my calculation. Not bad, glad that this right to privacy we hold dear is now worth almost a penny. The telcos want immunity from on-going and past crimes, and are willing to pay for it, but there is something pretty frightening going on, after the jump.

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Sailmaker is 3 sheets to the wind on this one: internet providers can do whatever they like with the stuff in their pipes.

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Sailmaker is 3 sheets to the wind on this one: internet providers can do whatever they like with the stuff in their pipes.

Yes.

2 votes

No.

10 votes

Quahog pie.

3 votes

It is not Prostitution, at $.0047 per each

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Thursday October 18, 2007 · 7:40 PM PDT

2007/10/18 · 19:40

it is advanced sluttery. There is no other word for it. Sluttery. Your privacy was for sale for $1,425,496, the total contributions the telcoms made to the Senate in the 2006 election. You'd think they would show a little more gratitude for the government contracts to supply warrentless wiretap info, the contracts for the 'secret' government network, the favorable rulings to let the Baby Bells get back together, and other projects for which there is scant public documentation. But no, there is no apparent, above board money in it for our Senators. If not money, then who benefits?

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