Al Franken Schools Justice Dept on The Constitution!

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Wednesday September 23, 2009 · 12:32 PM PDT

2009/09/23 · 12:32

The Senate Judiciary Committee today is having hearings regarding reauthorization of expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act. Senator Franken was concerned with a provision about roving wiretaps and how the Patriot Act doesn’t require the government to name its target.

Here is a link to the article

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Monday August 31, 2009 · 4:14 PM PDT

2009/08/31 · 16:14

I had a bit of a debate last evening with a friend of a friend on facebook.

I did not know him, but he was responding to my friend just stating she “wants universal healthcare”

His first response was snarky and meant to offend her

“Yeah... I totally love communism too!”

Then came a series of right wing talking points that I vehemently disagreed with and the debate was on. By the way, he ended up calling me “Pastor” in one of our later posts because I had the nerve to bring the Ten Commandments into the debate. The nerve of me!!!

Follow me over the fold to see how he thinks that folks need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps so they too can have insurance.

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Thursday January 22, 2009 · 10:34 AM PST

2009/01/22 · 10:34

Seems almost lost in the hub bub of all that is happening these past few days, but yesterday President Obama issued an order that eliminates one of George Bush and Alberto Gonzalez's first vile collaborations.

A nasty little executive order Bush issued to make secrecy the rule of his administration.

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 11:47 PM PDT

2008/10/02 · 23:47

I found this video online and was blown away with how this was edited together to demonstrate just how closely tied George W. Bush and Sarah Palin are. I was really taken about at how much alike they seemed and how they used similar verbiage. I assume she is being "coached" by many of the same folks or their protege who "coached" GWB

It's not enough that she seems kind of like him and Cheney, but she actually seems to be channeling them verbatim.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 10:23 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 10:23

When it comes to his health, John McCain asks voters to be gamblers. Over the last couple of weeks we have watched the implosion of John McCain's Vice Presidential choice, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Her performance has left even right wing pundits concerned about her capacity to assume the Presidency, and because McCain would be the oldest individual ever to take office, and has had four bouts with Melanoma, a very aggressive form of skin cancer, there is every reason to believe that indeed she has a very real possibility of becoming President.

Now I don't want to be unfair because I recognize there are millions of Americans who are cancer survivors, I have family and friends who are survivors, but I also know how insidious this disease can be and those millions are not running for the most powerful office in the land. So follow me over the fold to understand how and why this must become a part of the political dialog before this campaign concludes.

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 11:11 AM PDT

2008/09/29 · 11:11

I am afraid that we are all facing the blowback from a President who has cried wolf once too many times.

This fable attributed to Aesopand about a bored shepherd boy who entertained himself by calling out "wolf". Villagers who came to his rescue found that the alarms were false and that they had wasted their time. When the boy was actually confronted by a wolf, the villagers did not believe his cries for help. The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:

Even when liars tell the truth, they are never believed. The liar will lie once, twice, and then perish when he tells the truth.

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 11:25 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 23:25

We need to flood the newspapers both large and small with letters calling McCains campaign suspension what it is. A Crock. It makes no sense and is nothing but a stunt to push the reset button on this joke of a campaign that McBush is involved in.

Not only is it stupid, it is also bad precedent. I worry that first we start by suspending a campaign, next we proceed to canceling an election.

Here is my letter to the editor of my local paper. WE need to FLOOD all media with letters demanding that this campaign go forward and that McCain cease this silliness.

Poll

193 votes Show Results

John McCain's new campaign slogan should be...

193 votes Vote Now!

John McCain's new campaign slogan should be...

Country first, right after I take care of me and my rich buddies

58 votes

Hey I am a hero, I get a pass on everything.

33 votes

IOKIYAR ...can't recall what that means though.

8 votes

McStupidville...more Bush, only with Mc at the start

9 votes

You can take it to the bank. Oh wait there aren't any left.

10 votes

$700 billion? The answer is always deregulation.

8 votes

"If only Obama would have come to my town hall tea parties!!!"

67 votes

John McCain...Deal or No Deal?

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 11:18 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 23:18

According to the an article in the September 20th issue of The Anchorage Daily News, there is more to Troopergate than why Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan was fired. An equally important question would be why Chuck Kopp was hired to replace him.

So who is Chuck Kopp and why is he important to Sarah Palin, the Troopergate investigation, her selection as VP for John McCain and the Christian right. Follow me over the fold.

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 1:11 PM PDT

2008/09/18 · 13:11

Last night Rachel Maddow bested Keith Olbermann's numbers, not only that, she beat long time CNN work horse Larry Kings show in the ratings. Folks, this is no small task and I think a huge congrats should go out to Keith O. and MSNBC suits for taking a chance on this fine talent that many of us here at the KOS and elsewhere in the blogosphere knew was going to go far.

She has proven to be the real deal and each night her show is improving, she seems to get more comfortable with the TV Machine format and I predict that it's only going to get better with time.

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 8:56 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 08:56

I wrote letters to the editor today. Starting with the New York Times. If we really want to change the topic and challenge the conversation that the media is trying to have about petty, small, and distracting things then we must take action. Do more than sit around and gripe, wring our hands and backseat drive.

Write a letter to the editor or to the television networks that are pushing this current "catnip" of distraction so intently. Here is my letter to the New York Times this morning. It will be a template for my letter to my own local paper as well.

BarackObama.com has a great tool that can help you write to the Editors of papers in your community and across the country. So lets get it started.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 9:03 PM PDT

2008/09/01 · 21:03

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If McCain really cared about the American people and wanted to choose a leader who could actually step in and be President at a moments notice. Which of these qualified Republican women should he have chosen?

96 votes Vote Now!

If McCain really cared about the American people and wanted to choose a leader who could actually step in and be President at a moments notice. Which of these qualified Republican women should he have chosen?

Sen. Elizabeth Dole

5 votes

Sen, Susan Collins

4 votes

Sen. Olympia Snowe

16 votes

Gov. Christine Todd Whitman

16 votes

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

19 votes

Sen. Lisa Murkowski

0 votes

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson

16 votes

Someone Else

3 votes

ABSOLUTLEY NO REPUBLICAN MALE OR FEMALE!!!!!!

17 votes

Keep Our Eyes On The Prize.

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Saturday August 30, 2008 · 6:41 AM PDT

2008/08/30 · 06:41

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