I got a letter in my mailbox today …
Congress is set to vote Friday on a bill that gives immunity to telecom companies that broke the law and contains vacuum cleaner style surveillance that sweeps up the phone calls and emails of Americans. Already, we know it’s blatantly unconstitutional. Things are moving so fast and [...]

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Oh, no.
Earlier today, Senator Kennedy was was rushed to the hospital with stroke symptoms. Later reports say that the Senator may have has some kind of severe seizure.
First from CNN:
Sen. Edward Kennedy was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital in Massachusetts Saturday morning, a well-informed, prominent Democratic source in that state told CNN.
The source said the [...]

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Going to Jail for Being a Democrat: How Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Got Roved
Don Siegelman, a popular Democratic governor of Alabama, a Republican state, was framed in a crooked trial, convicted on June 29, 2006, and sent to Federal prison by the corrupt and immoral Bush administration.
The frame-up of Siegelman and businessman Richard Scrushy [...]

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Yes, that’s right folks, Senator John “Weather Vane” McCain (because he points where ever the wind blows) yesterday voted AGAINST a bill that would ban the CIA from waterboarding.
New York Times Article
… the White House has long said Mr. Bush will veto the bill, saying it “would prevent the president from taking the lawful [...]

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I’ve read somewhere that in prison, when you’re someone else’s bitch, you have to grab their belt loop. A few years ago, the Telecommunications industry broke a bunch of laws at the request of the federal government.
Now if you asked me who should really have to pay, I’d say every last one of them who [...]

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This is one of the best, most readable breakdown of Federal Spending I’ve ever seen. Not only can you zoom in to follow the bucks, you can buy a giant copy of this thing to point at when you’re screaming about out of control Federal Spending. Fun for everyone from TheBudgetGraph.com:
 

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We all have our pet issues, and this is one of mine.
A horse I like to flog, so to speak.
An UNDEAD horse, because it won’t die.
It seems that not even removing the head can stop this monster, so instead, I’m just going to go rent Shaun of the Dead again.
Hey, but while I wait for [...]

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Well, if you’re in the same boat I am and you find yourself being stabbed in the back from every elected Democrat you know, and stabbed in the front from any job offering Republican in this state, you’re counting on that early filed tax return to pay some rent and bills, right? Ok, maybe I [...]

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I guess the shredder broke?
The Ike Executive Office Building is on fire. According to CNN this morning, this is the building where the Secret Service keeps the White House visitor logs that Rep, Waxman has been fighting for and a federal judge just ruled that Congress can have.
More on this from Sgt.Jake in a few [...]

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From the AP via TPM:
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that would restrict the interrogation methods the CIA can use against terrorism suspects.
The legislation, part of a measure authorizing the government’s intelligence activities for 2008, had been approved a day earlier by the House and sent to the Senate for what was supposed to be [...]

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From Democracy For America, I received this email:
Last month, you took action and the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that did not include retroactive immunity. Immunity would let telecommunication companies who broke the law helping the Bush Administration spy on Americans off the hook.
Now, Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic Majority Leader, is using procedural [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving from TPM and Veracifier. The following bit of brilliant editing is a compilation of highlights from 2007’s Bush Crony Congressional Testimony. The folks at TPM’s Veracifier shoved all if this info into 5 minutes. Imagine how much longer it would have been had all the bushies actually shown up. Food for thought.

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567 years ago, a terrorist named Johannes Gutenberg created a device capable of destroying the very fabric of civilization. This device is far more destructive than any nuclear bomb ever been. It has started wars. It has crumbled empires. It has split, divided, and even destroyed the faith of countless millions. It gave rise to [...]

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Here is the Headline:
State official quitting amid Blackwater scandal
Here is the meat of it:
Security chief Griffin announces resignation day after new oversight OK’d
From MSNBC yesterday:
WASHINGTON - The State Department’s security chief announced his resignation on Wednesday in the wake of last month’s deadly Blackwater USA shooting incident in Baghdad and growing questions about the use [...]

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This, of course, is on top of an estimated 16 or so Billion already missing.
From Reuters:
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The State Department does not know specifically what it received for a billion-dollar contract with security firm DynCorp International to provide training services for Iraqi police, a U.S. watchdog agency said on Tuesday.
Wow. Am I [...]

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