pentagon uncivilians

VOTE
* ouch. conyers et al send a criminal referral letter to ashcroft "In the course of that investigation, we have come across a number of instances of misconduct which we would ask that you to investigate for possible federal legal violations. In brief, we learned of numerous instances of voter intimidation and misinformation, improper purging, caging of minority voters, misuse of Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funds, voting machine tampering, perjury, and most recently, potential misuse of the federal seal in a campaign solicitation by Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell. Since this and other apparent violations by the Secretary of State presents such an obvious conflict for your office, we would ask that you appoint a special counsel to investigate this matter. While the Report contains numerous possible violations of state, federal and constitutional requirements that warrant your attention, we would like to draw your attention in particular to several specific apparent violations of federal law:" snap! pdf here http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/dojelectionspconltr11405.pdf
(or u can see it here http://rawstory.rawprint.com/105/conyers_ashcroft_letter_114.php)

* and btw - if i sounded shrill before jan6 when i stated that it was constitutionally required that each House members positively ensure that there was no suspicion of shenanigans before they certified the electoral votes, and that it was not possible to do so given the conyers report and the munnyquote - well it seems that they all fucking broke the law - and dog knows what price we'll all pay.

* ukr supremecourt is hearing yanukovichs claim that there was election fraud - delaying yuschenkos inauguration. ahhh - the seet smell of democracy.



WART

* "Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) today announced plans to introduce legislation later this month increasing benefits to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines killed in combat.. will increase the maximum life insurance coverage for servicemembers to $400,000 and increase the death gratuity paid to families of servicemembers killed in combat to $100,000... The death gratuity was raised in the FY 2005 National Defense Authorization Act from $6,000 to $12,000" thats better. saddam only paid his terrorists $25k. and he didnt torture as well as we do either. http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=230562

* btw - 5 gitmo folk to be released. ozzies and brits. so they must be innocent, despite them being darkies. finally. the thing that gets me is this logic that says 'we have to be careful about who we let out - cos we already found some back on the battlefield' - assuming that that is factually true, it seems to preclude the all-too-real possibility that maybe they were just kinda grumpy at having been locked up and tortured for three years, despite their innocence - and so they couldnt wait to get out and go fight the greatsatan. so the logic therefore would be, if we've locked you up, we can never let you go again - cos a signigicant % of people would be grumpy at us. for some reason.



* praps princeharry shuold have worn an osama outfit. or a sniggeringidiot mask. altho tonyblair probably wouldnt want everyone to be reminded of his close connections to the bush family... (update: goldenprince actually went shopping with the uglyprince to get their costumes)

QUAKER
* theres gonna be a concert here with everyonefamous - its called "WaveAid" - the graphic for the promo is a hand waving. im getting totally sick of everyones generosity. the wsj is running a poll 'how much have u donated to quakers?' - and theres outrage in some circles that 40% havent given anything at all. meanwhile families in fallujah get $100 and an iris scan. and they are the lucky ones.

SIBEL GETS HER OWN SECTION
* "And the American Civil Liberties Union urged the D.C. Court of Appeals on Wednesday to reinstate the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, saying that the government is abusing the "state secrets privilege" to silence employees who expose national security blunders. Edmonds was hired by the FBI after Sept. 11 to translate intelligence gathered before the attacks. Based on the documents she saw, Edmonds charges the FBI knew that Al Qaeda was planning to attack the U.S. with airplanes. " http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/14/1519227

* speaking of sibel, "Ten Things We Learned About 911 In 2004" http://rense.com/general61/things.htm

* another sibel update: fuck i hate the AP. AP headline re sibel "Government: FBI Translator's Complaints Were Supported by Evidence, Witnesses" lead:"(AP) - Evidence and other witnesses support complaints by a fired FBI contract linguist who alleged shoddy work and possible espionage within the bureau's translator program in the months after the September 2001 terror attacks, according to a report Friday by the senior oversight official at the Justice Department." fuck i hate the AP. somehow they forget to mention 'Edmonds charges the FBI knew that Al Qaeda was planning to attack the U.S. with airplanes.' http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBRWGYJY3E.html

AMDOM
* anncoulter really doesnt derserve any publicity - but if u wanna be outraged: http://mediamatters.org/items/200501120012

* "Later, "60 Minutes" killed a report about whether the Bush administration had relied on false documents in making the case that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger. A CBS spokesman said it would have been "inappropriate to air the report so close to the presidential election" -- a statement just plain stunning in its implications. First of all, it was late September -- a full month before the election -- and, second, isn't affecting elections what can happen when journalists do their jobs? I mean, are we supposed to withhold the truth because, in addition to making you free, it might make you change your vote? This was a dark day for CBS and for all journalism. Now it is even darker. The capitulation to Bush and the GOP is nearly complete. After the firings, the White House voiced its approval." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5311-2005Jan12.html


* "Reality does not reign in Bush's world. It's wrong that conservative columnist Armstrong Williams was paid by the administration to push pro-Bush propaganda. But what's far worse--and more dangerous--is that McClellan receives taxpayer dollars to promote and defend Bush's facts-free fantasies." ohhhh ari2 - how doth thou sleep? http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=2123

* jons does a funny bit calling furiousgeorge Truman http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/ds011205wmd.html

* Sidney Blumenthal also makes the truman point "President Bush clings to good news and happy talk, such as the number of school openings in Iraq. Those with gloomy assessments are not permitted to appear before him. The president orders no meetings on options based on worst-case scenarios.Military strategists and officers are systematically ignored. Suppression of contrary "metrics" is done in his name and spirit. Bush makes his decisions from a self-imposed bunker, a situation room of the mind, where ideological fantasies substitute for reality." http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1390103,00.html

* borat: "No one knows for sure who he was, that Middle Eastern man in an American flag shirt and a cowboy hat who was supposed to sing the national anthem at a rodeo Friday night in the Salem Civic Center. But he sure shook up this town before leaving in a hurry." lol. go read. http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/16655.html

RANDOM

* did charles darwin ever exist? can we prove it or is it just a theory?






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