So say people speaking to the conservative Insight Magazine: The Bush administration’s surveillance policy has failed to make a dent in the war against al Qaeda. U.S. law enforcement sources said that more than four years of surveillance by the National Security Agency has failed to capture any high-level al Qaeda operative in the United [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Bush's Spy Program Useless and Not Just International
Posted in Legal Issues on December 29, 2005 |
Where are the Arrests?
Posted in Legal Issues, Terrorism on December 29, 2005 |
You know, if this is not just complete bullsh*t, I would very much like to know why these people, who, according to other news reports, number in the hundreds or thousands, haven’t been arrested, tried and convicted. Because it seems kind of odd to leave hundreds or thousands of people who make a habit of [...]
One Nation, Indivisible …
Posted in Iraq on December 28, 2005 |
.. or not: Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan. Five days of interviews with [...]
Since the advent of e-Paper, some people have been predicting the demise of the paper book and the introduction of an iBook, for lack of a better term, that will revolutionize the book business the same way that iPods and MP3s revolutionized the music business. This gentleman provides a good example of the better arguments [...]
Telling It
Posted in Culture, General, Iraq, Media, Politics, Writing on December 28, 2005 | 19 Comments »
Robert Fisk – whose detractors’ obsessive nitpicking of virtually every word he writes gave rise to the term “fisking” – has an excellent (and no doubt fisk-fated) column today on the easy Orwellianism of US newspapers in dealing with MidEast issues, or in simply trying to report basic and obvious facts from that region. Catering [...]
Think Progress details the nonsense in the latest right wing excuses.
Bush Endangered Terrorism Convictions
Posted in Legal Issues, Terrorism on December 28, 2005 |
Bush claims that he needed to violate the law and order the NSA to spy on people without warrants in order to protect us from terrorists. Except that such orders now form the basis for convicted terrorists to appeal those convictions: Defense lawyers in some of the country’s biggest terrorism cases say they plan to [...]
What a great game! Tonight’s Leafs-Penguins game (Leafs 3, Pens 2, OT) was incredible, and I would say that even if the Leafs had lost. Good end-to-end action throughout, lots of scoring chances, great goaltending, over three minutes of five-on-three, and an overtime to boot! A few notes: The referees seem to be getting the [...]
Racist Judicial Activism: GOP's Newest Divisive Initiative
Posted in Culture, General, Legal Issues, Politics on December 27, 2005 | 5 Comments »
The Republicans have a new brainstorm for turning America into a two-tier nation along racial lines. Of course, the Constitution explicitly prohibits it, but they claim they can simply “interpret” that away. Raise your hand if any of this surprises you. The issue is “birthright citizenship” – more commonly known as “The 14th Amendment” or [...]
Business Bleg
Posted in General on December 27, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I don’t normally do this, but please indulge me. For those of you who cook often, you probably know the huge difference that using quality spices can make. It recently has come to my attention that my favorite spice shop, The Spice House in Milwaukee, is suffering from some business woes. There are two causes: [...]
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