The most pressing business for the United States Congress
This morning, I sent out my email letter to my Senators and Representative requesting that the Congress work only on a very few specific issues dealing with Katrina, Iraq, Plame, Able Danger, and...
View ArticleOil: It's Crystal Clear
A couple of diaries recently have catalyzed a deep foreboding thought I have nursed for months, if not years, regarding the long-range plans for Iraq. Those plans quite clearly started with oil and...
View ArticleI had a dream last night
After reading that Shrub was going to have a live genuine imitation press conference this morning, I went to bed with high hopes. I dreamt* in vivid detail, after the fold.
View ArticleThe Hinterlands, or no net access and no real news for a few days
I am preparing to go into the hinterlands for the holidays where I have no broadband access and only long distance dialup, so I have decided to combine a few of my passing thoughts into a single diary...
View ArticleMy letter to my rep: Dave Reichert, call for hearings on impeachment
I have been thinking for weeks on how to approach our republican rep. Dave Reichert about why he has not had the guts to help bring about articles of impeachment against Shrub and Dick. Here is what I...
View ArticleThomas Friedman: Cheney, A Coward and Hypocrite
Friedman pretty much lays it out how I feel about how hypocritical and cowardly this administration is with his Op-Ed in the NYTimes (select subscription required, but I get it from our library) today....
View ArticleEarth Day: Putting Words Into Action and Money Where Mouth Is
Disclaimer: This is likely not really a meaty enough topic to be a diary entry, but I do not want it lost as a comment in some open thread somewhere. Yesterday, our family put words into action, money...
View ArticleData retention is for anti-terrorism, not child exploitation enforcement
On Monday, in this diary, nhdapple wrote about a CNET news article about data-retention policy for fighting child explotation (euphemism for porn). However, here in this updated CNET article by Declan...
View ArticleMore Reagan Retreads
Or, Why do we have more Iran-Contra flunkies running things that we don't know about? I just finished reading an article in Newsweek Online Elliot Abrams: The Last Neocon Standing that annoyed and...
View ArticleMeet The Press 2007.03.18: A sham debate
I do not write many letters and/or diaries but I was compelled to write a letter to Tim Russert today about MTP. I rarely watch MTP, but today I made an exception because I wanted to hear Senator...
View ArticleFISA Telecom Immunity Immutable Logic
As a person of logic and mathematics, it is abundantly clear to me that the telecom companies that participated in wiretapping at the behest of the Bush administration were committing a crime. The...
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