Browsing Posts published in December, 2005

Article in Nation

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I’m not happy about what is going on with the US. What with the President confessing on National TV to breaking the law and Congressional Republicans lacking the cojones to realize that he’s dissing them. He can do pretty much what he pleases now by using FISA. Why diss the House and Senate? He told [...]

Just when I thought the guy was about to moderate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/17/AR2005121701005.html Bush claims he bypassed FISA in 2002 because FISA was not designed to deal with terrorists operating under cover of US citizenship. However, this is a lie buried within a lie. Even if his statement were true, it is a lie because Congress was [...]

Good News

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Good news today. 1. Congress did the right thing and passed the McCain amendment banning torture. 2. Bush promised to rebuild the Levees in New Orleans. [We'll see if he is serious later]. 3. The Patriot Act could have been worse. Chris