A Southern California fence building company hired to build some of the fence (stupid! Waste o’ money!) between the US and Mexico has been caught employing…wait for it…illegal aliens!
Category: Politics
Political commentary and awareness
John McCain to shutdown blogosphere
The trees thus spoke to the mother wolf, "mother wolf, you must teach your cubs not to be prey." Mother wolf replied to the trees, "But it is your forest, I shall implore the king lion to rule that the trees shall be punished if they do not watch over their own land." The king lion came to the trees, "I have heard mother wolf’s request. I have seen one man do a bad thing therefore I must assume that around every corner lurks a bad man. Mother wolf is too busy napping to watch over her cubs. Since you permit so many bad men to walk your forest, I must make you responsible for her cubs. Every time you let a bad man into your forest, I shall cut down a tree until you are a forest no more."
And John McCain thus spoke for in the name of fear and the safety of the children, any law shall be passed and any law shall be broken. McCain grew tall and his voice boomed, "I need only invoke the words child pornography or terrorism and I become a god!"
- Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000."
- Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face "even stiffer penalties" than ISPs.
- Social networking sites will be forced to take "effective measures" — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is "associated" with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists, and blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries.
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A crafty man so decided to pursue the American dream and thus spent his life savings on a building downtown from where he could deal his trade. Government propaganda encouraged him by describing "The American Way" only to take his profits with fees, penalties, and unusual taxes; and to overwhelm him with paperwork and legalities. Over time he came in earlier and left later. His family supported him but suffered and his trade turned from pleasure to torment. Vandals started painting graffiti on his building. The government explained that these vandals must be registered, and the business owner must file a report whenever a sex offender paints his building. One day the proprietor overslept. That night the vandals had painted his building with obscenities. On the way to work, the government employee saw the vandalism and took everything the proprietor owned then locked him in prison. The judge explained that the proprietor should have taken down the wall. If we give people the opportunity, certainly they will make the crime. We cannot possibly expect people to be responsible for their own actions under such circumstances!
When he introduced his legislation to the Senate, McCain offered no evidence that children are being victimized by people who post comments on blogs. [Source]
I am greatly bothered by how we are evolving into such a prude society.
Update: Apparently I am about 8 hours behind on this story. See comments here.
Not rap, not video games; Daddy made me make this video
Oh I love the Internet! Warning! This video contains adult language. Frankly as I watched the video I was a bit shocked but as it sank in I had to laugh outloud. The Youtube title for this video is "The Coolest 8 Year Old In The World Talks About O’Reilly"
Will Free American End Oct 17, 2006?
The Question — what was the anwer?
Republicans == Fascists?
Will they make it work?
The Return Of Habeas Corpus!
Senator Chris Dodd has introduced a bill to bring back Habeas Corpus and compliance with the Geneva Conventions! Didn’t know Habeas Corpus died? Read these.
The Effective Terrorists Prosecution Act:
- Restores Habeas Corpus protections to detainees
- Narrows the definition of unlawful enemy combatant to individuals who directly participate in hostilities against the United States who are not lawful combatants
- Bars information gained through coercion from being introduced as evidence in trials
- Empowers military judges to exclude hearsay evidence they deem to be unreliable
- Authorizes the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to review decisions by the Military commissions
- Limits the authority of the President to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions and makes that authority subject to congressional and judicial oversight
- Provides for expedited judicial review of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to determine the constitutionally of its provisions
So, you think YOU voted these people into office
The US government is so inbred that the same people have been running out country since the 70s…sort of. The Times Online UK edition explains.
Last week George W Bush was forced back — once again — to the protective arms of his father. They call the first President Bush “Poppy†in the family, and it captures both the authority and the slight daffiness of the 41st president. His first son always lived in his shadow — both deeply admiring him and deeply resenting him, the way dauphins often do their monarchs.
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BY nominating Robert Gates to the Pentagon, Bush Jr was reduced to asking one of his father’s closest friends to clean up the mess. What was Gates’s last job? As president of Texas A&M University, Gates hosted Poppy’s own presidential library. What was his previous claim to fame? Poppy had appointed him CIA director. Poppy himself had been CIA director — manoeuvred into the shell-shocked institution after Vietnam by a wily young Donald Rumsfeld in the Ford administration. Gates was a CIA director’s CIA director. He was Poppy’s Poppy.
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"Jeb, his younger brother, was always going to be president" so…think we will see Jeb in 2008? A Democrat controlled Congress cannot clean up W’s mess 6 years in the making in only 2 years but can the Repulicans spin those two years as "ineffective" and get the public to vote for another Republican president and Republican controlled Congress?
I’m speechless…he should have remained speechless
Well now…DAAAaaaang! Have you seen the flustered Bush? Please take a moment to watch the video. Wow!
Trapped in the United States
Homeland Security is working on rules to go into effect January 14, 2007 that would require anyone entering or leaving the country to have Homeland Security’s permission.
The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized there is a constitutional right to travel internationally. Indeed, it has declared that the right to travel is "a virtually unconditional personal right." The United States has also signed treaties guaranteeing "freedom of travel." So if these regulations do go into effect, you can expect a lengthy court battle, both nationally and internationally. … Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are two countries in recent history
that didn’t allow their citizens to travel abroad without permission.
If these regulations go into effect, you can add the United States to
this list. [Source]
On September 11, 2001, terrorists made an effort to change the United States. With unnecessary, controlling policies like what Homeland Security is proposing, we do nothing to increase security while removing our liberties (liberty being the ability to exercise our freedoms). The terrorists won. While considering this, take a look at the future of air travel.
Bush More Dangerous Than Kim Jong-il
We related Bush to Hitler. With the rigged elections and the shredding of our Constitution and rights people have called for his impeachment. Now a survey of US allies (Britain, Israel, Canada, and Mexico) shows a belief that the United States is a threat to world peace.
In Britain, 69% of those questioned say they believe US policy has made the world less safe since 2001…The finding is mirrored in America’s immediate northern and southern neighbours, Canada and Mexico, with 62% of Canadians and 57% of Mexicans saying the world has become more dangerous because of US policy. [Source]
I find it both sad and interesting that the common view is finally coming around to what the evil liberals have been saying for years. GW should have never taken 2004. He should have never had 2000 for that matter. But evil gets what evil wants. I can call him evil since he is now ranked the same as those he once labeled "the axis of evil." It is a crime that so much damage had to be done for people to take notice. I only hope that on Tuesday the couch potato voters find their way to the polls, that Diebold doesn’t screw us, and that the religious zombies turn on their brains long enough to vote for themselves instead of voting for their preacher.
What is red?
The Devil is red. Blood is red. War causes bloodshed. Negative things are red like stop signs and "don’t do that" signs. Angry people turn red. The button Bush keeps his finger on is red. Raw meat is red. A misleading story is a red herring.The 48 continental are red 
. WHhhyyyyyyyyy!
Explaining the Death of Habeas Corpus
Keith Olbermann brings it home again in "Why does habeas corpus hate America?" Watch the video to understand the historic decision your congress made.
Be a Patriot – Challenge Your Leaders
"Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism."
A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating President.
That is not a patriot. Rather, that person is a sycophant. That person is a member of a frightening culture of obedience–a culture where falling in line with authority is more important than choosing what is right, even if it is not easy, safe, or popular. And, I suspect, that person is afraid–afraid we are right, afraid of the truth (even to the point of denying it), afraid he or she has put in with an oppressive, inhumane regime that does not respect the laws and traditions of our country, and that history will rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure.
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"Blind faith in your leaders will get you killed" -Bruce Springsteen
Today’s Political Video
We all know that Google has now purchased YouTube.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community. [Source]
There’s some CYA! "Yes, we own them but they operate independently so you can’t touch our bank accounts with your lawsuits!" Of course, some questions remain unanswered. If you fear the transition to Google, you can use other services like Dailymotion. So, while you still can, watch Jon Stewart on Bush speeches. The best part of this video starts at 3:33.
An interest tidbit for you Daily Show lovers. The theme song is performed by none other than They Might Be Giants. The original theme song is "Dog on Fire" by Bob Mould.
I haven’t chimed in on Foley yet
I am not certain that I have made a strong enough effort to introduce many of you to Ze Frank. After losing, Amanda (ie. the Rocketboom fiasco), I more or less turned my daily 3 minutes of "I’ll watch anything" to Ze Frank’s The Show. My standard disclaimer is that Ze Frank is very bright but uses some language that might not be appropriate in certain settings – maybe not quite Red Fox but definitely not Bill Cosby.
All that aside, I think today Ze Frank pretty much summed up the Foley stuff. Push play and see for yourself.
