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Thursday edition - January 26, 2006 |
US Mail: Lisa Casey - PO Box 88 - Ashford, AL 36312
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Bush
confident warrantless wiretaps legal
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Cheney,
Rumsfeld Could Testify in EU Probe |
In 2002, Justice Department said eavesdropping law working well |
This country is in a Bush induced coma. Please wake up people.
“Yesterday at a press conference President Bush admitted that he had not seen ‘Brokeback Mountain.’ However, he did express an interest in drilling for oil there.” -- David Letterman
The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News
GIs and Iraqi soldiers repel attack by rebels Chicago Tribune
Troops said to get tainted water Boston Globe, United States
Lawyer: Saddam wants to sue Bush, Blair Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX
Release Kenyan Hostages, Muslims Tell Iraqis AllAfrica.com
India, Saudi Arabia to work out plan to fight terrorism The Tribune
Reid to announce new British troops for Afghanistan Guardian Unlimited
'Battle-hardened' military not overextended, Rumsfeld says Chicago Sun-Times
Bush: Take bin Laden's threat seriously Chicago Sun-Times
Protective Armor Update
Just 29 Army soldiers have sought reimbursement so far for body armor and other equipment they bought to protect themselves on the front lines
The scant number of requests are largely for updated ceramic body armor and total just $21,000, the Associated Press has learned. That is in contrast to Defense Department officials' predictions last year that the program could impose a financial burden on the military if people pressed for reimbursement for large amounts of protective gear.
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I Hope Review - "Like the best social commentary it slips in under your radar while you're busy appreciating the art." - James McSweeney
"Yes, (Jack Abramoff attended) only two Hanukkah receptions (at the White House). But the bribes miraculously lasted for 8 whole days." --Jon Stewart
Disturbing News
Putin Denounces Foreign 'Intrusion' in Russia Washington Post
China Warns Against Iran Sanctions CBS News
Iran Blames US, Britain for Bombings Newsday, NY
Reports Cite Incursions on US Border Los Angeles Times
Muslim scholar files suit against US Boston Globe
Pinochet's daughter seeks asylum after being denied entry into US San Jose Mercury News
7 kids killed in crash; grandfather dies upon hearing news CNN International
Department of Vocabulary Adjustment
President Bush and his top national security advisers are trying to change the debate _ and even the vocabulary _ about the National Security Agency's controversial electronic monitoring program.
Don't call it domestic spying, they say. It's a terrorist surveillance program.
"And yet we have brave men and women who are willing to step forward because they know what's at stake. They're willing to sacrifice their lives for this great country. What I'm asking all of you tonight is not to put on a uniform. Put on a bumper sticker. Is it that much to ask? Is it that much to ask to step up and serve your country?" --Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) (Watch video clip)
Republican Shenanigans
Paper: Texas favored firm tied to Abramoff Sacramento Bee, USA
Abramoff prosecutor among Bush nominees Duluth News Tribune, MN
During his visit to spy agency, Bush defends surveillance Boston Globe
Schwarzenegger's Popularity Rises; Bond Sale Backed, Poll Shows Bloomberg
Rejection of Building Plan Causes Dismay in Louisiana New York Times
Alito takes victory lap around Capitol Hill Houston Chronicle
With the Alito confirmation looming, contraception and coat hanger stock prices soar.—Grant Gerver
Andy Borowitz: Naked Photos of Bush and Abramoff Rock White House
The CIA has become faith based. They shoot a missile into a village and pray they hit a terrorist.—Zing!
Aloha Lisa!
I'd like to get some comment/feedback from you or any other so-inclined individual on the following:
* When reports from DHS reached situation room at WH(1:47am, 8/29/2005) in re Katrina anticipated devastation
what subsequently happened to those reports? Is there a situation room at the Crawford TX "ranch"? Was W in his bubble, cutting brush, or cycling? Who was so afraid of the
response that they never spoke up??
* Regarding $385M KBR contract for ICE: what th' Hell is a
"emergency influx of immigrants"? Would rereading "1984"
and/or "Brave New World" shed some light, I wonder?
* Since I'm plenty old enough to recall the periods referenced in the NSA article, the very paranoid "Cold War"
interval under Truman of 1952 gave birth to the super-secret (and secretive!) NSA; national paranoia certainly increased under Nixon, so enlarging its powers in 1970 was a natural. I also remember well Sen. Church's investigation -
who was a Democrat, naturally. I offer the opinion that we
are overdue a similar investigation! Perhaps Sen. Reid can
be drafted to undertake such an effort?
What do you and the readers think? Mahalo.
Victoria
Big Island, Hawai'i
Aloha Victoria!
So good to hear from you. I'll try and answer your questions.
* Katrina
One thing we know for sure, Bush wasn't glued to the TV at his ranch in Texas.
I remember those days well as I was hunkered down in a motel room in Ocala, FL (my Miami flight to Costa Rica was cancelled because Katrina just slammed South Florida--never went to Costa by the way) I was heading back to Tallahassee, where Katrina was predicted to originally make landfall, and was just waiting it out. When Katrina turned to the west and was heading for New Orleans I was stuck in Ocala for days. Tallahassee was out of gas from Katrina’s Gulf landfall and most stations on I75 were out of gas due to Katrina's south Florida landfall.
While I and millions of other Floridians were trying to recover from Katrina, our "coma"passionate president was delivering cowboy-speak from his ranch, attending John McCain's birthday party, etc---click here for a link from CBS news on August 29 2005.
Bush needs to watch TV and see what the hell this country goes through, is what I think.
* "emergency influx of immigrants"
The Mexicans are coming! The Mexicans are coming! I say let in the Mexicans legally and expend our energy keeping the terrorists from crossing our VERY porous borders. Instead we are trying to keep out our good neighbors who are just looking for work. We are wasting our time and creating a monstrous market for smuggling people. The catch em and lock em in new detention centers article was chilling. This GOP would use the Mexicans as Gammas, Deltas & Epsilons in their Grave New World.
Just think what would have happened if Katrina hit Mexico with the same devastation -- would Bush have opened his arms to Mexico’s evacuees?
*Spy vs Spy vs Spy...
The Democrats aren't in power in any branch of the govt AND they don't have a single voice. Reid is trying? Click here
I wonder how the NSA felt about the outing of Valerie Plame?
I also wonder if the NSA, with all their spying prowess, knew about the fall of the USSR beforehand. The CIA found out watching CNN. Did the KGB know?
Our intelligence communities seem not to be able to see the forest through the trees.
And the rise in the militarization of our intelligence agencies is very bothersome to me. The recent CIA drone bombing in Pakistan has sure opened an unwanted hornet's nest in a country that does possess “nooclur” weapons.
My prediction is -- If you live by the spy you die by the spy.
Thanks for writing. Double Mahalo.
Later,
Lisa
Rock-The-Voter News
Rep. Ney to run despite scandal Cincinnati Enquirer, OH
“Oh -- there's a report in the paper today that Florida Governor Jeb Bush reads three newspapers a day. Actually, he reads them to his brother George.”- Jay Leno
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Hillary Update
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday took aim at President George W. Bush's secret domestic spying program, dismissing White House explanations for the warrantless wiretapping as "strange" and "far-fetched."
Clinton made her remarks as Bush defended what he calls the "terrorist surveillance program" in a speech at the Maryland headquarters of the super-secret National Security Agency, which has conducted the eavesdropping
Good News
Don't you get the eerie feeling the White House is praying for another terrorist attack? (You know they could make it happen.)—Grant Gerver
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Looking for Bigfoot BY MIKE PALECEK
Selected by January magazine as its “best of Fiction, 2005”
The American
Dream — psst ... it's not real. Wake up!
Looking for Bigfoot is the story of Jack Robert King, American writer and talk
radio personality, who sets off from the family home in Iowa in search of
reality, to find the truth buried within the myth about America.
Click here for more
Biz/Tech News
US firms ordered to pay damages over Agent Orange - UPDATE Forbes
Soros: Gas a wake-up for Europe CNN International
“No, what they're doing, they're asking the search engine Google to hand over a million porn sites that people have been -- they want to see who's going on the porn sites. But Google is refusing. See, I don't think Google should hand it over. You know something? Look, if the government wants to collect a million porn sites, what they should do, they should have to spend hours a day painstakingly searching the web like the rest of us have to do.”—Jay Leno
Bush-Prison-Torture News
US Military Announces Release of 420 Iraqi Detainees Washington Post
US to free Iraqi women prisoners BBC News
Bush Inspires the Art World And More Inspiration
Did you have a good time today?
US Mail: Lisa Casey - PO Box 88 - Ashford, AL 36312
Odd News
Actor Wills Morgan, who plays Montel, poses in this image released by Avalon, producers of the 'Jerry Springer The Opera', January 26, 2006. The national tour of the controversial musical that has triggered protests from Christian Groups in Britain, kicks off in the southern English town of Plymouth on Friday. Theatres are bracing for more demonstrations against the award-winning show, which religious lobby groups say is blasphemous. Photo by Avalon
Peace.
