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Archive for June 27th, 2008

GEF @ 5:08 PM MST
You really can’t make this stuff up if you tried… LOL!

Quote of the Day: Vice President Is a “Barnacle” on the Legislative Branch
By Kate Klonick – June 26, 2008, 2:35PM
Between David Addington failing to submit testimony, and John Yoo forgetting his words, not a whole lot was cleared up [...]

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The Smiling Rictus of Death

Posted by Basheert @3:06pm
Courtesy of Think Progress
As a consitutent of Pig McSame, good old grampy, I would like everyone to read the last line of this post. Grampy McSane, the smiling rictus of death, has not bothered to haul his aged ass into the Senate and vote since April 8th. He has consistently [...]

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Conyers Has Subpoenaed DOJ For Scandal Documents

By- Suzie-Q @ 2:05 PM MST
Conyers subpoenas DoJ for scandal documents
Think Progress
By Matt at 4:30 pm
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued a subpoena today to the Department of Justice for documents related to a variety of Bush administration scandals, including the Valerie Plame leak investigation, the U.S attorney scandal, the politicization of the [...]

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The absolute Brilliance of Kos!!!

Posted by Basheert @ 12:30pm – Courtesy of Dailykos
The conservative mind
by kos
Fri Jun 27, 2008 at 10:05:31 AM PDT

Bowers:
It must be really scary to be a conservative. To be one, you must live in constant fear of terrorists nuking the United States, of gay people on the verge of convincing you that you really enjoy [...]

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Republican Hypocrisy at it’s finest

Posted by Basheert @12:30pm – Courtesy of Think Progress
Sens. Craig and Vitter team up to co-sponsor Marriage Protection Amendment.»
Larry Craig and David Vitter — “two United States Senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity” — have named themselves as co-sponsors of S.J. Res. 43, the Marriage Protection Amendment. If passed, the bill would amend the Constitution [...]

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FISA Bill Delayed By Feingold Objections

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:05 PM MST
Objections by Feingold delay FISA
Think Progress
By Amanda on Jun 26th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
The Hill reports that because of Sen. Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) objections to legislation overhauling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Senate leaders have decided to push back consideration of the bill until after the Independence Day recess. [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… You Never Can Tell

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:00 PM MST
Good Afternoon Justice Bloggers:
Have a great and safe weekend.. 
S-Q

Chuck Berry- You Never Can Tell (Dance Scene From Pulp Fiction)

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The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was

anthony @ 17:32 BST

Scott Ritter | Truthdig | June 26, 2008
I am a former U.N. weapons inspector. I started my work with the United Nations in September 1991, and between that date and my resignation in August 1998, I participated in over 30 inspections, 14 as chief inspector. The United Nations Special Commission, or UNSCOM, [...]

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Kucinich: ‘We went to war for the oil companies’

anthony @ 17:23 BST
Nick Juliano | Raw Story | Friday, June 27, 2008
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced measures to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, said Thursday that oil executives who secretly met with the vice president in 2001 should be held criminally liable for pushing an illegal war.
“In March of 2001, when [...]

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How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America

By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST

The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America

By Robert Scheer, Twelve. Posted June 27, 2008

The huge “defense” spending going on in our name is irrational and costly, but there are powerful vested interests that want to keep it that way.
The [...]

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Feds Raid Blackwater Armory In Firearms Probe!

By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 AM MST

Feds raid Blackwater’s armory in firearms probe
Associated Press
Raw Story
Published: Thursday June 26, 2008
Federal agents have raided an armory owned by security contractor Blackwater Worldwide.
The North Carolina-based company said the raid was part of an investigation into a deal that allowed a local sheriff’s office to store high-powered assault rifles at [...]

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Sudhan @11:35 CET
US efforts to force Iraqis to swallow permanent vassal status and give up control of their oil echoes British imperial history
Semas Milne | The Guardian, June 26, 2008
Whatever the Iraq war was about, we were assured, it definitely wasn’t about oil. Tony Blair called the idea a “conspiracy theory”. It was about democracy [...]

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The Pentagon’s merchants of war

Sudhan @11:15 CET

By Nick Turse | TomDipatch.com, June 24, 2008
The top Pentagon contractors, like death and taxes, almost never change. In 2002, the massive arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman ranked one, two and three among Department of Defense (DoD) contractors, taking in US$17 billion, $16.6 billion and $8.7 billion.
Lockheed, Boeing and [...]

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