If for no other reason than this:
Charles Schumer panned Bush's choice. "It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us."
Courtesy of cnn.com. If this guy is hated by the dems he is good in my book. Also, unify to Schumer means picking a liberal. This is good and exactly what the Bush administration needed.
Monday, October 31, 2005
Saturday, October 29, 2005
football day...
I went to the Gophers game today, they lost 45-31, and I'm going to my former high school's game tonight. I hope they win because the Gophers blew it.
Friday, October 28, 2005
nuclear terrorism...
Yea, like most good bloggers I should say something about the leak investigation, here I go, I don't care. Yes I could give a damn about who leaked who to whom, I mean when radical Islamofacists are trying to kill us. This is an excerpt from Nuclear Terrorism: the ultimate preventable catastrophe.
Nine months after the attack on New York, Osama bin Laden's official press spokesman, Suliman Abu Gheith made a chilling statement on a now defunct Al Qaeda asspciated Web site. www.alneada.com "We have the right," Abu Gheith asserted, "to kill 4 million Americans- 2 million of them children, and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands."
Four million Americans, an eerily specific specific and precise figure, clearly not one pulled out of thin air...
it goes on to say how eeire the logic and specificity of the number. Anyway while all the other bloggers are out there covering this retarded investigation I will be pushing to find real news. And give excerpts from the book I'm reading when I feel it is necessary.
Nine months after the attack on New York, Osama bin Laden's official press spokesman, Suliman Abu Gheith made a chilling statement on a now defunct Al Qaeda asspciated Web site. www.alneada.com "We have the right," Abu Gheith asserted, "to kill 4 million Americans- 2 million of them children, and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands."
Four million Americans, an eerily specific specific and precise figure, clearly not one pulled out of thin air...
it goes on to say how eeire the logic and specificity of the number. Anyway while all the other bloggers are out there covering this retarded investigation I will be pushing to find real news. And give excerpts from the book I'm reading when I feel it is necessary.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
One more reason to oppose Hillary in 2008...
As if we didn't have enough already, courtesy of Newsmax...
Hillary Clinton Proposes Massive Energy Tax
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday that she backs a plan to hike gasoline taxes through the roof.
Speaking to a group of alternative energy investors in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed to sock oil companies with $20 billion in new fees that would be used to fund research on clean energy - driving up costs for oil producers that they would inevitably pass along to consumers.
The top Democrat said her goal is to get "oil companies that have experienced these amazing profits either to reinvest them in our energy future to reduce our dependence on oil or to contribute to a strategic energy fund that will provide incentives for companies and consumers who want to be part of an energy solution."
Mrs. Clinton's whopping tax hike proposal comes just as prices at the pump are beginning to decline from records highs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which caused a bump in energy inflation that experts warned could tip the economy into recession.
Mrs. Clinton insisted that her $20 billion fee plan was "not about new energy taxes on consumers" - but she declined to say how oil companies would absorb the additional costs without charging consumers.
This is insane, were taxed enough already, this would bring about $4 a gallon gas at least. I can live with $2.20-$2.30 a gallon here but once it gets above $3, it starts to really hurt.
Hillary Clinton Proposes Massive Energy Tax
2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday that she backs a plan to hike gasoline taxes through the roof.
Speaking to a group of alternative energy investors in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed to sock oil companies with $20 billion in new fees that would be used to fund research on clean energy - driving up costs for oil producers that they would inevitably pass along to consumers.
The top Democrat said her goal is to get "oil companies that have experienced these amazing profits either to reinvest them in our energy future to reduce our dependence on oil or to contribute to a strategic energy fund that will provide incentives for companies and consumers who want to be part of an energy solution."
Mrs. Clinton's whopping tax hike proposal comes just as prices at the pump are beginning to decline from records highs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which caused a bump in energy inflation that experts warned could tip the economy into recession.
Mrs. Clinton insisted that her $20 billion fee plan was "not about new energy taxes on consumers" - but she declined to say how oil companies would absorb the additional costs without charging consumers.
This is insane, were taxed enough already, this would bring about $4 a gallon gas at least. I can live with $2.20-$2.30 a gallon here but once it gets above $3, it starts to really hurt.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Tonight at a meeting...
I met Captain Ed, from the Captain's Quarters blog (which I will be providing a link to soon, along with Powerline) which I read every now and then. I also got to show off my iPod Shuffle to a bunch of amazed middle-aged people who looked stunned when I pulled it out. He talked about the Eason Jordan debacle and other various topics (like Swift Boat Veterans). I wasn't a part of those because I started blogging daily just 3-4 months ago. There is so much more I could say (he's a very nice and cool guy to top it off) about him and the meeting but I'll leave it at this, he is (along with me) a voice for people who are conservatives but scared to speak because the loony left thinks were all facists and Nazi's (when in reality, they are the ones who act more like those groups). I think it was Richard Nixon who talked about a silent majority, well thanks to the blogopsphere and people like Captain Ed, the majority will be heard.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
more of a reason to oppose Miers
When Dems stay silent, you know something is wrong.. from the LA times...
Democrats Keep Mum on Miers Nomination
For now, they are willing to let the Republicans fight among themselves over Bush's court pick.
By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — For a town in which partisan warfare is daily background noise, there is an unusual silence these days on one side: Despite Republican discord over the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers, Democrats have been holding their fire.
On Capitol Hill, the revelation last week that Miers expressed anti-abortion views on a questionnaire as a Dallas City Council candidate years ago found most Democrats studiously avoiding confrontation on what is usually a fire-hot controversy. Regardless of their personal views on abortion, few publicly expressed strong reactions to Miers' answers.
"Do you have a gut reaction to the questionnaire?" a reporter pressed Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada at his weekly news conference on the party's priorities.
"No," Reid replied, and asked for a new question.
After Democrats spent years preparing for confrontation with Republicans over a Supreme Court nomination, their silence on Miers might seem odd.
"It's the dog that didn't bark," said Don Stewart, communications director for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), perhaps Miers' most ardent supporter in the Senate. "I'm still waiting for the Democrats to come out and start mischaracterizing her," Stewart said.
Several factors help explain why Democrats are generally keeping mum.
First, there is the unusual spectacle of Republicans — once lauded for their discipline — wounding each other. Part of the GOP's right wing is in open revolt against a nominee they find disappointing, with some conservative commentators calling openly for her withdrawal.
"For Democrats, this is the rubbernecking phase," said Luke Albee, former chief of staff to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. "Democrats are watching slack-jawed as problems mount for Republicans."
Few expect President Bush to withdraw Miers' nomination; such a move would be uncharacteristic of him. But at least some unhappy conservatives are hoping that continuing public pressure will cause Miers to step aside of her own accord.
So far, Democrats aren't playing a major role in the criticism of Miers because of a simple political calculation: If your opponents are shooting themselves, don't stand in the way of the bullets.
"This time, the president has picked a fight with the right wing, who wanted an extremist named to the court, and they are not happy with Harriet Miers," said a Democratic leadership aide, who like Capitol Hill staff members interviewed for this story spoke only on the condition of anonymity when discussing party strategy.
"The best thing the Democrats can do is to let this process play out," the aide added.
Another calculation is that although few senators are fervent Miers supporters, for now neither side in the chamber wants to be faulted for sinking the nomination. Both liberals and conservatives fear that if Miers is forced to withdraw, Bush could pick a nominee they like even less.
"If she withdraws, we want to be able to blame [conservatives] for it," said a second Democratic leadership aide. "The situation is obviously fluid right now, but we're always mindful of who might replace her."
That helps explain another political oddity: At this point, many Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans share some of the same views about Miers. These lawmakers see her as a C-plus candidate for a seat on the nation's highest court. And they believe Miers has been too close to the president to have developed a clear judicial philosophy of her own.
As a result, both sides say her nomination probably will succeed or fail as a result of her performance in televised hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, scheduled to begin Nov. 7.
"She has a burden," said Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), a committee member, after meeting with Miers last week. "Everyone who comes before this committee has a burden, but I think her burden is perhaps higher."
"The only thing that's going to be fatal to this nomination is how she performs before the committee," said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), another committee member. "If she performs all right, then she's obviously going to be approved. But if she doesn't perform well, she probably won't be approved."
According to Democratic staffers, perhaps a dozen Democratic senators are inclined to vote to confirm Miers despite her shortcomings, more than making up for the few Republicans who might vote against her. That means that barring a new, disqualifying revelation or a poor showing in front of the Judiciary Committee, Miers remains favored to win Senate confirmation.
"Everyone feels that mathematically, this woman is a lock for confirmation; there's just a price to pay with conservatives," said a third Democratic leadership aide. "It comes down to how many Republicans are willing to hold their noses and vote for her."
The truly tricky decision for Democrats would come if Miers had a bad showing in her committee hearings and her support among Republicans eroded further, to 49 or fewer of the chamber's 55 Republicans. At that point, Democrats would be in position to decide her fate.
Few observers expect the nomination to get to that point however.
"I don't think the Democrats are secretly plotting to either derail her nomination, nor do I believe they are plotting how to salvage it," said Albee, the former aide to Leahy. "They are proceeding as they should. Her nomination will rise or fall with the outcome of the Judiciary Committee hearings."
As a result, said Grassley and other senators, all bets are off for both parties until Miers has her day — or a week — in front of the camera.
"Between now and then," Grassley said, "it doesn't really matter what happens."
I want Janice Rogers Brown. I am not a Bush supporter 100% of the time and me and my conservative buddies will rise up and stop her from being put on the bench! But that doesn't mean I will hold a grudge, yes the GOP is fractured a bit but we will bound up again and kick some donkey ass in the 2006 mid-terms.
Democrats Keep Mum on Miers Nomination
For now, they are willing to let the Republicans fight among themselves over Bush's court pick.
By Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — For a town in which partisan warfare is daily background noise, there is an unusual silence these days on one side: Despite Republican discord over the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet E. Miers, Democrats have been holding their fire.
On Capitol Hill, the revelation last week that Miers expressed anti-abortion views on a questionnaire as a Dallas City Council candidate years ago found most Democrats studiously avoiding confrontation on what is usually a fire-hot controversy. Regardless of their personal views on abortion, few publicly expressed strong reactions to Miers' answers.
"Do you have a gut reaction to the questionnaire?" a reporter pressed Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada at his weekly news conference on the party's priorities.
"No," Reid replied, and asked for a new question.
After Democrats spent years preparing for confrontation with Republicans over a Supreme Court nomination, their silence on Miers might seem odd.
"It's the dog that didn't bark," said Don Stewart, communications director for Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), perhaps Miers' most ardent supporter in the Senate. "I'm still waiting for the Democrats to come out and start mischaracterizing her," Stewart said.
Several factors help explain why Democrats are generally keeping mum.
First, there is the unusual spectacle of Republicans — once lauded for their discipline — wounding each other. Part of the GOP's right wing is in open revolt against a nominee they find disappointing, with some conservative commentators calling openly for her withdrawal.
"For Democrats, this is the rubbernecking phase," said Luke Albee, former chief of staff to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. "Democrats are watching slack-jawed as problems mount for Republicans."
Few expect President Bush to withdraw Miers' nomination; such a move would be uncharacteristic of him. But at least some unhappy conservatives are hoping that continuing public pressure will cause Miers to step aside of her own accord.
So far, Democrats aren't playing a major role in the criticism of Miers because of a simple political calculation: If your opponents are shooting themselves, don't stand in the way of the bullets.
"This time, the president has picked a fight with the right wing, who wanted an extremist named to the court, and they are not happy with Harriet Miers," said a Democratic leadership aide, who like Capitol Hill staff members interviewed for this story spoke only on the condition of anonymity when discussing party strategy.
"The best thing the Democrats can do is to let this process play out," the aide added.
Another calculation is that although few senators are fervent Miers supporters, for now neither side in the chamber wants to be faulted for sinking the nomination. Both liberals and conservatives fear that if Miers is forced to withdraw, Bush could pick a nominee they like even less.
"If she withdraws, we want to be able to blame [conservatives] for it," said a second Democratic leadership aide. "The situation is obviously fluid right now, but we're always mindful of who might replace her."
That helps explain another political oddity: At this point, many Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans share some of the same views about Miers. These lawmakers see her as a C-plus candidate for a seat on the nation's highest court. And they believe Miers has been too close to the president to have developed a clear judicial philosophy of her own.
As a result, both sides say her nomination probably will succeed or fail as a result of her performance in televised hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, scheduled to begin Nov. 7.
"She has a burden," said Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), a committee member, after meeting with Miers last week. "Everyone who comes before this committee has a burden, but I think her burden is perhaps higher."
"The only thing that's going to be fatal to this nomination is how she performs before the committee," said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), another committee member. "If she performs all right, then she's obviously going to be approved. But if she doesn't perform well, she probably won't be approved."
According to Democratic staffers, perhaps a dozen Democratic senators are inclined to vote to confirm Miers despite her shortcomings, more than making up for the few Republicans who might vote against her. That means that barring a new, disqualifying revelation or a poor showing in front of the Judiciary Committee, Miers remains favored to win Senate confirmation.
"Everyone feels that mathematically, this woman is a lock for confirmation; there's just a price to pay with conservatives," said a third Democratic leadership aide. "It comes down to how many Republicans are willing to hold their noses and vote for her."
The truly tricky decision for Democrats would come if Miers had a bad showing in her committee hearings and her support among Republicans eroded further, to 49 or fewer of the chamber's 55 Republicans. At that point, Democrats would be in position to decide her fate.
Few observers expect the nomination to get to that point however.
"I don't think the Democrats are secretly plotting to either derail her nomination, nor do I believe they are plotting how to salvage it," said Albee, the former aide to Leahy. "They are proceeding as they should. Her nomination will rise or fall with the outcome of the Judiciary Committee hearings."
As a result, said Grassley and other senators, all bets are off for both parties until Miers has her day — or a week — in front of the camera.
"Between now and then," Grassley said, "it doesn't really matter what happens."
I want Janice Rogers Brown. I am not a Bush supporter 100% of the time and me and my conservative buddies will rise up and stop her from being put on the bench! But that doesn't mean I will hold a grudge, yes the GOP is fractured a bit but we will bound up again and kick some donkey ass in the 2006 mid-terms.
Vikings win!!
Wow what a game, 23-20 on a last second 56 yard field goal. Were 2-4 now and hopefully this will be a season turner for us. I will not taunt ZS at all he's too crushed right now, but it was a hell of a game wasn't it ZS? Back to the grind tommorow.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Rumor Mill...
wow wouldn't this be something?
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 11:13 a.m. EDT
Rumor: Cheney to Resign; Rice as V.P.
After a Washington Post story suggesting that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office is involved in the Plame-CIA investigation, rumors are flying around Washington that Cheney might step aside – and be replaced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"If that should happen, there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was orchestrated – another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP,” a White House insider told Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report.
Some observers are whispering that the driving force behind the Rice-for-Cheney scenario is political pundit Dick Morris’ new book "Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.”
In the book, Morris and co-author Eileen McGann warn that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the U.S., unless she can be stopped.
And Condoleezza Rice, they say, is the only Republican who can win the GOP nomination, beat Hillary and hold on to the White House for the GOP.
A move now to elevate Condoleezza to the vice president’s position would better prime her for a run against Hillary in 2008.
I got two words for this, Go Condi!
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005 11:13 a.m. EDT
Rumor: Cheney to Resign; Rice as V.P.
After a Washington Post story suggesting that Vice President Dick Cheney’s office is involved in the Plame-CIA investigation, rumors are flying around Washington that Cheney might step aside – and be replaced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
"If that should happen, there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was orchestrated – another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP,” a White House insider told Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report.
Some observers are whispering that the driving force behind the Rice-for-Cheney scenario is political pundit Dick Morris’ new book "Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.”
In the book, Morris and co-author Eileen McGann warn that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the U.S., unless she can be stopped.
And Condoleezza Rice, they say, is the only Republican who can win the GOP nomination, beat Hillary and hold on to the White House for the GOP.
A move now to elevate Condoleezza to the vice president’s position would better prime her for a run against Hillary in 2008.
I got two words for this, Go Condi!
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
what a game...
I'll be bcak to politics soon enough. Right now I want to tip my hat to the Cardinals because of the way the won last night. One of the best games I have seen recently. I still want the Astros to win though.
Friday, October 14, 2005
The one time I hope he's right...
James Carville, who I normally hate, has hit the nail on the head I think here.
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 10:42 p.m. EDT
James Carville Sees Miers Withdrawing
Democratic Party strategist James Carville is predicting that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will withdraw her name from consideration rather than put the White House through a politically-bruising fight to win her confirmation.
Carville made the prediction at a book party Tuesday night that he and wife Mary Matalin hosted for Vince Flynn, author of the newly released thriller "Consent to Kill."
According to one-time Rush Limbaugh researcher-turned best-selling author Joel Rosenberg - who was on hand for the event - Carville said Miers would voluntarily yank her name from contention rather than wait to be asked by the White House.
The top Democrat said he was basing his prediction on the fact that Miers is renowned for her loyalty - which means she won't want to see the President Bush bloodied by a long and drawn out fight with his own base.
If, on the other hand, Miers stays put, Carville said Democratic Senators would offer just enough votes for confirmation if Republicans remain unified, but not a single vote more.
Republican defections could be fatal, he advised, warning his guests to keep an eye on leading conservative Senators like Sam Brownback, George Allen and Rick Santorum.
This is my last political post until monday, if I post again today it will be sports related.
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 10:42 p.m. EDT
James Carville Sees Miers Withdrawing
Democratic Party strategist James Carville is predicting that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will withdraw her name from consideration rather than put the White House through a politically-bruising fight to win her confirmation.
Carville made the prediction at a book party Tuesday night that he and wife Mary Matalin hosted for Vince Flynn, author of the newly released thriller "Consent to Kill."
According to one-time Rush Limbaugh researcher-turned best-selling author Joel Rosenberg - who was on hand for the event - Carville said Miers would voluntarily yank her name from contention rather than wait to be asked by the White House.
The top Democrat said he was basing his prediction on the fact that Miers is renowned for her loyalty - which means she won't want to see the President Bush bloodied by a long and drawn out fight with his own base.
If, on the other hand, Miers stays put, Carville said Democratic Senators would offer just enough votes for confirmation if Republicans remain unified, but not a single vote more.
Republican defections could be fatal, he advised, warning his guests to keep an eye on leading conservative Senators like Sam Brownback, George Allen and Rick Santorum.
This is my last political post until monday, if I post again today it will be sports related.
Thursday, October 13, 2005
300th post...
well actually 301, damn not bad considering I didn't start daily blogging until mid-may. At least it keeps me sharp ;)
Al Franken Air America's buddy splits...
Big surprise huh?
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 1:20 p.m. EDT
Al Franken's Radio Partner Splits
Are things coming unraveled over at Air America?
Last Friday, Al Franken's radio partner Katherine Lanpher abandoned ship, explaining that she had to leave the show because she snagged a book deal.
Announcing Lanpher's departure last week, Air America's web site said that her book would be a "memoir of her move to New York" - a move she made to co-host Franken's show in the first place.
"Her deadline in mid-January is unusually aggressive and necessitates an almost immediate departure," the message insisted. It was signed, "The Staff of The Al Franken Show."
Lanpher's final broadcast was filled with tributes from some of her favorite guests - but co-host Franken decided to bug out early, insisting he had a plane to catch.
A veteran of Minnesota public radio, Lanpher was brought on board when the network launched to help Franken make the transition to live radio.
Earlier this year, Franken himself said he was considering leaving the airwaves to pursue his dream of running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, his home state.
While there's no apparent connection to Lanpher's departure, the troubled network has recently come under investigation by the New York State attorney general's office over an $875,000 loan obtained under suspicious circumstances from a local social service organization.
Lanpher's abrupt leave-taking left listeners perplexed. In a post to the comments section of the network's web site, one Franken show fan wrote:
"I hope someday, maybe in a later book, Katherine comes clean about why she left. The whole, 'I need to leave to write a book' reeks of manufactured credibility. For a station that continually takes swipes at Fox broadcasting for not being completely up front, it seems Air America has an awful lot it likes to 'diplomatically' relabel."
Hey at least the stuff I listen to on the radio is profitable. I wonder why the MSM isn't picking this up... wait I forgot we have a HUGE liberal media bias here. Anyone who tells you otherwise is mentally disabled.
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005 1:20 p.m. EDT
Al Franken's Radio Partner Splits
Are things coming unraveled over at Air America?
Last Friday, Al Franken's radio partner Katherine Lanpher abandoned ship, explaining that she had to leave the show because she snagged a book deal.
Announcing Lanpher's departure last week, Air America's web site said that her book would be a "memoir of her move to New York" - a move she made to co-host Franken's show in the first place.
"Her deadline in mid-January is unusually aggressive and necessitates an almost immediate departure," the message insisted. It was signed, "The Staff of The Al Franken Show."
Lanpher's final broadcast was filled with tributes from some of her favorite guests - but co-host Franken decided to bug out early, insisting he had a plane to catch.
A veteran of Minnesota public radio, Lanpher was brought on board when the network launched to help Franken make the transition to live radio.
Earlier this year, Franken himself said he was considering leaving the airwaves to pursue his dream of running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, his home state.
While there's no apparent connection to Lanpher's departure, the troubled network has recently come under investigation by the New York State attorney general's office over an $875,000 loan obtained under suspicious circumstances from a local social service organization.
Lanpher's abrupt leave-taking left listeners perplexed. In a post to the comments section of the network's web site, one Franken show fan wrote:
"I hope someday, maybe in a later book, Katherine comes clean about why she left. The whole, 'I need to leave to write a book' reeks of manufactured credibility. For a station that continually takes swipes at Fox broadcasting for not being completely up front, it seems Air America has an awful lot it likes to 'diplomatically' relabel."
Hey at least the stuff I listen to on the radio is profitable. I wonder why the MSM isn't picking this up... wait I forgot we have a HUGE liberal media bias here. Anyone who tells you otherwise is mentally disabled.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Just when you think they hit a new low...
Moveon.Org is digging up dirt on Harriet Miers, talk about low lifes. I may not be for her but this is embaressing.
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 11:32 a.m. EDT
MoveOn Digging Dirt on Harriet Miers
The left-wing activist group MoveOn.org is enlisting its membership in a nationwide effort to dig up dirt on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Meirs.
MoveOn's "Research on Harriet Miers" project asks members to dig into her background, steering their volunteer gumshoes to episodes in Miers' past that might yield the most damaging information.
"Here are some questions to guide your search," MoveOn advises on its web site:
• "What was her record at the head of the scandal-ridden Texas Lottery Commission?
• "What cases did she take on while working as a corporate lawyer in private practice, and what positions did she fight for?
• "White House Council [sic] Alberto Gonzales played a pivotal role in softening Americas stance on torture. What positions has Harriet Miers advocated for in the same role?
• "Has she ever publicly distanced herself from George W. Bush?
• "What are her views on environmental protections, corporate crime, and the right to choose?
MoveOn concludes its opposition research guide by saying: "What else should the public know about Harriet Miers?"
Liberalism is a mental disorder. They aren't progressive, they aren't productive, and they ain't that smart either.
Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 11:32 a.m. EDT
MoveOn Digging Dirt on Harriet Miers
The left-wing activist group MoveOn.org is enlisting its membership in a nationwide effort to dig up dirt on Supreme Court nominee Harriet Meirs.
MoveOn's "Research on Harriet Miers" project asks members to dig into her background, steering their volunteer gumshoes to episodes in Miers' past that might yield the most damaging information.
"Here are some questions to guide your search," MoveOn advises on its web site:
• "What was her record at the head of the scandal-ridden Texas Lottery Commission?
• "What cases did she take on while working as a corporate lawyer in private practice, and what positions did she fight for?
• "White House Council [sic] Alberto Gonzales played a pivotal role in softening Americas stance on torture. What positions has Harriet Miers advocated for in the same role?
• "Has she ever publicly distanced herself from George W. Bush?
• "What are her views on environmental protections, corporate crime, and the right to choose?
MoveOn concludes its opposition research guide by saying: "What else should the public know about Harriet Miers?"
Liberalism is a mental disorder. They aren't progressive, they aren't productive, and they ain't that smart either.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
An ad on newsmax...
Hey I don't know if I agree with this but what the hell...
THE NEXT 9/11 STARTS TODAY !!!
Osama’s “Great Ramadan Offensive” from October 4 – November 4, With Attacks on the U. S., Netherlands, Italy, Australia, and Russia, Will be More Spectacular than September 11 !!
Joseph Farah on WorldNetDaily.com reports that terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky, who was director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare for over ten years, discovered a letter from Abu Musab Zarqawi to Osama bin Laden describing Ramadan attacks on the U. S., Europe and Russia as a “fateful confrontation” with the U. S. and Israel. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama’s second-in-command, has warned of “horrific attacks” against U. S. cities. He has also said that Osama has acquired thirty suitcase nuclear bombs from the former Soviet Union.
Dr. Paul Williams, author of Osama’s Revenge: the Next 9/11 and The Al Qaeda Connection, says that Osama has already smuggled seven to ten suitcase nuclear bombs into the U. S. through the Mexican border. In addition, 8,000 illegals from terror-suspect countries such as Yemen, Sudan, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have come across the Mexican border into the U. S. in the past six months. And, most alarming of all, Adnan el-Shukrijumah and Amer el-Maati, Osama’s ringleaders of his “American Horishima” Project, where he plans to blow up seven to ten American cities with nukes, have now entered the U. S. through Mexico! The American Hiroshima starts now!
So what can people do? Our only hope is to put the faces of el-Shukrijumah and el-Maati, the "Mohamed Attas" of Osama's "American Hiroshima", on America's Most Wanted TV Show. The FBI has been looking for these two without success for 2 years. 300 million Americans could find them in 2 weeks! If we don't do this, we are doomed! At this late date, since our government has failed to do the things necessary to stop Osama, about the only other thing people can do is to get out of the cities Osama has targeted – New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, Washington, Houston, Las Vegas, and Valdez, Alaska, where oil tankers are filled from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
After seven to ten of our cities, or more, are destroyed by nuclear blasts from terrorists in the next few days (if frightened by publicity, the terrorists may hold off until the last two weeks of November, the Mahdi’s birthday), months, or years, what can we do?
We can bomb and destroy the headquarters of the ruling regimes such as Iran and Syria that sponsor terror.
We can go into Pakistan and get Osama bin Laden.
We can build a 50-foot wall, if need be, across the Mexican border to prevent terrorist illegals from coming in.
We can provide funding to make available the radiation sickness medicine, Neumune, that cuts the death rate of people exposed to radiation from 50% to 10%.
We can send in 150,000 more troops into Iraq and win the war in Iraq.
We can cut off all funding to the Palestinian Authority until they stop all terror attacks on Israel.
And we can deport every Wahhabi cleric that spouts violence against the U. S.
Only then can we possibly live in safety.
If we fight, we will survive. If we do not fight, we will die.
Those who espouse pacifism will be overcome by the Islamo-terrorists. Being nice to the terrorists will no more ensure our safety then giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler stopped him from invading Europe in World War II.
Those who would pull out of Iraq, consider this: if we didn’t like al Qaeda in Afghanistan, just think about al Qaeda taking over Iraq, with 10 billion dollars of Iraqi oil money per year to fund their worldwide war of terror!
The way to survival is clear, America. Fight or die!
Well it's a week old. Have we prevented it yet?
THE NEXT 9/11 STARTS TODAY !!!
Osama’s “Great Ramadan Offensive” from October 4 – November 4, With Attacks on the U. S., Netherlands, Italy, Australia, and Russia, Will be More Spectacular than September 11 !!
Joseph Farah on WorldNetDaily.com reports that terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky, who was director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare for over ten years, discovered a letter from Abu Musab Zarqawi to Osama bin Laden describing Ramadan attacks on the U. S., Europe and Russia as a “fateful confrontation” with the U. S. and Israel. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama’s second-in-command, has warned of “horrific attacks” against U. S. cities. He has also said that Osama has acquired thirty suitcase nuclear bombs from the former Soviet Union.
Dr. Paul Williams, author of Osama’s Revenge: the Next 9/11 and The Al Qaeda Connection, says that Osama has already smuggled seven to ten suitcase nuclear bombs into the U. S. through the Mexican border. In addition, 8,000 illegals from terror-suspect countries such as Yemen, Sudan, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have come across the Mexican border into the U. S. in the past six months. And, most alarming of all, Adnan el-Shukrijumah and Amer el-Maati, Osama’s ringleaders of his “American Horishima” Project, where he plans to blow up seven to ten American cities with nukes, have now entered the U. S. through Mexico! The American Hiroshima starts now!
So what can people do? Our only hope is to put the faces of el-Shukrijumah and el-Maati, the "Mohamed Attas" of Osama's "American Hiroshima", on America's Most Wanted TV Show. The FBI has been looking for these two without success for 2 years. 300 million Americans could find them in 2 weeks! If we don't do this, we are doomed! At this late date, since our government has failed to do the things necessary to stop Osama, about the only other thing people can do is to get out of the cities Osama has targeted – New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, Washington, Houston, Las Vegas, and Valdez, Alaska, where oil tankers are filled from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
After seven to ten of our cities, or more, are destroyed by nuclear blasts from terrorists in the next few days (if frightened by publicity, the terrorists may hold off until the last two weeks of November, the Mahdi’s birthday), months, or years, what can we do?
We can bomb and destroy the headquarters of the ruling regimes such as Iran and Syria that sponsor terror.
We can go into Pakistan and get Osama bin Laden.
We can build a 50-foot wall, if need be, across the Mexican border to prevent terrorist illegals from coming in.
We can provide funding to make available the radiation sickness medicine, Neumune, that cuts the death rate of people exposed to radiation from 50% to 10%.
We can send in 150,000 more troops into Iraq and win the war in Iraq.
We can cut off all funding to the Palestinian Authority until they stop all terror attacks on Israel.
And we can deport every Wahhabi cleric that spouts violence against the U. S.
Only then can we possibly live in safety.
If we fight, we will survive. If we do not fight, we will die.
Those who espouse pacifism will be overcome by the Islamo-terrorists. Being nice to the terrorists will no more ensure our safety then giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler stopped him from invading Europe in World War II.
Those who would pull out of Iraq, consider this: if we didn’t like al Qaeda in Afghanistan, just think about al Qaeda taking over Iraq, with 10 billion dollars of Iraqi oil money per year to fund their worldwide war of terror!
The way to survival is clear, America. Fight or die!
Well it's a week old. Have we prevented it yet?
Can you believe this...
This is amazing, and sad and stupid all at the same time.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes natural disasters around the globe are rooted in capitalism.
As reported by Agence France-Presse, Chavez, in a radio and TV interview, said the recent earthquakes in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and the mudslides in Mexico and Guatemala were nature’s answer to a "world global capitalist model” that has left the world "dangerously off balance.”
Chavez antagonist, American TV evangelist Pat Robertson, takes a dissenting view. He said the natural disasters were forecast in the Book of Revelation, and point to "the end times" and Christ’s return.
Yet another reason to hate capitalism. Could someone tell me why capitalism gets such a bad rap and socialism/communism (which when has been implenmented never works, and tends to kill a lot of people) is praised?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes natural disasters around the globe are rooted in capitalism.
As reported by Agence France-Presse, Chavez, in a radio and TV interview, said the recent earthquakes in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and the mudslides in Mexico and Guatemala were nature’s answer to a "world global capitalist model” that has left the world "dangerously off balance.”
Chavez antagonist, American TV evangelist Pat Robertson, takes a dissenting view. He said the natural disasters were forecast in the Book of Revelation, and point to "the end times" and Christ’s return.
Yet another reason to hate capitalism. Could someone tell me why capitalism gets such a bad rap and socialism/communism (which when has been implenmented never works, and tends to kill a lot of people) is praised?
Sunday, October 09, 2005
I have changed my mind...
After watching a 18 inning epic baseball game I have decided that the White Sox will lose the World Series to the Astros. The Astros are the team of destiny this year. I cannot explain it in words, it's just a very strong feeling I have.
fun day...
I'll be back to the political grind next post, right now all I care about is football and baseball. I will be spending from now until 10-11pm tonight watching sports. There are more important things going on in the world now, like defense spending, we spent $455 billion on it. When you compare that percentage wise to other countries its on par or maybe a little ahead. It's not as big of a deal as liberal blogs are making it out to be. Espically considering the debt of this country (once again sometime next week I need to do a post on that).
Saturday, October 08, 2005
White Sox Won...
Wow, I was as stunned as anyone, well looks like my picks are shot..
Division series
AL
Boston over Chicago in 4 ganes
Aneheim over NYY in 5 games
NL
San Diego over St. Louis in 5 games
Houston over Atlanta in 3 games
ALCS
Boston over Anehiem in 7 games
NLCS
Houston over San Diego in 6 games
World Series
Boston over Houston in 7 games
Now I'm going to change them :)
ALCS
Chicago over Anehiem in 7 games
World Series
Chicago over Houston in 7 games
Division series
AL
Boston over Chicago in 4 ganes
Aneheim over NYY in 5 games
NL
San Diego over St. Louis in 5 games
Houston over Atlanta in 3 games
ALCS
Boston over Anehiem in 7 games
NLCS
Houston over San Diego in 6 games
World Series
Boston over Houston in 7 games
Now I'm going to change them :)
ALCS
Chicago over Anehiem in 7 games
World Series
Chicago over Houston in 7 games
New link section...
Ok, my new "buddies" section on my sidebar is up. Quite simply all you have to do to get on there is comment on a post (don't worry soft news is coming soon people) that I made. I really don't care if you agree or disagree, just do it intelligently, I love debate. If you have put time and effort into your blog I will link to it. If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comment section below.
A good NYT article...
For all the ripping I do of the liberal media the NYT got this one right.
Third man detained in connection with terror plot
By The New York Times
A third man has been detained in a suspected plot to detonate explosives on the city’s subway system, a government official said today, as police officers searched passengers’ bags on subways, buses and ferries.
Authorities are holding Al Qaeda operatives in connection with the suspected plot, although no details were available on who they are, where they were detained or what agency captured them, said the government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The official said the person who provided the information about the men had undergone explosives training with them at an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan.
Security in and around the city’s transit network was sharply increased Thursday after city officials announced that they had been notified by federal authorities in Washington of a terrorist threat that for the first time specified the city’s transit system.
The measures were made public Thursday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, along with Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and the head of the New York F.B.I. office, Mark J. Mershon, after an American military operation with the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. in Iraq, according to law enforcement officials. The operation, carried out this week, was aimed at disrupting the threat, the officials said.
Some officials in Washington have played down the nature of the threat. While not entirely dismissing it, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security described it as “specific yet noncredible,” adding that the intelligence community had concluded that the information was of “doubtful credibility.”
Today in Washington, President Bush said the city had decided on its own to inform the public about the threats.
”Our job is to gather intelligence and pass it on to local authorities,” Mr. Bush told reporters in a White House picture-taking session with Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany of Hungary. “And they make the judgments necessary to respond. The level of cooperation between the federal government and the local government is getting better and better. And part of that level of cooperation is the ability to pass information on. And we did, and they responded.”
When asked whether he thought New York officials had overreacted, the president demurred. “I think they took the information we gave and made the judgments they thought were necessary,” he said. “And the American people have got to know that, one, we’re collecting information and sharing it with local authorities on a timely basis. And that’s important.”
Earlier today, the White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters: “In this case, we notified New York City officials early on of the intelligence information that we had received. And while it is specific, you heard our Homeland Security officials say it is of doubtful credibility. It is something we continue to analyze.”
But in an afternoon news conference in New York, Mr. Bloomberg said he believed he had made the right decision by informing the public about the possibility of a terrorist attack.
”If I’m going to make a mistake, you can rest assured it’s going to be on the side of being cautious,” he said. “If it happened again, I would make exactly the same decision.”
Mr. Kelly agreed, saying: “I can’t think of anything other than what could have been done than what we proceeded to do.”
Asked about the disagreement over how seriously to take the threat, the mayor said that intelligence information is rarely clear cut.
”You’ll never get a consensus in the intelligence community on any one thing,” he said. “In the end, you will find that not everyone’s on the same page.”
At subway stations today, riders said they were generally unworried about the latest warning.
”I’m a fourth-generation New Yorker,” said Alexandra Noya, 35, as she got off a train at Columbus Circle. “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.” The warning from the mayor and police commissioner, she said, “didn’t deter me.”
Jimmy George, 65, from Teaneck, N.J., said he doubted the seriousness of the threat. Mr. George said he believed the timing was related to the coming New York City mayoral election.
”Is it time to wag the dog?” he said. “It’s election time. It seems during election times there’s always some type of threat.”
Bradford Ellis, who turned 35 today, said the threat was likely real, but said he was comfortable taking his chances riding the train.
”Everybody was calling me today, telling me I shouldn’t get on the subway because it’s my birthday,” he said. “But you can’t let it affect you. I think it’s a possible threat, but I don’t live my life on possibilities.”
At the Times Square station, an M.T.A. conductor, Ray Volsario, said he was not told about the threat by supervisors, and learned about it from television news.
”They don’t tell us anything,” he said. “We’re supposed to be the eyes and ears of the subway system - why are we the last to know?”
A portion of Penn Station was evacuated for about two hours this morning after police responded to reports about a suspicious package and a possibly toxic substance inside a bottle. Mr. Kelly, the police commissioner, said the package turned out to be harmless litter. The bottle, said Mr. Kelly, appeared to be a “Drain-O type” fluid.
”It appears to be a prank,” said Mr. Kelly. Authorities took away the bottle to analyze the liquid, he said.
Information about the threat, came to light last weekend from an intelligence source who told federal authorities that the three men in Iraq had planned to meet with other operatives in New York, said several law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
One official said the group would number about a dozen. Another official said the total was closer to 20 people involved. The men planned to use strollers, briefcases and packages to hide a number of bombs that they planned to detonate on the subways.
“It was a conspiracy involving more than a dozen people aimed at delivering a number of devices into the subway,” one of the officials said.
One official said the information suggested an attack could happen as early as today; another pointed to the middle of the month.
”This is a piece of information that came in as a result of operations that go on all the time, and to corroborate that information or not we had to go after certain people,” one official said.
Mr. Mershon said: “F.B.I. agents and other U.S. government personnel continue to work around the clock to fully resolve this particular threat. Thus far, there is nothing that has surfaced in that investigation or those enforcement actions which has corroborated an actual threat to the city.”
Mayor Bloomberg seemed to try to inform New Yorkers without alarming them. He said that while the threat was not corroborated, it was specific enough to warrant an immediate and overwhelming response.
”It was more specific as to target; it was more specific as to timing, and some of the sources had more information that would lead one to believe that it was not the kind of thing that appears in the intelligence community every day,” Mr. Bloomberg said.
The mayor urged New Yorkers to continue riding the subways, as he said he would, but cautioned them to be watchful, saying several times, “If you see something, say something.”
As he spoke, thousands of city police officers were swarming the transit system. An officer will be assigned to each subway station, and Commissioner Kelly said the Police Department is significantly stepping up uniformed and plainclothes patrols, increasing sweeps through subway cars and posting officers at each subway tunnel that passes beneath city waterways. The department’s heavily armed “Hercules teams” and other specialized units will also focus on the transit system, he said.
Bag searches will also be significantly increased, the commissioner said, with a focus on briefcases, baby strollers, luggage and other packages and containers, and he asked subway riders to curtail their use. The searches will take place not only on the subways, but also on buses and ferries, and the Police Department has coordinated the increased scrutiny with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Amtrak. Mr. Kelly used narcotics detectives from Brooklyn and Queens and other investigators from the department’s Warrant Division to increase security in the subways. Officers mobilized at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
On Thursday, Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Mershon declined to discuss the events in Iraq, or where they had occurred, saying that it was classified.
Counterterrorism officials in Washington said the information received this week was highly specific, including details about the possible use of suitcase bombs and explosives hidden in strollers. That information, along with the more general concern that terrorists might stage an attack modeled on the July bombings in London, prompted immediate concern, the officials said.
On an average weekday, an estimated 4.7 million rides are taken on New York’s subway system, which has 468 stations.
Russ Knocke, a spokesman for Homeland Security, said the credibility of the threat was still to be determined.
He said Homeland Security “received intelligence information regarding a specific but noncredible threat to the New York City subway system.”
Mr. Knocke said Homeland Security shared the information “early on with state and local authorities in New York,” adding, “There are no plans to alter the national threat level or the threat level in New York City.”
He would not say any more about the content of the threat or the origin of the information.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s deputy commissioner of public information, would not discuss whether the source information suggested that operatives were in New York. He would say only, “We’re looking at all aspects of this case.”
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, city and national law enforcement authorities have at times reacted differently to similar threat information. In part, this is because of the varying roles that different agencies play. The New York Police Department, for example, is responsible for protecting the city and its subways and therefore is more likely to act quickly. The F.B.I.’s prime antiterrorism mission, on the other hand, is thwarting plots and apprehending any suspected terrorists - a task that is almost always complicated by information becoming public. But on Thursday, city and F.B.I. officials in New York stood side by side and seemed to present a similar message. Officials from Homeland Security did not take part in the briefing.
Of the information from Iraq, one official said: “Suffice it to say it was credible enough for us to be working it very hard and very diligently literally around the clock and around the world. Sometimes it looks incredibly detailed, and then it washes out into nothing, and sometimes pretty vague in nature and it turns into something real. You can’t know until you go through the process, and we’re going through the process.”
William A. Morange, the transportation authority’s security director and a member of a citywide counterterrorism task force, was informed several days ago about the threat, said Tom Kelly, a spokesman.
”We were kept well apprised of all the developments since earlier this week,” Mr. Kelly said.
The Police Department also put into effect a broad range of measures aimed at stepping up security around the city that did not address the specific threat, but were aimed at tightening the city’s security cordon. They included increased truck searches on East River crossings and banning trucks from the Brooklyn Bridge.
The department will also increase the use of radiation detectors, and detectives from the department’s Intelligence Division will check parking lots and garages in Manhattan and in other areas of the city.
Reporting for this article was contributed by David Johnston, Eric Lipton and Eric Lichtblau, in Washington, and Sewell Chan, Kareem Fahim and Timothy Williams, in New York.
© The New York Times Company
Scary huh?
Third man detained in connection with terror plot
By The New York Times
A third man has been detained in a suspected plot to detonate explosives on the city’s subway system, a government official said today, as police officers searched passengers’ bags on subways, buses and ferries.
Authorities are holding Al Qaeda operatives in connection with the suspected plot, although no details were available on who they are, where they were detained or what agency captured them, said the government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The official said the person who provided the information about the men had undergone explosives training with them at an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan.
Security in and around the city’s transit network was sharply increased Thursday after city officials announced that they had been notified by federal authorities in Washington of a terrorist threat that for the first time specified the city’s transit system.
The measures were made public Thursday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, along with Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and the head of the New York F.B.I. office, Mark J. Mershon, after an American military operation with the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. in Iraq, according to law enforcement officials. The operation, carried out this week, was aimed at disrupting the threat, the officials said.
Some officials in Washington have played down the nature of the threat. While not entirely dismissing it, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security described it as “specific yet noncredible,” adding that the intelligence community had concluded that the information was of “doubtful credibility.”
Today in Washington, President Bush said the city had decided on its own to inform the public about the threats.
”Our job is to gather intelligence and pass it on to local authorities,” Mr. Bush told reporters in a White House picture-taking session with Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany of Hungary. “And they make the judgments necessary to respond. The level of cooperation between the federal government and the local government is getting better and better. And part of that level of cooperation is the ability to pass information on. And we did, and they responded.”
When asked whether he thought New York officials had overreacted, the president demurred. “I think they took the information we gave and made the judgments they thought were necessary,” he said. “And the American people have got to know that, one, we’re collecting information and sharing it with local authorities on a timely basis. And that’s important.”
Earlier today, the White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters: “In this case, we notified New York City officials early on of the intelligence information that we had received. And while it is specific, you heard our Homeland Security officials say it is of doubtful credibility. It is something we continue to analyze.”
But in an afternoon news conference in New York, Mr. Bloomberg said he believed he had made the right decision by informing the public about the possibility of a terrorist attack.
”If I’m going to make a mistake, you can rest assured it’s going to be on the side of being cautious,” he said. “If it happened again, I would make exactly the same decision.”
Mr. Kelly agreed, saying: “I can’t think of anything other than what could have been done than what we proceeded to do.”
Asked about the disagreement over how seriously to take the threat, the mayor said that intelligence information is rarely clear cut.
”You’ll never get a consensus in the intelligence community on any one thing,” he said. “In the end, you will find that not everyone’s on the same page.”
At subway stations today, riders said they were generally unworried about the latest warning.
”I’m a fourth-generation New Yorker,” said Alexandra Noya, 35, as she got off a train at Columbus Circle. “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.” The warning from the mayor and police commissioner, she said, “didn’t deter me.”
Jimmy George, 65, from Teaneck, N.J., said he doubted the seriousness of the threat. Mr. George said he believed the timing was related to the coming New York City mayoral election.
”Is it time to wag the dog?” he said. “It’s election time. It seems during election times there’s always some type of threat.”
Bradford Ellis, who turned 35 today, said the threat was likely real, but said he was comfortable taking his chances riding the train.
”Everybody was calling me today, telling me I shouldn’t get on the subway because it’s my birthday,” he said. “But you can’t let it affect you. I think it’s a possible threat, but I don’t live my life on possibilities.”
At the Times Square station, an M.T.A. conductor, Ray Volsario, said he was not told about the threat by supervisors, and learned about it from television news.
”They don’t tell us anything,” he said. “We’re supposed to be the eyes and ears of the subway system - why are we the last to know?”
A portion of Penn Station was evacuated for about two hours this morning after police responded to reports about a suspicious package and a possibly toxic substance inside a bottle. Mr. Kelly, the police commissioner, said the package turned out to be harmless litter. The bottle, said Mr. Kelly, appeared to be a “Drain-O type” fluid.
”It appears to be a prank,” said Mr. Kelly. Authorities took away the bottle to analyze the liquid, he said.
Information about the threat, came to light last weekend from an intelligence source who told federal authorities that the three men in Iraq had planned to meet with other operatives in New York, said several law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
One official said the group would number about a dozen. Another official said the total was closer to 20 people involved. The men planned to use strollers, briefcases and packages to hide a number of bombs that they planned to detonate on the subways.
“It was a conspiracy involving more than a dozen people aimed at delivering a number of devices into the subway,” one of the officials said.
One official said the information suggested an attack could happen as early as today; another pointed to the middle of the month.
”This is a piece of information that came in as a result of operations that go on all the time, and to corroborate that information or not we had to go after certain people,” one official said.
Mr. Mershon said: “F.B.I. agents and other U.S. government personnel continue to work around the clock to fully resolve this particular threat. Thus far, there is nothing that has surfaced in that investigation or those enforcement actions which has corroborated an actual threat to the city.”
Mayor Bloomberg seemed to try to inform New Yorkers without alarming them. He said that while the threat was not corroborated, it was specific enough to warrant an immediate and overwhelming response.
”It was more specific as to target; it was more specific as to timing, and some of the sources had more information that would lead one to believe that it was not the kind of thing that appears in the intelligence community every day,” Mr. Bloomberg said.
The mayor urged New Yorkers to continue riding the subways, as he said he would, but cautioned them to be watchful, saying several times, “If you see something, say something.”
As he spoke, thousands of city police officers were swarming the transit system. An officer will be assigned to each subway station, and Commissioner Kelly said the Police Department is significantly stepping up uniformed and plainclothes patrols, increasing sweeps through subway cars and posting officers at each subway tunnel that passes beneath city waterways. The department’s heavily armed “Hercules teams” and other specialized units will also focus on the transit system, he said.
Bag searches will also be significantly increased, the commissioner said, with a focus on briefcases, baby strollers, luggage and other packages and containers, and he asked subway riders to curtail their use. The searches will take place not only on the subways, but also on buses and ferries, and the Police Department has coordinated the increased scrutiny with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New Jersey Transit, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Amtrak. Mr. Kelly used narcotics detectives from Brooklyn and Queens and other investigators from the department’s Warrant Division to increase security in the subways. Officers mobilized at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
On Thursday, Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Mershon declined to discuss the events in Iraq, or where they had occurred, saying that it was classified.
Counterterrorism officials in Washington said the information received this week was highly specific, including details about the possible use of suitcase bombs and explosives hidden in strollers. That information, along with the more general concern that terrorists might stage an attack modeled on the July bombings in London, prompted immediate concern, the officials said.
On an average weekday, an estimated 4.7 million rides are taken on New York’s subway system, which has 468 stations.
Russ Knocke, a spokesman for Homeland Security, said the credibility of the threat was still to be determined.
He said Homeland Security “received intelligence information regarding a specific but noncredible threat to the New York City subway system.”
Mr. Knocke said Homeland Security shared the information “early on with state and local authorities in New York,” adding, “There are no plans to alter the national threat level or the threat level in New York City.”
He would not say any more about the content of the threat or the origin of the information.
Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s deputy commissioner of public information, would not discuss whether the source information suggested that operatives were in New York. He would say only, “We’re looking at all aspects of this case.”
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, city and national law enforcement authorities have at times reacted differently to similar threat information. In part, this is because of the varying roles that different agencies play. The New York Police Department, for example, is responsible for protecting the city and its subways and therefore is more likely to act quickly. The F.B.I.’s prime antiterrorism mission, on the other hand, is thwarting plots and apprehending any suspected terrorists - a task that is almost always complicated by information becoming public. But on Thursday, city and F.B.I. officials in New York stood side by side and seemed to present a similar message. Officials from Homeland Security did not take part in the briefing.
Of the information from Iraq, one official said: “Suffice it to say it was credible enough for us to be working it very hard and very diligently literally around the clock and around the world. Sometimes it looks incredibly detailed, and then it washes out into nothing, and sometimes pretty vague in nature and it turns into something real. You can’t know until you go through the process, and we’re going through the process.”
William A. Morange, the transportation authority’s security director and a member of a citywide counterterrorism task force, was informed several days ago about the threat, said Tom Kelly, a spokesman.
”We were kept well apprised of all the developments since earlier this week,” Mr. Kelly said.
The Police Department also put into effect a broad range of measures aimed at stepping up security around the city that did not address the specific threat, but were aimed at tightening the city’s security cordon. They included increased truck searches on East River crossings and banning trucks from the Brooklyn Bridge.
The department will also increase the use of radiation detectors, and detectives from the department’s Intelligence Division will check parking lots and garages in Manhattan and in other areas of the city.
Reporting for this article was contributed by David Johnston, Eric Lipton and Eric Lichtblau, in Washington, and Sewell Chan, Kareem Fahim and Timothy Williams, in New York.
© The New York Times Company
Scary huh?
Friday, October 07, 2005
threat
there has been some talk of a another plot on NYC subways... while that is going on this...
NewsMax.com Wires
Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Monument was evacuated Friday after a bomb threat was called in to local police. U.S. Park Police Sgt. Scott Fear said the call came in at 2:24 p.m. EDT and the monument was evacuated a short time later.
Bomb-sniffing dogs were called in and two blocks between Constitution and Independence avenues were closed off. An initial search turned up nothing worrisome.
A law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because other agencies were handling the case, said the credibility of the threat was low but officials did not want to take any chances.
The Washington Monument, which was built in the 1800s and dedicated on Feb. 21, 1885, rises 555 feet over the National Mall. It reopened to the public last spring after undergoing a seven-month, $15 million security overhaul that included vehicle barriers and a new lighting system.
© 2005 The Associated Press
This should be on the NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN top story and headlining the nightly news. But those bastards can't actually put real news out there. You know the stuff that makes Bush look smart, please for the love of God if someone tells me there isn't liberal media bias I will punch them in their retarded brainwashed face. THIS SHOULD BE THE TOP STORY MORONS!!!! I'M 19 AND I CAN SEE THIS!
NewsMax.com Wires
Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Monument was evacuated Friday after a bomb threat was called in to local police. U.S. Park Police Sgt. Scott Fear said the call came in at 2:24 p.m. EDT and the monument was evacuated a short time later.
Bomb-sniffing dogs were called in and two blocks between Constitution and Independence avenues were closed off. An initial search turned up nothing worrisome.
A law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because other agencies were handling the case, said the credibility of the threat was low but officials did not want to take any chances.
The Washington Monument, which was built in the 1800s and dedicated on Feb. 21, 1885, rises 555 feet over the National Mall. It reopened to the public last spring after undergoing a seven-month, $15 million security overhaul that included vehicle barriers and a new lighting system.
© 2005 The Associated Press
This should be on the NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN top story and headlining the nightly news. But those bastards can't actually put real news out there. You know the stuff that makes Bush look smart, please for the love of God if someone tells me there isn't liberal media bias I will punch them in their retarded brainwashed face. THIS SHOULD BE THE TOP STORY MORONS!!!! I'M 19 AND I CAN SEE THIS!
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Miers...
Well I haven't entirealy retracted my statement but it looks like Bush may have been right. I am still waiting for the confirmation hearings before I make my final decision on weather or not I like her. And the gang of 14 (the people who stopped the nuclear option last May) sees nothing wrong with her, which may be good or bad depending on where you fall in the political spectrum. I still would have perferred Janice Rogers Brown but who is to say that there couldn't be another SCOTUS pick before Bush leaves in Jan. 2009? On a different note GO ANGELS, they played a hell of a game last night.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Why I hate republicans...
Well not all of them, I don't even really consider myself a republican, I tend to lean more conservative libertarian (i.e. I don't care if your gay just leave the hanky panky to gay clubs and your homes/apartments) but reading what some of my anti-strib buddies are saying they are getting hammered by the "everything Bush says is right" club. I tend to hate these people more than the dems because it's so damn aggravating. At least with a liberal/democrat I know I oppose everything they stand for. I don't oppose everything these guys stand for yet when they tell me I'm wrong because I want to do something as drastic as disagree with Bush I want to tell them to go fuck themselves because we live in a democracy. I agree with 50-60% of what Bush says, I supported him last year because by now if Kerry was in office French would be the official language of this country. That is why I will support whoever they nominate in 2008 because unless something drastic happens Hillary will be the nominee and boy do I ever hate that bitch. So finally to everyone who think whatever Bush says is correct I will tell them 3 things. One, shut up. Two, listen to 3 hours of Michael Savage and tell me he's wrong. And three, don't give another dime to these bastards until they stop spitting on the party base, I have wanted to contribute but refuse to because they're not doing what I put them in office to do.
Info Wars...
wow look at this everyone, from WorldNetDaily...
Oklahoma bomber had jihad material
Documents found in apartment of student who blew himself up
WorldNetDaily | October 4, 2005
By Jon Dougherty
An Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, an engineering major at the school blew himself up outside OU's football stadium during Saturday night's game against Kansas State. Doug Hagmann, a seasoned investigator, told WND he was informed by multiple reliable law-enforcement sources familiar with the investigation into the incident that authorities recovered a "significant amount" of "jihad" materials, as well as Hinrichs' computer.
Hagmann also said those same sources indicated police and federal agents "had pulled additional explosives from [Hinrichs'] house," including triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, "homemade explosive [that is] very potent but relatively easily manufactured."
TATP was also used in the July mass transit bombings in London, CNN reported, and was used by attempted bomber Richard Reid, who packed his shoes with the compound in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy a U.S.-bound American Airlines flight in December 2001.
The confiscated jihad documents "referenced bomb-making manuals and that type of thing," Hagmann said, who added Hinrichs' apartment in Norman, Okla., is "located near the Islamic Society."
A phone at the Islamic Society of Norman went unanswered yesterday. Also, there was no response to an e-mail inquiry by press time.
Hagmann reported his findings on his website.
WorldNetDaily reported earlier that officials carted away a huge cache of explosives from Hinrichs' apartment. Police were overheard telling residents it would take "several trips and could take up to 24 hours" to remove it all, according to the Daily Oklahoman. A canister trailer used for detonating or transporting potentially explosive material was being used to haul items away.
University officials have shrugged off reports Hinrichs was anything other than a disturbed student who acted alone.
"We know that he has had what I would call emotional difficulties in the past. There is certainly no evidence at this point which points to any other kind of motivation other than his personal problems," said University President David Boren over the weekend.
In a joint statement, the FBI's Oklahoma bureau chief, Salvador Hernandez, U.S. Attorney John Richter and OU Police Chief Elizabeth Woolen said, "At this point, we have no information that suggests that there is any additional threat posed by others related to this incident."
FBI spokesman Gary Johnson told WND he couldn't add anything, other than the investigation is ongoing.
His agency has been joined in the investigation by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the Joint Terrorism Task Force; the University of Oklahoma Police Department; the Norman Police Department; and the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office.
Official accounts say Hinrichs detonated an explosive device while seated on a bench outside Cross Hall, a university science building about 100 yards from the stadium.
Some 84,000 people were inside watching the game at the time of the explosion. Officials say it did not appear Hinrichs attempted to enter the venue.
Attacks inevitable?
While it is too soon to know whether the Hinrichs incident was isolated or part of a larger scheme to launch suicide attacks in the U.S. similar to those in Great Britain earlier this year and those that are a regular occurrence in Iraq, experts believe it is only a matter of time before such attacks do occur in U.S. cities.
Bruce Newsome, a terrorism researcher at the Rand Corporation, a noted think tank, told ABC News shortly after the London bombings the four-man plot carried out there is a "likely model for future U.S. attacks."
He said the four men used for the attack were clean: no criminal records, did not show up on any terrorism watch lists, and were not part of any extremist activities – like Hinrichs.
That makes tracking such attackers virtually impossible, Newsome pointed out.
And, in Iraq last week, a woman pushed her way into a line of men at an army recruitment center before detonating a bomb she carried. The last time women were used in suicide attacks was during the war in Iraq in 2003, when two women in a car – one of them pregnant – detonated a device, killing three soldiers, the BBC reported.
Just keep in mind that we cannot judge and their retarded civilization is equal to ours even though their still 1000-1500 years behind us. God, tell me why it isn't a good idea to flatten Mecca?
Oklahoma bomber had jihad material
Documents found in apartment of student who blew himself up
WorldNetDaily | October 4, 2005
By Jon Dougherty
An Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report.
Joel Henry Hinrichs III, 21, an engineering major at the school blew himself up outside OU's football stadium during Saturday night's game against Kansas State. Doug Hagmann, a seasoned investigator, told WND he was informed by multiple reliable law-enforcement sources familiar with the investigation into the incident that authorities recovered a "significant amount" of "jihad" materials, as well as Hinrichs' computer.
Hagmann also said those same sources indicated police and federal agents "had pulled additional explosives from [Hinrichs'] house," including triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, "homemade explosive [that is] very potent but relatively easily manufactured."
TATP was also used in the July mass transit bombings in London, CNN reported, and was used by attempted bomber Richard Reid, who packed his shoes with the compound in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy a U.S.-bound American Airlines flight in December 2001.
The confiscated jihad documents "referenced bomb-making manuals and that type of thing," Hagmann said, who added Hinrichs' apartment in Norman, Okla., is "located near the Islamic Society."
A phone at the Islamic Society of Norman went unanswered yesterday. Also, there was no response to an e-mail inquiry by press time.
Hagmann reported his findings on his website.
WorldNetDaily reported earlier that officials carted away a huge cache of explosives from Hinrichs' apartment. Police were overheard telling residents it would take "several trips and could take up to 24 hours" to remove it all, according to the Daily Oklahoman. A canister trailer used for detonating or transporting potentially explosive material was being used to haul items away.
University officials have shrugged off reports Hinrichs was anything other than a disturbed student who acted alone.
"We know that he has had what I would call emotional difficulties in the past. There is certainly no evidence at this point which points to any other kind of motivation other than his personal problems," said University President David Boren over the weekend.
In a joint statement, the FBI's Oklahoma bureau chief, Salvador Hernandez, U.S. Attorney John Richter and OU Police Chief Elizabeth Woolen said, "At this point, we have no information that suggests that there is any additional threat posed by others related to this incident."
FBI spokesman Gary Johnson told WND he couldn't add anything, other than the investigation is ongoing.
His agency has been joined in the investigation by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; the Joint Terrorism Task Force; the University of Oklahoma Police Department; the Norman Police Department; and the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office.
Official accounts say Hinrichs detonated an explosive device while seated on a bench outside Cross Hall, a university science building about 100 yards from the stadium.
Some 84,000 people were inside watching the game at the time of the explosion. Officials say it did not appear Hinrichs attempted to enter the venue.
Attacks inevitable?
While it is too soon to know whether the Hinrichs incident was isolated or part of a larger scheme to launch suicide attacks in the U.S. similar to those in Great Britain earlier this year and those that are a regular occurrence in Iraq, experts believe it is only a matter of time before such attacks do occur in U.S. cities.
Bruce Newsome, a terrorism researcher at the Rand Corporation, a noted think tank, told ABC News shortly after the London bombings the four-man plot carried out there is a "likely model for future U.S. attacks."
He said the four men used for the attack were clean: no criminal records, did not show up on any terrorism watch lists, and were not part of any extremist activities – like Hinrichs.
That makes tracking such attackers virtually impossible, Newsome pointed out.
And, in Iraq last week, a woman pushed her way into a line of men at an army recruitment center before detonating a bomb she carried. The last time women were used in suicide attacks was during the war in Iraq in 2003, when two women in a car – one of them pregnant – detonated a device, killing three soldiers, the BBC reported.
Just keep in mind that we cannot judge and their retarded civilization is equal to ours even though their still 1000-1500 years behind us. God, tell me why it isn't a good idea to flatten Mecca?
Why I love this time of year...
No it's not just because football season FINALLY started. It playoff time in baseball. So many important games in just one week. The only thing that beats this excitement wise is the first two days of the NCAA mens basketball tournament. And I will be doing a post on that when that time of year comes. My predictions
Division series
AL
Boston over Chicago in 4 ganes
Aneheim over NYY in 5 games
NL
San Diego over St. Louis in 5 games
Houston over Atlanta in 3 games
ALCS
Boston over Anehiem in 7 games
NLCS
Houston over San Diego in 6 games
World Series
Boston over Houston in 7 games
Yes it will be an exciting run and I can't wait to see how accurate I was.
Division series
AL
Boston over Chicago in 4 ganes
Aneheim over NYY in 5 games
NL
San Diego over St. Louis in 5 games
Houston over Atlanta in 3 games
ALCS
Boston over Anehiem in 7 games
NLCS
Houston over San Diego in 6 games
World Series
Boston over Houston in 7 games
Yes it will be an exciting run and I can't wait to see how accurate I was.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Newsmax agrees...
I agree with these people totally
Conservatives 'Betrayed' By Bush with Miers Pick
Many conservatives feel "betrayed” by President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, feeling he backed away from his vow to appoint a known strict constructionist, according to conservative icon Richard Viguerie and others.
"Congratulations are due to Ralph Neas, Nan Aron and Chuck Schumer for going toe-to-toe with President Bush and forcing him to blink,” Viguerie writes in a press release.
"Liberals have successfully cowed President Bush by scaring him off from nominating a known conservative, strict constructionist to the Court, leaving conservatives fearful of which direction the Court will go.”
Bush "desperately needed” to have an ideological fight with liberals to re-energize his political base, which is in shock and dismay over his big government policies, says Viguerie, a consultant and direct-mail specialist who helped elect Ronald Reagan in 1980.
"With their lack of strong, identifiable records, President Bush’s Supreme Court nominees seem designed more to avoid a fight with the extreme Left than to appeal to his conservative base.”
Viguerie concludes that Bush "appears willing to lose all credibility with conservative voters by failing to fulfill his campaign vow to nominate an openly Scalia- or Thomas-like justice.”
Once again Newsmax has a great article, why don't they get any press? Oh yea, I forgot that the media is filled with a bunch of jack-off liberals...
Conservatives 'Betrayed' By Bush with Miers Pick
Many conservatives feel "betrayed” by President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, feeling he backed away from his vow to appoint a known strict constructionist, according to conservative icon Richard Viguerie and others.
"Congratulations are due to Ralph Neas, Nan Aron and Chuck Schumer for going toe-to-toe with President Bush and forcing him to blink,” Viguerie writes in a press release.
"Liberals have successfully cowed President Bush by scaring him off from nominating a known conservative, strict constructionist to the Court, leaving conservatives fearful of which direction the Court will go.”
Bush "desperately needed” to have an ideological fight with liberals to re-energize his political base, which is in shock and dismay over his big government policies, says Viguerie, a consultant and direct-mail specialist who helped elect Ronald Reagan in 1980.
"With their lack of strong, identifiable records, President Bush’s Supreme Court nominees seem designed more to avoid a fight with the extreme Left than to appeal to his conservative base.”
Viguerie concludes that Bush "appears willing to lose all credibility with conservative voters by failing to fulfill his campaign vow to nominate an openly Scalia- or Thomas-like justice.”
Once again Newsmax has a great article, why don't they get any press? Oh yea, I forgot that the media is filled with a bunch of jack-off liberals...
A quote...
From Abe Lincon...
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
I heard it listening to Savage last night, there are some people (me, ZS, and him to name a few) that fall into the third category there. A lot of people I know fall into the first 2 groups of people that he mentioned. I am calling on everyone who reads this to write your senators (I don't care who they are) to oppose this nomination. This woman Bush nominated hasn't ever even been a judge! We will not be fooled on this one. The blogsphere will attack it's own (I hope) on this one. I don't really care how good of a person she is, she isn't qualified and thats final!
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
I heard it listening to Savage last night, there are some people (me, ZS, and him to name a few) that fall into the third category there. A lot of people I know fall into the first 2 groups of people that he mentioned. I am calling on everyone who reads this to write your senators (I don't care who they are) to oppose this nomination. This woman Bush nominated hasn't ever even been a judge! We will not be fooled on this one. The blogsphere will attack it's own (I hope) on this one. I don't really care how good of a person she is, she isn't qualified and thats final!
Monday, October 03, 2005
Local dems beliefs...
what they believe, it will be fun to dissect it...
Democrats Believe...
In equal opportunity for all citizens. (I believe that)
In rewarding honest, hard work with a living wage and in a tax system that is fair. (by taxing the rich)
In family values that are more than a political slogan. (hey how about you give us one)
In quality education that gives all citizens the opportunity to reach their potential. (like the vouchers, oh wait you oppose that)
In freedom from government interference in our private lives and personal decisions. (ha, that's a good one)
That individual strengths in our diverse population are a benefit. (translation: multiculturalism)
In security in our homes and safety on our streets. Criminals should face swift and certain punishment. (by rehabing level 3 sex offenders that molest children and then put them back into society)
In separation of Church and State to preserve the freedom to pursue our beliefs. (yes god forbid we have a god fearing christian in office)
In a strong United States - morally, economically, and militarily. (how do you plan on doing that?)
In common-sense reforms that give us cleaner, safer air and water. (duh, you think?)
So basically they have "ideas" with no real IDEAS. It's very funny how hard and fast they have fell.
Democrats Believe...
In equal opportunity for all citizens. (I believe that)
In rewarding honest, hard work with a living wage and in a tax system that is fair. (by taxing the rich)
In family values that are more than a political slogan. (hey how about you give us one)
In quality education that gives all citizens the opportunity to reach their potential. (like the vouchers, oh wait you oppose that)
In freedom from government interference in our private lives and personal decisions. (ha, that's a good one)
That individual strengths in our diverse population are a benefit. (translation: multiculturalism)
In security in our homes and safety on our streets. Criminals should face swift and certain punishment. (by rehabing level 3 sex offenders that molest children and then put them back into society)
In separation of Church and State to preserve the freedom to pursue our beliefs. (yes god forbid we have a god fearing christian in office)
In a strong United States - morally, economically, and militarily. (how do you plan on doing that?)
In common-sense reforms that give us cleaner, safer air and water. (duh, you think?)
So basically they have "ideas" with no real IDEAS. It's very funny how hard and fast they have fell.
contrary to what I said a few weeks ago...
the rest of the world can kiss my red, white, and blue ass. We should NEVER GIVE FORIGEN AID EVER AGAIN TO ANY COUNTRY! Why? well look at Katrina, thank God we know how to take care of our own. Unlike the rest of the world that expects us to solve their problems. I am doing my own little part and so are many other millions of americans. I have not forgotten about the tragedy and will continue to help when it is needed. Sadly, the same cannot be said about the rest of the world. I say we bow out of the UN and use it as a homeless shelter. That way the space can actually be put to good use. When I hear something Katrina/Rita related that is significant you should be able to find it on my katrina blog. When I want to rant, well you know where it will be posted ;)
update...
Ok, videogames can be frusterating and that's why I love them but I am on my 3rd copy of NBA Live 2006, it's ok though because Best Buy treats their customers very well (shameless plug, their stock is VERY cheap). I just can't wait until the end of the month when PS3 comes out, it will own XBox 360.
Harriet Myers...
damn ok so I thought (more accurately hoped) that this nomination would be Janice Rogers Brown. I was wrong, man is Bush hard to figure out. No wonder the left hates him so much. Liberals hate me too, frankly I could care less because I know I speak the truth, and so does Bush. I know this quote isn't original but what the hell,
"The only way you know you are doing something right is if people hate you for doing it."
I really feel that way, look at the left.
"The only way you know you are doing something right is if people hate you for doing it."
I really feel that way, look at the left.
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Nancy Pelosi in trouble...
This IS a bigger deal than DeLay's trouble, newsmax.com rocks by the way...
Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005 10:35 a.m. EDT
FEC: Nancy Pelosi's PACs Broke the Law
Mr. DeLay, by then under investigation for his own campaign finance problems, reacted sharply to the news about Pelosi's campaign finance irregularities, saying: "She has violated the law. It's in the facts."
Pelosi operated two PACs: Tean Majority and PAC to the Future.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Team Majority reported 16 contributions of $5,000 each from donors who had already given the maximum to Pelosi's other PAC. Five of the donors gave to both PACs on the same day.
Rather the refer the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, however, the FEC allowed Pelosi's two committees to negotiate "conciliation agreements" under which they were fined a total of $21,000.
Two political action committees linked to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been charged with attempting to circumvent to legal limits on campaign giving, the Federal Election Commission has ruled.
According to the March 2004 FEC finding, Pelosi appears to have violated the same kind of arcane campaign finance regulation that spurred the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week.
The San Francisco Chronicle explained at the time:
"The FEC ruled that two Pelosi political action committees created to help Democrats in the 2002 elections were related instead of being independent and therefore violated a rule against giving more than the maximum $5,000 annual contribution."
Welcome to the new media liberals! You cannot cover your own asses anymore.
Saturday, Oct. 1, 2005 10:35 a.m. EDT
FEC: Nancy Pelosi's PACs Broke the Law
Mr. DeLay, by then under investigation for his own campaign finance problems, reacted sharply to the news about Pelosi's campaign finance irregularities, saying: "She has violated the law. It's in the facts."
Pelosi operated two PACs: Tean Majority and PAC to the Future.
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Team Majority reported 16 contributions of $5,000 each from donors who had already given the maximum to Pelosi's other PAC. Five of the donors gave to both PACs on the same day.
Rather the refer the case to the Justice Department for prosecution, however, the FEC allowed Pelosi's two committees to negotiate "conciliation agreements" under which they were fined a total of $21,000.
Two political action committees linked to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been charged with attempting to circumvent to legal limits on campaign giving, the Federal Election Commission has ruled.
According to the March 2004 FEC finding, Pelosi appears to have violated the same kind of arcane campaign finance regulation that spurred the indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay this week.
The San Francisco Chronicle explained at the time:
"The FEC ruled that two Pelosi political action committees created to help Democrats in the 2002 elections were related instead of being independent and therefore violated a rule against giving more than the maximum $5,000 annual contribution."
Welcome to the new media liberals! You cannot cover your own asses anymore.
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