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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
L.W.M.
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Doolittle: FBI took my wife’s iPod. Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) today accused the FBI of conducting an improper search on his house and leaking information about it to coincide with the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales:
“I now believe that the search of our home was in large measure an attempt to strong arm my wife in order to get me to admit to a crime — a crime that I did not commit,” Doolittle wrote. …Doolittle complained that during the search Julie, who was home alone, “was sequestered in the kitchen and not allowed to move without an escort. She was not even allowed to use the bathroom in our own home without an FBI agent escorting her there.”
He claimed that agents seized personal items such as his wife’s Ipod — but left behind an accordion file with information about work Julie Doolittle had done for Abramoff.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/06/doolittle-fbi-stole-my-wifes-ipod/
Cue Shooter telling us how the FBI are "jack-booted, totalitarian thugs" while he hides his iPod.
“Weeks after radio personality Rush Limbaugh began airing a parody song entitled ‘Barack the Magic Negro,’ the piece about African-American Sen. Barack Obama’s popularity with many white voters is drawing fire from critics who say it is racist. … For his part, Obama has been the subject of explicit, angry comments not only in emails and letters but in web postings. Samples of those writings were reviewed by members of Congress earlier this week when they recommended that Obama get a U.S. Secret Service detail.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/06/rush-taking-heat-for-racist-song/
Nice people you hang with, Shooter. Your "fellow travellers".
I had a conversation with an old friend the other day. He was telling me that invariably when he enounters some younger english speaking North American person, he can immediately tell where they were educated. Without exception, he said, only the Canadians seem to capable of critical thinking. Very sad for us. The myth of a liberal academia has managed to do the same damage to that institution as it has done to media. As far as environmental issues and conservation are concerned, if they are now so easily dismissed because they sound "liberal," I doubt that would bother Teddy Roosevelt very much, except that in his day, he was a Republican and then formed the first American Progressive Party. But all that land he claimed for the American public and nationalized must make him a "socialist" today.
"...The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
TR's Address to the Deep Waterway Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, October 4, 1907
So much so for that Overton Window...
- The current location of the Overton Window is so far to the right of any objective political spectrum, that what are now considered Extreme Left Positions are really not extreme at all.
http://www.correntewire.com/the_overton_window_illustrated
"Critics have accused him of being an authoritarian demagogue, ready to trade away civil liberties for political gains..."
"As the Red Army entered Hungary in 1944, the [Sarkozy] family fled to Germany. They returned in 1945 but all their possessions had been seized. Pál Sárközy's father died soon afterwards and his mother, fearing that, as a class enemy, he would be drafted into the Hungarian People's Army or sent to Siberia, urged him to leave the country and promised she would eventually follow him and meet him in Paris. Pál Sárközy managed to flee to Austria and then Germany while his mother reported to authorities that he had drowned in Lake Balaton. Eventually, he arrived in Baden Baden, near the French border, where the headquarters of the French Army in Germany were located, and there he met a recruiter for the French Foreign Legion. He signed up for five years, and was sent for training to Sidi Bel Abbes, in French Algeria, where the French Foreign Legion's headquarters were located. He was due to be sent to Indochina at the end of training, but the doctor who checked him before departure, who happened to also be Hungarian, sympathised with him and gave him a medical discharge to save him from possible death at the hands of the Vietminh."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy
He's a real draft dodger. Twice!
I hope you are trying to find a similar position in another dept. It sounds like you would be happier. Then again, I have a friend down that way and he hasn't had much luck finding work. His salary reqs, (60K and up and that's down there), make that difficult these days. He made a killing in the land deal, going from CA to Texas, but the job opportunities are not panning out. Wonderful economy.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003159.php
To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!
National meeting of UDR in Nice, June 1975
Gaullists would never allow France to become America's next poodle.
"Gaullism is generally considered a right-wing ideology, but there have also been left-wing Gaullists, the differences between the two consisting of differing social and economic policies."
Maher had a bit on the French elections in his latest New Rules. It's at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMoPbDPHlCI
... also argued for the government to subsidize the construction of mosques in order to encourage Islamic integration into French society.
Nowhere on the planet does "conservative" mean "radical extremist" like it does here in the USA. We are going to have to change that. Better luck next time, Shooter.
http://www.libres.org/francais/actualite/archives/actualit%E9_1004/mosquees_a5_4504.htm
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
Salon headlines in your mailbox
