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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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I seem to recall when I first heard about "data mining" it involved a program proposed by or involving John Poindexter that would allow the government to scour public and private databases to identify possible terrorists.
If I'm correct, that program was rejected and such activities would therefore be illegal.
There was a different program that recorded and did keyword searches of phone calls.
So what, exactly, is our government up to?
Why don't they send Cindy Sheehan or some genuine critic of the war to Iraq?
Okay, Sheehan is no military expert, but John Murtha is.
But they only want people who have an a priori view that we are winning the war to visit Iraq or interview the top brass.
A rose by any other name would still smell just as sweet.
And a Turdblossom would stink just as much.
Osama Still Has a Job. Do You?
Republicans:
_______________(candidate's name) is not George Bush!
The putzes in the media still think Dewey beat Truman.
Is "The He-Man Woman Hater's Club" already taken?
How about "Commander Codpiece and the Cult of Faux Masculinity?"
I'm not a Paulist but on the issue of abortion, he does have personal knowledge and experience. He is a former medical doctor who's specialty was obstetrics and gynecology.
I have yet to see a story that mentions WHY he is pro-life.
Another variation of the "unserious" or "insincere" meme is "cold and calculating" vs "unhinged and angry." In other words, any time a Democrat shows passion or emotion they are either faking it or out of control.
Under out current system, the media annoint the "serious" candidates long before the first votes are ever cast.
Paul, Gravel, Kucinich, Richardson, Dodd and Huckabee all have one thing in common - their candidacies were pronounced DOA by the media.
Paul and Huckabee are the only ones that have been able to defy that diagnosis, perhaps because of the lack of quality of the “serious” candidates in the GOP. Paul raises more money than his competitors but still gets ignored, and the right-wing smear machine is gearing up to destroy Huckabee now that he is rising in the polls.
Ultimately, we are forced to choose between one of two candidates that most of us had little hand in choosing. I live in California and have voted in every election since 1978, but every Presidential primary (in both parties) has been over before I got a chance to vote.
Maybe someday the voters rather than the media will get to decide which candidates are “serious” and which issues are important.
"Zelig" Romney is another stealth candidate just like George W. Bush. Romney is a wolf in sheep's clothing, pretending to be a moderate in a strategery reminiscient of G-Dub's false claim to be a "compassionate conservative"
Michelle M has not only heard the Word of God, she has read it with her own eyes from His holy book.
On judgment day she cannot plead ignorance; she cannot cry "Lord, Lord, forgive me for I did not know." She will be cast into the lake of fire, along with the rest of those who blaspheme by making war in the name of the Prince of Peace, those who claim to love God but hate His children and reject His Word.
How about making him Secretary of State?
The chattering class do okay when they merely have to read the news, but when they veer off into providing analysis and opinion their inane and insipid callowness is exposed. They are talking heads, albiet empty ones.
They were chosen because they were telegenic, not for their intelligence. They have no apparent knowledge of history or life outside the beltway. Everything they encounter they try to force into predetermined narratives.
It’s the ascendancy of the Ted Knight school of journalism.
Do you really expect the Broderites and the Dowdy types to do more than yawn at these revelations? Will our new AG do anything besides "look into" these allegations without ever charging anyone?
Will Nancy put impeachment back on the table?
You better sit down while you're waiting.
Whisper campaign starts alleging that Obama fathered two black daughters.
I read that yesterday but I forget who originated it, it wasn't SadlyNo!
They forced Stewart to go back on the air, but they couldn't force him to be funny. Maybe he is trying to show his corporate masters how badly he needs his writers.
You can prove any thesis to be true if you make up your own definitions of words.
Just asking.
Yes they are enthusiastic and motivated, but their attitude doesn't wear well and gets annoying fast.
I'm not knocking Obama, just his fans. Here in the blogosphere they get angry and hostile if you disagree with them or, worse, criticize Obama.
This is a common meme I keep seeing in comments about this incident.
Chelsea is helping her mom by calling superdelegates. From what I have heard, she asks the people she calls if they have any questions or concerns she can address. Most people have recognized that this is not inappropriate or unusual for the adult child of a politician.
But I keep hearing the idea that somehow her participation makes her fair game for comments and jokes. Shuster's letter suggest that he was miffed because Chelsea won't do interviews or talk to the press.
But why should she? She is not obligated to talk to them. Even if the fact that she is helping her mom is news, it doesn't give the press the right to invade her privacy.
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 survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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