Letters to the Editor
bamage
Published Letters: 1114
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Re: FISA "What the hell!?"
[Read the article: Various items]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Check this email from Conyers/Leahy
As the chairmen of the U.S. House and Senate Judiciary Committees tasked with modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), we are working hard in
Congress to pass a FISA bill that protects our national security, preserves our civil liberties, and denies the Senate's retroactive immunity to phone companies that participated in the Bush-Cheney Administration warrantless surveillance program.
Now we're at a critical juncture. The House and Senate have passed different versions of the new FISA legislation, and we are meeting to resolve those differences. The president and his Republican allies are using this opportunity to pressure our colleagues to give in and grant retroactive immunity. President Bush has been irresponsibly making false claims that we are more vulnerable to terrorism while this bill remains
That's why we need your help, right now, to push back against the White House while the final FISA bill is being negotiated. Will you write a letter-to-the-editor of your local newspaper to speak out and build grassroots support for fixing FISA the right way? Help us respond to White House scare tactics, preserve our civil liberties, and reject the Senate's telecom immunity.
Click here to send a FISA letter-to-the-editor to your hometown paper now.
A stinking letter writing campaign? Don't they know that "the public" is overwhelmingly AGAINST telcom immunity?
GET A GRIP, CONGRESS, act like vertebrates for once!
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Appy polly logies for an early O/T
[Read the article: The religion of balance and centrism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But I wonder if Leahy/Conyers, et al read the WSJ?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/
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'lette
[Read the article: The religion of balance and centrism]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for picking up that ball and running w/ it (as I hoped someone "better informed" than I would do)... Brevity may be the soul of wit, but I can be brief to the point of cryptic, I realize - an artifact of my "in and out" relationship w/ this place. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it, anyway,
HRH: When are you gonna realize you're preaching to the choir here? Every damn post isn't guaged by how you perceive it's importance relative to the stinking Drug War.
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Quick, somebody gimme a punch line!
[Read the article: War cheerleaders ask: "Is Obama man enough to be president?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Chuck Norris, Eliot Spitzer, and a $5500/hr prostitute walk into a bar...
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Mann Act violations?
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Staggering hypocrisy aside (oh, and BTW, thanks a LOT Eliot, this is just what Dems need right now Mr. "Up-and-comer", you nitwit, WTF were you thinkin!? etc.) does the fact that he's accused (I believe) of violations of the Mann Act (i.e. a Federal? crime) factor into all the outrage?
No snark, honest question.
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Hee-hee. "Up-and-comer"
[Read the article: Who cares if Eliot Spitzer hires prostitutes?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I amuse myself.
And nobody came up w/ a punch-line for my previous set-up (Chuck Norris, Eliot Spitzer, and a $5500/hr prostitute go walking into a bar...)
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I'm completely unfamiliar w/ the listed "Blue Dogs"
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So I can't cast an informed vote.
Now, if you put Reyes, Pelosi, or Sen. Jello Jay on the list...
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Poor taste?
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sorry, but GG's comment reminds me just how apropos is that bumper sticker I saw...
Somebody give that *&^%$# in the White House a BLOWJOB!
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W.E.S.
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I believe Glenn has previously cited any number of polls which show that the American public, by substantial margins, is AGAINST telco amnesty.
So "your" category is in all likelihood vanishigly small.
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Worth reading
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Talking Points Memo has a decent update
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/house_surveillance_bill_contai.php
or
http://tinyurl.com/2wb9ej
on this NYT FISA article
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/washington/11fisa.html?_r=2&ei=5088&en=5845d224f9e72156&ex=1362974400&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1205252498-MsuzU4g2H+ZOIkn7ydFDBg
or
http://tinyurl.com/2vnpdp
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Spitzer related
[Read the article: Targeting bad Democrats]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Check the final sentence from this ABC Spitzer story.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4429872&page=1
One source said prosecutors are focusing only on financial crimes involving alleged violations of the law in the way Spitzer moved money through a series of accounts to pay for his prostitutes.
An offer to resign as governor could be part of any negotiated package, according to former prosecutors.
IANAL. Does that sound "right" to those who have experience w/ this type of situation?
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Awright, hands UP! (If you clicked through...
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...on Glenn's link to the pic of the alleged escort.
I did.
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I would be privileged
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to "second" what ondelette just posted.
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@ W.E.S.
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would that be more, or less, than the number of Dems in favor of telco amnesty because the majority of their constituents want them to be?
Just razzin'. 8')
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So anti-prostitution laws are actually helping the prostitutes?
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wouldn't they be better off if they could unionize orsomething? Do hookers in Nevada brothels have health insurance?
Hey, I don't patronize hookers for lots of reasons. I tend to agree w/ a number of the commenters who are uncomfortable w/ the interpersonal dynamic of it, and the fact that it may be degrading in a lot of cases.
I just don't see how making it illegal helps. At all.
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Can. Not. Resist.
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]omooex - you'd start by fantasizing women want to sleep w/ you?
No experience w/ that actual experience, eh?
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THIS makes "interesting" reading
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Via TPM et al.
http://www.speaker.gov/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/judiciary_immunity.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/2y6xb3
Statement of Undersigned Members of the House Judiciary Concerning the Administration’s Terrorist Surveillance Program and the Issue of Retroactive Immunity
As a result of our review of classified as well as unclassified materials concerning the Administration’s Terrorist Surveillance Program, we have concluded that blanket retroactive immunity for phone companies is not justified.
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Bush Uses Signing Statement to Legalize Warrantless Searches of US Citizens' Mail
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/78885/
L.W.M. plenty of salvia info on the web. Careful.
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L.W.M.
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]email me at bamage02atyahhoodotcom
I can at least steer you to valid info.
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EPU'd?
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the letters thread on the last post closed?
Every time I try to post a letter, I'm told I have to "sign in". Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
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Bush Tied to Child Prostitution - Resignation or Impeachment Expected!
[Read the article: Misadventures in logical reasoning -- and lessons learned from the Spitzer scandal]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://tinyurl.com/2rgoku
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Is ondelette around today?
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think he might appreciate my letter on the previous post. (Via Atrios)
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Maybe Versailles will deign to note this
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Antiwar_veterans_to_provide_grunts_eye_0313.html
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@RMP re: great minds & Fools
[Read the article: The Politico claims the Iraq war will help McCain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was tempted to post that letter meself.