Kit (not James) Bond, speaking in public, in front of actual (?!?) people said:

the telecoms would quit cooperating in any attempt to catch a sexual predator or find a missing child were they not granted immunity . . .

Not a peep from the gallery? Nobody laughed at this lame cheney of a human being? He wasn't called out for being a craven spineless whore?

WTF? Time was, a man like Kit Bond would be slapped on his fat smirking face, then issued a challenge. If he had any sand, he'd be there, if not . . .

well, welcome to America, version 2008.

People actually elect these soul-less, cringing, photogenic phuckheads. Shame, shame, shame. But there is no shame anymore. No remorse. America, you are what you is . . .

Shame on you.

Fool me two, three, four times, I must be a Democratic congressional "leader."

Pathetic...

It's a sad country, and lots of dwarf shrubs around, and we were all naked when we were born. We watch Bush squirrels,

apparently chatter-thinking, and what a bunch of human squirrels have screwed up 'our' country and world.

RMP? Please order: a 'pot au feu'...and a squirrel night bedtime stew? okay. I conked and pooped out. over/gone.

A small ray of hope

From the National Resources Defense Council today:

Last night, a federal judge struck down a waiver issued by the White House that would have exempted the U.S. Navy from obeying a key environmental law during sonar training exercises that endanger whales.

In doing so, the court affirmed the bedrock principle that we do NOT live under an imperial presidency. Both the White House and the military must obey and uphold our environmental laws.

[...]

In last night's ruling, Judge Cooper called the Navy's so-called emergency "a creature of its own making," and reaffirmed that the military can train effectively without needlessly harming whales.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

The top American intelligence official said on Tuesday that Al Qaeda is improving its ability to attack within the United States by recruiting and training new operatives. At the same time, he said, the group's affiliate in Iraq is beginning to send militants to other countries.

How in the hell can someone know all this very particular information without knowing "WHO" is being trained and where they are? ? ? ?

This is so juvenile in its presentation that it is shocking how stupid an audience the government thinks everyone must be? ?

My God, Am I so smart as to see this as some type of desperation by the government when most do not apparently? ? ? I know that is not true. I have been called anything but smart by the majority of people I know, but this story about how much these government people know about the training and the threat make me look pretty good! WOW, what delusional and depraved people are running things in this banana republic, for anyone to believe shit like this! ! !

My blood curdles. My conscience staggers.

My skin disintegrates.

Who put anthrax in my stew?

We have all been very betrayed.

I believe only on the condition,

of outright humility and reverence,

the world of the human species will,

be able to maintain Life. Abandon arrogance!

Just finished watching Bond respond to Dodd on the Senate floor, and all those memories of being embarrassed whenever Jesse Helms took the microphone came flooding back. People of Missouri, as a North Carolinian, I feel your pain.

Did he really say that the telecoms would quit cooperating in any attempt to catch a sexual predator or find a missing child were they not granted immunity?

What a crock.

The neocon is a surge of vile,

surging with atrocities. True.

Prunes... Well, there was the anthrax... and that anthrax was traced back to a US base...

The Ames strain's DNA sequence identical but it could have come from anywhere. The Ames strain was developed at Fort Detrick but shipped to many labs around the world for research.

On 9 May 2002, New Scientist published an article that reported:

The DNA sequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has been revealed and confirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came from a US military laboratory. The data released uses codenames for the reference strains against which the attack strain was compared. The two reference strains that appear identical to the attack strain most likely originated at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick (USAMRIID), Maryland.

The new work also shows that substantial genetic differences can emerge in two samples of an anthrax culture separated for only three years. This means the attacker's anthrax was not separated from its ancestors at USAMRIID for many generations...

However, the new work does not prove irrefutably that the attacker got his anthrax directly from USAMRIID because it is possible that untested Ames cultures from other labs might also be identical. Those tests are now underway.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2265

There are no reports that the investigators have identified the lab used to make the anthrax powders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#Investigation

Maybe if Glenn 'hits' bedtime at the Las Vegas slots, Glenn can make restitution by putting a few pennies in the garter belt?

...that Al Gore has the same first name as Al Quaida?

Coincidence?

With strong encryption available to any organization that can afford to spend a day or two figuring it out, it seems clear that any professional terrorist organization is not going to communicate in clear text.

The only thing NSA can be doing is link analysis. Who is communicating with whom. If I'm Al-Qaida, I'm going to to use an intermediary between Pakistan and USA to foil any link analysis. A simple walk across the street in Amsterdam will foil link analysis.

The only possible use of this program is to catch amateurs, or to control society in general. The amateurs are in all likelihood domestic.

Best case scenario, this is simply a way to enrich some defense contractor. Worst case scenario it is to analyze the post I put here and find a way to penalize me for it.

This has nothing to do with catching the terrorists. If it were, we'd simply send a few brigades into Pakistan and end this silly conflict.