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2012-01-15T13:53:00.002-06:00

new site

this blogspot site shall be in archive status for the forseeable future
please go to http://www.farnick.com regarding my candidacy to congress

thank you

[update]

note to self, get another set of eyes to proof read, then send ...

2012-01-13T00:03:00.002-06:00

various updates

on january 11th i submitted a motion to strike the objection
on january 12th, the objector withdrew the objection
i'll be on the march 20th, 2012 democratic primary for the 14th congressional district, thank you all for the support to get here

more to follow

2012-01-08T16:42:00.012-06:00

an example of a poorly worded, hack job of an objection to a nomination petition to get someone off the ballot, in d-flat:

Robert A. Hoffman, Jr.
40260 N. Lake Shore Drive
Antioch, IL 60002
[objector]

vs.

Jonathan Farnick
600 W. Jackson St.
Woodstock, IL 60098
[not me per se, but my "Nomination Papers"]

INTRODUCTION:

[yada yada yada]
(that's legalese for yada yada yada)

Objections:

3: ... The objector states that the Nomination Papers are insufficient in fact and law for the following reasons:

[not really an objection, just a preamble of sorts]

4: ... must contain not fewer than 600 duly qualified, registered, and legal voters of the 14th Congressional District ... the Nomination Papers purport to contain the signatures of in excess of 600 such voters, and further purport to have been gathered, presented, and executed in the manner provided by the Illinois Election Code.

[i submitted more than 600 ... i purported that they contained more than 600, further purport that they were gathered within the allotted time-frame prescribed by law (collected not before 09/06/2011), presented @ 16:00 hours on the last day of acceptance to the Illinois Board of Elections (12/27/2011 by 17:00 hours), signed appropriately by those that collected the signatures, notarized by a duly sworn notary in good standing of the state of illinois, and executed in an above board and transparent way]

5. The nomination Papers contain petition sheets with the names of person who are not registered voters, or who are not registered voters at the address shown opposite their respective names, as is set forth SPECIFICALLY in the Appendix-Recapitulation attached hereto and incorporated herein as "Signer Not Registered At Address Shown", in violation if the Illinois Election Code.

[as an example, if you were the 9th or 10th signer of the 1st 15 nomination pages, you were objected to as "Signer Not Registered At Address Shown", notwithstanding that you truly are a registered voter in DeKalb, Kane, Kendall, Lake, or McHenry county @ the address that you are registered to vote at, and signed on the nomination paper; let me repeat that: if you were the 9th or 10th person who signed ANY the first 15 nomination papers, you were objected to, what are the odds...on a completely different topic, no one who lives in Oakwood Hills is evidently a registered voter, just want to let you people know to update your voter registration before February 22, 2012]

6. ... not registered within the political boundaries of the 14th Congressional District ...

[evidently, there exists ONE house in antioch, il that is outside the new 14th boundaries; although what's weird is that that voters polling place will be the same as some of his other 14th CD neighbors, at the Antioch Township Office, 1625 Deep Lake Rd, Lake Villa, IL 60046, go figure]

[but wait, there's more...]

7. ...names of persons who printed their name, as is set forth SPECIFICALLY in the Appendix-Recapitulation attached hereto and incorporated herein under the classification of "Signer's Signature Not Genuine."

[three things: A. it doesn't matter if the signer "printed (as in block/typed letters)" or "signed (used cursive type letters)"; what matters is how the voter's voter registration card is signed, and that they match; if it seemed the "objector" just went wholesale: this person 'printed', that person 'printed', without verifying how the voter's registration card is actually signed and that they did not match, it would seem that the "objector" had a "belief" that they were wrongly signed and not the "knowledge" that they were, but he signed a legal document saying he had both...; and the 2nd thing, #2: would the "objector" be so kind as to reimburse me for the cost of a notary to accompany me to each of the people who are claimed to have not signed the "Nomination Papers" to have them sign another piece of paper that they if fact did, on the date in question, sign my "Nomination Papers", in their own hand, the charge of "Signer's Signature Not Genuine" implied i forged or somehow nefariously got that particular signature on that particular piece of paper, and would like some time to verify what i have previously "purported" to have done, thanks; and III: if the signature of "Demareo J" doesn't look like that one on the page in question, it's because "Joann W" signed that line, so why did you object to it ?? give a legitimate, understandable, LEGAL reason for the objection, please, and thanks]

8. ... the names of persons who have identified their city of residence as one not matching to voters registration records, and is set forth SPECIFICALLY in the Appendix-Recapitulation attached hereto and incorporated herein as "Signer Not Registered At Address Shown."

[#5 and #8, are worded a bit differently in the "Description", but worded exactly the same in the "Reason" in the appendix-recapitulation, how am i to know which charge is being levied about with the same reason listed for two separate and distinct charges ?? just asking; and while i have you here, why are there various "objections" to some names on the 1st 15 pages and to some names on the last 15 pages, but NO OBJECTIONS OF ANY KIND to ANY OF THE NAMES the 15 pages in the middle ?? again, weird, what are the odds; also, too: there is no line #22 of sheet #9 for example, all the sheets stop @ #15, thought you might want to know]

... more yada yada yada ...

... requests: a.) a hearing...

[the paperwork was picked up on saturday the 7th (the post office tried to delivery them friday the 6th), am doing some looking over of teh "SPECIFICALLY in the Appendix-Recapitulation attached hereto and incorporated herein" paperwork attached, and that the state board of elections will meet tomorrow, the 9th @ 10 am, joi]

2011-09-21T17:41:00.009-05:00

since mr walsh finally made up his mind, i can make up mine

[updated] / [updated again]

i'll provide a PDF of the following to anyone who requests one, just email me @ jonfarnick @ gmail.com, and i shall send you one to print

i'll reimburse the cost of notarizing any correctly and fully completed sheets

any questions, i can be reached @ 312-566-8331, after 6pm on weekdays and during the day on the weekends, more to follow

for now, just revisit these three posts:

http://tofubo.blogspot.com/2006/10/republic-is-dead-long-live-republic.html

http://tofubo.blogspot.com/2009/11/maybe-thisll-help.html

http://tofubo.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-league-of-women-voters-candidate.html

as always, no solicitation for, or acceptance of, any contributions

[update]

mr. walsh has decided to now run in the new 8th district, i am still going to be submitting a nomination petition for the 14th, due now by december 27th, as opposed to the original december 5th due date

[updated]

who needs a choice when you go to vote, there evidently should only be one person to vote for when you do so

give your love to

Democratic Committeeman from Lake Country Precinct 15
Robert A. Hoffman, Jr.
40260 N Lake Shore Dr
Antioch, IL 60002

and ask him why voters shouldn't be able to have a choice when elections roll around

more to follow...

2011-08-10T20:38:00.001-05:00

when even

the evil of two lessors is still as bad

http://youtu.be/2Z1XOBDbIy0

2011-04-25T20:51:00.010-05:00

let's just say

that obama and holder need to be added to the list of former administration officials that need to be indicted for war crimes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-lift-lid-prison

updated

donald 'oily taint' trump and the racist right can go pound sand, be at issue what what he does (see above), not who he is (see below)

from crooksandliars

2011-03-24T22:24:00.014-05:00

the one year anniversary of the healthcare legislation

average price increase of my personal health, dental, and vision insurance, year over year:

along the figures lie, liars figure route, i could go:

it went up, on average, 39.39% a year every year under UU. and went down 4.74% under obama

but i can't, because in 2009 we switched getting insurance from the company i work for to the company my wife works for, which was cheaper (that's why we switched)

any way you slice it, it went up almost 29% over the last year, but it's gone up, on average, almost 28% a year over the past 10 years

each and every year, nothing has changed

2011-03-20T10:38:00.004-05:00

glad to see we've grown and are doing things differently

march 20th, then

march 20th, now

both from here
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

2011-03-06T11:28:00.001-06:00

collectively

2011-02-20T15:55:00.009-06:00

dear mr president
attorney general holder
the chairmen of the house and senate judiciary committess

(updated)

in re http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216?page=1

fuck all you all

in re http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_589.pdf (pdf), page 47

87.3% of the income gain from 1983-2007 went to the top 20%

there's a class war going on and 80% of you are losing it, wake up

from here http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/02/19/a-piecharts-worth-a-thousand-words/

update (with real old information that still applies):

a: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/26-9

plus

b: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Birkenfeld

means

someone has to primary obama, get him (and holder) out of there (and no, that does not mean putting in a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, authoritarian republican motherfucker in his place)

above links from http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/03/hoisted-from-comments-the-lehman-whistleblower-letter.html

2010-12-13T07:10:00.002-06:00

just words

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/12/10/HP/A/41779/Sen+Sanders+Held+a+Tax+Cut+Filibuster.aspx

eight plus hours of words that need to be said and heard by all

2010-11-26T12:37:00.006-06:00

the lie of the "liberal meadea"

the next time you see any of these people on your teevee, or hear on the radio, or read in print saying decidely un-democratic things while saying that the "meadea is liberal", know that they are lying to you

just sayin'

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Randy Scheunemann; Ted Pantaleo; David A. Stockman; Michael Rappaport; Susan McCaw; John David Hoppe; C. Truman Davis; Jeffrey Cain; Cem Ozdemir; Mark I. Sutherland; William Bradford Reynolds; Walter Lohman; Marlo Lewis, Jr.; Olivier Guitta; Nelson Baker Hunt; Vanessa Mendoza;
Mark Gerson; Patrick Parker; Robert S. Strauss; Alan Charles Raul; William W. McGuire; John William Middendorf, II; Cullen Davis; William F. Campbell; Can Paker; Gaylord Swim; Charles E. Rice; Daniella Markheim; Leonard P. Liggio; Ethan Gutmann; Nelson Bunker Hunt; Judith A. Miller;
Michael Goldfarb; Thomas G. Parker; Susan Tanaka; David C. F. Ray; Scott McInnis; Owen T. Smith; Jean Davis; George W. Carey; Robert A. Pastor; Lewis Arthur Tambs; Ronald A. Zumbrun; Jennifer A. Marshall; Angela Logomasini; Rep. J. D. Hayworth; William P. Hurme; Lawrence J. Mone;
Timothy Lehmann; Delbert R. Parks, III; Paul Adolph Volcker; Hugh M. Ray; Andrew J. McKenna; Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr.; Kacee Davis; Samantha Clark; Ralph Peters; Mary Tanner; H. Spencer Masloff, Jr.; Jay Mazur; Gwen McCray; Cherie Jolly; Lester S. Hyman; Marilou Murella;
Frederick W. Kagan; Richard Parks; Carol Cox Wait; Chad A. Readler; James R. Moffett; Gen. Charles A. Horner; Karen Davis; Kelly Cole; Friedbert Pflueger; The Helen Marie Taylor; Dick Dingman; Ken McIntyre; Kym McLaughlin; Gen.Paul Xavier Kelley; Mark E. Hyman; Rodney W. Nichols;
Gary J. Schmitt; Sam C. Parks; Joseph R. Wright, Jr.; Andrew J. Redleaf; Thomas C. Nelson; George A. Keyworth; Robby Glen Davis; Jennifer Connolly; John Edward Porter; Jim Taylor; Kathleen Teague Rothschild; Sally McNamara; Megan McLaughlin; Orde F. Kittrie; Charles L. Irby; Edward J. Nicoll;
Richard N. Perle; Steven Parlette; Tony Perkins; Peter Redpath; John D. Ong; E. Miles Prentice, III; T. Cullen Davis; Rep. Phil Crane; Florentino Portero; John F. Taylor; Peter Weyrich; Ryan Messmore; Jessica Melugin; Burak Kuntay; Kevin Irion; Peggy Noonan;
Lewis Edward Lehrman; Colleen G. Parro; Kevin Gentry; Dean Reuter; Mary M. Ourisman; Curtin Winsor, Jr.; Trey Davis; Phillip M. Crane; Janusz Reiter; Stacy Taylor; Kay Coles James; Richard Terry Miller; Michelle Minton; Agota Kuperman; James B. Jacobson; James Piereson;
John Robert Bolton; G. N. Parrott; Grover Glenn Norquist; Walter P. Reuther; Gov. Bill Owens; Gen. Gordon Russell Sullivan; Maurice Dawkins; Jed Donahue; Sophie Richardson; Barry Teague; James C. Dobson; Manuel A. "Manny" Miranda; Cassandra C. Moore; Richard D. Lamm; Lorena Jaeb; Ben Plotinsky;
Joshua Muravchik; Carmen Pate; Rep. David M. McIntosh; Alex Reynolds; John N. Palmer, Sr.; Adm. Leon A. "Bud" Edney; Russell Dawmmerling; Meghan Duke; Peter W. Rodman; Timothy Teepell; Lee Eaton; Robert E. Moffit; Richard Morrison; Sara H. Levy; Laurie Anne Jaffe; Joseph H. Reich;
Danielle Pletka; Paige Patterson; Cleta Mitchell; Peyton N. Rhodes; Thomas F. Petway, III; Gen. John W. Foss; Joe de Feo; Robert Duke; Alex Rondos; Maurice Tempelsman; H. Preston Hawkins; David B. Muhlhausen; Iain Murray; Samer Libdeh; Christine Jahani; Richard Reiss, Jr.;
Reuel Marc Gerecht; Tom Patterson; Virginia L. "Ginni" Thomas; David B. Rivkin, Jr.; Earl N. Phillips; Vice Adm. James B. Perkins; Christine de Vollmer; James R. Evans; Jim Rosapepe; Samuel Tenenbaum; Charles W. Jarvis; Kate O'Beirne; Robert H. Nelson; Mario Loyola; Sam Jahani; Joseph L. Rice, III;
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz; Michael G. Pauley; Kellyanne Fitzpatrick Conway; Nicholas Quinn "Nick" Rosenkranz; John Price; David P. Steinmann; Betsy DeVos; Carolyn Fanning; Stephen Peter Rosen; Margie Thames; James M. Jenkins; Nina Owcharenko; Alex Nowrasteh; Bernard Marcus; David A. Janes; Frank E. Richardson;
Richard B. "Such a Fucking Dick" Cheney; Patrice J. Pederson; Sen. Jim DeMint; Ronald D. Rotunda; Mercer Reynolds; James G. Roche; Richard M. DeVos, Jr.; Patrick Ford; Kenneth Roth; Marc Alexander Thiessen; Richard W. Mason; Robert E. Rector; William O'Keefe; Rep. Jim Marshall; Gary Jarmin; Mark Riebling;
Nicholas N. Eberstadt; Clarence Pendleton; John H. Fund; Charles E. Rounds; Larry E. Romrell; Mark J. Albrecht; Dorsey Deaton; Neal B. Freeman; Henry S. Rowen; E. Scott Thomas; Tom Minnery; Brian M. Riedl; Ivan Osorio; Bill McCarthy; Phillip Jauregui; Robert Rosenkranz;
Edwin Meese, III; Carlos Andres Perez; Patrick Pizzella; Paul H. Rubin; Patrick G. Ryan; Alex Alexiev; Braswell D. Deen, Jr.; Jenny French; Donald Henry Rumsfeld; Kristin Thomas; Phillip Olsen; James M. Roberts; George Pieler; Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland; Terry Jeffers; Charles Sahm;
Robert James Woolsey, Jr.; Bob J. Perry; Rep. Tom Price; Ronald Rychlak; Dwight C. Schar; Bob Andrews; Lorraine L. Delacroix; Stephen Gestwicki; Jacques Rupnik; Donald H. Thompson; Richard J. Simons; Paul Rosenzweig; James Walter Plummer; Sen. Zell Miller; Louis Elwood "Woody" Jenkins; Nathan E. Saint-Amand;
Hillel Fradkin; Robert Perry; William E. Brock, III; John L. Ryder; Rick Schroder; Norman Ralph Augustine; Rep. Thomas Dale DeLay; Gary Gregg; Eberhard Sandschneider; Kristine Magruder Thompson; E. Peb Jackson; Brett D. Schaefer; Stephen B. Pociask; Joel Mowbray; Margaret Jenkins; Peter D. Salins;
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.; Russell Perry; Richard M. Fairbanks, III; John F. Scalia; Charles R. Schwab; Kathleen C. Bailey; Gene DeMatteo; Lori Halpern; Maj. Gen. Robert H. Scales, Jr.; Kristine Thompson; Richard "Dick" K. Armey; Robert L. Schuettinger; Isaac Post; Mary Beth Nalin; Ron A. Jenson; Andrew M. Saul;
William J. Bennett; Susan Odom Peters; William Sebastian Cohen; Michael A. Scaperlanda; Stephen Allen Schwarzman; Kathryn Ann "Kay" Bailey Hutchison; John N. DeMerell; Kelly Hanlon; Christian Schmidt; Tommy G. Thompson; Jack A. Abramoff; Matthew Scogin; Ryan Radia; Barbara Newman; Nicholas Jon; Max Schulz;
Mackubin Thomas "Mac" Owens; Alexandra Phillips; John C. Hulsman; Kent Scheidegger; Walter Scott, Jr.; Steven C. Baker; James S. Denton; Thomas Harmon; Stephen R. Sestanovich; Peter Thoren; Ernest Istook, Jr.; Ken Sheffer; James M. Sheehan; Megan Ortagus; Bob Jones, III; Fred Siegel;
Edwin J. Feulner, II; Bob L. Phillips; Wesley Glenn Campbell; Joseph E. Schmitz; Terry S. Semel; William L. Ball, III; Sen. Jeremiah A. Denton; Mark C. Henrie; John H. F. Shattuck, III; James E. Thornton; Burton Yale Pines; James Sherk; Solveig Singleton; J. Peter Pham; Hal Jones; Paul E. Singer;
Gary L. Bauer; Brad Phillips; Peter M. Lewis; David Schoenbrod; Richard L. Sharp; Thomas G. Barnes; Richard A. Derham; Becky Herr; Sin-Ming Shaw; Bill Tierney; Philip Truluck; Jack Spencer; Frances Smith; Lou Ranieri; Robert L. Jones; Robert Skidelsky;
Samantha Fay. Ravich; Doug Phillips; Richard Jackson; Mark F. Schultz; Mark S. Siegel; J. Stephen Britt; Catharine Dickey; Charles H. Hoeflich; Abram Shulsky; Robert Tilton; Andrew Michael Spence; Baker Spring; Fred L. Smith, Jr.; Oliver "Buck" Revell; W. Daniel Jordan; Clarice Smith;
Fred Charles Iklé; Howard Phillips; Carla Anderson Hills; Keith Sharfman; Ned L. Siegel; Charles Brooks; Sara DiVito Hardman; Carolyn Houseal; Richard H. Shultz; Herbert W. Titus; Beurt SerVaas; Charles Douglas "Cully" Stimson; Robert J. Smith; Jessica Risch; Nancy Jore; Sol Stern;
Michèle A. Flournoy; Jennifer Phillips; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Erin Sheley; Charles Simonyi; Bruce J. Brotman; Ryan Dobson; Michelle Huntley; Radek Sikorski; William Travers; Morton C. Blackwell; Jason A. Turner; Jeanie Truslow; Bill Roggio; Rick Jore; William J. Stern;
Richard Lee Armitage; Robert M. Pittenger; Sen. Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr.; Mark I. Shublak; Barbara Sobel; Stanley C. Brubaker; John N. Doggett; Joseph F. Johnston, Jr.; Stefano Silvestri; Patrick A. Trueman; Richard M. DeVos, Sr.; Ronald D. Utt; Julie Walsh; Samantha Rollinger; James F. Justiss, Jr.; Bridget Sweeney;
Janusz Bugajski; Mrs. Robert S. Plimpton; David M. Rubenstein; J. Gregory Sidak; Ronald P. Spogli; Jason Bruzdzinski; John Terry Dolan; David Kidd; Martin Simecka; Timothy E. Twardowski; M. Stanton Evans; Barb van Andel-Gaby; William Yeatman; Cara Rosenthal; Howard Kaloogian; William K. Tell, Jr.;
Stephen A. Cambone; Robert S. Plimpton; Edward N. Luttwak; Tom Sikora; Charles J. Swindells; Vice Adm. Al Burkhalter, Jr.; Terry Dolan; Stephen M. Klugewicz; Paul Simon; Douglas Tyler; Thor Halvorssen; Yevgeny Volk; Kenneth Button; Jess Sadick; Barbara Keating-Edh; Stephan Thernstrom;
Frank Charles Carlucci, III; James W. Poe; David Manker Abshire; Gregory Sisk; Andrew C. Taylor; Beverly Byron; Winston Domingue; Natalie Kok; Walter Becker Slocombe; Lewis K. Uhler; Christopher Long; John von Kannon; Patricia Danzon; David Silverstein; Rev. D. James Kennedy; Donna L. Thompson;
Sarah Elizabeth Mendelson; Jerry Pogue; Grant D. Aldonas; Eric R. Sloan; Warren W. Tichenor; Lt. Gen. Frank B. Campbell; Elaine Donnelly; Adam Koontz; Gary Smith; John W. Uhlmann; Paul Craig Roberts; Ray Walser; Henry Grabowski; Frederic Smoler; Stephanie Kennedy; Thomas J. Tisch;
Derek J. Mitchell; Larry W. Poland; Bulent Aliriza; C. David Smith; Ward J. Timken; Joe Colonnetta; John T. Doolittle; Jen Koontz; Henry Sokolski; Sherman E. Unkefer; Larry Klayman; Brian Walsh; Ioannis Kessides; Jonathan L. Snow; William Keyes; Donald G. Tober;
Simon Serfaty; William Polk; Jon B. Alterman; Mark W. Smith; William Robert Timken, Jr.; Barbara Comstock; Robert K. Dornan; Brigitte Krauss; Helmut Sonnenfeldt; George D. Uribe, II; Mark Reed Levin; Paul L. Winfree; Lou Thompson; Michael Steinhardt; David Keyston; Julia Vitullo-Martin;
Robert Bruce Zoellick; Cathy Pollock; Douglas Arent; Steven D. Smith; Robert Holmes Tuttle; Christopher Cox; Howard Eugene Douglas; Richard M. Larry; James B. Steinberg; Jon Basil Utley; J. Anthony "Jay" Parker; Genevieve Wood; William P. Barr; Cindy D. Tan; Richard Kimble; Mabel S. Weil;
Richard V. Allen; Robert W. Poole, Jr.; Anne Legendre Armstrong; Jeffrey A. Standen; Rodolphe M. “Skip” Vallee; Maj. Drew Cukor; Ann Drexel; Alison Leese; Leonard R. Sussman; Harry Valentine; Sen. William "Bill" E. Dannemeyer; Wlady Pleszczynski; L. Paul Bremer, III; Jean Thurman; Alveda King; Dietrich Weismann;
Madeleine "Marie Jana Korbelova" Albright; John W. Pope; Carl W. Baker; Kenneth Winston Starr; James D. Walsh; Brian Dailey; Gregory A. Drexel; Sarah Longwell; John J. Sweeney; Mike Valerio; Stuart W. Epperson, Jr.; George W. Siguler; Ruth R. Wisse; Jan Ting; Dora Kingsley; Byron R. Wien;
Michael Joyce; Jim Powers; Frederick D. "Rick" Barton; James Harold Stock; Ronald Weiser; Gen. J. B. Davis; Shielah Driscoll; John F. Lulves; William Howard Taft, IV; J. Corbin van Arsdale; Eugene Alan "Jay" Sekulow; Richard Mallery; Jeffrey H. Anderson; Alykhan Velshi; Jerry Kirk; Bruce G. Wilcox;
Midge Decter; Lawrence D. "Larry" Pratt; Betty Stanley Beene; Margaret D. Stock; Philip D. Winn; James T. deGraffenreid; David B. Drumeler; Marcus McBride; Richard L. "Dick" Thornburgh; Ted van Dyk; Barbara Alby; Alf Elvin Brandin; Larry P. Arnn; Caitlyn Walters; Karen Kirksey; Kathryn S. Wylde;
Dov S. Zakheim; Paul Pressler, IV; Mark Bellamy; Daniel Suhr; Stephen Alan Wynn; Kenneth deGraffenreid; Robert P. Dugan, Jr.; Christopher Michalski; Gary Titley; Jerry L. van Houtan; Nicholas William Allard; Edward Howard Brooks; Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr.; Francis J. "Bing" West; Brig. General Albion W. Knight; Lindsay Young-Craig;
Steve Forbes; James S. Price; Guy Ben-Ari; Mike Thompson; Robert G. Grant; Adm. Bruce DeMars; Daniel Duggan; Robert H. Miller; Helga Flores Trejo; Rod vanden Bos; Daniel B. Allison, II; J. Stewart Bryan, III; Roberta Green Ahmanson; Leslie H. Wexner; Markos Kounalakis; William Zeiser;
Max M. Kampelman; Edgar Prince; Daniel Seth Benjamin; Daniel E. Troy; Patrick J. Buchanan; Patrick Devenny; Arthur Dula; Douglas C. Mills; Ivan Vejvoda; Sandra L. vanden Houten; John W. Alspach; Joseph Bryan; John K. Andrews, Jr.; Dan Wilson; Peter Kovar; Benjamin Zycher;
Clifford D. May; Elsa Prince; Richard E. Bissell; Douglas C. Ubben; Mildred F. Jefferson; Stanley Ebner; Richard J. Dunham; Douglas Minson; Sasha Vondra; Guy vander Jagt; David B. Amy; David Davenport; William A. Rusher; Brian Wise; Beverly LaHaye; Warren M. Christopher;
Norman Podhoretz; Coy C. Privette; Philipp Bleek; Scott M. Univer; Richard A. Viguerie; Terry Elkes; Kathy Dupuy; Abby S. Moffat; Celeste Ann Wallander; Lee Vaughan; Carie Anderson; Paul Lewis Davies, Jr.; W. Robert Stover; Adela A. Zachariades; Lee LaHaye; Howard H. Baker, Jr.;
Stephen J. Solarz; Joseph B. Prochaska; Alice Blevins; William van Alstyne; Carter Wrenn; Andrew Ellis; W. Clark Durant, III; Merrill S. Moyer; Ruth Wedgwood; Balint Vazsonyi; Krag Anderson; Paul Lewis "Lew" Davies, III; Angelo M. Codevilla; Robert Zubrin; Timothy LaHaye; Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger;
Robie Marcus Hooker "Mark" Palmer; Penny Pullen; Reginald K. Brack; Shelton M. Vaughan; Billy Lee Evans; Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr.; Alan P. Dye, Esq.; Will Moyer; George S. Weigel; Richard Ryan Viguerie; Thomas R. Anderson; Morris McKnight Doyle; J. D. Crouch, II; David Mark Wagner; Karan K. Lapham; Slade Gorton;
Daniel Pipes; Ken Raasch; Samuel Brannen; C. Stewart Verdery; John Bridgeland ; Douglas J. Feith; John P. East; Jeffrey O. Nelson; Leon Wieseltier; Michael Vlerius; Tom Anderson; Geoffrey Garrett; Seth Leibsohn; Robert H. Bork; Wayne LaPierre; Lee H. Hamilton;
Kenneth L. Adelman; Raymond V. Raehn; Gregory Broaddus; Stephen I. Vladeck; Kenneth M. Duberstein; Vice Adm. Jack Fetterman; Don Eberly; Christine O'Donnell; Chris Williams; Christine de Marcellus de Vollmer; Al Angell; Deroy Murdock; Sally C. Pipes; Walter K. Olson; Reed E. Larson; Gary W. Hart;
H. E. Václav Havel; Adam Rawnsley; Carole L. Brookins; Donald P. Wagner; Steven Anderson; Laura Fionda; Nicholas Egoroff; Louise V. Oliver; Jennifer Windsor; Barbara Vucanovich; Martin Tyler Angell; Scott Steven Powell; John C. Eastman; Abigail Thernstrom; Wallace Larson; Rita E. Hauser;
Paula J. Dobriansky; Larry D. Reagan; Gen. Harold Brown; William Waller; Michael Ansari; Rand H. Fishbein; Karl Eller; Thomas Pauken; Minky Worden; Gray Wakefield; John F. Ankerberg; Niall Ferguson; Eugene Volokh; C. Boyden Gray; Douglas A. Latham; Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker;
Sen. Malcolm Wallop; Carlyle Reed; Richard R. Burt; Gerald Walpin; Kenetta Bailey; Evan Griffith Galbraith, Jr.; W. Winston Elliott, III; Elaine J. Pinder; Larry M. Wortzel; Henry "Huck" Walther; Darla Anzalone; John Brian Taylor; Kent Lassman; Spencer Abraham; Mrs. Lee Vaughan; Thomas Howard Kean;
John F. Lehman, Jr.; Ralph E. Reed, Jr.; Kurt M. Campbell; Stephen J. Ware; Rui Bao; Colleen Gilbert; Jim Ellis; Mary Radford; William "The Bloody" Kristol; Lucien M. Warner; Kristen Ardizzone; Ramesh Ponnuru; Matthew Spalding; Jonathan H. Adler; Albert Lebrun; Richard C. Leone;
Elliott L. Abrams; Michael Lynn Retzer; Pierre Chao; Russell L. Weaver; James "Jim" Love Barksdale; Caroline Glick; Thomas F. Ellis; Judy Rainer; John Sidney McCain, III; Zachary Warrender; Ben Armstrong; Kenneth Saul Rogoff; Mark Blitz; P. C. Aigner; Ira Lechner; Donald F. McHenry;
Devon Gaffney Cross; Gary Richardson; Peter Charles Choharis; Larry J. Weinsteen; Joe Louis Barrow; Paul Goble; Dalane England; Arthur E. Rasmussen; Robert William Kagan; Marsha Washburn; Thomas K. Armstrong; Shelby Steele; Charles R. Kesler; Larry Alexander; Jerome M. Ledzinski; William James Perry;
Daniel Gouré; H. L. Richardson; Edward C. Chow; Peter Welsh; William C. Bell; Douglas Graham; Ronald J. Ensminger; Michael Ratliff; V. Jeffrey Gedmin; Frank Washington; John David Ashcroft; John F. Cogan; Peter W. Schramm; Stephen M. Bainbridge; Ernest W. LeFever; Thomas Reeve Pickering;
Bruce P. Jackson; Daniel W. Richey; Craig Cohen; C. Douglas Welty; Stephanie K. Bell-Rose; Margaret Graham; Kristy Epperson; Alfred S. Regnery; David A. Keene; Darin J. Waters; Edward G. Atsinger, III; Anne Bayefsky; Robert Alt; John Baker; Tim LeFever; Warren B. Rudman;
Arthur Waldron; Paul R. Rickert; Joseph J. Collins; Joe D. Whitley; Peter L. Benson; William R. Graham, Jr.; Michael Etchison; William H. Regnery; Alan Gottlieb; Thomas I. Waters, III; Marilyn Atwood; Charles H. Brunie; Eloise Anderson; M. Miller Baker; Terri Leo; Ted Sorensen;
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr.; Richard A. Riddle; Jennifer G. Cooke; Richard E. Wiley; Jay Berkelhamer; Dorothy "Deecy" Gray; Scott Etkin; Paul Rhein; Jesse Helms; James G. Watt; Theodore "Ted" Baehr; Walter P. Stern; Michael Anton; Randy E. Barnett; Barbara Mieko Lewis; Frank George Wisner, II;
Vin Weber; Benjamin T. Riddles; Anthony H. Cordesman; Richard K. Willard; Carolyn Berkowitz; E. C. Grayson; Michael Evans; Stanley Ridgley; Ronald E. Robinson; Doug Wead; Cy Bahakel, Sr.; Carol C. Adelman; Hadley Arkes; William T. Barrante; J. Keet Lewis; Marc Goldwein;
Marc Charles Ginsberg; Elizabeth Ridenour; Margaret Cosentino; Paul R. Williams; Alyssa Bisanz; Cmd. Sgt. Maj. Steven Greer; Tim Ewing; Nicole Rizkallah; Thomas S. Winter; Phyllis Weaver; Carole Baker; Paul Dragos Aligica; Kathleen Arnn; Francis J. Beckwith; M. Van Lewis, Jr.; Richard Newell Cooper;
Charles Krauthammer; Stephen D. Ridley; Ralph A. Cossa; Walter E. Williams; Matthew Boring; Special Agent John Guandolo; Barry M. Faber; Thomas A. Roe; Rep. Bob Barr; Winston Weaver; Dick Baker; Toni K. Allen, Esq.; Joseph M. Bessette; Kate Beer; Rev. Paul Lewis; C. Fred Bergsten;
Marshall Wittmann; Ike Rigell; Anne Costello; Edwin D. Williamson; Katherine Brittain Bradley; James T. Hackett; Lea Facey; Scott Rubush; Don Devine; Jack M. Webb; Terry C. Balderson; Michael J. Astrue; Richard B. Cammack; Mark A. Behrens; William Lewis, III; Haley Barbour;
Helle C. Dale; Isom A. Rigell; Jeffrey M. Cunningham; Laurence H. Winer; Janet Bray; Charles Hamilton; D. M. "Lauch" Faircloth; Douglas Schneider; Richard Lessner; Robert T. Weiner; Steve Baldwin; Alex A. Avery; Mark Edmond Clark; Tom Bell; Jay Lifschultz; Tommy Franks;
John J. Tkacik, Jr.; Tom Riner, Jr.; Ann-Sofie Dahl; Robert E. Witwer; Eli Broad; Col. Marlin L. Hefti; Mollie Faison; Jen Schwarz; James C. Roberts; Craig Welch; Howard Ball; Dennis T. Avery; Bennett E. Cooper; Warren Belmar; David Linton; William H. Gates, III;
Arnold Beichman; Jonathan C. Roberts; Reginald Dale; Christopher Wolfe; Larry Brown; Bruce Herschensohn; Jerry Falwell; Gary Scott; Kirby Wilbur; P. Craig Welch, Jr.; William B. Ball; Terrence L. Barnich; Sandra Dirks; Jan I. Berlage; Persio Liriano; Melissa Hart;
Larry Diamond; Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson; Richard Jeffrey Danzig; Edward J. Zohn; Kathy Cloninger; Christopher Holton; Michael W. Fanning; John Joseph Shanley; Cliff Kincaid; David Wellendorf; William H. Ball, Jr.; Thomas D. Bell, Jr.; Glenn Ellmers; Dana Berliner; Earl Little; Jerry J. Jasinowski;
Tod Lindberg; Mrs. Thomas A. Robinson; Robert Addison Day, Jr.; Todd J. Zywicki; J. Thomas Cochran; Vice Adm.William D. Houser; Joseph F. Farah; Christine Singles; Allen C. Brownfeld; William Wells; David W. Balsiger; James C. Bennett; Edward J. Erler; David E. Bernstein; John Lofton; Tom C. Korologos;
Charles Hill; Thomas A. Robinson; Peter DeShazo; J. Frederic Rench; Richard D. Fairbank; Tim Hutchinson; Robert E. Farmer; Edward Snow; Clarence Thomas; Judi Westberg-Warren; Jason Barbour; Conrad M. Black; Henrietta Fankhauser; Lillian R. BeVier; Kathy Lorton; Drew Lewis;
Abraham David Sofaer; James Robison; Thomas Devold; William S. Lind; Thomas M. Ryan; Rep. Henry B. Hyde; Michael P. Farris, Esq.; Stacy Steffen; Scott P. Richert; Diana Weyrich; Michael Darr Barnes; Francis Stanton "Frank" Blake; Joel H. Farkas; George Bittlingmayer; Lyle K. Lorton; David A. Metzner;
Jeffrey Bergner; Timothy John "Tim" Roemer; Diana Lady Dougan; William Marshner; Morris J. Amitay; Sen. James M. Inhofe; Tracy Feeny; Cindie Struyk; Ben J. Wattenberg; Marie G. Wheat; Thomas W. Barnett; Linden Stanley Blue; Christopher Flannery; J. Caleb Boggs, III; Trent Lott; Joe M. Rodgers;
Francis Fukuyama; Thomas F. Roeser; Raymond F. du Bois; Laszlo Pasztor, Sr.; Newton L. "Newt" Gingrich; Hany Aziz Iskandar; Robert W. Feldtman; Aaron Sullivan; Edward B. Rust, Jr.; Jack Wheeler; David Barron; Ken A. Bode; Daniel J. Frederick; Clint Bolick; Edward A. Lozick; Martin J. Silverstein;
Donald Kagan; Ben Rogerson; Robert E. Ebel; David French; Jack Rosen; Jamie Jameson; David Fenner; Daniel Sullivan; Laurie Mylroie; James R. Whelan; Nancy Barthelemy; Barbara Boland; Thomas A. Fuentes; F. Ladson Boyle; Harry Lucas, Jr.; Richard Abramson;
Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby; Jacob Roginsky; Robert J. Einhorn; Megan Basham; Esther Levens; M. Zuhdi Jasser; Forrest W. Ferguson; Christian Tappe; Charles Murray; Fred M. Whitaker; Thomas F. Barthelemy; Kim Bowling; Lupe Gamboa; Scott Bullock; Laura Lucas; Charles Adler;
J. Danforth Quayle; Gregory D. Rohrbough; Gerald L. Epstein; Bobb Biehl; S. Daniel Abraham; Capt. Thomas W. Jones; Ben Ferrell; Kevin Twitchell; Michael S. Greve; Daniel White Sr.; Brian Bartley; Denise Braye; Patrick J. Garrity; Jonathan Bunch; Tracy Lucas; Hale Arifagaoglu;
Kenneth R. Weinstein; Angie Rosa; Moana Erickson; Kurt Bruner; Robert H. Asher; Robert Joseph; William A. Fields; Wayne H. Valis; Jack Calfee; Darrell White; Rep. William G. Batchelder, III; Christopher L. Brown; Nicholas M. Gieseler; James S. Burling; Gregory P. Lynne; Hassan Barari;
Richard Weitz; Bramlin Rosa; Stephen J. Flanagan; Mark Buzzetta; Norman Brownstein; Clark Judge; Charles H. Fifield; Richard A. Ware; Steven F. Hayward; Somers H. White; Scott D. Bates; Eric B. Brown; Robert Gransden; Steven G. Calabresi; James E. Lyon; Howard P. Berkowitz;
Cornelius Alexander "Connie Mack" McGillicuddy, IV; Juan Rosa; Lowell R. Fleischer; Patrick P. Caruana; Thomas Alan Dine; Garry Kasparov; Robert Finnell; Preston A. Wells, Jr.; Clayland Boyden Gray; Ronald W. Whiteford; John D. Beckett; Jennifer A. Butsch; Lawrence R. Greenfield; Michael A. Carvin; Paul M. Lyons; Lt. Col. Sonny Blinkinsop;
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke; Linda Rose; Janet Fleischman; James Daly; Melvin Dow; Robert G. Kaufman; Father Charles C. Fiore; Ann Wendig; Michael Novak; John W. Whitehead; Father John Michael Beers; Melody Campbell; Mark Helprin; Ronald A. Cass; Lon Mabon; Stephen Borko;
Anthony Lake; Ron Rosenberger; Charles W. "Chas" Freeman, Jr.; Shirley M. Dobson; Lisa B. Eisen; Sven Kraemer; Robert K. Fischer; Karyl Wittlinger; Walter Berns; Rev. Donald E. Wildmon; Marshall Beggs; Vincent Cannato; James E. Higgins; Arun Chandra; Marie MacFarlane; Richard Borow;
James M. Lindsay; Robert Edward Rubin; William H. Frist; Ted Engstrom; Richard Fishman; Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen; Craig Fisher; Amanda Yasenchak; George Pratt Shultz; Timothy Wildmon; Sandy Beggs; Ken Colburn; James Ward Higgins; Roger Clegg; Robert H. "Scott" MacLellan; Benjamin Breslauer;
Martin Peretz; Howard Ruff; Michael P. Galvin; Robert E. Hamby, Jr.; Amy Friedkin; Gen. Richard L. Lawson; Peter T. Flaherty; Nathaniel Zebrowski; Jeremy A. Rabkin; James K. Wiley; Melvin Behnke; Deborah Kahn Cunningham; John H. Hinderaker; Laurence D. Cohen; Laurel Ann MacLeod; Soner Cagaptay;
Dennis B. Ross; Rev. Rousas J. Rushdoony; Helene D. Gayle; Stan John; Howard "Tzvi" Friedman; Christopher Lay; Langdon S. Flowers; Stephen Wertheimer; Michael Rubin; John Wilke; John M. Belk; Jaime Daremblum; Harry V. Jaffa; Ronald Coleman; Mark Maddoux; Joanna Campione;
Morton I. Abramowitz; Sarah Rusnok; Fariborz Ghadar; Steve Largent; Steven Grossman; Peter Leitner; Stephen E. Flynn; Phillip Aronoff; Michael Ledeen; Alvin Williams; Mariam Bell; Pierre Dassas; Jeanette Jaime; Theodore Cooperstein; Marlin Maddoux; J. Scott Carpenter;
Gordon M. Adams; Lucy A. Rutishauser; Joseph B. Gildenhorn; Bruce Lesley; Malcolm I. Hoenlein; Robert Gerald Livingston; Thomas Stephen Foley; Sheriff Kevin Beary; Bradford Allen Berenson; Arthur L. Williams, Jr.; Dan Berryman; Edward de Laney; Brian P. Janiskee; Roger C. Cramton; Thomas Magner; Maya Chertock;
Urban Ahlin; Jennifer A. Rutledge; Bates Gill; Tom Mason; Mickey Kantor; Robert L. Livingston; Donald Lambert Folkers; Deputy Chief Michael Berkow; Martin Stuart Feldstein; Byron D. Williamson; David Berryman; Leon de Winter; Douglas A. Jeffrey; John J. Curry; Marion M. "Mac" Magruder, Jr.; Patrick Clawson;
Giuliano Amato; Elizabeth Rutter; Luis E. Giusti; Brad Miller; Lonny Kaplan; Gen. John M. "Mike" Loh; Elizabeth Folsom; Ira "Bob" Born; Roger Hertog; Michael Williamson; Ray Berryman; Thomas J. Donohue, Sr.; Scott W. Johnson; Donald A. Daugherty, Jr.; Shannon Magruder; Judy Cole;
Mark A. Anderson; Roger S. Rutter; Bonnie S. Glaser; Diane Passno; Howard Kohr; James Longley; George Fondren; Beau Boulter; Bruce Kovner; John Willke; Randy Best; Gerald Dorros; Thomas Karako; Robert McWhirter Davis; Wilhelm Maier; Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger;
Uzi Arad; Fred R. Sacher; Brad Glosserman; Roger Pearson; Jennifer Kraus; Carnes Lord; Richard A. Ford; Mark Broxmeyer; Gerard Alexander; Christopher S. Wilson; Adelaide Elizabeth Biggs; James H. Dowling; Brian T. Kennedy; Robert N. Davis; Carolyn S. Malenick; Michael Eisenstadt;
Timothy Garton Ash; Steven Alan Samson; Michael Jonathan Green; Elsa D. Prince Broekhuizen; Edward C. Levy, Jr.; Gen. Gary E. Luck; Clarke D. Forsythe; Shoshana Bryen; Jason Bertsch; Elizabeth Ann Wilson; E. Paul Bigham; Ronald W. Dworkin; John B. Kienker; Michael DeBow; William C. Malven; Jeanne Epstein;
Anders Åslund; Brian K. Sanders; Eric K. Ham; Del Tackett; Bernice Manocherian; Adm. James A. Lyons, Jr.; Peter C. Foy; Stephen D. Bryen; Gordon M. Binder; James M. Wilson; Robert J. "Bob" Billings; James R. Edwards, Jr.; Thomas D. Klingenstein; George W. Dent, Jr.; Donna S. Mantey; Audrey Flake;
Ronald D. Asmus; Terry Sanford; Armand Hammer; Daniel L. Villanueva; Mayer "Bubba" Mitchell; Douglas MacDonald; Herman C. Frankland; Lt. Gen. Anthony Burshnick; Arthur C. Brooks; Richard B. Wirthlin; William Billings; Thomas E. Elam; Thomas L. Krannawitter; Bart DePalma; Elmer M. Mantey; Chuck Freilich;
Andrew Y. Au; William E. Saracino; John J. Hamre; Anthony Wauterlek; Neal Sher, Esq.; Jennifer MacDonald; Ann W. Frazier; Lt. Gen. Paul G. Cerjan; Willard C. Butcher; George Witwer; Wendell R. Bird; Virginia M. Fichera; Edwin C. Laird; Robert A. Destro; David Manuel; Gerald Friedman;
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Blaine Scheideman; John Heyl; Alan Chambers; Larry Weinberg; David McCormack; Ben Frizzell, Jr.; Gen. James B. Davis; Harry B. Earhart; Mrs. Robert Ian Wood; William B. Blakemore, II; Craig L. Fuller; Ken Masugi; Elizabeth K. Dorminey; Connaught "Connie" Marshner; Martin Gross;
Peter Beinart; Fred Schlafly; David Frederick Heyman; Joe Dallas; Tim Wuliger; Evan McCormick; Howard M. Fry; Begum Deger; John V. Faraci; Robert Ian Wood; James C. Blankemeyer; Michael Fumento; Penny McWhorter; Steven J. Eagle; Darla St. Martin; Laura Hannah;
Jeffrey Bell; Phyllis Schlafly; Kathleen Holland Hicks; Melissa Fryrear; Walid Phares; James C. McCrery; Corinne S. Fuller; David Dewhurst; Tully M. Friedman; Rev. Jim Woodall; Justin Bleuer; Diana Furchtgott-Roth; Tiffany J. Miller; Spencer Eig; James L. Martin; Simon Henderson;
Robert L. Bernstein; Richard Schoff; Thomas O. Hicks; Mike Haley; Victor Davis Hanson; Adm. Wesley McDonald; Jack W. Fuller; Ted Dinnerstein; Christopher B. Galvin; Jared R. Woodfill; Bonnie Jean Blinn; Gay Hart Gaines; Paul Mirengoff; Charles M. Elson; Jonathan D. Martin; Paul Hidalgo;
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; Tim Schorle; Robert Edwards Hunter; Nancy Heche; Paul V. Marshall; Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney; Frank Gardner; Maj. Gen. Lee Downer; Robert P. George; Inger Wright; Deborah Jane Blinn; Daniel C. Gibson; Donald E. Moe; Bert Ely; Christopher "Kit" Mason; Capt. Don Hursey;
Carl Bildt; Mrs. Carl L. Schuele; Gerald Hyman; Bill Maier; Arnaud de Borchgrave; Adm. Kinnaird McKee; John F. Garofano; Maj. Gen. Robert D. Eaglet; David Gerson; Denice Yeagin; James K. Blinn; Joseph M. Giglio; Lucas E. Morel; Gregory J. English; Robert C. Masters; Michael Jacobson;
Daniel Blumenthal; Carl L. Schuele; Kazuo Inamori; Joseph Nicolosi; Andrew C. McCarthy; Bruce Merrifield; Willard W. Garvey; Carol Effrat; Raymond V. Gilmartin; Carl R. Young, Jr.; Michael Blocker; Daniel Halper; Vincent Phillip Muñoz; Lisa Budzynski Ezell; James Mather; Nazar Janabi;
Max Boot; David C. Schultheis; E. Neville Isdell; James H. Burnley, IV; Rachel Ehrenfeld; Lt. Gen. Thomas Miller; Ellen Garwood; Benjamin Gettler; James K. Glassman; Charles B. Young; John E. Blumer; Husain Haqqani; Bill Nagler; Sarah Field; Pat Matrisciana; Dawn Joseph;
Ellen Elizabeth Bork; Paul F. Schultheis; Neville Isdell; Ted Abram; David Pryce-Jones; Dominic J. Monetta; Donald Gay; Lt. Gen. Thomas Griffin; Harvey Golub; Thomas R. Young; David Bobb; Bernadine P. Healy; Daniel F. O'Toole; Edward H. Fleischman; Richard Mauch; Mehdi Khalaji;
Rudy Boshwitz; Glen Schultz; Linda S. Jamison; Barry Aylstock; Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely; Vice Adm. Robert R. Monroe; David Geanacopoulos; Lt. Gen. Earl B. Hailston; Robert F. Greenhill; Harry Bartell "Pat" Zachry; David R. Bochenek; Yoshiki Hidaka; Gregory R. Palen; Robert L. Freedman; Kris Alan Mauren; Megan Khoury;
Pascal Bruckner; Otto Scott; Gen. James L. Jones; Adam Brandon; Charles Jacobs; Brian Morgenstern; Peter B. Gemma, Jr.; Marsha Halteman; Kevin A. Hassett; Tony Zagotta; Blakney Boggs; Frederick Wells Hill; Daniel C. Palm; David Friedman; Paul Maurer; Michael Knights;
Mark F. Brzezinski; Chloe Scribante; Col. Amos Azariah Jordan; Wayne T. Brough; Gen. Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.; Ebby Moussazadeh; Barbara Gibson; Gen. Richard D. Hearney; Gertrude Himmelfarb; David Zanotti; Thomas A. Bolan; Deborah L. Hoopes; Ronald J. Pestritto; Robert J. Gaglione; Chere' Maxwell; Martin Kramer;
Reinhard Buetikofer; John Scribante; Sherman E. Katz; Jaci Brown; Herbert I. London; Gen. Carl E. Mundy, Jr.; David F. Girard-di Carlo; Gary Heiman; Alan Howard; Maria Zentara; Pat Boone; Allan B. Hubbard; Larry Peterman; Richard W. Garnett; Donald S. McAlvany; Fred Lafer;
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush; Lynda H. Scribante; Muhtar Kent; Molly Byrne; John O'Sullivan; Capt. Charles T. "Chuck" Nash; Duane Gish; Rep. Steve Israel; R. Glenn Hubbard; Billy Zeoli; T. J. Bosgra; Roy Innis; Kenneth Petersen; F. Carolyn Graglia; Ed McAteer; Bernard Leventhal;
Michael Butler; Alan E. Sears, Esquire; Kay King; Jean Campbell; Meyrav Wurmser; Gen. Richard I. Neal; Thomas A. Glessner; Adm. David E. Jeremiah; David M. Lampton; Tim Zietz; Richard P. Bott; Emmanuel A. Kampouris; Julie Ann Ponzi; Lino A. Graglia; Thomas E. McCabe; Matthew Levitt;
Martin Butora; Don Sebastiani; Heinz Alfred "Henry" Kissinger; Tiffany Carper; Ali Al-Ahmed; Eugene Novikov; Daniel R. Glickman; Adm. Jerome Johnson; Adam Lerrick; Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman; Lynn Francis Bouchey; Lawrence F. Kaplan; Richard Reeb; Nicolas J. Gutierrez; Henry F. McCamish, Jr.; Samuel W. Lewis;
Daniele Capezzone; Mark Seeley; Andrew Carrigan Kuchins; Justin Cleveland; Ali Ahmed Al-Baghli; Robert Patron; Ronald S. Godwin; Yola H. Johnston; Marc S. Lipschultz; Phyllis Kaminsky; James Bowers; Amy A. Kass; Matthew Robinson; Hannah De Guzman; Bryan McCanless; George Lopez;
Per Carlsen; Ronald L. Seeley; Sarah O. Ladislaw; Jamie Daniels; Nir Boms; Keith B. Payne; Stephen Goodrick; Karla Jones; John Lott; Amoretta M. Hoeber; John Brademas; Amy Kauffman; Harold W. Rood; Stephen P. Halbrook; Albert J. McCarn, Jr.; Jeremy Makeover;
Gunilla Carlsson; Todd Seeley; Vinca LaFleur; Lauren Daugherty; Ismail Cem; William G. Perry; Robbie Gowdey; David Justman; John A. Luke, Jr.; Charles M. Kupperman; Bo Brandes; Henry R. Kravis; Pat Sajak; Stephen K. Halpert; Richard F. McCarthy, Jr.; David Makovsky;
James W. Ceaser; Howard Segermark; Kenneth G. Langone; Tom Gaitens; Leon Charney; Ryan Peterson; Anthony Grampsas; Sharon Turboff Katz; Richard B. Madden; Robert Louis Pfaltzgraff, Jr.; David W. Breese; Marie-Josée Kravis; Bruce C. Sanborn; Marci A. Hamilton; Bob McClellan; Michael E. Mandelbaum;
Linda Chavez; Susan Seiler; Alexander T. J. Lennon; Jaclynne A. Gilfillan-Brown; John Eibner; Gen. John L. Piotrowski; William B. Grant; Vice Adm. Bernard Kauderer; Robert H. Malott; Lt. Gen. Edward L. Rowny; Willis Bretz Jr.; Stanley Kurtz; Carl Schafer; Steven B. Hantler; Norman P. McClelland; Bardia Massoudkhan;
Steven C. Clemons; Hans F. Sennholz; James Andrew Lewis; Tim Gillespie; David Hillel Gelernter; Miles Prentice, III; Michael R. Griffin Sr; Jennifer Keech; Paul W. McCracken; William R. van Cleave; William Rohl Bright; Ben E. Laden; Marcia Shackelford; Matthew P. Harrington; James A. McClure; Laura Milstein;
Eliot A. Cohen; John Seribante; Jim Loi; Joe Hilliard; Stephen Gullo; Sgt. Roy Jordan Ramsey; Mrs. Robert Grunska; Jonathan Kislak; Roger Francisco Noriega; Victoria Toensing, Esq.; R. Alan Brinson; Irving Leveson; Thomas B. Silver; Orrin Harrison; Timothy McConville; David Pollock;
Seth Cropsey; Frank Shakespeare; Jenifer Mackby; Lawrence A. Hunter; Michel Gurfinkiel; Robert Reilly; Robert Grunska; Vice Adm. Anthony A. Less; Henry Olsen; Robert C. "Bud" McFarlane; Paul Broadhead; George Jay Lichtblau; David Strom; Thomas F. Harrison; C. R. McCotter, Jr.; Lori Posin;
Ivo H. Daalder; Raymond Shamie; Haim Malka; Bill Jaeger; Fereydoun Hoveyda; Gen. Robert W. RisCassi; Renee Guerrero; Randall J. Levitt; Paul F. Oreffice; Robert Emmett "Bob" Tyrrell, Jr.; Elsa Prince Broekhuizen; Martin Lowy; Brian F. Sullivan; Brent O. Hatch; James D. McCotter; Gerri Pozez;
Massimo D'Alema; Darren Shapiro; Donald B. Marron; Rob Jordan; Saad Eddin Ibrahim; Roger W. Robinson, Jr.; Haldeman "Hal" W. Guffey; Maj. Gen. Jarvis Lynch; John L. Palmer; Robert F. Turner; Earle A. Bronson; Todd Lugar; Ben Tang; Orrin G. Hatch; Liz McCotter; Robert Rabil;
Dennis W. DeConcini; J. Shelby Sharpe; Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick; Tom Keeley; Mansoor Ijaz; Albert Santoli; Darryl E. Gustafson; Lt. Gen. Charles May; Sam Peltzman; Cmdr. Peter Brookes; Rev. Cn. Robert J. Brooks; Michael Lunceford; Joseph Tartakovsky; Gail Heriot; Naomi McCotter; Scott Rogers;
Pavol Demes; Beverly Ann Sharpf; Mark McClung; Matt Kibbe; Raphael Israeli; Maj. Christopher A. Schaefer; Debra Hackbert; Lt. Gen. Frederick McCorkle; Raymond Kissam Price, Jr.; James A. Phillips; Clayton E. Brown; Frank Luntz; William Voegeli; Lois Haight Herrington; Shannon McCotter; Robert Barry Satloff;
Peter Dimitrov; Dal Shealy; Richard T. McCormack; Alberta Kinard; George Jonas; Wayne Schroeder; Ben Haden; Maj. Gen. William C. Moore; George L. Priest; Peter Schweizer; Floyd G. Brown; Robert Mankin; Bradley C. S. Watson; Robert S. Highsmith, Jr; Jeffrey M. McCraw; Rebecca Saxton;
James Francis Dobbins, Jr.; Wendy R. Sherman; Carola McGiffert; Chris Kinnan; Stanley H. Kaplan; Richard L. Senninger; Edith D. Hakola; Chief Joseph Morris; Robert A. Pritzker; Candace de Russy; Judie Brown; Harold D. Marshall; Thomas G. West; Lynn Hogue; Elizabeth McCullough; David K. Schenker;
Robert W. Edgar; Rich Shipe; Phillip McLean; Thomas Knudsen; Efraim Karsh; James Gregory Sherr; Billy Hale; Tom Neumann; Nathaniel Rabkin; Nina Rosenwald; Sam Brunelli; Betsy McCaughey; Ryan Williams; Philip K. Howard; Larry McDonald; Zeev Schiff;
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen; Richard Shoff; Karen Meacham; Robert Lansing; Michael A. Ledeen; Dennis Showalter; J. Evetts Haley; Maj. Gen. Robert B. Patterson; J. Peter Ricketts; Zeyno Baran; Anita Bryant; Robert H. McKinney; Johnny Zamrzla; John S. Irving; Mrs. Larry McDonald; James Schreiber;
David B. Epstein; Marc Short; Johanna Mendelson-Forman; Kevin L. Mannix; Lord Lamont of Lerwick; Joseph Skelly; Rosalind Kress Haley; Chief Joseph Polisar; Thomas Anthony Riley, III; John Fonte; Andy Buchanan; John Mutz; Lawrence Kadish; Jay T. Jorgensen; Paul McDonnough; Fred Schwartz;
Amitai Etzioni; H. Robert Showers; Franklin C. Miller; Judy Mulcahy; Kanan Makiya; Bob Smith; Heidi Hamil; Myra Rosenberg Litman; Kevin B. Rollins; Michael J. Horowitz; Cindy Buchanan; Taslima Nasrin-Nasreen; John Kenneth Blackwell; Brian C. Kalt; Rod McDougal; Albar Sheikh;
Lee Andrew Feinstein; Gregg Siegel; Carl Minzner; David H. Padden; Hassan Mneimneh; Carl Smith; Mona Hamilton; Rear Adm. Norman Saunders; Mark Salter; Laurent Murawiec; Jack Buechner; Jeremiah Norris; L. Brent Bozell, III; Gideon Kanner; Joan McEnery; Christal Shrader;
Jeffrey L. Fiedler; Terry Siemens; J. Stephen Morrison; Allen Page; Salameh Nematt; Adm. Leighton W. "Snuffy" Smith, Jr.; Elizabeth M Hanicke; David Schachne; William M. "Bill" Schneider, Jr.; Nina Shea; Benjamin W. Bull; Jennifer L. Noyes; Richard Gilder; Gov. Francis Anthony "Frank" Keating, II; Bob McEwen; Harvey Sicherman;
Aaron Louis Friedberg; Perry Sikes; Clark A. Murdock; Max Pappas; Ayman Nour; Jose Sorzano; Colin A. Hanna; Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow; D. Gideon Searle; Max Singer; J. Daniel Bullington; Lt. Gen, William E. Odom; Jean Belanger; Peter D. Keisler; John McGoff; Tiffany Smith;
Peter W. Galbraith; Maj. Gen John K. "Iran Contra" Singlaub; Terence R. Murphy; Tina Peyton; Yossi Olmert; Gen. Donn A. Starry; Erik J. Hanson; David Sidorsky; Melvin Sembler; Dave K. McCurdy; Billy Burden; Neil H. Offen; Bruce Bent; James P. Kelly, III; Diana T. McGuffie; Zachary Snyder;
Sam Gejdenson; Father Robert A. Sirico; Johanna Nesseth; Thomas Posey; Richard Pipes; Allen M. Taylor, Esq.; Jen Hanson Mueller; Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze; Therese Shaheen; Peter R. Rosenblatt; Pamela Burress; Young-Ho Park; Martin Boles; Douglas W. Kmiec, Esq.; Patrick B. McGuigan; Beverly Sprewer;
Robert S. Gelbard; Mark Skousen; Robin Niblett; Richard W. Rahn; Dennis Prager; Howard Teicher; Lavern Harber; Joseph Spindler; Wilson H. Taylor; Raymond J. Tanter; Dale Burroughs; Charles A. Parlato; Alyssa Bonk; Kris W. Kobach; Paul McHale; Michael Stein;
Bronislaw Geremek; W. Cleon Skousen; Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr.; Melissa Raphael; Tom Rose; Fran Townsend; Robert Harber; Lt. Gen. Ted G. Stroup, Jr.; Amy Thoma; Edmond Alphandéry; James Art Burroughs; Andrei A. Piontkovsky; John Stewart Bryan, III; Harvey C. Koch, Jr.; Jerry McKeehan; Merryl Tisch;
Carl Samuel Gershman; Jeff Sleete; E. Stanley O'Neal; Rob Roper; Jano Rosebiani; Michelle van Cleave; Sam Hardage; Maj. Gen. Larry TaylorR; Graham Walker; Akbar Atri; Daniel Farrell Burton, Jr.; Steuart L. Pittman; Ronald Cami; Donald Kochan; Ken McKim; Jonathan P. Torop;
Lt. Gen. Buster C. Glosson; Albert W. Small; William G. Parrett; Frank M. Sands, Sr.; Tashbih Sayyed; Troy Wade; Sara Hardman; Kenneth R. Timmerman; Peter J. Wallison; H. E. Jose Maria Aznar; M. William Butler; Ernest Preeg; Marc Cenedella; David B. Kopel; Emanuel McLittle; Akin Unver;
Andre Glucksmann; Elizabeth Small; Erik R. Peterson; Julie Schwan; Natan Sharansky; Rep. Curt Weldon; Hank Harkins; Jacques Torczyner; William H. Walton; Mark Benson; Sandra L. Butler; Ronald Radosh; John W. Childs; Harry J. F. Korrell; Sheryl Meade; Gina Vailes;
William L. Walton; Ilan Berman; James Miller Byne, III; Diane Reed; Rep. Chris Chocola; Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman; Dana Meese; Barbi Weinberg; Henry Wendt; Barry M. Blechman; Adolfo Calero; Ian M. Rolland; Maj. F. Andy Messing, Jr.; Eric Werner; Kathleen Melonakos; Margaret Weiss;

2010-11-17T20:23:00.005-06:00

the whats, whys, and wherefores

Melissa Bean Concedes To Tea Party Favorite Joe Walsh

the whats and wherefores leave a bit to be desired, but hopefully you know the whys, been waiting for a headline like that for four years

2010-11-08T20:23:00.005-06:00

still waiting

to see who wins, cus either way, the district loses

for how much i can't stand republicans (and i can't, at all), i can't stand bean that much more

no, i didn't want joe "i believe in intellectual property rights" walsh to win, i just didn't ever want to see melissa "i wouldn't pass up an opportunity to fellate a bankster" bean be reelected

2010-10-23T18:25:00.008-05:00

leaks or truths that should be known ??

are we a free country of informed citizens allowed to make our own decisions based on known facts, or are we wee little children that should be shielded from things that put our actions in a bad light ??

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told the BBC that if abuse by the Iraqi security forces was witnessed, or reports of it were received, US military personnel were instructed to inform their commanders.

"And at the appropriate level that information would then be shared with the Iraqi authorities and the military for them to take action."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11611319

“No High Contracting Party shall be allowed to absolve itself or any other High Contracting Party of any liability incurred by itself or by another High Contracting Party in respect of breaches referred to in the preceding Article”

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH241.txt

if we witness it, we should report it to the appropriate authorites

it is perported that it was reported up the chain of command, if the people @ the top (think where trickle down starts) didn't do anything, they should be prosecuted for war crimes, bushco or obama

just saying

and don't be a rascist, sexist, homophobic authoritarian fascist and vote republican (or for anyone named bean) on the 2nd, please

2010-10-19T20:33:00.007-05:00

voting republican

http://www.americablog.com/2010/10/video-elect-willfully-ignorant.html

if you do, it's because you're too stupid to understand the above link and deserve the continued dismantling of the american way of life

and voting for bean in the 8th is even worse

green, independant, third party only *

* quinn for governor, franks for state representative, are the only democrats worthy of your vote

2010-08-21T23:06:00.002-05:00

the tamper proof seals were still intact

any questions ??

from here:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7998

2010-06-13T17:27:00.003-05:00

the worst of the worst

http://static1.firedoglake.com/28/files/2010/06/100526-Odaini.pdf

this should also clear up the difference between unclassified and redacted

2010-06-13T15:36:00.006-05:00

just to be clear

if we actually had a 'liberal meadea', this would have been on the front page of your local paper

In an essay titled “The Rising Tide of Global Protest Against Casino Capitalism,” Henry Giroux compares the Greek protest movement to the American movement (or lack there of), and basically concludes that it boils down to the fact that most Americans are politically illiterate and are largely unaware of what is happening to them due to mainstream media propaganda...

http://daviddegraw.org/2010/06/a-fire-in-the-master%E2%80%99s-house-is-set%E2%80%A6-audio/

As a population, we have been intensely propagandized daily since birth. Generally speaking, our critical thinking skills and attention to deeper political and economic issues are almost non-existent. It seems that as long as the US mainstream media keeps pumping out propaganda saying that the economy is getting better, and rarely reports on the austerity measures that are being rolled out in states across the country, the millions of Americans already suffering in isolation will just keep suffering in passive silence, believing in the propagated delusion and false hope that things will be improving soon...

also, while were on the subject

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_warning_from_noam_chomsky_on_the_threat_of_elites_20100607

(from Steve in L.A. from here:

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003303.html)

too, also

http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4

2010-06-07T20:42:00.001-05:00

if he just put it under the label slightly

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/7/873604/-Nuermberg-Diary,-A-Historical-Review-and-Assurance-of-American-Ethics

people might have gotten the joke

2010-05-29T16:28:00.004-05:00

remember, they hate us for our freedoms

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/world/asia/30drone.html?hp

evidently the freedom to invade, occupy, and fire missiles at the wrong targets from "inaccurate and unprofessional" drone operators, but don't worry, they "intend[] to reduce the chances of similar events"

not end or stop, just reduce

this isn't helping either

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/29/kafka/index.html

2010-05-20T16:51:00.010-05:00

end the war [updated]

that, of course, was then

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/98305-dems-prepare-to-pass-war-spending-measure-without-gop-support

this, of course, is now, see the difference ??

[bonus if you remember the 'everything in the budget, no more supplimentals' thingy]

update

[double plus good bonus if you remember that 'rejection of the Bush Administration's attempt to create a legal black hole' thingy, too, also, in addition to]

2010-05-16T09:29:00.002-05:00

remember to get your two minutes of hate on

http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2010/05/toward-the-manhole-toward-the-drum.html

it's the 'right' thing to do

2010-05-09T19:49:00.010-05:00

the first thing obama can do on monday [updated]

is fire his attorney general

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/meet-press-ag-eric-holder-says-he-wan

[update]

and of course, does something else instead

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/08/kagan

2010-05-01T06:48:00.018-05:00

para salin [updated] [again]

how's that drill baby drill slangy, over-simplification of large, complex, things workin' out for ya ??

(photo credit above: u.s. coast guard)

[update]

(photo credit below: m.s.paint screenshot of a movie)

[again]

a word is worth a thousand pictures

and yes, i blame obama for not telling bp to go fuck themselves and taking over on day three, we're now at day 35...

2010-04-17T20:04:00.004-05:00

what coulda been

"The OECD rates Canada's banks as the safest in the world - the United States comes in fortieth, two places behind Botswana."

....

Meanwhile, up in Canada, now with the world's safest banks, they didn't de-regulate their industry, didn't lower the credit standards for new loans, and certainly fought tooth and nail for every last manufacturing job in their country. And guess what? In the last six years, while the average U.S. income fell behind the total rate of inflation, Canadian incomes have gone up at more than twice our national rate. And Canada's government did not have to bail out one single bank.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/02/19/1981953/if-our-grandparents-could-see.html

it's been a year and a half and nothing has been done

the republicans are threatening to filibuster any re-regulation, or at least water it down, of course w/the help of the democrats, to render it effectively meaningless

oh whell, it could be worse

2010-04-15T10:58:00.004-05:00

only pursuant to a warrant

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/15/doj/index.html

what constitution ??

2010-04-08T15:54:00.007-05:00

wake up

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1953-the-accomodationists-memo-to-liberals-on-the-white-house-death-warrants.html

and no, the republicans aren't any better, they're much worse, vote out any incumbant

(congress as a whole, regardless of what party is in charge, have a less than 20% apporval rating, yet 85%-95% of all that run for reeelction, win)

(oh, and the itmfa tag now applies to obama, also, too)

2010-03-27T20:16:00.011-05:00

3rd party and independent contestants only from this point forward

i've been a loyal voting democrat for 24 years, that stops now

i'm not a racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, bent on selling fear duplicative condescending asshat capable of cognitive dissonance explaining away hypocrisy, so i can't be a tea-bagging republican

i'm not a authoritarian corporatist sell-out either, so i can't be a spineless democrat

3rd party and independent contestants only from this point forward

2010-03-16T07:23:00.002-05:00

HCR as presently written

that would be a no

it will cost more than advertised and do less than expected, as any bill coming from congress for the past 30 years has done

the republicans are right, start over: only this time, have a medicare buy-in as the main element, disengage the linking of health-care with employment, end the anti-trust exclusion, and completly remove the no-negotiation-on-prescription-drug-prices aspect of medicare part d

if someone says that is not “politically feasible”, it only means that others have given more money to vote the other way

your, and this country's, best interest are not being addressed, don't expect otherwise

2010-03-10T15:46:00.002-06:00

yeah, those consitutional protections were getting mighty bothersome

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/a-detention-bill-you-ought-to-read-more-carefully/37116/

2010-03-04T07:01:00.003-06:00

meet the new boss [updated]

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2010/03/isildurs-bane.html

worse than the old boss

[also, too:]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/16/obama/index.html

[too, also]

http://news.antiwar.com/2010/02/03/blair-us-govt-can-kill-citizens-overseas-as-part-of-defined-policy/

2010-02-20T22:18:00.003-06:00

in your name

http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100217k.cfm

do not question why

see

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/02/justice-department-will-not-punish-yoo.html

and

http://insideoutthebeltway.blogspot.com/2010/02/heads-i-win-tales-you-lose.html

and

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7061069.ece

2010-02-10T20:33:00.003-06:00

The following seven paragraphs have been redacted

[It was reported that a new series of interviews was conducted by the United States authorities prior to 17 May 2001 as part of a new strategy designed by an expert interviewer.

v) It was reported that at some stage during that further interview process by the United States authorities, BM had been intentionally subjected to continuous sleep deprivation. The effects of the sleep deprivation were carefully observed.

vi) It was reported that combined with the sleep deprivation, threats and inducements were made to him. His fears of being removed from United States custody and “disappearing” were played upon.

vii) It was reported that the stress brought about by these deliberate tactics was increased by him being shackled in his interviews

viii) It was clear not only from the reports of the content of the interviews but also from the report that he was being kept under self-harm observation, that the inter views were having a marked effect upon him and causing him significant mental stress and suffering.

ix) We regret to have to conclude that the reports provide to the SyS made clear to anyone reading them that BM was being subjected to the treatment that we have described and the effect upon him of that intentional treatment.

x) The treatment reported, if had been administered on behalf of the United Kingdom, would clearly have been in breach of the undertakings given by the United Kingdom in 1972. Although it is not necessary for us to categorise the treatment reported, it could readily be contended to be at the very least cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities]"

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&id=21722320

from

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7021603.ece

2010-02-01T07:13:00.010-06:00

imagine

your representative was one of the 67% of republicans who almost created a constitutional crisis by voting yes on the "Act for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo" (Conyers voted no, Kucinich, Paul didn't vote)

your representative was one of the 90% of republicans who wanted to restrict your first amendment speech rights by voting yes on the "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States" (Conyers, Kucinich, Paul voted no)

your representative was one of the 92% of republicans who wanted to restrict your fourth amendment privacy rights by voting yes on the "USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act" (Conyers, Kucinich, Paul voted no)

your representative was one of the 87% of republicans who wanted to extend the wrongs of NAFTA by voting yes on the "Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act" (Conyers, Kucinich, Paul voted no)

your representative was one of the 92% of republicans who wanted to declare a belligerence backed up by other people's sons and daughters by voting yes on the "Declaring that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror, the struggle to protect freedom from the terrorist adversary" (Conyers, Kucinich, Paul voted no)

your representative was one of the 94% of republicans who wanted to remove your habeas corpus rights by voting yes on the "Military Commissions Act" (Conyers, Kucinich, Paul voted no)

your representative was one of the 96% of republicans who wanted to fund unlimited wars not bound by any conditions by voting yes on the "Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007" (Conyers, Kucinich, Paul voted no)

your representative was one of the 92% of republicans who wanted to restrict your fourth amendment privacy rights even more by voting yes on the "Protect America Act" (Conyers, Kucinich, voted no, Paul didn't vote)

your representative was one of the 88% of republicans who wanted to extend the wrongs of NAFTA and CAFTA by voting yes on the "United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement" (Conyers, Kucinich, voted no, Paul didn't vote)

your representative was one of the 94% of republicans who wanted to restrict your fourth amendment privacy rights even more by voting yes on the "FISA Amendments Act of 2008" (Conyers, Kucinich, voted no, Paul didn't vote)

your representative was one of the 46% of republicans who wanted to have banks that were to big to fail get bigger by voting yes on the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" (Conyers, Kucinich, Paul voted no, the republicans weren't wrong on everything, just most things)

but, your democratic representative voted yes on the same votes and others like them

your representative was one of the people trying to stop real reform to the biggest financial crisis to this this country in 80 years

no one else ran to primary the incumbent

i'd image that you'd create this graphic:

2010-01-29T07:10:00.005-06:00

voting locations

for the february 2nd, 2010 primary

cook county
http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/pollinglocations/Pages/default.aspx

lake county
http://www.lakecountyil.gov/CountyClerk/VoterServices/WheresMyVotingSite.htm

mchenry county
http://www.co.mchenry.il.us/departments/countyclerk/pdfDocs/PDF%20Docs/POLLING02022010.pdf (pdf)

please vote, please pull a democratic ballot, please write in my name, jonathan farnick, when you get to the 8th district race

many thanks

to the 1786 people who gave me the courtesy of signing my nominating petitions in 2007 and 2009
to the thousands of others that we talked to about the issue of representation of this district
to the thousands of other doors we knocked on when you were not home, sorry we missed you
to the people who helped to collect those signatures
(i was not on the ballot in each subsequent year's election, as i needed 125-150 more signatures each time)

2010-01-23T21:53:00.002-06:00

one would hope

that the 'states secret' privilege would be abolished as it usually is meant to hide embarrassing/illegal things our government did

maybe great britain will do the same

http://www.atlargely.com/atlargely/2010/01/70year-gag-on-kelly-death-evidence-dr-david-kelly.html

or not

2010-01-22T19:02:00.000-06:00

it was one year ago today

the commander-in-chief said guantánamo was going away

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006407

2010-01-21T20:28:00.017-06:00

phucque [updated] [again]

http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/01/analysis-the-personhood-of-corporations/

since they are people [artificial ones at that], did they have no rights until their 18th year of existence ?? were they barred from being able to write laws in the house until their 25th ?? in the senate in their 30th year ?? have they not been able to throw their two cents into presidential elections until after 35 ?? is the average lifespan of an artificial construct 79 years ??

it would only be an equal fate that they should wait until those years have passed, that this should only begin to be a problem after the year 2035 a.d.

or, fix it tomorrow by abiding by the supreme court decision, leaving the 1st amendment alone, and adding one word to the 14th

Section 1. All [natural] persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof...

[update]

for those wondering, the given definition of 'activist judge' that some on the right throw around is a judge who goes against precedent, who overrules settled law, who votes against the will of the people, who decides inconsistantly with our founders origional intent

this ruling overrules two previous supreme court decisions, invalidates numerous federal and state laws going back to 1907, gives free speech rights to artificial entities that didn't get 'personhood' until 1886, and allows for foreign owned corporations or their wholly-owned domestic subsidiaries to weigh in on domestic elections

like i said, phucque

[again]

see tool, also

http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/01/22/wait-can-foreign-companies-now-spend-on-us-political-elections/

2010-01-10T10:10:00.030-06:00

from the League of Women Voters Candidate Forum held today [updated]

[due to a frozen fuel injector, i could not make it to the forum on Sunday, my apologies to all involved,,this post will be kept on top and periodically updated w/new content,,i've purposefully not put in links in this post (save the ones where i quoted someone else) as i'm following the lead of my father: when i was growing up, i used to ask him how to spell a word and he said, look it up, i ask that you do the same; most all of the content here can be found using the google or the various links under 'frequent reads' on the right of this page]

I would like to thank to the League of Women Voters of Lake County and the Daily Herald for holding and the Grayslake Community High School District #127 for hosting this forum and those present today that will report back to their family, friends, and coworkers that could not make it here, so that they too can make an informed decision in the upcoming election.

My name is Jonathan Farnick, an 18 year resident of Illinois who moved to Woodstock and the 8th district 8 years ago. My wife Melissa, who is a nurse working at a non-profit faculty foundation in the city, and I have been together for 21 years and this month will celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. Together, we have a 17 year old son, Dylan, who is a senior at Woodstock Public High School. We share our home with three wonderful German Shepherd dogs. My full time job since 2002 has been as a computer consultant. For the previous four years I worked at various Kraft Foods facilities in the area and for the immediate past four years at UOP, a division of Honeywell, located in Des Plaines. I don't do the design or development, the manufacturing or delivery, the management or direction of the company, but I make sure that the tools the employees use for their various jobs are in functional form, and would do the same in Washington. We're not sent to Congress to do your work, but make sure of a safe and functional framework for individuals and business to thrive in their own chosen lives and professions. Thru the wonderful machinations of the electoral process in Illinois, I am again a write-in candidate on the Democratic ballot for the Congressional Representative in Congress for the 8th District. I've never before held public office.

I am running for this seat as I've come to the conclusion that our present representative has a proven record of helping pass some of the worst pieces of legislation since she went to Washington and continues to do so to this day. An earlier Congress passed NAFTA. If you derive your income from dividends from the corporations that saved money by moving jobs offshore, all's well, if you used to have one of those jobs, not so much. Instead of addressing the problems of that legislation, they doubled down and passed CAFTA, by a one vote margin in the House. If enough people who had good paying jobs lose them, you might get into a situation where mortgages around the country could go into default and it is my contention that this was one of the mitigating factors in the credit crisis we are still fighting thru (the other being fundamentally no enforcement of existing regulation of the credit market). There's been plenty of critical comment on the earlier enaction of the Patriot Act and how the freedoms and liberties that our men and women are ostensibly fighting for, take a back seat to perceived protection, it's renewal in 2005 was passed, again, by a one vote margin in the House. Ben Franklin would not be proud. The previous administration was found to be wiretapping Americans without a court order. Instead of investigating those allegations, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that blocked any investigation and gave immunity to those involved. In 1215 the concept of habeas corpus was enshrined into law. The King then, or our Government now, can arrest anyone they want, but they have to allow for that person to have their day in court, that they have the right to defend themselves of the charges leveled against them. With the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, it stated that "No person may invoke the Geneva Conventions or any protocols thereto in any habeas corpus or other civil action or proceeding to which the United States...is a party". In 2008, the Supreme Court found in Boumediene v. Bush that the MCA constituted an unconstitutional encroachment of habeas corpus rights. We should not hope that bad laws passed by Congress get overruled in the future. They shouldn't have been passed in the first place.

I will not be spending my days on 'K' Street or my nights on 'C' Street. I will not and have not accepted any money from any one for any reason. I want your vote, not your money. I have not taken a dime from any Financial Services companies. I have not taken a dime from any Energy Concerns. I have not taken a dime from any Telecommunications Providers. I have not taken a dime from any Military or Prison or Media or Intelligence or Security Industrial Complex.

There have never been any advertisements on this web site or calls for contributions or a "Donate Here" button. The concept of “politically feasible” only means that others have given more money, better luck next time. That has to stop. Drafting otherwise good legislation that includes obvious deal-killers means a NO vote. I will not vote for legislation that benefits the few at the expense of everyone else and say this is the best we can get, deal with it. We need to take the money out of politics, I will vote for any and all reasonable campaign finance reform and advocate for public financing of elections. The interests of liberal or Democratic minded donors to people on my side of the aisle, or conservative or Republican minded donors to the challengers in this race, could come into conflict between those special interests and lobbyists and the constituents we'd be elected to represent. That conflict or any hint of impropriety will not be an issue with me. The bills we'd be voting on should be weighed on the basis of constitutionality, necessity, and whether it benefits the county, the state of Illinois, and the people of the 8th district, not who gave the most money to our respective campaigns. My voting record would reflect the likes of Rep. Ron Paul and his respect for the Constitution and Rep. Dennis Kucinich and his respect for the people who live under it. If they should split on an issue, I’d seek council with the likes of Rep. John Conyers. I'd put the interests of labor before capital and the interests of the shoppers at Wal-Mart before the owners of it. Show me a Republican who wants lower taxes and a smaller government, and I’ll show you a conservative who doesn’t derive most of their income thru a GSA number and a government contract.

I would like to see a real public option and/or an expansion of Medicare that would allow people to freely join into it. At the very least, allow Rep. Kucinich's exception to ERISA to let states to set up their own on a state-by-state basis. The public option would put an elected, accountable public servant charged with the delivery of care in between you and your doctor instead of an unelected, unaccountable private corporation bureaucrat charged with stopping the delivery of care to make more of a profit for their employer and potentially a bonus for themselves if done right. Passing legislation like the Terry Schiavo bill would put the government between you and your doctor. Removing the profit motive that limits the delivery of care and the anti-trust exemption of insurance companies would not. Allowing reimportation of drugs would lower the cost to the consumer. Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices would lower the cost to the taxpayer.

The business of war is the massive redistribution of wealth to politically connected defense contractors. I will vote no on any bill containing language that continues to fund the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Or new wars in Iran. Or Yemen. Or North Korea. The interests of this country are benefitted by helping the Afghanis and others. Not by bombing them into submission. The people fighting us overseas dislike us for what we do, not who we are. They dislike us for our occupations of their lands and of our support for dictators in countries in the area, not for our freedoms. al-Qa'ida did not remove your habeas corpus protections. Congress did. The Taliban did not allow the Government to read your email and listen in to your phone calls. Congress did. Ansar al-Islam did not create National Security Letters. Congress did. Do not listen to people who say that they hate us for our liberties, because those same people are the ones who are taking them away from you. Finding out why they have issue with our actions and addressing that is what needs to be done. Eviscerating the Bill of Rights and invading those far off countries are not.

The republicans will tell you the answer to every problem is lowering taxes. Conservatives on the radio, TV, and in print incessantly talk of President Reagan’s tax cuts in the early eighties and how revenue to the government went up. What they conveniently omit is all the tax bills he signed into law afterwards. They'll tell you of the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (ERTA) and how one of the provisions in it dropped the top income tax rates from 70% to 50%, and that magically, without any other actions, revenues to the Treasury increased. But what he did was to shift the existing tax burden from the wealthy to the rest of the country. Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) was the biggest tax increase between 1968 and 2006, it in part increased the employer's Federal Unemployment Tax wage base and tax rate. The Highway Revenue Act of 1982 temporarily increased gasoline excise tax from 4 cents to 9 cents. The Social Security Amendments of 1983 accelerated scheduled increases in Social Security payroll tax rate, instituted taxation of some Social Security benefits and it raised self-employed OASDHI rate to combined employee-employer rate. The Railroad Retirement Revenue Act of 1983 added $1.2 billion. The Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 reduced tax benefits for property leased by tax-exempt entities and temporarily extended telephone excise tax. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 permanently increased cigarette excise tax to 16 cents per pack. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 added $2.4 billion. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 repealed the investment tax credit; limited deduction for non-business interest; repealed the second earner deduction; limited passive losses; repealed sales tax deduction for individuals. The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 added $600 million. The Continuing Resolution for 1987 added $2.8 billion. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 temporarily extended telephone excise tax and eliminated ESOP estate tax deduction loophole. The Continuing Resolution for 1988 added $2 billion. The total of all these added $132.7 billion in new personal and business taxes, increased existing taxes, or removed certain credits or deductions.

The taxes on high income earners went down, but the taxes on everyone else went up. Many of these things what Congress did with these and other bills were appropriately designed to hopefully simplify and close the many loopholes in the tax code and lower some taxes in general, and I'm not opposed to these things, but do not say, lowering taxes increases revenue. All eight of the major tax bills enacted between 1993 and 2006 have reduced revenue to the federal government, and our ever increasing deficit is the result. Medicare Part D, passed by a Republican controlled Congress and signed into law by a Republican President, added $17.2 Trillion to our long-term liabilities. As a result of all these things (unrestrained spending, ever increasing tax cuts), we are now over $12 trillion in debt. Lowering some spending and raising some taxes will be necessary to address this. I'll vote to hold spending at present or reduced levels of every single aspect of existing Government functions except for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

We do need some tax relief. For those that need it. For example, Social Security was started in 1937 (taxed at a rate of 1% up to $3,000 of income; now 6.2% up to $106,800) and Medicare was started in 1966 (at .35% up to $6,600; now 1.45% to an unlimited income amount). The Social Security and Medicare tax rate only went up a combined 1.38% (from 6.13% to 7.51%) during President Reagan’s tenure, but because of the increase in the amount subject to tax (from $25,900 in the last year of Carter to $45,000 the last year of Reagan), if you earned enough to be subjected to the maximum, the average increase of the amounts paid for just these two taxes went up an average of 10.05% a year. Every year. I'd like to see the Social Security Tax (OASDI) lowered from 6.2% to 5% on income up to $125,000 (on both the employee and employer) and that same rate newly applicable to all income over $250,000. It would lower payroll taxes of every single person making under $250,000 a year and make the tax as a whole less regressive.

We do need to tax increases. For those that can afford it. 99.5% of all households (those that now make $413,300 or less) didn’t have income gains from 1979 to 2005 that kept up with the rate of inflation. Most everyone lost ground, even if their income went up. The middle class had NO income gain in the entire decade that just passed. The wealthiest .01% had income gains that doubled the rate of inflation. The haves and the have mores did very well. Those that have the most and make the most can afford to pay more. Everyone else is tapped. Taxing people who make ten times or more what the average worker will still leave them with an extraordinary income, but taxing the benefits of the average workers whose income hasn’t kept up with inflation is not the way to go. In 1979, the top .01% of income earners made 101 times the average income (middle quintile). In 2005 it was 484 times that amount. All the productivity gains have gone straight to the top. Taxing them more is not unreasonable. Remember, we are $12 trillion in debt. For every dollar not collected by, say the estate tax – applicable to 1 out of 500 families – means everyone else’s share will be that much more.

Congress has not been reflective of what this country wants. We wanted an end to the war in Iraq; we got a surge of troops instead. We wanted to impose windfall taxes on the extreme profits of the oil companies; we gave them tax breaks instead. We wanted the banks that were too big to fail to be broken up; we gave them money to get bigger instead. We wanted a strong consumer protection agency to look after our interests; we ended up with a bill that has virtually no enforcement mechanisms instead, many of the most productive elements that could have been in it were left on the House Banking sub-committee floor, they never even made it into the bill.

Thank you for your time and consideration, and again, I’m Jonathan Farnick, write-in candidate for the 8th Congressional district on the Democratic ballot for the upcoming February 2nd primary.
jonathanfarnick@comcast.net

*******

Reasons you should vote for a Democrat for this office and not a Republican or Rep. Bean:

The nonpartisan National Journal ranked house members
http://www.nationaljournal.com/voteratings/house/lib.htm?o1=lib_composite&o2=desc
Rep. Bean is ranked #210 of 230 Democratic members, please do not for a minute believe she is a 'liberal'.

Rep. Bean has taken more money from Wall Street interests than almost any other Democratic member of the House in Congress
http://www.opensecrets.org/races/indus.php?id=IL08&cycle=2010

Various votes over the years by Congress:

North American Free Trade Agreement of 1993:
58% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, 76% of Republicans voted for it

Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002:
57% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, 96% of Republicans voted for it

Central America Free Trade Agreement of 2005:
89% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, Rep. Bean joined the 85% of Republicans who voted for it

USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005:
82% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, Rep. Bean joined the 92% of Republicans who voted for it

Act for the relief of the parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo of 2005:
76% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, Rep. Bean joined the 67% of Republicans who voted for it

Estate Tax and Extension of Tax Relief Act on 2006:
84% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, Rep. Bean joined the 86% of Republicans who voted for it

Military Commissions Act of 2006:
82% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, Rep. Bean joined the 95% of Republicans who voted for it

FISA Amendments Act of 2008
55% of the Democrats in Congress voted against it, Rep. Bean joined the 94% of Republicans who voted for it

*******

Don't forget the naughts, because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. You want less regulation? You got less regulation. Open markets? Wide open. An illusion of security in place of rights? Hey, presto. You want unlimited power given to military contractors so they can kick butt and take names? Man, we handed out boots and pencils by the thousands. Everything, everything, that ever showed up on a drooled-over right wing wish list got implemented -- with a side order of Freedom Fries.

They will try to disown it, and God knows if I was responsible for this mess I'd be disowning it, too. But the truth is that the conservatives got everything they wanted in the decade just past, everything that they've claimed for forty years would make America "great again". They didn't fart around with any "red dog Republicans." They rolled over their moderates and implemented a conservative dream.

What did we get for it? We got an economy in ruins, a government in massive debt, unending war, and the repudiation of the world. There's no doubt that Republicans want you to forget the last decade, because if you remember... if you remember when you went down to the water hole and were jumped by every lunacy that ever emerged from the wet dreams of Grover Norquist and Dick Cheney, well, it's not likely that you'd give them a chance to do it again.

Because they will. Given half a chance -- less than half -- they'll do it again, only worse. Because that's the way conservatism works. Remember when the only answer to every economic problem was "cut taxes?" We have a surplus. Good, let's cut taxes. We have a deficit. Hey, cut taxes even more! That little motto was unchanging even when was clear that the tax cuts were increasing the burden on everyone but a wealthy few. That's just a subset of the great conservative battle whine which is now and forever "we didn't go far enough." If deregulation led to a crash, it's because we didn't deregulate enough. If the wars aren't won, it's because we haven't started enough wars. If there are people still clinging to their rights, it's because we haven't done enough to make them afraid.

Forget the naughts, and you'll forget that conservatives had another chance to prove all their ideas, and that their ideas utterly and completely failed. Again.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-he-said-by-digby-in-fascinating.html

Is the GOP in a worse position than a year ago? On the surface, no, it isn’t. Once we get past the surface, however, the same stagnant, intellectually bankrupt, unimaginative party that brought our country to its current predicament is still there and has not changed in any meaningful way in the last three years. Why would it? The party’s leaders have no clue, its pundits are reveling in the luxury of opposition, and its rank-and-file has been whipped into such a state of agitation over their own impotence that they cannot see that they are led by people who will ignore and abuse them the moment they are no longer needed to win elections. It may seem that the GOP has derailed the majority’s agenda, but in reality it is the GOP that went off the rails long ago and has yet to begin to recover.

http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/01/28/derailed/

The 8th district may have been 'conservative' in years past, but has consistently moved 'blue' over the past 4 election cycles, if only we had a representative in Congress that reflected that:

in 2002, 404 precincts went for the Republican candidate, 82 for the Democrat
in 2004, 169 precincts went for the Republican candidate, 324 for the Democrat
in 2006, 67 precincts went for the Republican candidate, 376 for the Democrat
in 2008, 60 precincts went for the Republican candidate, 416 for the Democrat

2009-12-26T12:38:00.006-06:00

psa [updated]

january 5th is the last day for registering or transfering your registration if you moved, verify your status

http://www.elections.state.il.us/VotingInformation/RegistrationLookup.aspx

i will not be on the ballot

i have not changed my opposition to ms bean, there will be no other person to vote for listed on the ballot for in the primary next month

i am a registered write-in for the IL-08 seat in the democratic primary in cook, lake, and mchenry counties, just put in "jonathan farnick" when you get to this race

[too, also]

as to why i'm doing this:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/199701-Something-s-Not-Right-Here

video of segment @ link, partial transcript:

BILL MOYERS: But members of Congress, they take the same contributions from the same insurance and real estate and drug industry. You look at the list of contributions to members of Congress- they are as saddled by obligations as the President, right?

ROBERT KUTTNER: Well, some are and some aren't. I mean, the House, at least, just passed a bill that's over $100 billion to extend unemployment, extend insurance benefits in the interim prevent lay-offs at the level of state and local government. Now, you have a group of Democrats, and this is the real pity of it. The Democrats are supposed to be the party of the average person. You have the so-called New Democrats who are really the party of Wall Street. And then you have the Blue Dogs who are fiscal conservatives. And if you look at what happened in Barney Frank's committee to the financial reform bill, he's a pretty good liberal, he ended up looking like a complete stooge for industry because in order to get a bill out of his own committee, he had to appease the 15 New Democrats, so-called, who were put on that committee mostly by Rahm Emanuel when he was the-

MATT TAIBBI: Sort of as a means to raise money.

ROBERT KUTTNER: As a means to raise money. So Melissa Bean, who's a two-term Democratic Congressman ends up being the power broker because she controls 15 votes on Barney Frank's committee of what she's going to allow out of committee and what she isn't.

BILL MOYERS: Why does she control 15 votes?

ROBERT KUTTNER: Because there are 15 New Dems, and this is the centrist caucus that particularly specializes in taking money from the financial industry.

BILL MOYERS: You call them centrist, don't you mean corporate Democrats? I mean-

ROBERT KUTTNER: Corporate, yes, sorry. That's too kind. They're corporate Democrats who were put on that committee because Rahm Emanuel felt that there's no better place than the House Financial Services Committee if you want to shake down Wall Street, to put it bluntly.

MATT TAIBBI: There's a great example of Melissa Bean's power was when the banks wanted to pass an amendment into the bill that would have prevented the states from making their own tougher financial regulatory rules. And Bean put through this amendment that basically said that the federal government would have purview over all these laws. And it passed. And this was the kind of thing that the banks wanted. They just go to Melissa Bean, she puts that amendment in there and it and it gets through

2009-12-15T10:17:00.012-06:00

reason 4,872,327 why i'm not a republican [updated][again]

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/14/illegals-in-my-yard/

reason 3 why i'm not a 'conservative'

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

[update]

which is not to say that the democratic party is doing any better

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/12/citigroups-massive-tax-break.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

[too, also]

the number 1 reason regarding republicans

I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/aaron-schock-unambiguously-protorture.html

Cassel: If the President deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11488.htm

because, remember what that weak-kneed apologist, president reagan said about torture:

"The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today.

The core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on so-called 'universal jurisdiction.' Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1079/is_n2137_v88/ai_6742034/
(above link from http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7098)

if only

2009-12-08T07:23:00.003-06:00

to the memory of mr. mojo risin'

he would have turned sixty-six today

if the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite - W. Blake

he just wanted to be the door

[fixed a typo and a simple subtraction issue]

2009-12-03T06:29:00.004-06:00

officially got kicked off the ballot yesterday

be sure to thank some local democratic party members for giving you no choice in the matter of the upcoming election

democracy is better served when there is only one person to vote for, yes ??

as an aside, the same people are trying to kick of the green party candidate (see the Obj. Pending next to his name)

(by the by, I submitted write-in forms to the Cook and Lake county clerk’s offices yesterday, today will drop one off @ the McHenry shop – I had little chance of winning on the ballot, will have even less now – viva la democracia)

2009-11-16T06:02:00.015-06:00

maybe this'll help

The Honorable Melissa Bean
432 Cannon House Office Building
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Representative:

I am writing to you as I have no other recourse at this time. I am a constituent in your district and have tried to get on the primary ballot to be the lone challenger for a race in the upcoming Democratic election.

On November 9th, 2009, a local Democratic committeeman, Gregory Ferritto, challenged my petitions. Should he prevail, there will be no challenger in the Democratic primary.

I have a 100% assurance that I will not be able to overturn the challenge to my petitions: I needed eight hundred ninety and collected eight hundred ninety. The only way the voters will have a choice in the primary is that Mr. Ferritto withdraws his challenge.

To be clear, Mr. Ferritto has every right to challenge, that's not being debated, it's just that, here in Illinois, election law allows for one person to be the deciding vote in a choice that the district’s residents should have.

As the Florida Supreme Court has previously said regarding votes in elections: "We consistently have adhered to the principle that the will of the people is the paramount consideration…The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy. Technical statutory requirements must not be exalted over the substance of this right."

I'm asking for your help to try to persuade him into dropping his objection, as I said, I have no other option, other than to withdraw my petitions, and the result is Democratic voters of having no choice in the primary.

There is a hearing about the matter tentatively set for Tuesday, November 17, 2009, so seeing to this quickly would be appreciated. I only received the notice on Friday the 13th, sorry for the short notice.

Thank you for your time and consideration of this matter.

Jonathan Farnick
600 W Jackson St
Woodstock, IL 60098

or not

2009-11-09T21:51:00.016-06:00

you'll vote for who you're told to

the residents of the 8th now won't have a choice

a pro-choice*, pro-war authoritarian corporatist vs. an anti-choice, pro-war authoritarian corporatist, will be your only choices in the november election

be sure to thank a local democratic committee-person for the options

* this may change if the stupak amendment (in any form) is in the final health care reform bill and the democratic incumbent votes for it

2009-11-03T07:29:00.005-06:00

what fourth amendment [updated]

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/11/hbc-90006019

by the same logic, if you mail a letter, and, in the course of it's travels, moves from usps vehicles to a private third party for transport, this "'private' information is actually being held by third-party private companies", and could therefore be subject to inspection without court order

[too, also]

there's been persistant talk of privatizing the post office*, should the transport of mail from box to box be in private hands, does the abilty to search widen as well ??

* something that should never happen

2009-10-30T16:18:00.002-05:00

3200, as presently written

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/29/house-health-care-bill-a-death-sentence-for-my-fellow-breast-cancer-survivors/

that would be a no

2009-10-25T08:37:00.000-05:00

this pisses me off *

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25innocence.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=innocence%20project&st=cse

* title and link from trifecta

2009-10-25T07:33:00.003-05:00

to those circulating petitions

please return them to me no later than saturday the 31st by mail or sunday the 1st by person, will be needing to deliver them to springfield the following monday

thanks in advance

2009-10-22T20:56:00.002-05:00

a battle of wits with an unarmed man *

* title and link from http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/alan-grayson-v-paul-broun

2009-10-21T07:29:00.003-05:00

one of the most in-depth, cogent articles on afghanistan in recent memory

http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2009/10/hey-joe-where-you-doing-with-that-gun.html#

via digby, of course

2009-10-15T19:54:00.007-05:00

just a reminder, it's 2009 [updated][again]

updated

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/10/interracial_couple_denied_marriage_license_in_la.php?ref=fpblg

my wife and i would have had to go to elsewhere to get married if we lived in his fine parrish

[update]

on a somewhat related topic

from http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/10/a-fathers-son.html

what's so hard to understand of the concept of two consenting adults getting married ??

[too, also]

http://rawstory.com/2009/11/louisiana-justice-refused-interracial-marriage-resigns/

2009-10-10T10:30:00.002-05:00

when will people realize that guantanamo is a ticking time bomb

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/a-truly-shocking-guantana_b_305227.html

and we need to put it out

2009-10-10T07:50:00.015-05:00

there's two schools of thought [updated]

1. campaign contributions follow votes
2. votes follow campaign contributions

not saying what class this is from*, but here's the test results:

data from http://www.opensecrets.org/races/indus.php?id=IL08&cycle=2010

the only issue i have is her voting record and the general issue of ~~legalized bribery~~ no publicly financed elections

for comparison, here's a graphical representation of the election results from 2002-2008, by precinct, blue if 50+1 for the democrat, red if 50+1 went for the republican

my contention is that we could be better represented

*cF, ceF, ceFs, ceFta, ceFtasm

[update] the 1st picture above is with new data from same linked source, below is the original as posted on 10/10/2009, special trade contractors and misc business have been replaced by electric utilities and retail sales in the list; also adjusted formatting of pictures

2009-10-07T20:20:00.003-05:00

birinj

all out now

updated

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1854-squeeze-play-militarists-and-media-close-off-alternatives-to-war.html

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1851-on-the-unintelligent-uses-of-intelligence-.html

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/10/fools-for-empire-ii.html

some quotes from the third link

Acquiescence in Executive war, [Fulbright] wrote, comes from the belief that the government possesses secret information that gives it special insight in determining policy. Not only was this questionable, but major policy decisions turn "not upon available facts but upon judgment," with which policy-makers are no better endowed than the intelligent citizen. Congress and citizens can judge "whether the massive deployment and destruction of their men and wealth seem to serve the overall interests as a nation."

and

Here's some news: you aren't a kid any longer. And Mommy and Daddy, and the intelligence agencies (with extraordinarily rare exceptions, and even they don't matter in the end), don't have "special, secret knowledge" that you can't access. You're an adult, and you can make these judgments as well as anyone else. If you are conscientious and honest, you can make far better judgments. So be an adult, and do it.

If any of you reading this feels insulted by my formulation, you might ask yourself why that is. I've stated facts; if the facts insult you, the error is not mine. I now state the issue in this form because, as attested to by the many essays I've written on these subjects, I've been making certain of these arguments for years. But the wall of resistance to these simple truths erected and diligently maintained by most people is massive and seemingly impregnable. If I anger a few people enough, perhaps they'll begin to question the lies they've unquestioningly accepted for so long.

do not believe, for one second what you are told, even from me
look it up, find out for yourself, make up your own mind

2009-09-23T11:28:00.003-05:00

suffices to say, my rep voted for this

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/09/23/grayson/index.html

2009-09-21T07:13:00.004-05:00

just think, if it wasn't passed in the first place...

http://feingold.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=317927

from here

http://www.pruningshears.us/pruning-shears/2009/9/20/this-week-in-tyranny.html

it may take a while, this has been languishing for over two years

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR01416:@@@P

2009-09-15T12:23:00.004-05:00

yet even more old boss, new boss stuff

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/09/hbc-90005704

and

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/15/bagram/index.html

too

http://www.ianwelsh.net/meet-the-new-boss/

2009-09-14T06:13:00.007-05:00

speaking truth to power

written:
excerpted here http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=26781
full article here http://www.fff.org/comment/com0909b.asp

verbal:
three years ago http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879#

living under occupation:
"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog," yelled al-Zaidi in Arabic as he threw his first shoe towards the U.S. president. "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq," he shouted as he threw his second shoe. (from the wiki)

2009-09-13T12:18:00.003-05:00

having fun with subtitles

from c&l

2009-09-08T21:32:00.003-05:00

h.r.676

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7401

related update:

yet another:

2009-09-01T08:05:00.008-05:00

punctum

punctus contra punctum

1st http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7384 via http://crooksandliars.com/mike-finnigan/mikes-blog-roundup-286

2nd http://coto2.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/caution-satire-in-video/ via (lost the link)

2009-08-28T06:40:00.003-05:00

greenwald updates

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/27/democrats/index.html

an older post

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/14/accountability/

2009-08-24T07:30:00.003-05:00

anarchy in the uk

two recent posts

http://sideshow.me.uk/saug09.htm#08211920
http://sideshow.me.uk/saug09.htm#08231328

2009-08-08T08:29:00.003-05:00

more old boss, new boss stuff

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/07/hbc-90005308?redirect=55878807

2009-08-06T06:55:00.005-05:00

there's a debate going on

on one hand, there are those advocating for single payer
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/452493/a_real_win_for_single_payer_advocates

on the other, there are those that don't
http://codycodester.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-is-pulling-strings-for-these.html

2009-08-01T19:55:00.003-05:00

this

http://www.locksoflove.org/

makes this

no longer operative

on an almost unrelated note, signature collection starts in four days

2009-07-26T19:28:00.003-05:00

it's all good

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/26/climate-change-obama-administration#

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/7/26/83453/2524

2009-07-03T20:52:00.004-05:00

the other half of "to or from" is "non-government systems"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070202771.html

almost unrelated, i think the term he's looking for is: bought and sold

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/secrets-of-the-wsj/

both from the sideshow

2009-07-01T20:03:00.001-05:00

not cool

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2009/07/hoping-for-mass-slaughter-of-american.html

2009-06-30T21:57:00.001-05:00

cool

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/30/supcoruling_senate/

2009-06-23T08:06:00.005-05:00

remember

part 1
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-convo-with-gitmo-detainee-lawyer-ive.html

part 2
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/06/part-2-gitmo-detainee-obama-has-perhaps.html

this is happening in OUR name, do NOT question why, should we be hit again

via avedon

2009-06-22T20:56:00.007-05:00

to the memory of tyra, a four-year-old german shepherd working dog

you brought to our family great companionship and to my wife great joy in schutzhund training and ring sports, we'll miss you

2009-06-13T20:50:00.002-05:00

a wee bit busy @ work

so there has been light posting as of late

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/002987.html

more old boss/new boss stchuff

2009-05-25T15:03:00.012-05:00

that was then

(52) To any man whom we have deprived or dispossessed of lands, castles, liberties, or rights, without the lawful judgement of his equals, we will at once restore these. In cases of dispute the matter shall be resolved by the judgement of the twenty-five barons referred to below in the clause for securing the peace (§ 61)...

...

(61) SINCE WE HAVE GRANTED ALL THESE THINGS for God, for the better ordering of our kingdom, and to allay the discord that has arisen between us and our barons, and since we desire that they shall be enjoyed in their entirety, with lasting strength, for ever, we give and grant to the barons the following security:

The barons shall elect twenty-five of their number to keep, and cause to be observed with all their might, the peace and liberties granted and confirmed to them by this charter...

http://www.usconstitution.net/magna.html

this is now

preventative detention

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/25/obama/index.html

would have thought habeas corpus was settled law by now, many have fought and died to have these liberties and the rule of law be held secure, close gitmo (pdf) and charge them in a court of law

2009-05-22T21:53:00.003-05:00

they invoke rule 22

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=21569

2009-05-21T14:35:00.001-05:00

they ask questions

http://www.atlargely.com/atlargely/2009/05/how-does-33-billion-vanish.html

2009-05-19T11:20:00.001-05:00

they make commentary

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/19/cafferty.bush.administration/

2009-05-17T10:21:00.001-05:00

they write letters

http://open.salon.com/blog/rickyb/2009/05/16/letter_to_president_obama

oh, and today is

2009-05-10T18:00:00.001-05:00

hey mama

2009-05-09T21:09:00.003-05:00

his team

was what got me interested in professional basketball, sorry to hear

2009-05-06T10:34:00.005-05:00

from a past republican administration

Part XI
Concluding Observations
The underlying facts of Iran/contra are that, regardless of criminality, President Reagan, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, and the director of central intelligence and their necessary assistants committed themselves, however reluctantly, to two programs contrary to congressional policy and contrary to national policy. They skirted the law, some of them broke the law, and almost all of them tried to cover up the President's willful activities...

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/part_xi.htm

from the previous republican administration

Part XI
Concluding Observations
The underlying facts of the build-up to the Iraq war are that, regardless of criminality, President Bush, the President of Vice Cheney, the national security advisor, the secretary of defense, and the director of central intelligence and their necessary assistants committed themselves, however reluctantly, to programs contrary to congressional policy and contrary to national policy. They skirted the law, some of them broke the law, and almost all of them tried to cover up the President's willful activities...

http:// (hopefully there will be a link one day)

2009-05-03T17:43:00.003-05:00

the replacements

no, no

just sayin'

2009-04-26T14:17:00.007-05:00

teh stupid, it does burn (updated)

Should Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger and their team have been held criminally or civilly liable for dereliction of duty 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, given that they knowingly allowed Osama bin Laden to flee Sudan for sanctuary in Afghanistan? *

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042303476.html

from morrison's other watering hole

* it's a legitimate question because of the inclusion of the cavuto

(update)

"The pressure from the anti-American left rattled him and he opened Pandora's box," said Gingrich.

...

Indeed, it probably never occurred to Gingrich to consider how ridiculous these kinds of attacks are. If you support torture, you're pro-America; if you support the rule of law, you're anti-America. If you believe war crimes should be ignored, you're pro-America; if you believe in accountability, you're anti-America.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_04/017922.php

2009-04-24T11:10:00.003-05:00

good news

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7094

now, if we could only get her, and mike back on here locally....

2009-04-23T08:12:00.016-05:00

mr smith (updated)

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Shep_Smith_We_do_not_fking_0423.html

the one exception to the rule*

* rule being, every host on fox is a lying sycophant

(update)

compare the above with remarks from the stupidest person on air @ nbc

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/30353898#30353898

to paraphrase chris hayes on olbermann, whenever you debate the merits of torture, the sadists win

and from mr black

Deep Thought

The United States doesn't torture, but anyone who opposes torture is un-American.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2009/04/deep-thought_23.html

more from the booman

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/4/24/95047/8872

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2009/4/23/20210/9052

and because some on the right will not accept anything that wasn't championed by ronald reagan:

The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against torture and other inhuman treatment or punishment. Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent practice unfortunately still prevalent in the world today.

The core provisions of the Convention establish a regime for international cooperation in the criminal prosecution of torturers relying on so-called "universal jurisdiction." Each State Party is required either to prosecute torturers who are found in its territory or to extradite them to other countries for prosecution.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1079/is_n2137_v88/ai_6742034/

why does ronnie hate america ??

from andrew sullivan via brad's blog

some commentary from someone who would know

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23soufan.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1240752276-eCKb9HRru9tYQ/uS4dZepQ

2009-04-21T19:41:00.009-05:00

more light reading

http://washingtonindependent.com/39692/doj-sits-on-secret-2007-cia-interrogation-memo

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/eo-13440.htm

Something More For Eric Holder To Chew On
by Tim F.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=20287

Inquiry Into the Treatment of Detainees In U.S. Custody
Report of the Committee on Armed Services United States Senate

http://armed-services.senate.gov/Publications/Detainee%20Report%20Final_April%2022%202009.pdf (15meg .PDF)

Jesus. That really gives new meaning to the famous Pogo line: We have met the enemy, and he is us.

JGabriel

2009-04-19T16:12:00.006-05:00

to reiterate

Art. 147. Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly.

Art. 148. No High Contracting Party shall be allowed to absolve itself or any other High Contracting Party of any liability incurred by itself or by another High Contracting Party in respect of breaches referred to in the preceding Article

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH241.txt

This morning on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said the White House did not support prosecuting -- not only CIA officers who tortured, believing in "good faith" what they were doing was legal -- but would also not support the prosecution of "those who devised the [interrogations/torture] policy."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/19/721803/-More-than-Nuremberg:-Update:-Rahm-Says-No-Prosecutions

if they continue on this path, can they themselves be brought up on war crimes charges ??

also

http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1743-tortured-logic-obama-writes-off-old-crimes-while-promoting-new-outrages.html

2009-04-19T11:18:00.004-05:00

i drink coffee

but have some tea

http://www.thomhartmann.com/2009/04/15/the-real-boston-tea-party-was-against-the-wal-mart-of-the-1770s/

the above and below from avadon

2009-04-18T00:26:00.003-05:00

riddle me this

how can you reconcile this subhead:

"a netowrk of america's next generation of classical liberal leaders"

and have a executive council made up of:

Clint Bolick
Alliance for School Choice

Leonard Liggio
Atlas Economic Research Foundation

T. Kenneth Cribb
Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Edwin Meese III
Ronald Reagan Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation

Gene Meyer
The Federalist Society

Barbara Ledeen
Founder, Independent Women’s Forum

Randal C. Teague
The Fund for American Studies

Grover Norquist
Americans for Tax Reform

Ron Robinson
Young America’s Foundation

neo-conservative is more accurately neo-liberal,,so classical-liberal is more accurately blatantly-conservative ??

just asking

2009-04-17T07:41:00.014-05:00

strange democracy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OETwbVBPI1U

hey obama, congress

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/countdown-special-comment-future-us-depend

investigation and prosecution of war crimes are not an option, you are REQUIRED to do so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLq7Aqd_H7g&NR=1

i'm sure the meadea will be all over it, though

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=20062

beware of the dos prompt

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious

In an interview in London in April 2008, I remind F.B.I. director Robert Mueller of the attacks planned against targets on American soil since 9/11 that his agents have disrupted: for example, a plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and another to wreak mayhem at army recruiting centers and synagogues in and around Torrance, California. These and other homegrown conspiracies were foiled by regular police work. The F.B.I. learned of the Fort Dix plot from a Circuit City store where a technician raised the alarm when asked to copy firearms-training videos, while the Torrance cell was rounded up when cops probed the backgrounds of two of its members after they allegedly robbed a local gas station.

I ask Mueller: So far as he is aware, have any attacks on America been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through what the administration still calls “enhanced techniques”?

“I’m really reluctant to answer that,” Mueller says. He pauses, looks at an aide, and then says quietly, declining to elaborate: “I don’t believe that has been the case.”

read the above (http://culture11.com/blogs/theconfabulum/2008/12/24/fbi-director-enhanced-interrogation-hasnt-prevented-attacks/) then watch the below

The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to recently declassified Justice Department memos.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66895.html

if anyone tells you torture works, they are lying

and from that far left smear site

...That's what the conservative media consists of: partisans offering inconsistent, insincere, and nonsensical arguments on behalf of torture and the depraved thugs who authorized it.

do read the whole thing

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200904240025?f=h_column

2009-04-12T21:09:00.004-05:00

a request of congress to block every single thing the obama administraiton may want until they do something about this

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90004767

and the same goes regarding the habeas bullshit too

2009-04-12T17:39:00.002-05:00

of course, i have to work that saturday

http://www.noprivatearmies.org/take_action.html

2009-04-06T17:01:00.013-05:00

as a reminder [updated]

for the primary, i voted for kucinich; in the general, i voted for mckinney

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/memos/index.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/06/obama/index.html
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/08/criticism/index.html

i did not know he wouldn't be any better than UU., i only thought that he might not be, and would be pleasantly suprised if i was proven wrong
there is the consolation that i'm not dissapointed and was not fooled again
there is some hope, he has just under four years to make amends

or make it worse

http://openleft.com/diary/12758/the-case-for-distrust

[update]

wondering if rep. bean will ever join in on this

H.R. 984: 2009-2010 State Secret Protection Act of 2009

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-984

via Michael

also, regarding habeas corpus

The bottom line is this: Current procedures under the CSRT are such that a perfectly innocent individual could be held and could not rebut the Government's case and has no way of proving his innocence.

I would like somebody in this Chamber, somebody in this Government, to tell me why this is necessary. I do not want to hear that this is a new world and we face a new kind of enemy. I know that. . . . But as a parent, I can also imagine the terror I would feel if one of my family members were rounded up in the middle of the night and sent to Guantanamo without even getting one chance to ask why they were being held and being able to prove their innocence...

But what is avoidable is refusing to ever allow our legal system to correct these mistakes. By giving suspects a chance--even one chance--to challenge the terms of their detention in court, to have a judge confirm that the Government has detained the right person for the right suspicions, we could solve this problem without harming our efforts in the war on terror one bit...

Most of us have been willing to make some sacrifices because we know that, in the end, it helps to make us safer. But restricting somebody's right to challenge their imprisonment indefinitely is not going to make us safer. In fact, recent evidence shows it is probably making us less safe.

and

When I am president we won’t work in secret to avoid honoring our laws and Constitution

man, if only that person got elected president

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/11/bagram/index.html

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/4674

oh wait, he did

more here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-08/the-cia-torture-cover-up/

and here:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90004714

2009-04-05T21:37:00.000-05:00

'cus it needs to be said every once and a while

2009-04-05T09:01:00.004-05:00

is he talking about geneva convention violations by us

“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.”

or something some other country did, just wondering

2009-04-03T23:03:00.001-05:00

just words on a screen

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/watch.html

from quentin

2009-04-01T07:05:00.004-05:00

more like this

EXCLUSIVE: LEMMON Aid Act of 2009
Deal reached, vote expected today
Joe Wilbert and Tom Scully, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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The Lemmon Aid Act of 2009 (H.R. 714), introduced by Rep. Bean (D-IL), and co-sponsored by 37 other members, is expected to be introduced and voted on in the House today. Early expectations are that it will narrowly pass and move to a contentious vote in the Senate later this week. The Bill, the Lentigo Educational Medical MobilizatiON Act, encourages preventative measures and increased medical education, tries to rectify the shortcomings of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 by removing the donut hold in Part D, allowing the government to bargain for lower drugs prices in conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs, and not allowing unelected accountants making life and death medical decisions. It will force portability for workers to take their existing coverage from one employer, thru unemployment, to a future job, if that plan is more expensive or offers less coverage. One of the biggest provisions of the bill is the ban of blocking coverage of preexisting conditions. The insurers must cover all people who apply, pay their premiums, and need medical assistance...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/01/lemmon-aid-2009/

2009-03-28T11:43:00.010-05:00

to some democrats, most republicans, and esp. the former president of vice and UU.

by English singer Lily Allen, on her second album It's Not Me, It's You, track 8, "Fuck You"

Look inside,
Look inside your tiny mind
Now look a bit harder
Cause we're so uninspired,
so sick and tired of all the
hatred you harbor

So you say
It's not okay to be gay
Well I think you're just evil
You're just some racist who
can't tie my laces
Your point of view is medieval

Fuck you (Fuck you)
Fuck you very, very much
Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch

Fuck you (Fuck You)
Fuck you very, very much
Cause your words don't translate
And it's getting quite late
So please don't stay in touch

Do you get,
Do you get a little kick out of
being slow minded?
You want to be like your father
It's approval your after
Well that's not how you find it

Do you,
Do you really enjoy living a
life that's so hateful?
Cause there's a hole where
your soul should be
Your losing control of it and
it's really distasteful

Fuck you (Fuck You)
Fuck you very, very much
Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch

Fuck you (Fuck You)
Fuck you very, very much
Cause your words don't
translate and it's getting
quite late
So please don't stay in touch

Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you,
Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you,
Fuck yooooou

You say
You think we need to go to war
well you're already in one
Cause it's people like you
that need to get slew
No one wants your opinion

Fuck you (Fuck You)
Fuck you very, very much
Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch

Fuck you (Fuck You)
Fuck you very, very much
Cause your words don't
translate and it's getting
quite late
So please don't stay in touch

Fuck you, Fuck you
Fuck you, Fuck you
Fuck you, Fuck you