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Privacy gets lip service, nothing more.Actually, it's covered under the 9th too.
It's also in an inconspicuous place. Article 1, Section 8, paragraph 7.
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
Given that privacy is such an explicit right in regards to mail, how come the courts just don't get it when it comes to the modern day equivalent? I guess it's because privacy in America died in 1967 when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of search warrants for "mere evidence" overturning the 1886 Boyd decision. (A brief history of the Privacy Protection Act)
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Re:Savage Nation
Listen to the Savage Nation (a radio program)
You misspelled "Wiener Nation".
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2002 "Reliable Sources" interview was better
If you want a good interview of Jon Stewart lambasting the press, watch how he tells off Howard Kurtz in his November 2, 2002 interview on "Reliable Sources". Now I'd like a video of that.
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This isn't the first time
Karl Rove once spent a lot of time and money buying up anti-Bush domain names, then redirecting them to the Bush webpage.
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Re:Propaganda-Family TiesIf you research the history of the Carlyle Group, Halliburton, Kellog-Brown-Root, and other companies, you see that they have been in business with the Saudis for decades. I think that this is a rather strong FINANCIAL link.
http://www.nyse.com/cgi-bin/ny_charts?sym=HAL
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20020709Page.html
http://www.nyse.com/cgi-bin/ny_charts?sym=UDI
The linkage between the Carlyle Group (TCG) and United Defense is known. UDI and Halliburton have both made oodles of money in the last year (see the charts on the bottom of the NYSE links). And it seems that Bush I is an owner of TCG.
And if that's not enough, check out Senator Bob Graham of Florida's book, Intelligence Matters, which is discussed here:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9584265.htm
It seems that the Bush-Bin Laden connection goes beyond simply what Michael Moore understates. Graham, an obsessive compulsive about detail who documents his life on a daily basis, alleges that the Bush administration stopped an investigation of two Saudis who funded the 9/11 hijackers and then had them flew out of the country. What's more, Graham alleges that this fact was among the 27 pages blacked out of the congressional inquiry report on 9/11.
Whether or not you like Moore or his spin, there are a lot of questions that he asks in F911 that need to be answered before Bush gets into office again. Just my two cents.
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Re:Vaporware and voting don't mix.
This year Georgia is going to be the next Florida disaster. Cathy Cox is a Democrat and she's in it with the Bush GOP folks.
There's nothing like having the Secretary of State in your back pocket if you're Diebold. Afterall, in 2000, it was the Secretary of State of Florida (Katherine Harris) that decided to halt the recounts and declared Bush the winner.
For the record, Katherine Harris is now a US Senator.
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while(person == vote) { winner = Gore; }
Even discounting the illegally purged 57,000 FL 2000 voters, mostly for Gore, Gore won Florida. Where are your cited facts to the contrary? When will you get off this treadmill of pure denial, and get with the facts? Why do you hate America?
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Largely true, except about Cheney.
What you said is largely true, except the part about Cheney not benefiting from his involvement with Halliburton, as mentioned above in the grandparent post: "Vice President Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton."
You didn't mention the alcholic personalities of Bush and Cheney. The grandparent post gave links to their DUI records. Basically, Republicans are, in general, more out of touch with their feelings than Democrats. So Republicans tend not to notice alcoholic personalities:- Absense of deep or sophisticated thinking (If anyone has any information about George W. Bush showing evidence of sophisticated thinking, please write to me.)
- Polarized thinking (Bush's "you are either with us or against us" is an example. Another example is his statement, "Look my job isn't to try to nuance. I think moral clarity is important... this is evil versus good.")
- Rigid thinking
- Lying (A June 18, 2002 article in Salon says, Losing the "trifecta" says, "It takes a brazen politician to make up a story that can be proven false and then to keep lying about it after being busted repeatedly." Also see the October 8, 2002 CounterPunch article, Bush's Leaps of Illogic Don't Answer People's Questions About War.
- Anger ("... why is Bush so eager to engage in violence and so incapable of explaining why?" See the Sept. 24, 2002 American Politics Journal article and Addiction, Brain Damage and the President -- "Dry Drunk" Syndrome and George W. Bush )
- Obsessive repetition (On August 7, during his "working vacation" at
his
Crawford, Texas, ranch, Bush used the word "home" six times in a minute of
conversation with reporters: "It's nice to be home
... This is my home ... It's good to be home ... This is where you come home ... This is my home," etc. In a five-minute speech later in the month, Bush mentioned values at least seven times and "neighbor" or "neighborliness" or "neighborly" six times. In a twenty-minute speech the next day he used "character" eleven times. -- Some of the examples here are drawn from a September 6, 2001 article in The Atlantic magazine, The Bumbling Communicator. Not only was Bush repetitive, he was lying. The article says, "Bush lived in the Texas governor's mansion and vacationed in swank resorts and at Kennebunkport before the campaign began.") - Inability to perceive the needs of others, inability to understand someone different from oneself
- Grandiosity, believing that one's own ideas are all-important. (Bush, and the oil and weapons people who support him, say the U.S. has the right to take military action before the adversary even has the capacity to attack.)
- Impatience ("If we wait for threats to fully materialize," President Bush said in a speech he gave at West Point, "we will have waited too long.")
- Incoherence. Things don't make sense in the mind of an alcoholic. An alcoholic's pattern of speech sometimes reflects his or her inner chaos.
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Re:Bush
That doesn't change the fact that his college GPA was in the mid-C to low-B range...
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Re:a blastocyst is NOT a human being!
Our legislators seriously need to get a clue. But you already knew that
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If you didn't here's a link to copy of our president's transcript to prove it: here -
Re:Last thing we need
Sure about that? See "Why Republicans and Democrats Don't Need to Worry About Libertarians"
I'm no fan of Republicrats or Democans myself, but let's not forget that politics itself is corrupting.