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Facts bitches!! Accept them, or hand in your geek card NOW!

http://www.abc15.com/news/nati...

http://www.judicialwatch.org/b...

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.c...

http://thinkprogress.org/immig...

http://www.theblaze.com/storie...

I wonder where Microsoft learned that they can ignore what the law says about handing over emails.

LA illegally pays judges additional monies beyond their salary, so why is it a surprise that the judges consistently rule in favor of the LA government?

Oh sure they have a wonderful system for searching what they want to search and can't be troubled to search what they should be able to but don't want to..

http://www.judicialwatch.org/p...
"Department of Justice attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service told Judicial Watch on Friday that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search. "

The saying "Laws are for the little people" used to be funny, now, not so much.

.... last time this happened .... J Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover was the "last time?" Skipping over a lot there buddy.

But then, one does have to reach far back into the cold war to find folks on the left treated like this.

MINARET and SHAMROCK? The '60s and '40s respectively. Things have changed pal; it's not about pinkos any more. It's about anyone with the temerity to listen to talk radio, talk about the Constitution, or buy a gun.

Pretty much. I'm sure people are going to froth at the mouth and all the rest until you post stories like this.

You mean let him express his views that only benefit his rainbow push coalition and his own endeavors? He's an extortionist, plain and simple with a long history of condemning businesses over racial issues and once they pay him off, he shuts up and supports them. Funny how that works. There's an excellent book on the subject.

Frankly, this "timing is a big fucking conspiracy" card is tedious, which we also see played e.g. by the NRA when tighter gun control laws are proposed after a mass shooting incident. Same thing with AGW, after a destructive hurricane or storm. There is never an "ideal time" to report study results. People who disagree should respond to the substance of the study, including its methodologies and perhaps on the legitimacy of the data. Not "gee why alla sudden so much interest in this seems funny doncha think?"

Since you bring it up, check out the recent FOIA documents obtained by Judicial Watch regarding Mayor Bloomberg's organizations actions in the hours following the Sandy Hook shooting. Specifically, look for this email, sent just after midnight, where they discuss what legislation to try to ram through in the aftermath. There's a good analysis here. Turns out, there really are conspiracies by gun control and anti-drug organizations to "leverage" high-visibility events to "surf in blood".

The White House (this and previous administrations) has claimed in court that their own metadata of who visited the WH is far too sensitive to release or even share with Congress http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/09/wh-releases-more-visitor-logs-forced-by-jw-lawsuit/a.

If White House vistor logs must be hidden for "national security" http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-stonewalls-release-of-white-house-visitor-logs then of course my metadata can be equally as worthy of protection.

But you know who won't have to go through the grope lines? People from Saudi Arabia. You know, the country that produced produced 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.If you had read the article

-1, illiterate. If you had read the article you linked, you would have noted that there is no mention of eliminating any TSA screening for Saudi nationals. What the article actually talks about is reciprocity in the Global Entry problem which allows self-service at Immigration (not TSA screening). Eligibility for that program is mainly about technical features of a country's passport.

They FAA is shutting down 149 control towers, supposedly as part of saving $637 million due to the sequester, at the same time Obama is asking for $500 million for the corrupt oligarchy running the Palestinian Authority.

But they still seem to be able to fund the TSA's security theater. But you know who won't have to go through the grope lines? People from Saudi Arabia. You know, the country that produced produced 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers.

And of course, there are the billions in green crony subsidies.

Your tax dollars at work...

The push to ban guns has nothing to do with safety and crime. It's all about clearing out any ability to resist sweeping governmental changes that would be met with armed resistance from gun owners and sane people who love freedom.

Not for the chickenshits. They just want to feel that warm, fuzzy "safe" feeling they get from things like watching kids get molested by perverts at the airport or having them arrested for talking about Hello Kitty toys.

SEC staff were found doing the same thing. Lawyers – senior level people – pulling down 220k+/year were amassing porn archives. Madoff was still a market maker running an options exchange while this was going on.

More recently the IT managers in Los Angeles have had to tell city 'workers' to stop streaming the Olympics due to network congestion.

Well.. there is a nice system in the USA for fixing that without killing, that many, people.....

1. Create a police-state where everyone is afraid of the police. Especially the 'non-wanted groups'.

2. Erode the Judicial system and allow even more corrupt people to control it.
http://boingboing.net/2009/02/02/judges-jailed-for-ta.html
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/03/house-impeaches-bribed-fed-judge/
http://medicolegal.tripod.com/govtcrime.htm
http://www.judiciaryreport.com/bribing_a_judge.htm

3. Convince people that taking a plea is in their best interest since otherwise they might face much harder punishments.. Even if they are innocent.. Thereby reducing the number of votes from non-wanted groups.
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/section/category/voting_after_criminal_conviction/ (~5 million not allowed to vote!)

With a voter turnout of only 57% during presidential election years and 38% rest of the years it's quite easy to start influencing where it all will go.... Especially since lower-income families usually have a much higher rate of crime, and also a higher rate of taking pleas since they cannot afford lawyers..

Ie what's been happening is that the power to influence the country is shifting upwards towards where the money is...

There are a few things a country never should be able to remove from a person.
- The right to vote.
- The right to privacy.
- The rights to a fair trial. Without the need of having money for a lawyer.
- The right to education for all children.

So, it's state governments that are achieving record-level deportations?

Ahem...

"The Obama Administration drastically inflated statistics to show that it has deported a record-high number of illegal immigrants with criminal records, according to federal data obtained by a nonprofit university group dedicated to researching the government.

The new documents reveal the figure is actually at an all-time low and rapidly decreasing, leaving the Obama Administration with egg on its face just weeks after bragging about removing an unprecedented number of criminal aliens. In mid-October, ObamaÃ(TM)s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director jubilantly announced that nearly 55% of the record 396,906 illegal immigrants deported in fiscal year 2011 were convicted of felonies or crimes.

The real figure is less than 15%, according to federal records obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research center that provides detailed information about the operation of hundreds of government agencies. The number of deported criminal aliens has been declining steadily throughout the past year, the TRAC analysis found, even though fiscal year 2010 had an already low level of 16.5%.

In the first quarter of the fiscal year (October - December 2010) 15.8 percent of deported illegal immigrants were charged with engaging in criminal activity, 15.1 percent during the second quarter (January - March 2011), 14.9 percent during the third quarter (April - June 2011), and finally 13.8 percent during the fourth quarter (July - September 2011). The average rate across the four quarters for FY 2011 was 14.9 percent, according to records obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

TRAC analyzed case-by-case records covering all proceedings filed in the nationÃ(TM)s immigration courts, which operate under the Justice DepartmentÃ(TM)s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). The total number of deportation proceedings for aliens with criminal records dropped from 40,500 in fiscal year 2010 to 33,763 in fiscal year 2011. The number of individuals removed for national security or terrorism decreased from 42 to 30 during the same period.

This certainly contradicts the administrationÃ(TM)s claims that itÃ(TM)s focusing on removing criminals while it grants backdoor amnesty to otherwise Ãoelaw-abidingà foreigners living in the U.S. illegally. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) even issued new guidelines ordering immigration agents to prioritize deporting convicted criminals and those who pose public safety and national security threats."

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/12/obama-admin-skews-deportation-figures/

Strat

I don't pay a lot of attention to the trivialities of partisan, campaign rhetoric. I'm more interested in facts, such as the Obama administration's record deportation of undocumented immigrants. [washingtonpost.com]

The Obama Administration drastically inflated statistics to show that it has deported a record-high number of illegal immigrants with criminal records, according to federal data obtained by a nonprofit university group dedicated to researching the government.

The new documents reveal the figure is actually at an all-time low and rapidly decreasing, leaving the Obama Administration with egg on its face just weeks after bragging about removing an unprecedented number of criminal aliens. In mid-October, Obamaâ(TM)s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director jubilantly announced that nearly 55% of the record 396,906 illegal immigrants deported in fiscal year 2011 were convicted of felonies or crimes.

The real figure is less than 15%, according to federal records obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research center that provides detailed information about the operation of hundreds of government agencies. The number of deported criminal aliens has been declining steadily throughout the past year, the TRAC analysis found, even though fiscal year 2010 had an already low level of 16.5%.

In the first quarter of the fiscal year (October - December 2010) 15.8 percent of deported illegal immigrants were charged with engaging in criminal activity, 15.1 percent during the second quarter (January - March 2011), 14.9 percent during the third quarter (April - June 2011), and finally 13.8 percent during the fourth quarter (July - September 2011). The average rate across the four quarters for FY 2011 was 14.9 percent, according to records obtained from the government through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

TRAC analyzed case-by-case records covering all proceedings filed in the nationâ(TM)s immigration courts, which operate under the Justice Departmentâ(TM)s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). The total number of deportation proceedings for aliens with criminal records dropped from 40,500 in fiscal year 2010 to 33,763 in fiscal year 2011. The number of individuals removed for national security or terrorism decreased from 42 to 30 during the same period.

This certainly contradicts the administrationâ(TM)s claims that itâ(TM)s focusing on removing criminals while it grants backdoor amnesty to otherwise âoelaw-abidingâ foreigners living in the U.S. illegally. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) even issued new guidelines ordering immigration agents to prioritize deporting convicted criminals and those who pose public safety and national security threats.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/12/obama-admin-skews-deportation-figures/

Oops?

Strat

They were not doing much about it before this. I live in Prince William Country in Northern VA. My county passed laws similar to what AZ did even before AZ, in fact AZ used some of our laws as a guide. A while ago, an illegal immigrant ran through a red light and killed a nun. He was charged with a DUI. The county had already turned over this illegal immigrant to ICE to be deported a year earlier because of a another DUI and he had been arrested several other times. ICE apparently did nothing and released him and he came right back. My county filed a FOIA request to find out what happened and why he was not deported. Finally months after the legal response time for a FOIA expired, the US Justice department finally responded to the county that they could not release any information about the case or the illegal immigrant "due to national security".

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/11/illegal-alien-center-jw-probe-guilty-murder/
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2011/03/16/DHS-Releases-Report-on-Illegal-Alien-Charged-With-Killing-Virginia-Nun-in-August-2010-Drunk-Driving-Incident

Not only did this person NOT get punished for the first DUI like an American citizen would, he returned and did it again. He had no license, no insurance, and obviously no responsibility to the society or community he was living in. Say want you want about being racist.. People that are here illegally have incentive to be careless. If they fk up, worst thing that happens is they have to go back to their home country (either forcefully or "hide" there voluntarily and start over. An American citizen does not have that option, he/she must pay for their crimes and be responsible for their actions. DUI, bankruptcies, taxes etc.. Illegal immigrants know the papers system backwards, frontwards, and sideways. They can get paperwork for anything and know how to game the system. Cousins and friends coming in as relatives or sons and daughters, passing around the same paperwork among many people, the list goes on. It will be interesting to see how many of them will be able to prove they came to the US as a child, graduated HS, and do not have a criminal record to meet Obamas new amnesty plan. My guess is just about every single one of them that can "pass" as those ages will be able to prove they meet those guidelines.

You overestimate americans. This is a country with significant opposition to HPV vaccination of youths because it removes a significant danger of premarital sex,

I think the opposition is to mandatory HPV vaccinations, something that, really, only Merck wants. They are so anxious to get it that they are even saying all boys should get it too. There are side effects to HPV vaccines - it's not just irrational fear or ignorance. In addition, the actual effectiveness of the vaccine is not as great as advertised. For actual prevention of cervical cancers, it's only about 17% effective.

I'm not sure I see the flaw.

TSA's job is to prevent passengers from bringing weapons onto the airplane. They have some successes and notable failures in doing this. Apple's job is to prevent malicious code from running on our iPhones and iPads and I'm sure they have some successes and failures.

What you're saying is that it's okay that the TSA might fail every now and again because the passengers will spot the malicious person and prevent him from performing his dastardly task. Of course, passengers tend to generate more false positives because they are not trained in security.

But if you want to go with this analogy, Android would be a better secure environment than iOS. Android has various tools that smart people can use to find malicious software So, to carry this into your analogy, using Android is like flying on airplane with a group of passengers who understand security and can spot the evildoer and warn others. iOS is like flying on an airplane where everybody says, "Oh, they made it through the TSA checkpoint. They must be okay."

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

"The FDA adverse event reports on the HPV vaccine read like a catalog of horrors. Any state or local government now beset by Merckâ(TM)s lobbying campaigns to mandate this HPV vaccine for young girls ought to take a look at these adverse health reports."
-Tom Fitton

On June 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug Gardasil. Gardasil is a vaccine against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) which is the primary cause of cervical cancer in women.

• Several state and local governments have proposed requiring the vaccine for school girls entering the 6th grade.
• Gardasil is approved for girls as young as nine years old, despite the fact that the youngest girls participating in clinical trials were 11-12 years old.
• A recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, also questioned the general effectiveness of Gardasil. Additionally, there has not been a chance to study long term side effects of the vaccine.

Judicial Watch, concerned about the rush to market and mandate a drug with possible serious adverse effects, filed its first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on May 9, 2007, and received 1,637 adverse event reports on May 15, 2007. These reports are submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and used by the FDA to monitor the safety of vaccines.

On August 20, 2007 Judicial Watch filed a request for updated adverse event reports and received 1,824 reports on September, 13 2007. Judicial Watch then filed a complaint against the FDA on October 3, 2007 for failing to fully respond to the May 9, 2007 FOIA request.

Judicial Watch has posted links to the adverse event reports below and continues to monitor VAERS reports submitted to the FDA in relation to Gardasil.

The case was closed in April 2010.

Special Reports

• Judicial Watch Special Report: Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records [1] - June 30, 2008
• Examining the FDA's HPV Vaccine Records - Appendices [2] - June 30, 2008

Documents Uncovered

• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from September 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010 [3]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2011 - April 30, 2011 [4]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2011 - September 15, 2011 [5]
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May, 2009 to September, 2010 [6] - September 28, 2010
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [7] - June 16, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from May 1, 2008 to May 15, 2009 [8] - May 15, 2009
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) serious effects report from January 1, 2008 to June 10, 2008 [9] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report System (VAERS) cumulative deaths report [10] - June 30, 2008
• Vaccine Adverse Effects Report

Agreed, puto. Check this out(even if it is C/BP and not TSA):

The U.S. Border Patrol agent, Marcos Gerardo Manzano Jr....operated an illicit business from...the underground room in his yard this week. In it were illegal immigrants, 61 grams of methamphetamine and drug packaging paraphernalia....

among the illegal aliens living in the agent’s home is a twice-deported felon who happens to be his dad... (apple doesn’t fall far from the tree; chip off the old block). The elder Manzano is currently a fugitive with a drug conviction. He has been deported twice to his native Mexico and junior has repeatedly lied to federal authorities by claiming he’s had no contact with pops...

n the last few years a number of Homeland Security officers—from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Border Patrol—have been criminally charged for taking bribes to help illegal immigrants and drugs enter the U.S...Among the government’s most embarrassing case is a Border Patrol agent named Oscar Ortiz who admitted smuggling 100 illegal immigrants into the country in his government vehicle. The punch line is that Ortiz is himself an illegal immigrant who used a false birth certificate to get his government job. Once he got sworn in, Ortiz charged Mexicans $300 to $2,000 a pop to sneak them in through a crossing near Tecate.

Slashdot only allows people with my karma rating to post twice in a 24-hour period, but I got some fake citizenship papers and fooled the motherfuckers. Viva La RAZA pendejos!

I head from their own lips

Typo of the week!

Plus, all the other stuff you said are good points too. It's been reported how most guns and bombs get past TSA screeners, so all terrorists have to do to blow up a plane it would seem is to send two or more.

[citation provided]

I don't know if Judicial Watch is considered a Right Wing site or not. Not that it matters as facts are non partisan. In other words, I don't give a rat's ass what site it comes from. If you can't counter the FACTS presented, STFU.

2 How does overspending on flights relate to hypocrisy?

As another reader pointed out:

My biggest complaint about Sarah and all the other "conservatives" is that they seem constitutionally incapable of recognizing their own hypocrisy... they've adopted self-delusion as a lifestyle, and it fits them well.

And the hypocrisy I was pointing out is your own. When Sarah Palin spends money, you're all over her. When I bring up Nancy Pelosi living like a queen on the tax payer dollar, you actually defend her.

And, BTW, you listed exactly zero examples of Sarah Palin wasting tax payer money. Sure, the McCain campaign gave her a make over, but the $100,000 in clothes went to charity after the campaign. Sure, when put a tanning bed in the governor's mansion... HER OWN tanning bed.

Still, don't let facts get in the way of your hatred.

It isn't in the constitution that the capital have bathrooms but it does, this falls under "necessary and proper". Congress is empowered to do things not explicitly listed in order to exercise one of their enumerated powers, this is called implied powers.

All government buildings need proper facilities in order for government workers to do their jobs. That makes it "necessary and proper". However, taking over health care or bailing out anything at all or subsidizing farmers or spending tax payer money to study grape seed genetics or any of other millions of government programs are neither necessary nor proper. But government has stuff it can and is supposed to do. Government can't really do the tasks spelled out for it to do in the Constitution if government employees are having to piss in a bucket!

And if "necessary and proper" covers everything, what was the point of the 10th Amendment? The 10 Amendment was written AFTER "necessary and proper". In other words, the Founders said after everything was written, "Hmmmm. I think some asshole might think the government has unlimited power because of the "necessary and proper" and commerce clauses. We better go ahead and spell it out because half the people are below average intelligence. We'll make it the 10th Amendment".

4 Do you have any point at all or was this just an excuse to insult someone on the other side you don't like? Free speech and all that so feel free but it is annoying to see posts like this that are not only off topic but fail to make any point at all.

The point was to show that your hatred of Sarah Palin and other conservatives are not based on fact or the reasons you list because you don't care when someone of the left does the exact same thing. It was to show that your hatred of Sarah Palin is about nothing other than the differences of opinion you have with her. Libs like you always talk how important it is to be a free thinker and to speak your mind and all, but as soon as someone says something you disagree with, they must be taken out. You will relentlessly attack conservatives like Palin and point out any single flaw she has to justify your raw hatred of someone with a different political view than yourself.

The hypocrisy is not of Sarah Palin. It is all yours.

his guy is a gw appointee. he owns part of a gop consulting firm. the republican party is paying him money. http://www.judicialwatch.org/judge/hudson-henry-e

They (being the gov) could just enforce current laws, and remove things like special order 40 in order to enforce immigration law.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/lapd-special-order-40

Currently the only thing any of you should be concerned about is the second amendment laws and how they are interpreted by state.

Yeah, those stupid liberal groups are just out to hodgepodge the truth again. All we did was violate 2 federal laws by not keeping records of our communications, and had insanely incompetent I.T. staff at this, the richest and most powerful country in the world. What a bunch of baloney. Just an honest mistake. Tens of millions of e-mails, big whoop. Wanna fight about it?

If this wasn't purely about politics, where were their fucking lawsuits when the Clinton-Gore administration lost emails?

LK

Funny. He keeps getting reelected with double-digit margins, despite propaganda like you put forth.

This probably has something to do with the fact that he actually has his people enforcing the law, and doesn't waste money coddling criminals. Given the amount of ridiculous benefits we see in most prisons in the US that make prison a "no-brainer" for large numbers of people (see here: people actually trying to get themselves thrown in jail), I'd say I like the idea of making prison as unpalatable a concept as possible.

Of course, this isn't unique to the US. The UK is having the same debate. They just don't also have to deal with a well-funded and ridiculous propaganda campaign based on "legalizing" foreign criminals who jump our borders and cause crime while also having the debate on what prisoners should, or shouldn't, get while incarcerated.

> Er, what's so wrong about voters voting for local sheriff?

Did you look at how they handled personal conflicts with/between their subordinates? Did you evaluate how good they were at managing budget and manpower allocations? Did you evaluate their connections to businesses and other organizations? Did you look at how the managed and achieved short term and long term goals internally and in coordination with other agencies?

In other words did you do a full evaluation of the sheriff as an executive in a management position with an employment record and job evaluation check?

Or did you just vote based on "tough on crime" and other public statements and a short paragraph biography designed not to offend anyone?

You can only vote on the sheriff so often. What happens if you make a mistake? How can you tell? Even in modern times corrupt sheriffs have been voted in and stayed in for some time.

> http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2007/nov/jail-corrupt-sheriff-who-served-senate

Voting does make it correct or you safe.

Also you are depending on a majority to make correct decisions. Time and again it has been shown a majority has no problem stamping on minority. Minorities need protection as well and your way does not guarantee justice for the minority. The southern US did vote to keep Slavery

Having oversight and public reporting makes sure the rules are followed and abuses don't happen. People need to see as much of the government process in public as possible to avoid getting a corrupt system. Then you only have to watch the very top to make sure the full process is open and can be evaluated.

A lot of those Californian proposition and measures were failures because they were not complete enough in evaluating their financial, environmental and social impact. This is an education failure in the election system.

About Bills/Propositions/Measures

Every one should have a one sentence subject. Nothing should be allowed in except for items with address that subject. Exception to omnibus bills which wrap up a whole bunch of things.
And every bill should contain all funding for implementing its issues.

Example: "This bill sets funding for private individuals for the restoration of damages from Hurricane X." Such a bill would not be allowed to contain funding to corporations or to anything in Alaska.
Example: "This bill will establish a state park at XXX". It is expected this will cost $100M a year or $2 per state tax bill. Such funding is part of the bill.

What is needed is a transparent system through the hierarchy then we just need to keep our fingers on the top.

Crikey did you even look at it? One of the broken promises listed had to do with transparency.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulings/promise-broken/

Which one are you talking about? The 5 day waiting period? Pfft... that's not about transparancy.

What about his promise that he wouldn't continue Bush's abuse of the state secrets privilege? Because he has ignored that.

Or maybe Biden was chosen for involvement in something that apparently just showed up on the Judicial Watch blog today.

Excerpt:

A major news agency[apparently a link to an ABC story in blog] points out that the vice presidential candidate's longtime advisor and campaign fundraiser, Chicago attorney Joseph Cari, was indicted in 2005 for helping the convicted Syrian fundraiser (Antoin Rezko) who bankrolled Obama's political career operate a massive kickback scheme.

Not that this necessarily means Biden was part of the scheme, but it certainly looks suspicious. Another in the looks suspiciousTM category is the fact that Biden's son is the DE AG.

What does any of this mean? Hell if I know, I'm not that interested in the two-sides-of-the-same-coin candidates. In any case, corruption seems to be an all too common unfortunate side effect of being involved in politics for a long time (being a career politician). There is certainly some truth to the oft quoted saying of Lord Acton(?) that power corrupts... etc. While it may not "be fair," saying one is corrupt simply because of being in a position of power rather goes with the territory, particularly when one doesn't have a clear record to the contrary, and more especially when they are associated in any way with questionable actions.

Just as an aside, like what appears to a fairly high percentage of /.ers, I personally don't care for either Obama or McCain and think they're both bad choices.

WTF?

Obama is not change. He's heavily for the welfare state, won't cut spending, has said he could support Real ID but only voted against it because the states lacked federal funding to implement it, voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act, and continues to fund the war.

He is not a Ron Paul replacement by any measure. He's even #8 on this list:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2007

For what that is worth. I'm sorry, but he sounds a lot like Clinton '92. Vague on specifics, big on "Hope" and "Change" and some call him a "Washington Outsider" (just like the last two president when entering).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKSfwfy0h8

http://www.usadaily.com/article.cfm?articleID=227844

The president and 20 year long friend of Ron Paul defended him. Ron Paul has also written a treatise about how to eliminate racism, which seems rather odd for someone who would be a racist.

Lew Rockwell and the Mises institute ARE NOT FRIENDS of Paul. You will find that they have been attacking Paul almost non-stop. Lew Rockwell was fired I believe. It was Lew and pals who orchestrated The New Republic release. Not exactly something you do to someone you support.

As far as your "extensive ties" go, I can find no such evidence other than some PO blogs and people thinking that Ron Paul supports them. There was one story in the USA Daily, but it was retracted on the basis that they could not find any credible sources to back it up. Other than that there doesn't appear to be any credible information.

The John Birch Society support Paul for his constitutional views. Other than one speech he gave (on constitutional principles no less), I don't find any other ties to the group. The same with the league of the south. They support him because of his views on the Constitution and states right.

I do not see any PAC money coming from these groups. Nor do I see Ron Paul actively endorsing or supporting these groups either. I don't see it in his congressional record, and certainly not in his public record. You would think that if what your saying is true, the mainstream media would have picked it up and utterly destroyed him with it.

But I suppose you want to make a leap from some of the crazies supporting Ron Paul to Ron Paul being a crazy himself. o_0

The only thing I've managed to find with any racism at all has been the newsletters. Everything else has been word-of-mouth or unsubstantiated, uncorraborative stories. How about something from real source or news outlet.

But since your so keen on on political wrong-doings and such, try this site http://www.judicialwatch.org/. Obama has quite a record. Another one for more recent statements is factcheck.org.

~X~

http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-releases-records-re-hillary-s-health-care-reform-plan-0

Now there is openness......

I'd be happy if she just retired and became a private citizen again.

FYI. She is a divisive candidate and the rightwingers have found their anti-saviour. She'll bring every wingnut out of the woodwork so they can have their lovefest of bashing Hillary.

900 FBI files is just a drop in the bucket compared to breaches of privacy committed by this administration, but I guess that's OK because it's Hillary. Her history as an unethical lawyer will come back to haunt her. And I'm not talking Whitewater. That dog don't hunt anymore. Just watch.

What part of "Non-Employee" directors is so confusing? The Board Members are -not- HP employees, which makes it all the worse.

Relating more to your point about the sanctity of the privacy of FBI backround checks so that people will continue to be candid in the future - have we found out yet who at the Clinton White House asked to peruse the FBI private background files of 900 people in the first Bush administation?

Have we found out yet who hired Craig Livingstone to be the White House chief of security?

http://www.judicialwatch.org/filegate.shtml

I look forward to 2008...

(How long can the media and the Democratic Party ignore Ms. Rodham-Clinton's membership on the Board of Directors of WalMart while Bill was Governor of Arkansas during the early days of Wal*mart?)

These videos still don't show a plane. There were other video tapes that were confiscated from a gas station and from a hotel on that same day. Where are those videos? Surely a camera somewhere around the pentagon actually got a shot of the plane. Isn't this meant to be a high-security building? If you can't detect a plane coming in, how are you going to detect intruders?

• during the first clip at exactly 1:26 you can see a small white nub enter from the right side of the clip
• during the second clip at exactly 0:24 you can see a small white blob enter from the right as well

The name Sibel Edmonds ring a bell? That's what the fascist government (who let 9-11 go down for political gain, that's right, there are serious lying murderous traitors in charge now) does with translators when they find out something they aren't supposed to. Check out her case.

This is what they do with their own cops when they get an inkling of what is really happening and try to actually do their jobs.

This is how a high level former prosecutor was treated when he tried to warn the government about an upcoming terror attack that he got wind of.

There's a TON more out there, I mean a TON. Freeking pages and pages of it.

I don't know what's up with this translation business, all I suspect is that there's a scam involved somehow given their track record so far. If it has *anything* to do with 9-11, terror, the mideast, etc, it's a big fat whopper lie. It's all about power, money, installing a police state full bore in the US, dominating the oil regions, advanced lucrative arms sales and whatnot. Haliburton and blackwatch welfare checks.

    No one would have any way to even tell if the so called documents they put up to translate are legit documents or more psych warfare big fat lies bullcrap. We *know* they are engaging in extensive media manipulations, we know they lied and lied again about what really happened on 9-11, and they lied about iraq.

At a minimum, they could find out who's a good translator or not so they could pick them up sometime and "detain" them.

Sure and while there at it, they also use redacting to protect Bin Laden. Different document, same administration.