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the FBI and Secret Service will react strongly.

I hope they will, mainly due to what's been going on with "Troopergate"

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It's a bit of reading but they do cover emails within the investigations.

the FBI and Secret Service will react strongly.

I hope they will, mainly due to what's been going on with "Troopergate"

Article 1 Article 2 Article 3 Article 4 Article 5 Article 6 Article 7 Article 8

It's a bit of reading but they do cover emails within the investigations.

Sorry if there any errors, or omissions, I am trying to be accurate. A lot has happend in a little over a week.

The following takes place between July 29th and August 7th:

August 07, 2008:
Judge rejects student visa injunction sought by H-1B opponents
Tech workers don't have standing to fight Bush administration visa move
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111963

August 07, 2008:
Jobless claims surge to highest level in 6 years
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/07/news/economy/jobless_benefits.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

August 06, 2008:
Bureau of Labor Statistics reports big drop in tech jobs
Almost 50,000 IT positions lost in last 12 months
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/07/news/economy/jobless_benefits.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

Aug 06,2008:
Yet another visa, this one allows 5000 Koreans to work in the USA each year
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200808/200808060014.html

August 06, 2008:
Apple sued over treatment of it's tech workers
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/06/apple-gets-sued-indentured

August 05, 2008:
Bogus diploma ring busted
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-diploma-mill-04-aug04,0,2164133.story

August 03, 2008:
July marks seventh consecutive month of job loses
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/46146.html

August 02, 2008:
Sun to cut between 1000 to 2500 jobs
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/08/01/sun-us-tech-market-wont-shine-soon/

August 01, 2008:
Gartner's grim IT hiring outlook
http://blogs.zdnet.com/careers/?p=140

August 01, 2008:
Feds charges man for H1-B fraud
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_visa01.47edb3e.html#

Jul 31, 2008:
More than 3.7 million Americans had full-time jobs chopped to part time
the largest figure since the government began tracking such data more than half a century ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/business/economy/31jobs.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

July 31, 2008:
Layoffs set for 22,000 California state workers
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10046324

July 30, 2008:
WTO Doha talks collapse
India's backdoor attempt to allow more H-1Bs into the USA failed, for now
http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/why-you-should-be-thrilled-wto-doha-talks-collapsed

July 30, 2008:
NY gov slashes spending; state said in "recession"
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN3032764920080730?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

July 30, 2008:
China trade has cost 2.3 million U.S. jobs
http://www.reuters.com/article/politic

...are we not a Capitalist country any more?

No, we're not.

On the topic of oil shale:
Oil shale requires a lot energy and water to convert into oil. It costs more to extract. It has net emissions over 40% higher than oil. And it produces toxic byproducts that have to be isolated to avoid contamination of water supplies. Source (first one I came across, feel free to look for others): http://www.mcclatchydc.com/256/story/45748.html

I'd rather pay a bit more for oil that isn't quite as bad for my air and my water. If there is ever an actual crisis (and no, $4/gallon is not a crisis, call me when it hits $10), it'll be there for us, but why the all-fired hurry?

...but I happen to believe that most, if not all...

Hey, believe whatever you choose to believe.
Your inability to handle reality demonstrates the true worth of your comment.

C'mon... At least get some of this crap right.

I suggest you take some of your own advice.

They never claimed that Iraq was specifically involved in 9/11.

Like heck. For years they claimed that Saddam's Iraq and Al Queada In Irag were the same people who attacked us on 9/11.

He never said "He tried to kill my Daddy" (although reports of the attempt existed long before W was in office)

Made the claim on several occasions as was reported in the news at the time.

You think that the Intelligence agencies of foreign countries get their information directly from the President and Vice President of the USA? moron.

No, I don't think that, and if you would learn how to read you would have realized that. The Bush administration passed the information on, as, again, has been widely reported.

You can certainly make the case that intelligence was wrong. You can make the case that the ease with which the war would be finished was mistaken. You can say that it has cost us a pile of money.

Thank you, I do.

But these other comments are just nonsense. Go ahead and hate President Bush if you insist, but please try to base it on something at least semi reasonable. You owe it to yourself so that you won't look like a complete moron.

I would love to hate him for something semi-reasonable (I'd actually prefer even more not to hate him at all) but I am constrained by the fact that the only thing I have to judge him on is his conduct in office; if the un-American, inept, and dishonest things he says and does are not even semi-reasonable the fault is his, not mine.

--MarkusQ

all for the heinous crime of having no family that will inquire about your whereabouts?

Sounds like the US, though Immigration here doesn't torture people, they just throw them in jail... even if they do have family to vouch for their citizenship status.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/25392.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11086544

If you miss that universal health care is a fascist play to control you "for your own good", then the propaganda has indeed worked well.

And if you're like ArcherB who seems to be utterly clueless about what a fascist is (other than "what them thar nazis were so anytime anyone brings them up I cry and scream and wet my diapers about godwin"), then obviously we shouldn't bother reigning in the power of government, and we should just sit around and wait for it to get worse before doing anything. Me? I'd start with requiring the president to follow the same rules everyone else does. If he doesn't think he should obey FISA because it's "unconstitutional" then I suggest he take the various cases he's made up (Jiminez, etc) and try to convince the scotus that he has more standing to challenge FISA than that lawyer who got the transcript of his wiretap in the mail does to challenge the president's wiretaps. If that slows government down to a crawl, congrats! The smooth operation of government will no longer be a priority over the individuals it crushes to lube the gears, and fascism (real fascism, which makes no requirements with regards to the direction you lean, where innocent individuals are sacrificed on the altar of Government for the "good of the whole") will become nigh impossible.

Also, lol, if you're going to claim that universal healthcare is a ploy to let the government force the fatties to get up and move at least once a day for their own good, at least people should say that rather than whining and crying about having to pay for the fatties' diabetes. The fatties would make sure it never gets voted in.

Coal gets more subsidies than we of nuclear power do, not to mention "clean energy" initiatives.

According to TFA in Bush's energy proposal coal gets 21%n increase in federal funding and nuclear energy research gets a 40% increase, alternative and renewable resources on the other hand don't get as much. Wind for instance get 6%, a $3,000,000 increase. And "solar energy would decrease by $12 million, a 7 percent reduction from this year." Together for solar and wind that's $15 million yet the total proposal for climate change programs is $8.6 billion, so even if other alternative sources get another $70 million that's still only 1% of the total. Where's the other 99% going? I doubt coal and nuclear don't get more that 75% of the total. As compared to solar, wind, and others that sounds massive to me.

I'll note this new solar CSP plant they want to build in Arizona. It's noted here that this will cost somewhere in the 4 billion range and generate 280 megawatts, with a ground footprint of 1900 acres. Compare this to my plants, which generates nearly 2,000 megawatts with a ground footprint of maybe 20 acres.

You left a large use of land for nuclear, the mining. Then you have land needed for long term storage of the waste. As uranium mining is volume intensive, the concentration of uranium in the ore is so low, so it requires a lot of land. And it's environmentally destructive. The Navajo have basically been dumped on, uranium mining threatens their source of water, the aquifers under the land.

Call me prejudiced, but I'll stick to nuclear thanks.

Go ahead, and store it in your back yard too. You can also mine uranium from your back yard.

Maybe that's because the MSM love to not talk about how bad the war is going. Most Iraq news is buried in major newspapers or in foreign news services, which most Americans don't bother reading.

Down's syndrome bombers kill 91 (2 days ago)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3287373.ece

Insurgencies spread in Afghanistan and Pakistan (yesterday)
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/26133.html

Mosul residents stock up ahead of 'decisive battle' (Translation: it appears that Mosul will be bombed into oblivion, and the US's Iraqi puppet Maliki will claim his "victory.")
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080203/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestmosul_080203114234

I read every single day about more deaths and more bombings in the Star Tribune, but its always buried as close to the end of the A section as possible. Nobody who has been looking for news on Iraq everyday for the entire war believes the surge is working.

No matter what the product, Chinese manufacturers will always cut every corner they can.

Related mentions of exerted pressure, quote: "Everybody is pushing, pushing, pushing for lower and lower prices. The vendors are squeezed to the point where they aren't making a profit anymore. So they are looking to cut corners," said Peter Dean, a former U.S. toy company executive who now teaches at Hong Kong Polytechnic University." have been debunked as communist counterpropaganda.

The business ethics of Wal-Mart and others is beyond any doubt.

CC.

It's occurred to me. I think it's more likely that, though, that it's because they haven't done enough to end the war in Iraq.

In recent approval polls, the current Democratic congress actually did better with Republican respondents than with Democratic respondents. American's opinion of how the war in Iraq is going is virtually completely unified (and negative), and more Americans "strongly disapprove" of GWB than they did of Nixon, just before his impeachment trial began.

If you're a Democrat (disclosure: I am), this state of affairs sucks, because procedural rules of legislation make it very easy to derail bills through votes for cloture and the threat of a filibuster. The minority party has used this power in this Congress more than any other Congress in history, and then turned around and made fun of the majority party for not being able to get anything done.

The last time there was a Congress strongly unified against the President, it was the "Republican revolution", whose stalemate with Clinton wound up shutting down the government. But then, Clinton definitely wound up on the winning side of public opinion. One wonders if memories of that stalemate are giving the Democratic leadership the jitters.

Except for the ones who didn't think it was worth the time to vote on this. Or do they not hold a majority anymore?

The Republicans filibustered it, which is why a cloture vote is mentioned in the summary. It takes 60 votes to end discussion, while the Democratic majority is 51, IIRC. Incidentally, the Republicans are well on track to triple the previous filibustering, only one Congress after whining about obstructionism. Now, the roles are reversed, and it's the Democrats whining about obstructionism. ;)

Mod parent up, please (I'm using up mod points to post a followup). Here's a McClatchey story (with graphic), showing how bad the GOP filibuster threats have gotten. At the current rate, they will have forced cloture motions 153 times, three times the average over the past few years. All this to keep The Decider from having to take responsibility and veto something that the majority of US citizens approve of (like habeas corpus). While the reporting on these votes (including Webb's bill mandating more at-home time for troops serving in Iraq) is totally lame and misleading, I have to blame the Democrats for failing to make any stink about this at all. They need to be constantly harping about "obstructionist Republicans", etc. etc. Or, instead of just letting them threaten a filibuster, make them actually do it -- that would give the press a great story to report, and would force all these Republicans to explain how much they like torture, long tours of duty for soldiers, etc.

Ahhh, nerd naivety.

This is politics. The Republicans are opposing ALL Democrat sponsored legislation in the Senate. They need something to distract people from this. Like a pointless morality campaign.

McClatchy: Senate Republicans On Track For Record Setting Obstruction
Nearly 1 in 6 roll-call votes in the Senate this year have been cloture votes. If this pace of blocking legislation continues, this 110th Congress will be on track to roughly triple the previous record number of cloture votes -- 58 each in the two Congresses from 1999-2002, according to the Senate Historical Office.

(cloture votes are required to end debate, part of filibustering)

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/21/mcclatchy -senate-republicans-on-track-for-record-setting-ob struction/
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/v-print/story/ 18218.html