I am finding the Dems go along to get along attitude very disturbing. Maybe Dr. Dean needs to kick some butt. There seems no end to it.

King Co., Washington State, has pushed back all mail-in voting because the vote tally machines cannot be certified before the General Election in Nov.

News about a jailed blogger in Saudi

I am sticking this in a comment, Brad, because I don't know how to refer articles, etc., to you. I'm sure you will do something appropriate with it, like pull it out of here. It is from the Arab Times. I think that news about jailed bloggers should be put out to the blogisphere.

http://www.arabnews.com/...p;d=8&m=2&y=2008

No Update on Detained Saudi Blogger Fouad Al-Farhan
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News

JEDDAH, 8 February 2008 — Today would mark the 60th day of imprisonment for Saudi blogger Fouad Al-Farhan, a 32-year-old father of two who runs a web journal that discusses Saudi social and political issues. He has been in Jeddah’s Dahban Prison since he was arrested from his office on Dec. 10.

A family member had been able to visit Al-Farhan once, on Jan. 5, and the family told Arab News yesterday that requests to visit him since have been denied. ...

72Dawg

Teflon prenzit blush has been seen holding hands with and kissing Saudi "Princes" in public, and Sen. Craig (R-Closet) has threatened once again to quit if "he doesn't get some too".

Meanwhile a Saudi woman was put in prison for sitting next to a guy at a Starbucks. I don't know whether gays have taken over or they are faithfully following the dictates of The Department of Justice Just Us.

Brad sedd:

Golly, if only the Democrats had had any idea that AG Michael Mukasey would turn out to be such a stooge for the Bush Administration, maybe they wouldn't have confirmed him.

If you remember, the two votes that got Mukasey out of the Judicial Committee were from Feinstein and Shumer. They are Zell Miller / Lieberman demoCons.

With demoCons and neoCons having these public fascist-incestuous relations, impeachment is as likely in Amurka as americanism.

All the wonderful lapies of preznit blush have presented one "truth" which most everyone is afraid to doubt. It is the one truth the bushies have told evidently. Muckasey, chief bushie law man, is there to protect it.

Is it only Willie Nelson, other stars, prominent architects, professors, military experts, and professional pilots only who do not belive "the one truth"?

Sounds like "the one truth" is little more than a new faith to me.

FISA Amendments Bill (S.2248) Update:
It's all bad news as Senate Majority Capitulator Harry Reid's carefully scripted cave-in to the Bush adminiatration continued apace yesterday.

As has been noted elsewhere Reid is determined that the version of the FISA amendment bill demanded by Bush and company is the version that will be passed by the Senate... he just doesn't want to be blamed by anyone for engineering its passage.

And you have a small but fairly consistent cadre of Senate Dems who are busy helping Reid. Apparently the cowards listed below are so terrified of standing up for the rights and civil liberties of American citizens ... so terrified of standing up for the Constitution and the rule of law... so terrified of losing reelection because Bush will call then "soft on terrorism"... that they are willing to give in to the Bush Administration's unceasing demands for unlimited power in order to hang on to their senatorial perks and privileges a little longer.

The latest Senate capitulations and the Democratic enablers:

S.AMDT.3915 to S.2248 (Court oversight and usage limits) - Sponsored by Russ Feingold
This amendment would have allowed the FISA court to amend surveillance programs if it finds them to be contrary to the requirements of the new laws or the Fourth Amendment, and and also would have allowed the FISA court to impose restrictions on the use of illegally collected information about Americans.

The Democratic Senators who are unwilling to enforce oversight of the Bush Administration's unlimited surveillance powers but are willing to allow the Bush Administration to use any information gained by illegal search and seizure of data regarding American citizens:

Even Bayh (D-IN)
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Tim Johnson (D-ND)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WI)

S.AMDT.3913 to S.2248 (Reverse targeting) - Sponsored by Russ Feingold

This would have prohibited the government from getting around FISA's court order requirement by wiretapping an individual overseas when the actual target of the tap is a person in the U.S. with whom that purported foreign target happens to be communicating.

The Democratic Senators who simply caved on the Fourth Amendment:

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Tim Johnson (D-ND)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WI)
Ken Salazar (D-CO)

Maybe you should call these people in addition to your own Senators... call them, gently but firmly instruct them that they are heading off a cliff like lemmings and keep calling every day until they straighten up and fly right.

Next up? It's variable, what with the Republicans gaming the hell out of the Senate schedule in order to put time pressure on the Democrats to cave... but the next amendment to be considered should be Senator Chris Dodd's S.AMDT.3907 to S.2248... the amendment stripping telco amnesty from the bill.

And this amendment, S.AMDT.3907 to S.2248, must pass. Otherwise, as even the Republican Senators have admitted in their remarks, the new FISA law will give both retroactive and future immunity to the illegal activities of the Bush Administration and their corporate abettors.

And all it takes to pass this necessary amendment is a simple majority of Senators present.

I wonder if Clinton or Obama will even bother to show...?

Ever wonder what Muckasey does with his FBI? He is hiring civilians (e.g. blackwater folk) and they have the power to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law:

InfraGard is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program ...

(InfraGard) ... continued ...

InfraGard is not readily accessible to the general public. Its communications with the FBI and Homeland Security are beyond the reach of the Freedom of Information Act under the “trade secrets” exemption, its website says. And any conversation with the public or the media is supposed to be carefully rehearsed.

“The interests of InfraGard must be protected whenever presented to non-InfraGard members,” the website states. “During interviews with members of the press, controlling the image of InfraGard being presented can be difficult. Proper preparation for the interview will minimize the risk of embarrassment. . . . The InfraGard leadership and the local FBI representative should review the submitted questions, agree on the predilection of the answers, and identify the appropriate interviewee. . . . Tailor answers to the expected audience. . . . Questions concerning sensitive information should be avoided.”

(ibid). Infragard reminds me of the young NAZI party in germany some time back, just before Hitler killed 6 million jews with the permission of the nice folks in congress there.

Bloggers take note that they are watching all anti-Amurkan comments and posting from time to time.

Anyone willing to disclose that they are members of InfraGard?

post #7 continued ...

If you want to know where the local chapter of IntraGard is in your area, there is a map. The page of the local site in my areas says:

InfraGard is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program ... to gain support from the information technology industry and academia for the FBI’s investigative efforts in the cyber arena.

(InfraGard Map). The program is exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests, so the FBI uses them to dig up information about you that they do not have to disclose. The government pays them with your tax dollars to spy one you.

Yes, it is in fact a spy network of The Department of Justice Just Us of Amurka.

What? OT? Pardon Time? Muckassy To NOT Prosecute?

The Florida official spokesman for the Department of Children and Families, was just arrested for child pornography.

Isn't this the state where the Governor, who was listed as a reference by the accused, has an election motto "what problems?"

Will we ee Muckassy advocating for retroactive immunity for other crimes besides war crimes? Remember that one of The Amurkan Department of Justice Just Us attorney's was arrested in Florida a while back for the same thing.

The Gestapo used intimidation of German citzens to get citizens to spy/rat on each other. Nothing new here. Straight out of the MAZI playbook. I have no illusion as the type of people we are dealing with. I take heart that the NAZIs were dealt a fatal blow and regulated to the trash heap of history. I have no doubt the Neo-Con/Corporists and Vichy supporters in the DLC/Congress will receive the same fate.

MrBill123 #10

Raw Story is now reporting on the info contained in post #7-#8.

Remember that Muckassy as AG of Amurka's Department of Justice Just Us is over the FBI.

Mukasey is just another piece of the shitpile.

Check out S. 1959, a neoCon bill:

Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

The Congress finds the following ... The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security ... The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.

(S. 1959, Collins, R-ME, emphasis added). Yeppers, you guys are "turrists" according to Amurkan senator and neoCon Collins.

She is up for re-election in November. You guys in Maine should vote that Amurkan out of office and put an American in there instead.

Time for Inherent Contempt
Bring them in and lock them in the basement jail until they testify or the end of the session.

It is time for a Constitutional showdown.

Fool you once, shame on them.
Fool you twice, shame on you.
Fool you thrice, HELLOOOOOO?

Dredd, I just read that about one of Charlies Angels I ROTFLMAO.
Is the whole GOP loaded to the gills with every kind of perversion known to man and animal ?
Have they missed one yet ?

God

Incredible...looks like there are more than a few Democratics who should be thrown out along with their GOP consorts..we will never have our Constitution, civil rights or our government back..if we don't....Impeachment Hearings is the only way to clean out this nest of vipers..as the Democratics know....but so many of them would be implicated in the criminality...a real "catch 22" for Congress

Conyers' actual comments place him not a whit closer to impeachment proceedings. We can be sure it will NOT happen under these leaaders' watch. They are deathly afraid of what the Republican owned and operated corporate media will say about them, no, scream bloody murder about them, during the course and after any such hearings.

I watched Senator Reid (D-Capitulate) again today. The FISA passage has been put off til the top of the week.

It will take a miracle to defeat the fascist Amurkan FISA bill ... cause they don't want preznit blush mad at them and have to pout about it. Dorks!

The demoCons (e.g. Muckassy loving Feinstein and Shumer) in the Senate must be defeated or neutralized by putting American thinking people in there to show them the way back home.

COMMENT #1 72dawg said on 2/8/2008 @ 1:03 am PT...

QUOTE:

I am finding the Dems go along to get along attitude very disturbing. Maybe Dr. Dean needs to kick some butt. There seems no end to it.

END QUOTE

Howard Dean kick some butt? LOL. He hasn't so far and I doubt that he's about to start now. If anything George W Bush will kick Dean's butt and Dean will willingly bend over and let him do it because they are all on the same "team" despite any occasional posturing to the contrary. You know, getting their $$$$$$$$$$$$ from the same corporate whores as the Repugs.

"There seems no end to it" because the Dems work for the Bush Crime Family just like the Repugs and have done so since 2000. And they will continue to do so.

I remember being told way before the 2006 "election" by the Dem apologists/Dem koolaid drinkers that I (Erma) didn't understand how the system works and the reason the Dems were not doing such and such was because:

1. they were not in the majority
2. they did not have heads of committees
3. they couldn't even get meeting rooms to hold hearings in.

Well, the Dems have all of that now and we see that nothing has changed, other than things have only gotten worse since the Dems became the majority as I and a few others knew would be the case.

Contrast that with the Repugs, it doesn't matter whether they are in the majority or the minority they get their shit through congress. Period.

The Dems are NOT who and what most Dem voters think the Dems are and want them to be, and the sooner Dem voters come to this realisation the sooner they will stop asking: "why are the Dems not doing such and such" and "why are they going along to get along" and "why are they giving everything to bush and the repugs" such stuff.

Ready to take a radical leap and stop drinking the Dems' koolaid?

Re-register as an independent (decline-to-state) or Green Party member. I'm an independent and currently don't have any candidate to vote for on the presidential level, but if Cynthia McKinney gets the Green Party nomination I will be voting for her if there is a 2008 "election."

If now is not the time, WHEN IS?

And for those of you who are going to come back and say, "would you rather have McCain than Queen Hillary of the Borg Collective or Obama?" Well let's see...Queen Hillary of the Borg Collective gets most of her $$$$$$$$$$$$ from the war industry. Obama gets most of his $$$$$$$$$$$$$ (regardless of what he says) from Wall Street. And where do the Repugs get most of their $$$$$$$$$$$$ from? The war industry and Wall Street. There will be no difference between a Queen Hillary of the Borg Collective, an Obama or McCain ticket. And for those who are in the "best of the worst" mentality, people have been voting for "best of the worst" one election cycle after election cycle and you see where it has gotten us, don't you? If one wants change, one has to think on a more radical scale rather than a status quo, wishful-thinking, living in denial scale.

If things get worse than this, candidates and voting will be the last thing on people's mind.

Groupthink is a matter of what group you think with.

Someone wrote this:

QUOTE:

The demoCons (e.g. Muckassy loving Feinstein and Shumer) in the Senate must be defeated or neutralized by putting American thinking people in there to show them the way back home.

END QUOTE

Iraq and Afghanistan war-profiteer Feinstein ain't going anywhere, unless she dies. Her term doesn't end until 2012. So that bush-enabler has 4 more years of damage to do to what's left of our already trashed US Constitution. She's one of the pieces of trash that got back in when the Dem koolaid drinkers were chanting, "gotta get Dems in, gotta get Dems in" back before the 2006 "election." I remember the night of the 2006 "election" vividly and RawStory had these big-assed gaudy red headlines all over the top of the Front Page announcing what Dems had won. Well, the Dem koolaid drinkers were jumping up and down and hooting and hollowering all over the place and I asked them: Why are you people getting so excited over this when nothing is going to change? At which point, some of them called me every name under the sun. Others said, "oh things are definitely going to change, Erma, you'll see....you have to give them time."

Uh huh.

But today, many of the same people have since come out of their denial and their wishful-thinking and some of them sound just like me now. I guess they must have gone into rehab to detox themselves of that terribly intoxicating koolaid which gives one thoughts of wishful-thinking, delusions, illusion and false hope.

Then you have the foolish crowd that talks about "taking over the Dem party from within." LOL. Yeah, that's likely to happen all right. Have a another sip of that koolaid. It would take years to "take over" the party from within (especially when we have a fraudulent voting system) and nobody has that much time! It would be the same as trying to take over Halliburton or Bechtel. It ain't going to happen. New people either follow the "leadership" who is already there and has become corrupted, or the new politician is not successful.

Blogged as a proud American: The treasonous bush administration pirates ship of lying murderous destructors who took office under the disguise to represent and protect the U.S. people is going down. A ghost ship has already set sail to sink these inbred parasitic loser and their armada of greedy criminal who will be prosecuted for war crimes, high crimes, and misdemeanors. Word up ace-holes: when you least expect it don't look up for answers.