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05-19-2006, 08:54 AM
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And remember: Diebold controls your vote. |
05-22-2006, 04:54 PM
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05-22-2006, 06:30 PM
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So, their actions pushing the boundaries make it harder to get legal permission to do surveillance in this program.
Kind of a secret snowball effect where pushing the legal boundaries leads to, surprise, more pushing of the legal boundaries.
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05-31-2006, 12:11 PM
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06-01-2006, 01:38 AM
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That's called cowardice. |
06-01-2006, 08:23 AM
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I find it really bizarre that Americans would trust the government. The whole point of the Bill of Rights is that we shouldn't trust the government.
The Bush administration just proves it. |
06-26-2006, 12:33 PM
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06-30-2006, 03:36 PM
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08-07-2006, 11:53 AM
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08-17-2006, 01:54 PM
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"Judge nixes warrantless surveillance"
From the ruling: "In this case, the President has acted, undisputedly, as FISA forbids. FISA is the expressed statutory policy of our Congress. The presidential power, therefore, was exercised at its lowest ebb and cannot be sustained." |
08-17-2006, 03:05 PM
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Quote: erik_kosberg said
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08-17-2006, 03:17 PM
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Shorter NRO Corner: When the constitution is upheld, the terrorists win. |
08-17-2006, 04:34 PM
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One judge, one ruling. Lots more to come, folks. |
08-17-2006, 05:03 PM
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No-brainer prediction: Swiftboating this judge will become Priority Number One. |
08-17-2006, 05:07 PM
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How dare a member of the judicial branch institute the very notion of checks and balances our government was set up to include? |
08-17-2006, 05:10 PM
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Those damned activits judges of the wacky 9th District! Oh, wait a minute, Detroit isn't in California...
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08-17-2006, 05:29 PM
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From the opinion:
We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution. So all "inherent power" must derive from that Constitution."
John Yoo and David Addington are not having a good day. |
08-17-2006, 05:55 PM
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Upon hearing this decision, President Bush, whose great-grandfather was a close adviser to President Hoover, grandfather was a Senator, and father was President, said “I’m sorry, were you trying to tell me something?”
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08-17-2006, 06:43 PM
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This is like a highschool textbook civics lesson, from a chapter called "Constitutional Democracy in Action." (Though not necessarily the kind of constitutional democracy Bush had hoped to spread across the world.) |
08-17-2006, 08:06 PM
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Expect an appeal to the 6th Circuit and then to the Supreme Court. |
08-17-2006, 11:13 PM
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Quote: erik_kosberg said
No-brainer prediction: Swiftboating this judge will become Priority Number One. |
I'll call that one. |
08-17-2006, 11:17 PM
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Anyone hear about the Diebold lawsuit? |
08-18-2006, 12:20 AM
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To parody another thread: "Timing of JonBenet Confession Raises Eyebrows".
You see Karl Rove and Dick Cheney pulled strings in the Boulder D. A.'s office release information that a wacked out perv confessed to the most sensational child killing of the decade, with no evidence that he actually did it, in order to bump this ruling completely off the public's radar. |
08-18-2006, 12:26 AM
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So anyway, the only place I saw the deibold lawsuit mentioned today was at that blog, which was pretty random, since I'd never surfed there before. I haven't had a lot of time to search the news sites for corresponding llinkage. Sooooo, did anyone else see that today? If so, linkage? | |
