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Good stuff.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ May 18, 2006 -> 09:50 AM) Two great posters. . . [/grammar school flashback] Happy Birthday to the AWOL heroes.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 18, 2006 -> 08:35 AM) He's alive and partying with Kennedy, Monroe, Elvis, and Morrison at a secret government camp. Shows what you know. They actually found him, alive and well, and working in a hospital maternity ward near Milford. What was he doing in a maternity ward, you ask? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (wait for it. . . ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Why, he was organizing labor, of course!

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ May 17, 2006 -> 12:12 PM) Any kind of link to support this? Of course there is: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/0...cknowledge.html

You can read their surrender notice on their website here: http://www.bluesecurity.com/ Stinks. No good deed goes unpunished.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 16, 2006 -> 08:32 PM) What bullls***. *I* could have called those people after the story broke, just for s***s and giggles to watch them squirm. Why is it that everything has to be believed, evil, and sinister? Whatever. It is a shame you would consider that a s***s and giggles kind of activity. The FBI has confirmed that they have "backtracked" journo phone records. They have done so using National Security Letters issued under the authority of the Patriot Act (Wow, who could have foreseen the Patriot Act would be abused?), even though the National Security Letters are suppused to be used in terrorism cases. Not to hunt down journalists' sources, and send a chilling message to the news media that freedom of the press is an antiquated concept. You don't get even the faintest whiff of fascism here? Whatever.

QUOTE(minors @ May 16, 2006 -> 06:10 PM) We are becoming overun in this country with illegals with most of them looking to get a free ride. It scares me the thought of how many terrorists have crossed over that border and will continue to cross over. There is no evidence that any terrorist has ever come across or attempted to come across our southern border. That cannot be said for our border to the north, which might be expected given the easy legal ways in (like Tex said) as well as the relatively large Muslim communities in parts of Canada, some of which are going to tend to the radical side of the religion. But it is, of course, the Mexican border that we are militarizing. And, of course, it's being done in the name of national security. 9-11 9-11 9-11 9-11 changed everything. Except the jingoistic tendencies of so much of this country, That was in place long before 9-11.

Leopold is definately on the hot seat on this one. If his "24 business hours" didn't start until Monday, then his story can still pan out. Then again maybe Jason has fallen off the wagon and is doing lines with his sources. As one "reporter" intimately related to the case has sid, All will be revealed.

Got a pair as well, which I will have to enjoy vicariously through my Dad and Bro, who are too lazy to take care of this stuff themselves!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 15, 2006 -> 12:51 PM) In Mexico, yes. Well, wait a minute. He's actually brilliant, pawning off the poorest of his country on the good ol' US of A. So, by your logic, it's ok then. Nice. No, by my logic it doesn't do any good for someone to suggest the solution is to 'let 'em come in illegally' if such an option doesn't actually exist. So, when are we going to get around to sandblasting away that misleading bit about "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. . . " from the Statue of Liberty?

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 15, 2006 -> 12:42 PM) If they'd come in legally, your perceived crisis would never happen. Tell me where the line is for for legal entry for unskilled non-English speaking laborers and their hungry families and I will pass the information along.

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 15, 2006 -> 12:36 PM) You mean that these fine upstanding wanna-be American citizens would resort to violence? Surely, not. I mean that killing fathers and mothers and children coming across the border is not going to play well in a whole lot of parts of the country when it happens.

At least we are one step closer to some good old fashioned major urban race riots after some green weekend soldier shoots and kills someone coming over to try to make a better life for their family.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ May 15, 2006 -> 09:35 AM) No, it's phone numbers. . . . Yes Tex cause a phone NUMBER database has to do with losing our freedom of speech, search and guns. . . . Your freedom curtailed?? Are you kidding me? Your freedom of a phone number log? . . . So, as today's Brian Ross and Richard Esposito story is breaking that ABC News, WaPo, and NYT reporters are having their call logs tracked by the government in an effort to root out confidential sources, you can insist that freedoms are not curtailed by this intrusion? http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/0...al_source_.html It is an equally simple matter to track call logs of all your political opponents, whistleblowing current and former CIA or NSA officials, or pesky Special Prosecutors so you can stay a step ahead of them. But it's all good. Don't talk to anybody the government doesn't want you to talk to and don't challenge anything they do and you won't have a problem.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 15, 2006 -> 10:25 AM) Not without researching That's because you are LAME. The song is, of course, Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. Friday evening. Sunday in teh afternoon. What have you got to lose? Tuesday morning. Please be gone I'm tired of you. What have you got to lose? ... Will you come see me Thursdays and Saturdays? What have you got to lose?

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 12, 2006 -> 05:11 PM) My son had three that failed. iPod sucks. I think the iPods were all rebelling because your son kept plugging them into a souped up cheap iron Wintel box instead of a mac. Time to step into the light.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ May 14, 2006 -> 05:32 PM) Sad day, really. Rove is slimy so I hold no sympathy for him, but I don't think this ends up helping anyone. The Bush presidency has had its own wheels for far too long, and it won't change direction much with Rove out the door. If this had been early on in his administration, it might have made a big difference. Today? Nearly irrelevant, in terms of going forward. The only positive I see here is sending a message to future candidates about handing over their operations to guys like Rove. If true, I don't think it will be nearly irrelevant by any means. Rove had been reassigned to work pretty much exclusively on politics, i.e., positioning the GOP to hold onto as many seats in Congress as possible. Rove is a really shrewd strategist, pretty much the guy that even made same-sex marriage a campaign issue in '04. Without somebody like him trying to unify the currently disshevelled GOP around a couple of key issues, I think they will be limping into '06.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ May 14, 2006 -> 11:33 AM) Uhhh. His Monday night address is supposed to be about immigration. I hadn't heard the subject, only that an address was scheduled. It will be interesting to see him stay on task with an immigration talk if indictments are handed down tomorrow morning. But is anyone can do it, the President in a bubble can.

QUOTE(samclemens @ May 14, 2006 -> 09:51 AM) http://www.nysun.com/article/32651 "It was President Clinton who signed into law the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994, after it was passed in both the House and Senate by a voice vote. That law is an act "to make clear a telecommunications carrier's duty to cooperate in the interception of communications for law enforcement purposes, and for other purposes." The act made clear that a court order isn't the only lawful way of obtaining call information, saying, "A telecommunications carrier shall ensure that any interception of communications or access to call-identifying information effected within its switching premises can be activated only in accordance with a court order or other lawful authorization." liberal hypocrisy, straight up. I'm not seue I see the hypocrisy. The Stored Communications Act lays out a number of well defined exceptions other than court order in which turning over the records would be lawful. This case does not meet the criteria of any of those exceptions. Where are the other exceptions deriving from?

The finding in Smith vs. Maryland was related to a man on trial for bank robbery who challenged to suppress the use of his collected information. The court correctly concluded that in committing a crime this individual lost any 4th Amendment right against search of his records relating to the commission of the crime, and that such records could reasonably be assumed to be turned over to the police. Held: The installation and use of the pen register was not a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and hence no warrant was required. The case has nothing to say about the legality of phone companies voluntarily turning over call records to the federal government in the absence of any suspicionof guilt or crime, and without meeting any of the well-defined exception criteria in the Stored Communications Act that would allow it.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ May 13, 2006 -> 10:55 PM) WOOHOOOO! ONE STEP CLOSER TO IMPEACHMENT! Not without the Dems taking at least one house in Congress, but be happy for the little things. And as the little things go, this is pretty big.

One other thought. GWB has an evening televised appearance scheduled for Monday. Either they knew this was comong down the pike and that's what the conference is all about - an attempt at damage control, or else it was completely unrelated but will now no doubt be what the appearance has to be about. If the latter is the case, I bet they sure want to cancel that appearance. Here comes that 20% approval rating. . .

Here's hoping this is true.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ May 13, 2006 -> 02:47 PM) Thanks everyone. I'm sure she'll get through it but it's still a scary situation, and even scarrier because a friend's mom just passed away due to the same thing this year. Sending good thoughts her way, and yours. Soxy is right about treaments coming a long way. It got my grandmother 30 years ago but I think the outcome would be very different today.

I cannot wait to find out what Russel Tice has to say to the Armed Services Committee. If he drops a bombshell in the same week that Turd Blossom's indictments come down, there is no telling where the administration's poll numbers are going to be the next go around.