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Kerr says the telecos are at risk for $1,000 fine per violation, Richard Falkenrath disagrees. Obviously falkenrath has not bothered to read the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, because none of the exception criteria for turning over records to the government were met here.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ May 12, 2006 -> 03:38 AM) Almost makes you wish these sluts really were raped so they'd know how the real victims feel and they'd think twice before making up s*** like this.. That is a bit on the extreme side I'd say. Wishing somebody would consider consequences before making a questionable accusation and wishing rape upon somebody are entirely different matters.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 12, 2006 -> 12:58 AM) Here it comes, Via the Harris poll... 29 He always claimed he was a "uniter not a divider." Seems he was on the money after all, as the entire country continues to unite in opposition to the bumbling incompetence and disregard for Constitution and law shown by this administration.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ May 11, 2006 -> 11:06 PM) IS anyone worried that the phone company has these records to turn over in the first place? If you are all so worried about the eeeevil government spying on you, what's to prevent the eeevil corporations from accessing the same info that they already had, BEFORE the government asked for it? They sell our info to telemarkets for a profit, whats to prevent them from using the info for more nefarious reasons? Actually, the Stored Communications Act has provisions in it to prevent such misuse. And, sure, the telecoms can violate the provisions and use your information in an inappropriate manner. In that case the government is supposed to provide oversight, regulation, and penalties for violation. But when it is the government that is the nefarious entity, and is in fact coercing the telecoms into nefarious complicity, then thre is a real problem.

Happy Happy!!

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ May 11, 2006 -> 05:17 PM) I knew it was time to go when that cubs mascot yelling woo woo showed up posing for pictures with people in front of the theater. That Woo Woo f***er Ronnie sure gets around. I was surprised he didn't get his new teeth kicked in when I saw him outside the Cell at WS Game 1 in all his Cubbie crap.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ May 11, 2006 -> 12:06 PM) That's the one. The 'experts' chime in. http://chicago.citysearch.com/bestof/winners/2005/pizza Vito & Nick's made the list and it should have. I'm ashamed I left them out of my thin crust best of list.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ May 11, 2006 -> 12:48 PM) Actually it sounds exactly like Echelon to me, except Echelon directed at U.S. citizens with no FISA warrant. Which is why it DIDN'T sound like Echelon to me – no ovversight checks against domestic surveilance.

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ May 11, 2006 -> 12:43 PM) Not likely. I almost get the impression that this is a guy nominated to flame out. Give the GOP a chance to stand up and say no - distance themselves from a President who's becoming more and more toxic. Possibly, but I don't see the White Hous in its current scramble mode being that calculating. And if there is a recess appointment, I don't necessarily think by then Hayden will be the guy.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 11, 2006 -> 12:38 PM) I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised by this... Doesn't anyone remember Echelon? Seems more like a scaled down TIA than an Echelon to me. And Congress denied funding for TIA. Maybe that is why this program has been secret?

Cool discovery. $50K to kill a polar bear?!? No thanks.

It was telling to see how fast the administration got GWB on camera to address this (which of course he didn't really do. . . "After 9-11. . . go after the terrorists. . . leaking about this program gives aid to the enemy. . . "). Their strategy is usually to see how a story gets picked up first before throwing President 31% in front of a camera to take a stab at damage control. This could end up being very big – maybe as big as the warrantless surveilance should have been. Maybe also big enough to scuttle the hayden CIA nomination. I read that a number of Hill strategy meetings today on getting the Hayden nomination through have been cancelled. Maybe coincidental that it happened after the NSA data mining story broke, but i don't think that's likely. Any chance of a recess appointment of the CIA top spot during the Memorial Day holiday?

QUOTE(juddling @ May 11, 2006 -> 10:51 AM) Gee...i remember my after morning shame morphing into a long hot shower and an membership in the "Order of the Serpintine" Well, I was unaware of the Order of the Serpentine until just now. The ritual scrubbing of the shamed is something I have familiarity with, however.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ May 11, 2006 -> 10:50 AM) I agree 100%...She basically raped him of leading a normal life. I don't know the exact FACTS, but the way she tells the story it seems as if there was no arguemnt from her that he did indeed STOP when she said STOP. I feel terrible for this kid if that's the case. Yep, especially if this was the case of an overexcited rookie where she said stop and he did, but the act had been completed from a physiological standpoint. Like you, I don't have the details of the case, but a situation like that would provide DNA evidence of "the assault," and something that was entirely consentual at the outset gets twisted into date rape with the kind of forensic "evidence" that would kill him in court. Did you hear her sat 'stop'? Yes. Did you? Yes. Then why is there evidence of completion of the act?

Makes me want to go back to Qwest and my provider. And in related news, the Justice probe into NSA domestic wiretapping has ended because the NSA refused to grant security clearance to the Jiustice lawyars pursuing the case. Convenient for the NSA, no? :banghead :banghead

I saw that first article when it was published, but hadn't seen the followup. Truer words were never spoken than when she refers to morning after shame morphing into a date rape accusation. It's frightening that someone can thing so little of ruining somebody's life that she would claim rape instead of admitting that she had consented to an act and later regretted it. Rape, real non-consentual rape, is one of the most vicious and brutal violations one human being can commit against another. Morning-after regret that mutates into a rape allegation is something entirely different, and something that would not happen to the degree it does if people understood and accepted the importance of taking personal responsibility for their actions. If anything, in my mind the regret-turned-rape allegation is way closer to rape than what the guy did when he believed he was engaging in a consentual act. When the "victim" rewrites the facts to ease her personal guilt or shame, she has violated the accused person so deeply and completely that it can ruin his life.

Beautiful baby girl, Kap. Congratulations to you and your wife.

We just can't fathom the whys of it when we lose people so young. All the more difficult when the individual is a brilliant shining star with so much of himself or herself to give. This boy's family, including the scout community that is his extended family, is in my heart and my thoughts.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ May 8, 2006 -> 07:51 PM) are you white and male? if so it's your own fault because you have been given every advantage ever (atleast thats what the rationale will be). 85% tax rate, deal with it. Balta is a slacker!!! You have to understand, Balta, Mr. Genius comes from a world where grad students regularly earn a 6-figure stipend.

If you have to ask, then you are probably not iPod-worthy so just get it over with and get something lame and inferior instead.

Not much of a surprise with all the HookerPokerGate details that have started to emerge, but Foggo just announced today that he will be stepping down as well. http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/CIAs_num...signs_0508.html

I liked Tony giving Paulie the "heckuva job, Brownle" quip in last night's episode.

I dress to the left, but pretty much right-handed in everything else.

QUOTE(thedoctor @ May 8, 2006 -> 07:29 AM) ^ditto i also take care of personal business with the left. Just like it's somebody else doing it, eh?