Craigslist Poster: Why I am Getting Out of the Marines
Exasperation and desperation is what results when bad civilian leadership leads the armed forces into the ditch.

"We are broke damn it. We don't have the people, we don't have the parts. Hell, what kind of fucking military organization has the commanding officer tell his officers they need to go out and buy toilet paper for the head because we ran out? Fuck this. I am out.

Berger, you were the best man, you shouldn't have died like that. Kerns, you were a funny dude. I am sorry I couldn’t see you buried, or have the courage to write your Mom and Dad about what nice guy you were. Murphy, why would you sign up for that shit! Your kids will never get to know what an awesome guy you were."

This marine pilot has seen friends and fellow soldiers die-- grist in the mill. I hope he's able to get the help he needs when he is finally decomissioned.

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Another day another example of a Congressman being bought and paid for.

Why don't we just start naming them after the corporate sponsors like we do stadiums. We have Pac Bell baseball field - Why not Honorable Represntative Cerberus Capital Management Lewis?

The congressman & the hedge fund

One day after a New York investment group raised $110,000 for Republican Rep. Jerry Lewis, the House passed a defense spending bill that preserved $160 million for a Navy project critical to the firm. The man who protected the Navy money? Lewis.
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Lewis, 71, insists he did nothing improper. "I'm darn sensitive to make certain we keep arm's length from certain efforts" by political donors to influence legislation, Lewis said.

Both Lewis and the investment company, Cerberus Capital Management, benefited from the relationship. Eighteen months after the fundraiser and the House vote, Lewis won the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee. He acknowledges that the fundraising efforts of Cerberus "played a very significant role" in winning the post. The ties between Cerberus and Lewis, a 14-term congressman from Redlands, Calif., have not been publicly examined before.

Okay, corruption aside, who'd invest in a firm called Cerberus Capital Management?

I mean is this there logo?

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(actually that's out of 25,500,000 blogs so that puts us in like the top 1% or something - which means we're a fish in a freakishly large pond)

(also that's judged by sites linking to other sites, not actual visits if we were judged on that then we'd be even lower - but hey, thanks for coming by, it means you are all the more... special)

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Chilling

Thousands still missing after Katrina

Why isn't this the lede on every newspaper in this country?

Why can't this get the continuing coverage, the follow up, the in depth reporting that a missing girl in Aruba can get?

America needs to know what has happened to its fellow citizens. Don't tell me they don't care. They do.

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Now you're really embarrassed about googling "Britney Spears Wedding Photos."

Feds after Google data

They saying it is to fight internet child porn. And right now it might be, but how soon before they write down the names of everyone who searched for "Al Gore is neat bumper stickers."

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.

The move is part of a government effort to revive an Internet child protection law struck down two years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law was meant to punish online pornography sites that make their content accessible to minors. The government contends it needs the Google data to determine how often pornography shows up in online searches.
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The Mountain View-based search and advertising giant opposes releasing the information on a variety of grounds, saying it would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets, according to court documents.

Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, said the company will fight the government's effort ``vigorously.''

``Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and the demand for the information is overreaching,'' Wong said.

The case worries privacy advocates, given the vast amount of information Google and other search engines know about their users.

Don't think this is a big deal?

How about the patient who is worried about being diagnosed with Hep C or HIV who could search the internet to get information to help him with his disease? Do they avoid researching on ther internet because they are wondering who can find out what they are searching for?

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Can everyone just stop with this whole bit about Bush being an outlaw.
No Bush is just a law inconsistencer.

He doesn't brake laws he just acts in ways that are inconsistent with the law.

Report Questions Legality of Briefings on Surveillance

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 - A legal analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service concludes that the Bush administration's limited briefings for Congress on the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping without warrants are "inconsistent with the law."

Son, do you know you were doing 85 MPH back there?

I'm sorry officer, often I operate my vehicle in a manner inconsistent with the speed limit.

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Gore responds to White House 'hypocrisy' comments

The Administration's response to my speech illustrates perfectly the need for a special counsel to review the legality of the NSA wiretapping program.

The Attorney General is making a political defense of the President without even addressing the substantive legal questions that have so troubled millions of Americans in both political parties.
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There are two problems with the Attorney General's effort to focus attention on the past instead of the present Administration's behavior. First, as others have thoroughly documented, his charges are factually wrong. Both before and after the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was amended in 1995, the Clinton/Gore Administration complied fully and completely with the terms of the law.

Second, the Attorney General's attempt to cite a previous administration's activity as precedent for theirs - even though factually wrong - ironically demonstrates another reason why we must be so vigilant about their brazen disregard for the law. If unchecked, their behavior would serve as a precedent to encourage future presidents to claim these same powers, which many legal experts in both parties believe are clearly illegal.

And here's a shocking development, the AP is following up on this story... with facts!

AP Reports Facts on White House Smear of Gore

McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton’s deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.

“I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds,” McClellan said of Gore.

But at the time of the Ames search in 1993 and when Gorelick testified a year later, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act required warrants for electronic surveillance for intelligence purposes, but did not cover physical searches. The law was changed to cover physical searches in 1995 under legislation that Clinton supported and signed.

The White House responded to Gore’s criticism with a dishonest smear. The media, thankfully, is beginning to understand that.

The larger issue, however, is that the White House doesn’t have an honest response to criticism of their warrantless domestic wiretapping program.

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Restoring integrity
Its all about honesty

So starting now Lawmakers are admitting meeting with lobbiests are just shakedowns.


Loophole in Lobbying Bill Leaves Wiggle Room

According to lobbyists and ethics experts, even if Hastert's proposal is enacted, members of Congress and their staffs could still travel the world on an interest group's expense and eat steak on a lobbyist's account at the priciest restaurants in Washington.

The only requirement would be that whenever a lobbyist pays the bill, he or she must also hand the lawmaker a campaign contribution. Then the transaction would be perfectly okay.

You want me to eat steak? You gotta give to my campaign.

You want me to eat worms? Well then my cousin Eugene needs a job....

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The name's of CIA agents - sure that we'll tell
What's on the President's Ipod - sure that we'll tell

How often the lead man in the biggest government corruption scandal of at least a century had meetings IN the White House? Shh... that's a secret.

White House Silent on Abramoff Meetings

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is refusing to reveal details of tainted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's visits with President Bush's staff.

Abramoff had "a few staff-level meetings" at the Bush White House, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday. But he would not say with whom Abramoff met, which interests he was representing or how he got access to the White House.

Since Abramoff pleaded guilty two weeks ago to conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion charges in an influence-peddling scandal, McClellan has told reporters he was checking into Abramoff's meetings. "I'm making sure that I have a thorough report back to you on that," he said in his press briefing Jan. 5. "And I'll get that to you, hopefully very soon."

McClellan said Tuesday that he checked on it at reporters' requests, but wouldn't discuss the private staff-level meetings. "We are not going to engage in a fishing expedition," he said.

Shhh... be wery wery qwiet... they don't want to scare the fish.

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The Bush White House knows it is falling apart.
They know they are in trouble.

So they are going to their old fall back position. It has always worked for them in the past. It is their best motivator.

Fear. God they love fear.

U.S.: 'Very high' chance of WMD terror strike

LONDON, England (AP) -- There is a "very high" probability that a terrorist group will strike using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said in comments published Tuesday.

"I rate the probability of terror groups using (weapons of mass destruction) as very high," U.S. State Department counterterrorism coordinator Henry Crumpton was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. "It is simply a question of time."

You know what, he's right, we need to be prepared. We need to know the government is not only trying to prevent this from happening via thorough intelligence and security, but that the government can respond quickly and competently from such a disaster. But we know the Bush administration isn't interested in that. They are interested in fear.

So Mr Crumpton is simply saying "boo."

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Wow, when a bunch of people I disagree with a lot (gobs of lot) join together in anger about the spying issue, you know this time Bush isn't going to be able to just let the story fade.

Leading Conservatives Call for Extensive Hearings on NSA Surveillance; Checks on Invasive Federal Powers Essential

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances (PRCB) today called upon Congress to hold open, substantive oversight hearings examining the President's authorization of the National Security Agency (NSA) to violate domestic surveillance requirements outlined in the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, chairman of PRCB, was joined by fellow conservatives Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR); David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union; Paul Weyrich, chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation and Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, in urging lawmakers to use NSA hearings to establish a solid foundation for restoring much needed constitutional checks and balances to intelligence law.

"When the Patriot Act was passed shortly after 9-11, the federal government was granted expanded access to Americans' private information," said Barr. "However, federal law still clearly states that intelligence agents must have a court order to conduct electronic surveillance of Americans on these shores. Yet the federal government overstepped the protections of the Constitution and the plain language of FISA to eavesdrop on Americans' private communication without any judicial checks and without proof that they are involved in terrorism."

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If you are required a warrant you are required to gather enough evidence to prove to the judge that there is a reason for the government intrusion. Given the immediate need for action in terrorism issues the law allows the government 72 hours AFTER the fact to get a warrant.

The only reasons not to get a warrant is that you are lazy or that you are listening in on conversations that have nothing to do with national security.

It looks like the Bush administration is in fact lazy and listening in on conversations it doesn't need to.

Spy Agency Data After Sept. 11 Led F.B.I. to Dead Ends

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month.

But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans.

F.B.I. officials repeatedly complained to the spy agency that the unfiltered information was swamping investigators. The spy agency was collecting much of the data by eavesdropping on some Americans' international communications and conducting computer searches of phone and Internet traffic. Some F.B.I. officials and prosecutors also thought the checks, which sometimes involved interviews by agents, were pointless intrusions on Americans' privacy.
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More than a dozen current and former law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, including some in the small circle who knew of the secret program and how it played out at the F.B.I., said the torrent of tips led them to few potential terrorists inside the country they did not know of from other sources and diverted agents from counterterrorism work they viewed as more productive.

"We'd chase a number, find it's a schoolteacher with no indication they've ever been involved in international terrorism - case closed," said one former F.B.I. official, who was aware of the program and the data it generated for the bureau. "After you get a thousand numbers and not one is turning up anything, you get some frustration."

Bush's program is actually making America less safe. The warrant requirement mandates that there be a real reason for the government snooping. This requirement weeds out many pointless searches giving agents more manpower to investigate real potential threats.

You know the whole separating the wheat from chafe bit?

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What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy: Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black -- considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible -- you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization -- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.

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KBR/Halliburton was involved in the Spanish American War?
(I mean we're all still paying for that war too)

3 Percent Fee On Cell Phones Started 107 Years Ago

Annie Brinkman and her friend, Stacey Lemle, don't know it, but every time they use their cell phones, they are supporting the war effort -- the Spanish-American War.

The 1898 war involved Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.

The fee began as a luxury tax on phones at the turn of the 19th Century. And we're all still paying for it today.

Phone bills don’t specify that the tax originates from the Spanish-American War. It is labeled as the federal excise tax, which amounts to 3 percent of every monthly bill.

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Back in the day it was called "Looting and plundering"

Now its called "inadequate accounting procedures in a time of war"

Whatever it is called, its good money... billions


Some Iraq Rebuilding Funds Go Untraced

More than 18 months after the Pentagon disbanded the Coalition Provisional Authority that ran Iraq, neither the Justice Department nor a special inspector general has moved to recover large sums suspected of disappearing through fraud and price gouging in reconstruction.

Earlier audits by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction -- a post Congress created in late 2004 -- found that oversight of contractors by the Authority was so lax that widespread abuse was likely.
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The Coalition Provisional Authority, which existed from shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003 until June 2004, was allocated more than $38 billion in U.S. and Iraqi funds. It spent $19.7 billion of U.N.-administered Iraqi oil money.

Authority officials rapidly doled out the money, including $12 billion from the U.N. fund paid in cash, as they scrambled to restore vital services and impose order in Iraq. Concerns that contracts weren't being sufficiently monitored led Congress to create the office of the special inspector general and vest it with powers to investigate money misspent or unaccounted for by the Authority.

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Now that it is getting safer to say it, Hillary says the obvious:

"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence," she said. "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

But its never to late to state the obvious Senator Clinton, so thank you.

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Fear drives out reason. Fear suppresses the politics of discourse and opens the door to the politics of destruction.
- Al Gore

More:

The founders of our country faced dire threats. If they failed in their endeavors, they would have been hung as traitors. The very existence of our country was at risk. Yet in the teeth of those dangers, they insisted on establishing the full Bill of Rights.

Is our Congress today in more danger than were their predecessors when the British army was marching on the Capitol?

Is the world more dangerous than when we faced an ideological enemy with tens of thousands of nuclear missiles ready to be launched on a moment's notice to completely annihilate the country?

Is America really in more danger now than when we faced worldwide fascism on the march, when the last generation had to fight and win two world wars simultaneously?

It is simply an insult to those who came before us and sacrificed so much on our behalf to imply that we have more to be fearful of than they did.

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Men feared witches and burnt women
- Justice Brandeis

via Al Gore

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If your a soldier risking your life for America and you purchase your own armor to increase your likely hood of surviving Iraq the Army will take revenge against your kin.

Army Orders Soldiers to Shed Dragon Skin or Lose SGLI Death Benefits

Two deploying soldiers and a concerned mother reported Friday afternoon that the U.S. Army appears to be singling out soldiers who have purchased Pinnacle's Dragon Skin Body Armor for special treatment. The soldiers, who are currently staging for combat operations from a secret location, reported that their commander told them if they were wearing Pinnacle Dragon Skin and were killed their beneficiaries might not receive the death benefits from their $400,000 SGLI life insurance policies. The soldiers were ordered to leave their privately purchased body armor at home or face the possibility of both losing their life insurance benefit and facing disciplinary action. ... On Saturday morning a soldier affected by the order reported to DefenseWatch that the directive specified that "all" commercially available body armor was prohibited.

I understand the need for uniformity in an army. Uniformity removes enough belief in individuality to make one more willing to take personal risk. It is part of keeping a disciplined military force. It is part of keeping the Army strong, and America needs its military. But our military is being abused by men hiding behind desks. Young men are risking their lives for the dreams of empire of old boys. If the defense department is unwilling to adequately armor its troops because they feel the money can be better spent by their friends over at KBR then the troops should at least be allowed to protect themselves.

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In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of Martin Luther King

In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power -- the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.

His speech -- which compares the wiretapping of Martin Luther King to the broad surveillance now imposed on Americans by President Bush -- called on Congress to resume its oversight responsibilities, and enjoined Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special prosecutor.

Read the speech.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Impeachment Update

Specter: If Bush Broke The Law With Warrantless Spying, Impeachment Is A Remedy

Today on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) — who plans to hold hearings on Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program — upped the ante. He said that if it is determined that Bush broke the law, both impeachment and criminal prosecution are legitimate remedies:

STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, if the president did break the law or circumvent the law, what’s the remedy?

SPECTER: Well, the remedy could be a variety of things. A president — and I’m not suggesting remotely that there’s any basis, but you’re asking, really, theory, what’s the remedy? Impeachment is a remedy. After impeachment, you could have a criminal prosecution, but the principal remedy, George, under our society is to pay a political price.

Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping

By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12.

The poll found that 52% agreed with the statement:

"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment."

43% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 2.9% margin of error.

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Hearts and Minds Update

Rice defends bloody CIA raid as Pakistan protests

America defended its attempt to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy leader of al-Qaeda, today as protests grew in Pakistan over the botched missile strike which killed at least 17 people.

Missiles fired by an unmanned US drone destroyed three buildings in Dambola, a village in the Bajur tribal region on the lawless border of Pakistan and Afghanistan early on Friday.
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The raid, which happened at 3 o'clock in the morning, killed at least 17 people, mostly women and children. Despite US claims that al-Qaeda operatives could be among the dead, the strike prompted thousands to protest in several Pakistani cities over the weekend, chanting "Death to American aggression".

Our excuse is that member of al Qaeda could be among the dead? I bet if we nuked any major city at least one or two al Qaeda members would be dead. Is that what we think makes such actions "okay?"

"I would just say to the Pakistani Government and the Pakistani people, we are allies in the War on Terror, that we've made a lot of progress by their co-operation in the War on Terror. The biggest threat to Pakistan of course is what al-Qaeda has done in trying to radicalise the country," she added.

But Dr Rice did acknowledge the disruption the attack has caused. On Saturday, Islamabad lodged a formal protest with the US over the attack and summoned the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Ryan Crocker, to the Foreign Ministry.

Today, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League party, which generally supports co-operation with America, will hold a rare protest meeting.

"It's obviously difficult at this time for the Pakistani government," said Dr Rice. "We'll continue to work with the Pakistanis and we'll try to address their concerns."

Hmm... concern one: You shoot at us.

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