New studies are finding strong carcinogen Benzine in popular soft drinks:

Apparently this chemical is a byproduct of the preservative sodium benzoate, and ascorbic acid (vitamin C).

Even "relatively short periods" of exposure at that level can "potentially cause
… temporary nervous system disorders, immune system depression [and] anemia,"
according to the agency. A lifetime of exposure, says the EPA, can cause
"chromosome aberrations [and] cancer."

Almost as alarming as the existence of benzene in soft
drinks is that the FDA knew about the problem for more than 15 years, yet never
revealed it to the public or took adequate measures to fix it. Even the latest
round of tests would not have been conducted if it weren't for documents posted on the internet
late last year by an industry whistleblower named Larry Alibrandi. Those papers
concern an undisclosed study at Cadbury-Schweppes in 1990 called Project Denver,
which found that certain soft drinks, particularly diet orange-flavored sodas,
had the tendency to form benzene when exposed to heat and light.

Although the report doesn't actually mention Fresca, it is a diet citrus soda that I have been drinking for years. I am so happy that the FDA didn't bother to let me know. I understand, cuz.. y'know... that would be terrible for the soft drink business. And I certainly don't want that.

Of course not, that would be terrible for America.

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BREAKING: Bush Administration Spy Scandal Extends to Physical Searches (via DailyKos)
Here's a video clip of Keith Oberman reporting that US News & World Report will be running a story on the Bush administration's alleged illegal searches of terror suspects homes without warrants. This is roundly equivalent to the nullifying the 4th ammendment of the constitution. As one DailyKos poster quipped "Time to cue the angry mobs." Rise up America, your house is on fire.

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Michael sent this over:



Army of one. This explains a lot about Bush and Rummy's idea of the operation of our Defense Department.

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New GOP Congressional Talking Point: We didn't stand up for America!

GOP Irritation At Bush Was Long Brewing

President Bush's troubles with congressional Republicans, which erupted during the backlash to the Dubai seaport deal, are rooted in policy frustrations and personal resentments that GOP lawmakers say stretch back to the opening days of the administration.

For years, the Bush White House and its allies on Capitol Hill seemed like one of the most unified teams Washington had ever seen, passing most of Bush's agenda with little dissent. Privately, however, many lawmakers felt underappreciated, ignored and sometimes bullied by what they regarded as a White House intent on running government with little input from them.

They shirked their responsibility to the American people.

They are a check on the power of the President. They choose what treaties to ratify. They choose what goes in the budget. They have the power to audit and investigate. Congress is the only division of the government given the power to declare war.

The Republican Congress has had control this entire time and cowered before Bush this entire time. His whims were their marching orders.

But Bush is unpopular so their grand re-election message is that they didn't like being doormats.

Wow, that makes them a hell of a lot more pathetic than the Democratic Congressional election, and that is saying something.

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Here's some fun from the WorldNUTDaily! (okay it is really the WorldNetDaily)
This site is an extremely conservative news site.

WorldNetDaily: Porn star says GOP drunks hit on her

WASHINGTON – Triple-X porn star Mary Carey, who last night dined for the second year in a row with Republican bigwigs at a fund-raiser featuring President Bush, says some drunken GOP activists "hit on her" at such events.

While the National Republican Congressional Committee had no problem taking money from Cary and her pornographer escort, the hard-core starlet complained that other members of the GOP wouldn't allow her to attend a luncheon last week in the capital.
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Asked how the Republicans treat her personally, she replied: "Well, the women were kind of snobby with me on the phone. They were like, 'I understand that Mary Carey wants to attend the dinner.' But, the guys in the NRCC are very, very nice. I signed autographs for the Secret Service last time I was there. I've gotten hit on by lots of drunk Republicans."

She declined to provide names.
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Meanwhile, Carey, a former novelty candidate for California governor , did attend the United to Victory dinner with Bush. She also had lunch at a related event the day before where Bush adviser Karl Rove was the guest speaker.

"I'm really excited to be going back to Washington, D.C., to see the president again," said Carey. "Everyone thinks that politicians are stuffy, but we all had a great time last year, and I had fun signing a lot of autographs. Wait till they see that I have lost 20 pounds since the last time they saw me. Watch out Mr. President!"

But check out the last sentence:

Despite having numerous sexual partners, she remains proud of her occupation.

Is it me or is that weird little bit just a tad too telling? I would understand many people having problem with porn believing that it trivializes sex, demeans women and relationships, is emotionally deadening, and more; but the reporter's problem seems only to be that she has sex a lot.

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Brilliant

The same pundits come on tv over and over again, and they are wrong over and over and their past performance is never called into question. They are there to supposedly inform, if they are wrong - maybe they shouldn't be called on to inform any more.

"The Final Word Is Hooray!"

Weeks after thse invasion of Iraq began, Fox News Channel host Brit Hume delivered a scathing speech critiquing the media's supposedly pessimistic assessment of the Iraq War.

"The majority of the American media who were in a position to comment upon the progress of the war in the early going, and even after that, got it wrong," Hume complained in the April 2003 speech
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Days or weeks into the war, commentators and reporters made premature declarations of victory, offered predictions about lasting political effects and called on the critics of the war to apologize. Three years later, the Iraq War grinds on at the cost of at least tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Around the same time as Hume's speech, syndicated columnist Cal Thomas declared (4/16/03): "All of the printed and voiced prophecies should be saved in an archive. When these false prophets again appear, they can be reminded of the error of their previous ways and at least be offered an opportunity to recant and repent. Otherwise, they will return to us in another situation where their expertise will be acknowledged, or taken for granted, but their credibility will be lacking."

Gathered here are some of the most notable media comments from the early days of the Iraq War.

Read on.

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How about this campaign slogan:

Vote for Accountability.

for example: Lawmaker says storm probe was rebuffed
GOP Senators refused to subpoena White House

Thanks to: First Draft.

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How is this for a campaign idea for 2006:

A Republican Congress Will Do Everything Bush Wants
As They Have Done All Along
They Have Allowed And Will Continue To Let Bush Bring America Down

Put America On The Right Path

Bill Would Allow Warrantless Spying

The Bush administration could continue its policy of spying on targeted Americans without obtaining warrants, but only if it justifies the action to a small group of lawmakers, under legislation introduced yesterday by key Republican senators.

Hell why not just shorten it to:

One Party Rule Is Not Working.

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It's a question of priorities

Work to secure our ports

or

Work to defend America from Darth Maul

Well, you know what the GOP is leaning towards.

Think Progress - Right-Wing Blocks Funding For Port Security, Disaster Preparedness

Moments ago, the House of Representatives narrowly defeated an amendment proposed by Rep. Martin Sabo (D-MN) that would have provided $1.25 billion in desperately needed funding for port security and disaster preparedness.

– $300 million to enable U.S. customs agents to inspect high-risk containers at all 140 overseas ports that ship directly to the United States. Current funding only allows U.S. customs agents to operate at 43 of these ports.

– $400 million to place radiation monitors at all U.S. ports of entry. Currently, less than half of U.S. ports have radiation monitors.

– $300 million to provide backup emergency communications equipment for the Gulf Coast.

Meanwhile, the Bush budget – which most of the members who voted against this bill will likely support – contains an increase of $1.7 billion for missile defense, a program that doesn’t even work.

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Dick's pals.

No wonder Bush, Cheney, and Rummy are so fond of Halliburton. Their incompetence kills too (though it looks like, thankfully, no one actually died from this).

Firm Failed to Protect U.S. Troops' Water

WASHINGTON (AP) - Halliburton Co. failed to protect the water supply it is paid to purify for U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq, in one instance missing contamination that could have caused "mass sickness or death,'' an internal company report concluded.

The report, obtained by The Associated Press, said the company failed to assemble and use its own water purification equipment, allowing contaminated water directly from the Euphrates River to be used for washing and laundry at Camp Ar Ramadi in Ramadi, Iraq.
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The contaminated, non-chlorinated water at Ar Ramadi was discovered in March 2005 in a commode by Ben Carter, a KBR water expert at the base. In an interview, Carter said he resigned after KBR barred him from notifying the military and senior company officials about the untreated water.

A supervisor at Ar Ramadi "told me to stop e-mailing'' company officials outside the base and warned that informing the military "was none of my concern,'' Carter said. He said he threatened to sue if company officials didn't let him be examined to determine whether he suffered medical problems from exposure to the contaminated water.

Granger's report cited several countrywide problems:
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-Confusion between KBR and military officials over their respective roles. For instance, each assumed the other would chlorinate the water at Ar Ramadi for any uses that would require the treatment.

-Inadequate or nonexistent records that could have caught problems in advance. Little or no documentation was kept on water inventories, safety stand-downs, audits of water quality, deliveries, inspections and logs showing alterations or modifications to water systems.

-Relying on employees the company identified as semiskilled labor, and paid as unskilled workers in the pay structure.

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Tom Harkin - A Senate Democrat who has a spine.

Tom Harkin: Why I Fully Support Bush Censure

We have a President who likes to break things. He has broken the federal budget, running up $3 trillion in new debt. He has broken the Geneva Conventions, giving the green light to torture. He has repeatedly broken promises – and broken faith – with the American people. And now, worst of all, he has broken the law.

In brazen violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), he ordered the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. And, despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.

Let's be clear: No American – and that must include the President – is above the law. And if we fail to hold Bush to account, then he will be confirmed in his conviction that he can pick and choose among the laws he wants to obey. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.

So it is time for Congress to stand up and say enough! That's why, this week, Senator Russ Feingold proposed a resolution to censure George W. Bush for breaking the FISA law. And that's why I fully support this resolution of censure.

Nothing is more important to me than the security of our country. Of course, we need to be listening to the terrorists' conversations. And sometimes there is not time to get a warrant. That's why the FISA law allows the President, when necessary, to wiretap first, and obtain a warrant afterward.

Word to other Democratic Senators: What the hell are you scared of?

The President? He has an approval rating (in the time of war no less) of less then 35%. Are you worried that those 35% of the people won't vote for you?

What the hell?

The people that support Bush now are physically unable to vote for a Democrat anyway - you will lose no votes! You will only gain, politically, ethically, morally, and in helping the country you love.

So what are some of you scared of?

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It is a sad fact that in our world their our many countries where the judiciary is victim to harassment and threats of physical violence, often to force judges to adhere to their particular political views.

These are the steps towards despotism. Rule by thugs.

America believes it should be a beacon of freedom. So let us march into these nations and declare "this must stop. A judiciary that isn't free to judge on their understanding of law is a sign that the nation isn't free."

First stop: America.... oh, crap.

Supreme Court Justice Reveals Death Threats

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor have been the targets of death threats from the "irrational fringe" of society, people apparently spurred by Republican criticism of the high court.

"Apparently" eh?

Americablog has a good run down and followup to that article: Republican talk of "activist judges" is causing death threats against Supreme Court justices

Security concerns among judges have been growing.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter joked earlier this year that Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned. Over the past few months O'Connor has complained that criticism, mainly by Republicans, has threatened judicial independence to deal with difficult issues like gay marriage.

Worry is not limited to the Supreme Court. Three quarters of the nation's 2,200 federal judges have asked for government-paid home security systems, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said this week.

Ginsburg said the Web threat was apparently prompted by legislation in Congress, filed by Republicans, that would bar judges from relying on foreign laws or court decisions.

"It is disquieting that they have attracted sizable support. And one not-so-small concern - they fuel the irrational fringe," she said in a speech posted online by the court earlier this month and first reported Wednesday by LegalTimes.com.

Read his post, and be troubled.

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Missouri GOP seeks to increase the number of abortions.

They are not pro-life. They are actively taking measures that will increase abortions.

They are anti-sex.

In the Simpsons when comic-book guy (and others) gained power in the city, he declared sex should only occur every seven years (like on planet Vulcan). His reasoning. That was his how often he had sex.

Missouri House rejects spending for birth control

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - An attempt to resume state spending on birth control got shot down Wednesday by House members who argued it would have amounted to an endorsement of promiscuous lifestyles.

Missouri stopped providing money for family planning and certain women's health services when Republicans gained control of both chambers of the Legislature in 2003.

But a Democratic lawmaker, in a little-noticed committee amendment, had successfully inserted language into the proposed budget for the fiscal year starting July 1 that would have allowed part of the $9.2 million intended for "core public health functions" to go to contraception provided through public health clinics.

Are they saying a married monogamous woman should have to stop having sex because she already has 3 children?

What, are they pushing the Rhythm Method? And so when that woman is pregnant they won't let her have an abortion because the GOP just loves all unborn life. But as soon as the baby is born they don't give a damn and will make sure no services are available for the child if the woman's family can't support the burden of another child. And then you hear (and you will hear it) "it serves her right, she didn't have to have sex." But I thought they loved the child. You are punishing the child because the child's mother participated in one of the most natural and biologically driven activities there is?

Or are they are willing to punish a wed mom's child because they don't want single woman to have sex? How sweet of them. Guess what, lack of birth control won't stop people having sex, or haven't you noticed that there are people on this planet.

These are angry people. These are extremists. And they are starting to act on their power now.

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George Pyle for Adbusters:

American Agriculture Increasingly Resembles A Soviet Failure

If Stalin could see American Agriculture today, he's assume his forced
collectivisation had caught on. Like its Soviet predecessor, modern American
farming is characterized by centralization: an absence of open markets,
decision-making by distant officials, and growing techniques which poison and
exhaust the land.

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Oh what would Katharine think.

Media Matters - Wash. Post falsely reported that Americans approve of Bush's "wiretapping tactics"

Summary: Washington Post staff writer Shailagh Murray reported, in an article about Sen. Russ Feingold's censure resolution, that Democrats are "wary of polls showing that a majority of Americans side with the president on wiretapping tactics." Actually, polls consistently show that most Americans disapprove of the wiretapping tactics the administration has used -- specifically, conducting surveillance without seeking or obtaining a warrant.

Americablog: Washington Post. Sloppy Journalism. Stop it. Now.

That's why liberal blogs are constantly berating the traditional media. Because the traditional media is made up of a growing number of increasingly sloppy children. And their sloppiness is now jeopardizing our democracy. It's gotten us into a war that's a disaster, and it's helped re-elect a president who isn't capable of managing our country. All because the traditional media let themselves be emasculated and lobotomized rather than simply doing their job.

To wit, this lead sentence from tomorrow's front-page Washington Post story on Senator Feingold's censure resolution:

For months the Democrats have resisted calls from their liberal base to more aggressively challenge President Bush.

Calls from their "liberal base?" Really? Where did you get that from? Seriously. I want facts. How did the Washington Post determine that it was the "liberal base" of the Democratic party that has been the driving force calling for Dems to challenge President Bush?

Actual real-life surveys show that most Democrats, and most Independents, have had it with Bush. Not just liberal Democrats, but all Democrats, and even most Independents.

So, seriously, where did the Washington Post get the facts to justify the very first line of its front page story about Senator Feingold? Nowhere, that's where.

They just made it up.

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Just a quick to TCS readers, you will probably appreciate this newsbolg as well called Alternet.

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2007 Budget Proposal on Yahoo! News Photos

Getting Bush what we wants is bad for America. Its as plain as day.



Isn't it interesting. The "fiscal responsibility" party controls every branch of government and - boom! Fiscal train wreck.

um - maybe this shouldn't be a secret anymore: Democrats are better for the economy.

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All this Feingold censure talk about the illegal wire taps reminds me of...


Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

But what is interesting is that we are learning that due to Bush taking liberties with our liberty he has encouraged sloppy lazy police work by the NSA and has indeed taken away from our safety.

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Bush blames the intelligence.

The intelligence was there - but he choose to only listen to the intelligence that agreed with his politics and went to war because he wanted too.

But the end result didn't have to be as bad as what is happening now in Iraq. A bad idea done right is often a lot better then a bad idea done badly.

But Bush also choose to ignore the good advice and listen only to the advice that agreed with his pipe dream.

Now we can read what he did not.

And think of how many thousands who may have been alive if he could have been, at least for a moment, burdoned with reality.

The Memory Hole > Future of Iraq Project

Starting in October 2001, about a year and a half before the US and its allies invaded Iraq, the State Department spearheaded an effort called the Future of Iraq Project. Dozens of Iraqi exiles and international experts were brought together to figure out how to create a new Iraq should Saddam Hussein somehow be taken out of power.

Within the project, seventeen working groups covered such areas as the justice system, local government, agriculture, media, education, and oil. The various working groups began meeting in July 2002 and continued through March/April 2003. Twelve of the groups released reports. The project cost $5 million.

The project's observations and recommendations were almost wholly ignored by the administration during its pre-war planning for the occupation. Soon after the invasion, though, CD-ROMs of the reports were sent to the staff of the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Among other things, the working groups foresaw the widespread looting in the aftermath of invasion and warned against quickly disbanding the Iraqi Army.

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The Carlyle Group and the ports

Carlyle Group explores acquisition of port operations

Private equity firm The Carlyle Group established a team to acquire public-purpose facilities such as ports a day after a United Arab Emirates company said it would transfer newly acquired operations at American ports to a U.S. organization.

D.C.-based Carlyle Group announced an eight-person team would invest in public-purpose infrastructure projects such as ports, transportation and water facilities, airports, bridges and stadiums.
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The new public infrastructure investment group is co-headed by Robert Dove, former executive vice president at Bechtel Enterprises, and Barry Gold, former managing director and co-head of the structured finance group at Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney.

"We are at a crossroads of the right market, right private equity firm and right team with complementary skills and experience," Gold says in a statement. "As a U.S. firm with exceptional experience in government contracting, Carlyle is now well positioned to invest in U.S. and other infrastructure either alone or as part of a consortium."

Ahh.. the Carlyle Group - A who's who of who's who.

James Baker
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush (once appointed by Carlyle to the board of one of Carlyle's acquisitions - dad was trying to get the boy a paying gig)
Frank Carlucci (former secretary of defense, college roommate with Donald Rumsfeld... that's just weird)
John Major (former British PM)
Fidel Ramos (former Philippine Pres)

All affiliated with Carlyle, even some bin Laden family members until October 2001 when the divested to save Carlyle (and the Bush family) embarrassment.

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The Free Press

Olbermann: There are execs at NBC "who do not like to see the current presidential administration criticized at all"

NBC, MSNBC, CNBC - they are all GE. GE is a defense contractor. It won't bite the hand that feeds it.

The free press becomes self-censoring.

CBS is owned by Westinghouse - don't want to lose government contracts there either.

Fox is owned by a wingnut.

There is no liberal media.

The web is the last place for true independent media - but the hemogenization of information and opinion that TV and to a lesser extend newspapers - used to offer is gone. That is a good thing.

But it is sad to see that the most accurate source of news on any of the news networks is Olbermann's supposed to be goofball show. And that The Daily Show - home of fake news - is more accurate then all of them.

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Let's state the obvious - because people aren't getting it.

I'd say pretty much everyone I know - even quite radical folks - are more then happy with the idea that the NSA is wiretapping suspected al Qaeda.

And if the NSA wants to wiretap someone in a hurry - that is understandable too.

We do need to have as best intelligence as possible to make America more secure.

And you know what the President is allowed to do that. He just needs a warrant. A warrant he can get 72 hours after he is starting the wire tap - so there is no need to wait when you've got a good lead.

And you know what - the FISA court has been pretty much a rubber stamp. Which makes sense. They want to make America more secure too. And you figure anything brought before the court is legitimate.

But Bush isn't bothering with the court or the law. Why? I don't know. The only reason I can think of is that he doesn't think it'd approve his wiretaps. Why wouldn't this rubber stamping authority approve. I don't know, no one knows. It is a "secret" program. But if he didn't think he'd get approval - it is highly likely that there isn't any there there on some of the people he is wiretapping.

And that is waste of time and resources. The FBI has already complained about NSA leads that our pointless.

The warrantless wiretapping makes for sloppy and lazy intelligence.

Bush's wire tapping program makes America less safe. Both from terrorists and from ourselves. Ben Franklin was right we are losing our liberty and we are less safe because of it.

Russ Feingold: Censuring the President

In the four-plus years since, everything changed. The President exploited the climate of anxiety, misusing the trust he was given in the wake of the attacks on 9/11 to, among other things, grab intrusive powers in the Patriot Act, and take us into a war in Iraq that has been a diversion from the critical fight against terrorism.

Serious questions remain about certain provisions in the Patriot Act that threaten the privacy of innocent Americans, and about the basis for the claims the administration made in leading us into the Iraq war. In both of those instances, Congress gave its approval to the President's actions, however mistaken that approval may have been.
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Today I will introduce a Senate resolution censuring the President.

The facts and the case for censure are clear. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, makes it a crime to wiretap American citizens without a court warrant - which is what the President has admitted doing. Before the program was revealed, he also misled Congress and the American people about the wiretapping that was being done. For example, at a 2004 speech in Buffalo, he said, "Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires, a wiretap requires a court order." And at a 2004 speech in my home state of Wisconsin, he said that "the government can't move on wiretaps or roving wiretaps without getting a court order."

Well he introduced it, and the other Democrats remembered that they are supposed to be the subservient party really didn't back him up:

Feingold Draws Little Support for Censure

Feingold, a potential presidential candidate, said on the Senate floor, "The president has violated the law and Congress must respond."

"A formal censure by Congress is an appropriate and responsible first step to assure the public that when the president thinks he can violate the law without consequences, Congress has the will to hold him accountable," Feingold said.

Even as he spoke, Democratic leaders held off the immediate vote that Majority Leader Bill Frist requested. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said he didn't know if there ever would be one. Durbin said that Feingold had sought to use the censure resolution "as a catalyst" for thorough hearings and investigations.

The referral averted a debate and a vote that Democrats privately worried would alienate voters who could decide close elections.

Throughout the day, Feingold's fellow Democrats said they understood his frustration but they held back overt support for the resolution.

It isn't too late to tell your Senator what you feel.

Go to www.Senate.gov and get the contact info for your state's Senators. Remind them you love America, that you want America Safe and Free. Remind them that you vote.

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Oh Why the Hell Not.

Coming Soon: Army psychiatric reports for sale?

Your tax files for sale? IRS says go for it

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed a new rule that would let tax preparers sell or share a client's tax-return information with third parties, as long as they got the client's consent.

Three consumer organizations on Wednesday called the proposal shocking and urged the IRS to drop it.

They fear that many taxpayers could be rushed or duped into signing the consent form when they are signing their tax returns and related documents. They could end up losing control over financial data they wouldn't want their closest friends or family to see, much less outside marketing and database firms.

Would this be something like a checkbox when you are filling out Turbo Tax. Imagine how many damn checkboxes you check without reading everything. Imagine the terms and agreements checkbox at the beginning includes the line deep in the small print "If you use online return filing Intuit can sell any data we receive on our servers" or some crap (no offense against Intuit - just an example).

Not only that, I could see lobbying firms a few years from now complaining that the whole "consent" part was too much of a constrain on business - and let's just let us sell what we want.

Maybe we should require every Senator and Congressman who votes on this make all of their filings - say for the past 20 years - public. That'd stop this idea - dead.

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