Political Tests

A couple of tests that will teach you a little more about your positioning on the political scale:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

http://www.okcupid.com/politics

I have noticed that the tests results will vary depending on whether you answer the questions based on your ideals, or how you think things are realistically feasable.

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Enough is never enough for Rupert Murdoch.

Since Murdoch's News Corp made a recent aquisition of Myspace.com, he and his empire have commenced to cleaning house.

Ross Levinsohn, head of News Corp’s internet division, said some of the
material taken down contained “hate speech”. Some of it, he said, was “too
risqué”.

“It’s a problem that’s endemic to the internet – not just MySpace,” Mr
Levinsohn said. “The site, in the last two months, I think has become
safer.”

(Btw, bashing Republican politicians is hate speech.)

Is it me or do the mutually exclusive terms "News" and "Corp" make anyone else want to cry?

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Condoleezza Rice Underestimates Again:

"I know we've made tactical errors, thousands of them I'm sure," Rice told an audience gathered by the British foreign policy think tank Chatham House.

Emphasis Added.

From: ABC News: Rice Concedes Errors in Iraq, Elsewhere

BLACKBURN, England Mar 31, 2006 (AP)— Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conceded Friday that the United States probably has made thousands of "tactical errors" in Iraq and elsewhere, but said it will be judged by its larger aims of peace and democracy in the Middle East.

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FISA supports Bush making it up as he goes along... Surprised?

I am not quite sure why this seemed to slip under the radar... Maybe it is just me, but I wasn't aware of this new development.

A panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday
told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act
illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by
the National Security Agency (NSA).

The five judges testifying before the committee said they could not speak specifically to the NSA listening program without being briefed on it, but that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not override the president's constitutional
authority to spy on suspected international agents under executive order.

Apparently this only applies to spying on international agents, but it seems to me they don't really slap his wrist for using that program to spy domestically, on what the administration perceives to be a potential "threat". The guidlelines for what and who are considered threats to national security have yet to be defined by anyone.

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At Diebold testing a machine voids the warranty

New vote machines ignite feud in Emery

After 23 years as Emery County clerk, Bruce Funk will decide this morning whether he will resign because he cannot endorse an election on Utah's new voting machines.

"In no way could I feel comfortable with these machines," Funk said Monday. "I don't want to be part of something that put into question the results that come out of Emery County."
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But Diebold told the commissioners that allowing unauthorized people access to the machines had violated their integrity.

It could cost upwards of $40,000 to fly in technicians to retest them.

Joe Demma, chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert, the state's chief elections officer, was plainly incensed with Funk for allowing Black Box to probe the machines.

"The problem is that instead of asking us or Diebold, Bruce Funk allowed a third party to put the warranty in jeopardy," Demma said in a telephone interview from Emery County. "
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Diebold's $40,000 estimate is exaggerated to frighten other clerks from questioning the machines' integrity, Funk said. "What they are really saying is, 'We don't want anyone else to think of doing this.' "

23 years of service vs. people selling you a machine that costs $40,000 just to retest. Well you can just guess who's going to when that.

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First we got the bomb, and that was good
'Cause we love peace and motherhood
Then Russia got the bomb, but that's okay
'Cause the balance of power's maintained that way
Who's next
- Who's Next (Tob Lehrer)

Saudia Arabia working on secret nuclear program with Pakistan help

BERLIN (AFX) - Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear program, with help from Pakistani experts, the German magazine Cicero reported in its latest edition, citing Western security sources.

It says that during the Haj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia.

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Jack gets 5 years - 10 months (on his first case)

To shorten the next one he'll name names

Abramoff Gets Minimum Sentence

MIAMI, March 29 -- Jack A. Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist at the center of a major corruption scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison for his role in the fraudulent purchase of a fleet of casino cruise ships.
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...Abramoff faces the prospect of at least a few additional years in prison when he is sentenced in a separate case in Washington, D.C. However, lawyers said, his overall sentence ultimately could be reduced depending on his cooperation with federal investigators.
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In the Washington case, Abramoff pleaded guilty in January to federal charges of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials. His plea deal with federal prosecutors in that case required him to cooperate with a broad federal investigation of corruption involving members of Congress, congressional staffers, other lobbyists and employees of the Interior Department and other federal agencies.

Among the congressmen whose names have come up in the probe are Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), former chairman of the House Administration Committee, and Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), the former House majority leader.
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Abramoff also raised funds and made political contributions to President Bush while becoming a major player in Republican efforts to dominate Washington lobbying. He has claimed close ties to the Bush White House, although the president has publicly denied knowing him.

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Representative DeLay repents

Says that cruel budget cuts for programs for the poor funded by tax cuts to the rich not in keeping with Christian ideals. Admits fomenting hate against liberal judges and gays is an affront to the religion most Americans call there own. DeLay apologizes for the kickbacks he received from lobbyists (as paid vacations, etc.).

DeLay sees war on Christianity in U.S.

The Sugar Land Republican said some commentators — the "chattering classes" — will argue that there is no war on Christianity in this country.

"But in a sense, there always has been and always will be," he said. "Our faith has always been in direct conflict with the values of the world. We are, after all, a society that provides abortion on demand, has killed millions of innocent children, degrades the institution of marriage and all but treats Christianity like some second-rate superstition."
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Scarborough, the former pastor of the First Baptist Church in Pearland, is a long-time DeLay ally.

"This is a man, I believe, God has appointed ... to represent righteousness in government," Scarborough told the audience, which included Eagle Forum Founder Phyllis Schlafly, former ambassador Alan Keyes, and Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.

Ooops, my mistake.

I thought he was talking about the war on Christianity by people who use Jesus as a political prop in which to hide behind while stealing and plundering. But no it was just DeLay using Jesus as a prop to hide behind.

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Fake photo of Baghdad used to bolster GOP's claims?

One of these things is a LOT like the other...

A GOP candidate for Congress looks for a place in Iraq to take a picture showing how peaceful it is and he ends up in Turkey.

That is a screen shot from Howard Kaloogian for Conress website (the page now is gone).

As you can see Iraq is doing just fine. Nothing like a photo to prove your point. Heck why not join up to fight in Iraq you won't get hurt, you'll get to stroll along peaceful streets eating Edo ice cream.

Except it is a picture of a street in Turkey.

Yep if you look closely you'll see that is exactly the same street. Except for some reason this street is in Turkey.

There are some fantastic internet surfers out there to find this.

Credit for the amazing find is: jem6x and his Daily Kos Diary: Kaloogian fib photo mystery solved.

People first started to discuss the bogus picture at Democratic Underground: Fake photo of Baghdad used to bolster GOP's claims?

What pathetic fraud - Trying to pass off a picture of another country as Iraq just to help Bush look better.

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So what if "judges" think Bush is breaking the law.

Who's a judge to judge? Bush has made it clear that interpreting the law is part of his power. Judges are just something they have on TV like Judge Judy.

Judges on Secretive Panel Speak Out on Spy Program

In a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the secretive court, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, several former judges who served on the panel also voiced skepticism at a Senate hearing about the president's constitutional authority to order wiretapping on Americans without a court order. They also suggested that the program could imperil criminal prosecutions that grew out of the wiretaps.

Judge Harold A. Baker, a sitting federal judge in Illinois who served on the intelligence court until last year, said the president was bound by the law "like everyone else." If a law like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is duly enacted by Congress and considered constitutional, Judge Baker said, "the president ignores it at the president's peril."

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Is this tiny town in Alaska the future?

80 Eyes on 2,400 People

This is the Alaskan bush at its most remote. Here, tundra meets sea, and sea turns to ice for half the year. Scattered, almost hidden, in the terrain are some of the most isolated communities on American soil. People choose to live in outposts like Dillingham (pop. 2,400) for that reason: to be left alone.
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By mid-February, more than 60 cameras watched over the town, and the Dillingham Police Department plans to install 20 more — all purchased through a $202,000 Homeland Security grant meant primarily to defend against a terrorist attack.

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'Unit's' military expert has fighting words for Bush

Eric Haney, a retired command sergeant major of the U.S. Army, was a founding member of Delta Force, the military's elite covert counter-terrorist unit.
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Since he has devoted his life to protecting his country in some of the world's most dangerous hot spots, you might assume Haney is sympathetic to the Bush administration's current plight in Iraq (the laudatory cover blurb on his book comes from none other than Fox's News' Bill O'Reilly). But he's also someone with close ties to the Pentagon, so he's privy to information denied the rest of us.
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Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?

A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and ... pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term. That's why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.

We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for their own personal policies.

Q: What is the cost to our country?

A: For the first thing, our credibility is utterly zero. So we destroyed whatever credibility we had. ... And I say "we," because the American public went along with this. They voted for a second Bush administration out of fear, so fear is what they're going to have from now on.

Our military is completely consumed, so were there a real threat - thankfully, there is no real threat to the U.S. in the world, but were there one, we couldn't confront it. Right now, that may not be a bad thing, because that keeps Bush from trying something with Iran or with Venezuela.
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Q: As someone who repeatedly put your life on the line, did some of the most hair-raising things to protect your country, and to see your country behave this way, that must be ...

A: It's pretty galling. But ultimately I believe in the good and the decency of the American people, and they're starting to see what's happening and the lies that have been told. We're seeing this current house of cards start to flutter away. The American people come around. They always do.

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An excellent Tom the Dancing Bug strip. Please do read it.

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Why does Congress often think it is above the law?

Well for one think it seems that it is. Is Insider Trading legal on the hill?

Daily Kos: Insider-Trading by a Top DeLay Staffer in Congress?

Amid broad congressional concern about ethics scandals, some lawmakers are poised to expand the battle for reform: They want to enact legislation that would prohibit members of Congress and their aides from trading stocks based on nonpublic information gathered on Capitol Hill.

Two Democrat lawmakers plan to introduce today a bill that would block trading on such inside information. Current securities law and congressional ethics rules don't prohibit lawmakers or their staff members from buying and selling securities based on information learned in the halls of Congress.

It isn't clear yet what kind of support the bill will garner from Republicans.

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Mr. President, the nation is under attack, I'm resigning, and your pizza's here."

Andrew Card Resigns as White House Chief of Staff

White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. announced his resignation this morning after nearly 5 1/2 years as President Bush's top aide. Bush said Card will be replaced by Joshua B. Bolten, the director of the Office of Management and Budget.

He the Budget Director, well they've done wonders with the budget - its just grown and grown. The guy has a green thumb - let's see what he can do for the oval office.

Stop one: Find out how Karl Rove likes his coffee.

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Well with this happy thought about how Bush has failed to make any real security improvements - I'll go to bed.

Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.

The investigators purchased a "small quantity" of radioactive materials from a commercial source while posing as employees of a fictitious company and brought the materials into the United States through checkpoints on the northern and southern borders, according to a Government Accountability Office report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican.

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There is a multi-front battle against America's democracy going on right now. Some are attacks on our nation's security, some are attacks on the checks and balances of our government from a President who believes endless war grants him endless power, and some of the attacks are on the foundation of our democracy - our ability not only to vote, but our ability to have our vote be counted.

One good place to keep update on voting issues is: Brad Blog . Which had this fasinating piece: ES&S Vote Machine Memory Card Failures Spread to Other States!

As reported on March 9 and March 10 by The BRAD BLOG the folks in Summit Co. OH have discovered massive problems with memory cards on ES&S Electronic Voting Machines in recent tests. Some 30% of the cards completely failed.
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A week ago Tuesday, Texas experienced loads of problems (or "glitches" as Voting Machine Vendors and Election Officials enjoy minimizing them as) in their Primary Elections. Just a few of those reported in newspapers the day after are listed here.

Then yesterday the Akron Beacon Journal reported that, in fact, ES&S had contacted North Carolina. North Carolina, who lost some 4,500 votes completely via an electronic voting machine in Cartaret County during the 2004 Presidential Election, began checking their ES&S memory cards and have so far found more than 1,000 cards that to be bad!

And when you think of voting going awry - there's always Florida:

Election Whistle-Blower Stymied by Vendors

Supervisor Sancho shouldn't be surprised I mean what did he expect - demanding voting machines to actually record the votes.

MIAMI -- Among those who worry that hackers might sabotage election tallies, Ion Sancho is something of a hero.

The maverick elections supervisor in Leon County, Fla., last year helped show that electronic voting machines from one of the major manufacturers are vulnerable, according to experts, and would allow election workers to alter vote counts without detection.

Now, however, Sancho may be paying an unexpected price for his whistle-blowing: None of the state-approved companies here will sell him the voting machines the county needs.

Meanwhile Jimmy Carter has a post over at Daily Kos about his son's Senate Race. But read the comments which quickly get into an interesting discussion about voting.

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READ

The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration

George W. Bush and his most trusted advisers, Richard B. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, entered office determined to restore the authority of the presidency. Five years and many decisions later, they've pushed the expansion of presidential power so far that we now confront a constitutional crisis.

Relying on legal opinions from Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Professor John Yoo, then working in the State Department, Bush has insisted that there can be no limits to the power of the commander-in-chief in time of war. More recently the president has claimed that laws relating to domestic spying and the torture of detainees do not apply to him. His interpretation has produced a devilish conundrum.

President Bush has given Commander-in-Chief Bush unlimited wartime authority. But the "war on terror" is more a metaphor than a fact. Terrorism is a method, not an ideology; terrorists are criminals, not warriors. No peace treaty can possibly bring an end to the fight against far-flung terrorists. The emergency powers of the president during this "war" can now extend indefinitely, at the pleasure of the president and at great threat to the liberties and rights guaranteed us under the Constitution.

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My apologies Justice Scalia - you didn't give the finger.

Justice Scalia gives a sign, but no finger

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used an Italian hand gesture when questioned by a reporter after attending church this past weekend.

The Boston Herald reported Monday that the justice made "an obscene gesture under his chin" - which prompted some online reports that Scalia had used his middle finger.

Untrue.

"It was a hand off the chin gesture that was meant to be dismissive," Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.

Again, my apologies, Justic Scalia DID NOT flip the reporter the bird. But at least I was able to show the picture of Bush flipping of the camera again.

Meanwhile I still don't like many of Scalia's arguements (though I've agreed with more then a few too - even a broken clock is right... blah blah), but I will say this for him he doesn't give people the finger while at church.

I do think I actually have a problem with a reporter trying to get an interview with the Justice while he is going to church.

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Excellent Post:

Daily Kos: Do the Righteous and the Rich Really Need Privacy?

First, for the country club corporatists: Are you comfortable with the notion that the executive branch believes it can accumulate information on your attorney-client communications? All those patents pending, disturbing research studies you want to suppress, strategy discussions about doing a run-around EPA regulations, positioning yourself against your rival corporations? Sure, you gave to Bush-Cheney 2004 until it hurt, but what if a competitor gave until it hurt a little bit more?

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Okay how sad is this when a breaking news article declares it should be legal for Humans to help humans.

Senate panel: Humanitarian groups can help illegal immigrants

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Senate committee picked a fight with the House on Monday over immigration legislation by adopting a competing proposal allowing humanitarian groups to help illegal immigrants.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, that would protect church and charitable groups, as well as individuals, from criminal prosecution for providing food, shelter, medical care and counseling to undocumented immigrants.

The House voted in December to make offers of such nonemergency aid a felony.

As the inkeeper said to the young pregnant woman and her husband, "I'm sorry you can not stay in the manger, you might be an illegal immigrant and House Republicans don't want me to help you."

Seriously, why do so many in the Religious Right think GOP stands for "Gods Only Party," because way too often the Republicans don't act the way I was taught Christians were supposed to act.

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A sign of the times - thanks to Bush:

US debt clock running out of time, space

The national debt clock, as it is known, is a big clock. A spot-check last week showed a readout of 8.3 trillion -- or more precisely 8,310,200,545,702 -- dollars ... and counting.

But it's not big enough.

Sometime in the next two years, the total amount of US government borrowing is going to break through the 10-trillion-dollar mark and, lacking space for the extra digit such a figure would require, the clock is in danger of running itself into obsolescence.
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Toward the close of the millennium, with a booming economy fuelling annual budget surpluses, the clock began to slow and finally ran into its first mechanical problem.

"It wasn't designed to run backwards," Douglas Durst explained.

Believing that the signboard had served its purpose, the Dursts pulled the plug in 2000 with the debt total showing around 5.7 trillion dollars and the individual "family share" standing at close to 74,000 dollars.

The clock was covered with a red, white and blue curtain, but not dismantled.
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He only had to wait two years as the Bush presidency coincided with an upsurge in borrowing. The curtain was raised in 2002 and the digital readout flickered back to life showing a national debt of 6.1 trillion dollars with the numerals whizzing round faster than ever.

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But Bush Told Helen no President wants war.

Bush Told Helen that he didn't want to go to war.

But Bush Did.

I'm all pro-choice, but I don't like the idea of having a war of choice. War can, unfortunately (until humanity matures I guess), be a necessity. War shouldn't ever just be a matter of choice.

Bush not only chose to go to war - he wanted the war.

Bush Was Set on Path to War, Memo by British Adviser Says - New York Times

LONDON — In the weeks before the United States-led invasion of Iraq, as the United States and Britain pressed for a second United Nations resolution condemning Iraq, President Bush's public ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was blunt: Disarm or face war.

But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.

"Our diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning," David Manning, Mr. Blair's chief foreign policy adviser at the time, wrote in the memo that summarized the discussion between Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair and six of their top aides.
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The memo indicates the two leaders envisioned a quick victory and a transition to a new Iraqi government that would be complicated, but manageable. Mr. Bush predicted that it was "unlikely there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups." Mr. Blair agreed with that assessment.

The memo also shows that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a United States surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire, or assassinating Mr. Hussein.

So it wasn't weapons of mass destruction and it wasn't al Qaeda - so why did Bush want this war?

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Don't stand by as the constitution is shredded.

Citizen Action Steps: Phase One

For Phase One: The Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding more hearings on the illegal domestic NSA spying without a warrant on Tuesday. They will also be holding hearings on Sen. Russ Feingold’s censure resolution on Friday. We’d like to get their attention, and let them know that illegal actions of the President and upholding the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are issues about which Americans care deeply.

So here is what we want you to do:

We’re headed back to the FAX machines this morning. Please take some time to FAX the members of the Judiciary Committee and let them know how you feel about this issue.

But start with the following header, in big type, across the top of your missive:

U.S. Constitution: Do Not Shred

Read the post for Fax numbers of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Scalia brings dignity to the highest court of the land.

Justice Scalia flips the finger in church

BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics.
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"You know what I say to those people?" Scalia replied, making the obscene gesture and explaining "That's Sicilian."

The 20-year veteran of the high court was caught making the gesture by a photographer with The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper.

"Don't publish that," Scalia told the photographer, the Herald said.

Yes, this man is assigned to the job of being the final check on government power placing limits on the freedom of the press.

No wonder why he is Bush's favorite Justice:



(that photo is not photoshopped).

UPDATE / CORRECTION: Scalia didn't give the reporter the finger.

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Sen. Pat Roberts: "You Don't Have Civil Liberties If You're Dead"
George W. Bush couldn't be more fortunate than to have a leader of the Foreign Intelligence Committee like Senator Pat Roberts. It's like his role model is Dick Cheney. Roberts projects confidence and resolve, and, to anyone without a grasp of the facts, he's thoroughly convincing. Remember folks, this is the guy who has effectively blocked the investigation of the NSA spy scandal. Crooks and Liars has a disgusting video clip of this turd-pie touches many of the GOP talking points and wraps up with the classic line,"You don't have civil liberties if you're dead." Well, nice job, senator asshat-- now we only have them as ascribed by the emperor-- I mean unitary executive George Bush.

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