Sorry future politicians - don't be surprised if while running for office against a neo-con candidate that suddenly it is revealed you went to a site with the word "sucks" in its name.

Coming to this site may have destroyed your future, gosh that sucks, and we don't even have any nudes.

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room

AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.
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According to a statement released by Klein's attorney, an NSA agent showed up at the San Francisco switching center in 2002 to interview a management-level technician for a special job. In January 2003, Klein observed a new room being built adjacent to the room housing AT&T's #4ESS switching equipment, which is responsible for routing long distance and international calls.

"I learned that the person whom the NSA interviewed for the secret job was the person working to install equipment in this room," Klein wrote. "The regular technician work force was not allowed in the room."

Klein's job eventually included connecting internet circuits to a splitting cabinet that led to the secret room. During the course of that work, he learned from a co-worker that similar cabinets were being installed in other cities, including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.

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Diplomacy is so pre-9/11

Rumsfeld at war with reality opens up a new front against the state department. And as with his war with reality - lives are at stake.

Cannon fodder at State
The U.S. is sending diplomats into Iraq, but refusing to give them military protection. No wonder Foreign Service morale is collapsing.

Rather than being received as invaluable intelligence, the messages from Foreign Service officers are discarded or, worse, considered signs of disloyalty. Rejecting the facts on the ground apparently requires blaming the messengers. So far two top attachés at the embassy have been reassigned elsewhere for producing factual reports that were too upsetting, according to the State Department officials.

The Bush administration's preferred response to the increasing disintegration in Iraq is to act as if it has a strategy that is succeeding. "More delusion as a solution in the absence of a solution," a senior State Department official told me. Under the pretense that Iraq is being pacified, the U.S. military is partially withdrawing from hostile towns in the countryside and parts of Baghdad. By reducing the numbers of soldiers the administration can claim its policy is working going into the midterm elections. But the jobs that the military will no longer perform are being sloughed off onto State Department "provincial reconstruction teams" led by Foreign Service officers. The stated rationale is that the teams will win Iraqi hearts and minds by organizing civil functions.

The Pentagon has informed the State Department that it will not provide security for these officials and that State should hire mercenaries for protection instead.

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Bush Declares: Babyboomers are idiots

Really, he did. Let's read the wise words of our President: President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror

You know, growing up in Midland, Texas, we all felt pretty secure as a kid, mainly because we thought oceans could protect us. Now in my case, we were really far away from oceans, too, but nevertheless, it's -- when you think about it, though, if you're a baby boomer, like me, you think about what it was like growing up, we knew there was a nuclear threat. Of course we had put forth an interesting sounding strategy called "mutually assured destruction," which provided an umbrella for security and safety.

Okay, now I'm a post-boomer - those few people that had to grow up in the wasted wake of the babyboomers, also called "the seventies" - but I distinctly remember thinking I'd never even get this old. I was pretty sure I'd be so much radioactive dust by now. And yet even with that fear I never wanted my rights taken away (weird).

Also I never found Mutually assured destruction such a wonderful umbrella of safety and security - I found it troubling.

I grew up outside DC, and I remember in 5th grade (late seventies) my friends and I discussing with relief that when the war happened (not if) we were so close to ground zero that we would feel no pain. That was our safety and security.

Happily we were wrong. But we never thought the oceans would magically protect us. I don't know anyone who had such a stupid thought.

The boomer's parents clearly remember Pearl Harbor, they clearly remember San Francisco reacting to rumors of incoming Japanese subs. So the boomer's parents didn't think the oceans would protect us.

So the boomer's parents didn't think that, the baby busters didn't think that. So are the boomers really that idiotic?

Or is it just Bush?

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Bush has never veoted anything.

So when he talks about excercising the veto, you've got to worry that the poor ol' veto may have a heartattack what with having no excercise for over 5 years.

Bush Threatens Veto of Spending Bills

President Bush said Friday he would use his power to veto spending bills if Congress does not cut the federal budget as he has asked.

In over five years in office, Bush has never vetoed any bill. But he said that restraining spending was crucial to cutting the deficit in half by 2009 as he has promised. "If necessary, I will enforce spending restraint through the exercise of the veto," the president said.

Well they won't give him what he wanted and he won't veto and everyone will pretend that it went exactly the way they wanted.

Even the worst seventies TV show was written better then this piece of political opera. There is no tension and no one to route for. The budget will just happen and Chico will piss off the man.

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How I dearly wish I was not here
In the seaside town
...that they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come - nuclear bomb

Everyday is like sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
(and on your face...)
- Morrissey (Everyday is like Sunday)

In the wilderness, a computer readies a new nuclear arsenal

The Bush Administration this week revealed a plan for replacing America’s ageing nuclear weapons stockpile, under which 125 new bombs a year would be made by 2022.

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More about the questionable U.S. - Israel relationship:

As more people tune in to the close relationship between the U.S. and Israel, more figures from mainstream media and politics are raising flags as to just what that relationship is, who is benefitting, and why.

"LEADING U.S. ACADEMICS SAY ‘ISRAEL A LIABILITY’ FOR U.S." - American Free Press

Also, the latest issue in Adbusters magazine presented a controversial viewpoint on the potential for "dual loyalties" to the U.S. and Israel of many U.S. citizens could very well create a real conflict of interests politically. They also go on to examine how those interests may be strongly influencing our interests and foreign policy in the Middle East.

Unfortunately I cannot find any link to an online version of the article, but if you interested in this topic you might want to check it out at the newsstand. Adbusters is a fantastic read.

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It's the end of the net as we know it (and I don't feel fine)

Net neutrality fans lose on Capitol Hill

Under Network neutrality, the companies that own the broadband pipes do not configure their networks in a way that plays favorites. They may not be allowed to transmit their own services at faster speeds, for example, or to charge Net content and application companies a fee for similar fast delivery.

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon.com, Skype and some advocacy groups have been pressing Congress for strict laws requiring Net neutrality, and had been hoping that Barton's bill--called the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act--would mandate it.

"eBay believes that Congress should stand up on behalf of Internet users and small businesses so that they can continue to have unfettered access to all content, applications and services that they wish to use now or in the future," Hani Durzy, the communications director at the auction giant, wrote in an e-mail message Monday. "The Net neutrality provisions in the legislation released today...fall woefully short of that goal."

Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, took aim at Barton's proposal on Monday. "This legislation begins the construction of a multilayered, toll-strewn information superhighway that is out of sync with what has made the Internet work: access for all," said Wyden, who introduced his own bill earlier this month mandating Net neutrality.

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The GOP is weak on national security.

AMERICAblog: 22 Chinese nationals sneak into US inside uninspected ship cargo - could have just as easily been Al Qaeda or a nuke

Yes, want to get a nuke into the US? Forget the Mexican border. Just ship it legally.

Bush has known this for four and half years and done NOTHING about it. And today, by simple luck, we catch 22 Chinese nationals in a shipping container that, by chance, was selected to be examine, some day, but in the meantime the Chinese slipped out of it and were caught elsewhere.

Fortunately, the Democrats are going to fix the problem while the Republicans refuse. Two Democratic members of Congress got an amendment passed today in a House committee, and the amendment requires 100% of incoming cargo to be inspected - not the paltry 5% that George Bush and the Republicans have been comfortable checking.

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Like the 5th Grade Bully who runs into the tree, Rummy calls out "I meant to do that!"

Rumsfeld Challenges Rice on 'Tactical Errors' in Iraq

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he did not know what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was talking about when she said last week that the United States had made thousands of "tactical errors" in handling the war in Iraq, a statement she later said was meant figuratively.

Speaking during a radio interview on WDAY in Fargo, N.D., on Tuesday, Rumsfeld said calling changes in military tactics during the war "errors" reflects a lack of understanding of warfare. Rumsfeld defended his war plan for Iraq but added that such plans inevitably do not survive first contact with the enemy.

So he never heard of having contingency plans? Wasn't the pentagon once famous for having dozens of scenarios planned out for every decision they made? The biggest tactical error Rumsfeld made was not retiring on his first day. He has been a disaster, even if Iraq wasn't an issue it would take a decade to get the Pentagon back into shape. Planning and logistics win wars a hell of a lot more then invisible force fields around tanks or whatever the hell Rummy is spending money on.

Planning saves lives, but Rummy doesn't seem to believe in planning, because planning means you have to consider some things may not go to plan. Rummy thinks such thoughts are unproductive if not seditious.

Our military's logistical planning was a wonder of the world. We could make a hospital appear out of thin air in hours. Now we've farmed out everything but shooting (and we did that too actually) to Hallibrton and other private companies. Now if we want something built to support our troops the area has to be secured, the roads guarded, and the air conditioning turned on before KBR will come and put up a latrine.

Rumsfeld has been a disaster.

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Still wondering what the "appropriate action" is? I guess the appropriate action is to do nothing.

In June 2004, Bush replied "yes" when asked if he would fire anyone who leaked the agent's name.

In other statements, Bush has pledged to "take the appropriate action" if anyone in his administration leaked classified information.

Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff has testified that President Bush authorized him to disclose the contents of a highly classified intelligence assessment to the media to defend the Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq, according to papers filed in federal court on Wednesday by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case.

Libby testified to a federal grand jury that he had received "approval from the President through the Vice President" to divulge portions of a National Intelligence Estimate.

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified to a federal grand jury that he had received "approval from the President through the Vice President" to divulge portions of a National Intelligence Estimate regarding Saddam Hussein's purported efforts to develop nuclear weapons, according to the court papers. Libby was said to have testified that such presidential authorization to disclose classified information was "unique in his recollection," the court papers further said.

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Have you seen the bigger piggies in their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies stirring up the dirt,
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their styes with all their backing they don’t care what goes on around,
In their eyes there’s something lacking,
What they need’s a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there’s lots of piggies living piggie lives,
You can see them out for dinner with their piggie wives,
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
- The Beatles

Citizens Against Government Waste: 2006 report

The guilty pleas of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham illustrate how pork-barrel projects, whether used as currency for re-election or as political favors to well-connected individuals or businesses, can corrupt the political process. The historic lack of restraint in the appropriations process has helped create a projected $371 billion budget deficit in fiscal 2006 and a national debt of $8.5 trillion. Whether the lobbying scandal and the outrage of taxpayers over “bridges to nowhere” will force Congress to cut the pork remains to be seen.

The 2006 Congressional Pig Book is the latest installment of Citizens Against Government Waste’s (CAGW) 16-year exposé of pork-barrel spending. This year’s list includes: $13,500,000 for the International Fund for Ireland, which helped finance the World Toilet Summit; $6,435,000 for wood utilization research; $1,000,000 for the Waterfree Urinal Conservation Initiative; and $500,000 for the Sparta Teapot Museum in Sparta, N.C.
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Even though Alaska led the nation with $489 per capita ($325 million), it was less than half of Alaska’s 2005 per capita number of $985. The runners up in 2006 were Hawaii with $378 per capita ($482 million) and the District of Columbia with $182 per capita ($100 million). Alaska’s drop can be attributed to Sen. Ted Stevens’ (R-Alaska) descent from the throne as Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman.

Update: A phunkster noticed this bit from From the Homeland Security Section of the Pig Book:

$10,000,000 added by the House for the Intercity Bus Security Grant Program, which is meant to improve driver protection, passenger screening, tracking and communication between buses, and overall security assessment. While the individual grants continue to fund profitable companies, such as Coach and Greyhound, the most ridiculous grant in fiscal 2005 was $46,908 for Hampton Jitney, Inc. The Jitney is known primarily for shuttling wealthy New Yorkers to their summer homes in the Hamptons. The company has recently added a limousine service that promises "a custom tailored limousine ride for an unforgettable day."

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Quick Diebold update



Daily Kos: Election official locked out in Utah for noticing Diebold memory problem

and

Blackwell reports embarrassing buy of Diebold stock

Columbus -Secretary of State Ken Blackwell made an embarrassing announcement Monday: He accidentally bought stock in Diebold Inc., a voting machine maker that benefited from decisions made by his office.

In a required filing with the Ohio Ethics Commission, the GOP gubernatorial hopeful said his hefty portfolio included 178 shares of Diebold stock, which sold for a loss.
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Blackwell "has a pretty unique history with this company," said Bob Paduchik, spokesman for Attorney General Jim Petro, who is also seeking the GOP nomination for governor. "This should be investigated."
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Ohio Democratic Party spokesman Brian Rothenberg could hardly contain his glee.

"If Ken Blackwell didn't know how his own money was being spent, why would the people of Ohio think he would be a good steward of their checkbook?"

Special thanks to whoever did those great fake Diebold ads - hats off to you, talented stranger.

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"Party of Life" kills again.

The lives of sperm are more important then the lives of humans.

U.S. Focus on Abstinence Weakens AIDS Fight, Agency Finds - New York Times

Insistence by Republican Congressional leaders that American money to fight the spread of AIDS globally be used to emphasize abstinence and fidelity is undercutting comprehensive and widely accepted aid models, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Tuesday.

The report by the G.A.O., an investigative arm of Congress, examines the effect of a mandate from Congress that at least a third of United States money to prevent the spread of AIDS worldwide be devoted to sexual abstinence and fidelity programs.

It found that the provision had limited the reach of broader strategies to fight AIDS that include the use of condoms — a conclusion strongly contested by a senior Bush administration official.

"senior Bush administration official" is the new term for "willful denial."

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But being the deputy press secretary I'm sure he can spin this is a good light.

Homeland Security official arrested in child sex sting

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Department of Homeland Security official was arrested Tuesday night on charges of using his computer to seduce a child after he allegedly struck up sexually explicit conversations with a detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.
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Doyle, a deputy press secretary, will be placed on administrative leave, although it's unclear if it he will be paid, a department official said.

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Bush's Concept: Stop letting the world be poisoned as the government stands by and watches.

Why not make the government actively promoted the poisoning of the planet.

EPA Faces Internal Outcry On Airborne Emissions Plan

A proposal to revise how the Environmental Protection Agency regulates airborne toxic emissions from industrial plants has sparked an outcry from the agency's regional offices, with a majority suggesting that the change would be "detrimental to the environment."
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An internal EPA memo summarizing the position of eight of the agency's 10 regional offices, dated Dec. 13, contended the change could conceivably result in an increase in toxic emissions. Seven of the offices agreed that the proposal would allow polluters to "virtually avoid regulation and greatly complicate any enforcement."

Individual regional offices occasionally object to proposed policy shifts by EPA headquarters, but it is rare for such a large number of regional offices to join forces in such a forceful rebuke.

Silly regional offices. They Still think the "P" in EPA stands for "Protection" when it now stands for "profit."

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It's called looting.

Probably the biggest heist in history is going on every day as our troops stand guard. This isn't what they signed up for. This isn't defending America. This isn't Freedom on The March.

This is theft.

Iraqi oil exports dive; there's no telling where the money went

Among the best chronicles of the haziness surrounding Iraq’s oil production and exports — and the general pall of corruption that hangs over the country — comes from journalist Ed Harriman, writing in the July, 2005 issue of the London Review of Books. Harriman wrote that in addition to the roughly $9 billion in Iraqi oil funds that vanished without a trace during CPA head Paul Bremer’s reign, the International Advisory and Monitoring Board established to oversee and audit CPA expenditures of Iraqi cash “discovered that Iraqi oil exports were unmetered.”

Neither the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organisation nor the American authorities could give a satisfactory explanation for this. ‘The only reason you wouldn’t monitor them is if you don’t want anyone else to know how much is going through,’ one petroleum executive told me. Officially, Iraq exported oil worth $10 billion in the first year of the American occupation. Christian Aid has estimated that oil worth up to an additional $4 billion may also have been exported and is unaccounted for. If this is correct, it would have created an off the books slush fund that both the Americans and their Iraqi allies could use with impunity to cover expenditures they would rather keep secret – among them the occupation costs, which were rising far beyond what the Bush administration could comfortably admit to Congress and the international community.

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General Zinni "I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn't fit what I knew."

ZINNI: I saw the - what this town is known for, spin, cherry-picking facts, using metaphors to evoke certain emotional responses or shading the context. We know the mushroom clouds and the other things that were all described that the media has covered well. I saw on the ground a sort of walking away from 10 years’ worth of planning. You know, ever since the end of the first Gulf War, there’s been planning by serious officers and planners and others, and policies put in place - 10 years' worth of planning were thrown away. Troop levels dismissed out of hand. Gen. Shinseki basically insulted for speaking the truth and giving an honest opinion.

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If you give Bush a law
He'll want some milk

Patriot Act Catches a Baby-Food Thief

The case of Samih Jammal, convicted with the help of the Patriot Act and FISA wiretaps of fencing stolen baby formula, sits on the fine line between the government's terrorism-fighting role and its duty to protect citizen's rights.

The WALL STREET JOURNAL reports the use of FISA warrants helped prosecuted Arizona grocery wholesaler Jammal, who was convicted of operating a baby formula theft ring.

The JOURNAL notes that Jammal, a "U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, was never charged with any offense related to terrorism."

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Chevy is allowing you to make your own Chevy commercials online.

I don't think they realized what people would do.

Check out my commercials:

Chevy Tahoe: History Repeating

and

Chevy Tahoe: Auto World

Check out this post for some links to some great anti-SUV pieces using Chevy's servers.

Chevy's 'Make Your Own Tahoe Commercial' idea not exactly going as planned

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Things are looking up for Bush.

He's already got good news when it comes to his new career (post impeachment):

ADVERTISING CHIMPS GET FAT RAISES

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Chimp compensation is on the rise, animal trainers and ad agency creatives said, because a recent surge of retirements has created a primate shortage. And that-paired with marketers' still potent urge to tap chimps and orangutans to hawk job listings, light beer and stock brokerages-is driving prices up.

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I'm seeing Al tonight - hope it'll be good.

Gore gets 'Green' and mean with W

George W. Bush as Neville Chamberlain?
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"Where there is no vision, the people perish," Gore writes, quoting the Bible to bash Bush.

Warning that Bush and the Republican Congress have displayed "a blinding lack of awareness" about "the worst catastrophe in the history of human civilization" — global warming — Gore also blames the incumbent for ignoring the threat of 9/11.

Bush "was warned on Aug. 6, 2001, of an attack by Al Qaeda. 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US,' said the intelligence community in a message so important that it was the headline of the President's daily briefing that day, five weeks before the attacks," Gore seethes.

"Didn't he see that clear warning?" asks Gore. "Why were no questions asked, meetings called, evidence marshaled, clarifications sought?"

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Well there goes Hillary Clinton's chances for becoming President

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH: LAURA BUSH SAYS HILLARY KEPT BAD HOUSE; WEST WING DECORATIONS WERE GAUDY, OUTDATED

On December 18, 2000, just after the Supreme Court ruled on the election, Hillary Clinton gave Laura Bush a tour of the White House. The incoming-First Lady was dismayed at what she saw: Not only were carpets and furnishings fraying and in disrepair in the West Wing and public areas, the Oval Office was done in loud colors—red, blue, and gold! The East Wing was cut up into small offices and had exposed electrical conduits. Many of the furnishings looked dated.

My God! If you can't spend your time choosing your colors better - how can you expect to run a nation!

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And here I was apologizing to Scalia because I thought he gave the finger to a reporter in church. Nope it was worse (but it wasn't the finger).


It wasn't my hand motion as much as what I said, but it ain't cursing if it is in Italian"

Church fires photog over Scalia picture: Freelancer pays for "right thing"

A freelance photographer has been fired by the Archdiocese of Boston’s newspaper for releasing a picture of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia making a controversial gesture in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Sunday.
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Smith snapped the photo of Scalia flicking his hand under his chin after a Herald reporter asked the conservative jurist his response to people who question his impartiality on matters of church and state.
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Smith said Scalia said, “To my critics, I say, ‘Vaffanculo,’ ” while making the gesture. That’s Italian for (expletive) you.

Well thanks to the miracle of the intrawebs (internets being so 2004). We can read more about Vaffanculo.

Thanks to Italian Curse Words, we learn that though "F___ you" is the common translation we learn that it literally means "take it up your ass." Nice.

Now everyone curses, but not everyone does it while in church while being a Supreme Court Justice and to a reporter. I generally think that would be defined as stupid.

Cursing was in this week by the way: A documentary aired on a PBS station about Blues singers was fined by the FCC for some cursing. Gee good thing the FCC doesn't know Italian are all the news channels covering this story might get in big trouble.

Fining the Blues

One particularly disturbing aspect of the ruling involved a Martin Scorsese-produced documentary, "The Blues: Godfathers and Sons," broadcast by a community college public television station in San Mateo, Calif. The documentary included scenes in which musicians and a producer used numerous profanities. The FCC, citing a previous decision that profanity in "Saving Private Ryan" would not subject broadcasters to indecency fines, noted that "in rare contexts, language that is presumptively profane" will still be allowed "where it is demonstrably essential to the nature of an artistic or educational work or essential to informing viewers on a matter of public importance."

But the commissioners didn't find that standard was satisfied in the case of the documentary, whose educational purpose, it said, "could have been fulfilled and all viewpoints expressed without the repeated broadcast of expletives." Really? How do they know better than, say, Mr. Scorsese?

Seriously, I think Saving Private Ryan could have been told without all that cursing either. Like this:

"They blew off my dang hand! Gosh Durn it, I lost my dang hand!"

As a parent I certainly am not happy about violence and cursing on TV. But it doesn't mean that a show for adults can not be for adults (just don't have it on at 8PM - that's not hard). But I choose what my children watch, as every parent of young children should do. My problem is while watching ice skating during the olympics a commercial for a horror movie comes on and my children see a bloody woman hung from chains while you hear a chainsaw. Please - those ads can wait to later - don't you think?

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Bush gives fledgling democracy the (purple) finger:

Iraq's Premier Asserts His Right to Stay in Office

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 — Facing growing pressure from the Bush administration for him to step down, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of Iraq vigorously asserted his right to stay in office today and warned the Americans against undue interference in Iraq's political process.

Freedom is on the march only if march in the direction Bush wants you to go?

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