Well my recent period of irregular posts here at TCS is coming to an end - I'm not posting anything.

For a while.

I'll be back mid-August (if not sooner).

Please come on back (and in the meantime others may post still).

In the meantime remember - voting is the one way we really can stop a lot of this maddness.

Of course who's counting the votes?

The Diebold Bombshell

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Update - at least shining the light still works on some cockroaches.

But many Bush admin cockroaches are getting bolder and bolder (they have their own news network, don't cha know.)

First Draft - FEMA bows to pressure....reverses media policy in camps

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Welcome to the Soviet Union.

The FEMA Trailer Parks are in truth prison camps.

You think I'm exaggerating? Well you step in one you lose your rights as an American citizen it seems.

First Draft - FEMA camps residents not allowed to talk to press without US minders

“If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview,” FEMA spokesperson Rachel Rodi is quoted in the article. “That’s just a policy.”
The Advocate report, by reporter Sandy Davis, describes two separate attempts to talk to people displaced by Katrina that were halted by the intervention of a FEMA security guard. In the first incident, in a Morgan City, Louisiana camp, an interview was interrupted by a guard who claimed that residents of the camp are “not allowed” to talk to the media.

Dekotha Devall, whose New Orleans home was destroyed by the storm, was in her FEMA-provided trailer telling the Advocate reporter of the hardships of life in the camp when a security guard knocked on the door.

“You are not allowed to be here,” the guard is quoted as telling the reporter. “Get out right now.” The guard reportedly called police to force the journalist to leave the camp, and even prevented the reporter from giving the interview subject a business card. “You will not give her a business card,” the guard said. “She’s not allowed to have that.”

Later, at another FEMA camp in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, the reporter attempted to talk to camp resident Pansy Ardeneaux through a chain link fence when the same guard halted the interview. “You are not allowed to talk to these people,” the guard told Ardeneaux. “Return to your trailer now.” The reporter said she and an accompanying photographer were “ordered...not to talk to anyone or take pictures.”

Sir why are you no longer treating me as a citizen of this country?

- Just a policy

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ho hum: ABA: Bush violating Constitution

It's not like he swore an oath to uphold it or anything. You know - on the bible - and all that.

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The Bush Administration knows the world is becoming a more dangerous place and knows that it is ineffectual at stopping it.

Solution? Don't tell anyone what you know - not even Congress.

Every week, if not every day, the Bush administration pulls a stunt that would feed a media frensy in the past. Back when people cared about the abuse of power or responsible governing.


U.S. Says It Knew of Pakistani Reactor Plan

The Bush administration acknowledged yesterday that it had long known about Pakistan's plans to build a large plutonium-production reactor, but it said the White House was working to dissuade Pakistan from using the plant to expand its nuclear arsenal.
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The acknowledgment came as arms-control experts and some in Congress expressed alarm about a possible escalation of South Asia's arms race. Some also sharply criticized the administration for failing to disclose the existence of a facility that could influence an upcoming congressional debate over U.S. nuclear policy toward India and Pakistan.

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You know I made a surprise visit to my bank once - and it didn't do a damn thing either. I still have a mortgage payment every month.

July 24, 2006: Rice makes surprise visit to Beirut

Surprises work don't cha know:

May 15, 2005: Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq

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