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James B. Comey, former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s top deputy, “objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and refused ……

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — January 6, 2006 @ 10:08 am

I usually don’t give gold stars to high school students (I think thy’re too old for that kind of puerile technique), but in your case, I’ll make an exception.

You can’t really believe that people can be so easily generalized can you? After all, we don’t control where we are born, into what body, or which culture. We do, however control our behavior and our attitudes. Therefore there are benevolent people of every color, shape, size, nationality, gender, etc. just as there are rotten ones.

Comment by unbelievable

Is that supposed to prove that white Americans are just as likely to cut your head off or bomb you as Muslims?

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Damage to the Murrah building before cleanup began.The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995, in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was destroyed, killing 168 people. It is the largest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States, and – until the September 11, 2001 attacks – largest terrorist attack of any kind in the nation’s history.

Your point IRI?

“Be like America, not like France. Don’t let Muslims in your pants”.

PARIS — A gang of more than 20 youths — thought to be North African immigrants — terrorized hundreds of train passengers in a rampage of violence, robbery and sexual assault on New Year’s Day, French officials said yesterday.
The five-hour-long criminal frenzy was “totally unacceptable,” French President Jacques Chirac told reporters. “Those guilty will be found and punished, as they deserve.”
The gang of between 20 and 30 youths boarded the train, heading from Nice on the French Riviera to Lyon, in eastern France, early on Jan. 1, as it carried 600 passengers home from New Year’s Eve partying overnight.
Once inside, they went wild, forcing passengers to hand over mobile phones and wallets, and slashing seats and breaking windows.
A 20-year-old woman cornered by several of the marauders was sexually molested.
“It was a real scene of pillage on the train,” said the regional state prosecutor, Dominique Luigi, adding that the passengers were in a state of “panic.”
Train staff alerted police, and the train pulled into a station to wait. The three officers who initially turned up later were joined by reinforcements.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20060104-115755-9546r.htm

Senator Lugar’s abandonment of his duty as an overseer of the rule of law will not be forgotten by me, at any rate. He doesn’t care about his duty, his country or his honor – he just sees a groundswell of justice coming; that will sweep the Republicans from office: his concern is for himself, nothing more.

Comment by Jaime Frontero — January 2, 2006 @ 8:50 am

Excellent point… all Republicans distancing themselves from the Bush Regime are purely self-serving. They think it’s the only way to save their jobs.

Comment by unbelievable — January 2, 2006 @ 9:10 am

Actually, this isn’t exactly an excellent point, at least not for the reason you mention. Were it any other Senator, in a more tenuous position, it would be though! Having previously lived in Indiana for more than 10 years, I can say quite definitively that Senator Lugar is in no danger of losing his job. He’s a long-standing member and is deeply respected in his (very red) state. He regularly wins reelection with large margins.

The truth is that, being a creature of the congress for as long as he has, he’s seen it all: the power plays, scandals big and small, good policy and bad, republican and democrat majorities, etc.

He’s a Senator who has generally stood for good sense decisions. I think he takes this very seriously. The only concern he has for his job is that it could be rendered irrelevant by this most recent power grab: what need is there for congress if the president can do anything he wants without oversight? He understands fully the ramifications of the administration’s actions… but he’s never been a bulging veins, red-faced screamer; always just a measured voice, which is refreshing for a republican. For him to be speaking up now is a significant development.

Perhaps he has a long enough memory to remember the Church commission…

Comment by SpudgeBoy — January 2, 2006 @ 7:55 pm

Yeah, so it seems. So I’ve stopped debating him and started messing with him instead. Like a cat with a mouse…

Comment by I-RIGHT-I — January 2, 2006 @ 7:02 pm

You know better – it should be a Burger King veggie burger (hold the cheese) and a small fry (you guys are the Super Size crowd). Sheesh…

Well, whatever missing money you are talking about (who can guess?) is safely in my hands. I think? I have the responsibility of culling the idiots from the sheep. (not an easy task). It costs a lot of money to humanly inventory so many losers. By the way…name and address please. The ACLU would like to send you a complimentary “I’m a ratbastardcommiemofo” placard and a coupon for a Wendy’s double cheeseburger.