ThinkFast: October 5, 2006
ThinkFast: October 5, 2006
“The source who in July gave news media Rep. Mark Foley’s (R-Fla.) suspect e-mails to a former House page” says the documents came to him from a congressional aide who “has been a registered Republican since becoming eligible to vote,” The Hill reports.
Nevertheless, Speaker Hastert continues to peddle conspiracy theories: “When the base finds out who’s feeding this monster, they’re not going to be happy. The people who want to see this thing blow up are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros.”
A Congressional Research Service report states that Bush’s frequent use of signing statements is “an integral part” of his “comprehensive strategy to strengthen and expand executive power” and is meant to “inure Congress, as well as others, to the belief that the president in fact possesses expansive and exclusive powers upon which the other branches may not intrude.”
“The government can continue to use its warrantless domestic wiretap program pending the Justice Department’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling outlawing the program, an Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled on Wednesday.”
“The Iraqi Interior Ministry has suspended an entire Iraqi police brigade on suspicions that some members may have permitted, or even participated in, death squad killings.” Death squads “are the main cause of Iraqi deaths now.”
According to a Union of Concerned Scientists report, climate change “could strain the Northeast’s power grid, farms, forests and marine fisheries” and “summers in Boston could feel like July in South Carolina,” unless carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by 3 percent per year.
British commandos in southeastern Iraq have “found nothing to support the Americans’ contention that Iran is providing weapons and training in Iraq.”
The scarcity of African Union forces in Darfur has forced them to stop escorting women outside their refugee camps to collect wood for fuel. The result: in one camp, 21 women have been raped in the last two weeks, many in broad daylight.
And finally: “Excessive Indulgences” at the Interior Department. The department’s inspector general “has uncovered an impressive amount of time spent by department employees surfing porn, game, gambling and shopping Web sites.” “Our review of one week of computer use logs revealed over 4,732 log entries relating to sexually explicit and gambling Web sites by department computers,” the report finds, adding that the estimates are “conservative.”
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They tried to out Kirk Fordham but he was already out.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:49 am“The government can continue to use its warrantless domestic wiretap program pending the Justice Department’s appeal of a federal judge’s ruling outlawing the program, an Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled on Wednesday.â€
Yes you may still beat your wife while we review her Restraining Order Request. Have a nice day.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:55 am“British commandos in southeastern Iraq have “found nothing to support the Americans’ contention that Iran is providing weapons and training in Iraq.†”
Well then, that PROVES that Iran has been providing weapons and training, right? We had “concrete proof” that Iraq had WMD’s, and we haven’t found a single one. Therefore, we were right to invade Iraq for the oil. . . . I mean, to stop the WMD’s.
Now that there is no proof that Iran is providing weapons and training in Iraq, it must mean that they are very good at hiding their weapons and training!
See how the Republican spin machine works!
It’s like the person who leaked the IM’s and e-mail’s written by Rep. Foley to the news is a lifelone Republican, which means it’s the pefect cover for the Democrats to have orchestrated the whole thing to impact the elections! Oh, those rascly Democrats are so good at that!
Geez, I’m getting dizzy from all the Republican spin! I just threw up a little in my mouth!
October 5th, 2006 at 9:58 amWell poster’s here we are, Oct.5, 2006….”The world can’t wait” ralley’s all over the world..Please try to find and join in even if just for a short viset to this huge event….We must take our country back, any way possible..
Noted yesterday that bull shit bush got the go ahead on wire tapping…..Still nothing on the other evil bills passed by our miserable enabelers in the house and senate.
More crap on Foley and all the bloated, no neck, old men running our country into the ground…..
Last count 2,733 of our brave soldiers have lost their lives in the bush war….My heart is broken for our country and the devastation the bush regime has created here and over there………Get out and march if you can, while we can, soon that may not be an option……..Blessings All
October 5th, 2006 at 9:58 amSeriously, who is buying that ABC and the Democratic Party are co-conspirators. Does anyone remember a little tiff about a Doucudrama called “Path to 9/11″ less than a month ago. According to the right wing ABC and Dems are best buds out to get the man.
October 5th, 2006 at 9:58 am#2 – Diet, You beat me to it!
It would be like alowing Rep. Foley to continue IM-ing the pages while we investigate him to see if he went too far.
I really miss the US Constitution from before 9/11. I guess I have a pre-9/11 frame of mind when it comes to freedom.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:01 amI wish I were funded by George Soros…
October 5th, 2006 at 10:02 am…four more US soldiers and dozens of Iraqi citizens died in Iraq yesterday…
…the Iraqis are dying by the thousands weekly, American soldier deaths are beginning to creep up (both in Iraq and Afghanistan)…
…and there is no great outcry from the American public…
…only hypnotic fascination with pedophilia and homosexuality…
…Iraqis in most parts of the country can’t send their children to school, their wives can’t go to buy food, and husbands and fathers are being kidnapped and murdered by the thousands…
…Fat bastard Denny Hastert and the TREASONOUS murderous Repulsivescum unAmerican Bushite inbreds can keep control of the Congress and White House…
…there’s going to be hell to pay for the hell Bushites have created in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the division here at home…
…Democrats would be blamed for it by the feeble red state inbred Bushites…
…Bushites are “screwing us over there”…
…and (literally) “screwing us over here”…
…this country’s Karma is sh*t!
October 5th, 2006 at 10:03 am#6,
It makes no sense judicially. The lower courts said the actions were unlawful. Right there the actions should stop. If the defense appeals and it goes to a higher court that higher court should not be able to dismiss the lower courts ruling while it is under review. That should only happen if the higher court decides that the lower court was wrong. Which they haven’t yet.
By the way JeffGannon is being interviewed by Randi Rhodes today at 5:30. Could be a really “interesting” show.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:08 amIf most of the 59 million Americans who voted Republican in 2004 haven’t been aware what is going on with what used to be our Republic, and don’t throw put these gangsters, and then prosecute them then our nation is in its twilight. Aside from our military toys, we are a shell.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:09 amSpeaker Hastert continues to peddle conspiracy theories: “When the base finds out who’s feeding this monster, they’re not going to be happy.
Oh, I bet they won’t!!
The people who want to see this thing blow up are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives…
OK, yeah, seeing the Republicans blow up over this would be entertaining.
, people funded by George Soros.â€
I wish.
Hastert’s statement trying to blame Democrats for the Foley scandal is exactly like trying to link 9-11 and Iraq. Take some separate truths, add one or more lie to taste, mix, and hope everyone accepts the illogical conclusion.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:15 amSeveral of us have decided to begin a RESCUE DARFUR FAST. One of us began 5 days ago, and several others today. Links below for the details.
Nothing less than a worldwide fast-until-the-genocide-stops will be enough to stop it.
Nothing less will be a sufficient moral response.
Nothing less will preserve our humanity, yours and mine.
Please consider linking here to increase the visibility of this effort.
Jay McGinley jymcginley@cs.com
Day 134 Darfur Vigil at White House; Day 68 Rescue Darfur Fast (since July 4, 2006)
DARFUR Dying for Heroes (you would find this a helpful resource)
Stand With Darfur-White House II
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October 5th, 2006 at 10:20 am#9 – Thanks for the heads up! Is that 4:30 PM, EST? Doesn’t her show start at 6:00 PM EST???
I’m in Central, and she usually starts at 5:00 PM, right after the incredible Ed Schultz.
Any news on if/when Ed Schultz is ever going to get on Armed Forces Radio like he was told he would be?
October 5th, 2006 at 10:24 amSadly, big papa, you are right……The sadest thing of all is this Foly crap may be the help in getting people out to vote….They will buy papers, read book’s and scream and holler all the while looking for more sex crimes to complain about and not a wimper at the thousand’s who have died because of these evil people…Not a word when all our right’s are stripped away and our country is sold off and turned into a dictatorship….
I’m not trying to make light of these dreadful predator’s preying on our kid’s, not at all, it can be devastating and life changing for the victom’s…But and this is a big but, doesn’t the continued loss of life and all right’s have some equal weight here..So far this month is looking like another bloody month for our troop’s……When are we going to keep our eye’s on the continued realy big problem’s we are faced with instead of every other new’s junk that comes down the pike….Pay attention to all of it but don’t loose sight of what’s realy continueing in the bull shit bush madness….
Can’t every one here and around the world see what I am seeing, attention on this one blow up is taking away from the recent Denial book and the huge loss of lives in Iraq….Rove must be realy happy the attention is not on him and the evil demon’s in the black house this week…….Blessings all, we need them…
October 5th, 2006 at 10:28 amSharon Cox
The Foley scandal and the other issues, including the war in Iraq, are related due to the arrogance, power-seeking, and deception of Bush and his cohorts. The Foley scandal is not the whole picture, but it is one piece of it and while people are attending, we progressives must make the link to the whole. We have to use what we have to enlighten our fellow citizens. “Sex” sells, so let’s open up the store.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:35 am#13,
Her show starts at 3 EST. The interview is scheduled on her website at 5:30.
I heard about the Ed Schultz thing a while back but nothing lately.
October 5th, 2006 at 10:39 amSadly, Patriotic Liberal, you are also correct….We have to be removed to the lowest form of the equasion to get our people back in the house and senate..It should of been and still should be the entire picture with the created war’s and loss of live’s in the front……Like I said, rove must be realy happy all the attention is going else where so they can continue with massive evil with out notice while the Republican’s throw more of their own under the bus……Blessings
October 5th, 2006 at 10:45 amA Congressional Research Service report states that Bush’s frequent use of signing statements is “an integral part†of his “comprehensive strategy to strengthen and expand executive power†and is meant to “inure Congress, as well as others, to the belief that the president in fact possesses expansive and exclusive powers upon which the other branches may not intrude.â€
Has anyone thought to simply ask any of these ’strong executive’ supporters – and I would hope in a public forum – if they would be as avid if the president were Bill Clinton? Do they think that they will always control the executive? Are they going to pass legislation at the last minute to revoke all these powers if a Democrat does get there?
If we are a nation of rules not men, their answer to that question would lay bare their power-grabbing. It is not about a strong executive. It is about a strong Repulican executive. Call them out on it.
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October 5th, 2006 at 10:49 amYou gotta hear this: Matt Drudge defending Foley calling the pages 16 year old beasts. Unbelievable…
October 5th, 2006 at 10:55 amWarrantless demestic wiretapping can still go on???
October 5th, 2006 at 11:06 amWhat is the matter with a court system that can’t make a judgement on this obvious betrayal of our govermental system? We the People are not being served.
Do the courts have any authority at all? Obviously not!
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Hope that helps….
October 5th, 2006 at 11:18 amSo ThinkProgress, it’s now been seven days since the US Congress voted to Suspend Habeas Corpus at His Majesty’s Pleasure….and there has not been a single discussion of it.
Why is this not important?
October 5th, 2006 at 11:38 amHow about yesterday’s Kentucky River decision, banning approximately 8m Americans from joining a union, if they are even remotely supervisory…? That’s not important either….? Don’t look now Think Progress, your agenda is showing….
October 5th, 2006 at 12:01 pmOh? And now my habeas corpus comment is back….?
October 5th, 2006 at 12:10 pmYou missed a couple of good ones:
NYT Editorial
Deeper and Deeper
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/opinion/05thu2.html
George F. Will
What Goeth Before the Fall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100401539.html
The first link is a one pager that should be required reading for all. Basically, GWB has put this country on track to be an economic basket case worthy of a South American economy being picked clean by outsiders.
The second link is a wake up call to Dems. Man, if you can’t win in this climate, find something else to do. How come I don’t see Dems all over the air waves calling out the GOP for all, I repeat, all of their ruinous acts?
October 5th, 2006 at 12:16 pmIn all of this Foley mess there have been many bombs tossed at the dems for politcizing it. But has anyone on the democratic side of the aisle relaly said anything yet? I can’t really recall anyone if significance, other than the blogosphere, even discussing this.
October 5th, 2006 at 12:16 pmKentucky River decision….?
October 5th, 2006 at 12:43 pmAm I the only one who chuckles when Republicans use the “Evil Rich Man Pulling the Strings of Politics” conspiracy theory about Democrats?
October 5th, 2006 at 1:18 pmAnd Con(di) Rice just told the puppets in Iraq that they “have really got to move forward. ”
October 5th, 2006 at 1:34 pmNow what the hell does that mean?
Move forward getting their security troops de-sectarianized?
Move forward getting concentration camps set up for Sunnnis?
I’d like her to take an open top convertible limo ride to the airport in Baghdad, since the occupation is going so well.
Anyone notice that the Rice visit was a sneak-in and her plane had to circle for a bit while mortar attacks at the airbase were answered?
October 5th, 2006 at 3:26 pmIt sounds like the Iraqi police are standing up! About time our training started seeing some results. I wonder, do they use duck tape or electical tape on their mouths? I think black tape is a better fit, don’t you? And it can do double duty for holding electrodes close to their ears. But it hasn’t been a total success. They haven’t learned how to hide the bodies really well yet. They should bring in a special tutor, someone like Cheney could give them some excellent pointers… you know… how to shoot for the face and such. How to cover up your tracks properly, how to disappear the neighborhood, when to give them medals for heroism.
October 5th, 2006 at 4:10 pmI’m so proud of my country and the democracy they’re building in Iraq, I could just bust. WHere’s my page?
#24 – I love that one, too. And the really great big one, that, after so many many years of nearly complete control of our government, it is still Democrats who are to blame any time a failure arises (which is all the time with these guys)
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