Women’s Call for Peace: An Urgent Appeal from CodePink Take Action – Sign the Call (Note: Men in solidarity with “Women Say No to War” are invited to join us.) We, the women of the United States, Iraq and women worldwide, have had enough of the senseless war in Iraq and the cruel attacks on civilians around the world. We’ve buried too many of our loved ones. We’ve seen too many lives crippled forever by physical and mental wounds. We’ve…
Tempest in a Teapot? Bunch of Nonsense? No way. As I said, it’s illegal surveillance. Illegal. Illegal. Illegal. (stamp, stamp, and…wait for it…. … … … Stamp!) The research arm of Congress (The Congressional Research Service) has issued a report concluding that that the administration’s justification for the warrantless eavesdropping authorized by President Bush conflicts with existing law and hinges on weak legal arguments. This from the Washington Post The Congressional Research Service’s report rebuts the central assertions made recently…
One of those moments of synchronicity happened today. I was looking at some of the former JW sites, and found a great page on JW psychological issues at Beyond Jehovah’s Witnesses. In the back of my mind, I was thinking of JollyRoger‘s comments on Bush followers as worshippers and comparing it to my experiences with the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Everyone has blind spots, but Bush seems to have tapped into something that allows him to pre-empt the critical thinking abilities of…
If I were a nicer person, I would have resisted creating and posting this a lot more than I did. George Says…
The “peace on earth” message sure did take a back seat this season. Lotsa God and Jesus cards from relatives, but nobody had the “Peace on Earth” message this year. It wasn’t on any of the cards I got. Is it possible that this very idea is now considered too edgy, even Coulterishly “treasonous”? I had actually been pondering this as I started taking down the Christmas cards. Turns out I’m not the only one to have noticed the lack….
United States Code Title 50, Chapter 36, Subchapter 1 Section 1809. Criminal sanctions (a) Prohibited activities A person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally- (1) engages in electronic surveillance under color of law except as authorized by statute NSA Watch lays it all out very clearly. FISA contains explicit language describing the president’s powers “during time of war” and provides that “the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this title…