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The Vidiot's weekly blog: What pissed me off this week? 12/27/2004 (updated every Monday at some point during the day) ...'cause I'm angry and my friends are sick of listening to me... Track your congresscritters here! Mirror (in case geocities is wacky or, in case of trouble in New York, check it for messages): http://129.79.148.33/vidiotcontact/ I feel guilty going on about how sucky GW is when the people in Asia are dealing with a real shitstorm. Can you imagine? Having a lie in, and first thing in the morning, you've got a ton of water sweeping through your bedroom? One minute it's a beautiful sunny day, and the next, death and devastation reign? How big was it? Well, from an AP Story:
And this:
This blog entry was going to be a quickie anyway because there wasn't a whole lot of news over the holiday, but the tsunami/earthquake thing really caps it. (And I'm totally avoiding the weird "alternate" interpretations of the event.) Payback's a Bitch of the Week: Bush Monkey Picture Shown on Giant NY Billboard Dumb Religion Site of the Week: Let my people go. Moronic Stories of the Year: Morons in the News Evil
Act of the Week
Cutting funding for food programs just so you can pay for an unnecessary war is just plain evil.
Myth
of the Week
As I stated last week: Social Security is fine.
(Here is a page devoted to the myths and realities of SS) So, why is Georgie going around telling everyone it's basically the equivalent of Iraq's WMDs?
Call your critters, make sure they know how you feel. Internet
Buzz of the Week
This cropped up on an indy website: "Proof" that George might be seriously ill.
Unfortunately, the link keeps getting corrupted. So here's another one, just in case. I don't know if the sites are getting hacked or if the servers are just overloaded with hits from the curious. I'm trying to keep my conspiracy hat off. Hey, we don't want anything to happen to George 'cause if it does, the reigns get handed to {gulp} Cheney. Good
Idea of the Week
I swear, if I didn't live in NYC, I'd live in Wisconsin. (Too bad their winters are so brutal) The Wisonsins are creating a People's Legislature. A bunch of them are going to get together, set an agenda, and let their critters know what's important to the people, instead of what's important to the lobbyists. Every state should have one of these.
{sigh}
If the democrats weaken their stance on abortion, I will bolt from this party faster than you can say "Bush is a chimp."
It's got to be an internal struggle, 'cause out here, externally, we wouldn't dream of altering the party's stand on that. Admiring
Ukraine's Democracy
I sure wish we could hold a revote here.
Conquest
via Economics
Any doubts that the war in Iraq wasn't about economic conquest of empire will be alleviated by reading this.
And Castro has just become the new Saddam Hussein.
Water
on Mars?
You tell me. Look at this picture. Looks like water, no? Well, there's also this story of how the rover got a bath.
What do we do about all of this crap? I have no idea. Part of me wants to start teach-ins at my local pub. Just go to the bar, rant and rave and inform the idiots who still think Dan Rather is telling them the truth. Another part of me wants to organize a voter observation program to insure that this moron isn't in the White House all the way to 2008. I sincerely believe that if we protected the voting rights of the underprivileged that any Democrat could SWEEP any election. And we'd have to start with the Florida Election for Governor THIS FALL (like these guys!.) I don't think Democrats are the answer. But they are at least a start. At the very least, point your CNN-loving friends to my links page. Just getting started in reading alternate news sites gets people thinking. I have one friend who was very happy-go-lucky, thinking ol' Greta was telling the whole truth until I opened up his eyes a bit. Now, he's all depressed. He'll get over it. You gotta' get depressed before you get angry and you gotta' get angry before you can accomplish anything. We're all in mourning. We have to move through the steps. But we gotta' hurry it up. Read. Inform. Spread the word. Even if it means your friends avoid you for awhile. If they really love you, they'll start to listen.
"POSSE COMITATUS ACT" (18 USC 1385): A Reconstruction Era criminal law proscribing use of Army (later, Air Force) to "execute the laws" except where expressly authorized by Constitution or Congress. Limit on use of military for civilian law enforcement also applies to Navy by regulation. Dec '81 additional laws were enacted (codified 10 USC 371-78) clarifying permissible military assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies--including the Coast Guard--especially in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications emphasize supportive and technical assistance (e.g., use of facilities, vessels, aircraft, intelligence, tech aid, surveillance, etc.) while generally prohibiting direct participation of DoD personnel in law enforcement (e.g., search, seizure, and arrests). For example, Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachments (LEDETS) serve aboard Navy vessels and perform the actual boardings of interdicted suspect drug smuggling vessels and, if needed, arrest their crews). Positive results have been realized especially from Navy ship/aircraft involvement. (Tom Ridge has practically said he'd do away with this act.)
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These sites are good at culling stories from a multitude of media sites: buzzflash.com
Bartcop
Ilia
Dreams Blog These blogs will be covering the primaries and elections: Salon.com's
War Room media-bias exposed:
onlinejournal.com
whatreallyhappened.com
HIGHLY entertaining:
and
for godsakes, stay away if you must succumb to reading a newspaper:
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