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May 16, 2007 03:27 PM UTC
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In Colorado we elect sheriffs, except in home rule counties with a charter directing appointment. In our county, where every elected official and almost all of the County employees is a Democrat and all is ruled by the local Bolsheviks, otherwise known as the Democratic Central Committee, many latinos and ordinary folks get DWI tickets and have to go through the court process. But, if you are the spouse of an elected official or the director of Road and Bridge you get a ride home. In contrast with that picture, 4 years ago the director of Road and Bridge was female. She got a ticket. Of course, prior to that one of the commissioners, when she was being considered for employment, stated in a public meeting that a woman should not be hired for that position. He spent the next couple of years persecuting that woman until she left and filed suit. The County paid $250,000 for that experience. A citizen who signed on to the persecutorial effort is now going to get his road paved.
Most places, if you live on an unpaved road, you tolerate the dust without any improvement until the area is built out. This road, with no more than a half dozen homes on it, is going to be paved at a cost of $1 million plus. Nice reward for “citizen participation”.
That Democrats can not be evil? LOL
I think things would be the same if all in power were GOP. But, in this case I am truly ashamed of my local party. Makes me consider changing my registration or perhaps starting another local party. Makes me think of othre things as well which shall go unsaid at this point.
Richard Polk who is on the city council was busted driving while stoned and given a ride home.
The Romer/Pena/Webb machine in Denver has echoed strains of Chicago for as long as I can remember. Whenever a fellow Dem leader commits a crime, Denver DA Mitch Morrissey knows enough to look the other way (documentation available at http://home.earthlin…).
While we’ve got more than our fair share of bad apples in the Republican Party in Jeffco, all is not lost; some of them are getting caught (e.g., Mark Paschall). That would never happen in Denver….
Larry Flynt’s statement on Jerry Falwell’s death:
http://www.accesshol…
…with the language to be a publisher, even when every tenth word can’t be uttered on the public airwaves.
But to Flynt’s credit, he got it. It’s not the speech we love that needs protection; it is the speech we absolutely loathe. This is from my draft amicus brief in the Rick Stanley case, presuming as I do that his conviction will be appealed there:
will have more teeth if you will cite supporting Supreme Court cases, especially if they have been cited in concurring Appeals Courts that followed the Supreme Court decisions and, even more especially, if they haven’t subsequently been overruled by Supreme Court. The 2 Supreme cases you have are 56 and 68 years old. Bork’s article was written after his rejection, due to his extreme views which were often at loggerheads with accepted Supreme Court precedents, his influence for your argument is close to specious. But, if your primary purpose is just to submit briefs and annoy folks who must read them, though I did not mind, then go for it. But, if Stanley prevails, don’t claim your brief helped, because it won’t.
Well, you know the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
Martin Luther King’s eldest daughter has passed away.
http://www.huffingto…
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The U.S. military is offering a $200,000 reward for any information about the location of three missing American soldiers, or the identity of their kidnappers, a senior U.S. military official at the Pentagon told CNN’s Barbara Starr.
The military also is dropping approximately 150,000 leaflets from helicopters in the region south of Baghdad where the soldiers went missing after an ambush Saturday
I copied this from CNN a few minutes ago. First question: what is the primary language of the Iraqis ? Second question: what language are these flyers written in ? You guessed it.
Check out the rewards offered for bad guys over there. Compare this reward to the life insurance on these 3 guys. This is really an example of their worth being higher dead than alive and that is the WRONG message to send-in ANY language.
Comey Testifies that the President Broke the Law
Comey testified as follows:
(i) that he, OLC and the AG concluded that the NSA program was not legally defensible, i.e., that it violated FISA and that the Article II argument OLC had previously approved was not an adequate justification (a conclusion prompted by the New AAG, Jack Goldsmith, having undertaken a systematic review of OLC’s previous legal opinions regarding the Commander in Chief’s powers);
(ii) that the White House nevertheless continued with the program anyway, despite DOJ’s judgment that it was unlawful;
(iii) that Comey, Ashcroft, the head of the FBI (Robert Mueller) and several other DOJ officials therefore threatened to resign;
(iv) that the White House accordingly — one day later — asked DOJ to figure out a way the program could be changed to bring it into compliance with the law (presumably on the AUMF authorizaton theory); and
(v) that OLC thereafter did develop proposed amendments to the program over the subsequent two or three weeks, which were eventually implemented.
The program continued in the interim, even after DOJ concluded that it was unlawful.
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This is simply mind boggling stuff and proof that Bush acted outside of the law even after he had been told that the programme he was engaged in was illegal.
Read Glenn Greenwald’s take on this:
Yet even once Ashcroft and Comey made clear that the program had no legal basis (i.e., was against the law), the President ordered it to continue anyway. As Comey said: “The program was reauthorized without us and without a signature from the Department of Justice attesting as to its legality.”
Amazingly, the President’s own political appointees — the two top Justice Department officials, including one (Ashcroft) who was known for his “aggressive” use of law enforcement powers in the name of fighting terrorism and at the expense of civil liberties — were so convinced of its illegality that they refused to certify it and were preparing, along with numerous other top DOJ officials, to resign en masse once they learned that the program would continue notwithstanding the President’s knowledge that it was illegal.
The overarching point here, as always, is that it is simply crystal clear that the President consciously and deliberately violated the law and committed multiple felonies by eavesdropping on Americans in violation of the law.
There is now a very clear case for impeachment. Even the Washington Post – as pro-Bush a newspaper as one could find – recognises that this is “an account of Bush administration lawlessness so shocking it would have been unbelievable coming from a less reputable source.”
I begrudgingly say this, but you have to give some credit for Ashcroft for even trying to fight this.
It looks like W and Gonzales don’t even think twice about the issue, and don’t have such silly ethical hangups about trouncing all over the civil liberties of Americans.
The Post is supposedly one of the crown jewels in the liberal MSM, right there with the Old Gray Lady. The Times is run by Moon, and is only slightly less subtle than the old Pravda….
the Democrats have no desire nor intention of squandering political capital impeaching a lame duck when they know they need to focus all of their energy and resources on the ’08 elections (including the longest presidential campaign in history). Going after Bush now would be strategic folly, no matter how justified it might be. Better to take back the country, and let Bush and his ilk fall by the wayside.
To my way of thinking, it is still important to keep a high negative profile and the THREAT of impeachment on this nefarious bunch. Their heels need cooling.
In some ways, it would be nice if “justice” were a high enough value that it wouldn’t compete with political expedience. But, alas, we live in a country that is so saturated in a nationalistic conservativism that too few have even an inkling of how criminal this administration has been.