Random RecitalsSuch close observations of apes and birds and dolphins remind us that humanity is part of a great animal kingdom. All species within this kingdom differ from one another in significant ways, to be sure, but the kingdom does not seem to be organized on the superior/inferior hierarchy. Species are merely different from one another; they are not better than, nor more or less advanced than, each other. The core experience of all animal life is strikingly similar. Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by missy on January 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am “[P]laintiffs have succeeded in alleging that they are ‘aggrieved persons’ under FISA…” With those twelve words, California Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker may have just opened a small crack in the wall of BushCo’s impunity: The suit involves two American lawyers accidentally given a Top Secret document showing they were eavesdropped on by the government when working for a now-defunct Islamic charity in 2004. [...]
Article by missy on November 19th, 2008 at 10:10 am shouldn’t we be able to do it in Washington, D.C.? A Texas grand jury has issued indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney general Alberto Gonzalez over abuse at privately run prisons, court documents showed. The three-page indictment Tuesday alleges that Cheney profited from the abuse because he invested 85 million dollars in a mutual fund company which holds shares of [...]
Article by missy on October 31st, 2008 at 12:22 pm The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review the government’s assertions that the allegations of torture from men held in the CIA’s black site prisons — whether truthful or not — would put [...]
Article by John on August 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am A letter to the editor in The Columbian today: Can we afford change? President Bush has been in office for approximately 7½ years. During the first six years of his presidency the economy was fine. Consumer confidence stood at a 2½-year high; regular gasoline sold for approximately $2.19 a gallon; the unemployment rate was 4.5 percent; the Dow Jones hit a record high at [...]
Article by missy on August 12th, 2008 at 12:01 pm Your Department of Justice at work: NEW YORK (AP) — Former Justice Department officials will not face prosecution for letting improper political considerations drive hirings of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday. Mukasey used his sharpest words yet to criticize the senior leaders who took part in or failed to stop illegal hiring practices during [...]
Article by missy on August 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am August 8, 2008—this is the date for our Strangebedfellows MONEYBOMB on behalf of constitutional rights and civil liberties in America. Let’s remove from power the key enablers of the tyrannical and lawless FISA ‘compromise;’ we can end the Patriot Act—and so much more. … Strangebedfellows is a unique and diverse left–right coalition which has come together to put a stop to the eradication [...]
Article by missy on August 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 pm I’ve got a new Warmonger McClone bumper sticker up at Cafe Press: All proceeds to Strange Bedfellows. Have a great weekend. | Local TV Connect with Facebook |
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