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Alan Shore before the Supreme Court

Oh, how I wish we lived in a country like this fantasy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GG7sj2APpc


still banning books. in the 21st century.

This is civilization?
Vancouver Public Schools may be the first district in the nation to not allow Scholastic Book Clubs to sell its merchandise through its schools.
School officials said that district policy prohibits them from promoting for-profit businesses, but that’s not what triggered the conversation in the first place.
In late November, a disgruntled Vancouver woman wrote [...]

R.U. Sirius Kicks Off The QuestionAuthority Movement

Author, podcaster and Mondo 2000 founder Ken Goffman - better known as R.U. Sirius - has a proposal for all of us:
A dark cloud is passing over America. We’ve witnessed, in recent years, the death of many of our constitutional rights and liberties. We’ve also seen increasingly authoritarian trends in daily life and culture.Those of [...]

aye-yi-yi

You’ve probably already heard about the almost-reasonable-sounding House Resolution 1955 (a/k/a Senate Bill 1959): the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. We all want to prevent Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, don’t we? Anyone who doesn’t must want the terrorists to win! You freedom-hater, you!
Or so it must have [...]

Persistent people pushing for peace

The Columbian has a piece today on some of the praiseworthy people that have been participating in sign waving for peace and justice every Thursday afternoon for several years now on the corners in front of the main library. There is also a video of them to the right of the article.
A big shout [...]

the borg do not evolve, they conquer

the Gator way:
Andrew Meyer has addressed an apology letter to UF students, UF President Bernie Machen and Student Government for his “failure to act calmly” during a Sept. 17 forum with Sen. John Kerry.
In a letter released to the Alligator on Monday afternoon, Meyer wrote that he “stepped out of line” and felt he [...]

Thanks Dodd, NO immunity for telecoms

Found at Open Left:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLzcziOerY

Thanks for standing up for our right to privacy.


Baird on immunity for telecoms

As many of you know, Brian Baird usually is a guest on KPOJ AM620 on Tuesday mornings. This last Tuesday he spoke about the legislation to provide immunity to the telecoms for turning over phone records since BEFORE 911 to the NSA. Representative Baird’s interview begins at 15:40 in this segment with a discussion [...]

FBI Puts Antiwar Protesters on Criminal Database…

…Canada Uses It To Ban Protesters From Entry
Two well-respected US peace activists, CODEPINK and Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin and retired Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright, were denied entry into Canada On October third. The two women were headed to Toronto to discuss peace and security issues at the invitation of the Toronto Stop the [...]

Reid on Limbaugh

Looks like the Senate IS going to have an “admonishment of the week” as I recommended in an earlier post (jokingly). This week it is Limbaugh.
Please don’t watch this whole video. I only watched the first 30 seconds. It doesn’t merit your time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszJEpa5ps8

Never mind that the Senate is about to [...]

Where is the Congress vote to admonish Limbaugh?

This is disgusting!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56s9jInwoIU

Let’s have an “Admonishment of the Week” vote every Thursday in Congress. That will give them something to do since nothing else they do amounts to anything anyway. And then the media will have something new every week to spin to make the D.C. politicians all look good. This is [...]

And who hates free speech?

72 Senators need to be replaced or admonished.
To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces.
YEAs —72
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso [...]