Just admit it -- you got smoked and move on? I hope when and if the democrats can ever muster a win to get the Whitehouse, republicans remember these games with nominees...
Democrats May Delay Alito Nomination Vote WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats confirmed Friday that they will make a last-ditch attempt to slow Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's momentum by delaying the first vote on his candidacy.
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I know it is "bad" to hope for another's death, but I just cannot help myself...
CNN.com - Sources: Airstrike may have killed bin Laden's No. 2 - Jan 13, 2006 (CNN) -- A CIA airstrike on a building in Pakistan may have killed Osama bin Laden's most-trusted aide, sources said. The building where Ayman al-Zawahiri was thought to be is in Damadola, a small village near the Afghan border.
I would be interested in know the answer to this posed by
Michelle Malkin.
Michelle Malkin: WHERE WAS HILLARY? On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton appeared on Good Morning America to lambaste the Bush administration for not caring about troops who need more body armor. She demanded an investigation.
On Wednesday, Senate Armed Service Committee chairman John Warner did exactly that.
But Hillary didn't bother to show up. Via the Washington Times:
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I would say the democrats are concerned -- some of the judges testifying were Clinton appointees and their testimonies pretty much rendered their (the Dems) four day circus moot!
CNN.com - Democrats frown on judges' - Jan 12, 2006 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the fourth day of sometimes-contentious hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito came to a close Thursday, Democrats expressed concern over an unusual move in which seven of Alito's fellow judges on a U.S. appeals court testified on his behalf. Democrats challenged the move as a violation of the judicial code of conduct -- an allegation GOP senators refuted -- and that it presents a conflict of interest because the judges' cases could come before Alito on appeal if he's appointed to the high court.
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Don't you know that like ever other nation that has been threaten or actually confronted by the "U. N. Security Council" -- Iran is really "shanking in their boots". Please, any action taking by the U. N. will be
irrelevant as usual.
EU trio calls for U.N. Security Council referralEurope's three leading powers yesterday demanded that the U.N. Security Council confront Iran over its nuclear programs, saying talks to curb Tehran's efforts had reached a "dead end." Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice immediately endorsed the idea, telling reporters in Washington that Tehran's decision Tuesday to abandon a moratorium on enriching uranium that could be used for bombs had "shattered the basis for negotiations." Meeting in Berlin, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany called for an emergency meeting of the board of the Vienna, Austria-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with an eye toward referring Tehran to the U.N. Security Council for sanctions.
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Back when Clinton was President the New York Times didn't seem to have a problem with eavesdropping... But that was another president. Some might even say The Times defended it.
Lawmakers Raise Questions About International Spy Network While few dispute the necessity of a system like Echelon to apprehend foreign spies, drug traffickers and terrorists...
Judith Emmel, chief of public affairs for the NSA, declined to comment about the UKUSA Agreement but said the agency was committed to responding to all information requests covered by Barr's amendment. "The NSA's Office of General Counsel works hard to ensure that all Agency activities are conducted in accordance with the highest constitutional, legal and ethical standards," she said.
(Hat tip:
The American Thinker) -- more
here!
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Google has introduced a "mobile" personalized homepage -- wonder why we did not hear of this at CES? Anyway you can find out more below...
Google Mobile Your Google personalized homepage puts the information you care about on one web page -- and now you can access that page on your mobile phone or device, in a phone-friendly format that's easy to read and navigate.
I am sure you have read all about this in the MSM, well maybe not. To get us started look at --
Major Terror Plot Against US Ignored By US Media The mainstream U.S. media outlets have failed to report a major terrorist plot against the U.S. - because it would tend to support President Bush's use of NSA domestic surveillance, according to media watchdog groups. News of a planned attack masterminded by three Algerians operating out of Italy was widely reported outside the U.S., but went virtually unreported in the American media. Italian authorities recently announced that they had used wiretaps to uncover the conspiracy to conduct a series of major attacks inside the U.S.
Now for the "doubting Thomas" look at
GeoROME: Three Algerians arrested in an anti-terrorist operation in southern Italy are suspected of being linked to a planned new series of attacks in the United States, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said on Friday.
or
TurkishPress.comThe attacks would have targeted ships, stadiums or railway stations in a bid to outdo the September 11, 2001 strikes by Al-Qaeda in New York and Washington which killed some 2,700 people, Pisanu said.
Keep in mind this all happened December 23, 2005 -- heard anything?
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Senator Joseph Biden caught in a lie -- the ole "tell them what the want to hear" bit him. Wonder if any MSM outlets will pick up on this?
The Daily Princetonian - Biden criticizes Princeton "I didn't even like Princeton," he said, to laughter from the gallery. "I mean, I really didn't like Princeton. I was an Irish Catholic kid who thought it had not changed like you concluded it had," referring to Alito's earlier statement that Princeton had changed its traditional ways before he enrolled.
BUT in 2004 speaking at Princeton:"It's an honor to be here," he told the audience. "It would have been an even greater honor to have come here."
What do you think today's liberals would call Winston Churchill for his comments below?
Datelines - The Churchill Centre Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
Unfortunately I have had a serious bout of stomach ailments --
having cat scans, MRI(s). etc., etc., etc.... I have a question for the
readers here. Have you ever gone to see a doctor and told him/her
exactly what is wrong only to be told it could be this or that and told
how this could causes serious problem up to and including death? You
give in to their request to participate in the testing because you will
not get the medicine you know you need (know will cure it) until they
verify and your wife is now terrified (at least she loves you)? Now we
do the testing -- feeling miserable, unable to walk standing straight,
and on no medication -- you waste an entire day unable to go to work
and know that if you were correct you could have been back to work
tomorrow, but NO now you will have to miss yet another day.
After this excruciating day it is discovered, what do you know, that
you were exactly right and the doctor gives you the exact treatment you
requested... I will not go into the added expense of unnecessary test
really because it does not affect me as it would others.
My point -- is there something to be said about the patient knowing
themselves? Should a doctor acknowledge -- “gee, you were correct”
after all it is called practicing medicine? I realize that in many
cases one can complain of "under treatment" but does this example of
"over treatment" represent the fear of lawsuit if the "possible"
complications come to past?
Awe, guess I am just rambling -- guess the pain killers are getting to me -- just wish they would put me to sleep.
Please, oh please -- filibuster the nomination! I am so sick of these threats and I am ready for Republicans to step up to the plate and act like "winners". Voters put you there to get things like this passed... I had problems with the President letting Kennedy in on education -- STOP trying to play nice and caving to threats -- one more thing stop listening to McCain...
Schumer warns of filibuster of Alito "If he continuously, given his previous record, refused to answer questions and hid behind 'I can't answer this because it might come before me,' it would increase the chances of a filibuster," Mr. Schumer said.
I didn't get much sleep last night -- maybe I am just in a 'foul mood', but I am sick of our elected representative seemingly being pushed around by the loosing party and a select few (McCain and cronies) directing them.
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The games begin today --
Judiciary Committee to Open Alito Hearings - Yahoo! NewsWASHINGTON - After months of preparation, Samuel Alito will face close questioning by senators to determine his fitness to be the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice.
Some comments to exemplify the expected games
"Obviously, if (Alito) doesn't answer the questions, then it gets out of my control. Some senator would move to hold it over. Let's hope we get all the answers so that doesn't happen," Leahy said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation."
What a surprize what is the emphasis going to be on?
Specter, said in an advance copy of his opening statement that the hearing will be an opportunity for Alito to say publicly what he has been telling senators in private about how he would deal with the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision establishing a woman's right to an abortion.
Wonder if the "pro-abortion" crowed saw this story,
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Well the celebrity left strikes again! Here is an idea -- Mr. Belafonte just stay at your hero's side!
ABC News: In Caracas, Belafonte Calls Bush Terrorist CARACAS, Venezuela Jan 8, 2006 — The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
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Just some more examples of Iraqi terrorism ties that you want see in the MSM -- if nothing else they are predictable. Here are some excerpts from
The Weekly StandardSaddam's Terror Training Camps THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials. The secret training took place primarily at three camps--in Samarra, Ramadi, and Salman Pak--and was directed by elite Iraqi military units. Interviews by U.S. government interrogators with Iraqi regime officials and military leaders corroborate the documentary evidence. Many of the fighters were drawn from terrorist groups in northern Africa with close ties to al Qaeda, chief among them Algeria's GSPC and the Sudanese Islamic Army. Some 2,000 terrorists were trained at these Iraqi camps each year from 1999 to 2002, putting the total number at or above 8,000. Intelligence officials believe that some of these terrorists returned to Iraq and are responsible for attacks against Americans and Iraqis. According to three officials with knowledge of the intelligence on Iraqi training camps, White House and National Security Council officials were briefed on these findings in May 2005; senior Defense Department officials subsequently received the same briefing.
Either this guy is "guilty as sin" or once again Republicans are acting like losers instead of winners -- more worried about saving the majority then doing what we elected them for in the first place... As for me, let the legal system handle this and either deal a blow to Delay or the over zealous prosecutor and let our "leaders" (word used loosely) get on to the business of government.
Republicans seek elections to replace DeLay - Yahoo! NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - About two dozen Republicans have agreed to sign a petition that calls for an election to permanently replace Rep. Tom DeLay as majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, aides said on Friday, dealing another blow to the indicted Texan's political future.
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I am a Christian - I am a conservative, and I really wish Pat Robertson will go about delivery God's word and stay the heck out of politics and the national eye. Really, weather you believe what he is saying or not -- it is not for public consumption it is for Church, you know Sunday morning a body of people you choose to be a member of. If Mr. Robertson wants to be a preacher then get a Church and preach if he wants to be an evangelist then evangelize -- but this politics thing puts me out there either to defend him or call him a cook, neither does conservatism or Christianity any favors.
