Daily Archives: May 11, 2006


Florida Recount Redux

jennifer dunn sets the record straight on who katherine harris was serving during the recount:

Former Republican Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn of Washington was sticking up for Harris, whom she described as a friend. Among her talking points was that Harris had done “yeoman’s service for president Bush”* during the 2000 recount. Of course, the official GOP talking point has always been that Harris served no one but the law. “I was just doing my job,” Harris likes to say. Nice to hear someone finally say what we know they’re thinking.

Yep, it’s a little bit clearer now what her job was and it had nothing to do with being a public servant.

Via horsesass.org


Birdwatching Time

Well, heck, Mike Bergin says it just fine in an early morning email:

Nick of birdDC has thrown down the gauntlet in his excellent presentation of I and the Bird #23. If you can identify 27 birds from the photos he provides, he’ll buy you a Peterson’s Field Guide. Go easy on him!

Nick notes in a comment that just the first to get all 27 gets a field guide…go win it!


Kudos to Qwest and Toss the bushies Out on Their Asses

They have no respect for you, your privacy or your freedom. Yet it is the protection of these things, your life, your liberty, your pursuit of happiness that supposedly justifies government.
Governments, as history shows, are not always not frequently good and they can get much worse. For instance, most probably acknowledge that stalinist russia, to use a technical term, sucked.
The ongoing parade of bush administration bad acts seems as if it will never end….why, look no further than the next edition of USA Today for the latest:

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

Just go read the rest…
Will we see warrants and probable cause? Nope, likely just the executive order telling folks to break the law, to violate the 4th Amendment. This government need to be eliminated and the companies that are supporting these immoral and unconstitutional programs need to be reorganized, i.e., if there is anything left after they pay the maximum fine/restitution to each individual whose privacy has been compromised.
No matter your political persuasion you should be angry, upset and willing to toss the bastards out because of this type of behavior. It might not be your gang that is using these tools in a few years.
And, yes, kudos to Qwest for saying no!
Via The Left Coaster.