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Signing Statement

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Let’s suppose for a moment that the house and senate pass and send to the president for signature immigration legislation that contains these english language requirements:

The White House said the president agrees with two amendments that senators tacked onto the immigration bill, adding that both are “consistent with” Bush’s views. It added that Bush believes the command of English is the best route to assimilation for immigrants.
On Thursday, the Senate passed a Republican measure that would make English the national language. Moments later, it approved a Democrat-led amendment declaring English a “common and unifying language.”
It passed the two amendments to add to the comprehensive immigration bill it’s expected to take to the House next week.
Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe, who supports “national” but not “common and unifying,” complained that his colleagues were trying to “have it both ways.”
The bill already requires illegal immigrants to learn English as a condition of earning legal permanent residency, a step toward citizenship.

We can expect that the decider will add the following signing statement:

The president can exclude himself from the english language requirements particularly when talking about suiciders.

Perhaps we can make speaking english a requirement for national office.

Validate Your Sources

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In an editorial kind of calling for more congressional oversight of the NSA this Miami Herald editorial says:

Let’s be clear about what this program is and is not. ”The government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval,” President Bush insisted shortly after the furor was ignited by a story in USA Today. In short, no indiscriminate wiretapping.

Really, these folks consider this quote from bush as a valid source to justify their clarification of what this program is and is not?
The authors should take the advice of their own closing sentence:

We should be well past the time when ”trust me” is an acceptable response to questions about what the government is up to. That’s the way freedom is lost.

Well, yes. But congress has failed to provide so called oversight and the executive branch seems to be out of control. Ample evidence that the concept of checks and balances is severely flawed.

Better than enhanced congressional oversight might be a complete elimination of these rotting organs which seem unconcerned with our freedom and liberty.

Florida Recount Redux

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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

Kudos to Qwest and Toss the bushies Out on Their Asses

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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.

bush Rolls Out the Propaganda A-Team

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Henley is not the last to blog about the mighty USDA propaganda machine.
If you are as out of touch as i’ve obviously been do take a few minutes to go read about your USDA’s role in taking it to those pesky terrorists and assisting the great nation of Iran. karl and company have even prepared the words for these esteemed public servants:

Several topics I’d like to talk to you about today–Farm Bill, trade with Japan, WTO, avian flu, animal ID–but before I do, let me touch on a subject people always ask about….progress in Iraq.

Just the question that would be on my front burner if I actually went through the effort to go hear one of these folks make a presentation about something. There is much, much more.

Oh yea, Henley is looking for related jokes.