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,
Poll Finds High School Seniors Take Pro-Life Position on AbortionTechnorati Tags:
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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.
Just watch and listen - you will love it!
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FYI -- Microsoft has made their fix available and it works. After installing you can remove the temporary fix I mentioned a couple of days ago. For details follow the link.
Security Now! Notes for Episode #20Users of Ilfak's temporary patch — which is no longer needed in the wake of Microsoft's early released official update — may rest easily. Ilfak reports that he checked-out Microsoft's new replacement GDI32.DLL . . . and it permanently does the same thing as his temporary patch: It simply revokes support for the age-old WMF "SETABORT" command from metafile processing.
This is from
Cox & Forkum and proves a picture is work a thousand words.
Ahh shucks; Maybe they are finding out they aren't as "elite" as they thought or where told they would be at "journalism school"... Easy fix for this "being checked up on" -- get it right, don't take statements out of context, hey I got it report the news not your opinion!
Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet - New York TimesSubjects of newspaper articles and news broadcasts now fight back with the same methods reporters use to generate articles and broadcasts - taping interviews, gathering e-mail exchanges, taking notes on phone conversations - and publish them on their own Web sites. This new weapon in the media wars is shifting the center of gravity in the way that news is gathered and presented, and it carries implications for the future of journalism.
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Interview subjects are "annoyed that they're quoted out of context, or they did a half-hour interview and only one sentence got used. Or sometimes they're just flattered that a reporter called them," she said. "If you're one of a growing number of people with a blog, you now have a place where you can set the record straight."
Danny Schechter, executive editor of MediaChannel.org and a former producer at ABC News and CNN, said that while the active participation by so many readers was healthy for democracy and journalism, it had allowed partisanship to mask itself as media criticism and had given rise to a new level of vitriol.
"It's now O.K. to demonize the messenger," he said. "This has led to a very uncivil discourse in which it seems to be O.K. to shout down, discredit, delegitimize and denigrate the people who are reporting stories and to pick at their methodology and ascribe motives to them that are often unfair."
Now let me get this straight -- Mr. Schechter has a problem with "demonizing the messenger", I wonder if he has a problem with the "demonizing" of anyone you choose for any reason (i.e. they disagree with you, they didn't give you an interview, you just don't like, to sway public opinion, etc.) -- you know the elitist behavior of many journalist's.
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Just wanted to provide more on the vulnerability in
all versions of windows. Don't forget the fix I reported yesterday.
FT.com / By industry / IT - Windows PCs face ‘huge’ virus threat“The potential [security threat] is huge,” said Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure, an antivirus company. “It’s probably bigger than for any other vulnerability we’ve seen. Any version of Windows is vulnerable right now.” The flaw, which allows hackers to infect computers using programs maliciously inserted into seemingly innocuous image files, was first discovered last week. But the potential for damaging attacks increased dramatically at the weekend after a group of computer hackers published the source code they used to exploit it. Unlike most attacks, which require victims to download or execute a suspect file, the new vulnerability makes it possible for users to infect their computers with spyware or a virus simply by viewing a web page, e-mail or instant message that contains a contaminated image. “We haven’t seen anything that bad yet, but multiple individuals and groups are exploiting this vulnerability,” Mr Hyppönen said. He said that every Windows system shipped since 1990 contained the flaw. Microsoft said in a security bulletin on its website that it was aware that the vulnerability was being actively exploited. However an official patch to correct the flaw was not expected to be released until January 10.
Well the MSM blatantly uses known lefties for their experts now -- got to love the desperation.
ABC Fails to Note Bush-Bashing “Constitutional Scholar” Writes for Far-Left Magazine | NewsBusters.org
Without identifying David Cole as the “legal affairs correspondent” for the far-left magazine The Nation, Friday’s World News Tonight on ABC featured his denigration of the probe into who leaked the secret eavesdropping story to the New York Times and his expert declaration that “the President of the United States violated a clear criminal prohibition on warrantless wiretapping.”
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I cannot stand the idea of speed cameras or stop light cameras for that matter... In this case, if you follow all the links, you will find that the man was actaully going 18mph but the camera got him going 47mph -- what if he wasn't an engineer. BTW engineers rock!
Engineer Bryn Carlyon was issued a ticket by a traffic speed camera in Cardiff, UK. But he used multiple timed snaps by the camera, plus a little basic math, to prove that he could not have been traveling at the speed on his citation.
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Another flaw and an FYI for those that read this blog!
Techworld.com - Hackers exploit Windows flawSecurity firms have warned that patched systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 can be successfully attacked by malicious hackers. The attacks can be carried out thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability in those operating systems' handling of corrupted .WMF (Windows Metafile) graphic files.
The ACLU cannot make up their mind! They have campaigned against "racial profile" in favor for "behavioral profile" over and over and over.... Now they are proving they don't want "behavioral profiling" either -- please, MAKE UP YOUR MIND. (Hat tip:
Michelle Malkin)
American Civil Liberties Union : ACLU Letter to the House Urging Members to Co-Sponsor the End Racial Profiling Act of 2004Law enforcement based on general characteristics such as race, religion and national origin, rather than on the observation of an individual's behavior, is not only an inefficient technique;
Safe and Free // Post - 9/11 Resources: Racial Profiling, Discrimination and Immigrants’ RightsRacial profiling is as flawed an approach to the war on terrorism as it was to the war on drugs. The ACLU is not alone in this belief: shortly after September 11, leading intelligence experts cautioned against using this counterproductive tool. In Assessing Behaviors, a memorandum first reported in the Boston Globe, the specialists advised law enforcement to focus on behavior, not race, in efforts to foil terrorist plots.
Behavior detection implemented at Maine airports - Boston.comThe federal Transportation Security Administration implemented its pilot program for behavior detection -- the practice of analyzing people's actions to determine if they have something to hide -- at Boston's Logan International Airport in 2002.
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The TSA is facing opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts last year claiming behavior detection can be easily abused because TSA officers have to guess who is suspicious, leading to racial profiling.
Our Christmas wish is that all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas -- and we hope that your best day is the worst you experience in the coming year
Interesting trivia -- " Fifteen years ago today the Web browser was invented.
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