“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and
those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”The Wuss, George W. ("The Wuss") Bush, speaking at a Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 2001, six months before Sep 11 2001
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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is co-author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. The linked-to title article contains contact information for Mr. Roberts.
Read and Repeat: “Traditional Biblical marriage” has historically been defined as “between one man and one woman once.”
That definition was changed to suit modern Christians. Divorce laws changed accordingly.
Unlike those changes made to accommodate the majority of modern hets’ adoption of non-traditional, un-Biblical lifestyles - without the word “once” -- same-gender marriage equality actually promotes marriage by example, through the existence of same-gender couples who are already married, and the large number of same-gender couples who want to get married.
Advocates for the recognition of same-gender marriage equality honor marriage by validating the locally issued documents which publicly certify the existence of a unique bond between two consenting adults: a marriage license.
Except For Us
Millions of people world-wide gratefully accepted the Catholic pope's best wishes for the New Year on Jan 01 2008:
For “those who are still denied their legitimate aspirations for a more secure existence, for health, education, stable employment, for fuller participation in civil and political responsibilities, free from oppression and protected from conditions that offend human dignity.”
Some of us know better.
This pope, who took it upon himself to lead the last pope down the same path, personally, publicly and frequently exhorts and encourages the world to exclude gays from those same “legitimate aspirations.”
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Second, we have long been horrified by Neo-Christian Nationalists who have visions of taking over the world, whose sneering lack of humility all along has been a shallow cover for absent rational restraint against the abuse of the power entrusted to them, as described in the revealing conversation below. (Ron Suskind)
Ron Suskind:
“In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White
House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications
director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting
with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White
House’s displeasure, and then he
told me something that at the time I didn’t fully
comprehend – but which I now believe gets to the very heart
of the Bush presidency.
“The aide said
that guys like me were ‘in what we
call the reality-based community,’ which he
defined as people who ‘believe
that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible
reality.’ I nodded and murmured something about
enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off.
‘That’s not the way the
world really works anymore,’ he continued.
‘We’re an empire now, and
when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re
studying that reality – judiciously, as you will –
we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you
can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.
We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you,
will be left to just study what we do.’”
Ron Suskind is a former reporter for The
Wall Street Journal and author of The Price of Loyalty:
George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul
O'Neill. This clipping is from an article in The New York Times’s
Sunday “Magazine” as cited here on Oct 20 2004 by Anti-War.com editorial director Justin Raimondo in his regular column, "Anti-War.com Behind the Headlines."
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"A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust." -- Lord Byron
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U.S. Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI), a member of both the Senate Intelligence and Senate Judiciary committees:
The National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program is illegal, whatever legal opinions the White House and Justice Dept. come up with. [Especially since it began months before Sep 11 2001.]
White House Cut Deal With Senate Intelligence Committee on FISA
Access to Documents Traded for Promoting Telecom Immunity
Washington Post
Oct 23 2007
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee members yesterday angrily accused the White House of allowing the Senate Intelligence Committee to review documents on its warrantless surveillance program in return for agreeing that telecommunications companies should get immunity from lawsuits.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the ranking Republican, said any such agreement would be "unacceptable," signaling that legislation granting immunity to certain telecom carriers could run into trouble. Leahy and Specter demanded that the documents, which were provided only to the Intelligence Committee, be turned over to the Judiciary Committee as well.
At issue is a White House-endorsed measure that would give immunity to telecom carriers being sued for allegedly helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans after September 11, 2001. It is part of a larger bill to rework the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The Intelligence Committee has approved the bill and sent it to the Judiciary Committee for deliberation.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, said yesterday that what the White House did was "not exactly" a quid pro quo but that the intelligence panel "expected to legislate on the liability" and so "we've been accommodative on sharing information."
Fratto said that the White House could not make documents containing presidential authorizations and the Justice Department's legal opinions underpinning the surveillance program available to members not already briefed on the NSA program, as members of the Intelligence Committee were. He said talks are ongoing on that point.
On Friday, White House press secretary Dana Perino said that Intelligence Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and ranking member Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.)'s staff "showed a willingness" to include immunity in their legislation. "Because they were willing to do that, we were willing to show them some of the documents that they asked to see."
But an Intelligence Committee aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was "no quid pro quo," and that the immunity decision was based not on a determination of the program's legality but on the members' having previously reviewed written requests sent by the government to the carriers. "The documents we'd already received and carefully reviewed certainly led Rockefeller to the opinion that immunity was justified in this case," said the aide. "But we felt it was an important principle to not allow the administration to deprive the committee of the full panoply of documents before they proceeded to markup."
Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), a member of both the Intelligence and Judiciary panels, said in an interview yesterday that the documents revealed that the NSA program was illegal. He said the presidential authorizations and the Justice Department opinions do not make it legal.
“That makes it an executive power grab that is not justified by the statute or by the Constitution.”
Feingold had not seen the documents, however, saying he based his assertion
on briefings from his Intelligence Committee aide, who reviewed the documents
for several hours last Tuesday.
Feingold voted against the bill, which would allow the government to begin
wiretaps of foreign targets and then seek FISA court approval of the targeting
procedures [as has always been allowed - wiretap first if necessary and get a warrant from the FISA Court later, within a certain length of time (60 days?), so the warranted evidence can be used in court].
The "new and improved" FISA law also would allow a court to dismiss lawsuits against phone
carriers [paying off The Wuss] if the attorney general [appointed by The Wuss] certified [using definitions and powers invented by The Wuss] that the aid [secret aid to The Wuss agenda which the telecom giants and their lawyers know are illegal but the money and political access are good] was part of a counter-terrorism program [defined by The Wuss] authorized by the The Wuss [using powers invented by The Wuss] between September 11, 2001, and January 17, 2007. [Why Jan 17 2007? It hasn't stopped.]
Senator Feingold said that the documents his aide had studied revealed "the absence of a legitimate justification under the law" for the program.
As such, he said, he could not vote to grant immunity to telecom carriers. "I
don't think we should be in the business of granting immunity in situations
where a company has every opportunity to determine whether something is legal or
not," he said.
"Otherwise, that sets a precedent encouraging any company,
especially those that have great access to our private information, to just do
what they want and rely on immunity."
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), a member of the Intelligence Committee,
said the Committee wasn't given enough time to review the White House's documents regarding the FISA law changes, and that
he tried to strip the immunity provision from the bill.
"I want to know if there
was any complicity of the telephone companies in this," he said. Nelson, whose
amendment failed, said he was "favorably disposed" toward carriers but did not
want to halt lawsuits aimed at finding "the truth as to the legality of the
program."
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), also on the Judiciary and Intelligence
panels, said the documents did not change his position that the surveillance
activities "were and are" lawful.
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Hello, Iran! The weak "Chief Justice" of Iran, Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi, is legally impotent compared to the new powers to over-rule him taken by the Special Supervision Bureau of Iran's Justice Department! Even though he ruled specifically and clearly against it, the useless "Chief Justice" couldn't even stop the murder of an innocent boy illegally hung like this by Iran's powerful "Special Supervision Bureau"
Boycott for Human Rights in China, Tibet and
Taiwan
Boycott China
It's almost the least we can do
for the anonymous murdered victims
sacrificed as material parts
for the evolution of humanity
representing its brutality
here's hoping
that past, future and current
enslavement, torture and deaths
do fulfill the minimum
help achieve a bit more freedom
a longer life
for someone, somewhere, some time
only nothing is lower than that minimum
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