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The Dems won both the Senate and the House, on top of that, Rumsfeld steps down. Are we looking at better times, where checks and balances are reinstated? Hopefully so.

Bush hit by new blow as aide is charged with shoplifting - Sunday Times - Times Online: “Yesterday it emerged that Allen had been interviewed by police in early January after he allegedly left a Maryland shop with goods he had not paid for. He was arrested last week and charged with two counts of theft that carry maximum sentences of 15 years in jail.”

::sigh::

I wonder if he wasn’t getting paid enough.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to help the Federal Government coordinate a national effort to expand opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America’s social and community needs, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Executive Order: Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

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Separation of church and state?

Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.

insomnia: Future American lawyers to be proud of.

I have to give props to these future lawyers. Makes me wonder at what point in law school do you become a soulless monster.

technorati tags: politics, disobedience

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speech, 9/10/05 > Press Room > Sierra Club: “The New York Times reported a couple of weeks ago that the second-in-command of the Council on Environmental Quality, which is in the White House directly advising the president on environmental policy, is a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute. His only job was to read all of the science from the different federal agencies to make sure they didn’t say anything critical and to excise any critical statements about the oil industry. “

Wow, I knew it was bad, but that bad!. Three more years…..

Bruce Schneier: Unchecked presidential power: “This is indefinite dictatorial power. And I don’t use that term lightly; the very definition of a dictatorship is a system that puts a ruler above the law. In the weeks after 9/11, while America and the world were grieving, Bush built a legal rationale for a dictatorship. Then he immediately started using it to avoid the law.”

A judge that can interpret the constitution and figure out that ID is not science.

Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’ in science class: “We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents,’”

This should create precedent for similar rulings in other states.

Let me make something clear. I am not some sort of anti-religious zealot zealot, I have no problem with Belief in God, I just don’t think it should be taught in a science class. I think it blurs, or redefines as Kansas did, the definition of science, and gives our students a disadvantage in the future. How can you properly study science, if all of the sudden the scientific method turned into some blurry concept.

Bush says spying leak shameful: “My personal opinion is it was a shameful act for someone to disclose this very important program in a time of war,’ Bush told a news conference at which he was questioned repeatedly about the controversial operation disclosed on Friday by The new York Times. “

Yup, spying on domestic communications, who would’ve guessed they’d do that…..

Interesting how people feel threatened by what they don’t understand, even simple things like language.

American Family Association - AgapePress news: “Junior Zach Rubio was suspended for one and a half days from Endeavor Alternative School in Kansas City for speaking Spanish, his father’s native language. According to one Washington Post report, the teen says another boy asked him a question in Spanish in the school hallway during a bathroom break, and it only felt natural to Rubio to reply in the same language, which he did.”

First the whole ID debacle, and now sending kids to the office for speaking spanish. Kansas has to be the most retarded state ever.

I particularly love this part:

Boulet feels the school was in a no-win situation, where if it does not stop someone from doing something bad it gets sued and if it tries to stop someone from doing something bad, it gets sued. Now, he says, as a result “we have a situation here where the [Rubio] family is all ready to file a lawsuit because the father is a new American citizen, and evidently he learned in citizenship class that whenever you’re unhappy with someone, file a lawsuit.”

WOW!!!, can you believe this! Speaking spanish is BAD!. There you have it all Spanish speaking American citizens do bad things when you speak Spanish. Wow, just wow, the ignorance, closed-mindness and intolerance in this country are sometimes unbelievable.

Technorati Tags: politics, language, spanish

Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others today that the Bush administration is “flat wrong” in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy.

DenverPost.com - NATION/WORLD:
I’ve always liked Clinton

Technorati Tags: environment, globalwarming