January 1st, 2004... just another day...
...whatever...
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Section 502 purports to place restrictions on use of the U.S. Armed Forces and other personnel in certain operations. The executive branch shall construe the restrictions -in section 502 as advisory in nature, so that the provisions are consistent with the President's constitutional authority as Commander in Chief, including for the conduct of intelligence operations, and to supervise the unitary executive branch.So, the restrictions are advisory? How are restrictions ever advisory??
CBO was unable to obtain the necessary information to estimate the costs for the entire act because certain parts are classified.The CBO web site also adds:
The provision also would extend the [National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs of the U.S. Intelligence Community the] authority to accept and spend gifts.Why would gifts be given to a USGov commission on R&D in the US Intelligence Community? Is this shorthand for kickbacks?
Section 504 would establish an advisory panel to review and make recommendations on measurement and signatures intelligence programs. Under this provision, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency would be allowed to accept contributions to defray the expenses of the advisory panel.So, in other words, kickbacks.
Whereas currently banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions are required to provide certain financial data to authorized intelligence agencies and the Treasury Department, this legislation would expand the list of institutions to include car dealers, pawnbrokers, travel agents, casinos, and other businesses....Casinos? Travel agencies? What other businesses?
The Republican Leadership inserted a controversial provision in the FY04 Intelligence Authorization Report that will expand the already far-reaching USA Patriot Act, threatening to further erode our cherished civil liberties. This provision gives the FBI power to demand financial and other records, without a judge's approval, from post offices, real estate agents, car dealers, travel agents, pawnbrokers and many other businesses. This provision was included with little or no public debate, including no consideration by the House Judiciary Committee, which is the committee of jurisdiction. It came as a surprise to most Members of this body.She also mentions:
It is clear the Republican Leadership and the Administration would rather expand on the USA Patriot Act through deception and secrecy than debate such provisions in an open forum.The Honorable Ron Paul, also on November 20, 2003, expressed his dislike of HR 2417:
What most concerns me about this conference report, though, is something that should outrage every single American citizen. I am referring to the stealth addition of language drastically expanding FBI powers to secretly and without court order snoop into the business andHe added:
financial transactions of American citizens. These expanded internal police powers will enable the FBI to demand transaction records from businesses, including auto dealers, travel agents, pawnbrokers and
more, without the approval or knowledge of a judge or grand jury. This was written into the bill at the 11th hour over the objections of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would normally have jurisdiction over the FBI. The Judiciary Committee was frozen out of the process. It appears we are witnessing a stealth enactment of the enormously unpopular "Patriot II" legislation that was first leaked several months ago. Perhaps the national outcry when a draft of the Patriot II act was leaked has led its supporters to enact it one piece at a time in secret. Whatever the case, this is outrageous and unacceptable. I urge each of my colleagues to join me in rejecting this bill and its incredibly dangerous expansion of Federal police powers.
Despite the tens of billions we spend on these myriad intelligence agencies, it is impossible to ignore the failure of our federal intelligence community to detect and prevent the September 11 attacks. Additionally, it is becoming increasingly obvious that our intelligence community failed completely to accurately assess the nature of the Iraqi threat.He also mentions something that is VERY important to be noted regarding ANY money put toward intelligence activities:
I am also concerned that our scarce resources are again being squandered pursuing a failed drug war in Colombia, as this bill continues to fund our disastrous Colombia policy. Billions of dollarsFinally on November 20, 2003, the Honorable Dennis Moore from Kansas rises in protest of HR 2417, saying:
have been spent in Colombia to fight this drug war, yet more drugs than
ever are being produced abroad and shipped into the United States--
including a bumper crop of opium sent by our new allies in Afghanistan. [...] ...the solution to the drug problem lies not in attacking the producers abroad or in creating a militarized police state to go after the consumers at home, but rather in taking a close look at our seemingly insatiable desire for these substances. Until that issue is addressed we will continue wasting billions of dollars in a losing battle.
This measure expands the definition of "financial institution" to provide enhanced authority for intelligence community collection activities designed to prevent, deter and disrupt terrorism and espionage directed against the United States and to enhance foreign intelligence efforts. Banks, credit unions and other financial institutions currently are required to provide certainSo, on Bizarro World, and our planet, as well, the phrase "financial institution" refers to things like pawnbrokers and travel agents. Moore also mentions:
financial data to investigators generally without a court order or grand jury subpoena. The conference agreement expands the list to include car dealers, pawnbrokers, travel agents, casinos and other
businesses.
The PATRIOT Act earlier had altered the standard for financial records that could be subject to National Security Letters to include the records of someone "sought for" anJust in case you didn't know...
investigation, not merely of the "target" of an investigation.
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The 1999 film has been used, with some success, in at least three other murder cases in which young defendants attempted to justify their crimes with allusions to the movie's philosophy that the world people live in is only a dream sequence controlled by a computer. Violence is condoned as a way to get out of the fake, oppressive world of The Matrix.
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 00:17:19 -0600, "XXXXX"wrote:
>Will the whining never never never end?
>Al Gore lost, get over it. He lost FAIR AND SQUARE. The ballots were recounted over and over again. And then after the election the newspapers in Florida PAID for another recount. He still lost.
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>The states set the laws of balloting. Invalid ballots don't count.
>Apparently Democrats have a new thing. If you lose sue. If you don't like the results demand a 're-election' . Something that is not allowed by law.
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>You want suspecious. You might want to check into voting irregularities in some Democratic controlled states that BARELY went against Bush. But you didn't see an army of lawyers streaming into those states. Because the Republicans HONOR the results of an election.
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>The Democrats had lawyers already warmed up in the bullpen ready to fly to any state necessary to try to push an election their way.
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>Why?
>Because they knew it was likely they could lose this one. Because they nominated the wrong guy.
>That is what you have to get over you whining crybabies.
DUDE - since when does the SUPREME COURT get involved in election disputes? According to the US Constitution, it's CONGRESS who settles election disputes.
Saying Gore lost "fair and square" shows us how little you know about the situation. I'm not saying Gore won, but I'm not saying Bush lost, either.
All I'm saying is that there was no PROPER election in the year 2000. The ballots were NOT counted and recounted. They were partially recounted. Recounting could have continued by election officials and not the media if the Supreme Court (appointed by Bush's DAD) had allowed the recount to continue as many Floridians wanted.
Suspicious things:
Katherine Harris certified the votes for the election, claiming she was unbiased and fair. HOW CAN THIS BE? SHE RAN BUSH'S CAMPAIGN IN FLORIDA.
A growing number of companies that produce balloting machines are run by REPUBLICAN PARTY MEMBERS.
Do you know who Greg Palast is? Check out his site at http://www.gregpalast.com and learn about the TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTERS WHO HAD THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE REVOKED ILLEGALLY BY THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
Yeah, Gore lost fair and square. Right.
So, your man "won" and where did it get us? TWO wars and an administration who couldn't catch Lee Harvey Oswald if he turned himself in.
THREE THINGS:
SADDAM
BIN LADEN
IRAQI WMD
WHERE ARE THEY, TOUGH GUY?
Oh and FYI: I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican - I'm an Independent.
This was NEVER about partisan crap for me. This was ALWAYS about having a PROPER election AS DEFINED BY LAW, both Federal and State. As far as I can tell, that won't be happening in 2004, either. But don't worry - your guy will win. The Democrats are seeing to that with some seriously crappy candidates...
OK, I'm done...
The National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers' living conditions are so substandard, and the medical care so poor, that many of them believe the Army is trying push them out with reduced benefits for their ailments. One document shown to UPI states that no more doctor appointments are available from Oct. 14 through Nov. 11 -- Veterans Day.Isn't that just great? They're going out there in harms way "for our freedom" and this is how they get treated?
"I have loved the Army. I have served the Army faithfully and I have done everything the Army has asked me to do," said Sgt. 1st Class Willie Buckels, a truck master with the 296th Transportation Company. Buckels served in the Army Reserves for 27 years, including Operation Iraqi Freedom and the first Gulf War. "Now my whole idea about the U.S. Army has changed. I am treated like a third-class citizen."
Since getting back from Iraq in May, Buckels, 52, has been trying to get doctors to find out why he has intense pain in the side of his abdomen since doubling over in pain there.
After waiting since May for a diagnosis, Buckels has accepted 20 percent of his benefits for bad knees and is going home to his family in Mississippi. "They have not found out what my side is doing yet, but they are still trying," Buckels said.
One month after President Bush greeted soldiers at Fort Stewart -- home of the famed Third Infantry Division -- as heroes on their return from Iraq, approximately 600 sick or injured members of the Army Reserves and National Guard are warehoused in rows of spare, steamy and dark cement barracks in a sandy field, waiting for doctors to treat their wounds or illnesses.
The Reserve and National Guard soldiers are on what the Army calls "medical hold," while the Army decides how sick or disabled they are and what benefits -- if any -- they should get as a result.
When Abdalla Yones learnt that his 16-year-old child, Heshu, had begun seeing a Christian teenager he stabbed her 11 times. After breaking down the door of the bathroom where she had barricaded herself in, he slit her throat leaving her to bleed to death.This guy then begs the judge for the death penalty. What a total coward.
"We have never claimed that Saddam Hussein had either direction or control of 9-11."HEAVENS!! HOW COULD ANYONE GET THAT IDEA!?!?
Deborah Tannen, a Georgetown University professor of linguistics who has studied Bush's rhetoric, said it is impossible to know but "plausible" that Bush's words furthered such public impressions. "Clearly, he's using language to imply a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11th," she said.'nuff said.
"There is a specific manipulation of language here to imply a connection." Bush, she said, seems to imply that in Iraq "we have gone to war with the terrorists who attacked us."
Tannen said even a gentle implication would be enough to reinforce Americans' feelings about Hussein. "If we like the conclusion, we're much less critical of the logic," she said.
PAPER: Bush assassination plot in Philippines; President set for October 18 visit...There's a link behind the headline, but the page won't load in any browser. The link is to an article at the Manila Times web site, but whether you try to load the actual article or the site itself, nothing comes up.
I spent most of my childhood laughing my ass off at you. You're gone way too early...
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