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So Long to JetBlue-Caves to O'Reilly

July 22, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 473 Views 2 Comments YearlyKos, Airline, Fox News, DailyKox, JetBlue, O-039Reilly

JetBlue sponsored, among many other things, YearlyKos. This is a grass roots convention of progressive bloggers and activists. JetBlue shows Fox News in flight, Their new CEO contributed $2,100 to Mitt Romney’s campaign, and they advertise on Fox. Yet when Bill O’Reilly finds they sponsored a progressive convention, he attacks…so JetBlue. And instead of standing up for their sponsorship, and pointing out how much they support Fox, they cave in and have their logo removed from the YearKos website.

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And Away Goes the Fifth Amendment

July 19, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 455 Views 1 Comment Terrorism, Terrorists, Fifth Amendment, Guardian, Secretary of The Treasury, Treasury Department

President Bush unveiled an executive order that allows the administration to block bank accounts and any other financial assets that might be found in this country belonging to people, companies or groups that the United States deems are working to threaten stability in Iraq.

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Restoration of Constitutional Rights

July 17, 2007September 29, 2018 1116 Views 0 Comments Bill Nelson, Mel Martinez, Declaration of Independance, Thomas Jefferson, Habeas corpus, S 185, S 2022, U S Senate

Dear Senators Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson:

The history of the present King … [George] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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Vitter Has Double Standard-Big Suprise There, He's a Senator

July 17, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 447 Views 0 Comments sex, Prostitution, U S Senate, Bill Clinton, David Vitter, family values, Victim

Senator David Vitter is the United States Senator who was on the phone records for the D.C. Madame. He went into exclusion for a while, then came to give a brief statement, have his wife pimp for him, and then duck out the back door as if nothing had happened. It was a pretty shameful display.

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Chertoff's Gastric Distress

July 13, 2007 B. John 418 Views 1 Comment Iraq, war on terror, Homeland Security, Chertoff

We’re pumping billions into the new Homeland Insecurity Department, yet it appears we’re relying on DHS Secretary Micheal Chertoff’s gastric rumblings for our intellingence. Suddenly he’s appearing on the news circuit saying he has a gut feeling, we’re going to be attacked again.

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Holsinger Confirmation Hearings

July 13, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 407 Views 0 Comments confirmation, senate, Homophobe, Bush Administration, James Holsinger, Surgeon General

Some of you may know that James Holsinger has been nominated by Bush to be Surgeon General. So who is this goober (and a goober he is)? He’s the chairperson of the Methodist Supreme Judicial Committee that ruled it was OK for a Methodist minister to keep a gay person from joining his church.

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News for The Week of July 15, 2007

July 13, 2007 B. John 334 Views 0 Comments 711, Bob Allen, Brevard County, Desecration, Flag, Titusville, florida, Police

This is a wrap up of some of the more interesting news items for the week ending Sunday, July 15, 2007.

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Shooter

July 7, 2007 B. John 464 Views 0 Comments Mystery, Mark Wahlberg, Antoine Fuqua, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Shooter, Action, Thriller

Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He’s left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he’s recruited by a lisping colonel to help find a way that the President of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia.

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Sicko

July 7, 2007 B. John 426 Views 0 Comments healthcare, Documentary, Insurance, Michael Moore, Sicko, Universal Healthcare

Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to investigate the American healthcare system. Sticking to his tried-and-true one-man approach, Moore sheds light on the complicated medical affairs of individuals and local communities.

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Passengers Have Rights Too

June 19, 2007 B. John 354 Views 0 Comments supreme court, Fourth Amendment, Justice David Souter, Yuba City

Bruce Brendlin was arrested in 2001 for drug possession after a car in which he was a passenger was stopped by Yuba City police. The State had conceded there was no basis for the original vehicle stop, so Brendlin had argued that the drug evidence should be suppressed. The Associated Press is reporting that the Supreme Court has ruled that passengers in automobiles have the same Constitutional protections from illegal searches.

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Durham DA-May Have Announced Resignation

June 15, 2007 B. John 329 Views 0 Comments North Carolina, Rape, Duke, Durham County, Lacrosse, Mike Nifong, sexual assault, State Bar Association

I only caught the tail end of the report, but it appears, based on what I was hearing on WRAL that in a statement in his State Bar hearing, Durham DA Nifong announced that he was going to step down as DA. According to the WRAL reporter, he was “nearly in tears.”