[wacor]

So you admit the liberals ergo democrats for the most part are not educated. Congratulation on that epiphany. We are now paying for it in spades with the mess that just got elected.

[ekim68]

Originally Posted by wacor

So anything that dares consider it a moderate progressive is a sham I guess

Why does 'compassionate conservative' come to mind...

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Why does 'compassionate conservative' come to mind...

[xico]

Originally Posted by wacor

So you admit the liberals ergo democrats for the most part are not educated. Congratulation on that epiphany. We are now paying for it in spades with the mess that just got elected.

You need to take a course in reading.

These are phoney progressives on a disinformation campaign, setting out to confuse people with good hearts and little education.

I was talking about the mass of working people who want a chance to escape from slavery, a chance to be healthy, a chance for their kids to get an education,a chance to have a house, and be able to pursue life, liberty and happiness.

I certainly wasn't talking about elected officials who are perpetuating this scam.

[ekim68]

Could be a compelling political demographic comparison, eh?

Reaching Critical Mess

As Blockbuster, 'Transformers' Spotlights Chasm Between Rabid Audience and Savage Reviewers

The critics spoke last Friday. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a Hindenberg of a movie.

The audience responded: So freakin' what? They forked over $215 million (and counting) to see the widely panned sequel about shape-shifting robots. It became only the second movie after last year's "The Dark Knight" to make that much in its first five days. "Transformers 2" was director Michael Bay's worst-reviewed movie -- worse than 2001's "Pearl Harbor."

"A horrible experience of unbearable length," wrote Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times.

"Striking, shrieking incoherence," wrote Peter Travers in Rolling Stone.

"I think they reviewed the wrong movie," Bay told the Los Angeles Times. Critics "just don't understand the movie and its audience. It's silly fun. I am convinced that they are born with the anti-fun gene."

Not that it matters, though. For decades, summer blockbusters have vacuumed up people's money in spite of how bad the reviews are.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews

[ekim68]

US court upholds penalty for phone records seller

200,000 reasons to never do it again

In a victory for privacy advocates, a federal appeals court has upheld a tough penalty meted out last year to a company that sold the contents of individuals' phone records without their permission.

A three-judge panel of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower-court ruling that ordered the owners of Abika.com to surrender almost $200,000 in revenue earned from the sales of such records. From 2003 to 2006, the site offered to sell "details of incoming or outgoing calls from any phone number, prepaid calling card or Internet Phone" to anyone with a credit card.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06...peal_rejected/

[xico]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Why does 'compassionate conservative' come to mind...

How cruel! To remind us of 'compassionate conservative'! And how they must have chuckled, these wolves!

[xico]

George W. Bush appointees buck Barack Obama on terror policies

By JOSH GERSTEIN | 6/30/09 4:13 AM

Jose Padilla was sentenced by Federal Judge Marcia Cooke to 17 years and four months for conspiring to support Islamic extremists around the world. (AP)
Photo: AP

President Barack Obama’s claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges nominated by President George W. Bush, who asserted the sweeping powers in the first place.


In recent weeks, three different Bush appointees considering cases relating to war-on-terror detainees have rejected arguments from Obama’s Justice Department, which adopted virtually unchanged the positions the Bush administration had staked out.


In each case, the Bush-appointed judge said the executive branch was overstepping its authority and claiming more powers than the law allowed.


“It took a while for the courts to turn on George Bush. Obama’s not getting that same period,” said Jonathan Turley, a liberal legal analyst at The George Washington University. “The fact that these are Republican appointees tends to add an exclamation point to their decisions.”

Good article. For the rest, click here.

[wacor]

Did these judges rule on this prior?

If not then why is it a story?

It means they voted as they saw fit.

Not like they changed their view.

[xico]

Originally Posted by wacor

Did these judges rule on this prior?

If not then why is it a story?

It means they voted as they saw fit.

Not like they changed their view.

Ahhh, the Bush apologist at work! Good boy! Glad you can see into the minds of these judges, while the rest of us can only judge them by their actions!

[xico]

J. Sri Raman | Strategic Part of India's Civilian Nuclear Plans
http://www.truthout.org/070109B?n
J. Sri Raman, Truthout: We are beginning by briefly revisiting Kaiga, the site of a nuclear complex in India's southern State of India, close to the country's west coast. It was also the venue of a mysterious death. The event was covered in these columns (Death of an Indian Nuclear Scientist, June 24, 2009). We are not returning here because we have more clues to the truth about the tragedy. Not yet. Kaiga, meanwhile, has figured in reports of another kind. On June 26, 'a top nuclear scientist,' presumably of this atomic power station, let the media know that the place was 'being pushed as the location for US companies to set up new reactors.'"

[xico]

After Iran Crackdown: Reform Movement Shows Resilience
http://www.truthout.org/070109D?n
Scott Macleod, Time Magazine: "Tehran's streets, in which hundreds of thousands of demonstrators thronged two weeks ago, have largely gone quiet. Small-scale demonstrations are still staged every couple of days, but the regime has effectively reasserted control through its willingness to use violence, and the threat of violence, against those protesting the disputed election result. But the absence of protesters from the streets doesn't signal an end to the political crisis that has roiled the regime since Mir-Hossein Mousavi and his supporters accused the backers of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of stealing the June 12 election."

Real food for the CIA

[wacor]

Originally Posted by xico

Ahhh, the Bush apologist at work! Good boy! Glad you can see into the minds of these judges, while the rest of us can only judge them by their actions!

what on earth does that have to do with apologizing for Bush

You all are a broken record

[xico]

That's cos you're only hearing what ya wanna hear and seeing what ya wanna see.

[xico]

Obama's "Nonks" Gone Wild— By David Corn | Tue June 30, 2009 6:48 AM PST

Vivek Kundra is a rock star.

At least at the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference. On Tuesday morning, Kundra, the chief information officer of the Obama administration, opened the second day of this gathering of digital techies by unveiling a new dashboard that taxpayers can use to track the federal government's spending on information technology. The crowd went wild. They greeted his announcement with a standing ovation.

You can go to Data.gov to see this new tool, which will allow you to obtain and mash data about IT programs across the federal government. For example, as Kundra said, you could check out "how much the US Department of Agriculture spends on information technology projects and what is the health of those projects." You can see who's getting the IT contracts, assess the performance of those contracts, and provide feedback to the CIOs of these agencies.

Not your idea of a hot time? Okay. But as Kundra pointed out, the US government spends about $70 billion a year on IT, and much of this money gets wasted on lousy IT. He noted that a 1994 report found that billions of dollars in federal IT investments went down the drain. And he referred to a 2008 report that concluded that $30 billion in IT programs were in trouble. That report, Kundra griped, didn't even provide a list of the specific IT programs in jeopardy. And, he said, big federal IT programs often take 18 months to two years to get off the launching pad, but by then the technology has changed and outpaced the project's original specs. Remember those FBI computers?

For the rest, click here.