There are Two Kinds of Salesmen
Jun 17 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X
Used War Salesman
One tries to fill an honest need in a person’s life and satisfy that need with a service.
The other makes you think you have a need and creates a service to satisfy that created need.
Which kind do you think the Bush administration is?
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Reid on Bolton
Jun 17 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X
Harry Reid
Yesterday Harry Reid (D-NV) had some comments to say about the Bolton nomination. He continues to raise many valid questions that the Bush administration continues to not answer. Personally I am not inclined to trust an administration that finds it so difficult to tell the truth. It’s almost as if they are hiding something…
Reid Floor Statement on Bolton Nomination
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Conyers on Downing Street Memo
Jun 17 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X
Downing Street
An excerpt from the Downing Street Memo:
C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
Yesterday John Conyers (D-MI) held an informal hearing regarding the Downing Street Memo. In case you haven’t heard of it the Downing Street Memo reveals that the highest British officials, including the prime minister, were aware that the Bush administration had the intelligence and facts “fixed around the policy”. Usually the policy is based on the facts. This is a very important, as it indicates that there was a pre-existing desire to go to war and the intelligence was manipulated or created to support that desire. The Bush administration, in other words, deceived Congress and people of the United States into going to war with Iraq.
In case you are interested, deceiving Congress is a felony and the president in the March 19, 2002 Congressional Record, submitted to Congress his case for war. If that case for war is knowingly false, the president has committed a felony and that is an impeachable offense for which he should be prosecuted.
Link to the Downing Street Memo
Link to Conyers “Hearing on the Downing Street Memo” (C-SPAN) - note the hearing is about 2 hours long.
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Repeal the 22nd Amendment?
Jun 16 at 8:08pm by Jagwire X
Steny Hoyer as Whip
I predicted this would happen. Someone is trying to do it and that someone is House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD). He introduced bipartisan legislation (H.J.RES.25.IH) on February 15th 2005 to repeal the 22nd amendment, which states that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” Representatives Berman (D-CA), Pallone (D-NJ), Sabo (D-MN) and Sensenbrenner (R-WI) joined Hoyer in sponsoring the resolution.
Sensenbrenner is the very same man who has proposed the Orwellian and absurd drug laws as mentioned earlier this week here on The Hollow Men. I suspect the democrats involved are paying some sort of lip service to the administration. Contrary to what is says in the statement that Bush would not be eligible for re-election I am sure that is intended.
I thought we did away with the monarchy during the American Revolution?
As a side note apparently other legislation was introduced in 2003 to repeal the 22nd amendment as well. H.J.RES.11.IH - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.
The current legislation H.J.RES.25.IH - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
Both of these may already have been axed but I haven”t found any further information about them. If you know anything send us a message.
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EFF Publishes Legal Guide for Bloggers
Jun 16 at 8:08pm by Jagwire X
Legal Guide for Bloggers
If you are a blogger you might be interested in this. From the EFF Newsletter:
Whether you’re a newly minted blogger or a relative old-timer, you’ve been seeing more and more stories pop up every day about bloggers getting into trouble for what they post.
Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don’t want published.
You might, for example, publish something that someone considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that’s under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the alleged crimes of a candidate for public office.
The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you’re doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn’t help - in many cases the law was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven’t decided yet how it applies to bloggers.
But here’s the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy, and Internet bullies shouldn’t use the law to stifle legitimate free expression. That’’s why EFF created the “Legal Guide for Bloggers,” compiling a number of FAQs designed to help you understand your rights and, if necessary, defend your freedom.
Follow the links below to read the guide and learn more about ways EFF is fighting to defend bloggers’ rights:
EFF: Fighting for Bloggers’ Rights
Press release: “Justice for Bloggers”
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Curiouser and curiouser
Jun 16 at 1:01pm by Jagwire X
September 11th 2001
A former chief economist for the Labor Department now doubts the official 9/11 story. The claim is that it was a controlled demolition with the implication of possible government foul-play and criminal implications.
Take a look at the story here.
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HR 1528 - The Finest Quality of Stupidity
Jun 14 at 3:03pm by Jagwire X
James Sensenbrenner
James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) wants to put you in jail if you watch someone use drugs, and you don’t report this activity to the authorities within 24 hours. It as absurd as it is disturbing.
I guess our prison aren’t crowded enough. Well there is nothing like some absurd intrusive 1984-esque law to add to the population of The ClinkTM.
Take a look at Spy vs. Spy and Sensenbrenner’s Police State.
It’s really depressing how this country is turning into the opposite of everything it stands for. And our lovely “Republican” and “conservative” administration whose actions espouse so many beliefs contrary to what the Republican Party is supposed to stand for. Like smaller and less intrusive government.
There are much bigger problems in the world than this: the environment, poverty, jobs, renewable energy to name but a few.
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Ohio Election Redux
Jun 14 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X
2004 election controversy map
Gore Vidal has an excellent article about our current plight as a “democracy”. It’s interesting that in countries that are supposedly less democratic than ours any citizen is allowed to ask their leaders real questions. Instead we get a dog and pony show of hand picked audiences asking trivial questions with useless answers. In addressing the problems of the 2004 presidential election in Ohio, Vidal, makes it obvious that there were too many discrepancies for the election to have been anything but tampered with.
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