Conservative Scholars Argue Bush’s Wiretapping Is An Impeachable Offense

Via Americablog who has more.

Two impeached Presidents in a row?

Neat!

At least Nixon had China what has Bush done?

Iraq? Yeah, looks like it's on it's way to being the new Iran:

CONSERVATIVE religious parties have surged to a runaway lead in the counting of votes to appoint a government to run Iraq for the next four years.

With more than 60 per cent of votes tallied, Washington's hopes that the former prime minister Iyad Allawi might pull enough support to build a secular administration have faded dramatically.

Heckuva a job Bushie! Can't imagine why the Iraqi people didn't vote for the American backed guys.

Hey Iraqi ladies get your burkas now, avoid the rush!

The Poor Man has the latest round-up of tinfoil plated theories as to why Bush went around FISA. This I find fascinating:

What is especially perplexing about this story is that the 1978 law set up a special court to approve eavesdropping in hours, even minutes, if necessary. In fact, the law allows the government to eavesdrop on its own, then retroactively justify it to the court, essentially obtaining a warrant after the fact. Since 1979, the FISA court has approved tens of thousands of eavesdropping requests and rejected only four. There was no indication the existing system was slow—as the president seemed to claim in his press conference—or in any way required extra-constitutional action.

And consider this: (via the oh so good DRenagade)

The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times’ eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper’s editor and publisher to the Oval Office. But it wasn’t just out of concern about national security.

So the only reason why he'd go around FISA is that he knew he'd never get a warrant but wanted to wiretap anyway. Hmm I operated the same way in high school where my mantra was "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission".

Which works until you do something unforgivable like burning down a closet with a bong made out of bits and pieces found in the science lab. That school has rules named after me! Immortality at such a young age.

UPDATE: Bush lied! People Spied!

OKAY FUCK OFF I'M COPYRIGHTING THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW!!!

EDMONTON -- It's happy hour at T. B.'s Pub, but the place is almost empty. The real party is happening just steps away on a smoke-filled red school bus parked beside the bar in a gritty, working-class part of northwest Edmonton.

This is the "butt bus," a place for bar patrons to light up between pints of Molson Canadian and Bud.

It's also Edmonton City Hall's newest legal nightmare.

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"This city is becoming so . . . communist. You'd think we lived in freaking Toronto or something," Kevin Schotts, a 31-year-old T. B. Pub regular, complained as he took a drag on his cigarette. "This is redneck Alberta. We should be able to have a smoke wherever we want to."

Ah, and the people who don't want to inhale noxious poison when they go out for a beer? They're just a bunch of commies too?

And you have to love his reasoning, we should be able to do whatever we want because we're ignorant!

Hmm that could be the new Conservative Reform Alliance Party slogan.

But the bus thing is pretty slick, they passed a similar law here and naturally the local bars freaked and moaned about how they were all going to lose their businesses and we'd be stepping over the corpses of starved bar staff every morning. I wonder if this idea ever came up? They tried everything but.

And what happened? People smoked outside and then went back inside to drink / try to get laid. Crazy, but it turns out that people don't go to bars to light up, turns out they can do that at home. What they can't do at home is listen to crappy self-indulgent DJs, hit on drunken college girls and get poorly made Mohetos.

Kinda missing the bar scene ain't you domesticated eunuch?

I said shut up!!!

that says "Bust me pigs I'm holding*!"

Car-Freshner Corporation, maker of the world-famous "Little Tree" brand air freshener, has filed a federal-trademark-infringement lawsuit against a Pittsfield, Massachusetts company.

The company is Blue Q. It's version of an air freshener was a Little Tree-style cardboard marijuana leaf called "No Officer, That's My Car Freshener."

Instead of dispensing a pine or vanilla scent, the Blue Q air "freshener" smells like unburned marijuana.

*Not my bit but still funny

In desperation, the terrorists in Iraq will continue to employ roadside bombs and recruit suicide bombers in cowardly attempts to obtain headlines

Yes, if there was no such thing as news the terrorists in Iraq would being doing nothing.

What kind of idiots eat this tripe?

Oh and this is so symbolic of this war:

BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein's weapons specialists, nicknamed ''Dr. Germ" and ''Mrs. Anthrax" in the Western media, are being released by US forces, an Iraqi lawyer said yesterday, and the US military confirmed several ''high-value detainees" were being freed.

The State Department said Rihab Taha, who was dubbed Dr. Germ by the press and admitted to producing germ warfare agents, was released because US forces could not justify keeping her as a security threat.

''Her internment was no longer necessary for imperative reasons of security," a State Department spokesman, Justin Higgins, said by telephone. ''She has been fully screened. We do not believe she is linked to terrorists or other violent actors in Iraq."

But... but... Bush said Anthrax Drones! Mobile Cobra Commander BioWeapon labs! No link to terrorists?!?!

Wow BushCo. got it wrong.

Again.

My surprise you can't even begin to imagine.

The Freetards are on the march against Steven Spielberg's upcoming Munich. Short version of the story is after terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes the Israelis whack some of the terrorists responsible in a quasi-terrorists way. That is they plant bombs in civilian areas killing the bad guys.

Naturally the Freetards declare the movie to be bad (without y'know seeing it as is their way) and sympathetic to the terrorists. This is a telling passage:

One of the Israelis in "Munich" says, almost under his breath as I recall: "How do you think we got the land in the first place? It wasn't by being nice." For perspective here, it helps to remember -- for just one example -- that the militant Zionist organization Irgun (listed by the British as a terrorist organization, and headed by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin) blew up the King David Hotel in 1946, killing 91. Terrorism -- or, if you prefer, the killing of civilians whether as intended targets or acceptable "collateral damage" -- has been used by extreme factions on all sides over the years.

I just love this...

First of all, Israel got the land by international decree...It's called the Mandate...Which was changed without due process three times.

Second of all, say what you want about the Irgun, (whether they were or were not a terrorist organization is a matter for history.) For the record...even though out last postings ended up in insults... I do not believe that the Irgun were terrorists. They are not equated with Hamas or any of the other terrorist groups that attack Israelis on a daily basis. The Irgun attacked government and military for one reason... the British were denying the Holocaust survivors access to the land because the British had decided to back the Arabs in the dispute over the land. In fact, (and I know that you are well aware of this) the British answer to the Holocaust was for the Jews to go back and rebuild Germany.

As for the King David Hotel... there is much confusion about what happened. The Irgun has always stated that they made phone calls announcing the bomb and giving the British plenty of time to evacuate. But, for the Irgun, the very survival of Jews were at stake. After 6,000,000 dead, the Irgun had every reason to have that concern.

The Palestinians don't have the same concern. If they would sit down and negotiate and give up their passion for the entire land, they would have their state. But, they don't.

Not the same...And to put the Irgun and Black September in the same moral equivelent category is plain wrong...

See? It's not terrorism if you call in advance (hey don't get out of the way of our bombs it's not our fault!) and have a really, really good reason. Jewish terrorists have good reason, Palestinian terrorists do not. While the bit of double think may hurt your brain Freetards are cheerfully immune.

Anyway, the real point of why this sort of action is bad:

On July 21 1973, a team of Israeli hitmen shot dead a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchikhi, as he walked home from the cinema with his pregnant wife in the resort, 110 miles north of Oslo.

The assassins apparently mistook Bouchikhi for Hassan Salameh, a PLO intelligence chief suspected of masterminding the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

"This was much more than a murder," said Gullow Gjeseth, head of the six-member government commission. "This was a violation of Norwegian sovereignty. It is a completely special case."

See vengeance is fun and easy but like a lot of fun and easy things it usually ends in a complete fuck up. They murdered an innocent man.. To their credit the Israelis stopped but I'm sure the Freetards would wonder why, after all the waiter was probably Muslim and Israelis can do no wrong.

Freetard link via Alicublog.

Now that Jackson has his (well earned and certainly well done as it could have been) self-indulgence sated can he now make The Hobbit?

I have to admit I loved the bit with the bugs, not just because it was scary and gross but because it freaked out the loud chewing / talking kids behind us to the point of terrified screams followed by a trip to the lobby. I, like most atheist liberals, draw sustenance from the fears of children. However I resisted the urge to whisper to the kids in the lobby “Good thing those bugs only grow to half that size here in Canada!” and by resisted I mean I was dragged away by my girlfriend while yelling “Oh c’mon, it’ll be funny!!”

So I emailed Catherine Seipp in my snarky yet obnoxious way and asked about the "torrent" of left wing Alsan hating, (between Christmas, Bush, Narnia it's a wonder we get any time to hate fetuses and Jesus) and she directed me, in an equally snarky manner, to her NRO column of last week that covered just the very topic. The torrent, as it turns out, was three articles (sorta) selectively quoted:

(long-ass one, click here)

The President is above the law.

Turns out Nixon was right after all, too bad he isn't alive to give a mighty jowl shaking "I told you so!!".

So why do you need them other government branches and stuff? I bet America could save a ton of cash if they did away with all them pricey terrorists loving checks and balances. If every American citizen agreed to wear a monitoring bracelet, y'know like the ones child molesters wear, all the security problems would be solved.

Dependable Renegade does the math.

Wolcott writes Santa.

Medium Lobster explores Bush Zen.

Man bets finger.

Idiots want to build wall.

Now the challange for the rest of the week, get all my crap done by Friday so I can take the rest of the year off.

To do what?

Play video games, smoke drugs, watch movies, stalk Lindsay Lohan.

Don't you squader the prescious gift of life doing all that crap anyway?

Shut up.

Rice defends US eavesdropping on resident foreigners

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In cases dating back almost a century, the Supreme Court has found that constitutional guarantees, including the First Amendment and Fifth Amendment due process protections, apply equally to any person living within our borders. While non-citizens do not have the "right" to enter the United States, once in the country they are protected from arbitrary government action and have a right to seek judicial review of government actions taken against them.

LAST WEEK'S long-anticipated opening of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," the first film adaptation of C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia," has brought a torrent of anti-Lewis commentary from the left. Narnia is sexist (threatened by evil witches who are always women), racist and religiously intolerant (its enemies are swarthy, turban-wearing idol worshipers) and offensively Christian (the magical land is ruled by a Christ-like lion deity named Aslan).

Wha..? A quick check of The Left's blog finds nothing about Narnia, and I can't remember reading anything of the sort anywhere. That's not to say that there hasn't been but I'd like to think even I would notice a "torrent" hmmm reading on...

I was surprised to discover recently, though, that Narnia also has enemies on the right — and their complaints are even wackier than those from the left.

And the it goes on to a specific nut case, with names and blogs... why nothing so informative for their liberal counterpart? Unless the author, one Catherine Seipp, who also writes a weekly column for National Review Online can't bring herself to be unfair and unbalanced when it comes to ragging on right wingnut so has to conjure up a left wingnut equivalent?

I pull theories out of my ass you decide if you want to waste your time to debunk 'em!

No really.

Man I'd love to have a toking owl as a pet, a million times better than a smoking monkey

there...

Iraqi security forces caught the most wanted man in the country last year, but released him because they didn't know who he was, the Iraqi deputy minister of interior said Thursday.

Hussain Kamal confirmed that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- the al Qaeda in Iraq leader who has a $25 million bounty on his head -- was in custody at some point last year, but he wouldn't provide further details.

Well of course they let him go, they need him out there as he is more "myth than man":

Several sources said the importance of Zarqawi, blamed for many of the most spectacular acts of violence in Iraq, has been exaggerated by flawed intelligence and the Bush administration's desire to find "a villain" for the post-invasion mayhem.

If they catch him and the terrorism in Iraq doesn't abate (which of course it wouldn't) then what? Better he's out there, shadowy and evil, like Goldstein from 1984.

Takes off tinfoil toque

Oh and what the hell's up with this:

President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States -- without getting search warrants -- following the Sept. 11 attacks, The New York Times reports.

Sigh.

Puts tinfoil toque back on, welds it into place.

RedState doesn't mind, they take the attitude that they're only doing it a little bit and that it's already saved the Brooklyn Bridge from a guy with a blowtorch.

No, he really said that.

Odd thing, I always thought conservatives were against big intrusive government. Well why stop at terrorism? Why not do away with warrants entirely? Crime kills far more Americans each year than terrorism, if saving lives is all the justification they need to toss checks and balances out the window than there's no need for any civil rights for anyone.

MPs first cast their vote in June to change the traditional definition of marriage to allow same-sex couples to marry after a lengthy and heated debate.

London MP Pat O'Brien, who left the Liberals over the issue and is now travelling (sic) the country to drum up support for another vote on the issue, voted against the legislation.

"I don't care if it's five or 10% of people who support revisiting this issue ... People are very understanding that the vote was unfair and undemocratic and the decision was bad for Canada," he said.

How?

See that's the question tools like O'Brien can't answer, they squawk and sputter about "family values" but can't actually show what the "bad' is.

People going to die from gay marriage? Lose their jobs? Catch herpes? Start to think that curling is fun? There's always, of course, a slippery slope that if you let people do thing A for breakfast they'll be fucking goats in the streets by dinner. Yeah, only problem is the goat fucking lobby is pretty weak but they have a heck of a logo.

It must drive these fools hog wild, as each day goes by and nothing bad actually happens they look stupider and crazier with each gay marriage month that slides by. Thirty years from now O'Brien will be ranting on the street corner waving a sign and I hope I'm there to point and laugh.

Free votes in the house are appropriate for certain bills, the granting of equal rights is not one of them. The bigots lost, they should deal with it and if they can't they should walk south until someone says "y'all ain't from around heah are you boy?" There they'll be safe from two men sharing health benefits, lesbians visiting each other in hospitals and other horrors of gay agenda dominated socialist Canada.

I'm just kidding, the bigots should stay in Canada cuz the Convervative Reform Alliance Party needs the votes:

Oh dear, they've dropped 2 more points. While I hope it doesn't happen it would be freaking hysterical if the Liberals pulled off a majority.

Hmm maybe it would be worth it just to see Harper's face the next day.

Again:

Attacks by insurgents have been growing less frequent since October, according to Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a spokesman for the Multinational Force in Iraq. Democracy, not Al-Qaida, is the new buzz on the Arab Street. Seventy-one percent of the Iraqis in a recent ABC/Time magazine poll ``say that their own lives are going well'' now. The fatwas of Ayman al-Zawahiri sound ever more desperate and shrill.

VD should know, he's been calling 'em desperate since August 2003.

Growing less frequent, here's the thing Vic, why have average casualty rates gone up since October? Does that mean they attack less but get more kills? I guess one has to be an intellectual giant like VD to understand how that's a good thing.

The Truth On the Ground

Hope he's right.

UPDATE: The Nitpicker er picks some nits with the above.

Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says.

So, let me get this straight, the WMD, (that'd be the ones that Bush is now admitting weren't there) were in Iraq... how much of the stuff are we talking about again?

25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum, 500 tons of nerve agents

So six weeks before the invasion, when I'm guessing all of America's vast intelligence apparatus is tuned into not Iraq in general but the suspected WMD sites (which Rumsfeld made perfectly clear they knew where they were) in specific missed this convoy driving to Syria? Wouldn't that have raised the eyebrow of the UAV pilot watching these areas? Wouldn't the satellite images show a dust trail heading south north/west? Wouldn't that be exactly the sort of target they'd want to hit or capture? Wouldn't such an operation have no only justified the invasion but made GW Bush's Presidency?

So, once again, the choice is simple, ether the Bush administration lied about the WMD (and are getting their allies to keep the lie alive) or through grotesque incompetence allowed 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum, 500 tons of nerve agents and who knows what else to be turned lose on the Middle East and by now the world as a result of the invasion.

I'm hoping they're just dumbass liars rather than just dumbasses.

about this:

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On the eve of Iraq's historic election, President Bush took responsibility Wednesday for "wrong" intelligence that led to the war, but he said removing Saddam Hussein was still necessary.

but this guy sez it a million times better than I could so I'll just link it.

We now have them in Ontario and Harpo is talking about having them federally:

Canada's Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper said he would push for an elected Senate and set fixed election dates every four years if he wins the Jan. 23 elections.

And I am completely undecided if they're a good idea or not. As for the Senate just scrap the damn thing.

Oh and this is a fun peak into the real Stephen Harper:

VANCOUVER -- An eight-year-old speech by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper in which he calls Canada a welfare state and says the unemployed are happy to be living off their benefits is being circulated by his critics.

The speech, delivered to a group of Americans in 1997 when Mr. Harper had left politics and was a vice-president of the National Citizen's Coalition, was discovered on the website of the Council for National Policy.

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"Your conservative movement is a light and an inspiration to the people in this country and across the world," he said in his speech.

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Bilingualism is largely propaganda, Mr. Harper tells the group. Canada "is basically an English-speaking country," he says.

In describing Canada's political system, he says the New Democrats are worse than a party of liberal Democrats. "The NDP is kind of proof that the devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men."

And on the Progressive Conservatives -- the party that amalgamated with his Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party -- he points out they were "in favour of gay rights officially, officially for abortion-on-demand."

So no one in Canada speaks French, the NDP is Satanic and gays shouldn't have rights and women shouldn't be masters of their own bodies.

Yeah, good luck with that whole Prime Minister thing.

Other Islamic states -- like the Palestinians, Lebanese, Kuwaitis, Egyptians and Saudis -- have been moving carefully toward greater freedom and democracy for their people. But with their December elections, Iraq will become the example for others to follow. That is really why the terrorists groups in Iraq are feeling so desperate. They are actually losing ground and freedom is on the move."

Yeah haven't heard that one before...

The above is from

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Daniel Heimbach has a unique perspective on the war in Iraq. He served in the first Bush administration and was credited with composing the moral framework adopted by President George H.W. Bush for the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Moral Framework? Wasn't that a bullshit story about babies being tossed out of incubators?

For some time, I?ve been following the ongoing saga of what appears to be a coordinated Chinese cyber-offensive against American military information infrastructure.

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A proper response to China?s cyber-assault on the United States would be two-pronged.

The first prong, which I will designate as the ?Munich Option? would involve direct retaliation against those individually responsible for the attacks. To put it simply, US and foreign intelligence services ought to identify those individuals within China who are hacking US systems ? the hackers themselves ? and then have them assassinated.

I know, and it just gets better, he goes on to say that the U.S. should launch cyber based terrorists attacks against Chinese civilian infrastructure (like causing civilian planes to smash into stuff, gosh that sounds familiar) and no one will notice or care because Chinese lives are worth slightly less than American.

No, no, I’m serious, that’s what he says, go read it for yourself.

Oi boy:

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Less than two days before nationwide elections, Iraqi border police seized a tanker truck on Tuesday that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official at Iraq's Interior Ministry said.

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The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the Iranian truck driver told the police under interrogation that at least three other trucks filled with ballots had crossed from Iran at different spots along the border.

UPDATE: It's a lie?

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.

"This is all a lie," said Lieutenant General Ahmed al- Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraqi borders.

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Khafaji said that when he established the reports were false he tracked the source of the rumour, and said it appeared to have come from the Defence Ministry's intelligence unit.

The ministry was not immediately available to comment.

Weird.

Guess Iran was serious when they said:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Iranian president emerged from meetings with his Iraqi counterpart Monday, saying the two countries have ``one soul in two bodies.''

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``Iran completely supports freedom for the Iraqi people, the current political developments and national sovereignty. Those who have deployed hundreds of thousand military forces in Iraq are not interested in seeing better relations between our two countries,'' Iranian television quoted Ahmadinejad, as saying after meeting Iraqi President Jalah Talabani, who is paying a three-day visit.

Whodathunk that the U.S. would pave the way for Iran to absorb Iraq?

Heckuva job Bushie!

And in the not quite getting the point of an election department:

"If Baathists regain power, we will take up arms against them just as we did against Saddam Hussein," warned Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Badr Organisation, SCIRI's former armed wing that many say still wields weapons.

Asked which candidate in their area people would vote for if the election were held tomorrow, the poll of 1,500 people nationwide found:

* Liberals: 35 per cent (no change)
* Conservatives: 29 per cent (-1)
* NDP: 15 per cent (-2)
* Bloc Quebecois: 14 per cent (no change)
* Green Party: 6 per cent (+1)

Pretty much what it's been for the last 18 months, good thing we're spending millions of dollars to find that out, curious way to rein in government spending Mr. Harper.

What a Boortz hole.

And an even bigger one.

Williams:
A lot of people have seen in this series of speeches you’re giving on Iraq, a movement in your position. They call it an acknowledgement that perhaps the mission has not gone as it was originally planned — three points: That the U.S. would be welcomed as liberators, that General Shinsecki, when he said this would take hundreds of thousands of troops in his farewell speech, might have been right. And third, that it wasn’t a self-sustaining war in terms of the oil revenue. Do you concede those three points might not have gone as planned?

President Bush:
Review them with me again.

Awesome, the President of the United States of America, the most powerful economic, cultural and military force in the history of history needs to be hand-held through questions about the one thing his administration will be remembered for. I imagine there's a trunk full of sock puppets and flash cards in the Oval Office that Karl and Dick use to explain stuff to Junior.

Williams:
Number one — that we’d be welcomed as liberators?

President Bush:
I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.

Yeah, I can see why so many Americans voted for him, of course they're now having some serious voter remorse:

Bush Job Approval at 38%

Still waaaaayyyyy too high for Commander CooCoo Bananas.

And the thing that kills me, the thing that makes me want to puke blood like a bulimic hemophiliac is that Bush is doing exactly what he was doing in the years before the election. This crappy President is nothing new, he hasn't suddenly started doing his job badly, he's always been this useless, where were these suddenly Bush sucks suckers back then with their disapproval? When they could have tossed him back to Crawford? That's what no one can tell me.

of the UH Liberal Hater:

Yes on a day when liberals want to surrender in the sight of victory in Iraq, their latest "Cindy Sheehan" Tookie die to-nite. It appears that the liberals have lost again, and will continue to lose until they can come up with a plan that is actually "good for America."

Wow, victory in Iraq is within sight and the condemned founder of the Crips is an anti-war leader.

I bet to him bananas taste like nachos, Prozac sounds like the Rolling Stones and Bob Sagat is a comedian. I hope one day reality is as malleable to me and my future bride Lindsay Lohan who will love me for my ability to juggle flaming pianos.

It has been the strangest war. A thousand days ago, on 20 March 2003, the US and British armies started a campaign which ended a few weeks later with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

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There is no sign yet of the thousand-day war ending. Every month up to a thousand fresh corpses arrive at the mortuary in Baghdad. A new Iraq is emerging but it is already drenched in blood.

That's the opening and closing graphs, I recomend all the bits in-between too.

Geez not even our wingnut leader wants to get Bushed:

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper appeared to distance himself from the U.S. administration Monday, pointing out that his positions on many issues differ from those of American conservatives.

Harper sent a letter to the editor of the Washington Times in response to a Dec. 2 column by Patrick Basham of the Cato Institute titled "Gift from Canada?"

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But Harper's letter said the "pro-free trade, pro-Iraq war, anti-Kyoto and socially conservative" characterization of his policy was an oversimplification of his positions.

Oversimplification? Umkay, but still true yeah? I love this bit:

Regarding same-sex unions, he reiterated his position that he would vote to bring back the traditional definition of marriage. But he said those who already are married would continue to be recognized as legally wed.

Aw that's so sweet, he won't tear apart a couple but won't let anymore get married. Wow, I can't believe they call him socially conservative!

Harper also pledged he would not initiate or support any effort to pass legislation restricting abortion in Canada.

Maybe, maybe not, doesn't mean we're going to give him a chance to be a liar.

This is hysterical, Bush is such political poison he even seeps over borders.

But there's one important bit of Canada / U.S. friction conspicuously absent:

Canada's neighbor to the south hasn't yet given up on missile shield partnership. In March, retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Peter Franklin, the Missile Defense Agency's former deputy director, told a military conference in Ottawa that Canada could change its mind as the missile threat to North America increases. Weeks later, Conservative leader Stephen Harper vowed to reopen negotiations with the United States if his party is elected.

Anyone stupid enough to throw money at that harebrained, asinine, retarded retard who was run over by another retard driving a short bus scheme should be strapped to a walrus and sent north for mating season.

That's an old Inuit punishment for eating the last bit of blubber without asking.

Bush sees a glimpse of reality...

United States President George W Bush on Monday acknowledged that as many as 30,000 Iraqis may have died since the war began, but insisted American forces will not leave Iraq before achieving total victory over insurgency in the country.

Amazing, there must have been some limb twisting that could only be measured on the Stretch Armstrong scale, maybe Bush is finally waking up? Could it be?

Asked if the threat of terrorism on US soil had been reduced significantly since the invasion of Iraq, Bush said: "I think it's been reduced. I don't think we're safe."

Nope! Back down the rabbit hole, if Sadam's Iraq didn't have WMD or connections to Al Qeada how was he a threat to the U.S. again?

Going to get my morning Starbucks I managed to impede the way of the big-ass Conservative Party tour bus on its way to the downtown Ottawa CBC building. It was 6am so I parked the car illegally (but I had the flashers on so that made it legal!) in a spot that prevented the busses from turning onto the street. That felt so good, to look over my shoulder and see the Tory logo stuck until I moved my little Echo out of it's lumbering way. Speaking of the Conservative Reform Alliance Party what have they been up to?

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has been getting reminders of the controversial same-sex marriage issue, even though he has sidestepped it since the earliest days of his campaign.

Mr. Harper, before capping a week of campaigning in Mississauga, Ont., on Saturday, was visited by two prominent evangelical Christian leaders nudging him to stick with his pledge to reopen the issue. On Saturday, he got a suggestion from Ontario's Progressive Conservative Leader that most people in the province would rather move on.

Oh ho, the god bothering squad isn't going to let this bone go.

On Friday, former television evangelist David Mainse, of 100 Huntley St. fame, showed up at Mr. Harper's whistle-stop rally in Cambridge, Ont., and slipped a letter into the Tory Leader's hands.

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On Saturday, Charles McVety, the Canada Christian College head who also led the Defend Marriage organization against same-sex marriage, turned up at Mr. Harper's Mississauga rally, and was ushered into an office afterward to meet the party leader. But Tory campaign aides again pushed reporters to leave before Mr. McVety had departed.

David Mainse actually appealed to a higher power over the issue, no not God, someone slightly younger:

OTTAWA, July 13, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former television host of 100 Huntley Street and leader of a pro-marriage group, David Mainse, is appealing to Her Majesty the Queen to order Canada’s Governor General not to sign bill C-38 into law if it is passed by the Senate as expected.

Because when democracy doesn't work for you there's always royalty, alas they haven't called the shots around these parts for quite some time now. Guess David didn't get no queen satisfaction and has gone back to courting jokers.

The Conservative Reform Alliance Party, the party of religious fundy-mentals and why even after the Liberals have proven themselves to be incompetent crooks they're still going to win.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insults and accusations are flying in Baghdad in the days leading up to Thursday's national election.

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In at least two separate incidents over the past two weeks, men hanging United Iraqi Alliance posters were shot at, and one was killed.

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The police tore down many of Allawi's posters, said his spokesman, Thair al-Nakib. The candidate's supporters last week showed reporters a video of officers ripping down the posters in the dark of night.

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Ahmed Nasir, who has an electronics store in Baghdad, watches out his store window as one person puts up posters and another tears them down.

"The political parties, they are behind all these political games," he said "We are practicing democracy for the first time so we cannot blame those who make mistakes - we should give them more time."

Well definitely better then shooting each other but it's hardly a confidence booster in a democratic Iraq when cops are tearing down posters.

that gays can't be parents because of the children! The children! Won't somebody please think of the children! All I think is, really, they can't be any worse:

A Kokomo mother is behind bars after leaving her infant son in a car while she was in a bar Saturday night.

Police say 22-year-old Tiffany Eagle and her friend 21-year-old Ashley Tomaszewski left the three month old baby inside a car outside of Big Daddy's Show Club.

When police arrived at the club, they found both women intoxicated and arrested them on charges of child neglect.

The infant was not hurt. He is in protective custody.

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DOVER- A Dover woman was arrested Friday and charged with murder by neglect after allegedly failing to seek medical attention for her 2-year-old son who died from an internal injury.

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A Lacey man was arraigned Wednesday on charges that he allegedly locked his wife and 1-month-old son in their motor home before leaving for work each day.

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TWO parents have been charged with child cruelty a month after their 15-month-old baby boy died from severe burns in a Brisbane hospital.
The toddler died on Tuesday, October 30, after his limbs were amputated to treat the burns caused by hot water.

Good thing all those chldren had hetro parental units or else they would have been really fucked up. Other kids might have teased them in the school yard or something.

Can't have both!

Bush-administration officials privately threatened organizers of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, telling them that any chance there might’ve been for the United States to sign on to the Kyoto global-warming protocol would be scuttled if they allowed Bill Clinton to speak at the gathering today in Montreal, according to a source involved with the negotiations who spoke to New York Magazine on condition of anonymity.

Hmmm why the hate-on for Clinton?

Terri Schiavo would be 42 today, if she had not been dehydrated to death per court order.

Instead of the happy squeals and vocalizations the brain-damaged woman was known to utter, the deafening silence of loss haunts her loved ones on this anniversary of her birth.

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Setting the complete record straight can't be done in one column. But in response to the above sampling of quotes, the facts of the case are that Terri Schiavo was not brain dead. Her brain never "stopped working."

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LARGO, Fla. - An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband’s contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner’s office said Wednesday.

Fascinating, no her brain "never stopped working" literally true but it stopped working in all the places that count. Kind of like saying a plane works because its prop is spinning just ignore the lack of wings if you please. They will twist logic for what? To avoid admitting that they were wrong? To keep the knuckle dragging Bible thumps worked up in a nice rabid froth to be turned lose on the next manufactured evil?

And "happy squeals and vocalizations" what the fuck is up with that? Quick survey if you were brain damaged and all you could do is chirp and gurgle while someone changes your diaper would you want to keep on keeping on?

I would but I have issues and like to be a burden on my loved ones. I understand most people are better than that.

Iraqi interim president: Insurgents will be gone in a year

"Why not?" Ghazi al-Yawar said in a CNN interview on Wednesday. "We're not fighting a Viet Cong, which has principles and popular support. We are fighting Saddam loyalists. ... They know they are fighting for a losing battle. The whole Iraqi population is against them. I'm sick and tired of them.

Well maybe next year, then they can make that grand GW Bush square in Baghdad.

Oh and what principles did the VC have? From what I've read they killed civilians, tortured POWs... oh right, I understand now.

Of all the stupid War on Christmas crap we've had to suffer this season this may very well be the most goddamn stoopid (so dumb I had to spell stupid extra stupid) thing I've yet to read:

The Jewish Grinch who stole Christmas

Oh sweet Jebus and Buddah in a side car brace your brains:

That has changed, you may have noticed. And I blame my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian, agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the ACLU, at the forefront.

Would that be the ACLJOOO?

But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society; it’s been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity.

I actually stared at the screen for like an hour after reading that then got up, left my home, drove an a dozen miles to wake my optometrist up to demand a midnight eye exam and new prescription because I'm pretty sure that no one could write something so fucking stupid, so fucking wrong, it must have been my poor vision.

Nope, that's what he wrote. You hear that America? You've beaten anti-Semitism! And it's a "dirty secret" like uncle fucking. You'd think that would be in the news, that the KKK would have a had a press release saying "To our Jewish Friends: Sorry we've been suck dicks". Damn liberal media must have suppressed it. rampant ant-christianity? Yeah a Christian can only get elected President in that country, they're still being oppressed by time and gravity, when will their suffering end?!?

Is there more dumb? Are Churches burned down in the USA everyday by rampaging mobs of secular atheists?

My fellow Jews, who often have the survival of Israel heading the list of their concerns when it comes to electing a president, only gave 26% of their vote to Bush, even though he is clearly the most pro-Israel president we’ve ever had in the Oval Office.

Hmmm maybe you should try looking at that from a different angle, almost like Bush is such a shitty President intelligent voters see the need to set aside their pet issues?

It is the ACLU, which is overwhelmingly Jewish in terms of membership and funding, that is leading the attack against Christianity in America. It is they who have conned far too many people into believing that the phrase “separation of church and state” actually exists somewhere in the Constitution.

True it literally doesn't say that (and the ACLU has never said otherwise tard) what it says is:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

And that means a wall of separation between church and state which is a pretty slick con on part of the ACLJOO, holy shit they have a time machine!!!

I am getting the idea that too many Jews won’t be happy until they pull off their own version of the Spanish Inquisition, forcing Christians to either deny their faith and convert to agnosticism or suffer the consequences.

I'm getting the idea that if you were any more retarded you'd be Bill O'Reilly's pita wrapped sex toy. So ACLJews want Christians to be agnostic? And they're going to torture and murder them until they are?

Whatta schmuck