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January 12, 2006

I... There aren't words.

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02:26 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca

January 09, 2006

Media Matters has the pathetic news.

Write to MSNBC here: viewerservices@msnbc.com

Then on Hardball (minus Tweety tonight) I caugh back-to-back Republican assholes. First Mehlman then Schlaffly clone Kate O'Beirne.

10:56 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca

Howard Dean wiped the floor with Wolf Blitzer yesterday. Watch.

11:27 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca

January 08, 2006

He's helping to save the African mountain gorilla from extinction. Full story.

There are only 706 mountain gorillas left in the wild -- and now the Ebola virus might be spreading into its population.

Contribute to the UN's GRASP organization here.

12:52 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca

Must read Rich:

ALMOST two weeks before The New York Times published its scoop about our government's extralegal wiretapping, the cable network Showtime blew the whole top-secret shebang. In its mini-series "Sleeper Cell," about Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in Los Angeles, the cell's ringleader berates an underling for chatting about an impending operation during a phone conversation with an uncle in Egypt. "We can only pray that the N.S.A. is not listening," the leader yells at the miscreant, who is then stoned for his blabbing.

If fictional terrorists concocted by Hollywood can figure out that the National Security Agency is listening to their every call, guess what? Real-life terrorists know this, too. So when a hyperventilating President Bush rants that the exposure of his warrant-free wiretapping in a newspaper is shameful and puts "our citizens at risk" by revealing our espionage playbook, you have to wonder what he is really trying to hide. Our enemies, as America has learned the hard way, are not morons. Even if Al Qaeda hasn't seen "Sleeper Cell" because it refuses to spring for pay cable, it has surely assumed from the get-go that the White House would ignore legal restraints on eavesdropping, just as it has on detainee jurisprudence and torture.

Full article (free).

12:47 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca

So the first wire tap poll out of the gate neglected to mention the "warrantless" or "without court approval" part. The obvious result? 64 percent of Americans support it.

But the issue here has never been the wire taps themselves. It's the ILLEGAL part. The WARRANTLESS part. The NO CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL part. The AUTHORITARIAN EXECUTIVE part.

But AP got the language right in a poll released today, including the words "get a warrant from a judge". Only 42 percent say the president can do whatever he wants. 56 percent of Americans say the president should have to get a warrant.

Poll pdf here.

12:03 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca