Scares the hell out of me...

We march like ignorant sheep towards a police state, as Republicans play with whores on Capital Hill: The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

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Our Secretary of Defense looks more and more like a kindler, gentler Himmler:

Army Confirms: Rumsfeld Authorized Criminal Conduct

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Turdblossom is about to GO DOWN!

Despite vehement denials by his attorney, who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a "target" nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA leak case, the special counsel leading the investigation has already written up charges against Rove, and a grand jury is expected to vote on whether to indict the Deputy White House Chief of Staff sometime next week, sources knowledgeable about the probe said Friday afternoon.

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The administration continues to try and silence debate about illegal spying on Americans.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 - The government asked a federal judge here Friday to dismiss a civil liberties lawsuit against the AT&T Corporation because of a possibility that military and state secrets would otherwise be disclosed.

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Once again a Big Right Winger is outted as a hypocrit and a liar, and NOTHING happens to him. While Conservatives fall all over themselves defending what they would rail against if it was a Lefty.

And so, one of the most consistent doctrines in all of law was on broad display yesterday in Florida, as one of the fattest of fat-cats, professional propagandist-for-the-Imperium Rush "Docta Shoppa" Limbaugh turned himself in to Palm Beach, Florida police for photographing and fingerprinting as the first step in his kabuki-plea bargain for a charge of defrauding doctors into writing him multiple pain killer prescriptions, under which he will receive no jail time and 18 months probation (after which, the charge will be dropped, a standard practice for first offender White people.)

Rush's supporters, of course, operating on the nation's main governing principle ("it's o.k. if you're a Republican") said (of the coddling sweetheart deal from a namby pamby liberal prosecutor which lets Rush continue his cushy, bogus "treatment") this is just the sort of thing that "ordinary" people have to work through. Hence, Rush skates on a charge that, if he were not rich, and especally if he were not White, would send him to the slammer, especially in Florida, where this disparity also has a wonderful salutory effect on Election Day (helpin' the White folks maintain their all important votes. ) One is reminded of the poker game variation of "New England baseball" suggested by the Tom Hanks character in the film Volunteers: threes, nines and one-eyed jacks are wild... for White men.

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Iraq looks more and more like Somalia. (But hey, the media isn't covering all the new schools we have opened. I wonder how many of them are sitting empty, because all the families in the area bailed?

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 29 - A new estimate by one of Iraq's vice presidents has put the number of families who have fled their homes at 100,000, a number far greater than recent projections by other Iraqi officials and one that further clouds the debate over how deeply sectarian conflicts are affecting the nation.

The latest estimate was made by Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite leader selected as one of two vice presidents, but it was not clear where he had gotten his information. In an interview last week, the Iraqi national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said 13,750 families had been displaced, which could mean about 70,000 to 80,000 people.

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Meanwhile, before the conservative bloggers even had time to archive their gloating post about how things were so much better for American troops in Iraq the last couple of months, comes this news:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 28 - The military on Friday announced the death of one American soldier, bringing the death toll so far in April to 69, the highest in five months. The monthly figure disrupted a trend of steadily falling American fatalities that had begun in November.

The bulk of American deaths in April occurred in Baghdad and in the insurgent-controlled western province of Anbar, according to Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, an independent group that compiles casualty figures based on information provided by the American military.

Deaths in April could still climb, but are not likely to top the 84 American deaths in November. The April figure is more than double the 31 troops killed in March, one of the lowest monthly tolls of the war, according to the group's statistics.

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BUT HEY! Here's the new official GOP Meme:

The Economy is rocking! Let's play a drinking game, shall we. Read 20 Conservative Blogs. Go back the last couple of days, and see how many of them use practically the same words to rave about the economy. Then have a shot of your favorite "juice," each time you find a story like the two linked above. Take an extra shot for every time you find identical passages... (You will be drunk in 10 minutes).
There are days, that I am SO glad I live outside the U.S..

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Posted by: tas at April 30, 2006 08:23 AM

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