Jane Hamsher @ 13

Ya know, I think I may know a couple of things about Ebner he never coughed up. But that’s beside the point…

Pray tell….???? Hint? Come on….throw us a bone….;>

Yeah Jane… throw us a bone!

She may be retiring from Senate after this term, but her hubby Richard C. Blum, majority owner of Perini Inc, 6th largest defense contracting firm is still raking it in. And they no doubt want that cash to continue flowing.

I would like us to put the pressure on that sordid neo-Kruppian couple for war-profiteering, conflict of interest and treason if the goods proved defective.

Click on my name for a Times story mentioning payroll padding — he used his Assembly staff as campaign staff for his Congressional campaign.

[mod note; Please, no threats of violence towards public officials. Thank you.]

Everything in black letters with gold outline.
Understated.
No faux patriotism colors.

Richmond @ 196

Just saw Olbermann via C & L. I feel so sick just in watching it. I also wonder how much longer we will have the web. Newspapers, TV and Radio are gone for the most part. The fact that Clear Channel refuses to play Springstein’s new album because it is anti-war is par for the course. In many places there is no more Air America. I fear it won’t be long before someone decides to shut down the sites they say are “hate” sites. I don’t mean to wallow but, man am I scared.

Keep spreading the word about FDL, Olbermann, etc. We have got to grow our numbers dramatically, since there’s strength in numbers. Everyday, everyone of us must get the word out to new people about this new media. Start now.

Email your kids in college with the sites.
Buy your parents a laptop and teach them where to find real news and commentary.
Mention these sites and stations while talking at work.
Reference these sites in any papers you are writing.

I’m going to push my idea again: make an FDL window sticker which fits right in with the college stickers on the back windows of cars.

FireDogLake: Necessary Continuing Education
University of FireDogLake
FireDogLake: School of Citizen Journalism
FireDogLake: Education for Patriots

you get my idea

selise @ 210

if you’ll tell me the stop and end times (using the c-span archive link), i’ll make it to your specs.

There were three parts that blew my mind, the girl from Alaska who sobbed about the loss of her heritage and the other 100 villages whose culture are imperiled; the young man at the end who was unable, because of emotion to verbalize his grief about the loss of the viability of the planet if we stay on the same course, during the one-minute summary requested by Markey, and the young woman from Tennessee, whose tenacious attitude was so inspirational. I can’t give a time span on it, but Jeebus…it is all so compelling….also, the vast, expansive video of the “emptiness” of the hearing….it made me so sad….no one, apparently cares in Congress….The whole hearing…every word uttered..is not wasted.

the problem is that i haven’t watched it, and so don’t know when these things happened. if you wait for me to watch it and figure out where to make the clips, you’ll probably be waiting weeks…. just wanted to give you a way to get clips of your favorite bits. if you don’t have broadband (and so can’t watch the c-span archive webstream to get the start and end times), we’ll have to try some other way.

Loo Hoo. @ 184

Man. I am so with you, Jane. These people need a chance to look at the world the way the rest of us do. Right is right, wrong is wrong. America is about laws, laws for all Americans. Bushes too. Cheney can kiss it!

I assume a presidential pardon cannot protect one from the Hague.

No, but one must consider the Hague Invasion Act — Google it.

Here’s some stuff courtesy of Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein

In 2003, Feinstein was the fifth wealthiest senator, with an estimated net worth of $26 million. In just two more years of the Bush Administration her net worth increased to between $43 million and $99 million. Her 347-page FEC disclosure – “nearly the size of a phonebook” (San Francisco Chronicle 2006) attempts to draw clear lines between her own assets (place in blind trusts) and those of her husband (which, absurdly, are not).

Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum’s has extensive business dealings with China. Critics have suggested that Feinstein’s support of trade and commerce policies with China may benefit her husband. Metroactive, a suburban paper in SF, found Feinstein’s husband had extensive investments in companies that won large “no-bid” government contracts. In April 2007, Feinstein’s office denied there was any conflict of interest and claimed that her withdrawal from the subcommittee dealing with these issues had nothing to do with the reports in Metroactive and other weeklies.

Between 2001-6 while Feinstein served as the ranking member of the US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, aka “MILCON”. Feinstein was chair of the MILCON subcommittee when the Democrats controlled the Senate in 2001 and 2002.

Feinstein would have again become chair of the MILCON subcommittee on January 4, 2007. However, Feinstein resigned from the subcommittee just before the new 110th Congressional term, forfeiting chairmanship of the MILCON subcommittee to Tim Johnson. Metro Newspapers suggested Feinstein’s resignation was due to a series of reports, partially funded by the progressive Nation Institute, revealing potential conflicts of interest between Feinstein’s votes on contracting and her husband’s firms.

Feinstein had voted for appropriations worth billions of dollars to firms owned by her husband, Richard C. Blum, including millions of dollars awarded to Blum’s Perini Corporation to provide goods and services in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In April 2007, Feinstein’s staff denied any ethical conflict, however, the Director of the Project on Government Oversight who has examined documents assembled by investigative reporter Peter Byrne said “the paper trail showing Senator Feinstein’s conflict of interest is irrefutable.”

Members of Feinstein’s Senate staff tried to purge references to these allegations of financial conflict of interest from Wikipedia articles on Feinstein and Blum. Additionally, information about an $190,000 FEC Fine for making false Campaign disclosures in 1990, was also unsuccessfully deleted by a Feinstein staffer last year. That FEC sanction occurred after Senator Feinstein failed to disclose that her husband had guaranteed her 1990 campaign loans.

SEC filings and Fedspending. Org, found that by December 2006, three corporations in which Blum’s financial entities owned over $1 billion in stock won contracts from the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Feinstein is a member of the following U.S. Senate Committees:
U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (Chairman)
U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security (Chairman)
Administrative Oversight and the Courts
Crime and Drugs
Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship
The Constitution, Civil Rights, and Property Rights
U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
Interior and Related Agencies (Chairman)
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
Defense
Energy and Water Development
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related agencies
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence