Comments on: FISA: President Specious Opens Yap, Petulantly Stamps Foot…Again

By: otchmoson

otchmoson — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:35:50 +0000

My question is why aren’t the telecoms who (according to McConnell and Mukasey) are unwilling to assist, even when presented with warrants, painted with the UN-AMERICAN, UN-PATRIOTIC label the right so liberally slings at people who are against the Iraq occupation? A bit O/T: why aren’t ALL corporations who choose profit over all, and build new factories overseas, outsource jobs off-shore, and cry for legislative cover to repatriate their profits with little or no tax consequences–also painted as UNAMERICAN and UNPATRIOTIC?

By: Synoia

Synoia — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:37:43 +0000

Why can’t Bush just pardon the telecom companies? And again and again?

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:53:41 +0000

Actually, in defense of the bees… OT, but I could single-handedly probably bore the sh*t out of everyone here with my bee knowledge. The bees disappearing are dire.

They’re the bottom of the food chain; we can live without honey, but we can’t survive without pollenators.

My favorite resource online is at Cornell Univ. They have probably the best online archive of all things bee-related, including historical resources.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:50:33 +0000

Well, I suspect that a growing number of people in the legal field are finding it pretty damn riveting, don’t you?

Because it’s compelling.

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:49:14 +0000

We need to repeat the story on the bees again and again if it hasn’t gotten thru to everyone. Bees are disappearing on all continents, apparently, and they are needed to pollinate a lot of crops. I’ve also seen things on frogs and how they’re mutating with various deformities and dying also. These are not good signs at all!

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:48:21 +0000

BTW: I don’t in any way mean to belittle Siegelman’s disastrous situation.

Apologies if it came off as trivializing his situation (!).
That was not my intention.
His circumstance is, in fact, so bizarre as to be ‘Kafkaesque’.

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:47:45 +0000

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. If this were a movie or a novel, I wouldn’t have believed it. It’s hair-raising.

No kidding, reader. It’s hard to believe that most of America is not glued to this corruption.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:45:45 +0000

Hey, the bee story on 60 minutes is a repeat, I’ve seen it before. Are all the stories repeats except Siegelman? If so, that pretty much exacerbates the lameness of placing it up against the Oscars.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:43:58 +0000

Oh, forgive me, but the idea that someone(s) blacked out the broadcast of the ‘60 Minutes’ story on Siegelman — in Alabama! — is just too damn funny.

This Siegelman story is just one head-smacking, almost-unbelievable incident after another. Looks like the Great Genius Minds that put Siegelman in jail are now willing to pull a blackout on nationally televised programming… my, oh, my. THAT won’t raise any eyebrows, now, will it?

RebDev @100Too funny…!But ummm… Should we wonder if the man’s full name isn’t Donald Kafkaesque Siegelman…?

By: Ann in AZ

Ann in AZ — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:43:13 +0000

I’ve only followed this case superficially, but I will say that watching Grant Woods on this case, I have gained a new respect for Grant Woods. He isn’t someone I’ve always agreed with. It’s just disgusting to me that the American people have allowed our own government to get this far afield. I think that Barack, if he becomes President, will be calling on the people to be a lot more participatory in the government, as well he should. We got a lot of fixing to do. I’ve heard Barack make reference to restoring Habeas Corpus, thank goodness, and I’m hoping he has a lot more than just that in mind.