October 5, 2006

ALERT
From FOX News, Of All Places: "Internal Poll Suggests Hastert Could Devastate GOP...And the difference could be between a 20-seat loss and 50-seat loss." Okay, Maybe We Should Root for Hastert to Stay On, Because Then He Will be Kicked Out by the voters Come Election Day.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218043,00.html
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."- Thomas Carlyle, writer (1795-1881)
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THE THINKING SPOT
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" It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake."-- Janos Arany, poet (1817-1882)
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NOTE: The "R" in Republican stands for NEVER, EVER accepting personal or governing responsibility for anything.

REPEAT AFTER ME: "Gay" and "Pedophile" Are Not Remotely Related
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.html#2460

Lawrence O’Donnell: GOP Base Is Going To “Discover How Many Closeted Gay Republicans Were Involved In Policing Mark Foley”...
http://tinyurl.com/g8twa

Republican Party Consultant Remarks...“The GOP Has Become A Walking Soap Opera”
http://tinyurl.com/ecq38

FBI caught lying to reporters about Foley child sex predator scandal
http://tinyurl.com/zjy8h

Hastert and company have made covering their own butts Job, one rather than looking to the responsibility of our vulnerable children. What is there to trust with this bunch? (By the way, it was a Republican that was the whistle-blower.)
http://tinyurl.com/keood

Time for GOP to "ex-Foley-ate"...
http://tinyurl.com/zxguv

NOTE: "We don't just have partisanship, we now have tribalism." Norm Ornstein

Only Way to the Truth --- Torture Hastert
http://tinyurl.com/kqqrs

The Foley Fallout: On Red Flags and Immediate Resignations by John Murtha
http://tinyurl.com/rs58r

NOTE: Mrs. Bush spoke out against what she called "predators on the Internet," saying that they were one of the "greater dangers" children face today. Question: What does Laura Bush think of the fact that Reynolds has known of GOP Rep. Mark Foley's behavior since early 2006, and kept it quiet? And will Laura Bush still speak at the luncheon honoring Reyolds?

WAR

Bush Should Tell the Family, Friends and Loved Ones of the Dead GIs that His Iraq War Fiasco is Just a "Comma."
http://tinyurl.com/s3fgy

CBS: Death Squads In Iraqi Hospitals; Intelligence Seen By CBS News Says Hospitals Are Command Centers For Shiite Militia
http://tinyurl.com/kpwf3

POLITICS

Lieberman Says He Has Been Promised Seniority if he returns to Congress
http://tinyurl.com/fn6tm

Bush the Elder Swats Bush the Younger Good
http://tinyurl.com/hvl7j

Will Bush Pardon a Traitor Who Would Expose Bush as a Traitor?
http://tinyurl.com/m7d4h

FEDERAL LEGAL

Federal appeals court allows domestic spying to continue pending appeal - Judge A. Taylor's August 17 ruling that the government's program is unconstitutional.
http://tinyurl.com/mdyah

Judge: Patriot Act challenge can proceed - FBI access to any "tangible things" through an order from a secret court, does not require investigators to show probable cause
http://tinyurl.com/rx7l8

ELECTION
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"Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm."-- Frank Dane
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Voters Not Warming To Santorum: “Santorum's Real Problem Is Santorum”...
http://tinyurl.com/fweq8

American Blackout" revisits the Jeb Bush-Katherine Harris-ChoicePoint "Felon Purge" tactic of 2000 that knowingly removed nearly 100,000 eligible minority voters in Florida in 2000
http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/359

911

Ashcroft 'quit flying commercial' pre-9/11
http://tinyurl.com/qoem9

Al Qaeda Tapes: Direct Link To Military Psyops And Donald Rumsfeld Google Again Censors, Stifles 9/11 Film's Growth (leads straight back to US military intelligence and Donald Rumsfeld.)
http://infowars.net/articles/October2006/051006Rumsfeld.htm

CONGRESS

GOP Rep. Shays Calls For Rumsfeld's Resignation..
http://tinyurl.com/ml9pz

CONGRESS – FOLEY – HASTERT
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"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return." : Socrates 469 -399 BC
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DeLay departed around the time that Foley's emails to a page were drawn to Hastert's attention. The Speaker was more upset by DeLay's leaving than Foley's lurking.
http://tinyurl.com/l4gj3

AMERICABlog: “It Took ABC 12 Hours To Find The Explicit Instant Messages And you Idiots Couldn't Find Them In 5 Years?”...
http://tinyurl.com/ghf2d

ABC: Glitch exposed page - Right wing blogs link to victim ID
http://tinyurl.com/fyy3b

Hastert Gets Desperate: Blames “ABC News...People Funded By George Soros” For GOP's Foley Scandal...House Ethics Committee Opens Investigation…Another Ex-Page Comes Forward: Says Foley Started Sending Him Sexual IMs Almost Ten Years Ago... Top GOP Aide Resigns, Tells Media He Warned Hastert's Office Three Years Ago...
http://tinyurl.com/fud32

House ethics committee approves four dozen subpoenas
http://tinyurl.com/omxkt

Three more pages accuse Foley
http://tinyurl.com/jns9g

Conservative icon Richard Viguerie calls on House Republican leadership to resign
http://tinyurl.com/gke76

It's turned very ugly inside the moralistic Republicans' glass house 10/5
http://tinyurl.com/mgx3m

Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda? The more the House Republican leaders try to defend themselves on the Congressional page scandal, the worse it looks.
http://tinyurl.com/lemw6

Stewart maps Republican 'blame game' in Foley fallout
http://tinyurl.com/ktkj7

How many days does Denny Hastert have left? - pronouncements at a rate so fast and furious that it is difficult to keep track.
http://tinyurl.com/hqmcz

DOMESTIC

Denver Man Sues Secret Service for Arrest After He Criticized Cheney on Iraq War - approached Vice President Dick Cheney and denounced the war in Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/r4sqa

Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S.
http://tinyurl.com/qshcc

INTERNATIONAL
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."-- Harper Lee, writer (1926- )
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U.S. gives N Korea stark warning - "it can have a future or it can have these weapons. It cannot have both."
http://tinyurl.com/fzdqn

United States and Pakistan Break F-16 Stalemate, Finalizing $5 Billion Sale – controls on retransfer of sensitive technology to third parties
http://tinyurl.com/zcr8u

Kim's message: War is coming to US soil - nuclear bombs and warheads, atomic, hydrogen and neutron, and the means of delivery, short-range, medium-range and long-range, putting the whole of the continental US within effective range
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/HJ06Dg01.html

MEDIA AND JOURNALISM

Protests, insults disrupt Kristol 9/11 speech
http://tinyurl.com/g8jos

Plug pulled on 'Bush-bash' comic
http://tinyurl.com/mln5o

NY Times Claims To Have A “Scoop” By Buying An Embargoed Book At A Bookstore...
http://tinyurl.com/o8wq5

EDITORIALS - OPINIONS

Is Woodward being used to effect another "silent" coup?
http://tinyurl.com/g2u96

HEALTH

Abortion Hotlines Feel the Crunch - Restrictive laws are turning abortion hotline counselors into financial and legal advisors
http://tinyurl.com/eumch

Consumer alert: "Pink" products are marketing gimmicks that do
nothing to prevent or cure breast cancer:
http://www.newstarget.com/020654.html

Jury declares Wyeth's HRT drug caused woman's breast cancer, awards
$1.5 million in damages:
http://www.newstarget.com/020652.html

Beware of free mental health screenings for SAD, depression:
http://www.newstarget.com/020653.html

Massachusetts Begins Offering Health Insurance to the Poor
http://tinyurl.com/p37gc

SPECIAL INTEREST ITEMS

Centipedes invade Austrian village
http://tinyurl.com/opfyu

Oops ... police hit the wrong house in porn raid
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/051006Oops.htm