September 2004
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By
thudfactor on
September 14, 2004
OK, I’ve lost count now. How many times has this administration and their cronies simply decided “they don’t have to comply with a court order”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_12.php#003469?
Do we have a Constitution any more? Or have we decided that was forged, too?
Posted in What The...?!?
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By
thudfactor on
September 13, 2004
I frequently hear something like this tossed around by wingnuts. I’m not sure I understand it at all. So maybe someone (Blogless Mike, I’m looking at you) can explain to me how this thought process works.
A liberal says something about how Kerry would do a better job fighting terrorism, and (except on this blog, which [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Kerry, San Francisco, search-and-seizures
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By
thudfactor on
September 12, 2004
I didn’t post anything about September 11 yesterday because I lived through it. It was the scariest day of my life, with the possible exception of September 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and so forth … when we were all convinced another attack would be both immediate and devistating. I’m not eager to revisit it. [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged airline passengers, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussain, sarin gas crawling, White House
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By
thudfactor on
September 11, 2004
Isn’t freedom wonderful? Because we are such a liberal, tolerant society radical Stalinist/Nazi Christofacists are allowed to speak _just as if they were human_. “World O’ Crap has a real winner today”:http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2004/09/11.html#a1142 from Tamara Wilhite. Over at Bush Country (”Promoting the Ideals of Conservatism”), Tamara “humbly recommends we decend into Freedom’s worst nightmare”:http://www.bushcountry.org/news/columnists/tamara-wilhite/c_090804_wilhite_get_you.htm.
She suggests we…
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Posted in Politics, What The...?!?
| Tagged Afghanistan, Cuba, Guantanomo Bay, Tamara Wilhite, United States
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By
thudfactor on
September 11, 2004
I see Rumsfeld today trying to explain away American abuse:
bq. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, responding to allegations that he fostered a climate that led to the prisoner-abuse scandal, said yesterday that the military’s mistreatment of detainees was not as bad as what terrorists have done.
“Does it rank up there with chopping someone’s [...]
Posted in Politics
| Tagged Donald H. Rumsfeld, Washington Post
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