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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:32 AM
RUE
I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:53 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:13 AM
GEEZER
Keep the Shiny side up
Quote:Originally posted by rue: House Committee on the Judiciary Majority Staff Report to Chairman John Conyers, Jr.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:22 AM
ERIC
Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:40 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:12 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:35 AM
FUTUREMRSFILLION
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Hmmm .... not paying some income tax vs torture, illegal spying, lying the US into two wars, outing a CIA agent and ruining a multi-year operation to gain information on IRAN's nuclear capability, politically motivated prosecution, abuse of power ... Rap, your lack of honesty is showing ... yet again. *************************************************************** How's that roaring economy doing, there, Rap ?
Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Hmmm .... not paying some income tax vs torture, illegal spying, lying the US into two wars, outing a CIA agent and ruining a multi-year operation to gain information on IRAN's nuclear capability, politically motivated prosecution, abuse of power ... Rap, your lack of honesty is showing ... yet again.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:00 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:06 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:09 AM
CHRISISALL
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I do pity you. p.s. FMF - I pity you as well. Sad that you're as deluded as rue.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:12 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:14 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: "I can't respond to your post because all your claims are 100% pure BULL SHIT." Well, then. Rap said so, so it must be so --- just like that ROARING economy. Eh Rap ? *************************************************************** Silence is consent.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Hey! I'm deluded too! Don't leave me out of your disappointment! The sad7 Chrisisall
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:29 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:44 AM
Quote: Intelligence Court Rules Wiretapping Power Legal By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: January 15, 2009 WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the opinion. The court decision, made in December by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, is expected to be disclosed as early as Thursday in an unclassified, redacted form, the person said. The review court has issued only two other rulings in its 30-year history. The decision marks the first time since the disclosure of the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program three years ago that an appellate court has addressed the constitutionality of the federal government’s wiretapping powers. In validating the government’s wide authority to collect foreign intelligence, it may offer legal credence to the Bush administration’s repeated assertions that the president has constitutional authority to act without specific court approval in ordering national security eavesdropping. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/washington/16fisa.html?hp
Quote: Warrantless Wiretaps Not Used, Official Says By JAMES RISEN Published: September 19, 2007 WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — The National Security Agency has not conducted wiretapping without warrants on the telephones of any Americans since at least February, the nation’s top intelligence officer told Congress on Tuesday. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, told the House Judiciary Committee that since he took office that month, the government has conducted electronic surveillance only after seeking court-approved warrants. In January, the Bush administration announced that it had agreed to allow a secret intelligence court to oversee the N.S.A.’s eavesdropping program, and that it would comply with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 30-year-old law that regulates the government’s domestic spying activities. The administration’s decision appeared to end the basis for the warrantless wiretapping program secretly begun by President Bush just after the Sept. 11 attacks. Mr. McConnell’s testimony Tuesday was the first time he has publicly said that the warrantless wiretapping of Americans has actually been ended. It came just as the Democratic-controlled Congress is preparing for yet another legislative battle over how to update the nation’s foremost surveillance law, a subject that President Bush is scheduled to discuss Wednesday when he visits N.S.A. headquarters at Fort Meade, Md. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/washington/19nsa.html?_r=1
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:47 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by rue: "I can't respond to your post because all your claims are 100% pure BULL SHIT." Well, then. Rap said so, so it must be so --- just like that ROARING economy. Eh Rap ? *************************************************************** Silence is consent. I guess the roaring 20's weren't really the roaring 20's because of the great depression, huh? 4.7% unemployment IS a roaring economy, any way you look at it. You're a moron. It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager " They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:48 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Hey! I'm deluded too! Don't leave me out of your disappointment! The sad7 Chrisisall
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:49 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: I guess the economy was ROARING in 1930 so there was no Great Depression --- eh, Rap ?
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:51 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion: No that would be Sarah Palin....not our Rue
Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:01 AM
Quote:Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion: Dude, the depression was 1929....um.... at the END of the 20's.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:04 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: However, before that, the 'roaring 20's', as it was called, was a time of considerable economic upswing.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:10 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:13 AM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:47 AM
FREMDFIRMA
Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:49 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote: Again, you've fallen for a wide spread Liberal lie, much like the Tina Fey comment where, impersonating Gov Palin, she says " I can see Russia from my house ! " Many idiots think that Gov Palin really said that, and not Tina Fey.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: What Rap is saying that if you look at a small enough slice of time, in just the right way, and ignoring everything else, you'll find even the Great Depression goes away under the FACT of a booming economy ! *************************************************************** So, how's that ROARING economy doing Rap ?
Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:58 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote: Again, you've fallen for a wide spread Liberal lie, much like the Tina Fey comment where, impersonating Gov Palin, she says " I can see Russia from my house ! " Many idiots think that Gov Palin really said that, and not Tina Fey. So what was it, exactly, that Sarah Palin DID say on that subject? Mike "It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."
Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:16 PM
Quote:Originally posted by rue: Geezer The written statement by Susan J. Crawford, convening authority of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay and a military lawyer, has been called an admision, a conclusion, and a determination. Not an allegation.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:38 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion: No that would be Sarah Palin....not our Rue
Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:47 PM
Quote: Get an admission ffrom Bush, Cheney, et. al. or have a trial. Otherwise, they're just allegations
Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:50 PM
Quote:Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion: It was a caricature and intelligent people of the left and the right recognize it as such. Those that wish to spread hate and discontent erroneously accuse others of actually believeing it.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:54 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:23 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:13 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion: It was a caricature and intelligent people of the left and the right recognize it as such. Those that wish to spread hate and discontent erroneously accuse others of actually believeing it.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:29 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion: Dude, the depression was 1929....um.... at the END of the 20's.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:38 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:39 PM
Quote:Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion: I was speaking of Tina Fey, not Matt Damon - I believe you will find that Matt Damon was ASKING if she believed that Dinosaurs roamed the earth with man. Also, I think that perhaps he said what he said BEFORE Tina Fey.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:40 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Rue , To what do you attribute those numbers to Clinton's policies. What specifically did he DO which impacted the economy. Please.
Quote:AURaptor actually thought: Jesus, I'm losing another argument big-time, I'd better pull either the tired bit, or feign knowledge about this that no one could have. Rue vexes me, and I will have her!!!
Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:53 PM
Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:24 PM
FINN MAC CUMHAL
Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:25 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Chris, not only am I asking for facts to back up "her" claims, your post reminds me once again that rue is a chick
Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:28 PM
DREAMTROVE
Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:30 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal: Actually Auratpor’s got a point. Rue’s argument about the economy has always been to scream that it’s bad until it goes bad, and then she says, “See. I told ya!!!” And so rue takes enormous pride in the fact that she can compare 2001 and 2009 and finally, after 10 years of screaming about the economy, she’s finally right. But if you compare 2001 to 2008… In 2008 unemployment was 4.9%. And the DOW was in the 12000s.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:37 PM
Quote:Originally posted by dreamtrove: These are two really awful administrations in every respect
Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:54 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: The whole world's in such flux, it's ridiculous to say that the economy is good or bad... is the tide in or out? Is it colder or warmer than usual? Are there more gamma rays today than yesterday?
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