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thank you, Doug for permission to reprint this OpEd on my JournalsNH Broadcaster - Home

‘Temporary’ presidential powers may become permanent problem
The Broadcaster Staff

It will be unfortunate for America if the controversy over warrantless wiretapping turns into yet another partisan wrangle, with Republicans closing ranks behind the president and Democrats rushing to the attack.

The question at the root of this issue goes beyond personalities, and should concern Republicans and Democrats equally: How much power can we let one person have before we undermine our democracy?

To justify a wiretapping program that appears to violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the administration has put forward a sweeping claim of presidential power: In wartime the president can ignore a law if he feels it interferes with his ability to defeat the enemy.

On the surface this makes a certain amount of sense, because nobody wants Congress micro-managing the battlefield. But the administration’s position has two dangerous flaws. First, the power the president claims is unchecked. He and he alone gets to decide which laws he will obey or disobey. Second, the war on terror is not like other wars. Almost by definition, it will never end. Capturing Kabul or Baghdad or Saddam Hussein didn’t end it. Capturing Bin Laden wouldn’t end it, either. It’s hard to imagine what would.

Consequently, any “temporary” powers that we give the president to fight this war are actually permanent changes in our system of government. The issue isn’t whether or not you trust President Bush. If his claims are upheld, all future presidents will have the power to ignore laws.

Republicans and Democrats alike should be able to agree on this: We have had unscrupulous presidents in the past, and some day we will have another one. If that president can ignore laws, what won’t he (or she) be able to do? Perhaps he will decide that democracy itself interferes with his ability to defeat the enemy.

The Founders gave us a government of laws and not of men. If we want to keep it, we must insist that even the president obey the law.

Doug Muder is a professional writer who lives in Nashua. Last week, Newsweek published his letter to the editor on this subject.

DOUG MUDER Nashua

Mr. Muder argues that this administrations behaviors cuts across party lines, and he is correct. Thank you for letting me reprint.

In reading a Mark Morford article, I started pondering this question. After all, if he scrawls in name on a bill in order to ignore it 500 times, (far more than daddy, clinton and reagan combined, it seems a logical progression to him simply to say, I can ignore the Fourth amendment at will. who needs a packed court when you have a Red Crayon and the right to sign a law into law and the Memory Hole at the same time?

I say they aren’t “mean” enough. In the REAL WORLD of the Performing Artist, the idea of auditioning and being told nicely you suck doesn’t happen often. I know, I have been told when an audition was bad. or off base but thankfully, never over-the-top. I’ve been watching the auditions, and 99.6% of the people auditioning are just not good enough .3% aren’t yet ready for the next step, which leaves 1% with the chance of making it AFTER the win. For that 99.6%, it was the first time they heard “don’t give up your day job”. One guy claimed he sang opera, and oh,my god, I cringed in embarrassment as he bleated his pop tune. Others? Another saw himself as more Clay Aiken than Clay Aiken, and butchered of Aiken’s compositions… oh, lord, they brought back my early days when I would costume myself when going to a audition. I quickly dumped that. and, San Francisco Bay Area.. what the fuck was going on at those auditions? I mean, gimme a break. I could have gotten a yellow ticket. Working in the Arts is just that. WORK. it requires commitment, discipline things that most people aren’t willing to do to be famous. They want Reality Show Fame.

Get a grip. You want to be a famous singer? Are you willing to practice 4-5 hours a DAY? Take lessons? Hear “Next!” Three bars in? If not, don’t give up your day job.

Actors are judged as they walk in. Their ENTRANCE is the make/break. After that, you have to convince them why or why not. Are you willing to work? really WORK? if not keep that Mickey D’s gig.

Haaretz - Israel News - Hamas leader says elections prohibited

Hamas leader says elections prohibited
By Arnon Regular
The listeners to the sermon of Sheikh Ahmad Nimer - one of Hamas’ leaders in Khan Yunis - could hardly believe their ears last Friday when he came out against Hamas’ election campaign.

“Taking part in the elections is forbidden by Muslim law,” Nimer said at a town mosque.

But murdering Jews and others isn’t?

CNN.com - California home to 27 new species - Jan 18, 2006

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — Twenty-seven previously unknown species of spiders, centipedes, scorpion-like creatures and other animals have been discovered in the dark, damp caves beneath two national parks in the Sierra Nevada, biologists say.

“Not only are these animals new to science, but they’re adapted to very specific environments — some of them, to a single room in one cave,” said Joel Despain, a cave specialist who helped explore 30 of the 238 known caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

The discoveries included a relative of the pill bug so translucent that its internal organs are visible, particularly its long, bright yellow liver. There was also a daddy long legs with jaws bigger than its body, and a tiny fluorescent orange spider.

Ain’t Intelligently Designed Evolution a beautiful thing?

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005®

That’s right. DRUDGE. Drudge was the ONLY media outlet to report on Former VP Al Gore’s speech by simply publishing the transcript. It was broadcast by c-span and is now reported by RawStory and News Hounds

Cnn? Nope. Yahoo!News has coverage, but the Washington POst does not. The NY Times covered it but what about MSNBC, ABC, CBS AND FOX?
MSBC - NOPE
ABC - YEP
FOX - are out of your fucking mind?
CBS… sigh……

From Ameriblog:
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

Why doesn’t Bush just arrest us all and have us shot and be done with?

by John in DC - 1/10/2006 07:03:00 PM

Seriously. If Bush is going to go on national TV and declare that the Democratic leader in the Senate (Harry Reid), the head of the Democratic Party (Howard Dean), and a lead Democratic Senator (Dick Durbin) are committing treason by “giving comfort to our adversaries” by criticizing Bush’s disastrous handling of the Iraq war, then arrest all three of them and have them summarily shot without a trial and let’s be done with it.

Dubypaloozer’s comments are here

Since he conisders the US Constitution a “goddam piece of paper”, (source) why call those who dissenst traitors? After all, the men who opposed King George and his Parliament were traitors to the Crown, and, they considered Magna Carta a “goddamn piece of paper as afar as the colonies were concerned, so why not be a traitor to a traitorous president?

Bush Advisor Says President  Has Legal Power to Torture Children

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.
In other words, it’s OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.

This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison.
Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called “Preventing Cyberstalking.” It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet “without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy.”

To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section’s other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure.

The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16.

There’s an interesting side note. An earlier version that the House approved in September had radically different wording. It was reasonable by comparison, and criminalized only using an “interactive computer service” to cause someone “substantial emotional harm.”

That kind of prohibition might make sense. But why should merely annoying someone be illegal?
“The use of the word ‘annoy’ is particularly problematic,” says Marv Johnson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “What’s annoying to one person may not be annoying to someone else.”

Shouldn’t they be punished for the use of Magick in thier attempt to to compell God?
Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World

Extremists boast they cursed Sharon By YAAKOV KATZTalkbacks for this article: 24Far-right activists took credit Thursday for the severe deterioration in Ariel Sharon’s health, claiming that a pulsa denura - Aramaic for “lashes of fire” - death curse they instigated against the prime minister in July was the real catalyst behind his current state of health.
“I take full responsibility for what happened,” far-right activist Baruch Ben-Yosef, one of the participants at the July pulsa denura, told The Jerusalem Post. “Our pulsa denura kicked in. Nothing could kill Sharon and he said his ancestors lived until they over 100 years old but we got him with the pulsa denura.”

Jewish Fundies re no better than Khristian one. Or Islamic ones…. And the genus Kahane Chai are perhaps the worst. These “righteous men” have invoked a death sentence that is reserved for the Angels: “Pulsa Dinoura” or Lash of Fire…

The Pulsa is God’s Capital Sentence against Angels - so, was there really a Fall?

sources: http://jewishwhistleblower.blogspot.com/2005/05/new-ruling-by-rabbi-yosef-shalom.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsa_diNura has tihs quote from my Rav:

The Pulsa D’Nora has wrongfully been associated with a certain school of Kabbalah known as Kabbalah Ma’asit (magic). The Pulsa D’Nora is not a magical formula. Torah and Judaism have no connection to or tolerance of magic in any form. Therefore, the consideration of anything in holy Kabbalah, an integral part of [God’s] Torah from Sinai to have any ties to magic is a spurious and offensive suggestion. The Pulsa D’Nora is actually not a “curse of death” as many mistakenly believe. No Rabbi or Kabbalist has the right or authority to curse another to death. In accordance to Torah Law, the only way a Jew is put to death is for violation of specific Biblical laws and then only after being tried and condemned by a kosher and authoritative Sanhedrin, the likes of which have not existed in Israel and among the Jewish people since the days of the Temple.