Um, particularly this article:
Article 3
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has failed without lawful cause or excuse to produce papers and things as directed by duly authorized subpoenas issued by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on April 11, 1974, May 15, 1974, May 30, 1974, and June 24, 1974, and willfully disobeyed such subpoenas. The subpoenaed papers and things were deemed necessary by the Committee in order to resolve by direct evidence fundamental, factual questions relating to Presidential direction, knowledge or approval of actions demonstrated by other evidence to be substantial grounds for impeachment of the President. In refusing to produce these papers and things Richard M. Nixon, substituting his judgment as to what materials were necessary for the inquiry, interposed the powers of the Presidency against the the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, thereby assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise of the sole power of impeachment vested by the Constitution in the House of Representatives.
Are you watchin' the SAM CAM?
Man, Dewey always ruffles y'all's feathers:
Julie in NJ: Dew Boy certainly does not speak for most of NEW JERSEY!!!
Janet: "Please remind Dewey when you next speak to him that it is the 'DemocratIC Party,' not the 'Democrat Party'."
John: "I was struck by Dewey's concern about what will happen when liberals discover that their 'witchhunt' leads nowhere. Have we forgotten Whitewater? Conservatives are the experts at fruitless withchunts."
Justin (no, not that Justin): "He like so many conservatives thinks that everything is about money. Our system of government is not capitalism. Moron."
Anonymous: "did dewy get sober? he used to sound as if he was drunk on air"
Here's Jon from Pleasant Hill, CA on the "Is 'Gonzo' offensive" question:
In response to the caller earlier today who suggested that Hispanics would find your nickname of "Gonzo" offensive, I'd suggest that he take a closer look at his own President before he starts trying to deal with the hosts of radio shows. You know... the same President who's pet name for Mexican President Vincente Fox is "Montezuma".
OK. We're getting several definitions of "chupa cabra." Just look at this picture. Man, this thing is terrifying:
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 211 of 211daniel, the last part of your statement is essentially correct. matter and energy can't be created or destroyed, just transformed. the energy generated by the magnets would be offset by losses in friction and the energy needed to break the lines of flux. in turn the engine would work harder. i might have a detail wrong here since its been years since i had a physics course.
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it is being touted by radicals who think they can manipulate Christ into coming back by re arranging the middle east
the non religious neo cons have the same idea: re arrange the middle east, for profit and empire
Christ is going to come back when he feels like it
wouldn't it rock for christ to come back and say, boy have you guys fricked up the middle east and take over their corporation...
AP ...
Six of the eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Justice Department ranked in the top third among their peers for the number of prosecutions filed last year, according to an analysis of federal records.
In addition, five of the eight were among the government's top performers in winning convictions.
-- Josh Marshall
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morning toniD.
as they say, something's rotten in denmark. how anyone can believe that executive privilege doesn't equate to guilty beyond a reasonable doubt escapes me. tack on that they tried to baffle us with bullshit in the form of 3000 redacted emails (how did they miss the 18 day gap, did they think someone wouldn't see it) and there's a real case for impeaching the whole executive branch, not for the firing, but because the firing is just representative of everything they have done. its just the tip of the iceberg.
Gore Refuses to Take Personal Energy Pledge
Former Vice President Al Gore refused to take a "Personal Energy Ethics Pledge" today to consume no more energy than the average American household. The pledge was presented to Gore by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, during today's global warming hearing.
Senator Inhofe showed Gore a film frame from "An Inconvenient Truth" where it asks viewers: "Are you ready to change the way you live?"
Gore has been criticized for excessive home energy usage at his residence in Tennessee. His electricity usage is reportedly 20 times higher than the average American household.
Senator Inhofe showed Gore a film frame from "An Inconvenient Truth" where it asks viewers: "Are you ready to change the way you live?"
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Hell no! But I am ready to change the way YOU live. You gas hogs. Get a little house. Sell your car. Recycle. Change you selfish bastards. Me and Gore are going to fly to China for lunch. Stop wasting fuel you little assholes. Me and Gore need the fuel.
2nd day of spring and the trolls are out eating worms already.
Every time there is trouble for the WH the trolls come out en masse to try to change the blame.
It's obvious that things are not as steady as they used to be for these wingers so they take it out on the Libs.
They are flapping in the wind of change right now.
They love to obstruct Justice, don't they...
Prosecutor: Bush appointees interfered in case. Front-page of today’s Washington Post:
The leader of the Justice Department team that prosecuted a landmark lawsuit against tobacco companies said yesterday that Bush administration political appointees repeatedly ordered her to take steps that weakened the government’s racketeering case.
Sharon Y. Eubanks said Bush loyalists in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s office began micromanaging the team’s strategy in the final weeks of the 2005 trial, to the detriment of the government’s claim that the industry had conspired to lie to U.S. smokers.
She said a supervisor demanded that she and her trial team drop recommendations that tobacco executives be removed from their corporate positions as a possible penalty. He and two others instructed her to tell key witnesses to change their testimony. And they ordered Eubanks to read verbatim a closing argument they had rewritten for her, she said.
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From the Daily Herald, Chicago area
Originally posted: March 20, 2007
Soldier's dad tells Bush, `This war is wrong'
The two-page letter is signed from the "proud father of a fallen soldier."
A little more than six weeks ago, his soul a cauldron of grief and rage, Richard Landeck, 56, of Wheaton addressed and mailed it to President Bush.
And since he's yet to receive an acknowledgment or reply, he asked me if I'd help get his message out.
"My voice, and that of many other frustrated Americans is not being heard," he said.
It's the least I can do, I replied.
"My son was killed in Iraq on February 2, 2007," says the letter. "His name is Captain Kevin Landeck..
"He was killed while riding in a Humvee by a roadside bomb just south of Baghdad. He has a loving mother, a loving father and loving sister. You took him away from us."
The letter adds that Kevin Landeck (pictured here in a recent family photo), 26, a Wheaton Warrenville South High School and Purdue University graduate, had been married for 17 months and was very proud to be serving his country.
But "the message he continued to send to me was that of incompetence, " Landeck's letter says. "Incompetence by you, (Vice President Richard) Cheney and (former defense secretary Donald) Rumsfeld. Incompetence by some of his commanders as well as the overall strategy of your decisions.
"When I asked him about what he thought about your decision to `surge' more troops to Baghdad, he told me, `until the Iraqis pick up the ball we are going to get cut to shreds. It doesn't matter how many troops Bush sends, nothing has been addressed to solve the problem he started,'" says Landeck's letter (full text below) .
This is a reasonably close paraphrase of an e-mail Kevin Landeck sent to his parents on Jan. 19, a short note signed "live from the (excrement) show" that referred to the war strategy as "senseless."
"Answer me this," Richard Landeck's letter demands of Bush. "How in the world can you justify invading Iraq when the problem began and continues to lie in Afghanistan? I don't want your idiotic standard answer about keeping America safe. What did Sadaam Hussein have to do with 9/11?"
The letter says, "You have succeeded in taking down over 3,100 of our best young men, my son being one of them. Kevin told me many times we are not fighting terrorism in Iraq and they could not do their jobs as soldiers. He said they are trained to be on the offensive and to fight, but all they are doing is acting like policemen..
"He asked permission to take some of his men out at night with their night-vision glasses -- because as he said `we own the night' -- and watch for the people who are setting roadside bombs and `take them out.' He said, `I want them to be the ones that are scared.' He was denied permission. Why?"
Richard Landeck and his wife Vicki have never been active in politics, they told me as I sat with them around their kitchen table Sunday night in the Stonehedge subdivision in the heart of DuPage County. He's a sales rep. She's a dental hygienist. Their other child, Jennifer, 23, is an actress (pictured below with her late brother) who also works part-time at the nearby golf course.
As the war in Iraq enters its 5th year, look for families like the Landecks to become the face of the anti-war movement: Archtypal middle Americans who can no longer respond with platitudinous faith in our leaders to the persistent waste --- a word Richard Landeck does not shy from -- of the lives of our young men and women in Iraq.
Saturday, they went to nearby Bloomingdale to join in a peace rally, their first.
"This war is wrong," says the last paragraph of Landeck's letter to the president. "Because of your ineptness . I have lost my son, my pride and joy, my hero! (You) will never understand what the families of soldiers are going through and don't try to tell me you do. My wife, my daughter and I cannot believe we have lost our only son and brother to a ridiculous political war."
tonidD, the blog moved. just read your post about the soldier. it rips your heart out. you should repost it on thursdays.
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