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Senate bows to the White House

The White House can have their cake and eat it, too.  The latest final version of the FISA bill seems to have a valentine’s day smooch for the White House and the Telecoms.  Immunity.  Why?  I have no idea.  I know why the White House wants these companies who clearly broke the law to have immunity, so that the extend of their vast spying will really never be fully understand.  I have no idea why the Senate Democrats like Rockefeller and Reid would go along with this.

There continues to be not consequences for breaking the law if you are a buddy of the Bush administration.

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From WaPo:

The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a government eavesdropping program, decisively rejecting an amendment that would have stripped the provision from a bill to modernize an electronic surveillance law.

Senators voted 67 to 31 to shelve the amendment offered by Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.). A filibuster-proof 60 votes had been needed for the amendment to move forward.

Tags: Bush Administration, Congress by ecthompson
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Computer needs major surgery

helpercat Computer needs major surgery

Anytime that you have to spend 4 hours on the telephone with Microsoft and Dell that’s the definition of a good day.  My brother who is a software genius, was playing Mr. Mom with 5 or 10 kids so he was no help.  So, another 3 - 4 hours and I have an operating system up and running.

Now, can you party any better than this?

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Bushed

This segment has turned into a grab bag of issues that Liberals have against the Bush Administration and that’s fine with me!

Bush continues to speak the English language like it was his third language. Learned late in life. Very late in life.

Earmarks.

The pentagon just so happens to have figured out what to do with 6 Gitmo prisoners. They have just filed 9-11 charges against them so that their trials should be a topic of discussion while the Presidential election is in full swing. What’s that Daffy Duck line - You’re dessspicable!

Tags: Bush Administration, Countdown by ecthompson
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