Archive for December, 2005

Israel will strike Iran

Posted by Moonage on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Iran

There is probably not a blog I respect more than The Volokh Conspiracy.  They’re not the flashy in-your-face types, they’re mostly lawyers with a moderate tone that seem to try to tackle legal issues from a pragmatic angle.  I like that.  There’s too much shock and awe cluttering the internet for the sake of nothing [...]

Michael Moore’s paradise gone wrong?

Posted by Moonage on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Opinions

In Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, he goes to great lengths to point out that guns are legal in Canada, but their violence rate is substantially less than that of the US.  So, it must be some political and social issue unique to the US.  He goes ON and ON and ON, about that fact, [...]

Terror Suspect dies in Saudi Custody

Posted by Moonage on 28 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: International Issues

One of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted militants has died in custody after being wounded in a gunbattle in which he killed five policemen, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Mohammed al-Suwailmi, who was No. 7 on the list of the kingdom’s 15 most wanted suspects, died late Tuesday, bringing to nine the number of [...]

Spying increased after 9/11

Posted by Moonage on 27 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: The Media

First we had this:
That year, following the September 11 attacks, Bush authorized the NSA to monitor the international phone calls and international e-mails of hundreds — perhaps thousands — of people inside the United States, the Times reported.
Before the program began, the NSA typically limited its domestic surveillance to foreign embassies and missions and obtained [...]

January in the Senate

Posted by Moonage on 23 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics

Some members of Senate wanted more time to get the bugs worked out of The Patriot Act.  Congress said let’s take a year or so.  The Senate decided that was too long.  So, they said let’s take six months.  Congress decided that as well was too long and said let’s take one month.  The Senate [...]

The real reason to kill The Patriot Act?

Posted by Moonage on 22 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Opinions

Without having anything to go on, I think the root of the oppositin to The Patriot Act is seeded a lot deeper than "the wiretap scandal".  You have to go back about a decade to understand the chain of events that led to this current debate IMO.  I did a synopsis over "what went wrong" [...]

Why won’t the Bush administration obey the law?

Posted by Moonage on 22 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics

Dahlia Lithwick of Slate has a LONG article on why the Bush administration won’t obey the  law.  She sums up the gist of her opinion as such:
At the start of this "war," Congress thought it was authorizing the use of force in Afghanistan. But now we’ve learned that in so doing it also gave the [...]

Bush wiretapping to continue aka Russ Feingold is an idiot

Posted by Moonage on 21 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics

Russ Feingold is an idiot.  He gave this statement supporting his opposition to The Patriot Act:
"Yesterday morning, Republican and Democratic Senators blocked a flawed bill that extended parts of the Patriot Act that are set to expire without fixing the fundamental problems with the law. Nobody wants these parts of the Patriot Act to expire [...]

Getting ANWR’d

Posted by Moonage on 21 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: Businesses, Oil Supply

Almost immediately upon the release of the ANWR decision in the Senate, this happens:

Apparently the business sector doesn’t like the events of the last 24 hours any more than I do.

Technorati Tags: Businesses, Oil Supply

What a day

Posted by Moonage on 21 Dec 2005 | Tagged as: International Politics, Legislative Process, National Politics, Oil Policy, Oil Supply, Opinions, Politics

In the last 24 hours, the Democrats:

Returned us to the intelligence agenda that led directly to 9/11.
Told the Middle East that we’re not willing to do what it takes to lessen our reliance on them.  Keep sending those terrorists, it’s no biggie.
Didn’t mind too much cutting benefits for the poor, but were willing to stop [...]

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