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Monday, May 01, 2006
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33% approval rating for Bush in a new CBS News poll which is his lowest in CBS News polls.
71% say the direction of the country is on the wrong track which is the highest number EVER in a CBS News poll.
31% approval for Bush in handling the economy
30% approval of Bush's handling of Iraq.
17% approval for Bush in handling gas prices.
8% say Bush has a clear plan for keeping gas prices down.
(Via First Draft.)
10:58:35 PM 
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The bullshit isn't surprising me anymore:
The Justice Department report also included an annual update on the number of warrants that the department had obtained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret federal court for intelligence and terrorism investigations.
Applications for electronic surveillance and physical search warrants — which almost always are approved by the court — rose to 2,074 in 2005, compared with 1,758 in 2004. Last year's total was more than double the number sought in 2000.
That court is the tribunal that the Bush administration has been bypassing in a warrantless domestic surveillance program since shortly after Sept. 11.
So the court isn't fast enough or good enough or willing enough to grant warrants, so Bush needs to bypass it, so he's using the court ... more? The LA Times lays it out like that, and when you read it through the first time you assume it doesn't make any sense because there's something you don't get, some nuance which has escaped you.
And then you read it again and realize the reason it doesn't make any sense is that it doesn't make any sense.
A.
(Via First Draft.)
10:37:13 PM
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The National Day of Prayer is Thursday, May 4.
(Via Hugh Hewitt.)
Somehow this doesn't line up with Matthew 6:5:
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
10:36:15 PM
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When religions are practiced, as they are by a majority of those in developed nations, today, as a kind of nostalgic little ritual - a community event or an excuse to get together and not work - it doesn't really screw anything up too badly. But when they radically alter our ability to contend with reality, cope with difference, or implement the most basic ethical provisions, they must be stopped.
Like any other public health crisis, the belief in religion must now be treated as a sickness. It is an epidemic, paralyzing our nation's ability to behave in a rational way, and - given our weapons capabilities - posing an increasingly grave threat to the rest of the world.
9:49:10 PM
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