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 Sunday, July 28, 2002
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Mothership comes to retrieve Bush?
(Title copied from Xeni Jardin) This story is too much, but it is on the WP website.
For Renny Rogers, it was strange enough that military jets were flying low over his home in Waldorf in the middle of the night. It was what he thinks he saw when he headed outside to look early yesterday that floored him.
"It was this object, this light-blue object, traveling at a phenomenal rate of speed," Rogers said. "This Air Force jet was right behind it, chasing it, but the object was just leaving him in the dust. I told my neighbor, 'I think those jets are chasing a UFO.' "...
Military officials confirm that two F-16 jets from Andrews Air Force Base were scrambled early yesterday after radar detected an unknown aircraft in area airspace. But they scoff at the idea that the jets were chasing a strange and speedy, blue unidentified flying object....At the same time, military officials say they do not know just what the jets were chasing, because whatever it was disappeared.
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Another link from Strangelove, which is really hot recently.
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Can't sue Cheney
Text of Judicial Watch's press release:
Judicial Watch's process server was threatened with arrest by the Secret Service on Monday after the server telephoned the White House from one of the outside gates and was unable to find anyone who would accept a copy of the lawsuit. Judicial Watch alleges fraudulent accounting practices at Halliburton Corp., the company Cheney ran for five years. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the oil service firm's accounting for construction project overruns. ...
And my favorite:
“We have served many a lawsuit on Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Hillary Clinton when they were in The White House. The Clinton White House accepted the papers. Never before have our process servers been threatened with arrest. If this Bush-Cheney White House is serious about corporate corruption and responsibility, it would not allow the Vice President to improperly hide behind White House security to evade service of process in the Halliburton securities fraud litigation, and it would not threaten the process server with arrest,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
I'm glad to see that Juducial Watch is going to be as big a pain in the A$$ to Bush and Cheney as they were to Clinton. I respect a non-partisan pain.
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Declan McCullagh needs your tips
Declan McCullagh, journalist and moderator of the Politech mailing list, is looking for tips about congressional or beaucratic technology stupidities. He is updating his classic article, "Stupid Senate Tricks".
His request is here. Give him a hand if you can, he is a very good journalist, and the mailing list is great.
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Bushwatch
Today I found Bushwatch. I don't know how I could have missed it before. It is fiercely partisan, but also incredibly funny. If Dubya did it or said it, it's here. It varies from the incredibly detailed graphic of how Bush made his money to a collection of Dubya's better one liners in the Bushlexia section. Highly recommended if you are a partisan democrat, or if you just like funny stuff.
Tip o the hat to Coco Conn of Strangelove for the link.
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Halliburton gets contract building Guantanamo prison
Halliburton, the company where Dick Cheney did so well as CEO, just won a $9.7 million contract to build 204 new cells at the US prison Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The new cells will be made out of steel mesh and measure six feet, eight inches wide by eight feet long.
I'm sure that Halliburton will donate their profits to Dubya's fund for the starving children of Afghanistan. NOT. It is pretty hard not to be cynical about the "war on terrorism" when reading items like this. What General Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex" is back in full force, happy as pigs at a trough. It feels like the military-industrial complex is taking advantage of the tragedy of 9-11 to reclaim what it sees as its rightful position in America, leading it and making all the money. Ugh.
Tip o' the hat to Xeni Jardin of Strangelove for the link.
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Petition or Fax against Operation TIPS
Wayne Madsen has set up an online petition against Operation Tips:
WE, the undersigned, categorically reject President Bush's Freedom Corps, Citizens Corps, Citizens Corps Councils, Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System), Volunteers in Police Service, and Neighborhood Watch Program ... more
I am dubious about the efficacy of such things as online petitions, but signing it is better than doing nothing. It just takes a click.
The ACLU has set up a site where you can fax your senator opposing Operation Tips
"Your Senators will play a key role in deciding whether or not Operation TIPS will go ahead. You can read more and send a FREE FAX to your Senators, urging them to reject this misguided program, from our action alert at:"
http://www.aclu.org/action/tips107.html Again, better to click than do nothing.
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© Copyright 2002 Tim Bishop aka Geodog.
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