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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 |
Harper's: "That President George W. Bush comes to power with the intention of invading Iraq is a fact not open to dispute.
Although Blair has told Bush, probably in the autumn of 2001, that Britain will join the American military putsch in Iraq, he needs 'legal justification' for the maneuver - something noble and inspiring to say to Parliament and the British public. No justification 'currently exists'. Neither Britain nor the United States is being attacked by Iraq, which eliminates the excuse of self-defense; nor is the Iraqi government currently sponsoring a program of genocide.
Under the three-strike rule available to the courts in California, judges sentence people to life in jail for having stolen from Wal-Mart a set of golf clubs or a child's tricycle. Who then calls strikes on President Bush, and how many more does he get before being sent down on waivers to one of the Texas Prison Leagues?"
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NationalJournal: "A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens.
Research under the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program - which developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States - was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency to another group, which builds technologies primarily for the National Security Agency, according to documents obtained by National Journal and to intelligence sources familiar with the move. The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities, but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts."
1:04:23 PM
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"So you're a ukulele player. Left-leaning. Frustrated and angry about the state of the world. But you think to yourself: What can I do?
Weirdo ukulele player, Ukuleles For Sanity has a special message for you: Sometimes, it is the fearless defiance of the smallest, most vulnerable and least threatening among us that makes the stronger statement. Sometimes the smallest voice can be a mighty force!
Ukuleles For Sanity is a loose affiliation of left-leaning professional musicians and music enthusiasts who have found their artistic voices in the diminutive, underachieving simplicity of the four-stringed ukulele, and are using that voice, with all of its quirky and unique charm, to deliver a powerful political message of empowerment in these dangerous, oppressive times.
Armed only with a love of democracy, a constitutional indignation... and perhaps the most portable protest instrument in the history of music, Ukuleles For Sanity is looking to form 'Ukulele National Guards' around the country to participate in street marches and similar events to sing and strum against the war-mongering, democracy-hating, gay-bashing, environment-debasing, morally corrupt Bush Administration and its constituency of billionaire neo-feudalists."
Here is your chordfinder. Join the ukulele players worldwide.
12:48:20 PM
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