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Vice President Dick Cheney a Terrorist?

November 29th, 2005 1 comment

IO Error writes:

Col. Lawrence Wilson, aide to former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, today accused Vice-President Dick Cheney of ignoring a presidential directive regarding treatment of prisoners by the U.S. military and advocating the use of terror.

Asked by the BBC?s Today if Mr Cheney could be accused of war crimes, he said: ?It?s an interesting question.?

?Certainly it is a domestic crime to advocate terror,? he added.


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Site Downtime

November 27th, 2005 No comments

The server went down for about 2.5 hours. The main hard drive failed and all the data had to be transferred to a new one. Luckily, the data from the failed drive was recoverable.

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Bush’s Quick Escape Goes Wrong

November 20th, 2005 2 comments

Bush Door

U.S. President George W. Bush reacts as he tries to open a locked door as he leaves a news conference in Beijing November 20, 2005.

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Report: FDA Rejected Morning After Pill Before Usual Scientific Review

November 15th, 2005 No comments
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Report: White House Emails Show Political Interference With Public Broadcasting

November 15th, 2005 1 comment

The former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting appeared to have been motivated by politics in recruiting a new board president, the corporation’s inspectors reported on Tuesday.

Their report into the activities of Kenneth Tomlinson said “cryptic” e-mails between Tomlinson and the White House indicated by their timing and subject matter that Tomlinson “was strongly motivated by political considerations in filling the president/CEO position.” Read more…

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New Bush Polling Numbers

November 11th, 2005 No comments

New polling reports came out recently:

  • 67% of Americans feel Bush is dishonest and unethical.
  • 82% of Americans feel Bush is ?too stubborn.?
  • 58% of Americans disagree with Bush?s foreign policy and actions with the war (merely a year ago this number was around 48%).
  • 36% approve of his job handling (the lowest since he?s been in office, also the lowest of any president since Nixon).
  • So what is Bush doing to try to gain some points? He sent his entire staff to Ethics School. How sad is that when the leader of the most powerful country in the world has to send his employees to learn the difference between right and wrong? Source: Caleb.

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    Bush Says “You go to hell”

    November 5th, 2005 No comments

    A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency “is effectively over” unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.

    “The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the American people and the presidency,” says a longtime, and angry, GOP strategist.

    With the public face of support for Bush eroding daily from even diehard Republicans, the President faces mounting anger from within his party over the path that may well lead to loss of control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections and the White House in 2008. Read more…

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    GOP Sen. Specter Doesn?t Trust Bush Admin

    November 2nd, 2005 No comments
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