A guy like this is always going to have an agenda, the FBI was stupid to use him as an informant:
Ultra right-wing radio talk show host Hal Turner provided intelligence to the FBI that agents considered “irreplaceable,” according to emails reviewed for a lengthy investigative report published Sunday.
Writing for NorthJersey.com, reporters Mike Kelly and Peter J. Sampson reveal that the bureau once even used Turner as an undercover intelligence operative in Brazil, where he informed on white supremacist group American National Alliance and met with a representative of the Brazilian Arab Society who sought to provide support to Iraqi fighters.
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I guess god told him this guy wouldn’t hurt anyone:
You may have heard that four police officers were murdered in what under different circumstances would look like a mob assassination in Washington state coffeehouse this morning.
The man local police are seeking for questioning is Maurice Clemmons, 37, a man with a lifetime history of violence, burglary, aggravated robbery, theft and rape. Clemmons was serving what was essentially a life sentence in Arkansas before having his sentence commuted by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee.
This wasn’t the first time Huckabee went out of his way to get a dangerous person out of prison.
New sources, including an advisor to Gov. Mike Huckabee, have told the Arkansas Times that Huckabee and a senior member of his staff exerted behind-the-scenes influence to bring about the parole of rapist Wayne Dumond, who Missouri authorities say raped and killed a woman there shortly after his parole.
I wonder if he has let any more christian terrorists out of prison.
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I sure hope the Broncos win today and I am cooking a Tofurkey, I will try to let you know how that goes.
And the New Republic insults Paris Hilton. Comparing Palin to Hilton is very unfair, Paris is funny and harmless. Sarah is not intentionally funny and she has done irepairable harm to Alaska and given a chance would do the same thing to the U.S.
Update: Looks like other people are starting to agree that Prejean and Palin are the future of the GOP
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Looks like Lou Dobbs is going around trying to tell people how much he loves immigrants I guess he was just playing the role of xenophobic moron while ar CNN.
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From Ezra klein:
I’m starting to think that Lieberman knows perfectly well that his ever-shifting rationales don’t make sense, and that he’s inventing them to taunt liberals, not to explain his position. It’s one thing to oppose the public option, after all. It’s another to continually dangle misinformed rationales, implying that if liberals could just explain their argument clearly and logically enough, he’ll change his mind. It’s a deviously brilliant exploitation of liberal psychology. So devious, in fact, that it could only have come from a former liberal.
And then their is this on Sarah Palin:
Palin’s inability to leave a grievance un-aired is quickly becoming the stuff of legend. But the feud with Johnston is one of the more egregious, and ongoing, self-inflicted political injuries I can ever recall seeing. (The irony of her applauding her daughter’s decision to “take the high road” in the same sentence in which she throws her “porn” dig is almost too much.)
The obvious, immensely easy play here would be for her to make up publicly with the boy. But even if that’s too much–as it obviously is–you’d think she could manage some high-road blather when asked about Johnston (“We’ve had our disagreements, as you all know, but he’s good kid and I hope it all works out for him in the end”) and could avoid bringing him up altogether when she’s asked about something else, as in this case. But, no, she somehow seems to believe–and no one close to her can evidently dissuade her–that if she can win a war of words with a semi-employed, 19-year-old high-school dropout, it will amount to an actual victory for her.
Personally, I think that in both cases they are people who will do anything to make the discourse about them, which explains the lack of consistancy in terms of policy. They don’t care about policy they care about being the center of attention and if you examine their statements in that light they are completely consistant.
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As some of you know deadissue is hoping to become the headquarters for Prejean/Palin in 2012 but some people are already trying to derail the ticket. Apparentely Sarah(can I call you Sarah?) is not pro-life enough.
“Sarah Palin has presidential ambition, but she’ll have to get serious about protecting the innocent,” said Birkey, “because this time around, there’s a personhood movement that will expose the pro-abortion record of pretend pro-life candidates.”
I am sure it is just an oversight on the part of Sarah and Carrie and soon they will issue a statement supporting the rights of our spermatazoan citizens.
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We need Palin in 2012. From Palin’s book Going Rogue:
But your dad’s a science teacher,” Schmidt objected. “Yes.” “Then you know that science proves evolution,” added Schmidt. “Parts of evolution,” I said. “But I believe that God created us and also that He can create an evolutionary process that allows species to change and adapt.” Schmidt winced and raised his eyebrows. In the dim light, his sunglasses shifted atop his hear. I had just dared to mention the C-word: creationism. But I felt I was on solid factual ground
Almost a heart beat away from the presidency. Prejean/Palin 2012
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Yesterday I asked why putting terrorists on trial was such a big deal, looks like other people have been wondering as well.
In political terms, the right likes the war idea because it involves taking terrorism more “seriously.” But in doing so, you partake of way too much of the terrorists’ narrative about themselves. It’s their conceit, after all, that blowing up a bomb in a train station and killing a few hundred random commuters is an act of war. And war is a socially sanctioned form of activity, generally held to be a legally and morally acceptable framework in which to kill people. What we want to say, however, is that this sporadic commuter-killing isn’t a kind of war, it’s an act of murder. To be sure, not an ordinary murder—a mass murder—but nonetheless murder. It’s true that if al-Qaeda were something like the “blowing up train stations” arm of a major country with which we were otherwise at war, it might make the most sense to think of al-Qaeda as fitting in with spies and saboteurs; criminal adjuncts to a warrior enterprise.
After all, do we really want to send the message to the world that a self-starting spree killer like Nidal Malik Hasan is actually engaged in some kind of act of holy war? It seems to me that we don’t. A lot of people in the world are interested in glory, and willing to take serious risks with their lives for its sake. Insofar as possible, we want to drain anti-American violence of the aura of glory. And that means by-and-large treating its perpetrators like criminals.
Also, in terms of catching suspected terrorists it would probably be much easier to get the rest of the world to help, if you are trying to catch people who have actually done something, rather than invading countries because many of the people in the country look like the suspected terrorists.
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Finally some of the 9/11 plotters are going to face a criminal trial, and some of the right-wing is trowing a hissy fit. WHY?
Most of us can agree these people are accused of a criminal act and therefore should face a trial for it. It is almost like conservatives feel attacks on the U.S are justified, maybe more of them agree with Jerry Falwells comments after 9/11 when he said that the U.S was being punished by god, that we know.
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Looks like there may be a few errors in Palin’s book. I think that Palin’s world view is so inaccurate it would be almost impossible for her not to lie about stuff, after all she grew up in a time when Reagan claimed tax cuts paid for themselves and up was down. Welcome back to reality Sarah.
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Looks like Carrie Prejean walked off the set when asked about her out of court settlement by Larry King. This during a week wen Tom Tancredo walked off the set of the Ed show when somebody mentioned his deferrement for depression which kept him out of Viet Nam. Is their any conservative out there who can make it through an entire interview?
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This sums up the countries fiscal problems really well:
“The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services the people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the tax revenues that people are willing to send to the government to finance those services,”
People want government services but don’t want to pay for them, a good deal for awhile, but at some point the country will go bancrupt. My guess is that most people would not handle a cut in services well so it may be time to talk tax increase.
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Carrie Prejean talks about her “solo sex tape” In fairness she was seventeen(I wonder if that makes it childporn?) but she has aligned herself with the family values crowd, the same people who go ape-shit when seventeen-year-old’s exibit any kind of sexualit, so it is hard to feel too sorry for her.
Palin/Prejean 2012 cuz we all need a laugh.
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Just in case anyone has any doubts the Stupac amendment is all about stopping people from having sex, unless of course the the product of that sex will be a low-wage worker and a high-school dropout.
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Yesterdays election was a mixed bag. Two governorships, Virginia and New Jersey went to Republicans but two congressional seats went to Democrats. What does this mean?
In my state Colorado the same dynamic seems to be working our current Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, has spent most of his term cutting state services in an effort to balance the budget and vetoed some progressive legislation in an attempt to appear moderate. He will probably lose in the 2010 election, although his opponent Scott Mcginnis is a self dealing moron.
Ritter should have immediately raised taxes and restored state services. He might have been unpopular at first, but over four years people would have seen the benefits of having a fully functioning government and he might have had a chance at re-election, now he is about to hand the state back to the party that created the mess in the first place.
Moral of the story, if you run as a Democrat act like one when you get into office.
My guess is that 2010 will not be a good year for Democratic governors but maybe the next time they are in power they will recognize that governing is about more than getting elected.
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I am starting to think it is time to get rid of NASA., after killing numerous astronauts on their unsafe space shuttles they have decided to endanger other animals.
“The beauty of this is that we can assess at different time points after exposure, so not only do we get a sense of rather immediate effects, but then we can look again at longer time points.
“That kind of information just hasn’t been available.”
After the radiation exposure, the monkeys can look forward to a lifetime of being looked after by staff and veterinarians at McLean Hospital.
Nasa said in a statement: “McLean Hospital is responsible for the lifetime care of the primates. No further research is planned for them at this time.”
This information should be available by examining the the long-term effects of people on the space shuttle and space station, they don’t need to do this to animals, they are just wasting money. Plus, monkeys are not prone to the same diseases as humans and they don’t live as long so it will be very difficult to see what the long-term effects really are on an animal that might live for thirty years, when the average age of an astronaut is probably mid thirties. This experiment is needless.
In addition the comment that their is “no further research planned at this time” is pretty carefully worded to allow for terminal experiments later. Which also takes care of the promise totake care of the monkeys for their “lifetime”.
NASA has been a national embarrasment long enough, lets shut it down.
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