Lets make fun of whining democrats thread
I can picture it right now........ 
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Big Brother Bush is watching:
February 17, 2006
latimes.com : Opinion : Editorials
Patriot gamesmanship
PRESENTED WITH A RARE opportunity to act like a separate branch of government rather than an arm of the Bush administration, the Senate on Thursday caved like an overexcited spelunker. Though opposition to the Patriot Act's appalling intrusions on Americans' privacy had briefly united liberals with a handful of independent-minded conservatives, the opportunity to make meaningful revisions is over.
The Senate voted 96 to 3 to limit debate on the revised act, squelching the effort by Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-Wis.) to mount a filibuster. A vote is slated for March 1. Passage is all but certain in the House.
Four Republican senators who in December had stood up with Democrats to block an extension of the act now say they're satisfied with a compromise reached with the administration. It's hard to see why; it's unclear whether any of the concessions will do anything to protect Americans from having their personal records scanned by government agents, regardless of whether those being probed are legitimate terrorism suspects.
The compromise focuses on three components of the act. The first involves gag orders on subpoenas. Under the old version, if the FBI seized personal records (on which websites a person visited, say, or things he bought on a credit card), the information provider was forbidden from telling anyone. Under the compromise, subpoenas can be challenged after one year
February 17, 2006
latimes.com : Opinion : Editorials
Patriot gamesmanship
PRESENTED WITH A RARE opportunity to act like a separate branch of government rather than an arm of the Bush administration, the Senate on Thursday caved like an overexcited spelunker. Though opposition to the Patriot Act's appalling intrusions on Americans' privacy had briefly united liberals with a handful of independent-minded conservatives, the opportunity to make meaningful revisions is over.
The Senate voted 96 to 3 to limit debate on the revised act, squelching the effort by Sen. Russell D. Feingold (D-Wis.) to mount a filibuster. A vote is slated for March 1. Passage is all but certain in the House.
Four Republican senators who in December had stood up with Democrats to block an extension of the act now say they're satisfied with a compromise reached with the administration. It's hard to see why; it's unclear whether any of the concessions will do anything to protect Americans from having their personal records scanned by government agents, regardless of whether those being probed are legitimate terrorism suspects.
The compromise focuses on three components of the act. The first involves gag orders on subpoenas. Under the old version, if the FBI seized personal records (on which websites a person visited, say, or things he bought on a credit card), the information provider was forbidden from telling anyone. Under the compromise, subpoenas can be challenged after one year
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And this on the war on terror:
February 17, 2006 latimes
Bioterrorism, hyped
By Milton Leitenberg
THE UNITED STATES has spent at least $33 billion since 2002 to combat the threat of biological terrorism. The trouble is, the risk that terrorists will use biological agents is being systematically and deliberately exaggerated. And the U.S. government has been using most of its money to prepare for the wrong contingency.
A pandemic flu outbreak of the kind the world witnessed in 1918-19 could kill hundreds of millions of people. The only lethal biological attack in the United States
February 17, 2006 latimes
Bioterrorism, hyped
By Milton Leitenberg
THE UNITED STATES has spent at least $33 billion since 2002 to combat the threat of biological terrorism. The trouble is, the risk that terrorists will use biological agents is being systematically and deliberately exaggerated. And the U.S. government has been using most of its money to prepare for the wrong contingency.
A pandemic flu outbreak of the kind the world witnessed in 1918-19 could kill hundreds of millions of people. The only lethal biological attack in the United States
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I'm very hurt, annoyed, and offended by all these political threads. When are the 
going to start picking on us Libertarians? 
We want equal recognition!
BTW, if you want a happy ending with that cock-goblin, you gotta pay extra
going to start picking on us Libertarians? We want equal recognition!BTW, if you want a happy ending with that cock-goblin, you gotta pay extra
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It's been a rough couple of weeks. Hamas won the Palestinian elections; protests over cartoons representing the prophet Muhammad raged around the world; more Americans and Iraqis were killed by suicide bombers; new Abu Ghraib photos were released; and, here at home, the vice president got violent.
