Category Archives: insecurity

taking the constitution to the cleaners – again

Leave it to the completely clueless Bush administration to once again hack into the Constitution it has supposedly sworn to “preserve, protect and defend.” Today, President Bush signed into law the “Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act,” which prevents anti-war demonstrations from taking place at or near military or Federal cemetaries. From the CNN.com article: …

29/05/2006 – 18:29 | By randomduck | Posted in government, insecurity, politics, theocons | Comments Off

why cafe standards need to be scrapped

With the increasing prices of sweet light crude oil forcing petrol prices to increase, there’s talk on The Hill about how to “fix” the problem. After all, the United States is built around the automobile – one of the most misguided evolutions in the history of nation building, but I digress. Personally, I believe that …

10/05/2006 – 13:13 | By randomduck | Posted in government, insecurity, politics, tech | Comments Off

ohio 1970

On this day in 1970, four Kent State University students were killed by National Guardsmen while protesting the Vietnam War. The soldiers, whose mission was to protect the United States, instead killed those they were charged with protecting. Krause, Miller, Scheuer and Schroeder died while exercising their right to protest. And I fear that something …

04/05/2006 – 09:38 | By randomduck | Posted in government, insecurity, music, politics | Comments Off

preserve internet neutrality

Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee defeated an amendment to the the Barton-Rush Act, a bill that will affect the broadband telecommunications industry. This particular amendment requires the internet to be “neutral,” and would prevent phone and cable companies from instituting tolls and pay-as-you-go pricing for internet services. However, after yesterday’s 34-22 vote to …

28/04/2006 – 10:21 | By randomduck | Posted in dems, government, insecurity, mass media, tech | Comments Off

theocons and christ: the disconnect

For a long time, I’ve been galled at people who use religion as a tool of oppression, fear and political gain. Growing up in Utah, I saw a lot of this first-hand, and the BushCo Republicans and other theocons are constantly using their own twisted interpretations of Christ’s teachings to inspire fear and hatred, bringing …

15/04/2006 – 11:47 | By randomduck | Posted in insecurity, politics, theocons | Comments (1)

it be the 19th century again, y’arrr…

Perhaps this is why bushco wants to roll back the country to the 19th century:     Pirates seize Indian vessel with 25 aboard (CNN.com) I mean, if we’re seeing pirates on the high seas, perhaps it’s time we went out in search of gold dubloons, establishing colonies in exotic lands and extorting the people …

27/02/2006 – 10:27 | By randomduck | Posted in insecurity, random, theocons | Comments (1)

what’s not being said by chertoff

Allow me to complete this statement from today’s testimony from Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff: “We were acutely aware of Katrina…” “…but we didn’t do anything because we were too busy gazing at our navels to care about people who earn less than $200,000 per year.” The finger pointing that’s going on with BushCo is …

15/02/2006 – 14:50 | By randomduck | Posted in government, insecurity, theocons | Comments Off

it’s about time to draw up articles of impeachment

Well, the cat’s out of the bag: Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Cheney and other White House “superiors” in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration’s use of …

09/02/2006 – 13:51 | By randomduck | Posted in dems, government, insecurity, politics, theocons | Comments (1)

state of the onion: bush is a rank git

The smug grin. The hyperbole. The need to repeat the same drivel again and again and again. Yup – it’s BushCo delivering their annual report…. er, State of the Union. He is, of course, leaving out a lot of details: the fact that other Presidents who’ve used FISA have obtained the necessary warrants, the fact …

31/01/2006 – 21:41 | By randomduck | Posted in dems, government, insecurity, politics, theocons | Comments Off

the dems shouldn’t filibuster over alito

Right now, there’s a lot of chat in the liberal blogopshere about how “we all need to filibuster” over the cloture vote on Alito. The issue is portrayed as the “put up or shut up” moment that Dems need to act on. Yet I don’t think it is – at least, in the form it …

30/01/2006 – 17:45 | By randomduck | Posted in dems, insecurity, politics, theocons | Comments (2)