Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Sleep When I'm Dead
Song number 3 of 13 in The Cure's monthly song-by-song release of their new album. Click the label below to see the previous 2 songs.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Tell Your Senator to Uphold Their Oath to SUPPORT and DEFEND the Constitution RIGHT NOW
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"I have to say that no senator, Republican or Democrat, should be voting for this Senate bill. Not one. Everyone who does so is in fact, I would say, violating his or her oath to defend the Constitution. But they can do better than that." - Daniel Ellsberg
"Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retroactive immunity. No immunity, no new FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he is willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies. The President’s insistence on immunity as a precondition for any FISA reform is yet another example of his disrespect for honest dialogue and for the rule of law.
It’s painfully clear what the President’s request for retroactive immunity is really about. It’s a self-serving attempt to avoid legal and political accountability and keep the American public in the dark about this whole shameful episode." - Senator Kennedy
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"I have to say that no senator, Republican or Democrat, should be voting for this Senate bill. Not one. Everyone who does so is in fact, I would say, violating his or her oath to defend the Constitution. But they can do better than that." - Daniel Ellsberg
"Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retroactive immunity. No immunity, no new FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he is willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies. The President’s insistence on immunity as a precondition for any FISA reform is yet another example of his disrespect for honest dialogue and for the rule of law.
It’s painfully clear what the President’s request for retroactive immunity is really about. It’s a self-serving attempt to avoid legal and political accountability and keep the American public in the dark about this whole shameful episode." - Senator Kennedy
Frontline documentary
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Don't Shred the Constitution after July 4th
Contact your Senators
After the Fourth of July holiday, the Senate will vote on the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), a bill that would betray the spirit of 1776 by radically expanding the president’s spying powers and granting immunity to the companies that colluded in his illegal program. Now that the House has passed the FAA, the Senate is the last front left in the battle against immunity, and every vote -- from cloture, to the amendments, to final passage -- counts.
Therefore EFF urges all patriots to celebrate the Fourth of July this year by demanding that their senators uphold the rule of law and stand up for civil liberties, by voting against the FAA and for the amendments to the bill that would eliminate or weaken its telecom immunity provisions.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
FISA and Senator Feingold
Very cool - my good friend HC has a Senator that understands the basic issue at stake with the FISA Telecom Immunity provision of the bill - rule of law should never benefit anyone in particular - it should always be unbiased and objective and he's always stood up for that regardless of the bill or inquiry committee he's sat on.
Contact your Senators and let them know what you think about this issue. Telecoms should be heard in court by an unelected judiciary on domestic wiretapping and spying - this should not be legislated away as being ok while the President is using Americans as a test case to un-Constitutionally exceed check and balance authority without judicial review.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Senate Delays Vote on Immunity
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It's official: Thanks to overwhelming grassroots action, and the heroic efforts of Senators Dodd and Feingold, the Senate's vote on whether to grant phone companies immunity from the law for assisting in the President's illegal wiretapping program has been delayed until after July 4th Recess!
This is an unexpected reprieve for civil liberties and the rule of law. As recently as last night, the mainstream press was reporting that the immunity bill would see swift and uncontested approval. Senate Leaders emphasized that passing an immunity bill this week was one of their highest priorities. And yet, in the end, the bill simply wasn't as uncontested and noncontroversial as the pundits and politicans thought it was.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Contact Your Senators
URGENT: Tell The Senate to Vote Against Immunity!
Friday morning, the House voted to pass an unconstitutional bill that would grant immunity from the law to the phone companies that illegally participated in the White House's warrantless wiretapping program.
Now the bill moves to the Senate. Passing it would amount to a Congressional seal of approval on illegal surveillance. The bill would destroy our best chance for a judicial ruling on whether the President can grant corporations permission to break the law with impunity.
Some have called the bill a balanced compromise between extremes, but this is pure spin. In reality, it's nothing less than a complete cave to the phone companies' and White House's demands.
Please contact your Senators, remind them we're watching, and urge them to stand up to the White House and oppose the FISA Amendments Act!
Friday, June 20, 2008
House Vote Today - Contact Your Representative
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URGENT Action Alert: Tell Congress to Vote No on Telecom Immunity!
It all comes down to this! Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which contains the exact same blanket telecom immunity that the Senate passed in February and that the House rejected in March, only with a few new bells and whistles so that political spinsters can claim that it actually provides meaningful court review.
In February, the House stood up for civil liberties and voted against a bill that contained immunity. But now the political landscape has changed, and all signs suggest that the House may be prepared to cave to the White House and vote to pass this bill.
Passing H.R. 6304 would amount to a Congressional seal of approval on illegal surveillance. Even if the President and the telecoms knowingly and brazenly broke the law, the provision in the bill seeks to prevent the courts from holding them accountable. Yet, the suits against the telecoms may be our last hopes for a judicial ruling on whether the President can break the law with impunity.
Please contact your Senators and Congressperson to remind them that we're watching, and that we won't accept any false compromises on immunity for lawbreaking telecoms!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Freakshow
2nd song of 13 by The Cure in their slowly accumulating new album. 11 more to go..
Click 'The Cure' below to watch their first single, 'The Only One'.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Foggy
Ryan and the best use of a blog I've seen. I miss it.
(Click the title bar for his song about it all.)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
MGMT on CBS
Clip is busted.
I was absent-mindedly watching Craig Ferguson's "show" last night (as much as anyone can) and I saw this band that was kind of familiar and realized halfway through that it's my beloved MGMT - they looked different and were a bit off their game but they were better live than I imagined them to be. (I also appreciate that Craig doesn't show up on stage after they play - I think that's the lamest trend in talk shows - Letterman was the first and he did it ironically and everyone else followed suit..)
I ran across a high-res version of Time to Pretend if anyone's interested.
I was absent-mindedly watching Craig Ferguson's "show" last night (as much as anyone can) and I saw this band that was kind of familiar and realized halfway through that it's my beloved MGMT - they looked different and were a bit off their game but they were better live than I imagined them to be. (I also appreciate that Craig doesn't show up on stage after they play - I think that's the lamest trend in talk shows - Letterman was the first and he did it ironically and everyone else followed suit..)
I ran across a high-res version of Time to Pretend if anyone's interested.
Monday, June 09, 2008
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