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Terri get’s a few more days, it buys her family and supporters a little more time to save her life.

Schiavo Judge Bars Withdrawal Of Feeding Tube Until Hearing
Michael Schiavo and his attorney, euthanasia advocate George Felos, have been barred from withdrawing the feeding tube from Schiavo’s brain damaged wife until a hearing can be held Wednesday.

Why do starters only go out in the dark of a cold winter night?

Now I’m frozen and was coming down with a bug anyway, not to mention getting home over 2 hours late… Don’t expect much blogging from me tonight, sorry.

Drudge is saying that the NYT is about to report that Rehnquist will be leaving the bench in June at the latest. I think this is a good thing, he needs to concentrate on getting well and the Court needs stability.

Please go reat the whole article, it’s very powerful.

Spirit Daily - Daily spiritual news from around the world
It’s high noon in America when it comes to that disabled Florida woman whose feeding tubes could be removed as early as this week and it is beyond comprehension that a nation could sit back and watch the slow, painful death of a woman who can talk, who is aware, who expresses laughter, who has swallowed on her own, who expresses fear, whose parents love her.

This is not a woman who wants to die; this is a woman who, against all odds, has battled for 14 years now to live — and who has been mysteriously prone to utter the words, “Help me.”

Today is a big day for Terri Schiavo, today a judge decides if she will live or be starved and dehydrated to death. Please keep an eye on Terri’sFight.org and the many Blogs For Terri (many links on the sidebar) and Hyscience for any updates.

This would be a good time to say a little prayer or think a good thought for to the judge so that he may receive the guidance he needs to make the right decision and for Terri and her loved ones.

America has lost one of it’s specialized Sniper/Scouts. this is the kind of brave man that Marquette doesn’t want it’s students to support!

May God Bless this brave solder, a man that gave his life in defense of America…Even those that didn’t support him.

Kim du Toit: Catastrophe

In Memoriam: Sgt. Adam J. Plumondore, USA

UPDATE: This link has been added

I’m posting this because I had the displeasure of knowing this guy on line and several of his victims. It’s great to know that he is paying for his crime, I know how upsetting this was for the people getting all of the police visits.

WebTV 911 ne’er-do-well pleads guilty | The Register
A 44-year-old Louisiana man has pleaded guilty to sending an email attachment which reprogrammed MS’s WebTV service viewers’ computers, causing them to dial 911, the United States Attorney’s Office reports.

David Jeansonne ‘fessed up to two counts of “intentionally damaging protected computers, causing a threat to public safety and losses of over $5,000″ in July 2002. He admitted that “the email attachment contained a hidden computer script that reset the dial-in telephone number in the user’s WebTV box to 9-1-1. Accordingly, the next time the user attempted to log in to WebTV, the computer dialed 9-1-1 instead of the local modem telephone number supplied to the user by WebTV to access its servers in Santa Clara. At least 10 WebTV users reported that the local police either called or visited their residences in response to the unnecessary 9-1-1 calls.”

The offending email - sent to around 20 WebTV subscribers - claimed that the attachment was “harmless computer program that, when executed, changed the display colors seen by the WebTV user on the television screen”.

Jeansonne faces a possible maximum sentence of 10 years’ jail on each count and a $250,000 fine. He is due in court on 14 March for sentencing.

Here’s a story on my personal experience with Ward Churchill when I was a college student.

Little Green Footballs has audio of a Barking Moonbat Congressman still accusing the President of being a draft dodger and says Carl Rove “set-up” Dan Rather.

lgf: Congressman Says Rove Planted CBS Memos
Yesterday Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) hosted a community forum in Ithaca, New York, on The Future Of Social Security.

An LGF operative was present in the audience and happened to be recording as Rep. Hinchey launched into a barking moonbat conspiracy rant worthy of Democratic Underground, telling the audience he believed the fake CBS memos were planted by Karl Rove to discredit Dan Rather, and divert attention from President Bush’s “draft dodging.”

When our operative asked Hinchey if he had evidence for these charges, he first said, “Yes, I do,” but when asked a second time he admitted he did not.

Stop in and check the links.

The Smallest Minority: Can We Blogswarm This?
Jed at Freedomsight found an interesting story. It seems that CNN, in an attempt at exposing the horrible dangers of .50 BMG rifles just committed at least one, and possibly more than one felony. Apparently they purchased a .50 in a private-party transaction from a person in another state. In fact, they might have done it by straw-purchase - that is, they had someone local buy it for them. Those are no-no’s. FEDERAL no-no’s, unless the purchaser has a Federal Firearms License.

This is a good thing! With the Marriage Amendment pushed back, it will mean that we get to vote on it during the high turnout 2006 race and will force Governor Doyle, Herb Kohl and Peg the Lush to take a stance on the issue during their reelection races. It will give their GOP challengers a great issue to run on, maybe we can get TABOR up for this too, if the RINO’s get out of the way!

JS Online: Marriage amendment will wait
Ballots for the April 5 election will include a state constitutional amendment, but it won’t be one addressing gay marriage in Wisconsin.

Last week, the Assembly followed the Senate’s lead and approved a constitutional amendment to change the length of service for certain county officers from two-year to four-year terms.

But lawmakers have said they will miss a Tuesday deadline for getting the marriage amendment ready for the spring ballot, because the Legislature itself won’t have voted on it by then. The amendment would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman and deny recognition of civil unions for same-sex couples.

I still have 50 G Mail accounts available. If anyone wants one of these HUGE 1,000Mb email accounts from Google, please email me and I will send you the invitation.

me.webnuts @ gmail.com
copy & paste and remove the spaces

These accounts are great of you get or save a lot of email or if you just want an email account to post in public while saving your primary email address for personal mail.

With Google giving it’s members more invitations to send out, I think they may be getting ready to make the system public (finally).

Since they quietly decided to make the Churchill speech a ticket holder only event, Jib needs a ticket to the Ward Churchill speech at UW-Whitewater March 1st. If anyone can help, he has his contact info at the BBA.
Badger Blog Alliance: Badger Bleg

Instapundit has a bunch of links for the Condi 08 campaign

Instapundit.com -

I’ve got to get one of these!

I found this great pic at Boots & Sabers, I agree with Owen that one would look more realistic.

Imagine driving down the highway, towing one of these with an Osama Bin laden mask on… This would probably get you arrested because of all the accidents you cause, but it might be worth it

Now I have to find out where to get one!

This is a must read for Wisconsin taxpayers, Doyle is using a state website to campaign for his tax policy, Owen has caught him red handed.

Boots & Sabers: Campaigning with tax dollars
It caught my eye because the email clearly comes from Governor Doyle’s campaign, yet the website to which it directs us is paid for with tax dollars. Furthermore, that website, which was paid for with tax dollars, is clearly being used to wage a political campaign on behalf of Governor Doyle. This is illegal.

In a state where we have several politicians up on felony charges for using their taxpayer-funded staff to do political work, this seems like a pretty cut and dry case of the same thing.

Go to the site to see the email and website.

via Sykes Writes.

This is way too funny!

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH: PARIS HILTON PHONE HACKED; PRIVATE NUMBERS OF STARS FLOOD INTERNET; FBI INVESTIGATES
Private telephone numbers of celebrities have been unleashed on the Internet after an apparent hacking into Paris Hilton’s T-MOBILE SIDEKICK Address Book, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The FBI has opened an investigation into the hack, a government source said.

The DRUDGE REPORT has confirmed the authenticity of many of the unlisted and super-secret numbers: Private phone numbers and email addresses of Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Andy Roddick, Ashlee Simpson, Victoria Gotti, Vin Diesel, Anna Kournikova and many others!

One top star reached Sunday morning expressed total outrage at Paris.

“I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she f**king kept it on her cellphone!” the star explained.

A website posted the digits over the weekend, with the message: “I’m Sorry Bitch GG FGT SLT BTCH! HACKED BY THE NIGGAS AT DFNCTSC”

Also splashed in the hack, Paris Hilton’s private notes, listed by date.

From Hollywood to Vegas to New York — and back, Paris Hilton’s notes, road directions, hotel and airline preferences are exposed.

Developing…

Filed By Matt Drudge

And this is not the first time T-Mobile has been hacked

We have maybe 2 inches of snow on the ground, we will get maybe another 2 or 3 over the course of the day, it’s in the low 30’s and WTMJ 4 is going wall to wall storm coverage! My God! THIS IS WISCONSIN! It snows here, it’s not even a big storm, I’m sitting here laughing my butt off!

A reporterette just told us how warm it is and we should go sledding today Don’t drive, but go sledding LOL

Travel times on the freeway is… and added 1 to 2 minutes! WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS? The roads are wet, not even snow covered, not even the side streets, just a little slush!

Oh no, it’s a wet heavy snow! Only 2 inches, but it’s wet!

WOW, no delays at the airport after this massive snow…. God, I can’t stop laughing!

The troops are going to love this! Rush Limbaugh will spend next week in Afghanistan, He wants to deliver our message to the troops! Stop in and listen to him announce it.

This is great news! Saddam Hussein cut off the water to an entire region in Iraq to retaliate against the people in the area. In doing this, he destroyed much if Iraq’s agriculture and 500,000 people were displaced as the 8,000 sq. miles turned to desert.

USATODAY.com - Iraq’s legendary Garden of Eden marsh faces restoration
Water and new life are returning to an ancient Iraqi marsh considered by many as the cradle of Western civilization.

Saddam Hussein drained the area after the 1991 Gulf War to retaliate against the people who had lived there for thousands of years. International and Iraqi experts are now restoring it.

For more than 5,000 years, the Marsh Arab culture thrived in the 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The marshes boasted hundreds of species of birds and fish, and periodic flooding created fertile farm lands.

As regular readers know, I am a proud member of the Terri Schiavo Blogroll, I’m happy to say, the list is growing! There were only a few blogs on it when I started, there are now over 100 Bloggers in the fight!

Blogs For Terri has a lot of the latest information, links and contact information.

We WILL save Terri!

As usual, the best part is at the end, here are the last few paragraphs of this story from Great Britain. They have the same problem with a liberal media shutting out the conservative viewpoints, but the Blogosphere to the rescue!

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Bloggers will rescue the right

…But the blogosphere will become a force in Britain, and it could ignite many new forces of conservatism. The internet’s automatic level playing field gives conservatives opportunities that mainstream media have often denied them.

An online community of bloggers performs the same function as yesteryear’s town meetings. Through the tradition of town hall meetings, officials were held to account by local people. Blogger communities are going to be much more powerful. They will draw together not only local people but patients who have waited and waited for NHS care. They will organise parents of disabled children who oppose Labour’s closure of special-needs schools and evangelical Christians who see their beliefs caricatured by ignorant commentators.

All this should put the fear of God into the metropolitan elites. For years there have been widening gaps between the governing class and the governed and between the publicly funded broadcasters and the broadcasted to.

Until now voters, viewers and service users have not had easy mechanisms by which to expose officialdom’s errors and inefficiencies. But, because of the internet, the masses beyond the metropolitan fringe will soon be on the move. They will expose the lazy journalists who reduce every important public policy issue to how it affects opinion-poll ratings.

Tired of being spoon-fed their politics, British voters will soon be calling virtual town hall meetings, and they will take a serious look at the messenger as well as the message. It’s going to be very rough.

Karl Rove is right. The internet could do more to change the level of political engagement than all the breast-beating of introspective politicians and commentators. A 21st century political revolution is now only a few mouse clicks away.

Just a funny 20 second news clip that made me laugh.

OpinionJournal - Extra
Sixty years ago today, more than 110,000 Americans and 880 ships began their assault on a small volcanic island in the Pacific, in the climactic battle of the last year of World War II. For the next 36 days Iwo Jima would become the most populous 7 1/2 square miles on the planet, as U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers fought a battle that would test American resolve even more than D-Day or the Battle of the Bulge had, and that still symbolizes a free society’s willingness to make the sacrifice necessary to prevail over evil-a sacrifice as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.

Thank GOD It’s Friday!

Little or no blogging tonight…unless I get my second wind after some dinner and a nap

Does Alderman Mike McGee Jr. realize how bad he is hurting the cause of Frank Jude Jr.? Does he care?

Jude is the man brutally beaten, allegedly by off duty police officers. McGee seems to have forgotten that this case is about getting justice for Jude, it’s not about Mike McGee Jr. His flat out racist and bigoted comments have turned off a lot of Jude’s supporters, even the Journal has called for his apology.

McGee is now calling for a boycott of Grand Ave. and Midtown (formerly Capitol Court) Malls, but how is harming businesses going to help Jude? How will this foolish action make the inept D.A. file charges faster?

Personally, I don’t think McGee cares a bit about Jude, this is all about proving that he can be as persuasive / destructive a force as his father was. We deserve better than anger, racism and bigotry from out elected city officials! He has refused to apologize for his comments, even the “sick faggots” comment. The rally that McGee held was a good idea, it could have been a very positive thing, but McGee took it into the gutter with his hateful rhetoric. He went from being a community leader and became a demagogue

Why are these people holding a rally? The police shot this guy, BUT HE SHOT AT THE COPS FIRST! What are they supposed to do, let this guy shoot at police until he runs out of ammo?

I think these folks seen the results the rally for Frank Jude Jr. got, but this is totally different, this guy SHOT AT POLICE!

JS Online: Rally decries fatal shooting by police
More than 600 people marched about a mile in the cold Thursday to protest last month’s fatal police shooting of a mentally ill man after he shot at officers entering his home.

Lo Neng Kiatoukaysy, executive director of the Hmong American Friendship Association Inc., and one of the organizers of the protest, said the Hmong community has been outraged over the shooting of Tou Yang and rallied together as never before to voice concern and seek changes in how police deal with minorities and the mentally ill.

Yang, 36, was shot at his west side home Jan. 20 following a three-hour standoff with police, who said they shot him after he fired at them. Earlier, a social worker had gone to the Hmong man’s home to check on his three children, who had not been attending school or scheduled medical appointments, police said. Yang’s uncle, Norman Kong, said Yang was a paranoid schizophrenic and was afraid that he, his children and other Hmong would be killed.

Sounds like news to me… Go read the whole thing, but here is a teaser that Kevin has reported at Lakeshore Laments

Lakeshore Laments: Thursday Quick Hits

At the Lincoln Day dinner Saturday night, I was informed by State Senator Joe Leibham (R-Sheboygan) that a source inside the City of Sheboygan Clerk’s office reports that Sheboygan never has sent out the registration verification postcards. As anyone who’s been following this story since it broke on 1-15-05, the entire mess got rolling when Rep Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) asked the City of Milwaukee the discrepancy of registration postcards they could not send out. Initially it was 1,000. That soon became 10,000.

Sounds like the MSM is sleeping again.

This dovetails nicely with this from Brainpost, Racine is getting it’s confirmation cards back, with the expected results…

BRAINPOST - Blogging Right ‘On Wisconsin’
313 Racine Voter Registration Postcards Returned - Racine Journal Times
The Racine Journal Times is reporting that 313 of the 5,629 postcards sent to same day registrants in the November 2nd, 2004 general election came back as undeliverable.

Go read the rest, he has more info at Brainpost

Another stinger for the Dem’s and the MSM!

Jobless claims post unexpected fall; lowest level in 4 years
The number of Americans claiming initial jobless benefits fell unexpectedly by 2,000 last week to the lowest level in more than four years as the U.S. labor market continued to strengthen, a government report showed Thursday.

First-time claims for state unemployment insurance aid dropped for the third consecutive time, to 302,000, in the week ended Feb. 12 from 304,000 in the previous week, the Labor Department said. It said there were no special factors to account for the drop in claims.

Last week’s decline marks the lowest level since October 2000, before the economy tipped into recession.

Wall Street economists had expected a rise in claims to 315,000. The surprise fall is likely to boost analyst expectations for February’s broader payroll report, which surveys employers at the same time of the month as last week’s jobless claims report.

Yahoo! News - Sen. Clinton Pushes for Voting Holiday
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible White House candidate in 2008, joined 2004 nominee John Kerry and other Democrats Thursday in urging that Election Day be made a federal holiday to encourage voting.

She also pushed for legislation that would allow all ex-felons to vote.

Standing with Massachusetts Sen. Kerry and other Democrats who had alleged voting irregularities in the 2004 contest, Clinton said, “Once again we had a federal election that demonstrates we have a long way to go.”

“I think it’s also necessary to make sure our elections meet the highest national standards,” said the New York senator.

Someone please remind her that all of the vote fraud has been done on behalf of the Democrats…

In addition to creating a federal holiday for voting, the bill would:

_Require paper receipts for votes.

_Authorize $500 million to help states make the changes in voting systems and equipment.

_Allow ex-felons to vote. Currently an estimated 4.7 million Americans are barred from voting because of their criminal records.

_Require adoption of the changes in time for the 2006 election.

Boxer said the bill “is meant to ensure the election debacle of 2000, and the serious election irregularities of 2004, never ever happen again.”

Both parties have called for changes to ensure a more accurate vote count. Republican efforts have centered on reducing voter fraud, while Democrats have called for making access to the ballot box easier and simpler.

I’m still skeptical, you can’t cut taxes by spending more, but here is John Gard on the air with Charlie Sykes explaining the GOP plan. Sounds like Charlie isn’t sold either…Where is Gard & the GOP going to get the new K-12 school spending cash? I’ll take this over Doyle’s joke of a budget plan, but we MUST get spending under control!

Freeze It, Fix It… TABOR!

Interesting info from Spivak & Bice, this is the first time I heard anyone in the administration not totally backing Artison.

The only thing less clear than when embattled city elections chief Lisa Artison will return from an extended medical absence is whether Mayor Tom Barrett wants her back.

Artison has been off the job since Feb. 1, and Barrett’s chief of staff, Pat Curley, said he doesn’t expect her back next week or anytime soon. Without disclosing what is ailing the city’s top elections official, Curley said Artison may have to undergo surgery for her illness.

All the while, stories about problems about the city’s handling of the November general election continue to pile up each day, prompting City Hall insiders to wonder how long the first-term mayor will stick with Artison, who worked on his 2004 campaign. Artison’s husband, radio-talker Eric Von, was Barrett’s deputy campaign manager.

“It’s up in the air,” said one Barrett appointee. “Everyone is just waiting.”

Said another mayoral backer, “It’s already a bad decision getting worse and worse.”

But Curley, who gave Artison a resounding vote of confidence last year when the news of the election snafus were first surfacing, declined Wednesday to say whether the mayor would welcome her back when she is better.

“We’ll be weighing all the factors involved,” he said when asked about her return.

Told that sounded like a less-than-enthusiastic endorsement, Curley stuck to his pat response: “We’ll be weighing all the factors.”

McCann is now saying charges are coming soon, I guess he’s feeling the heat again. He doesn’t like it when people go over his head to the Feds & State A.G.

JS Online: Charges expected soon in police beating case
McCann sees ‘progress’ in long investigation

Serve your time and shut up you criminal, you stole from poor people!

JS Online: George seeks early release
Former state Sen. Gary R. George is pushing on two fronts for early release from the federal minimum-security prison in Duluth, Minn., where he is serving four years for taking kickbacks.

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“No one can say I have not suffered in this,” George wrote in an eight-page, handwritten letter dated Jan. 27 to federal Judge Rudolph T. Randa. “The damage to my public reputation, with the federal case and the yearlong recall (election), I will never recover from.”

George lost a recall election in 2003 after serving 23 years in the Legislature, including an eight-year stint as chairman of the powerful Joint Finance Committee.

“Those days are over now. I am not going to be in a position to serve and do not want to be,” George wrote.

Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have frozen some of the assets of the $600,000 sale of a U.S. Virgin Islands television station that was controlled by George. The money would be applied to restitution George was ordered to pay.

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Federal prosecutors also are attempting to seize a portion of the value of a lakefront home in Grafton to help pay the restitution George owes. He originally bought the home with his then-wife in 1990 then put it in his parents’ names in 1994. But George continued to use it, according to former George senate staffers.

A document filed in court describes “money laundering transactions” by George and family members involving a $545,000 loan taken out on the home in late 2003, when George had been charged but not yet tried in the federal case.

“George and his mother took steps to put more than $300,000 in equity in the Grafton home beyond the reach of the government by encumbering the title with a new $545,000 mortgage,” IRS Agent Jill Gehring stated in an affidavit.

Welcome to the Greatest Nation on Earth!

Yahoo! News - Alanis Morissette Becomes U.S. Citizen
The 30-year-old singer was among some 4,500 people who took the citizenship oath during a ceremony last week at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Morissette isn’t turning her back on Canada %u2014 she’s maintaining dual citizenship.

“I will never renounce my Canadian citizenship,” Morissette said in a statement Wednesday. “I consider myself a Canadian-American.

“There was a turning point during the ceremony where I felt connected to this country in a way that I didn’t quite expect,” she said. “America has been really great to me and I have felt welcomed since the day I came here.”

Tonight is the first night of the new season of Survivor, and since I am addicted, blogging will be light tonight

If anyone is interested, we chat a bit about Survivor at Web-Nuts, here is this weeks topic, feel free to register and join in the fun.

We now see where Ritter’s loyalties truly are. He is writing for the anti-American Al-Jazeera.

A Critic’s Defeatist Rhetoric
Not all Marines take pride in the work of their brothers.

Take Scott Ritter (search), a former Marine and United Nations weapons inspector, who has turned into a critic of just about anything the U.S. does in Iraq. Now he’s writing for Al-Jazeera’s Web site, which seems like a perfect home for his defeatist rhetoric.

According to Mr. Ritter, “The highly vaunted U.S. military machine, laurelled and praised for its historic march on Baghdad (search) in March and April of 2003, today finds itself a broken force, on the defensive in a land that it may occupy in part, but does not control.”

Offering no proof whatsoever, Mr. Ritter accuses the U.S. of conspiring with Iraqi assassination squads (search), and that, not foreign terrorists or former Saddam officials, is what started the post-war violence in Iraq: “Having started the game of politically motivated assassination, the U.S. has once again found itself trumped by forces inside Iraq it does not understand, and as such will never be able to defeat.”

As for the enemy, which he calls a “genuine grassroots national liberation movement,” Ritter is generous: “History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.”

Via Michelle Malkin

COWARDS! How can you NOT call Hezbollah a terrorist organization? But the French seem to be afraid to call a spade a spade!
Story via Charlie Sykes

Europeans not keen on branding Hezbollah as terrorist group
The United States’ European allies are resisting President George Bush administrations’ efforts to label Lebanon-based Shiite group Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

“The disagreement over Hezbollah presents another challenge for President Bush, who will go to Europe on Sunday on a mission to fix ruptures with Europe over the Iraq war,” the New York Times reported quoting American and European officials “In the past two weeks,” the officals were quoted as saying, “France has rebuffed appeals by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Israeli foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, which would prevent it from raising money in Europe through charity groups.” The United States has long called Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but the French have opposed doing so, and argue that making such a designation now would be unwise, given the new turbulence in Lebanon, the officials told the paper.

The United States is already stepping up pressure on Iran and Syria, Hezbollah’s main sponsors. The American rift with Syria deepened this week, with suspicions that Syria might have been behind the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister in Beirut on Monday.

The Europeans, officials told the paper, are not solidly opposed to listing Hezbollah as a terrorist group. The Netherlands, Italy and Poland support the US view, several officials said, while Germany and Britain believe the issue is moot unless the French change their minds.

In this post, Jib asks, “is it possible that we’ve turned a corner on Iraq coverage? Has the media finally grown bored of bashing the Bush administration over the head with Iraq?”

I don’t think bored is the best way to put it, I think they have finally realized that this is a loosing issue for them, it has made them look bad in the eyes of the American people and they have suffered from it. They will still bash Bush with it if/when they can, but as he stated, they have moved on to other issues, namely Social Security. This is a topic they have used for decades to bash Republicans with, what we have seen so far is just a warm-up for what is to come from them.

I think that if the media were smart, they would pick an issue that divided the GOP like the national ID card that OnTheBorderline has posted about, this has a lot of people on the right split…including me. I know the drivers license has become our de facto ID card, but I keep getting this vision from the world war 2 movies of the Nazi demanding “papers” from people…We need to do something here, is the national card the way to go?

I have to head out for work…I’ll think about these questions and try to follow up on these thoughts tonight

HOW can this happen?

if you live in California you will get a notice if your info was compromised, the rest of us have to find out the hard way I guess…

Thousands of Californians could be at risk for identity theft after hackers penetrated the computer network for ChoicePoint. That company collects and sells names, social security numbers, credit reports and other sensitive information to government agencies, as well as other companies.

ChoicePoint says several hackers broke into its database and stole information about 35-thousand Californians. Hundreds of thousands of other Americans may also be at risk. But there’s a state law requiring companies doing business inside California to notify residents of security problems when there are potential security problems caused by hackers. Other states are considering similar laws. And California Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced federal legislation for a national version of the California law.

Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the U.S. and more than 9.9 million Americans were victims last year, costing a total of $5 billion.

LGF is reporting that the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was a “message” to Jacques Chirac.

lgf: A Warning from Syria to France
Some French “commentators” are saying that the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was a warning from Syria to Jacques Chirac.

“You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room?,” Dean asked to laughter. “Only if they had the hotel staff in here.”
- Howard Dean

Check LaShawn’s reaction:
La Shawn Barber’s Corner � Howard Dean: Emboldened White Liberal of the Week

Go check Sykes Writes for the details

GOP HAS NEW FREEZE PLAN
Proving that politics, like physics, is governed by Newton’s Third Law of Motion — “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction” — legislative Republicans have responded to Governor Doyle’s “freeze” with an even tougher one of their own.

Professor McAdams from Marquette Warrior reports that the University has apologized for the professor that used a Nazi comment to “get back” at the Republican group that was raising money for the Adopt A Sniper program. As Charlie Sykes asks, “But will the JS ever write a story about it?”

Marquette Warrior: Marquette Apologizes for “Sniper/Nazi” jibe
When an Engineering professor equated American Snipers with Nazis, and implied that Republicans support Nazis, several students complained, including especially a Jewish student who particularly resented the trivilization of real Nazism. Marquette has been reasonably responsive for forthright on this issue. Today, the University issued a statement about the incident:

Go read the whole story and the other info on his Blog. He gives a great insiders look at Marquette.

Hey Kerry, you say now that we would be better off if we would have done the things that you proposed…But during the campaign, you refused to propose anything saying that you didn’t have all the facts. But you did claim to have a secret plan to win the war. Even Paul Harvey sarcastically asked why you wouldn’t tell us this secret plan for the good of the American people…We know why, because you didn’t have one…And you still don’t!

Sen. Kerry Touts His Military Proposals
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who lost to President Bush in an election focused on national security, said Tuesday the country would be “far better off” with his proposals for Iraq and the military.

“I think my security proposals for the country were smack on, dead on,” Kerry said. “I think that had they started to do the things I proposed on Iraq when I proposed them, we would be far better off today. And they are in fact now trying to do some of the things that I proposed.

The Massachusetts senator, meeting with defense reporters, discussed legislation he plans to introduce to permanently increase the size of the military and boost benefits for military families. It’s largely the same proposal that Kerry put forth during the campaign. Several similar proposals also are being floated in Congress.

Reflecting on the presidential campaign, Kerry said he had proposed “a far more effective way to make America safer.” And, he said, he was “way ahead of the curve” on several areas - like the position of an intelligence chief, the creation of the commission to investigate the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and an increase in the military death gratuity - while “the president dragged his feet.”

“Americans accepted that I could be the commander in chief,” he said. “What they were unwilling to do was shift commanders in midstream.”

No, the American People didn’t decide that you could be Commander in Chief, they decided that you were another dangerous liberal.

That’s right W! You won, now remind the Dem’s that you are a leader! Let them filibuster if they dare, if they do, take it right to the American people!

Bush Sends Senate 20 Judicial Nominees
President Bush on Monday sent the Senate 20 judicial nominees, including several who were blocked in his first term, signaling a new fight with Democrats.

“Every judicial nominee deserves a prompt hearing and an up-or-down vote on the floor of the United States Senate,” Bush said at the swearing in of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The Democrats’ ability to stall White House picks for the federal bench was one of the most contentious issues of Bush’s first term. With a Senate comprised of 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats and a Democrat-leaning independent, Democrats still have the 40 votes necessary to uphold a filibuster.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has threatened to try to change Senate rules to force confirmation votes if Democrats carry out their filibuster threats.

“We need to restore the tradition of giving advice and consent, and that means having a nominee coming from the president to us with majority support be allowed a vote, an up-or-down vote _ vote against, vote for, but allowed a vote,” he said on Fox News Sunday.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., called Bush’s renominations regrettable

‘ol Splash Kennedy keeps forgetting that he is irrelevant, your side lost Teddy!

While I disagree with Specter on many things, I wish him the best on his fight with Hodgkin’s Diease.

NBC10.com - News - Arlen Specter Has Hodgkin’s Disease
United States Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) has announced that he has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, in a press release from his office Wednesday afternoon.

In a press release, Specter, 75, said he had experienced persistent fevers and enlarged lymph nodes under his left arm and above his left clavicle.

The statement said Specter received testing on February 14 at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. The testing involved biopsy of a lymph node and biopsy of bone marrow.

The lymph node was positive for Hodgkin’s disease. The bone marrow biopsy showed no cancer. A follow up PET scan and MRI established Specter has stage IVB Hodgkin’s disease, the statement said.

Hodgkin’s disease is a cancer of the lymph system. Approximately 7500 new cases are diagnosed every year in the United States.

His office said Specter is expected to receive chemotherapy over the next 24 to 32 weeks and he is expected to be able to perform all duties, including chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Senator Specter’s Hodgkin’s disease has a five-year survival rate of 70%. He is in superb physical condition, particularly in light of his daily squash regimen, ” said Specter’s oncologist, Dr. John H. Glick.

More waste in Wisconsin.

The Department of Corrections has asked the Department of Administration to consider 29 wardens and superintendents exempt from having to pay for their commutes to and from work. We have one prison warden that lives 100 miles from her job and and the state pays $1,300 a month!

If they are on call all the time and may have to come in at odd hours…WHY WOULD THEY ALLOW HER TO LIVE 2 HOURS AWAY?

Wisconsin, WISE UP! We are being ripped off, we must control our state and local governments now!

JS Online: Taxpayers paying for wardens’ miles
Eight months after receiving new rules saying state workers have to pay for personal miles they put on state vehicles, prison wardens still are not reimbursing taxpayers for that travel.

According to a Department of Administration policy issued in June, employees are required to pay for their commutes and other personal travel. Exceptions are made only for state troopers and fire safety personnel who are on call 24 hours a day.

The Department of Corrections has asked the Department of Administration to consider 29 wardens and superintendents exempt from having to pay for their commutes because, like troopers, they are on call 24 hours a day and operate vehicles that have specialized communications equipment.

This “specialized communications equipment”… A cell phone? Maybe a 2-way radio?

Sean from The American Mind is at the CPAC convention this week, where he will be an official Blogger! Also check CPAC Bloggers for more info.

I haven’t said anything about the NHL Lockout because I have no interest, but I have noticed that my friends that are hockey fans don’t seem to care either.

My suggestion is to the Players Union is to end this strike before the start of next season, the owners seem to be ready to lock them out next year too, they have no leverage…You have lost, now take what you can get or be prepared to go to work in the real world.

We just don’t care

Tensions are raising yet again as Iran says it will back Syria after the US pulled it’s Ambassador after the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The US has stopped short of blaming the Syrians, but the message is clear.

Iran to aid Syria against threats
Iran has vowed to back Syria against “challenges and threats” as both countries face strong US pressure.

“We are ready to help Syria on all grounds to confront threats,” Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Aref said after meeting Syrian PM Naji al-Otari.

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US tensions with Syria soared after Monday’s killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a bombing, although Washington has not directly accused Damascus of responsibility.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Senate foreign affairs committee hearing the decision to recall the ambassador was a culmination of a “long series of problems” with Syria - notably allegations that Damascus has harboured Iraqi insurgents and allowed them to cross into Iraq to fight against US troops.

This combined with the Reuters article that states:

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, whose country regards Iran as one of its most dangerous enemies, said Tehran was “trying very hard to develop the nuclear bomb.”

“The question is not if the Iranians will have a nuclear bomb in 2009, 10 or 11, the main question is when are they going to have the knowledge to do it,” he told reporters during a visit to London.

“We believe in six months from today they will end all the tests and experiments they are doing to have that knowledge.”

While Europe has pursued a policy of engagement with Iran, the United States and Israel have taken a more aggressive stance. Washington has said it favors diplomacy but does not rule out any option, and Israel has hinted at possible military action.

Something is going to happen sooner rather than later…

Via Powerline we learn that Fox News host, Tony Snow has cancer.

WISHING TONY SNOW A SPEEDY RECOVERY!
FOX News Radio host and FNC commentator Tony Snow annonuced yesterday that he has been diagnosed with colon cancer.

“Friday after I got off the air, my doctor informed me that he had found a small, cancerous lesion inside my colon…As soon as possible, I’m going to go in and get that sucker out.”

Bloggers have become a force.

Power Line: Legislating with bloggers in mind
Senator John Cornyn of Texas (along with Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont) has introduced legislation to overhaul the U.S. Freedom of Information Act in order to improve the public’s access to information about the federal government. Mark Tapscott of the Heritage Foundation says that Senator Cornyn and his staff had bloggers in mind while drafting the legislation. Indeed, when he introduced his proposal on the Senate floor, Cornyn mentioned blogs:

Go check the full article!

The upcoming race for the Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction will have a clear choice, Linda Burmaster is the incumbent, bought and paid for by WEAC and the other state teachers unions. The challenger, Republican State Assemblyman Greg Underheim. Underheim is a long time supporter of school choice and wants to raise the caps that allow poor students to attend the schools of their parents choice.

Listen to an interview done today by 620WTMJ’s Jeff Wagner.

Iran wants to shoot down our Predator UAV’s, I would have no problem shadowing the Predators with a few F-15’s with maybe an EF-111 tagging along to jam Iranian radar. When the Iranian Air Force (what’s left of it) makes a move, they would know nothing until the first AMRAM’s left the rail…But I’m a bit hawkish on this subject

JS Online: News:
Iran’s intelligence chief on Wednesday accused the United States of flying spy drones over its nuclear sites and threatened to shoot down the unmanned surveillance crafts.

Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi comments backed a report in The Washington Post on Sunday that quoted unidentified U.S. officials as saying the drones have been flying over Iran for nearly a year to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs.

“U.S. spying activities over Iranian airspace have been going since a long time ago,” Yunesi told reporters.

“Most of the shining objects that our people see in Iran’s airspace are American spying equipment used to spy on Iran’s nuclear and military facilities,” the minister told reporters.

JS Online: 5 must stand trial in tire-slashing
Concluding a preliminary hearing that stretched over two weeks, Circuit Court Commissioner Barry Phillips ruled that the slashing of 40 tires on Republican get-out-the-vote vehicles, mostly vans, probably merits felony charges against the five men suspected of doing it, including two sons of prominent Milwaukee Democratic politicians.

JS Online: Internal probe of beating on hold
Milwaukee police have not launched an internal investigation into the beating of Frank Jude Jr. for fear it could jeopardize criminal charges in the case, a department official said Tuesday.

The strategy, standard practice by the department, drew fire from law enforcement experts who said it was overly cautious and could undermine public trust in the department during a critical time.

Jude was severely beaten Oct. 24 in the Bay View neighborhood by 12 men who, witnesses said, had identified themselves as off-duty police officers.

Officers said Jude stole a badge and resisted arrest, which witnesses dispute. The criminal investigation has been hampered by officers who aren’t telling all they know, District Attorney E. Michael McCann has said.

It doesn’t affect the criminal investigation. That is a flat-out easy excuse to tell people who don’t know any better, because it happens all the time.

- Wayne Schmidt,
Attorney who teaches seminars on policing

It’s not over yet…

The CBS Three Won’t Slink Off; Hiring Lawyers
On Jan. 10, when the 224-page report on the investigation into CBS News’ 60 Minutes Wednesday memo scandal arrived, CBS president Leslie Moonves issued a statement dwelling on the failures of the employees involved in producing the disputed segment.

Prominent among the targets was executive producer Josh Howard. Mr. Howard, Mr. Moonves said, “did little to assert his role as the producer ultimately responsible for the broadcast and everything in it. This mistake dealt a tremendous blow to the credibility of 60 Minutes Wednesday and to CBS News in general.”

The producer, he wrote, had been asked to resign, and the network was “taking a variety of actions to put this crisis behind us.”

Five weeks later, the crisis is not yet behind Mr. Moonves. And far from resolving the problem of the network%u2019s credibility, the independent report commissioned by CBS appears instead to be leading to a confrontation, with defenders of both the ousted CBS staffers involved in the debacle and top CBS management asserting two different truths from the same document.

THIS IS NOT A RIGHT TO DIE CASE! IT IS A RIGHT TO MURDER CASE!

I have been following this case for several years on my message board, growing more and more frustrated… This woman is NOT in a persistent vegetative state

Persistent vegetative state means a permanent and irreversible condition of unconsciousness in which there is:

(a) The absence of voluntary action or cognitive behavior of ANY kind.
(b) An inability to communicate or interact purposefully with the environment.

Terri’s behavior does not meet the medical or statutory definition of persistent vegetative state. Terri responds to stimuli, tries to communicate verbally, follows limited commands, laughs or cries in interaction with loved ones, physically distances herself from irritating or painful stimulation and watches loved ones as they move around her. None of these behaviors are simple reflexes and are, instead, voluntary and cognitive. Though Terri has limitations, she does interact purposefully with her environment.

Go watch the movies of Terri, she is NOT a “houseplant” as her husband’s lawyer called her!

Her husband got the money to care for her, he agreed to spend it to care for her, but three months later, Michael Schiavo denies recommended rehabilitation treatment. He now has a new family and is waiting for Terri to die. All she needs is a feeding tube, this has never before been considered extreme lifesaving treatment like a respirator would be. There are many specialists that say with treatment she can be helped, treatment that her husband has refused to allow since 1993, 3 months after getting the money. The experts say she could probably learn eat on her own but a judge blocked even a test of giving her jello to see if she can swallow on her own.

Watching this man kill his wife with the help of a few activist judges is so frustrating. Governor Jeb Bush has tried to enact law to save her, but we know how judges make their own law! Even Pope John Paul II issued a proclamation in March 2004 stating that the removal of food and hydration from a patient in Terri’s condition was against the teachings of the Catholic Church. A motion was presented to Judge Greer stating Terri was a practicing Catholic and she would not violate the Pope’s teaching by orally declaring to be starved to death. Judge Greer ruled the Church’s teachings have no effect on Terri’s case…NO EFFECT?

Please visit Terri’sFight.org and watch the videos of her interacting with people, see her light up when her mom walks into the room, then tell me she is a “houseplant”!

CNN.com - Judge won’t set aside Shiavo ruling
A judge in a contentious right-to-die battle has refused to reconsider his ruling allowing a man to remove the feeding tube keeping his brain-damaged wife alive.

Circuit Court Judge George Greer rejected arguments by Terri Schiavo’s parents that their daughter’s due process rights were violated because she never had her own attorney.

Schiavo’s parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have waged a long fight in several courts to prevent their daughter’s husband, Michael, from removing the feeding tube.

Friday’s decision could pave the way for the tube to be removed in the coming weeks. A stay preventing the removal is to be lifted February 22, according to Michael Schiavo’s lawyer.

I seen a link on another blog, something like Blogs For Terri, I need to find that again and sign up, we can not let this woman be killed!

UPDATE
I found the post I was looking for, it’s at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. I have joined the blog roll and all that good stuff!

UPDATE: Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 22:26:24
La Shawn Barber has joined us in our fight to save Terri!

Also, check the Terri’s Fight blogroll on the side bar.

Go here and check out the video of Kudlow & Company with Hugh Hewitt, Jonh Hinderaker & Glenn Reynolds as they discuss the Blogosphere investigation of the Eason Jordan case.

Cox & Forkum: Pajamas at the Gate

You’ve Got To Be Joking!

After what Carter did to our military, they are going to give him this great honor?

I will always remember 444!

Navy to Commission Attack Submarine Jimmy Carter
Special release from the U.S. Department of Defense

WASHINGTON (NNS) — The Navy will commission its newest nuclear-powered attack submarine Jimmy Carter on Saturday, Feb. 19, during an 11 a.m. EST ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Conn.