By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 10:47 PM
![]() Buh? In the Wyoming democratic primary, we’ve got the incumbent facing some opposition. Not news there. News? The opposition is a convicted felon. Of what? Oh, just election fraud.
Hamburg, 74, was convicted of election fraud in 1989, but his voting rights were restored in 2003. He is eligible to run for public office, but would be ineligible to hold public office if actually elected. In a recent interview, Hamburg said that if he beats Freudenthal in the primary, he intends to launch a civil rights lawsuit seeking to be declared eligible to hold office.
This is like being convicted of cheating at a casino and trying to get the right to gamble again. If this guy can’t see the problem with running for office when he got convicted of election fraud, I don’t think he’s smart enough to hold office anyway.
[tags]democrat, governor, election, fraud[/tags]
By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 08:35 PM
![]() Remember Jose Padilla? The Al Qaeda in America terrorist, arrested in 2002, held for a while without charges, then got hit with multiple terrorism-related charges. His arrest was a firestorm, and most people wanted to burn him at the stake immediately. Now there’s a problem, it looks like he was “over-charged”.
All three charges related to one conspiracy to support terrorism overseas, Judge Cooke said.
“Charging the defendants with a single offense multiple times is violative of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment,” she wrote in a decision dated Friday and released on Monday.
Obviously he’s still being charged, and if he’s guilty he’ll still get a hefty sentence. However, his maximum sentence will be dropped from life to 20 years. Anyone want to take bets that the prosecution used the overlapping charges just to get him a life sentence? After all…
Mr. Padilla, a one-time gang member in Chicago who converted to Islam, was linked in 2002 to a reported plot to detonate a “dirty bomb” on American streets. He was declared an enemy combatant and held in a brig in South Carolina for three and a half years without being charged. The Justice Department, facing a deadline, decided in November to prosecute him in federal court on unrelated terrorism charges.
The case just screams of “holy crap it’s a terrorist we gotta make sure he fries”. Now, the most peculiar thing is that he was linked to the dirty bomb plot, but held without charge for a few years. After that, he was charged for something ELSE. Gee, looks like that link wasn’t as strong as it seemed before.
[tags]jose padilla, terrorism, al qaeda[/tags]
By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 07:33 PM
Now I’m not web-comic guy, nor are my artistic skills very good. Still, I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if our president had another job…
Hmmm…
[tags]bush, comic[/tags]
By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 05:41 PM
![]() …isn’t planning on blowing up the planet. Actually, they’ve expressed interests in having more talks concerning their nuclear ambitions. They didn’t say whether or not they will be willing to stop enriching uranium, but while this means they might not, it also means they might. Here’s the problem I see:
European Union officials declined to comment, saying they needed to study the Iranian offer.
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At U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said the United States is prepared to quickly submit elements of a new Security Council resolution that would impose economic sanctions on Iran if it does not accept “the very, very generous offer” from the five permanent council members and Germany.
The EU are going to take a look at the deal, Bolton is saying that unless Iran doesn’ 100% comply with the “incentives” package, then there’s no discussions going to happen. I’m sure that won’t foster resentment that’ll lead to an ugly conclusion.
[tags]iran, european union, united nations, uranium, nuclear[/tags]
By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 06:18 AM
![]() Okay, that’s it. I’m outta here. Stop the country, I’m done. Bush has made it official what his exit strategy for Iraq is. There isn’t one, and he’s not gonna make one.
“Either you say, ‘Yes it’s important we stay there and get it done,’ or we leave,” Bush argued. “We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president. That would be a huge mistake.”
He even makes sure to say that if we left Iraq, it would embolden Iran. Does this guy like using country A to bridge into a war in country B or what? And then came this.
BUSH: What did Iraq: have to do with what?
QUESTION: The attack on the World Trade Center.
BUSH: Nothing, except for it’s part of — and nobody’s ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq: was a — Iraq: — the lesson of September the 11th is take threats before they fully materialize, Ken.
If there were a way for me to scream more adequately aside from making a long-string of A’s, I would. Under no circumstances can we let Bush and the redcoats rewrite history. The invasion of Iraq was based on two things. Saddam HAD Weapons of Mass Destruction, and there was a connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda.
He tries to lawyer his way out by saying Saddam was a threat, and that he had aspirations to have WMDs, but with the yellowcake crap, the biolabs “evidence”, and Rummy himself saying we FOUND them, the bottom line is the only reason Americans supported the Iraq War was because of claims that they had WMDs and connections to Al Qaeda. I hate to be repetitive, but this needs to be hammered in.
Of course, the most glaring problem with Bush’s statement is that the greater threats from the Axis of Evil went untouched and Osama is still alive.
[tags]al qaeda, iraq, bush, wmds, terrorism, 9/11[/tags]
![]() Okay, that’s it. I’m outta here. Stop the country, I’m done. Bush has made it official what his exit strategy for Iraq is. There isn’t one, and he’s not gonna make one.
“Either you say, ‘Yes it’s important we stay there and get it done,’ or we leave,” Bush argued. “We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president. That would be a huge mistake.”
He even makes sure to say that if we left Iraq, it would embolden Iran. Does this guy like using country A to bridge into a war in country B or what? And then came this.
BUSH: What did Iraq: have to do with what?
QUESTION: The attack on the World Trade Center.
BUSH: Nothing, except for it’s part of — and nobody’s ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq: was a — Iraq: — the lesson of September the 11th is take threats before they fully materialize, Ken.
If there were a way for me to scream more adequately aside from making a long-string of A’s, I would. Under no circumstances can we let Bush and the redcoats rewrite history. The invasion of Iraq was based on two things. Saddam HAD Weapons of Mass Destruction, and there was a connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda.
He tries to lawyer his way out by saying Saddam was a threat, and that he had aspirations to have WMDs, but with the yellowcake crap, the biolabs “evidence”, and Rummy himself saying we FOUND them, the bottom line is the only reason Americans supported the Iraq War was because of claims that they had WMDs and connections to Al Qaeda. I hate to be repetitive, but this needs to be hammered in.
Of course, the most glaring problem with Bush’s statement is that the greater threats from the Axis of Evil went untouched and Osama is still alive.
[tags]al qaeda, iraq, bush, wmds, terrorism, 9/11[/tags]
By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 05:55 AM
![]() I think I’m going to scrap the forum and go back to putting one of these up every so often. So with that in mind, you have a few missions.
One, tell me what you think of the new site. Two, make sure you point all of your links and subscriptions here. Three, if you don’t HAVE any subscriptions here, get ‘em.
Also, for any CSS whizzed out there, I’m having a hard time getting a break clear past the images here without it going all the way down to the bottom of the left sidebar. Advice?
By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 05:15 AM
![]() It finally happened. I had previously indicated my skepticism concerning the actual threat about these guys. Well they finally got arrested, and do I feel like we really dodged another 9/11? Not really.
They had found bomb-making equipment, chemicals including hydrogen peroxide, electrical components and documents, [Peter Clarke, head of London police's anti-terrorist branch,] said.
Now truthfully, this sounds scary. But I have electrical stuff in my house, and I have a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. If you want to prove that something is a terrifying threat, you say something dangerous that was found. Nitro glycerine, for example. It doesn’t get much more terrifying, either.
A 17-year-old man was charged with possessing items useful to a terrorist, including a book on home-made bombs, suicide notes, wills “with the identities of persons prepared to commit acts of terrorism” and a map of Afghanistan, prosecutors said.
I’m dubious about these wills, and the only thing that makes me scratch my head more is the fact that they would entrust useful items in the hands of a 17 year old. All of the notes and wills? The book? They all are held by a kid?
With everything that comes out of this, these guys look like Miami 7 style wannabes who probably would have tripped over their own shoelaces on the way to the airport. I’m glad they got arrested, I don’t think anyone who’s actively trying to attack the US should be allowed to go ahead doing it in the off-chance that they DO succeed, but that doesn’t mean I buy at all that this was a real threat.
Of course, Bush’s ratings got a one-shot boost, so it looks like the threat did its job.
[tags]terrorism, britain, plot, airlines[/tags]
![]() It finally happened. I had previously indicated my skepticism concerning the actual threat about these guys. Well they finally got arrested, and do I feel like we really dodged another 9/11? Not really.
They had found bomb-making equipment, chemicals including hydrogen peroxide, electrical components and documents, [Peter Clarke, head of London police's anti-terrorist branch,] said.
Now truthfully, this sounds scary. But I have electrical stuff in my house, and I have a bottle of hydrogen peroxide. If you want to prove that something is a terrifying threat, you say something dangerous that was found. Nitro glycerine, for example. It doesn’t get much more terrifying, either.
A 17-year-old man was charged with possessing items useful to a terrorist, including a book on home-made bombs, suicide notes, wills “with the identities of persons prepared to commit acts of terrorism” and a map of Afghanistan, prosecutors said.
I’m dubious about these wills, and the only thing that makes me scratch my head more is the fact that they would entrust useful items in the hands of a 17 year old. All of the notes and wills? The book? They all are held by a kid?
With everything that comes out of this, these guys look like Miami 7 style wannabes who probably would have tripped over their own shoelaces on the way to the airport. I’m glad they got arrested, I don’t think anyone who’s actively trying to attack the US should be allowed to go ahead doing it in the off-chance that they DO succeed, but that doesn’t mean I buy at all that this was a real threat.
Of course, Bush’s ratings got a one-shot boost, so it looks like the threat did its job.
[tags]terrorism, britain, plot, airlines[/tags]
By Hanlon, on August 22nd, 2006 at 01:59 AM
![]() The redcoat talking point is and always has been that opposition to the Iraq War is an “extreme left” position. Of course, that’s a little difficult to claim when the current position is almost two-to-one against.
Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults polled say they favor the war in Iraq; 61 percent say they oppose it — the highest opposition noted in any CNN poll since the conflict began more than three years ago.
Naturally this isn’t inspiring any changes in the “stay the course” mantra, and Bush makes sure to remind us all that pulling out would embolden terrorists and whatnot. The numbers are bad in general, despite a pop to 42% approval. There isn’t one issue where he’s got a majority on his side. Sad.
For historical perspective, the highest percentage of people who thought Vietnam was a mistake while it was going on? 61%.
[tags]iraq, war, survey, poll[/tags]
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