Daily Archives: December 30th, 2005 «

 

President grants pardons less than predecessors

Posted by: ST on December 30, 2005 at 11:01 pm » 9 Comments

… and the USA Today acts like that’s a bad thing. Is it? Seems just about everyone they quoted for the article thinks so. Another part of this story I found comment-worthy was this tidbit: Last month, some Senate Democrats cited the Iran-contra pardons as they asked Bush to rule out a pardon for I. [...]

 

Checking in with ST reader blogs

Posted by: ST on December 30, 2005 at 9:56 pm » 3 Comments

…. to see what some of ya’ll are up to scmommy isn’t feeling well. Get well soon, lady! Miss you posting here. Cute Christmas pic of the GeeChee Girl! Kevin’s latest toast post is about an emergency he and his family encountered on their trip home from Texas and how graffiti (of all things) saved [...]

 

Senator Jay Rockefeller is a phony

Posted by: ST on December 30, 2005 at 8:29 pm » 3 Comments

As if the media-fueled faux outrage amongst the usual suspects regarding the NYTimes piece that focused on the President authorizing warrantless wiretapping of foreign communications made on our own soil wasn’t enough, the ‘helpless Senator’ act being portrayed by Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) over his knowledge about the warrantless searches is enough to send those [...]

 

Investigations begin into the NSA eavesdropping leak

Posted by: ST on December 30, 2005 at 11:10 am » 44 Comments

(Scroll to the bottom for updates) Fox is reporting just now … don’t have a link just yet. The Justice Dept. is now conducting an investigation into just who leaked the information about the NSA eavesdropping to the press. Good. I hope they find out who leaked this. Whether Dem or Republican, the person(s) responsible [...]

 

TGIF, everyone

Posted by: ST on December 30, 2005 at 11:02 am » 7 Comments

I had just written a semi-lengthy post and it got lost in cyberspace thanks to the site going down for about two minutes. Sigh. I’ll try again. I’m going to be out and about today running errands. Been trying to get some stuff in order this week in terms of cleaning out old junk in [...]

 

Farris Hassan’s day off

Posted by: ST on December 30, 2005 at 10:12 am » 2 Comments

Ok, I know that was a bad take off of the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (nor do I think it’s original, as I have no doubt that title has been used elsewhere) but I couldn’t resist Seriously, did ya’ll see this story about Farris Hassan? 16 year old guy who’s parents were born in [...]