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Conyers: 'We're closing in on Rove'

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:48:36 GMT

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Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two other people: “We’re closing in on Rove. Someone’s got to kick his ass.”

Asked a few minutes later for a more official explanation, Conyers told us that Rove has a week to appear before his committee. If he doesn’t, said Conyers, “We’ll do what any self-respecting committee would do. We’d hold him in contempt. Either that or go and have him arrested.”

Conyers said the committee wants Rove to testify about his role in the imprisonment of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, among other things.

“We want him for so many things, it’s hard to keep track,” Conyers said.

Tags: rove, conyers, congress, contempt

Mom indicted in MySpace suicide case

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:15:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman on Thursday over an alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.

Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis was indicted on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress.

Drew allegedly helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact neighbor Megan Meier who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans.

Meier hanged herself in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.

Each count in the indictment carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

"I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace," Grills told the morning show.

Megan's death was investigated by Missouri authorities, but no state charges were filed.

Tags: law, justice, internet, suicide

Keith Olbermann:To Mr. Bush Shut the Hell Up!

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:46:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The video!

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Tags: you tube, olbermann, truth, special comment, bush, shut, the, fuck, up

Pentagon Propagandist General Calls for US to Sponsor Terrorism Against Iran

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:58:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The tactic that McInerney advocates of using Iranian opposition terrorist groups to carry out acts of terrorism inside Iran is not new, nor far-fetched. A little digging turned up numerous articles alleging that the pentagon had already been using the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) and other groups in cross-border operations into Iran, at least until shortly after Sec Gates took over (Some news reports of attacks in Iran here, here, here, here, here. Iranian news video here)."

Of course is not wrong if "we" do it, now is it?

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Last month on Fox News, Ret. Gen. Thomas McInerney, one of the Pentagon’s propaganda team of military analysts exposed by David Barstow in the NYT, openly called for the US to begin committing “tit-for-tat” terrorist attacks by proxy inside Iran.

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McInerney: Here’s what I would suggest to you. Number one, we take the National Council for Resistance to Iran off the terrorist list that the Clinton Administration put them on as well as the Mujahedin-e Khalq at the Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Then I would start a tit-for-tat strategy which I wrote up in the Wall Street Journal a year ago: For every EFP that goes off and kills Americans, two go off in Iran. No questions asked. People don’t have to know how it was done. It’s a covert action. They become the most unlucky country in the world. …

Tags: propaganda, empty uniform, terror, terrorism, terrorist, iran, iraq

Breaking: CA Supreme Court Overturns State’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:55:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Justice triumphs!

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

The California Supreme Court has overturned the state’s controversial ban on same-sex marriage (decision .pdf). As NBC’s Pete Williams states, there are already groups in California trying to put anti- same-sex marriage amendment initiative on the November ballot. This makes California the second state in the union to allow same-sex couples to marry along with Massachusetts. More from the San Francisco Chronicle:

The justices’ 4-3 decision Thursday says domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. Chief Justice Ron George wrote the opinion.

The city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples and gay rights groups sued in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco’s monthlong same-sex wedding march.

The case before the court involved a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn a voter-approved law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Read on…

Tags: liberty, equality, justice

Olbermann To Bush: "This War Is Not About You...Shut The Hell Up!"

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:47:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well done Sir, well done!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his angriest, most blistering Special Comment yet, aimed squarely at his favorite target: President Bush. Olbermann was responding to Bush's claim that he had given up golf in honor of the Iraq war — and his assertion that a Democratic president withdrawing from Iraq would "eventually lead to another attack on the United States" — a statement Olbermann called "ludicrous, infuriating, holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong." Olbermann continued in that vein for a full 12 minutes (or 2,000 words), frequently raising his voice and spitting out his words in disgust.

Mr. President, the war isn't about you -- or golf [MSNBC]

Tags: olbermann, truth, bush, war, lies, banality, evil

the city is at war... EXELLENT!!!!!

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:36:16 GMT

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The City Is At War
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Navy Denies Chelsea Clinton To Vieques, Puerto Rico

Thu, 15 May 2008 05:03:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Daddy didn't do the island any favors the last time around (nor did the Navy, the arrogant bastards). If Hillary wants the delegates, she should stop sending surrogates and come down herself. Then again Puerto Rico is a Imperial cold sore on both parties.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. Navy has denied Chelsea Clinton permission to campaign for her mother on a former bombing range on a small Puerto Rican island.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign wanted to use the land Wednesday as a setting to discuss the candidate's clean up plan for the region and call to give some areas to local residents.

But Navy spokeswoman Lt. Lara Bollinger said no one is allowed to campaign on federal property.

Chelsea Clinton is making her second campaign visit to Puerto Rico in the last three weeks. The U.S. territory has 55 delegates at stake in its June 1 Democratic primary.

The Navy closed the range in Vieques in April 2003 following years of protests after two errant bombs killed a security guard.

Tags: empire, politics, vieques, puerto rico, navy