David Barillari père

Say it ain’t so, Joe, Barb, Diane, Ben, Ben, Jim, Ken, Mark, Evan, Kent, Jay, Mary, Tim, Claire, Blanche, Debbie, Dan, Herb and Tom.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

HOLDFAST.blog
FISA Vote Tallies: Part II
February 12th, 2008 ·
The Dodd/Feingold Amendment 3907 to strip retroactive immunity from the underlying SSCI bill just failed, 31-67. 51 votes were needed to pass.
Voting with the Republicans were the following eighteen Democrats (again, rough count):
Bayh, Inouye, Johnson, Landrieu, McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, Stabenow, Feinstein, Kohl, Pryor, Rockefeller, Salazar, Carper, […]

Posted in Business, Law, Constitution, Democrats, Cong-SENATE, Communications |

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONINGS

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Archbishop faces calls to go over sharia remark
Sat Feb 9, 2008 1:57pm GMT
By Adrian Croft
LONDON (Reuters) - Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world’s 77 million Anglicans, faced calls to resign on Saturday for suggesting that the introduction in Britain of some aspects of Islamic law was unavoidable.
The Archbishop of Canterbury tried to quell the […]

Posted in Law, Religion, Great Britain, Islam |

“This was definitely a clear cut case of (religious) persecution,” she said.

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Woman Escorted Off Bus For Reading Bible Aloud
Reporting
Carol Cavazos
Dec 30, 2007 10:45 pm US/Central
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FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ― A passenger on a Fort Worth bus says the T. Bus Service discriminated against her religion.
Christine Lutz says she was reading her Bible […]

Posted in Law, Constitution, Religion, Texas |

Um, I wonder why?

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

If the Democrats had any guts,
they would have impeached this frat boy tyrant years ago!
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Control sought on military lawyers
Bush wants power over promotions
By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / December 15, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is pushing to take control of the promotions of military lawyers, escalating a conflict over the independence of uniformed attorneys […]

Posted in administration, Law, Military, Bush, Pentagon, Movies |

Senator Whitehouse displays samples of W’s continual erosion of the rule of law.

Friday, December 7th, 2007

This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)(VIDEO) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Whitehouse said he has “spent hours poring over” secret opinions issued by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — and he took […]

Posted in administration, Law, Cong-SENATE, Department of Justice, Sheldon Whitehouse |

The only torture in baseball was watching Nomar Garciaparra get ready to hit.

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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Gonzales Hires a Top Gun

Still under investigation by Congress and Justice Department lawyers who once worked for him, the former attorney general has turned to a leading Washington attorney to help him beat the rap.
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 2:12 p.m. ET Oct 10, 2007
Oct. 10, 2007 - No sooner did Alberto Gonzales resign […]

Posted in Law, Courts, Baseball, Books, Gonzalez, Crime, Department of Justice |

“The overwhelming 99.9 percent do their job professionally.”–Paul Green, political scientist, Roosevelt University

Monday, October 1st, 2007

According to Illinois.com, there are 13,619 Chicago police officers.
Paul Green’s observation would allow only 14 officers to act in a non-professional manner.
I don’t think that’s possible.
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Chicago police again mired in scandal
By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press WriterSun Sep 30, 7:04 PM ET
Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder […]

Posted in Law, Graft, Crime, Chicago, Police |

Whatcha hidin’ there, Senator Jimbo?

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Transparency Begins at Home: Notes on What We’re Up To
Presidential Records In the Dark
It’s interesting to watch what happens in Congress when “because that’s the way we’ve always done it” no longer becomes an option. For years, Senators have put secret holds on bills they wanted to block. These anonymous objections have been used by […]

Posted in administration, Law, Republicans, Bush, Cong-SENATE, White House, Jim Bunning |

It’s nice to know that big business supports socialism when it suits THEM!

Monday, September 17th, 2007

September 16, 2007
In Turnaround, Industries Seek U.S. Regulations
By ERIC LIPTON and GARDINER HARRIS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 — After years of favoring the hands-off doctrine of the Bush administration, some of the nation’s biggest industries are pushing for something they have long resisted: new federal regulations.
For toys and cars, antifreeze and fireworks, popcorn and produce and cigarettes […]

Posted in Business, Law, Environment, Consumer Safety |

It was something other than the restroom’s “intended use.”

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Arianna Huffington
HUFFINGTON POST
In the Age of Terror, Isn’t Busting Toe-Tappers an Insane Use of Our Law Enforcement Resources?
Posted September 3, 2007 | 05:18 PM (EST)
In the consensus judgment of America’s 16 intelligence agencies, the terrorist threat to our homeland is “persistent and evolving,” placing our country in “a heightened threat environment.”
Given that chilling assessment, isn’t […]

Posted in Law, Republicans, Terrorism, Health, Cong-SENATE, Gay Issues, Airlines, Larry Craig |

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