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Department of Redundancy Department - June 23, 2008

Methinks Netflix needs to work on their recommendation algorithms a bit more.
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/department-of-redundancy-department/

Im so angry I almost cant see straight. - June 19, 2008

What the frickin&8217; hell does Hoyer think he&8217;s doing A civil action may not lie or be maintained in a Federal or State court against any person for providing assistance to an element of the intelligence community, and shall be properly dismissed, if the Attorney General certifies to the district court of the United States in ...
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/im-so-angry-i-almost-cant-see-straight/

Rights for terrorists - June 19, 2008

No, rights for everyone under the jurisdiction of our country. Why shouldnt we allow Government, from time to time, to act outside of the Constitution There are those who will point out that we are in dangerous times, and that it is sometimes necessary for the Government to take exceptional measures to ensure our protection. The answer ...
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/rights-for-terrorists/

Why its not too late to impeach - June 19, 2008

In my latest crosspost in the series on Kucinich&8217;s Articles of Impeachment, one of the commenters linked to this editorial. Editorialists, while refusing to honestly report on this Constitutional crisis, have been parroting the claim of gutless and calculating Democratic Party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in saying that with the nation at war and ...
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/why-its-not-too-late-to-impeach/

Fight the smears - June 18, 2008

The Obama campaign has a website called FightTheSmears.com, on which they give the truth about various smears that have been going around. The lead story currently is the non-existent &8220;whitey&8221; tape.
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/fight-the-smears/

Options in McCains world - June 16, 2008

I just saw a poll linked to McCain&8217;s campaign site that I decided I had to vote in. Once I clicked through the &8220;give us money&8221; page to get to the main site, I found the following. Nice worldview, huh
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/options-in-mccains-world/

LibriVox - June 16, 2008

LibriVox attempts to do for audiobooks what Project Gutenberg has for printed ones. They take public domain works and have volunteers read them. Once the files are assembled (for example, chapters of a book, or multiple readers on a single short poem), they are placed in the public domain in turn. A while ago, I did ...
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/librivox/

Not My Commander in Chief - June 13, 2008

I&8217;ve said this before, but not nearly so eloquently. But he is not alone in the delusion he propounds in the first sentence of today&8217;s killer graf. Nearly every candidate, commentator and speechifier will, at convenient times, refer to the President of the United States as &8220;the nation&8217;s commander-in-chief&8221; or &8220;our commander-in-chief.&8221; Article II, Section 2 ...
http://blog.donnael.com/2008/06/not-my-commander-in-chief/