“THE MARK LEVIN SHOW” Live –Thursday Apr-23-2009

Cannot Landmark Legal go after Soros for tortuous interference?

really.

Yep, it's better to bomb than “waterboard”.

Blowing someone up is better to Libturds.

When Owning a Retriever, Golden or Labrador, the Tail Alone is Dangerous. When I had my Labrador ... I “Childproofed” my home, pretending that the “child” was 5 foot tall, and weighed a HUNDRED POUNDS

Hi there Fuddy! And, how’s bayou? Laughed when I saw that!
Work at the ballpark, and inght before last heard someone yell “Welcome to Louisiana, home of the Bayou”. Took me half the game to figure out he was using it to say by you (as in the ball blew by you). Getting slow in my old age!!

Please, please, would someone tell the First lady that belts are made to hold up one’s pants, not one’s boobs!!!

Speaking of the Ballpark.....are you hiding out there somewhere?? ;>)

Well this was way over his tail. He knocked the table over.

I should be glad the lamp didn’t go too.

Yes, I had Truman-proofed my home. That tail has cost me serious cash.

Howdy.

she is a dominatrix

I’m sorry. I have a couple treasures like that, too. Some folks say: “It’s just STUFF”, but it would break my heart to lose them.

*2 pieces of dated and numbered German china that was at least 150 years old.
I cried like an idiot.*

Oh nooose. Was it Dresden or Meissen?
Just being that old is remarkable

Good to see you CC! Been crazy at work, and only been lurkin! How’s by you?

Dominating the skinny geek we have as POTUS would not be that hard.

(John Kerry) “Blue Ribbon Commison?.......Why that’s the best kind!

........Scooter of the Muppet Show

you mean stinky ?

The MEMO

Rockefeller memo
November 6, 2003

Here is the full text of the memo from the office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) on setting a strategy for pursuing an independent investigation of pre-war White House intelligence dealings on Iraq.

We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

1) Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard.

For example, in addition to the President’s State of the Union speech, the chairman [Sen. Pat Roberts] has agreed to look at the activities of the office of the Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, as well as Secretary Bolton’s office at the State Department.

The fact that the chairman supports our investigations into these offices and cosigns our requests for information is helpful and potentially crucial. We don’t know what we will find but our prospects for getting the access we seek is far greater when we have the backing of the majority. [We can verbally mention some of the intriguing leads we are pursuing.]

2) Assiduously prepare Democratic ‘additional views’ to attach to any interim or final reports the committee may release. Committee rules provide this opportunity and we intend to take full advantage of it.

In that regard we may have already compiled all the public statements on Iraq made by senior administration officials. We will identify the most exaggerated claims. We will contrast them with the intelligence estimates that have since been declassified. Our additional views will also, among other things, castigate the majority for seeking to limit the scope of the inquiry.

The Democrats will then be in a strong position to reopen the question of establishing an Independent Commission [i.e., the Corzine Amendment.]

3) Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration’s use of intelligence at any time. But we can only do so once.

The best time to do so will probably be next year, either:

A) After we have already released our additional views on an interim report, thereby providing as many as three opportunities to make our case to the public. Additional views on the interim report (1). The announcement of our independent investigation (2). And (3) additional views on the final investigation. Or:

B) Once we identify solid leads the majority does not want to pursue, we would attract more coverage and have greater credibility in that context than one in which we simply launch an independent investigation based on principled but vague notions regarding the use of intelligence.

(Note: below Niger mention re: vice chairman, who was it)

In the meantime, even without a specifically authorized independent investigation, we continue to act independently when we encounter footdragging on the part of the majority. For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman [Jay Rockefeller]. We have independently submitted written requests to the DOD and we are preparing further independent requests for information.

SUMMARY: Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public’s concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq. Yet we have an important role to play in revealing the misleading, if not flagrantly dishonest, methods and motives of senior administration officials who made the case for unilateral preemptive war.

The approach outlined above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration’s dubious motives and methods.

This was originally on the Hill, gone now.

I did find the Fox copy from Nov. 3

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,102258,00.html

I want the gov’t record though.

And what is worse, this despicable strategy was undoubtedly written much earlier — much closer to the attacks on 9/11.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/lest-we-forget-the-rockefeller-memo

Rockefeller Warned: Americans Are Coming!

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/the-americans-are-coming-the-americans-are-coming

By law, all Senators-elect must take the following oath to support and defend the Constitution:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

sedition
n. the federal crime of advocacy of insurrection against the government or support for an enemy of the nation during time of war, by speeches, publications and organization. Sedition usually involves actually conspiring to disrupt the legal operation of the government and is beyond expression of an opinion or protesting government policy. Sedition is a lesser crime than “treason,” which requires actual betrayal of the government, or “espionage.” Espionage involves spying on the government, trading state secrets (particularly military) to another country (even a friendly nation), or sabotaging governmental facilities, equipment or suppliers of the government, like an aircraft factory. During U.S. participation in World War II (1941-1945) several leaders of the German-American Bund, a pro-Nazi organization, were tried and convicted of sedition for actively interfering with the war effort. Since freedom of speech, press and assembly are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and because treason and espionage charges can be made for overt acts against the nation’s security, sedition charges are rare.

Source: http://dictionary.law.com/default2.asp?typed=sedition&type=1&submit1.x=46&submit1.y=19&submit1=Look+up

A point of view after the memo:

WHY THE DEMOCRAT SENATORS PULLED THEIR RULE 21 STUNT

Jim Kouri, CPP
November 4, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

On Tuesday, the Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid invoked the so-called Rule 21, which forced the US Senate to go into a closed, secret session. Reid’s rationale for this rarely used tactic was that the Republicans were not seriously investigating the intelligence used in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Needless to say, Republican senators, especially Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist, were incensed over the shenanigans of people such as Senator Reid, Senator Dick “US Soldiers are Nazis” Durbin and others. The usual process for invoking Rule 21 entails the lead senator implement Rule 21 notifying the other political party’s lead senator prior to demanding a secret senate session. This was not done and Senator Frist likened Reid’s action to a “slap in the face.”

The mainstream news media, of course, played the Democrat Party’s actions straight, inferring that the Democrats sincerely wished an unbiased investigation into the intelligence failures that led to the US not finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the US and coalition invasion. However, once again the news media are being deceptive with the American people as reporters perform their function as the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party.

For instance, the news contained no mention of the leaked November 2003 strategy memorandum which emanated from Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller’s office. Basically it was the strategy designed to hurt the Bush Administration no matter what a bipartisan investigation revealed. Part of that Rockefeller memo stated:

“Pull the majority along as far as we can on issues that may lead to major new disclosures regarding improper or questionable conduct by administration officials. We are having some success in that regard [with the CIA leak investigation].

“Prepare to launch an independent investigation when it becomes clear we have exhausted the opportunity to usefully collaborate with the majority. We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the administration’s use of intelligence at any time. But we can only do so once.”

It seems that on Tuesday, the Democrats pulled that trigger. There are several reasons why the Democrat senators implemented the Rockefeller strategy (Number Three being the most interesting and significant):

1) The liberals were angry over the fact that Patrick Fitzgerald’s two-year investigation into the Valerie Plame-CIA leak case did not result in significant indictments of key Bush Administration staff. The only White House staff member indicted was Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, and that indictment was for allegedly lying during the investigation and grand jury. No one was indicted for outing a CIA covert agent because no one violated the law applicable to such an offense. More importantly, for the Democrats, Karl Rove was not indicted.

During the aftermath of the Libby indictment, the Democrats, their mouthpieces and the mainstream media noticeably exaggerated the seriousness of Libby’s indictment. They went as far as insinuating Libby was indicted for revealing classified information, which he was not. By Monday, the Democrats realized their rhetoric was overreaching and having little affect on the Bush Administration. It was too easy for people to logon to the internet and discover that, for instance, Joe Wilson is a chronic liar.

2) The Democrats became unhinged when President Bush capitulated to the wishes of conservatives and nominated a staunch conservative to the US Supreme Court. Judge Sam Alito is a man who’s a constitutional originalist in every sense of the word and he looks good on paper and in person. Judge Alito is equal to Chief Justice John Roberts and this infuriates the Dems. They know that Judge Alito is destined to sit on the Supreme Court. Unlike in the days of Judge Robert Bork’s nomination, when Democrats lied and distorted with impunity and with the valuable help of the liberal media, they do not have the power any longer to distort and lie without a fight from the alternative media such as talk radio, internet news websites and bloggers. Also, their tactic of calling conservatives, even moderates, far-right extremists or out of the mainstream is not working because the majority of Americans realize these leftist senators are talking about them.

3) This is not known generally because the mainstream news media decided to stay mum about it: the Democrats don’t want their statements to be included in the final senate report on pre-Iraq intelligence. According to senate staffers, the final report will contain statements made by Senators John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy, Jay Rockefeller and many others who claimed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. It will contain statements made by former President Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and foreign intelligence leaders all of whom claimed they had evidence that Saddam had — or was working on — weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons. The final report will also contain material that refutes allegations leveled at President Bush by the left’s pride and joy, Joe Wilson. The Democrats do not want this information disseminated to Americans.

My hands are losing grip and feeling due to the run-of-the-mill arthritis (thanks, mom!). A year or two ago we were having dinner at the home of one of Mr.FF’s best friends, and I was helping to clear the dinner china. Dropped an entire stack of dessert plates. Our friend could not have been sweeter to me, said it was only important that I didn’t hurt myself. I felt terrible.

Not silly to cry over lost treasures and the memories they invoke!! It’s hard losing links to our past!

Doing fine. You?