Wiretaps

While Bush bloviates about wiretapping remember this:

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Pensions

Today comes news that Verizon is abandoning it's obligation
to contrubute to pension plans.

More and more corporations are doing this.

You steal thousands of dollars from your employer and
you'll go to jail. Your employer steals thousands from
you in commitments they made in past years to contribute
to your pension and not only do they not go to jail they
get a reward in the form of tax breaks/pay raises/etc.

Thoughts while driving into work

Remember Democratic Senator Dick Durbin's comment referring to American soldiers as
"Nazis" operating "Gulags"

well it seems he was right now that the Washington Post has revealed that the
US has up to a dozen "secret" POW camps in former Russian Gulags.

So what else are they not telling us?

Indictments

Now that "Scooter" Libby has been indicted there are lots of people in the Bush
administration who should join him in jail. Starting with Carl Rove.

We should start with indictments for stealing the election, lying to get us into
war, mis-handling the after math of Katrina. Oh and then there is idea
that we haven't caught Osama Bin Laden.

Bush, Channey, Rove and a few hundred of Bush's cronies should be in jail.

Bush is the most dishonest, crooked, slimey president this country has ever had.

Freedom of Speech

Freedom of speech is dead in the United States. Oh you have the freedom to
say how great Mr. Bush is, how great his war is. The moment you criticize his
war you're a traitor.

Nuclear Power

Seems that George Bush, who can't pronounce nuclear, wants to build
new nuclear power plants.

IMHO this is a really bad idea for the following reasons:
1. In the wake of Enron/Worldcom/Tyco do you trust coporate America to run
your local nuclear power plant? I don't. I didn't in the 70s, I trust them even
less now in the wake of Enron/Woldcom/Tyco/etc. Seeing NStar on strike recently
hasn't helped assure me.
2. I was uneasy about the terrorist threat in the 70s. In this post 9/11 world
i'm even more uneasy about giving the terrorists another target. They say nuclear
plants can withstand the crash of a 747. I'm sure I don't want to test that theory.
3. And then there is the disposal of nuclear waste.....or the lack of a solution.
That waste will be a tempting target for terrorists for many years.
4. We have a nuclear plant around here. The traffic on the nearby highway is
jammed up every day at rush hour. There is no way an evacuation could
be conducted.

We need additional power sources: nuclear is not the answer.

Thoughts while waiting for Rory to be Bailed out of jail

Now that the republicans are going to use the nuclear option to get their
judicial nominess in are they also going to retro-actively appprove
all those Clinton nominees they never gave up or down votes to?

(Here is a hint: they blocked more of Clinton's nominees then the
democrats blocked Bush nomineees.)