#111500 by Louise on 11/03 at 10:30 pm:-

#Douglas Chalmers (#111105) “Database Error: Unable to connect to your database….”
“...Most of the time…”

Noooo, only with Truthdig this week, ha ha. Had some wierd resonance with this topic…...

# “...If we were not nice people, it would be fun to circulate his comment on the whacked out red, side of the web ... absent, “Oops, that’s Pakistan today, uhh!”...”

That is getting circulated on the net now anyway - by the ever-trawling ‘web spiders’ of Google, Yahoo, etc. Just needs to hit a few more blogs….... (Moveon, Codepink)

#”...Moral had never been so low in the Justice Department? Betcha Moral has moved up a notch since Gonzales has gone home to be with his family….”

Amazing how morals have improved by NOT having an attorney-general, uhh. Says a lot for the American system of law. But, “not having an attorney general”, if the senate rebuffs this one, could create an excuse for the Bush Neocons to declare martial law!!! Why else do you think they continue to refer to “America….. during this time of war” - even though there is no war (Iraq is NOT a ‘war’)???

Mudwollow (#111408)

“Has Bush ever issued anything but ultimatums?”

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Wow! I didn’t know Bush even knew that word ...

RAE (#111277)

“If the Senate Judiciary Committee were to block Judge Mukasey on these grounds, they would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for attorney general,” Bush said…”

“In other words, my nominee, Mukasey, is a candidate about as deficient in qualifications such as intelligence, morals, experience and ability as I can find that would stand a chance of being confirmed by the Senate.”

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hee-hee ... in other, other words, “My standards are damn, low dammit! How dare you expect me to set them higher!”

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“I’m sure Bush hasn’t the faintest idea of what he’s talking about most of the time.”

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Most of the time?

Douglas Chalmers (#111105)

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Fun—ny!

I understand Bush Googles.
Do you think he Googles us?

#111109 by cyrena on 11/02 at 2:26 am
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”...Bush said if the Democrats block the nomination, it “would guarantee that America would have no attorney general during this time of war.”.... Well georgie boy, that’s just fine by me. “

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Me too.

Recall in the congressional hearings earlier this year, we learned Moral had never been so low in the Justice Department? Betcha Moral has moved up a notch since Gonzales has gone home to be with his family. [Wonder how moral is there?]

Lets just leave the Department be for a while and give them a chance to show the world, and the prez how the wheels of justice are supposed to slowly grind?

Just chuckled my way through Douglas Chalmers last post. (#111489)

If we were not nice people, it would be fun to circulate his comment on the whacked out red, side of the web ... absent, 

“Oops, that’s Pakistan today, uhh!”

But alas, we are nice people.

“The President .....has defended his decision to declare emergency rule…..

The chief justice has been replaced and the Supreme Court surrounded by troops…....

The moves came as the Supreme Court was due to rule on the legality of…...”

Oops, that’s Pakistan today, uhh! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7077310.stm

“If the Senate Judiciary Committee were to block Judge Mukasey…...... That would guarantee that America would have no attorney general during this time of war,” the president said…”

Looking at this statement another way, that really means “Hey, then I can do whatever I please”, uhh!

Appoint an Independent counsel too, as a compromise.

To the Senate: Confirm the judge.

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/11/despite-reservations-about.html#links

Has Bush ever issued anything but ultimatums?

Support our troops, water board Bush, Cheney, Mukasey and televise the event. Let the audience decide if it’s torture or not.

Let the disgrace called Bush take no one!

Hell, we have been at war for years.  What’s the difference?  If the Neocons remain in power they will keep us in a perpetual war so they can always claim anyone who does not agree with them is unpatriotic. Or, everything they do is covered by National security…..

Bush just keeps nominating idiots and cronies and usually they are one in the same.

This country is being raped and pillaged right before our very eyes by politicians and their special interest friends.

Land of the free home of the brave?  I think it is land of the for the rich and home of the brave for the poor!  The rich get richer and the poor and middle class go off to fight noble wars.

I am embarrassed to be an American lately!

““If the Senate Judiciary Committee were to block Judge Mukasey on these grounds, they would set a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for attorney general,” Bush said…”

In other words, my nominee, Mukasey, is a candidate about as deficient in qualifications such as intelligence, morals, experience and ability as I can find that would stand a chance of being confirmed by the Senate.

I’m sure Bush hasn’t the faintest idea of what he’s talking about most of the time.

We all know they the dimmos will let the spoiled rotten brat have his way.And as MuckMan has already revealed that whatever Georgie wants- be it illegal-as usual-or otherwise he has a free pass on it in this yes mans eyes.He, like Bush will further destroy the Constitution no doubt about it.
 
Have we been okay-as far as you could call it that-without an A.G.? Look at all the money we could save by not having to pay this newest snake in the bush a wage.After all Boy George wants to keep cutting all the spending in this country so he can waste it on his wars outside the country,why not start with all those excessive unnecessary people he wants to hire for well paid for doing nothing positions? I say lets eliminate the position altogether.Time for this over bloated goverment to start to cut the excessive baggage.

#111226 by Don Stivers

Hi Don,

Just wanted to give some ‘thoughts’ to your question on Blackwater being free to muder at will, and maybe just provide a few links for your reading –pleasure-? (we know not really).

But, to tell you honestly, they’ve been doing this for as long as they’ve been operating in Iraq, (and they were let loose on the people of New Orleans as well, during the horror of hurricane Katrina, which obviously made the horror that much worse.)

But, I said that to say that as far as their ‘immunity’ goes, it’s been that way from the beginning. “Condi the Rice” recently said that there was a ‘loophole’ in the law that allowed for this, but it’s not a ‘loophole’ at all. In fact, this ‘immunity’ to kill with impunity was written into the original contract for the Coalition Provisional Authority by Paul Bremer when the US first set –up it’s formal occupation of Iraq. In the below article, it is noted as decree #17, of those 100 orders, though I thought it was #18. Regardless, the US Administration set this up for them to do whatever the hell they want in Iraq and elsewhere, and not answer to a single body or soul. And, that’s exactly what they’ve been doing, for better than 4 years.

Anyway, here are a few links to some recent activity on this. The Iraqis have passed some legislation that would lift this immunity, but again, in all honesty, I don’t think it’s going to make a lot of difference, because there’s another recent piece (which I can’t find right now) that claims the US military will now take over supervision of Blackwater in Iraq. Like that’s gonna change anything. I mean, if we’re honest in recognizing that the entire occupation is illegal, and the most gigantic violation of all International Laws, it’s pretty obvious that this isn’t going to change anything. Iraq has demanded that Blackwater leave, but of course the Thugs in DC aren’t about to do that, so…they’ve offered this US military oversight as an alternative. It’s all pretty disgusting.

So, here’s some more info on it for now. I do have some other links that I can get to you later, if you’d like to hear more, or follow up on it.

Iraq Bill Would Lift Contractor Immunity
  By Sinan Salaheddin
  The Associated Press

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the draft law approved Tuesday would overturn an immunity order known as Decree 17 that was issued by L. Paul Bremer, who ran the American occupation government until June 2004.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007S.shtml

Immunity Deals Offered to Blackwater Guards

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/washington/30blackwater.html?_r=1&th;&emc;=th&oref=slogin

Mideast Dispatches by Dahr Jamail

When Blackwater Kills, No Questions Asked.

You’ll probably have to google or find this piece from a search engine, since I don’t have a link for it. (comes to my mail via a subscription to Mideast Dispatches – Dahr Jamail.

So, you can find additional stuff if you check under his name, (Dahr Jamail) because he’s been reporting from Iraq, (along with other independent correspondents) for at least 3 or 4 years now. (something like that). And, he also has a new book out. “Beyond the Green Zone”.

I’ve found his Mideast Dispatches to be very helpful to my own work over the years, because at the beginning, there was NOTHING in the main stream media to give us any clear picture of what was taking place on the ground in Iraq.

Hope this is helpful.

Chuck"drama queen” Schumer shows his true colors, what a fraud.

NEWSFLASH:  Mukasey is IN.
Schumer and Feinstein cave.. 

Or should I say A*P*C made the brown nosed Schumer/DSCC offers they chose not to refuse.

Now, A*P*C not only runs our Congress and our foreign policy,  they’re now are in charge of the laws of the United States of ??.

#111219 by Sharon Ash on 11/02 at 10:19 am: “...I love the “No One” plan!  But, could we extend it to include the President, Vice-President and Secretary of State…?”

I’m sure it could be arranged - just ask the Pentagon directly, uhh.

Dear Chuck “queen of drama” Schumer vote correctly and send Mukasey back to Law school.

I’ve been waiting for a column regarding immunity for the Blackwater contractors.  Apparently, the immunity given includes murder.  How can this be?  In discussing the appointment of a new attorney general, no mention has been made of this immunity.  Where does the United States get off on immunity.  That is what Germany allowed in the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust. The Trials of Nuremberg proved there is no such thing as immunity for murder.

Is not anybody enraged enough to at least write a column about this travesty of justice?

“Oh we gave the contractors immunity for murder.  We cannot go back on our word.”  I thought even following orders did not get one off the hook for murder.

And here we have a possible attorney general who cannot give a definition of torture.

Does anybody have any guts to stand up for JUSTICE in our Senate?

But it is the immunity thing that absolutely stuns me.

Even if the Blackwater contractors fired on those people in self defense, the State Department has issued a statement saying that if murder did happen, the perpetrators are immune from prosecution.

Does that give pause for thoughts with any one?

Your thoughts!!!

I agree that we’re probably better off without an AG for a while longer.  It’s one less office that will need to be fumigated/exorcised after the next election.

If the nomination fails, Il Duce will simply wait for Congress to recess next and appoint Mukasey as a recess appointment.  Then he’ll hold the job until next January and the new Congress…And then for 2 1/2 weeks will be acting A/G until Bush leaves office.

He’s done it before, he’ll do it again.  I don’t believe that Congress doesn’t see it.

Michael Mukasey worked for the firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler early on in his career, then went back to the firm last year apparently for more money.  He also worked with none other than the infamous Rudy Guiliani. According to Law Blog.com:

“He and Rudy Are BFF: Here in the Big Apple there is a small, tight group surrounding Giuliani, and Mukasey has a place in that group. They worked together at the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan, and Judge Mukasey swore Rudy in at both of his mayoral inaugurations; the buzz has been that should Giuliani become president, Mukasey would have a prominent role in his administration.”

This article also says:
““Show Me the Money!”: When he stepped down from the bench last year to rejoin Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, he made no bones about the fact that the move was about money. “If I’m going to do something else at any point in my career, now would be the time to do it,” said Judge Mukasey to the Law Blog. Citing financial considerations as a factor, Judge Mukasey added”

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/09/17/seven-tidbits-about-michael-mukasey/

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler is an “A list” firm who had, according to a Law.com article:

“Patterson weathered a rocky financial phase in the early 1990s, even going so far as considering a merger. But partners say the firm now has a solid base of litigation clients—notably Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories and Dow Jones & Co. Inc.—and one of the nation’s most prominent tax-exempt organization practices, representing The Frick Collection, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the United States Tennis Association, among others.”

But then things started looking up, the article states:

“Despite this year’s dip in financial returns, Patterson’s numbers have actually improved dramatically over the last decade. From 1998 to 2005, Patterson’s PPP grew 141 percent, from $470,000 to $1.135 million—almost twice the 72 percent average growth rate of firms in The Am Law 200. During the same period, the firm’s RPL grew by 66 percent—from $495,000 to $820,000—beating the Am Law 200 average RPL growth rate of 48 percent.”

Notice the familiar names in the client base and the sudden jump recently in profits.  This taking place when? Between 1998-2005.  What a coincidence, I think that’s when Blackwater had their good fortune.  When you see the name Rockefeller “anything” run like hell.  Not to worry there’s also some other familiar names, the article goes on:

“A major reason for Patterson’s growth was the firm’s move in the early 1990s into high-stakes patent litigation, a decision spearheaded by Diskant, Cavanaugh and former partner David Dobbins (he is now of counsel). The patent litigation practice began when the firm took on a few important medical device cases for a subsidiary of longtime firm client Johnson & Johnson. It has since grown to one-third of the firm’s litigation docket, with a blue-chip client list that includes J&J;, General Electric Co., Abbott Laboratories and Siemens AG.”

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1182848794525

Small world isn’t it.

There is a petition here among other things to try to stop Mukasey’s appointment.

http://www.democrats.com/mukasey-judiciary-whip

I agree with Cyrena, NOTHING is better than something like this guy.

OK, Pres JA, I can live with that.Having an AG has not proven particularly helpful.

Is it indeed testosterone that gives one the courage to stand up to jerks like this? If so, can Nancy take it as a supplement?

“...Bush said if the Democrats block the nomination, it “would guarantee that America would have no attorney general during this time of war.”....

Well georgie boy, that’s just fine by me. Wish we didn’t have a president in this time of war either. Then maybe we wouldn’t be at war.

Why do we have to have an AG anyway? We’ve been without one all of this time, and the rest of the alleged movers and shackers up the ranks are all ‘acting’ or interim anyway. So hell, just leave the position unfilled. It sure can’t do any more damage than Gonzo did, or what Mukasey is likely to do….

So yeah, we’ll just take NONE AT ALL.

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