Author: Michael Pellegrini
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Our First Step Towards a Totalitarian Dictatorship
In defense of his domestic spying program, George Bush said today, “When terrorist operatives are here in America communicating with someone overseas, we must understand what’s going on if we’re going to do our job to protect the people. The safety and security of the American people depend on our ability to find out who…
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George Orwell Would Be Proud…
There you are, you’re George W. Bush, you’re trailing badly in the polls, you’ve got this nasty little problem with domestic spying making headline news all over the place, your war in Iraq is continuing to go sour, and all your best buddies are getting indicted for corruption and bribery. So what do you do?…
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Bush Meltdown Continues
The Bush administration continues in its downward spiral, its ultimate, grisly end now hastened by the charges of domestic spying by the National Security Agency. According to news reports, the Bush administration authorized the NSA to conduct wiretaps of hundreds if not thousands of American citizen’s phone and email conversations within the United States –…
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The High Price of Doing Business With Click! Network
Below is an open letter to Click! Network management. For nearly six months now, Click! Network subscribers in the City of Tacoma and surrounding areas have had to pay 33% more for their broadband Internet service than similarly situated customers of Comcast and Qwest. Why is this? There really is no rational answer. How could…
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John Murtha: An American Hero
The movement to immediately end the war in Iraq gained an unlikely spokesman last week: John Murtha, longtime Congressman from Pennsylvania, a ranking member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. A consistent hawk for the 33 years he’s spent in congress, Murtha is a decorated combat veteran with a Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts and…
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April Fools day is coming early this year, obviously.
I was watching Meet The Press on NBC this morning. Tim Russert was interviewing Orin Hatch and Charles Schumer, talking about possible appointments to the Supreme Court. Everything was going along great, and then Russert asked Hatch about the possibility of “non-judicial” appointments – that is, making an appointment of a person who was not…
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Have You No Shame, Mr. Bush?
Terri Schiavo Should Be Allowed To Die Bush the Savior There you are, and the worst happens: your wife dies after a sudden heart attack. Somehow, you get through the surreal nightmare of the funeral and all the rest, and begin the grieving process. Several years down the road, if you’re lucky, your life has…
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Next Stop Tehran? ver 1.1
Bush and an advisor in a stratgey session. Looks like we’ll soon be headed into Iran. The hysteria about possible nukes in the hands of the Iranians has been building and building in the past few weeks. The Bush administration has been making a much more subtle case than they did with Iraq – drawing…
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The Race That Would Not Die
Washington Governor’s Race At right, Dino Rossi, at Today’s Press Conference Dino Rossi continues to plunge boldly ahead, working towards his dream of becoming Governor of Washington state. Too bad it’s all just in his mind. Although they won’t admit it, Republicans lost bigtime when Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges, ruled that he…
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Where is broadband heading in the US?
Here’s what I think is going to be big in the near future: A lot of the commercial software publishing places have immense pipes for software downloads, now. And if the people in the forums are telling the truth, download speeds are mostly not capped (on the software publisher’s end). The most prominent online publisher…