A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day...06-29-06...JohnHuang2's ~ My Two Cents

[dutchess]

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Treason Sinkhole swallows up Old Hag

by JohnHuang2

Sooooo, lemme get this straight: The New York Times defends the outing of a top secret program on the basis that the terrorists probably already knew about the program and the program was secret which is why they outed it and the public had a right to know about this secret program that the terrorists probably already knew about so it wasn't really a secret and somebody had to take a stand against DUMBYA'S REICH-WING FASCIST TYRANNY and nobody's been prosecuted for treason under Dumbya's Reich-wing fascist tyranny so WE at the Times have nothing to worry about and this White House is too secretive anyway and we're tired of the secrecy and you can't blame us for publishing the story since this White House is leaking like a sieve. It's immoral and outrageous to have leaked Valerie Plame's "secrets." Unless WE'RE doing the leaking.

Got that? Joe Blow Wilson "outs" his own desk-jockey CIA witch, so Karl Rove should go to jail.

Given how fast its circulation is falling, outing top secret programs could be part of the paper's drive to sign up new al-Qaeda subscribers to offset the loss.

The Bush administration for weeks begged the New York Times not to out the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP), a follow-the-money Treasury-CIA program, begun shortly after 9/11, which tracks suspicious international moments of moolah among terror cells with the goal of curtailing terror funding and curtailing things like terrorists flying planes into skyscrapers. Under TFTP, "transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda" can be traced by counterterrorism officials "reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative" known as Swift, write the counter-counterterrorism duo of Eric Lichtblau and James Risen.

The program helped bag al-Qaeda honcho Riduan Isamuddin, whose peaceful Islamic activities included masterminding the 2002 Bali bombing, and Uzair Paracha, a Brooklyn man who helped an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan launder $200,000 through a Karachi bank. The program had helped identify some of the biggest enemies of the U.S. on American soil. No, not the Democrats. Terrorists and terror cells. So, the New York Times outed the largest U.S. effort to track and cut off terrorist financing. And tipped off al-Qaeda to this Bu$Hitlerian invasion of their privacy.

But! The paper says it was done to protect our freedoms. Feel much safer now, don't you? Just 'watching' over the 'PNAC neoCon regime' for us. Listen, if you let Bush snoop on al-Qaeda's bank records, Bush wins. Libbies see it as a slippery slope. First they came for the Taliban, and I said nothing . . . then they came for Saddam's gold toilet seats, palaces and semi-kidney-shaped swimming pools, and I said nothing . . .

For all the talk about "privacy," once you're killed and pieces of you are scattered all over your bombed out train, chances are at that point you might consider "civil liberties" a tad overrated.

'Sides, the program is legal. SCOTUS has ruled that the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect financial records held by third parties. Financial transactions limited to within the U.S. are not in the Swift database. An independent auditing firm ensures only terrorists are targeted. Administrative subpoenas were used. Members of Congress were briefed. Members of al-Qaeda weren't briefed. That's the problem the Times has with the program. If al-Qaeda is sending you money, we DON'T want to know about it.

Liberals love central planning, socialist health care, national ID cards, street surveillance cameras, national gun registries, smoking bans, the IRS, and rummaging through Rush Limbaugh's luggage for possible possession of Preparation H, but thank goodness they draw the line at combing through Mullah Omar's bank records.

Liberals are so easy to please. Watch over terrorists for them, and they whine that Bush is being Big Brother. Then they whine that Bush isn't protecting them enough, pointing to "lax" port security -- each shipping container isn't being scanned for dangerous packages possibly containing Viagra.

Libbies whine that Bush didn't "connect the dots" and foil the 9/11 plot before 9/11 and scream "ENTRAPMENT'! for foiling the Sears Tower bomb plot. Yes, these seven little darlings were upstanding citizens until Bush entrapped them. The lesson here is that terrorists have become so discombobulated by Bush's 'failed' policies, they can't get much beyond the planning phase anymore.

The Losercrats whine that the war is taking too long. It's being "prolonged" by cowboy warmonger Bush to expand his hegemonic influence throughout the planet. Take it from this hegemonist in good standing, this war would probably be over a lot sooner if it weren't for pond scum liberals giving their fellow pond scum "insurgents" in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere the hope of defeating America. Mustn't 'abuse' al-Qaeda. Mustn't "wiretap" al-Qaeda. Mustn't spy on al-Qaeda. Mustn't detain al-Qaeda. Mustn't 'rendition' al-Qaeda. Mustn't infiltrate al-Qaeda. Mustn't "entrap" al-Qaeda. Mustn't comb its finances. Mustn't have Gitmo. Mustn't fight with both hands. Mustn't harm al-Qaeda's little eardrums with loud Christina Aguilera music. Or adorn their heads with panties. Near as I can tell, the Democrat plan to fight and win the War On Terror is to detain Rush Limbaugh for erectile dysfunction.

"My (redeployment) plan is not cut and run. Their plan is lie and die," John Kerry told Imus in the Morning shortly before his plan lied and died on the Senate floor, 86-13. The alternative Levin-Reed redeployment "plan" also lied and died shortly afterward, 60-39. Given their impressive string of defeats, I don't know why Democrats don't just redeploy to France. Or to Paradise Island -- Cuba.

This, straight from the horseface's mouth: "Our plan is very simple. It's redeploy to win the war on terror. Change to succeed. You have a better chance of success" through redeployment.

To that I have only one reploy.

I propose that we redeploy the New York Times to a maximum-security U.S. penitentiary. No, this ain't a "pull out," just a redeployment. Change to succeed. Change their location to the slammer until they give up their "source" or "sources." You have a better chance at success. And yes, let's have a strict timetable -- let's have the leaker or leakers face a redeployed firing squad by no later than two years ago.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents

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[ConorMacNessa]

Beutiful Roses, Meg!

[lonestar]

We've been so busy with the July 4th preparations. Yes! Bear is afraid of fireworks and has asked to be in charge of the food. I put him charge of the dunking booth! I'm no fool.

We are NOT having hot dogs!!!

Weinie

[Mama_Bear]

and has asked to be in charge of the food. I put him charge of the dunking booth! I'm no fool.

LOL!!! That's exactly why you're in charge up there. ;-)
Thanks for taking care of my Bear, ((((((((Weinie)))))))).

[Mama_Bear]

I agree with Mama Bear.....PRICELESS!!!!

Yes, indeed. And aren't we lucky to have JH2 on our side?!

[Mama_Bear]

But the n y times can take a flying leap into a shallow press pool for all I care! Make that a cesspool.

Clever play on words, Maj. :-)

[Mama_Bear]

I keep meaning to "steal" that newspaper graphic from you...but...it's SO YOU so for the time being you're safe :o)!!!!

You're my sistah, and sistahs share. You may have it whenever you like. It's yours. :-)

[MEG33]

Today I could load the thread and post a graphic, today I can copy and paste without disconnecting..I have no idea what tonight or tomorrow will bring.

I will be here in Central Texas for awhile..The birds are singing in the woods behind me, I sawed off a dead limb while waiting on a thread to load(sometimes time will allow me to load..sometimes not!) It's a wonderful place to be ..just the clunker computer keeps me frustrated!

[Diver Dave]

We've been so busy with the July 4th preparations. Yes! Bear is afraid of fireworks and has asked to be in charge of the food. I put him charge of the dunking booth! I'm no fool.

We are NOT having hot dogs!!!

LOL! Glad you're in charge. Keep an eye on Buddy. He takes the retriever part very seriously - too seriously. Retrieves stuff that doesn't belong to him.

[MEG33]

What charming roses! I finally saw some of but not all the beautiful flowers posted lately..I love them!

[Majie Purple]

"Clever play on words, Maj. :-)"

Thanks much M B!

:) HUGS!

Psssst...

I'm postin' that patriotic bunny you gave me, on July 4th!

1st of many occasions to come!

[Majie Purple]

Hi Meg!
Lovely pink flower & J H ping.
Thank you.

[lonestar]

Hi, Giz!!!

Nobody who ever wrote for the NYT ever came thru Rainbow Bridge; very few who were regular readers!

Weinie (I have 10)

[lonestar]

I had to have a loooong talk with Buddy. The message....

Do not retrieve the bottle rockets!

Weinie

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good stuff, John!

Hi everybody. Just stopping by to say hi – it's been a pretty busy week for me, but I'm having a break long enough to say hi :-)

Hope everyone is having a good time.

[DollyCali]

Just getting in.. having FR withdrawal today - LONG, LONG day.

Great job dutchess with John's clever column.. great graphics!

We are all in trouble if Pookie stops doing the toons!

[DollyCali]

oh man.. the pressure is

ON!

[DollyCali]

Meg,I hear you sweetie! Loud & Clear.

before I had DSL there were two hard threads to load. The Dose & Pookie's toons. I would open Pookies' toons in morning & walk oliver for about 20=30 minutes. When I got home it was still loading & half the pix were red x!

In PM with Dose the same thing. I learned that I was in minority & NOT to complain (well, not too much). Getting DSL has been a gift of gifts.

I will skip meals to keep DSL. for those w/o connections the satellite programs look very attractive

[MEG33]

The extra problem I have is no memory and inaccessible programs..I delete files everytime I have loaded big threads. I was not knocked off line and was allowed to cut and paste today!Whoopee!

I have caught up on the news of the terrible floods..but still do not know what exactly happened and when with your house. I am so sorry.

I have cleaned up furniture and clothing from a tornado and subsequent rain and helped pack when everyone was out of boxes and moving trucks were non existent....The weather can cause a big mess, destruction, and of course, loss of life..I have much sympathy for those who have lost so much.

My son and his wife were fortunate..They only lost their apartment, some furniture and a car. Not being able to find them the night and morning after the tornado was the next to the worst night of my life..They were huddled in an apartment with most of the roof on it with others..Of course there was no phone service ..

It seemed I spent weeks washing clothes..and getting ceiling insulation out of things! My daughter in law was 8 months pregnant with my first grandchild. I will never forget that storm and the destruction, loss and deaths.

[Majie Purple]

Hi back, Victoria!
Glad to *see* ya.
Sweet greeting/gif.
Yepper, having a good time
& a great Summer!
Longer daylight hours...
Sunshine...
Low heating costs etc...
Love it all
:)

[Majie Purple]

Re: the tornado experience you wrote of Meg... How scary for your son & daughter in law and you!

(all who went through it or family waiting to hear back from loved ones.)

Glad they + your 1st grandchild are ok.