Even a dead, gay, Commie Nun's clock is right twice a day...
Hummmmm? Yet, Wild Bill Maher is only right once in a blue moon!
Posted on 01/25/2006 1:31:25 AM PST by Mad Dawgg
Amazon is launching a new show via the internet called Amazon Fishbowl here is the blurb:
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Welcome to the sneak preview of Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher, a weekly original program coming to Amazon.com this June. Every week throughout the summer, the show will feature live performances from renowned musicians and thought-provoking interviews with authors, directors, and actors.
Beginning June 1, the show will be streamed every Thursday at Amazon.com at 8 p.m. Pacific / 11 p.m. Eastern. Until then, you're invited to enjoy the sneak preview in the video player below.
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The featured interview is with Stephen King, his new book CELL deals with cell phones and technology and zombies (hey you can't make this stuff up) anyhow Maher and King talk about technology and King Slams Bush about the wire taps, and to my astonishment Maher backs the President!
You can see it for yourself using the link above.
I don't like the whole wire-tapping thing. I'm not with Bush on this.
I'm with you.
None of the calls being monitored are domestic only calls. Foreigners have no right to expect that their calls into the US are private. Noone accepting an incoming international call, or making an outgoing international call has any 'expectation of privacy' either in fact or in law.
The courts have decided this one more than once.
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Unless you are conducting evil deeds on the telephone/internet, you have nothing to fear.
Thing is, I'm not a foreigner. I'm an American living abroad.
I don't like the government being able to do this.
I will like it even less once Hillary is doing it in 2009.
Stephen King: (siezing a lamp off the table) Now for my 300th novel, a couple... is attacked... by a giant lamp monster.
Editor: You're not even trying anymore are you?
Stephen King: (waving the lamp menacingly) Grawwrrl!
As far as Maher, I think the guy's gotten a bad rap. He is liberal, but he's smart and honest about it. I'm glad he's still speaking his mind, even if it's unpopular.
Hillary would do it and already has, (filegate) but she would not do it for our country's defense, and she would deny it to the end. Bush is open about it.
NSA has neither the authority nor the manpower to track any more than that, and I'm sure even that additional load is tough for them. To think that they've got time or inclination to sift through random civilian calls for no reason while they're in the middle of hunting terrorists is absurd.
Bill Maher backs the President??? Well, it doesn't change my opinion of Maher. He's still a liberal dink--DU material.
Well, you if you are living outside of the USA, the country you are in probably doesn't have the protective rights that the USA has, even on domestic wiretapping. Even countries like the UK, France, etc. are much more lenient and I don't know of any country that requires warrants to monitor outgoing or incoming calls. So even if the USA wasn't listening in on your calls, the country you are living in could. The USA is probably the most restrictive country in the world on warrants on eavesdropping
Even a dead, gay, Commie Nun's clock is right twice a day...
Hummmmm? Yet, Wild Bill Maher is only right once in a blue moon!
"Bush is open about it."
Ha. hehe. He didn't mean to be.
Exactly. Most of the world is clueless as to what this scandal is about. Aside from a tiny handful of countries, the idea of getting a warrent to do eavesdrop is an alien concept. They just do it, and they don't give a hoot what you think about it. Unless PS is living in an English speaking country, it's about certain that his host goverment can and will eavesdrop on him at will.
Domestic 'wiretapping' laws don't apply. They never have. Foreign nationals and Americans living abroad do not have a 'right' to private phone calls into the US. Your phone calls are broadcast into the atmosphere at satellites whirling in orbit 22,000 miles over your head. That makes what you say 'public'.
Anyone with a properly tuned reciever can 'listen in'. The US government just happens to own some really bitching recievers. All the NSA does is monitor those satellites, and they do that from listening posts that aren't even on US soil. There are no US laws being broken, or even bent here.
Now, if you don't like that you can write your Congresscritter. That's your right. Get them to change the laws so that the US Government can't monitor any foreign signals at all. Somehow I think that once you've had a chance to mull over what that means you'll be alright with US policy in this regard.
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I too am an American living abroad.
I don't particularly like the fact that my calls to the US might be monitored. But I'd like it a WHOLE LOT LESS if these calls and others like them were simply ignored. That wouild be a Presidential deriliction of duty of impeachable proportions, IMHO.
How many lives are you willing to sacrifice for your potential aesthetic sense of communications privacy?
I too am an American living abroad.
I don't particularly like the fact that my calls to the US might be monitored. But I'd like it a WHOLE LOT LESS if these calls and others like them were simply ignored. That wouild be a Presidential deriliction of duty of impeachable proportions, IMHO.
How many lives are you willing to sacrifice for your potential aesthetic sense of communications privacy?
IMHO, this whole wire tapping thing has been blown out of proportion. Fortunately, the wire tapping seems to have stopped other things from being blown out of proportion.
If Her Heinous were to take over in 2009, nothing done now would make a bit of difference either way. She would govern by the Begala Doctrine—Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool. She would not allow the commoners in Congress to get in the way again like they did with her socialized medicine power grab.
Then the thing to do is make sure Hillary isn't elected.
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