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Illegal Wiretapping Found Illegal
New York Times | Submitted by: Flag Hag
"A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the 'exclusive' means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government’s claim that the president’s constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law."
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From: theallseeingear [Bavid Dyrden]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 14:58
Dear Mr. Mugabe; How d'you-all do whatever the heck you want AND get away with it? Seriously. Yours, Dubya.
From: stfu
[yeah, it's me]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 16:35
How many of you thought to yourself "yeah, fuckin-a right, the gubmint has no right wiretapping blah, blah"? the when it said it was an Islamic charity went "...but on the other hand..."? Come on, be honest.
From: azdollarbill [Jim Jones]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 16:45
Illegal wiretapping was the main thrust of the never to be Tricky Dick impeachment, Watergate not withstanding. Bush was never so indicted, because up to 2006 the GOP controlled Congress, and the Dems didn't want to be seen as weak on defense. Also, Bush being a lame duck, the Dems are content to let sleeping dogs lie, because they know that what goes around comes around. It took years, but the GOP finally got their revenge for Nixon, by making Clinton's last years miserable. It was during this misery, while Clinton was preoccupied, that AQ made their plans for WTC.
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 18:14
Ya, but those people overseas aren't his enemies I guess.
From: rev [meupnpopmyclutch]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 18:18
From: gargoyle1 Well I'm impressed, a judge telling bush he's a sack of shit. I like it. ________________________________________________ I'm impressed too. I'd be more impressed if he ordered it to stop. and it did. --- Did anyone notice that there was a half-assed effort at impeaching King George? Three of them in fact. Nothing is expected to come of them - Dems being the nutless cowards they are. Why do they think they were swept back into POWER in the last election? 'Cause we like repugs?
From: pontius
Date: 4-Jul-2008 19:18
ABC is either dead or has no internet connection. That's his turf right there.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 4-Jul-2008 19:38
Ponty, I'm wondering if the thin air got to ABC. Or maybe he's just out enjoying the natural beauty of Colorado. Or too much herbage.
From: abluecommunist
[Red is for republicans, dammit!]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 20:52
I'm still alive, you rat fucking bastards. Been smoking ungodly amounts of herb before wandering Palmer Park, the Garden of the Gods, and shooting targets with a compound bow (60lb) I got at a pawnshop for 20 bucks. Yes, Commie now has a lethal weapon. It sent an arrow through 20 pieces of cardboard and a piece of sheet metal at 30 feet, which was surprising since it went through the cardboard first. I definitely shouldn't have tested it in my kitchen though.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 4-Jul-2008 22:04
Hey ABC, glad to see yer still with us. Careful with that crossbow, wouldn't want you to pin a fundie to a door. Hope yer enjoying natures beauty there man.
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 22:08
Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 4-Jul-2008 22:12
You're here in Colorado Springistan? You never looked us up? I feel hurt.
From: static
[arking quotes]
Date: 5-Jul-2008 19:16
I have been a bow hunter for years... From: abluecommunist [Red is for republicans, dammit!] Date: 4-Jul-2008 20:52 I'm still alive, you rat fucking bastards. Been smoking ungodly amounts of herb before wandering Palmer Park, the Garden of the Gods, and shooting targets with a compound bow (60lb) I got at a pawnshop for 20 bucks *** I draw 80lbs, and could stick a deer at 50 yds. Hope you keep it up, it's becoming a lots skill among men.
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 5-Jul-2008 21:39
I made my wife a pair of oyumi as a sort of "I love you" present, since she's too short at 4'9" to use a normal bow. The bows are leaves from a truck suspension and the stocks are cedar. The bow irons and lockplates are 1/8" steel, and the buttplates are 1/4" brass. One shoots regular crossbow quarrels, and the other fires 3/8" steel slingshot ammo down a 10mm barrel with a slot cut through it for most of its length for the cable to travel along. A spring retains the bullet against the cable. Cables are automobile brake cable. I blued all the steel parts myself. The stock for the first one was pine, but predictably, it cracked. I haven't measured draw weights. I can cock them well enough by hand standing up and using my legs, but I have to lay down and use my legs after the first few shots. She starts out that way and gets tired after a few shots and can't cock them after that. The bullet bow will shoot through 3/8" plywood at 50 yards. The regular crossbow will do that at 100. Either weill break a NATO helmet at 50. We haven't shot the bullet bow at 100. Having a kid will use up lots of your time. The Japanese gave up on the crossbow in the 1100s. I'd like to make one that uses an entire leaf spring and use a windlass & tackle to cock it, but I wouldn't know how to string the bastard. I figure I'd make the quarrels out of solid aluminum bar stock. I ordered the thick-walled 10mm i.d. barrel material from McMaster & Carr. I stained the cedar stocks with used motor oil (which makes a kick-ass wood stain but takes a while to dry) and then sealed them with eight coats of marine spar varnish. I made the bow-iron and lockplate screws myself, except for the ones that hold the buttplates on, which I bought at Home Despot. Those are solid brass, and not zinc-plated crap. The coilgun was more work, but I figured that since the Weimar Republic era of my life was over when I got off federal probation and I was rearming, she should have things that shot as well. We just can't have firearms, as I am a horrible nasty fucking felon. I figure I put about 120 hours into each of the oyumi, and about a thousand hours into the coilgun. I love the sound of the Faraday wheel (solid copper) when it spools up before the green light comes on, telling me it is ready to shoot. As a stay-at-home dad who takes vo-tech night classes (nobody is going to hire a white American as a chemist, 79 patents or no, felon or no), I have plenty of time while my daughter is napping, except I can't use loud machine tools in the basement then. The first time we had it out shooting, in order to zero it in, someone said, "What the hell is that?" I smiled and replied, "She's Japanese." It seems to me that if a firearm is a heat-engine with a non-captive piston, and a coilgun is an automobile starter solenoid with a non-captive actuator, there are other things one can do with projectile weapons. The project I am currently researching uses a coil again, but my idea is to use an ultraviolet CO2 laser to ionize an air tunnel to the target, and then dump an electron beam down the now-conductive air-tunnel. Ideally, this would use the same sodium-sulfur batteries and Faraday wheel on their ALICE pack frame as the coilgun. Coils can be used to accelerate plasmas, as well. Range would be pretty short, and muzzle flash horrendous. Stopping power would be truly hideous. Since I am weak on high-energy physics, ignition of the plastic rounds would be difficult for me.
From: groundnpound [Ghillie Sinclair]
Date: 5-Jul-2008 22:24
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(fbi) I could give a fuck if my phone is tapped, but Carnivore is truly a MOTHERFUCKER!
From: abluecommunist
[Red is for republicans, dammit!]
Date: 5-Jul-2008 23:23
Pisi: I bow to your crafting talents. Perhaps one day you can show me your creations, I can say something dumb/offensive/utterly retarded, you can threaten to kill me for the betterment of humanity, I can shamefully wet myself, and all will be right with the world.
From: piscivore [Michael C. Scott]
Date: 6-Jul-2008 00:32
I used to be Carnivore. I'm Piscivore now.
From: pundit [likeIsaid pundit]
Date: 6-Jul-2008 09:44
ideology aside, ABC has mastered the dialect native to this blog. I salute you ABC and wish you well out in the field.
From: noracejusthuman
[Alien From Earth]
Date: 6-Jul-2008 11:01
Yah, I know what you guys mean.. When we played Cowboys and Indians, in the old neighboorhood in the 60s it was always cooler to shoot the bow and arrows with the red rubber suction tips, a get to yell "wild indians war cries", than be just another crummy Cowboy.
Updated: 6-Jul-2008 11:01
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