Posts Tagged ‘Tyranny’

Rogue pastor is “on the run” in China

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Eddie Romero, a pastor from the United States filmed himself in upscale hotel rooms Beijing paintings protests on the walls and vandalizing the room. From AP:

On Tuesday, in a sometimes unsteady hand – he had to teach himself how to paint – the California-based pastor splashed the walls of his two hotel rooms with demands for the release of five Chinese activists. He slashed pillows and staged mock killings with stuffed people propped on the bed, red paint spattered like blood on the headboard.

“One down,” Romero whispers, looking into the video camera. Bespectacled and gray-haired, he holds up a finger in his transformed Novotel Peace Hotel room. “One down.”

Romero, who appears to be alone, tells the camera he doesn’t want to disrupt the games. He talks about religious freedom for groups that remain highly sensitive with the Chinese government – Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims, the Falun Gong spiritual movement.

“Freedom’s a scary thing for them, and by them I mean the Chinese communists,” he says.

GO EDDIE !!!!!!

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Voters are ‘rejecting’ electronic machines

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

On the positive front, it seems that this upcoming presidential election–the number of american voters using paper ballots will be more than in any other election in U.S. history. From Yahoo news:

That wasn’t supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to the government’s $3 billion plan to upgrade voting technology after the hanging-chad fiasco in Florida in 2000, that sentence would read “electronic machines” instead of paper. Instead, thousands of touchscreen devices are collecting dust in warehouses from California to Florida, where officials worried about hackers and fed up with technical glitches have replaced the equipment with scanners that will read paper ballots.

The controversial history of the diebold voting machines are well publicized and seems to have “lost the trust” of the american populace. For those of you who feel the need to hack into the diebold machines, here’s an illustrated cheat sheet you can print out for endless hours of knee slappin’ fun!

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Homeland security can now keep your electronic devices?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

from the WTF department:

According to several sources, homeland security policy now allows confiscation of laptops, phones and mp3 players ‘indefinitely’ at the border. Here is the actual document itself from cdt.org.

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Filmmaker arrested for taking pictures on a public street

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

New York City police seem to be on a roll lately. This time its for arresting documentary filmmaker Clayton Patterson taking pictures without a “press pass”??? Since when did you need a pass to take pictures on a public street? Are we in a Police state?

Read the story here.

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4 people jailed for attempting to arrest Karl Rove

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

When will the Bush administration be held accountable? If the government doesn’t do it, it looks like the citizens will (or at least try…)

From Iowapolitics.com:

“Four Iowans were arrested today while attempting to make a Citizens’ Arrest of Karl Rove in Des Moines, Iowa. Citing Iowa Code provisions for making Citizen’s Arrests as well as citing Federal Statute violations they claimed Rove had violated, the four were stopped at the gate of the Wakonda Country Club in Des Moines where Rove was scheduled to speak at a Republican Fundraiser.

The four arrested were retired Methodist minister and Peace and Justice Advocate, Rev. Chet Guinn, 80, as well as three Des Moines Catholic Workers, Edward Bloomer, 61, Kirk Brown, 25, and Mona Shaw, 57. All four were cited for trespassing and released.

The four maintained that they were acting within the guidelines of Iowa Code that obligate private citizens to make such an arrest if they believe a felony has been committed and turn Rove over to police officials to bring Rove before a judge for formal indictment. By law, a federal judge should consider the charges and determine if an indictment should be made.”

You can read the whole article here.

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Bushism of the day (Decider-iffic!)

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Instead of providing a bushism for today’s entertainment. I have found the coolest site I’ve seen all month. Its an interactive website with a “W” doll that speaks “deciderese”. All you have to do is pull the string for your Bushism! Why you could even have more than one in a day!

toostupidtobepresident.com

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Bushism of the day

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

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Today’s bushism.

“Because of your work, children who once wanted to die are now preparing to live.”

—speaking at the White House summit on malaria, Dec. 14, 2006

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Bushism of the day

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

why I oughta!

Today’s bushism.

“Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.”

—Bucharest, Romania, April 2, 2008

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Hilarious ‘Late Late show’ clip

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

This is a classic clip that I never tire of. Its from the Late Late show hosted by Craig Ferguson. This classic clip of President Bush giving a speech “drunk”.

Check it out:

By simply slowing down the video, president Bush’s speech takes on new life! Genius.

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Bushism of the day

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

why I oughta!

Today’s bushism.

“You disarm, or we will.’”

-George W. Bush speaking about Saddam Hussein

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