Sun - April 1, 2007

"Coherent Ramblings" goes dormant.


I have been pointing out stupidity, corruption and self-serving on this blog for 4 years. Recently there have been other demands on my time and energy and this blog has slipped a bit lower on my priority list.

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Sun - October 8, 2006

U.S. Rules Allow the Sale of Products Banned in Other Countries


As the European Union and other nations have tightened their environmental standards, mostly in the last two years, manufacturers — here and around the world — are selling goods to American consumers that fail to meet other nations' stringent laws for toxic chemicals.

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Banned Elsewhere, Compounds Still Used in U.S.


The U.S. toy industry said seven years ago, when the European Union first banned some phthalates, that it would voluntarily remove them from products for babies and toddlers. But last year, 15 of 18 vinyl bath toys, teethers that babies chew on and other toys purchased at U.S. stores contained the chemicals, according to tests by the activist organization U.S. Public Interest Research Group. One plastic book labeled "phthalate free" contained phthalates.

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Wed - September 13, 2006

Bush thinks he is leading a "third awakening" of Christianity in America


There is so much wrong with what Bush said today, it's difficult to begin.

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Thu - August 24, 2006

Republicans say CIA isn't scaring us enough


Some senior Bush administration officials and top Republican lawmakers are voicing anger that American spy agencies have not issued more ominous warnings about the threats that they say Iran presents to the United States.

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Thu - July 27, 2006

Web database of molesters becomes law


President Bush, joined by "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, signed a new law Thursday that requires convicted child molesters to be listed on a national Internet database and face a felony charge for failing to update their whereabouts.

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Sun - July 9, 2006

Orin Hatch protecting a drug smuggler


This is what GOP family values have come to. We now have self-proclaimed religious conservative Senators (yes, I know he's a Mormon - and he still plays the religious conservative card just like the fundamentalists) using political pressure to get drug smugglers off the hook.

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Sun - June 18, 2006

Hush-hush honours for US military top brass


MPs demand to know why invasion chiefs and billionaire got awards.

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Tue - June 13, 2006

Labs compete to make new nuclear bomb


The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the San Francisco Bay area and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are competing to design the nation's first new nuclear bomb in two decades.

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Mon - May 29, 2006

A Few Years, and Then Another Bush?


Bush III? Or has the dynasty run its course?

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Wed - May 17, 2006

Unwed Parents Face Eviction


There may be a legitimate public interest in limiting the number of people who are permitted to occupy a single residence, but that interest doesn't justify an ordinance that permits families to live together if the parents are married to each other while prohibiting them from living together if the parents are unmarried. The St. Louis suburb of Black Jack nonetheless thinks it has the right to keep unmarried couples with more than one child from occupying the same home.

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Thu - April 20, 2006

Despite Bird Flu, Bush to Let Poultry Processed in China into U.S.


Poultry processed in China will be allowed to enter the United States despite outbreaks of deadly bird flu in China, the Bush administration said Thursday.

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Mon - March 13, 2006

Vietnam War Deserter Arrested at U.S. Canadian Border


On Thursday, former Marine Allen Abney, 56, who moved to Canada in 1968 and holds dual citizenship, was arrested by U.S. Border Agents at the Vancouver-Idaho border. He's being transferred to Camp Pendleton to face desertion charges.

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Mon - January 9, 2006

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail


Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.

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Mon - November 14, 2005

The Senate agrees to Imprisonment without Charges


How can the Senate vote to ban habeas corpus?!? 

It makes no sense at all. It’s like voting for an end to freedom. And, yet, this is exactly what happened on Friday, November 11, when the Senate passed the (Lindsay) Graham amendment which overturns an earlier Supreme Court ruling (Rasul vs. Bush) allowing Guantanamo detainees to challenge their imprisonment in federal court. By a 49 to 42 margin the Senate approved the measure which effectively deprives them of the right to know why they are being held or of any legal means to defend themselves.

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Bush says "God told me to invade Iraq"

Senate Changes Line of Succession

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