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.
Posted at 12:14 PM Read More
Sun - January 21, 2007
Make Mix Tapes And The RIAA May Send A SWAT Team To Bust Down Your
Door
Posted at 03:01 PM Read More
Fri - January 19, 2007
DEA Makes Major Move Against Los Angeles Medical Marijuana
Dispensaries
Agents of the US Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) raided 11 Los Angeles County medical marijuana dispensaries
Wednesday, including five in the city of West Hollywood, where supportive
officials have been working with store owners to responsibly regulate their
operations. The raids mark a departure from recent DEA actions in the state,
which for the most part this year have targeted dispensaries in areas where
local officials are unsupportive of or even hostile to medical
marijuana.
Posted at 02:00 PM Read More
Attorney General Gonzales: There is no right to habeas corpus in the
United States
In his Senate Judiciary Committee
testimony yesterday, Attorney General Gonzales matter-of-factly suggested that
there is no
right to habeas guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution; the Constitution
merely states that the right of habeas, whatever it is, cannot be suspended
except in cases of rebellion or invasion.
Posted at 01:53 PM Read More
Thu - January 18, 2007
Senate Republicans stop ethics reform
Given the damaging role corruption played
against the GOP in the 2006 elections, one might think that Republicans would be
anxious to get on the right side of ethics reform. One would be wrong.
Yesterday, the Senate GOP voted en masse against ending debate on the Senate
ethics bill. The GOP's first
filibuster stops ethics reform.
Posted at 03:54 PM Read More
Wed - January 17, 2007
Gonzales: Judges unfit to rule on terror policy
Attorney General says federal jurists
should defer to president's will.
Posted at 02:58 PM Read More
What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy
The way to come to grips with $1.2
trillion is to forget about the number itself and think instead about what you
could buy with the money. When you do that, a trillion stops sounding anything
like millions or billions.
Posted at 02:56 PM Read More
A call for the impeachment of Bush's Attorney General
Politics and Federal Prosecutors
U.S. Attorneys are being forced out of
office, replaced with interim appointees chosen by the attorney
general.
Posted at 02:30 PM Read More
New Report on Government Spying on Protesters
The ACLU has released a new report
(available here)
documenting that "the Pentagon monitored at least 186 anti-military protests in
the United States and collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in
an anti-terrorist threat database."
Posted at 02:03 PM Read More
Tue - January 16, 2007
Dollars, not Democracy, drive U.S. foreign policy
Last week, members of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee grilled Secretary of State
Condoleezza
Rice about a hydrocarbon law being
considered by
Iraq's
parliament. The bill, the contents of which have not been published, is expected
to prescribe how Iraq's oil revenue will be shared among the major factions in
that country. The measure also is supposed to spell out the degree to which
foreign companies could invest - and profit - from Iraq's oil
industry.
Posted at 03:23 PM Read More
Spocko, Glenn Beck, and ABC
Last week spotlighted ABC and its
unfortunate trend toward irresponsibility, as the broadcasting giant hired Glenn
Beck -- a high-profile war cheerleader
known for grade-school level name-calling of Democrats -- to comment on the
day's events for Good Morning America. ABC last week was also dealing with the
messy fallout from its wrongheaded decision to fire off a cease-and-desist
letter to a little-known blogger named Spocko who had been posting audio clips
from KSFO in San Francisco, an ABC-owned talk station where hosts have advocated
violence against, progressives, Muslims, and Democratic members of
Congress.
Posted at 02:51 PM Read More
Mon - January 15, 2007
Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy
In a nutshell:
DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues
by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to
you.
Posted at 03:34 PM Read More
Study debunks "gateway" theory of drug abuse
A new study says that a tendency toward
delinquency or living in a neighborhood where drugs are readily available are
just as important in determining whether a young person will abuse marijuana as
whether or not he tries cigarettes or alcohol first.
Posted at 03:18 PM Read More
Federal Death Penalty Prosecutions Increasing
Even as states
back
away from the death
penalty, federal capital prosecutions have increased. The US Attorneys who favor
capital punishment find support in the Bush administration's Justice
Department.
Posted at 03:15 PM Read More
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