Update with PDF of Bill to Renew Warrantless Wiretapping

"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The writings of white supremacist shooter James Von Brunn on Free Republic, and right-wing readers' positive reaction to his writings, is mirrored here for historical reference. Free Republic has taken the post down, trying to shove it down the memory hole.

Read the Google Cache of the "Arizona Sentinel" blog cut-and-paste hack job that right-wingers are claiming "proves" that Barack Obama applied to Occidental College as a foreigner. As you'll see with a quick read and the most minimal effort to find the faked sources referred to within, it's a hoax. Also a hoax, therefore, is the claim by right-wingers that the "Arizona Sentinel" is a newspaper website taken down by The Man because conspiracy theorists were TOO CLOSE to the truth! See here for a debunking of the fake "article."

Had it up to here with the silence of the Speaker of the House during years and years of U.S. Government torture? Then shout it to the highest clouds: Nancy Pelosi, Resign!

Update with PDF of Bill to Renew Warrantless Wiretapping

Senate Republicans have obtained the cooperation of Senate Democratic leadership in promoting new legislation to extend the program of unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping that was declared legal under this August’s Protect America Act. Conservative Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller shepherded the bill through its initial stages, and now the bill has passed out of the Senate Intelligence Committee on a vote of 13 for and just 2 against. Thanks are due to Ron Wyden and Russell Feingold for providing those two votes in opposition.

The Daily Digests for October 19 and for October 18 contain reference to the this bill (entitled the “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2007″) being voted out of committee, but there is no reference to the text of this bill. However, the Senate Intelligence Committee has placed a non-text PDF copy of it here.

I’m not satisfied with that, because it doesn’t allow people to review and search the text, so I’m transcribing it and will make it available online soon.

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