] Watch Nader debate action figures:

Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Size

] PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.%u2014"I want you to stand, raise
] your right hands," and recite "the Bush Pledge," said
] Florida state Sen. Ken Pruitt. The assembled mass of
] about 2,000 in this Treasure Coast town about an hour
] north of West Palm Beach dutifully rose, arms aloft, and
] repeated after Pruitt: "I care about freedom and liberty.
] I care about my family. I care about my country. Because
] I care, I promise to work hard to re-elect, re-elect
] George W. Bush as president of the United States."
]
]
] I know the Bush-Cheney campaign occasionally requires the
] people who attend its events to sign loyalty oaths, but
] this was the first time I have ever seen an audience
] actually stand and utter one. Maybe they've replaced the
] written oath with a verbal one.

One Nation Under Bush - At a campaign rally, Republicans recite the

George W. Bush :

"We are in a war on global terror, and because of you, we're winning the war on global terror."

"I don’t think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world"

"We will tear down the apparatus of terror, and we will help build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free."

"I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called 'nation building.'"

"America and the world are safer because Saddam Hussein sits in a prison cell"

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."

"I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign-policy matters with war on my mind."

"Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president."

Flip Flop yourself.

Elonka wrote:
] ] John Kerry: "It was the right decision to disarm Saddam
] ] Hussein, and when the President made the decision I
] ] supported him."
] ]
] ] John Kerry: "I don't believe the President took us to war
] ] as he should have."
] ]
] ] John Kerry: "The winning of the war was brilliant."
] ]
] ] John Kerry: "It's the wrong war, in the wrong place, at
] ] the wrong time."
] ]
] ] John Kerry: "I have always said we may yet even find
] ] weapons of mass destruction."
] ]
] ] John Kerry: "I actually did vote for the 87 billion
] ] dollars before I voted against it."
]
] A collection of "flip flop" quotes from Kerry, and the press
] release from the Kerry campaign where they try to explain
] context.

RE: Kerry: Misleader-in-Chief?

] Mr. Leahy then suggested that the president of the Senate
] take his gavel and use it to perform an act that, while
] not technically impossible in anatomical terms, would
] certainly be considered both unseemly and unhygienic, and
] which would require an unusual combination of
] single-minded ambition and physical relaxation.
]
]
] Mr. Cheney wasted no time in informing Mr. Leahy that he
] should feel free to perform yet another anatomical
] impossibility%u2014this one involving aviation, a
] standard sexual act, and a rolling doughnut.

oh my lord, this is hilarious. Another take on the Chaney v. Leahy war of words.

The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs Chaney v. Leahy

yes-- this is what I discussed in my article long long ago. Fantastic! Super!

] A district court in Boston has used the DMCA to grant a
] preliminary injunction against a third party service
] vendor who tried to fix StorageTek tape library backup
] systems for legitimate purchasers of the system.

[ Fun and games with modern law. Awesome! -k]

LawGeek: DMCA hammer comes down on tech service vendor

] One friend I know describes working in the media as
] shoveling coal for Satan. That's about right. A worker in
] a tampon factory has dignity: He just uses his sweat to
] make a product, a useful product at that, and doesn't lie
] to himself about what he does. In this business we make
] commodities for sale and, for the benefit of our
] consciences and our egos, we call them ideas and truth.
] And then we go on the lecture circuit. But in 99 cases
] out of 100, the public has more to learn about humanity
] from the guy who makes tampons.
]
] I'm off on this tangent because I'm enraged by the
] numerous attempts at verbose, pseudoliterary, "nuanced"
] criticism of Moore this week by the learned priests of
] our business. (And no, I'm not overlooking this
] newspaper.) Michael Moore may be an ass, and impossible
] to like as a public figure, and a little loose with the
] facts, and greedy, and a shameless panderer. But he
] wouldn't be necessary if even one percent of the rest of
] us had any balls at all.
]
] If even one reporter had stood up during a pre-Iraq Bush
] press conference last year and shouted, "Bullshit!" it
] might have made a difference.

Wow, this is the kind of media rant I have been wanting to write for quite some time now. Please go and read it.

NYPress: SHOVELING COAL FOR SATAN: Christopher Hitchens collects check from Microsoft, calls Moore a coward.

] Apple's iPod music player seemed particularly vulnerable
] to attack. Any major record label could bring a strong
] lawsuit against Apple for "intentionally inducing"
] infringement under this new law with the iPod, both
] because it's plausible to argue that having an iPod
] enhances the lure of using P2P to download music (gotta
] fill all that space!) and because all the major record
] labels still believe that private sharing of songs from
] your CDs with friends is copyright infringement. We still
] disagree with the labels on these points, but the reality
] is that no court has yet convinced them that their legal
] theories are flawed. We also threw in Toshiba for making
] the iPod's hard drive and CNET for showing people how to
] move the iPod's music files.

EFF's discussion of the potential uses of Sen. Hatch's ridiculous INDUCE ACT. Time to get reading, fellas, we may be in for another dmca-type fight.

EFF: Prelude to a Fake Complaint

] This quality-control breakdown has resulted in agencies
] classifying too much information and, in some cases,
] classifying information that by law shouldn't be stamped
] "secret" in the first place. Implying that the government
] classified the reports of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib to
] cover up the scandal, Leonard says:
]
] [I]n no case can information be classified in order
] to conceal violations of law or to prevent embarrassment
] to a person, organization or agency. %u2026 Specifically,
] "exactly from whom are we keeping the information
] secret?" In the case of detainee abuse, we are obviously
] not keeping it secret from the detainees%u2014they
] experience the abuse and interrogation techniques first
] hand. And I assume we do not expect them to sign a
] nondisclosure agreement upon their release from custody
] based upon the premise that they had been exposed to
] classified information when they are subjected to abusive
] techniques.

Our Privacy Czar says the classified system is breaking down in both directions. Link to full speech: http://www.archives.gov/isoo/speeches_and_articles/print_friendly.html?page=bill_leonard_ncms_speech_june_15_2004_content.html&title=NARA%20%7C%20ISOO%20%7C%20NCMS%20Remarks%2015%20June%202004

Too Many Secrets, Says the Secrecy Czar - J. William Leonard frets about the breakdown of the classification system. By Jack Shafer

] 21. This "If Moore had his way" is just childish
] nonsense. In reality, if Moore had his way, the US would
] have led a internationa coalition into Afghanistan and
] killed or detained Osama Bin Laden while detroying Al
] Quaeda. If Moore had his way, President Bush would not
] have made us less safe by invading Iraq and giving
] another cause (and recruiting drive) to the terrorists.
] If Moore had his way, hundreds of Americans would still
] be alive. If Moore had his way, we would not have been in
] Abu Ghraib to imprison and torture but would have been
] there to liberate and help. If Moore had his way, I'd
] have the right not to tell the police my name when asked,
] not to have my apartment searched without a warrant, not
] to have my library and financial records investigated. If
] Moore had his way, not only would Iraqis and Afghais be
] free, but so would we.

Wow, the first post on slate after the Hitchins piece is a note by note refutation of Hitchins attacks on F9/11. A piece worthy of memestreams rant! oaknet and decius should especially enjoy the destruction.... the discussion continues.

MSN Slate Magazine

] There's no place where Bush has been more dishonest than
] with this issue. He opposes the Texas Patients' Bill of
] Rights, but it is passed by a veto-proof majority in the
] Texas legislature, so Bush lets it pass into law without
] a signature. Yet in a debate with Gore, Bush blatantly
] lies claiming he signed it. (The media was too busy
] calling Gore a liar to write about Bush's REAL lies.)
]
]
] Then, after Bush gets into office, he orders his Justice
] Department to fight the Texas law. Yesterday, Bush won.
] The Supreme Court has invalidated all state Patients'
] Bill of Right laws saying federal law supercedes it.

This is the more important story from the Supreme Court rulings yesterday.

Bush lies on Patients' Bill of Rights