State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said.

How to win? Make other people too afraid to vote. The word is "disenfranchisement" and it means you've violated another person's civil rights.

Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not drop the soap.

AG: Voter warning linked to GOP campaign - Yahoo! News

Federal authorities had found the page and placed Wilson on their checklist. They finally reached her this week in her molecular biology class.

The 14-year-old freshman was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents.

The War on Terror is over. Terror has won.

Teen questioned for online Bush threats - Yahoo! News

2. The Enterprise-D went for $576,000, whereas the Enterprise-A, the last item sold, went for a bit less than half that.

Cap'n! The wallet canna take the strain!

Qapla'! Christie's Star Trek Auction: BLOG: SciAm Observations

According to the source, Foley said he was being pressured by "the White House and Rove gang," who insisted that Foley run. If he didn't, Foley was told, it might impact his lobbying career.

"He said, 'The White House made it very clear I have to run,'" explains Foley's friend, adding that Foley told him that the White House promised that if Foley served for two more years it would "enhance his success" as a lobbyist. "I said, 'I thought you wanted out of this?' And he said, 'I do, but they're scared of losing the House and the thought of two years of Congressional hearings, so I have two more years of duty.'"

Nope, doesn't look like this one went according to plan at all.

Foley and Rove

Mehlman devised a cover-up for the operation. He told Kuo, "It can't come from the campaigns. That would make it look too political. It needs to come from the congressional offices. We'll take care of that by having our guys call the office to request the visit."

Kuo explains, "this approach inoculated us against accusations that we were using religion and religious leaders to promote specific candidates."

The more we find out the more offensive it gets. Misappropriation of government funds? Let's try subverting the democratic process. This is, again, criminal.

Crooks and Liars - Olbermann Exclusive: Dissecting new Book: Tempting Faith

"Charlie has obviously done an exceptional job, a really extraordinary job," said Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan, the Pentagon's chief defense counsel for Military Commissions.

Sullivan added it was "quite a coincidence" that Swift was passed over for a promotion "within two weeks of the Supreme Court opinion."

Quite a coincidence my ass. They're trying to say a guy in the JAG corps who WINS a case in front of the Supreme Court isn't one of the best people in that branch? That's an even bigger pile of bullshit than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave normally slings at us.

AP Wire | 10/08/2006 | Lawyer who defended bin Laden's driver denied promotion

A senior congressional aide said Wednesday that he alerted the House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office in 2004 about worrisome conduct by former Rep. Mark Foley with teenage pages -- the earliest known alert to the GOP leadership.

I smell chum...

cbs2chicago.com - Aide Says He Warned Hastert Of Foley 2 Years Ago

It's just a misplaced letter, but what a misplaced letter: Swapping a "D" for an "R" last night, Fox News and "The O'Reilly Factor" labeled disgraced pedophile Congressman Mark Foley, longtime Republican, as a Democrat.

Thanks Faux News. Why don't you just mislead people more.

Eat The Press |

KING: We're back with Bob Woodward. The book "State of Denial." Tell us about Rumsfeld talking about Mission Accomplished banner on the ship.

WOODWARD: This is May 1st, 2003, the very famous speech the president gave on the aircraft carrier, the Kennedy. You know there was that sign, Mission Accomplished. And I asked Rumsfeld about it and said he was -- Rumsfeld was in Baghdad and they sent him an advanced copy of the speech. And he said, I almost died because mission accomplished was in the speech. And he said, I got it out of the speech but I didn't get the sign down. Now they've always put out the story that it was the Navy that put up the sign. And there's the secretary of defense saying it was in the speech.

Let's remember, the entire time since this was done the shrubbery has said that this was done by the Navy, and the shrubbery had nothing to do with it. Chalk up yet another now documented lie.

This got completely out of control some unknown amount of time ago (I'm going to guess January 20th, 2001, but I may be off by a day or two) and since then it has simply been one disaster after another. This has been described as the worst presidency since James Buchanon. That is not going to be in any way accurate. Assuming these people don't stage a Reichstag fire, someone else is going to become President in 2009, and they're going to suddenly find out all the things these guys have been doing that we don't know about yet.

CNN.com - Transcripts Mission Accomplished?

The exchange continues in which Foley and the teen both appear to describe having sexual orgasms.

Maf54: ok..i better go vote..did you know you would have this effect on me
Teen: lol I guessed

The vote? The 2003 war time supplemental appropriation. War is sex? This has progressed from ugly, to insane and is now on it's way to pornographic surrealist idiocy. And that's just on Foley's side. Toss in Hastert, Boehner and Reynolds and it's sort of "The Three Stooges meat Liberace."

The Blotter - Foley Update