All Commander-In-Chief, All The Time

In addition to the "culture of corruption," Republicans in Congress have also created a "culture of victimhood."

The Riddle Of Port Control

The issue of United States port control has rendered one of the finest ethical, intellectual conundrums of the decade. The Top 25 ingredients of the riddle go something like this:

1) The United States is embroiled in a war on terror.
2) One of our named allies in the "war on terror" is the United Arab Emirates. They have proposed a seven billion dollar transaction that would transfer the right to operate several key American ports.
3) The United Arab Emirates recognized the Taliban in its official foreign policy.
4) Two of the 9-11 hijackers were citizens of the United Arab Emirates.
5) The United Arab Emirates was a financial base for 9-11 participants, raising questions as to the security of the UAE banking system.
6) The United Arab Emirates benefits from United States security forces in their region.
7) The United Arab Emirates is regularly accused of human rights violations.
8) The United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich nation. Last I checked, we use oil.
9) The ports utilize extensive union labor, often reportedly at exceptional wages. Other countries have reportedly refused to invest in our ports due to the union stranglehold.
10) The United Arab Emirates, in its country, bans unions and strikes.
11) The United Arab Emirates has a strong, experienced international port industry.
12) American citizens have learned for the first time that China, surprisingly, is also in the American port ownership business.
13) The United Arab Emirates funded the Edward Said chair in Middle East Studies at Columbia University, filled by an apologetic of Palestinian violence.
14) The United Arab Emirates broke relations with Egypt when an Israeli peace treaty was signed in 1979, and the UAE does not officially recognize Israel.
15) Saudi Arabia doesn't officially recognize Israel either, and is among the largest donors to Palestinian causes. Should this change our policies with regard to the Saudis as well?
16) Many Americans are unaware how the port system actually works, the hierarchy of security and the actual implication of the owner/operator agreements that drive our port operations. This has created a firestorm of controversy based partly on our need, as Americans, to study and understand the issues of the day.
17) Many Americans believe the port issue amounts to outsourcing key infrastructure to hostile Arab governments. This is hardly an accurate representation, however it does reflect genuine, legitimate concern on the part of the American citizenry.
18) Supporters of the transfer cite rampant racism as the reason the United Arab Emirates might potentially be blocked from domestic U.S. port operation.
19) Democrats are reportedly using this issue as a political jumpstart to show attention to anti-Arab fervor, after trying to convince Americans that the war on terror is a fable. Are the formerly multi-culturalist Democrats trying to whip the public into a frenzy, using the United Arab Emirates as an innocent scapegoat to gain some national security credentials?
20) Are Republicans guilty of their big business pedigree, willing to allow the United Arab Emirates control of our ports while creating a potential Trojan horse venue in the process?
21) Has the Bush Administration failed by not requiring the United Arab Emirates to follow strict domestic data warehousing and reporting requirements?
22) Is the United Arab Emirates trying to avoid the jurisdiction of our courts system by not wanting their records kept on our soil?
23) Are we proposing to punish a critical ally in a difficult part of the world because of skin color and guilt by association?
24) These seven billion dollars, where are they coming from? Are they sitting in a UAE bank waiting for transfer? Will they come from a bond market, opening the opportunity for some frightening investors to piggyback on this scary deal?
25) The United Arab Emirates also controls a port at Vancouver, Canada. Should we tell the Canadians to send them packing?

Go to the link to see if the riddler has the answer to the riddle:

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_80992.asp

MOVE ON ORG SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION/4TH AMENDEMENT VIGILS:

Go to this link to view about 40 pictures of the MO vigils:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moveon/sets/72057594069597286/

Bill O'Reilly suggested that the United States "hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible" because "[t]here are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them."

O'Reilly has previously called those advocating immediate withdrawal from Iraq "pinheads" and compared them to Hitler appeasers.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602220007

Our Move On vigil in Battle Creek, Mich got local media coverage; both print and T.V.. The newspaper printed the vigil story on page 3 with a photograph of one of the demonstrators holding a sign. The T.V. station ran a clip - probably a 1 minute clip (not very long) of the demonstration and a quote from me about FISA and the NSA. It was the second newsstory on the 11 p.m. local news - right after the BIG TOP STORY of Ann Coulter speaking at Western Michigan University.

Posted by: ralpheh at February 25, 2006 01:57 PM

Congratulations, ralpheh! One minute on the nightly news is actually very good (IMHO) when you consider how many minutes they actually report "news." Also, the positioning after Coulter is good; shows how reasonable & intelligent you are as compared to that witch.

From CNN via thinkprogress:

Zero.
Number of Iraqi battalions capable of fighting without U.S. support.

On Friday, the Pentagon revealed that “the only Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without U.S. support has been downgraded.”

more:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/25/zero-2/
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/24/iraq.security/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

Obviously, our administration doesn't really want them to be prepared to take over. There are a lot of smart, capable men over in Iraq. There are a lot of very highly trained army trainers in our military. It is unfathomable that there is not a single battalion ready. Somebody's not trying very hard. And I bet it's not the Iraqis.

24) These seven billion dollars, where are they coming from? Are they sitting in a UAE bank waiting for transfer? Will they come from a bond market, opening the opportunity for some frightening investors to piggyback on this scary deal?

The latest sign that we in the US are broke and we're selling off our assets to fund this ongoing war on rationality.

Breaking News: GOP congressional leaders are working on a compromise that may allow a Dubai company to manage six U.S. ports, CNN has learned.

R.I.P. Don Knotts

Barney Fife Forever!

Monkey
Complete sellouts. Expect it. Those who gave us the IWR, the Patriot Act.

But ..

Washington Told to Justify Port Deal in Court
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022506X.shtml
The Bush administration was ordered by a US federal judge on Friday to explain why it did not give New Jersey officials documents and information Washington had about a deal allowing an Arab company to take over management of a container terminal in Newark.

We must fight this tooth and nail. I care much less about the port deal than about the principle.

This stinks.

Florida Votes Time-Date-Stamped Two Weeks before Election
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022506F.shtml
The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time- and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

Perfect example of why we should not be outsourcing our elections to for-profit, partisan companies such as Diebold and others. Election data, i.e. raw data of our votes, are deemed a “company secret”, meaning no one outside the company is permitted to view the raw data.

The only data Diebold provides is the vote “totals.” Election officials, political parties, candidates or the public have no way of verifying those totals. We are thus required to trust the results with no ability to verify the results.
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NO, YES, NO: Alaska Now Refuses Release of 2004 Election Data Citing Security Concerns!
(snip)

A long-standing public records request for the release of Election 2004 database files created by Diebold's voting system had been long delayed after several odd twists and turns, including the revelation of a contract with the state claiming the information to be a "company secret."

But while it finally appeared as though the state had agreed to release the information (after reserving the right to "manipulate the data" in consultation with Diebold before releasing it), the state's top Security Official has now -- at the last minute -- stepped in to deny the request. The grounds for the denial: the release of the information poses a "security risk" to the state of Alaska.
Read the details at
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002467.htm
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Posted by: ralpheh at February 25, 2006 01:57 PM

One minute is EXCELLENT, Ralph.

We used to joke on campaigns that tv news was the great equalizer: no matter who you are, you never get more than 90 seconds. So IMHO a whole minute is really great.

Posted by: Elizabeth/DiAnne at February 25, 2006 06:52 PM

Why don't you edit this down a dn tighten it up and post this as a diary over at Kos and cross post it back here?

Cool! What a great idea! In fact, we could even take the whole darn DCP blog and post it on Kos instead and then just cross-post it back here, too -- just imagine how many more redundant clicks that would save!

home is where you hang your @,
Otter

DiAnne- not trying to be negative on the article, but I do wonder if the machines examined were "early voting" machines, especially considering there were no votes cast on them the day of the election. The early voting machines in my county are set up in the courthouse and usually aren't used on the day of the election- on that day, voters must vote in their local precincts.Florida allows early voting in most counties, up to two weeks before the election usually. I would be more suspicious of some of the other findings than of machines with October dates stamped on them, especially since I voted in October myself, if I remember correctly.
I hope some of the Republicans do work on a compromise with Dubai- not that I want this thing to go through, but I don't want them to escape retribution by running from their leader on this issue. The public is so angry over this thing that I have no doubt there'll be a turn-over in Congress this fall, especially if Frist and his guys go along with Bush on it. Then the Democrats can come in, impeach the whole bunch of them, and void the contract somehow. No one is going to convince the average American this thing is good for the country- it's not good, to begin with, and, even if it were, the average voter is too dumb to understand any reason that Bush could explain to them. And people just don't trust his word anymore- the social security issue proves that. He needs tossing out and so do the Republicans in congress, so let them agree with him on it. I think this issue, along with Iraq, is going to bring about the end of the Republican party's power for years to come.

Posted by: Casey Morris at February 25, 2006 07:00 PM

Casey, (Dianne/Elizabeth)

Yes, I think that's a great idea. I know I often learn a lot by visiting other sites and learn from having them here too. What is nice about creating diary is that it makes you perfect the structure and evidence you use in your diary. It serves a purpose to educate people and to also respect the original posters.

The other aspect that is useful is because for many people they don't have time to scour a huge site like kos and may find things more readily assessable here.

Frankly, I love the information Bradblog has but it hurts my eyes to try to read it there. And sometimes the font or the colors make it really difficult to think or read.

I look at our blog and the other sites as partners together...like a team trying to work together to educate, activate, and empower people.

You never know when or where you'll see something that reaches you or something that you missed out there altogether.

Posted by: Linda Enterkin at February 25, 2006 07:38 PM

I didn't realize Florida had early voting. Thanks for that correction! Here I was ready to walk to Florida (Well FLY and stay there another month or two) all in the name of fighting for fair elections there.

I guess I'll have to stay here in the cold dark winter.

Posted by: Linda Enterkin at February 25, 2006 07:38 PM

Linda,

You're right. The people "get" the port issue. I think a lot of them even "get" the spy issue. And many even "get" the Plame issue.

But with each trick the current majority pulls and ignores, the people here are getting more and more angry.

Ralph..FIND us a good candidate to replace Shwatz and let's get the ball moving. (You too BB you're in our district now too.)

Linda E
Acc/my read oaf the article, the date stamps preceded when early voting could start.

Sparrow, Casey
I'll see what Elizabeth thinks about that. It's going to be a good event. She has organized most of it but wanted me to cover it photographically so I certainly would do a DCP story about it once it actually happens. As far as cross-posting at Kos, Bert in Mpls and a couple of other people are avid Kossacks and diarists (if you see Kayakbiker, that would be Bert). I generally read what they send and once in awhile I'll go there. I actually don't read many blogs - mostly this one, and when I do, they are not necessarily political blogs. I mostly focus on news stories, especially foreign ones that may get less coverage here. & I have to listen to alot of radio because I get that news as a commuter. No tv because then I wouldn't have time to read, write, blog, draw, eat, sleep, work out at the gym or the couple of other biological functions. & I prefer to read about tv because I want to kill it when I watch it.

No seriously, I know Kos diaries reach alot of people but there are also alot of Kos diaries. We'll probably end up doing something like that.

Elizabeth has committed herself in a stunning fashion to the voter justice issue. She has been doing it ever since the botched election. Her focus on the internet is mostly around that issue. I help her publicize what she finds out & wants to do but she does the research and organization. I don't really have a focus like that, except to encourage people to dig deeper into foreign affairs coverage, which I feel to be sketchy in our press.

Thanks to all who made suggestions, and I'm not forgetting you Otter.

By the way, our local political caucusses are next Saturday so we'll be gathering in places like elementary school cafeterias, to hammer out a platform and select district delegates.

By the way, I see Juan Cole has linked to Democratic Daily.
I think he & Dr. Ron are from the same area. They are both great sources of information.

Homeland Security Initially Objected to Ports Deal

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5648071,00.html

Neocon Steven Hadley insists it's a done deal.

Posted by: DiAnne at February 25, 2006 08:27 PM

Same state different lakes.

Sparrow
LOL Gotcha

Different topic (sort of) - started reading an International Herald Tribune article about Iraq (death squads, militias, Interior Ministry) and literally couldn't continue. It was too brutal.
Turns out earlier speculation about what had been going on was true (death squads). They were reporting drill holes in the bodies, people already cuffed when shot. At that point I just stopped reading.

Posted by: nmp at February 25, 2006 08:40 PM

NMP,

That article is more important for other reasons not stated within it. When a government department submits an objection as regards to port management, there is a 45 day requirement for review. Funny how the decision seems to have been made in about four weeks time.

Worse article, which I couldn't finish & my husband is reading it now - called "The Memo" and it's in the latest New Yorker, the one with Bush & Cheney cartooned on the cover as gay cowboys.

Nothing you haven't been exposed to but they've mooshed it all together coherently and it's hard to fathom and to figure out how to ratchet up our activism based on this - leave the country? withold our taxes?!

Woo - Gonzalez - the Justice Department - Mora's fruitless battle re Guantanamo torture (he was outranked, & he was a Naval officer & legal expert) & then as related to Abu Graib.
It's quite a shock to think that there have been actual logs kept about the torture - it's not just something some low-ranking bored & prejudiced sadists did to while away the hours.

How can a citizen know about this and stay silent, live a normal life, identify as citizens of same country that has this happen - and I'm just a magazine reader and radio listener with a vivid imagination. There is so much we don't even have access to. & what about those who see and participate in all this violence, under orders or coercion or just brainwashed. What will happen when they get home?

Well a young member of the beloved Stryker brigade, stationed out of Ft. Lewis near here came home and bludgeoned his bride to death, & kept on going after she was a corpse.

I listened to a broadcast today (NPR) about the militias that take it upon themselves to guard the southern US border. I learned that many are vets and they miss the action that they become accustomed to in wartime. The segment used actual sound and they were out there in the middle of the night with their huge blinding lights, night vision goggles & other paraphernalia, using military terminology and looking for intrusive dark-skinned people trying to infiltrate the border.

Sometimes it is all just too much.

At the beginning of the day I posted an article from the Chatanooga paper about The Riddle of Port Control. I wrote to the author and he's not a liberal. I told him I agreed with many of his conclusions. He wrote me back and said that alot of his questions were opposed to each other and that the whole issue was so gray that it would provide a college debate team a month of work. I wrote back and told him his article was pretty "fair and balanced" and that most issues are pretty gray, and that we should have a leader that understands the nuances, and doesn't just see things in black and white, and that the media should do the same. I love to email authors.

Why don't you edit this down and tighten it up and post this as a diary over at Kos and cross post it back here?

Posted by: Casey Morris at February 25, 2006 07:00 PM

Casey and DiAnne,

Don't forget to give us the link from Kos!!

I look at our blog and the other sites as partners together...like a team trying to work together to educate, activate, and empower people.

You never know when or where you'll see something that reaches you or something that you missed out there altogether.

Posted by sparrow at February 25, 2006 07:54 PM

Sparrow, I agree, we are community building, and I think it is wonderful community building to share our posts with others and glean information and new original ideas, art forms, and insights from other blogs, and bring them back here and share. And, many times the other blogs I visit are sharing posts and articles they have gotten from still other blogs. That's how the knowledge, and art, and ideas get around. Got creative ideas? Wonderful, share them with us here, then get them out there to lots of other blogs and leave the dcp url - it is community building!!!! Now get busy, and write and create!!! We need your help!!!!!

Ha ha ha! LOL! This is funny!

http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/nolies32fouettes

OOps! Here's the original article by John Kerry referencing my link above.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0906-02.htm

Bush Awards Prison Contract to Charles Manson

Charles Manson is not yet sure if he'll abuse his new position to foment discord, start race riots, or to appear on American Idol.

+++

(Jivester News, Lmtd.) The Bush Administration has formally announced which organization will receive the highly coveted Federal Prison Maintenance contract, and it was no surprise that the winner is Charles Manson, who will take over the post right after Congress sh*ts its pants.
~snip

In other news, Presideadend Bush also announced the names of a number of other new players on the national scene: Eddie "Pyro" Flamesalot has been named as head of the U.S. Forest Service, Dalton "Fingers" MaGrapple (recently released from jail for having committed a series of regrettable yet largely successful armed robberies) will be running the World Bank,
~snip
more....

http://www.correntewire.com/bush_awards_prison_contract_to_charles_manson

Mike Whitney : Whose Bombs were they? :
Is the Bush administration inciting civil war as part of an exit strategy?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12063.htm

Rumsfeld Zeros in on the Internet
By Mike Whitney
The War Department is planning to insert itself into every area of the Internet from blogs to chat rooms, from leftist web sites to editorial commentary. Their rapid response team will be on hair-trigger alert to dispute any tidbit of information that challenges the official storyline.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12060.htm

Arianna Huffington: Civil War in Iraq: Murtha Told Us So :
He was willing to see the inevitable -- unlike far too many of his fellow Democrats who continue to be blinded by the fear of not appearing strong on defense, and unlike President Bush who continues to be blinded by his fanatical belief that we're bringing democracy to Iraq. True, it's Fanatical Belief 4.0, since the earlier versions didn't pan out, but it's a fanatical belief nonetheless
http://tinyurl.com/pjlvx

Mike Kress: 9-11: Can the Truth Set Us Free?:
9/11 is the excuse for every military operation and diminishment of our Constitutional freedoms during the last four and a half years. It’s the trump card that the Bush administration wields to stop all argument and to stifle all dissent. 9/11 is the psychological sledgehammer that allows them to rule like a monarchy.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12062.htm

Harris Got Illegal Donations:
A defense contractor who pleaded guilty Friday to bribing a California congressman told federal authorities he also funneled illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris of Longboat Key, who's running for the U.S. Senate.
http://tinyurl.com/znsyq

Dave Lindorff: Useless Democrats:
The past few weeks have amply demonstrated why the Democratic Party is headed for history's scrap heap.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12069.htm

National ID cards on the way?:
A recent vote in Congress endorsing standardized, electronically readable driver's licenses has raised fears about whether the proposal would usher in what amounts to a national ID card.
http://tinyurl.com/qgoux

Judge: Keep CIA Operative's Identity from Libby
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022506A.shtml
Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, charged with perjury in the CIA leak case, cannot be told the identity of another government official who is said to have divulged a CIA operative's identity to reporters.

IRS Finds Sharp Increase in Illegal Political Activity
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022506D.shtml
The IRS said yesterday that it saw a sharp increase in prohibited political activity by charities and churches in the last election cycle, a trend that it aims to reverse as the country heads into the midterm elections.
Excerpt:
"You have the ever-increasing influence of money in politics and the fact that charities are subject to much less regulation than campaigns for parties," he said. "Those two things come together to create an opportunity that is at variance with what the statute limiting political activity by charities allows."

{{{"Charities are subject to much less regulation than campaigns for parties" - that explains why so many legislators have started "charities" - but the money goes straight into their campaign coffers...!}}}

Florida Votes Time-Date-Stamped Two Weeks before Election
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022506F.shtml
The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time- and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

Posted by: Truth Shall Prevail at February 26, 2006 12:48 AM

I think this is the link you wanted.

http://www.progressiveu.org/093626-on-behalf-of-john-kerry-i-told-you-so

Even as we type, NPR is reporting that the Lucky Dog carts are finally back in action down in the Big Muddy Easy.

This may not mean anything to most of you, but to those of us who know and love The City That Shrub Forgot, it is big and very welcome news indeed.

laissez le bon chiens roulez,
Otter

Posted by: nmp at February 25, 2006 11:02 PM

I was (half)listening to NPR this morning, and there was a sentence on the news that went something like: prisoners at Guantanamo being kept "twelve to a cage".

How the heck did we get to this place where a phrase like that can be part of the vernacular - and our government is getting away with it?

These are people, not animals - despite what BushCo. would have us believe - and they have basic HUMAN rights, which I don't believe include being kept "twelve to a cage".

I know this is mild compared to some of the other things that have been done to the prisoners, but it just struck me that this phrase was tossed into the news report casually - like it was normal.

(Sorry no link - they don't have the transcript or program posted yet. It was only about an hour ago.)

some Sunday funnies over coffee for ya!

Cheney as you've never seen him before

http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove2/movies/jl021606cheney.mov

Carol
The first time I heard about "cages" was the first time I heard about Guantanamo, soon after 9/11. They just seem to have rounded people up and flown them for hours and hours, shackled and with duct tape, having to urinate and defecate on themselves. Since I am one of those bleeding heart liberals, I found this offensive. Now a commentator can just nonchalantly talk about it like it's normal.

Human beings are human beings. It never ceases to amaze me how people can go on and on about the sanctity of marriage or whether life begins at conception, and then about something like this, they'll turn a cold shoulder like the humans aren't human. Or they'll bring up 9/11 as if the exact same prisoners were involved when there are no charges. Some were 11 year old boys. One guy was someone's chauffeur. If they torture them until they go into cardiac arrest, can the confessions be trusted anyway? Many military legal experts believe not. It makes no more moral sense than killing people off in an attempt to create a master race.

Friend had LTE published in Seattle Times!

Her letter referred to several articles that showed up in the Times all on the same day. Honestly, we couldn't make this stuff up....THAT is the amazing part.

Here were the articles in Thurs, Feb 23 paper:

"Shift of US jobs overseas has positive side, Bush says."

"Working class turning to food banks, shelters."

"Katrina residues toxic peril to citizens disputed." (Of course by the Bush administration, much like the toxicity of the World Trade Center air after 9/11)

Sausage to India
Curry to U.S.

This has really become an upside-down wacky world, don't you think? Our president is telling us what a good thing the outsourcing of U.S. jobs is. He brags that the middle class in India has grown to about 300 million people; and they are ready to buy American goods and boost the profits of American corporations. Why, he even tells us Indians are developing a taste for pizza from Domino's and Pizza Hut.

Meanwhile, back on the home front: corporations continue to outsource, households feel the pinch from rising inflation, working-class people depend on food banks and shelters to make ends meet, and struggling Americans in Maine are grateful to the people of Venezuela for providing the only affordable heat in the dead of winter.

Perhaps while the president is in India anyway, if he is not too busy, he could talk to the Indian government about establishing a guest-worker program for Americans in India. It sounds like that might be the American workers' best chance to earn a living wage.

Maybe those workers could even send enough money home so American families could afford to call Domino's once in a while.

˜ Sue Griswold

Since Dianne/Elizabeth's post was about a local event, the more eyes they get on it that live in the area, the more likely it will have a good attendance and be a successful event, which is why I suggested that they post over at Daily Kos.

I suggested that they cross-link back here, so the type of people that would be interested in going to that event, would come here and find a community online and engaged activists to share information with.

We are building community here.

What are lucky dog carts?

(Will check back later...gotta run)

Carol
On the inhumane rights topic:

William Fisher | Death in US Custody
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022606Y.shtml
William Fisher reports that a major human rights advocacy group is charging that of the 98 detainees who have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2002, 34 are suspected or confirmed homicides, another 11 suggest that death was a result of physical abuse or harsh conditions, but only 12 deaths have resulted in punishment of any kind for any US official.

Cheney as you've never seen him before

http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove2/movies/jl021606cheney.mov

Posted by: not my vice president at February 26, 2006 09:51 AM

thnx! Even Leno's catching on.