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December 6 - December 9, 2007
Repetition does not transform
a lie into a truth.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The truth
is that Bush just likes to blow things up
-- in Iraq, in the United States and in Congress.
-- U.S. Representative Pete Stark
18 October 2007
Sunday
9 December 2007
Deep End News
Slow Locals . . ."This document is a pig," said Johnson, "and Jeanine put lipstick on it."
UDJ print edition title: "Green Party leader challenges county counsel" -- go figure ...
Green Party leader sues county over pot measure
Ukiah Daily Journal
Slow Loc@l
The Ukiah Daily Journal for today --
the Sunday paper for the county seat of paradisal Jonestown County, remember --
finally has foregone the front-page reposting of editor K.C. Meadows' online "blog". The blog's also newly missing, it turns out, from the
website of MediaNews' nominal "newspaper".
A box in the corner
of the print publication credits "technical difficulties" -- which have arisen just in time to prevent the posting of any more unfavorable public comments on the
sophomoric editorial-page filler from mini-misanthrope Tom Hine, who's unaccountably attracted Meadows' editorial favors.
(Hine's dreadful writing apparently appeals only to
Meadows -- with whom Hine claims, according to one of his elfin
expositions on the UDJ
editorial page, a drinking-buddy relationship at some Hopland watering hole
-- and to the sado-literary lust of what's-his-name in Boonville, whose
partner Mark Scaramella's Meadows' other editorial-page enthusiasm.)
Last Sunday, literate readers of the corporate clone will recall
that both Meadows and Hine, in presumably-separate editorial efforts, managed to
misuse "flaunt" for "flout" on the very same editorial page . . . so maybe Meadows excluded Gabrielle Welford's Sunday Letter-to-the-Editor from the online edition because
Meadows is just. jealous? In any case, Welford's "George Will wrong on Hawaii" (which, fortunately, is online, despite the UDJ) is among the few pieces of good writing which have appeared in the Ukiah Daily Journal since the days of Peter Page and Randy Foster.
The Dub Club . . .Washington Post: "Waterboarding as an interrogation technique has its roots in some of history's worst totalitarian nations, from Nazi Germany and the Spanish Inquisition to North Korea and Iraq. In the United States, the technique was first used five decades ago as a training tool to give U.S. troops a realistic sense of what they could expect if captured by the Soviet Union or the armies of Southeast Asia. The U.S. military has officially regarded the tactic as torture since the Spanish-American War."
"Rodriguez felt he had good reasons to deep-six the tapes. They had people's faces on them. It's not like a name getting out."Bush "has no recollection" of hearing about either the tapes' existence or their destruction before being briefed about it Thursday morning, White House press secretary Perino said.
Source Tells CBS News CIA Tapes Were Destroyed To Avoid Prosecution
cbsnews
. . . group which included future-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make prisoners talk.Some in Congress learned of waterboarding in '02
Jo Warrick, Dan Eggen, washpost
Secretly briefed, Pelosi did not object to waterboarding in 2002
John Byrne, rawstory
(Take Pelosi "off the table" now? Turn the table over?
What do you really think, dear reader?)BTC news: "Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi will have to corral nearly the entire Republican side to pass whatever Vichy-like measure they ultimately devise."
Israeli Researchers Link Cell Phones, Cancer
AFP, fox
Caucus Day Info here
Elizabeth Edwards: "If you stand up for John on caucus night, and every day between now and then, he will stand up for all of us as President."
John Edwards for President:
Support the Troops. End the War.
sign up: johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards here
Saturday
8 December 2007
Tonight 7 pm -- free:
info: Mendocino Parents for Peace, 962-9213
Cindy Sheehan
at Cotton Auditorium, Fort Bragg
The Dub Club . . .White House Press Secretary Dana Perino:
"I'll have to -- you know, I'll refer you to the Vice President's Office . . ."
F.B.I. officials on the scene protested the use of tough tacticsThe decision to destroy the tapes was made by Jose Rodriguez, then the head of the CIA's clandestine directorate of operations under CIA Director Porter Goss. Neither works at the agency today.
AP Exclusive: Drill instructor says he was taught to abuse
Chelsea J. Carter, AP via UDJ
The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.
Oak Ridge, Los Alamos Hackers Launch Major Attack on US Military Labs
John E. Dunn, Techworld
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"I'm so numb that you could run me over with a Mack truck and I wouldn't feel it," she said.
Thursday
6 December 2007
Slow Loc@l
Jonestown County Justice: no news
on Hamburg sex-crime charges --
You wouldn't know it from reading
the local
"news" (or from local radio news), but child molesting charges against Matt Hamburg (brother of Laura Hamburg, presumptive family fall girl in the recent no-arrest bust of a major marijuana operation at the Hamburg plantation south of Ukiah [1, 2],
and son of Dan Hamburg, the former one-term Democratic Congressman turned Green Party godfather and gentleman farmer), are going forward -- charged (MCUKCRNT 07-81057) as misdemeanors.
Hamburg's charged with two counts of sexual battery [PC243.4 (e)(1)], annoying or molesting a child [PC647.6 (a)], terrorist threat [PC422], and false imprisonment [PC236].
A restraining order issued 4 December orders Hamburg -- represented at this point by
Deputy Public Defender Linda Thompson -- to stay away from his victims (a girl and a boy named yesterday -- as the charges were not -- in a local weekly "newspaper" editorially afflilated with MediaNewsGroup's Ukiah Daily Journal).
Hamburg's violation date was 11 November.
Scheduled court dates (all in Department B, Courthouse,
Ukiah):
Pretrial conference December 14, 8:30 a.m.
Motions in limine December 27, 1:30 p.m.
Jury trial set/held: December 31, 10 a.m.
"Impeaching our president doesn't show lack of support for our troops. It shows the people are angry with the president."More north coast child molesters:
Kenneth E. Davidson was a physical therapist in Willits and Covelo for 25 yearsJudge Clayton Brennan sentences Davidson
to the maximum term of 16 years
Linda Williams, WillitsNews
Messages seeking comment from Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos had not been returned as of Wednesday evening.
The Dub Club . . .
Bye-bye, "Benchmarks" . . .
The Sunni speaker of parliament announced the decision to suspend sessions after days of debate over a draft bill that would allow thousands of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to their government jobs. The measure is among the 18 benchmarks set by the United States ...Iraqi parliament closes shop for month,
ends work on U.S.-backed legislation
Kim Gamel, AP
Wanna bet? . . .
CIA destroyed al-Qaida interrogation video
Robert Windrem, nbc
. . . will rely heavily on private contractors, including Boeing, BAE Systems, L-3 Communications and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).The federal indictment . . . did not mention at least six other fires in Senate office buildings since late September.
U.S. Capitol Police officer accused in Senate fire
AP
Following the election McHaney worked for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights group.Man caught in child-sex sting worked for Kerry
Matthew Daly, AP
It was not immediately clear whether the fragments were of any use to investigators, however.Italy mob boss swallowed secrets before dying
Reuters
"Joseph Smith said he received the word of God from an angel named Moroni, who guided him to tablets that told the story of the Book of Mormon about an ancient civilization of Israelites sent by God to America. Smith could read and translate the tablets -- written in what he called "reformed Egyptian" hieroglyphics -- with the help of special transparent stones he used as spectacles." -- BBC
Mendocino Parents for Peace, 962-9213
"It's time for our reps that aren't doing their jobs by upholding their sworn oaths to the Constitution to receive a wakeup call!"
Caucus Day Info here
Elizabeth Edwards: "If you stand up for John on caucus night, and every day between now and then, he will stand up for all of us as President."
John Edwards for President:
Support the Troops. End the War.
sign up: johnedwards.com
Women for Edwards here
