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| | | | | Patrick Leahy: Bush bought Scooters silence with Commutation | Sen. Pat Leahy wants to have a chat with Patrick Fitzgerald and then echoed what Schumer said on Face more...the Nation and acknowledged that commuting Libbys sentence was a great way to buy his silence.
Jane Hamsher:
"George Bush commuted Scooters sentence rather than pardoning him to Shut. Him. Up. The notion that he did it to split the difference and respect the jurys decision is just absurd. He did it to cover his own tracks, which is exactly why Congress should be looking into the whole matter."
I couldnt agree more.
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Do you have a problem, Senator Leahy, with anything the president decided in terms of the legality of what he did? He was within his right to commute the sentence.
LEAHY: The president has a constitutional right or has the constitutional power to commute sentences of anybody he wants. I wish he had shown more constitutional responsibility. Just as I was critical of some of the pardons by President Clinton, former President Bush or President Reagan, Ive said they have the power to do it, but I didnt think they used good judgment.
It was not a surprise he did this. It was generally assumed, certainly in Washington, by Republicans I talked with, that the president would give Scooter Libby a get out of jail free card. Its interesting he commuted the sentence. He didnt give an out and out pardon. That way Scooter Libby can take the fifth amendment if he wants as far as any testimony before (inaudible).
(CROSSTALK)
BLITZER: Well, I was going to ask you, Senator Leahy. Do you want to hold hearings on this whole issue?
LEAHY: No, because hes got a fifth amendment right that he can still do. I mean, this was, actually in my view, a blatant way of guaranteeing that Scooter Libby would not talk about the things that were done, you know, some of the misleading information given out by Vice President Cheney and the president. They led us into this war in Iraq, and they bought his silence. I can understand why the prosecutor was so angry about it.
BLITZER: Youre talking about Patrick Fitzgerald, your colleague, Senator
LEAHY: Also the fact
BLITZER: I was going to say
LEAHY: Also the fact that he was given, when the president talked about a severe sentence, he was given at the low end of the sentencing guidelines. People have been given much, much harsher sentences than he was given.
BLITZER: Senator Schumer of the Judiciary Committee wants you to call Patrick Fitzgerald to testify before your committee on this whole issue. Do you want to do that?
LEAHY: Thats something I would discuss with Senator Specter before I did, but I know how concerned Mr. Fitzgerald is.
And we may very well find ourselves going down that path. It would do no good to call Scooter Libby. His silence has been bought and paid for, and he would just take the fifth. less
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| | Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 12:27 AM | | SONOFABITCH! I've been trying for days to get Michael Moore's appearance on Larry King up in complete form (as well as a couple other videos), unsuccesfully. I had all but given up and started uploading it in smaller pieces, like I had to do with "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Then, suddenly, my last attempt at uploading the whole thing finally worked! It finally played ALL THE WAY THROUGH, from beginning to end! What The Fuck? LiveVideo is NOT liking my longer videos. I've noticed other people's videos more...crapping out within a few minutes, too. Well, I'll still leave up the seperated version, in four parts. But, the complete version finally works now! Enjoy! less | |
| Wednesday, July 4, 2007 at 10:28 PM | | MikeDamnNobody got suspended again, within days of being renewed. Shit! | |
| Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 6:19 PM | | Hey, my previous YouTube account, MikeDamnNobody, has been restored! After being a persistent pain in their ass, YouTube gave me back my account. My new YouTube account, MikeNobodyIsHere, will still be active. I haven't yet decided how to use two YouTube accounts, though. | |
| Monday, June 18, 2007 at 3:17 AM | | For those of you just now discovering, my YouTube account MikeDamnNobody was deleted due to copywrong hypocrisy and Muslim flagging wars. My new YouTube account is MikeNobodyIsHere. I will be uploading my old content from YouTube onto LiveVideo, since I already have a lot of them here.
I am not going to repost them on YouTube. But, I will make add videos there. I am trying to renew my YouTube subscriber base and reach 1,000 by New Year's (I hope it translates into more activity here on LiveVideo). | |
| Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 3:11 PM | | I've been adding links to my videos on YouTube, Putfile, etc. instead of uploading everything twice. I want to have all my videos and audio files available from at least one location. I still can't get the link to my MySpace page to show up. Maybe someday I'll get this shit together, eh? | |
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| | |  | Al Franken on Burnsville/Eagan TV - Access to Democracy
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In May, Al was on local Burnsville-Eagan TV's Access to Democracy hosted by Alan Miller. Alan and Al talked about getting to universal health care as more...fast as possible, the war in Iraq, and other issues. Al also wins Alan's current events/politcs quiz, earning a few well-deserved bell rings. less
Added: Aug 6, 07
Views: 81
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| |  | DICK CHENEY ON LARRY KING JULY 31, 2007 (preview)
04:47
King's July 31 interview of Vice President Cheney dealt mostly with a number of political topics. A sample of the questions from the interview:
How more...do you deal with it when public opinion polls are stridently against the [Iraq] policy?
But in all cases, they did question themselves. In all cases, they said, well, let's look at it this way. Don't you? I mean the question is, don't you ever say, maybe I'm wrong?
In retrospect, you would still go into Iraq?
Does it pain you when Brent Scowcroft says this is not the Dick Cheney I knew?
Wouldn't you like to be liked?
OK, let's go back. On this program, May of 2005, you said the Iraqi insurgency was in the last throes. Why were you wrong?
In that same interview, you said that the Iraqis were well on their way to being able to defend themselves. Why not? Why are they gone?
To which branch of government do you belong? Are you executive or legislative, or both? We were a little confused over recent statements that you're not in either.
We have an op-ed piece by Walter Mondale, a former vice president, who held your job. And at that time, I guess, up to that time, he would be considered the most powerful vice president. He wrote that: "After 9/11, Cheney set out to create a largely independent power center in the Office of the Vice President. It was an unprecedented attempt not only to shape administration policy, but, alarmingly, to limit the policy options sent to the president."He also accused you of having "a near total aversion to the notion of accountability." How would you respond to that?
Don't you think this administration has also had its credibility problems?
Alberto Gonzales. Do you stand by him?
You're going to stand by him? No doubt about that?
In that regard, "The New York Times," which is -- as you said, it's not your favorite paper, reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the president's intelligence gathering program. Was it you?
The "Scooter" Libby trial, did it pain you?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is subpoenaing Karl Rove in connection with the firing of federal prosecutors. Why shouldn't he appear?
But the public might say, what have you got to hide?
So he -- so he [Rove] will not appear?
General Powell says he would close Guantanamo yesterday. Would you?
You have to torture them when they're there?
How come in the past though there's been a question on that?
Have you ever said, "We support certain methods of physical harm"?
What is "enhanced" [referring to Cheney's line 'We support the ability of certain agencies of the federal government to have the capacity to use enhanced techniques for interrogation']?
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Added: Aug 6, 07
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|  | DICK CHENEY ON LARRY KING JULY 31, 2007 part 4
06:54
King's July 31 interview of Vice President Cheney dealt mostly with a number of political topics. A sample of the questions from the interview:
How more...do you deal with it when public opinion polls are stridently against the [Iraq] policy?
But in all cases, they did question themselves. In all cases, they said, well, let's look at it this way. Don't you? I mean the question is, don't you ever say, maybe I'm wrong?
In retrospect, you would still go into Iraq?
Does it pain you when Brent Scowcroft says this is not the Dick Cheney I knew?
Wouldn't you like to be liked?
OK, let's go back. On this program, May of 2005, you said the Iraqi insurgency was in the last throes. Why were you wrong?
In that same interview, you said that the Iraqis were well on their way to being able to defend themselves. Why not? Why are they gone?
To which branch of government do you belong? Are you executive or legislative, or both? We were a little confused over recent statements that you're not in either.
We have an op-ed piece by Walter Mondale, a former vice president, who held your job. And at that time, I guess, up to that time, he would be considered the most powerful vice president. He wrote that: "After 9/11, Cheney set out to create a largely independent power center in the Office of the Vice President. It was an unprecedented attempt not only to shape administration policy, but, alarmingly, to limit the policy options sent to the president."He also accused you of having "a near total aversion to the notion of accountability." How would you respond to that?
Don't you think this administration has also had its credibility problems?
Alberto Gonzales. Do you stand by him?
You're going to stand by him? No doubt about that?
In that regard, "The New York Times," which is -- as you said, it's not your favorite paper, reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the president's intelligence gathering program. Was it you?
The "Scooter" Libby trial, did it pain you?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is subpoenaing Karl Rove in connection with the firing of federal prosecutors. Why shouldn't he appear?
But the public might say, what have you got to hide?
So he -- so he [Rove] will not appear?
General Powell says he would close Guantanamo yesterday. Would you?
You have to torture them when they're there?
How come in the past though there's been a question on that?
Have you ever said, "We support certain methods of physical harm"?
What is "enhanced" [referring to Cheney's line 'We support the ability of certain agencies of the federal government to have the capacity to use enhanced techniques for interrogation']?
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Added: Aug 6, 07
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| |  | DICK CHENEY ON LARRY KING JULY 31, 2007 part 3
06:55
King's July 31 interview of Vice President Cheney dealt mostly with a number of political topics. A sample of the questions from the interview:
How more...do you deal with it when public opinion polls are stridently against the [Iraq] policy?
But in all cases, they did question themselves. In all cases, they said, well, let's look at it this way. Don't you? I mean the question is, don't you ever say, maybe I'm wrong?
In retrospect, you would still go into Iraq?
Does it pain you when Brent Scowcroft says this is not the Dick Cheney I knew?
Wouldn't you like to be liked?
OK, let's go back. On this program, May of 2005, you said the Iraqi insurgency was in the last throes. Why were you wrong?
In that same interview, you said that the Iraqis were well on their way to being able to defend themselves. Why not? Why are they gone?
To which branch of government do you belong? Are you executive or legislative, or both? We were a little confused over recent statements that you're not in either.
We have an op-ed piece by Walter Mondale, a former vice president, who held your job. And at that time, I guess, up to that time, he would be considered the most powerful vice president. He wrote that: "After 9/11, Cheney set out to create a largely independent power center in the Office of the Vice President. It was an unprecedented attempt not only to shape administration policy, but, alarmingly, to limit the policy options sent to the president."He also accused you of having "a near total aversion to the notion of accountability." How would you respond to that?
Don't you think this administration has also had its credibility problems?
Alberto Gonzales. Do you stand by him?
You're going to stand by him? No doubt about that?
In that regard, "The New York Times," which is -- as you said, it's not your favorite paper, reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the president's intelligence gathering program. Was it you?
The "Scooter" Libby trial, did it pain you?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is subpoenaing Karl Rove in connection with the firing of federal prosecutors. Why shouldn't he appear?
But the public might say, what have you got to hide?
So he -- so he [Rove] will not appear?
General Powell says he would close Guantanamo yesterday. Would you?
You have to torture them when they're there?
How come in the past though there's been a question on that?
Have you ever said, "We support certain methods of physical harm"?
What is "enhanced" [referring to Cheney's line 'We support the ability of certain agencies of the federal government to have the capacity to use enhanced techniques for interrogation']? less
Added: Aug 6, 07
Views: 52
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|  | DICK CHENEY ON LARRY KING JULY 31, 2007 part 2
08:49
King's July 31 interview of Vice President Cheney dealt mostly with a number of political topics. A sample of the questions from the interview:
How more...do you deal with it when public opinion polls are stridently against the [Iraq] policy?
But in all cases, they did question themselves. In all cases, they said, well, let's look at it this way. Don't you? I mean the question is, don't you ever say, maybe I'm wrong?
In retrospect, you would still go into Iraq?
Does it pain you when Brent Scowcroft says this is not the Dick Cheney I knew?
Wouldn't you like to be liked?
OK, let's go back. On this program, May of 2005, you said the Iraqi insurgency was in the last throes. Why were you wrong?
In that same interview, you said that the Iraqis were well on their way to being able to defend themselves. Why not? Why are they gone?
To which branch of government do you belong? Are you executive or legislative, or both? We were a little confused over recent statements that you're not in either.
We have an op-ed piece by Walter Mondale, a former vice president, who held your job. And at that time, I guess, up to that time, he would be considered the most powerful vice president. He wrote that: "After 9/11, Cheney set out to create a largely independent power center in the Office of the Vice President. It was an unprecedented attempt not only to shape administration policy, but, alarmingly, to limit the policy options sent to the president."He also accused you of having "a near total aversion to the notion of accountability." How would you respond to that?
Don't you think this administration has also had its credibility problems?
Alberto Gonzales. Do you stand by him?
You're going to stand by him? No doubt about that?
In that regard, "The New York Times," which is -- as you said, it's not your favorite paper, reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then Attorney General John Ashcroft's hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the president's intelligence gathering program. Was it you?
The "Scooter" Libby trial, did it pain you?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is subpoenaing Karl Rove in connection with the firing of federal prosecutors. Why shouldn't he appear?
But the public might say, what have you got to hide?
So he -- so he [Rove] will not appear?
General Powell says he would close Guantanamo yesterday. Would you?
You have to torture them when they're there?
How come in the past though there's been a question on that?
Have you ever said, "We support certain methods of physical harm"?
What is "enhanced" [referring to Cheney's line 'We support the ability of certain agencies of the federal government to have the capacity to use enhanced techniques for interrogation']? less
Added: Aug 6, 07
Views: 55
Category: News |
| |  | DICK CHENEY ON LARRY KING JULY 31, 2007 part 1
09:22
Q In that regard, The New York Times -- which, as you said, is not your favorite -- reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then-Attorney more...General John Ashcroft's hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the President's intelligence-gathering program. Was it you?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I don't recall -- first of all, I haven't seen the story. And I don't recall that I gave instructions to that effect.
Q That would be something you would recall.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I would think so. But certainly I was involved because I was a big advocate of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, and had been responsible and working with General Hayden and George Tenet to get it to the President for approval. By the time this occurred, it had already been approved about 12 times by the Department of Justice. There was nothing new about it.
Q So you didn't send them to get permission.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I don't recall that I was the one who sent them to the hospital. less
Added: Aug 6, 07
Views: 90
Category: News |
| | |  | Marcus Brigstock - Religion; Islam, Christianity, Judaism
07:21
Marcus Brigstocke (born 8 May 1973) is an English comedian and satirist who has worked extensively in stand-up comedy, television and radio.
One of the more...best-known jokes Brigstocke uses is an ironic commentary on the controversy regarding the influence of video games on children:
“ If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. „
This joke is frequently quoted on the internet and often attributed to famous figures in electronics (such as an apocryphal CEO of Nintendo, "Kristian Wilson," although Hiroshi Yamauchi held that position from 1950 to 2002), but Brigstocke vehemently claims authorship of the joke:
“ Ah! Bloody Pacman....It is my joke. I wrote it, then I took the rest of the day off as I was so chuffed with it. I am gutted that it has been claimed and passed around by so many people. Intellectual property law will not save me, the false claims will continue until I am man enough to give it all up. All I can say is -- it seems that it is very unlikely that it was written by a Nintendo employee in 1989, being as Pac Man was still around and not much of a childhood memory, there were very few claims that gaming influenced children's behaviour, and that the wording of it is identical to how it has been delivered in my stand up routine for 6 years! For those that are interested it has also been attributed to Bill Gates, but then so has Windows! Bitter? Well perhaps just a little. It was sent to me by someone at Channel 4 a few years back after I did it on Channel 4 in a late night stand up show! Hope that clears everything up. ”
— Marcus Brigstocke less
Added: Aug 6, 07
Views: 284
Category: Comedy |
|  | Glenn Beck is asked about Bohemian Grove
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Glenn Beck discussing Bohemian Grove with a caller. He briefly makes fun of the caller and then hints that the rumors may be true.
http://www.markdice.com/ more...
http://www.theresistancemanifesto.com/ less
Added: Aug 6, 07
Views: 437
Category: News |
| | |  | The Simpsons - We Do (The Stonecutter's Song)
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The Simpsons - We Do (The Stonecutter's Song)
This song is on the following album:
"Songs In The Key Of Springfield"
Who controls the British more...crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do, we do
Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do, we do
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
We do, we do
Who robs gamefish of their site?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do, we do! less
Added: Aug 6, 07
Views: 5,232
Category: Arts & Animation |
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