the Smoking Gun

“…Most Americans believe there has been significant progress in achieving Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of racial equality, though blacks are more skeptical…” – AP

HA!..Thanks Honkey’s

That being said, I’ve just securely fastened a huge rip of Redman into my left cheek, turned on Toto’s classic Ballad “Hold the Line” and am ready to rocksore your socksores.

Let’s start slow with something im sure Pozun is going to give me some shit about. that of course is NASA doing things that are so stoopid that the correct spelling of the word “stupid” need not apply to the situation. apparently 7 years ago NASA broke a mirror and decided that the only possible solution to all their bad luck with deep space rovers and orbiters being destroyed and/or lost was to send out a space probe to collect meteor dust to solve the ancient mysteries of the universe.

seven years later we finally have our answer. that’s right people, after a 2.9 billion mile journey through space the probe “Stardust”, which was sent out to collect meteor dust which is believed to be untouched since the dawn of time (which scientist believe to be 4.5 billion years ago, you know, when OUR sun was created…aren’t we being egocentric regardless of our knowledge of Star Wars happening a long time ago, which yes, my star trek buddies have confirmed to have been years before our sun was created.). scientist at Nasa beleive this dust holds the keys to life in the universe, and the elements that helped to create the galaxy. this ancient space dust will make its triumphant return back to earth as it slams into Utah, america’s “other” white state, tonight!

Now i thought long an hard about it and questioned what they are expecting to find on this giant rock in space. is it some curiously strange new element we can add to the Periodic Table of sexellent Elements? have we finally found the monoliths from 2001: a space odyssey? or have we just found more Carbon atoms in space? being a Realist i suspect the latter. that the millions of dollars spent and the seven years of foreplay will only produce many of the basic elements found on earth such as carbon. I thought about all of this for a while, and to my chagrin, my face melted off…much like the Indiana Jones movie.

I mean come on this money could have been spent to solve so many other important mysteries of space that the public wants answers for. like my favorite, is Mars habouring terrorist like Osama Bin Laden or Sean Penn?

Moving right along, let’s discuss Pennsylvania’s favorite wacky Republican, Arlen Specter. Along with the always contriversial supreme court nominee Sam “wearin a speedo” Alito.

What a cute couple. I think it’s time to accept his nomination along with the acceptence that Bush isn’t swayed by public opinion or something normal people like myself refer to as the checks and balances system / the law. wait, he tapped your phone? maybe he does care. But i do believe it is time to give Arlen Specter a break. He has already confirmed he is voting for Alito.

“I intend to vote to support Judge Alito’s nomination as associate justice of the Supreme Court,” said the Pennsylvania Republican at the conclusion of his committee’s confirmation hearing. – AP

it really isn’t his fault that all of this is going on. I mean there is only one nominee for Sandra Day “Sinead” O’Connors spot. who else is he going to vote for, think about it you little mathmaticians. there is only one person running for the position at the current time which should tell you two things. he is the best nominee, and is also the worst nominee. so we might as well lube up our buttholes and just take it like men. (sorry for the gay sex reference, but its a domination thing, not a gay thing…you know like the animal kingdom. lions will have sex with other lions just so the other lion knows his place) yea that’s a little weird………anyways…

Update: Good News, there is brain Activity in Ariel Sharon’s brain. it’s reportedly the first time in 30 years, ever since he refused to share holy land with everyone else…what a douche bag, im glad that guy from the 700 Club sent his family that letter telling the Sharon family that this is God’s way of ball tagging Ariel for all his bullshit…..wait, that’s aweful, the 700 Club guy is a Dick too.

wow, i don’t think i could top that last one at the moment so i will call it a day. but i would love to hear what my blogging brethern think about any of this stuff. so guys, you can either blog it in response, or you can email me at SexyStetzy@www.clownpenis.fart.

till next time, this is Sexy Stetzy telling you to keep it……

……the faith that is.

Oh, you lovely NSA…

So apparently Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is going to testify at a Senate hearing regarding the NSA and its legal situation with the wire tapping.

Now, over the past few weeks there has been a flurry of activity concerning the whole issue, ranging from the spying on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour to pointing out Bush’s April 2004 speech that brings up the issue of wire taps requiring a court order. Though it’s beating a dead horse, for the sake of my own amusement, here’s that chunk of Bush’s speech:

Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires — a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we’re talking about chasing down terrorists, we’re talking about getting a court order before we do so. It’s important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.

There have been many websites that dissect the Patriot Act and the act is references, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, looking at what constitutes a legal wire tap and pondering the meaning of a “US person”. The various pieces refer to what is and what isn’t a terrorist, when the wire taps are legal and what needs to be ascertained before doing so. Many got excited to find the clause that says it is illegal to have a tap if it turns out a US person (not citizen) is to get caught up in the surveillance, however as a previous article states, “US person” does not include those working with terrorist groups.

While this is a good idea to look through the documents, it misses one key issue. All of the pieces of the FISA hinge on the President determining that the tap is legal and then getting a warrant via the Attorney General who submits the request to a secret committee whose entire purpose is deciding on cases like this. Your (or my) opinion of wiretapping is fairly unimportant, the ethics aren’t really the issue since it’s on paper there that someone can be spied upon if it is reasonable to think that they’re communicating with terrorists.

The thing is, Bush didn’t go to any Attorneys General (that’s the proper plural, look it up), and they didn’t give any warrants. Using the FISA to see if what Bush did is legal or not is a moot point, because he didn’t follow any of the protocol outlined therein. Whether or not FISA or the Patriot Act gives him permission to spy on these people is irrelevant as he never got the documents signed. It’s like illegal immigrants crying for their rights, if you aren’t complying with the system you aren’t protected by it.

As often as Gonzalez in on TV assuring us that Bush was within his legal rights to do what he did, one thing he hasn’t said was “he sent me the request, we issued the warrants”. As it turns out, the FISC was mildly involved with Bush’s wiretaps, and was swamped with such requests for a while. This is somewhat understandable as it’s part of his post-9/11 fiasco, but what’s most interesting is this passage:

“They wanted to expand the number of people they were eavesdropping on, and they didn’t think they could get the warrants they needed from the court to monitor those people,” said Bamford

Later in the article we find that Bush requested roughly 5,700 wiretaps, that a record 179 were modified or rejected in some manner. And yet, this system was apparently not enough, and thus Bush scrapped the system and started putting wiretaps in on his own, without permission. With nearly 6,000 such requests formally made, one can only wonder at how many he’s illegally made. The man wanted to eavesdrop on so many people he couldn’t feasibly ask for permission for all of them without hiring a staff to make all the forms and send them for him. He wanted so many wiretaps put in place it would have been a full-time job securing them all.

But of course, that’s an odd thing, because how are we going to sift through all of these correspondences? Cheney famously said that the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented had we had surveillance that the Pres is putting out there. Ignoring the obvious argument that without 9/11 Bush wouldn’t have been able to coerce the country into a war and he wouldn’t have been able to put any law into place he wants, the fact remains that recorded correspondance wasn’t translated on time prior to 9/11.

The reports warning of an impending al Qaeda attack were there but Bush ignored them. The proof it was coming was there but we didn’t get it translated on time. Now Bush is claiming that we didn’t have enough information to prevent 9/11 and that’s why we need his God-approved, instructed even, help in gathering more information. Information that he will no doubt ignore or be lost in the shuffle so when another attack gets through, he’ll be able to get even more power.

Though to quote Jack Cafferty, “want to abuse our civil liberties? Just do it.” It truly boggles my mind to think that Bush would put so much effort in passing the Patriot Act, defending it in front of the world when he had no plans of doing anything it instructs him to. It’s not even that he made that comment and then got wiretaps without a court order. He was doing it all the while. Breaking his own laws, invading our privacy, and lying about it for years. What’s really scary is that a lot of people voted for him because of his morals.