Media Knew of Foley E-Mail & Sat on Them!
Tue Oct 03, 2006 at 01:37:48 AM PDT
I'm getting ready to go to work and I'm scanning the news before I go and this pops up on my AltaVista News reader from the New York Times:
Papers Knew of Foley E-Mail but Did Not Publish Stories
By ANNE E. KORNBLUT and KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: October 3, 2006
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- At least two news organizations were tipped off to e-mail messages sent by Representative Mark Foley long before the story of his sexually explicit remarks to teenage pages broke last week and forced him to resign.
OK, I'll bite, whoe are these media outlets and why am I not surprised?
You know you live in Florida if...
Mon Nov 07, 2005 at 09:08:02 AM PDT
Things are way worse in Florida than the news has led us to believe. Hurricane Wilma was pretty devastating. A co-worker who lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida send the list below to me. It's nice to hear from her as she had no phone for two weeks. We all knew she was OK as her daughter relayed messages to us periodically. Here is part of her email:
Pizza Nightmare: Total Surveillance Society
Mon Oct 10, 2005 at 04:09:01 PM PDT
A dozen years ago a couple of friends and I were just sitting around on a rainy evening and we got a phone call. Never guess who it was....
Timothy Flanigan as Deputy Attorney General? WTF
Wed Sep 28, 2005 at 05:08:26 PM PDT
With all the stuff going on in any given day it seems that an awful lot slips past unnoticed. There are structural changes going on in our government and we need to shine a light on this fact. Just because something is above the fold on CNN does not mean that a dozen diaries an hour need to get written on the subject.
An excellent example is the nomination of Abu Gonzales' best buddy and Tyco hack Timothy Flanigan to be deputy attorney general.
Follow along for a couple of minutes...
Action: Tell Congress it's Time to Stop Blocking Marijuana Research
Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 11:16:00 AM PDT
I just received an email from the Drug Policy Alliance. Members of Congress are circulating an important Dear Colleague letter. For more please read below:
Members of Congress are rallying support to end an unjustifiable monopoly on the production of marijuana for research purposes in the United States. You can urge your Member of Congress to assist in ending this bureaucratic hurdle which impedes much-needed medical research, and support the University of Massachusetts-Amherst's application to produce marijuana for FDA-approved research. Email Congress right now!
click here
more...
URGENT: Sneak Attack in Congress on Organic Standards
Mon Sep 19, 2005 at 03:35:25 PM PDT
Update [2005-9-20 4:20:22 by Cannabis]: Good morning. Time to make two phone calls.
Today, Tuesday, Sept. 20, acting in haste and near-total secrecy, the
U.S. Senate will vote on a "rider" to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that will reduce control over organic standards from the National Standards Board.
Please call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121, tell the operator the name of your state and ask to be connected to your Senator. When you get through tell the Senator's aide that you do not support reopening the federal statute that governs U.S. Organic standards (the Organic Food Production Act--OFPA). Please vote "No" on the "rider" to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill. Please remember to call again and tell your other Senator the same thing.
I received this email yesterday from the Organic Consumers Association:
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This Week In Marihuana
Sat Sep 17, 2005 at 12:24:11 PM PDT
The past three weeks have been pretty devastating, so I have not posted a diary in quite a while. I still collected marijuana news, but I just could not bring myself the write a diary that would just get lost in things that are so much more important. But, it also gave me time to think and reflect about the things that have been said by our elected officials about African-Americans. Even though things may have looked like they have changed in this country in the past 70 years we really have not come that far from testimony at hearings for the Marijuana Tax Act made by Harry Anslinger that marijuana had a violent "effect on the degenerate races."
With all of the heavy stuff that has been going down in the past few weeks I thought that I would start off with some humour...
Reagan Library Discovers New Roberts Documents
Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 07:55:19 AM PDT
Crossposted at
BooMan
Lest I be accused of being a single issue blogger here is something that has not appeared on the radar of many news outlets:
Dems Say Some Roberts Papers a Problem
The National Archives announced on Tuesday that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., had discovered a "large volume" of unreviewed and unreleased Roberts documents that were filed under a code instead of under Roberts' name. Additional employees from the Archives have been sent to the Reagan library to review the documents to determine what or how much can be released, officials said.
There is also the question of the...
This Week In Marihuana
Sat Aug 27, 2005 at 04:08:21 PM PDT
Crossposted at BooMan
Another week has passed and again there were many noteworthy things going on in the cannabis realm. This will be a low graphics version. We will start this week with a lie. Not a big lie, mind you, just another in a series of lies meant to support the Big Lie about marijuana. This one comes from ONDCP Spokesman Tom Riley in this August 21st AFP story Thousands of pot lovers defiantly light-up at US hemp festival about the Seattle Hempfest.
The quote follows...
This Week In Marihuana
Sat Aug 20, 2005 at 03:21:40 PM PDT
Crossposted at BooMan
Well, it's that time of year again. There are marijuana festivals being held from coast to coast in the U.S. and Canada. One of the biggest and the oldest is the Seattle Hempfest. Today and tomorrow an estimated 150,000 people will converge on Myrtle Edwards Park in Seattle. The theme this year is education, so I will take this opportunity to share some news and information to educate us all.
$1 Tax Stamp
First off, I have had a number of comments that the way I spell marihuana is wrong. Well, it's not the most common spelling, but it is the spelling that is used in the legal definition of marihuana and hey, it got your attention, didn't it. Add it to your spelling checker and get on with life.
So, onward through the fog...
This Week In Marihuana
Sat Aug 13, 2005 at 04:38:06 PM PDT
Crossposted at BooMan
This week, as always, I have been doing a lot of reading on Cannabis related subjects. I no particular order here is a sampling of what I have been reading.
There was this little gem from August 10th at DEA Watch:
I have read a lot of stuff, so there's more at the jump...
