Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2005 23:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in remarks published Wednesday he would oppose the use of Iraqi territory as a launchpad for any US military strike on Syria.
Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2005 12:31 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cuban Five;
From the Free The Five listserv (it’s not their home page yet)
Atlanta Court acccepts the US Government’s appeals
Yesterday, October 31, 2005, the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit accepted to consider the US Government’s appeals against the decision, unanimously taken by a panel of judges of the same Circuit on August 9, 2005, which revoked all the convictions of the Cuban Five and remand for a new trial.
The Court approved by a majority vote the rehearing of this case en banc (the all 12 judges in active service).
In other words, the decision by a three judge panel of the same court ordering a new trial has been voided.
More as I know more.
Update: From the Miami Herald
Appellate court reinstates convictions of the Cuban Five
An appellate court has reinstated the convictions of five accused Cuban spies, who were found guilty in a 2001 Miami federal trial.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Monday vacated the August appellate ruling by a three-judge panel in that court that had overturned those convictions.
That means the appeal process starts all over again. This time, a majority of the 12-member appellate court has agreed to rehear the so-called Cuban Five’s appeal, which leaves the case in limbo for months.
More later…
Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2005 09:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
So he’s now threatening new taxes. Something he promised would never happen. However if all his propositions lose, he’ll have no mojo left to get anything done.
Much of the problem is due to his own ham-fisted, arrogant, blundering approach.
More than four in 10 voters, 43 percent, said Schwarzenegger’s support for a ballot measure would make them more inclined to oppose it, while just 24 percent said it would make them more likely to support it."He’s his own worst messenger," said Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for the union coalition opposing the governor’s proposal. "People don’t believe a word he says."
In other proposition news:
Proposition 73, which mandates parental notification for abortion for minors will probably pass. It defines abortion as "death of the unborn child, a child conceived but not yet born" and thus is a wedge for the right to eventually try to ban abortion.
Bob Morris @ Nov 1st 2005 08:56 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bush is at the nadir of his career and the entire Republican Party is a sinking ship. Why aren’t we getting more than weak slogans from the Washington Dems?
Could it be because the Dems have little if anything they actually stand for? Since Clinton, they’ve enthusiastically abandoned their traditional base of the working class, unions, minorities, and the poor, instead "moving to the center" in a brain-dead (and failed) ploy to grab votes from the Republicans. So now, they have no real base left, and thus, no message to deliver.
And really, considering most members of Congress are multi-millionaires, do you think any of them want meaningful change? Goodness no, that might cause their stock portfolios to lose value. Besides, too much controversy, and they could get dropped from those country club memberships. Dianne Feinstein’s husband is a billionaire. John Kerry is worth over 600 million. Do you think senators like that have the slightest interest in doing anything that might seriously upset the status quo? Of course not. Instead, they will defend their class interest and wealth. And that means no agitating. Besides, except for a few issues like abortion, they have few if any ideological differences with the Republicans.
It’s time for the Democrats to seize the political advantage, right? Every single political branch in D.C. is on fire. The world is also on fire, or drowning: the American public has clear, massive majority positions on Iraq, Katrina, our $8 trillion national debt, world poverty, $3 gallon gas and rapid climate change. Yet what we’ve gotten so far from the Democratic leadership is meaningless sloganeering.
House Minority Leader Harry Reid and power-hungry Hillary Clinton’s big rhetorical banner for 2006 — as good an indicator to the Democrats’ predictions of where all this scandal and disaster is going to take them in the next election as any — is, America Can Do Better.
A better war! A better destruction of the social net! Lordy what a bunch of dimbulbs. What the Dems really need is some hard-core, take-no-prisoners, rabble rousing populists. Then they might amount to something again.
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