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Today I received an email from Barack Obama.  He wants me to send him $25 before midnight to meet his fund raising deadline for the end of June.

Its not bad enough that I have deadlines of my own to meet, but now I have to meet financial fund raising deadlines for Presidential candidates too?

Well, I have a deadline for Barack Obama.  Before you get any fund raising money out of me, I want to see a plan.  I want to see a substantive plan for your cabinet and administration.  I want to see a plan for the energy crisis.  I want to see a plan for the economy and not just the tax the rich to bring more money into government vaults.  I want to see where and how that money will be spent to actually fuel the economy.

I want to see a plan for foreign relations in the middle east including a policy on Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.

Now, some will say that it is premature to offer up plans before he is President, but from my perspective Barack Obama has no job experience.  So if he wants to get the job, I want to see his plans to get things done, how he will achieve it and where he will begin.

Oh, and while he is at it, I want to see him offer up a plan for equal rights between the sexes.

Show me a plan, show me the right plan, and I'll show Barack the money.  Send me high pressured emails like a salesman trying to meet quota for the month in a modern furniture store running their monthly 'Going Out of Business, Half Off, Everything Must Go Sale' for the 25th month in a row, and he will not see a great deal of support from me.

David Addington, one of Dick Cheney's top advisors, told the Senate that he was not the person responsible for drafting the legal memo that outlined torture techniques to be utilized in Guantanamo and Abu Grahib by the Department of Defense.  Although he didn't rule out his potential for influencing the CIA's adoption of torture techniques in secret prisons by creating guidelines to prevent the use of torture by the CIA.

Addington appeared along with the lawyer, former Justice Department attorney John Yoo, before a House Judiciary subcommittee investigating the role of Bush administration lawyers in approving interrogation procedures. The tactics were far harsher than those traditionally used by the U.S. military.

The Associated Press learned in April that administration officials from Cheney on down signed off on the techniques after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality.

Addington denied several reports that he was involved in the drafting of a key memo that the Justice Department later rescinded. The August 2002 memo narrowly defined torture as resulting in "death, organ failure or serious impairment of bodily functions."

Addington said he attended a White House meeting during which it was discussed; he said Yoo outlined for him and the president's counsel at the time, Alberto Gonzales, the subjects he planned to address.

Addington also said he was more involved in CIA interrogation policies than those used by the Defense Department at its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

 

Basically, Addington has only proven that he does not want to be the target of a War Crimes Tribunal in an effort to literally save his own neck.  That said, most of the attempts by the Bush Administration and the Cheney Department these days are fairly transparent. 

I doubt Addington will be able to get a decent life insurance quotes anytime in the near future.  He probably better keep his own lawyers on speed dial with an international calling plan...

There is one New York Congressman hard at work spending your tax dollars trying to bring in 1,000 foreign super models each year for the next few years to come.  He apparently thinks that there are not enough (if any) hot American girls that might be capable of taking Super model jobs in New York City and wants to attract the poor, sulking, whimpering, bag of bones girls lining up to take Phentermine without prescriptions so they can qualify for the runways here in the states.

What is even sadder is that these poor starving and pouting girls are regularly beat out for H-1B visas by nerdy scientists and engineers eager to come to American and make this a better place as opposed to make everyone wish they looked better.

A New York congressman has introduced a bill that would create 1,000 new visa slots for foreign fashion models. Democrat Anthony Weiner said the measure would boost New York's fashion industry.
Overseas models currently compete for so-called H-1B visas, which are intended for highly skilled foreigners who may be computer experts or doctors. The models have not done well, with only 349 slots going to models out of the 85,000 available, the New York Post reported.
New York's tabloid newspapers said Weiner, 43, is currently dating Huma Abedin, a Hillary Clinton aide who has posed for Vogue magazine.

Sometimes its just too bad that the founding fathers of the United States didn't draft a clause into the Constitution that would enable the removal of idiots from office.  We could get a BOGO with Congressman Weiner (D) and George W Bush (R).

By the way, there is no word on whether or not GW would support this measure would it actually go anywhere at all, but Bill Clinton probably would jump on this bandwagon, slide trombone in hand.