Global Security Watch > On Flag Burning, Desecration, and Unctuous Politicians

http://historymike.blogspot.com [historymike] (Toledo, OH) I watch with disgust as members of the United States Senate waste time trying to outdo each other with versions of legislation concerning the "desecration" of the American flag.

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http://historymike.blogspot.com  historymike: (Toledo, OH) The news that federal agencies rooted out seven suspected domestic terrorists should have caused me to breathe a sigh of relief. After all, people with plans to create an event "just as good or greater than 9/11" - including the destruction of the Sears Tower in Chicago - must be just the sort of terrorist thugs we want removed from danger, right? (via Cosmos)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com [Huffingtonpost.com] The Blog | Rep. Major R. Owens: The Washington Looting of New ...: Numbers show that our political system greatly overrepresents small and non-urban states - Wyoming has 3.7 times as many total congressional representatives (House and Senate) per capita in Washington as California. State legislatures may be similar in underrepresenting cities, if they have a Senate based on territory (e.g.

[Njdc.typepad.com] NJDC's Blog: If that formula --one day of Senate debate for each incident of flag burning this year --were to be applied to other matters, the Senate would need to schedule12 days of debate to contemplate the number of years before Medicaregoes broke, 335 days of debate for each service member killed in Iraqthis year and 11 million days of debate on the estimated number ofillegal immigrants in the country.

http://leave-us-alone.blogspot.com [Leave-us-alone.blogspot.com] Leave Us Alone!: Act Now to Protect the Constitution: 12 would desecrate the Constitution by allowing Congress to prohibit flag desecration. Andrea Stone of USA Today reports that the Senate is set to take up the amendment the week after next, and it is dangerously close to passing:

http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com [Today in Iraq] DAILY WAR NEWS FOR THURSDAY, March 9, 2006 ... : : With the US President George Bush's approval ratings hitting new lows with the bottom no where in sight, Iran about to open the first oil bourse priced in Euros on March 20th, 2006 in Teheran, the US Federal Reserve stopping to publish M3 figures (the most reliable indicator on the amount of dollars circulating in the world) only three days later from March 23, 2006 onward, the by-now-familiar pattern of bullying Iran into submission on its nuclear program well on the way, Britain saying that Iran is only months away from a nuke, US Vice President Dick Cheney and America's rep to the UNO John Bolton threatening Iran with all available means from AIPAC forum and the beleaguered Iranian ambassador retorting back with 'let the ball roll', I have distinct feeling of déjà vu.

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