Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 (
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Ok, so there’s a bunch out there already, but they don’t give you the code, they want you to point your browser to
their code. I don’t want to do that. So here’s my own counter that you can freely use and modify. Please keep the link back to this site though (or at least credit me somewhere nearby). Enjoy 😀
Since Congress is too gutless to Impeach the Bush, here’s how much longer we have to suffer under his rule.
And here’s the code to run it:
<script>
then = new Date();
then.setFullYear(2009)
then.setMonth(1);
then.setDate(20);
then.setHours(12);
then.setMinutes(0);
then.setSeconds(0);
function printDate(aDate)
{
toReturn = aDate.toLocaleString();
return toReturn;
}
function countIt()
{
now = new Date();
document.getElementById("then").innerHTML = printDate(then);
document.getElementById("now").innerHTML = printDate(now);
document.getElementById("counter").innerHTML = Math.round(((then-now)/1000))+" seconds and counting...";
}
</script>
<div style='width:350px; border:2px solid black; background:white; padding:10px; font-align:justify;' >
Since Congress is too gutless to Impeach the Bush, here's how much longer we have to suffer under his rule.
<hr/>
<div style='font-family:arial; font-size:12pt'>
<table>
<tr><td>Target:</td><td id=then align=center></td></tr>
<tr><td>Now:</td><td id=now align=center></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
<hr/>
<div id=counter style="width:100%; text-align:center"></div>
<div style='font-size:8pt;width:100%; text-align:center'>
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</div>
</div>
<script>
setInterval("countIt();",1000);
</script>
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George Bush
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 (
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Over 10 Million e-mails were deleted during historically important time periods (also periods where corruption and incompetence have been alleged). How convenient that they're "missing".
Either way, count another law broken by the Bush administration.
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Accountability,
Congress,
Corruption,
George Bush
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 (
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So Bush wants to leave a legacy? Here it is.
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George Bush
Saturday, April 27th, 2019 (
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This covers it pretty well. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, watchdog groups sued the Whitehouse for records that they believe will prove that Bush and company lied and generally did bad things. The Whitehouse claims to have deleted all e-mail records from that time.
Imagine that.
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Accountability,
Corruption,
George Bush
Saturday, April 27th, 2019 (
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Monday, April 29th, 2019 (
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Bush is threatening to veto any wire-tapping bill that comes to him without language that retroactively provides immunity to the telecommunication companies (like AT&T) for their part in the illegal spying fiasco.
Has anyone else noticed or is refusing to sign a law because of a provision that technically has nothing to do with said law considered blackmail? If it's not, it's certainly a tantrum at the least.
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Accountability,
George Bush
Monday, April 29th, 2019 (
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No I'm not talking about the illegal spying, but the case of the Al-Queda video that was discovered before it was publicly released. The problem is that the disclosure of the video alerted Al-Queda that their networks had been compromised. While I read about this news yesterday, what I didn't know was that it was the Bush administration who is responsible for the leak.
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George Bush,
Leaks
Sunday, April 28th, 2019 (
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Now that Congress has officially started to investigate the role of major telcom companies in illegal spying, the question is, "will anything finally come of it?"
At this stage, they've only sent letters asking about their involvement and whether they knowingly broke the law under the promise of protection from litigation from the executive branch. If they actually answer truthfully, things should get interesting.
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Congress,
George Bush
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 (
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Reading the wikipedia page, you can find that the No-fly list was implemented on 9/11 2001 and ballooned from 16 names to over 40,000. There have been many false positives including children and some famous people (fortunately some of whom are congress members).
According to this story, all the millions of dollars, the time wasted, and the frustration cast doubt whether the program was worth it. The man described in this article is actually Gerry Adams, a spokesman for the Irish Republican Movement.
It's because of suspected past ties to the IRA that he has been flagged eternally for extra security checks and constant harrassment. Read the story for a well written example of such which includes this awesome quote:
I hand the FBI young gun a copy of my travel schedule – a document that has been in the possession of the US state department for the past month or so.
"Huh," he says. "Why are you going to the White House, sir?"
"To see the president."
"Huh. Why?"
"He asked me," I say evenly.
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George Bush,
No-Fly List,
TSA
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 (
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Part of the Patriot act allowed the feds to issue "National Security Letters" which could demand information without subpoena, without probable cause, and included a gag order requiring that the recipient could not share that they'd received such a letter with anyone.
Despite this being a gross over-stepping of power, Congress did pass AND RENEW the Patriot act. All that aside, a federal judge finally struck the provision as unconstitutional.
Although Marrero recognizes the importance of preserving national security, he asserts in his decision that "The Constitution was designed so that the dangers of any given moment would never suffice as justification for discarding fundamental individual liberties or circumscribing the judiciary's unique role under our governmental system in protecting those liberties and upholding the rule of law."
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George Bush,
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