Next item: well, our heroes the congressional dems caved in again. They had been threatening to hold up the slam duck nomination of judge Michael somebody or other until the white house released a stack full of documents pertaining to the firing of the federal prosecutors for not following our great leaders wishes. That would have resulted in a very public standoff and just might have actually forced the bush administration to follow the law but the dems couldn’t keep their resolve. Turns out the threat, like all the other threats by the democratic leadership, were mere sound bites. The white house, read dick cheney, told em to pound sand, and sure enuff, they caved. So the dems, who had their chance to force the while house into releasing some documents revealing how they really operate blew it once again. Leadership by the gutless.

Next item: ok kids. You want a classic definition of hypocrisy? We now give you sec of state condoleeza rice. this story is so cockeyed that I had to pinch myself to see if I was dreaming. Unfortunately I wasn’t. its real. Secretary of State condi rice was visiting Moscow and meeting with Russian activists. While there she managed to raise hypocrisy to a new art form. Believe it or not our dear sec of state fears that The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow's commitment to democracy. here is a quote from our sec of states own lips: "In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development," Rice told reporters after meeting with human-rights activists. "I think there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. I have told the Russians that. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary. There are clearly questions about the independence of the electronic media and there are, I think, questions about the strength of the Duma," said Rice, referring to the Russian parliament. Condi baby. Have you checked out your own govt lately? Is this chutzpah or what? this statement would be amusing if condi were a housewife. The fact that she is our sec of state makes her statements frightening beyond comprehension.

Next item : speaking of Vladimir putin: the neo cons running the us govt in our name may have finally met an insurmountable obstacle to their plans to bomb or invade iran. It aint the us congress, and it aint us citizen activists. Its Vladimir putin, leader of Russia, and one of the few people on earth the neo cons must respect. He recently visited iran and while there pledged to oppose any countries waging war on iran by all means at his disposal. Those are strong words. It looks like the sides are lining up on this issue eirily remininscent of the time just before world war I erupted. The lineup is interesting. On one side are the united states neocon, and Israel, and on the other side are the American people, and the rest of the world, including russia. The neocons don’t seem to care what the American people want, The rest of the world doesn’t really count for much, but Russia does. Even the neocons are probably not ready to go to war with Russia. Ok, peace activists, how many of you ever imagined you would be thanking the pres of Russia for keeping us out of a war? How times change.

Next item: ....Bravenewfilms.org sponsored a contest to help fox news with their new business news show by suggesting potential storie lines. The winning suggestion was: Should Returns gained from Political Bribes be Taxed as Income or Dividends? It goes without saying that the corporation giving the bribe will write it off as a normal business expense. I offer a further dynamite suggestion: should the congresscritters who take the bribes declare them as income, donations to their campaign fund, gifts from god, and then write off the taxes paid as a normal business expense? It is beginning to appear that bribing congresscritters is a normal business practice, so why shouldn’t briber and bribee both be able to write em off as the expenses of doing business with our esteemed congress? How else would anything get done?

Next item: burning man takes on blm. Edit this:A group of burner attorneys are mounting a grassroots project to challenge BLM citations that may have been issued WITHOUT probable

cause and/or where consent to search was NOT freely given. If you or anyone you know was issued a federal citation from a BLM Officer or BLM Ranger at Burning Man 2007 and you are interested in contesting the citation then read on. (Please note this only applies to BLM citations; not Pershing County arrests or citations for state law violations.)

it seems that The same story has been recounted from numerous participants, and if

the reports are true, then there seems to be a pattern. It goes something like this. Participant is stopped by BLM Rangers for no reason in particular, or for a very minor reason, and is then told that they have no choice but to allow a search. However, there may have been violations of the Fourth Amendment in these types of interaction. The problem is that in order to fight the fine, the participant would need to show up at a hearing in Reno, and possibly return later for a

trial. Since the cost of most BLM citations is $525 or less, it makes it easier to just pay the fine than to take days off work to travel to Reno. Also, $525 is cheaper than hiring an attorney. Accordingly, most participants simply pay the fine as the lesser of two evils.

Next item: we have some interesting news on the income tax front. This is from truthattack.org. It seems that some guy had the nerve to take the constitution seriously and paid his employees in real money instead of federal reserve notes. The govt of course sued and what is germane is that the govt lost in court.

NEVADA JURY HANDS GOVERNMENT ITS HEAD score: US citizens 189—U.S. & IRS 0 & TENTH CIRCUIT SAYS PRA  IS A DEFENSE FOR FAILURE TO FILE            LAS VEGAS, NV—Yep, we keep marching along on the legal front.  In Las Vegas after a four month trial, millions of tax dollars and taken dollars spent, the jury has refused to give the government even one single guilty verdict out of 189 accusations.  The Kahre case resulted in many not guilty verdicts, such as indicting Mr. Kahre’s mother for shuttling paperwork between offices, and the jury was hung on all the rest.            This is a major victory in what is an extremely important case, because the government’s position relied on the jury believing that gold and silver coin minted by the U. S. Treasury IS NOT money while FRNs worth nothing and printed by the Fed ARE money.  Mr. Kahre was paying his employees with silver and gold coin, which meant that a week’s pay that would normally amount to 450 FRNs would turn out to be $40 in silver or gold coin.  If an employee’s pay is $40 a week there is no withholding and if his annual "income" is a little over $2,000, he owes no tax return or taxes.  Beautiful!!  The IRS and the Fed, foist on their own petard!!  This case combines the tax issue and the phony money issue, which is appropriate, since it is no coincidence that the income tax and the Fed were created at the same time.  Congratulations and thanks go out to the defense team and, most of all, Mr. Kahre and all the others who put all on the line to stand up for the rule of law.