RE: The Abortion Bill Filibuster-Felonious Conspiracy by Texas Republicans was led by Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst(R)

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Some are calling it TimeStampGate

I'm calling it another example of right wing extremism that justifies, in their delusional thinking, that if a vote, or anything else, doesn't go their way, they have they right, or maybe even the obligation, to get the outcome that they want.

Be they called republicans, right wing nuts, The Traitors & Enemies of America Party or 'MERICANS THAT WANT THEIR COUNTRY BACK!' nutjobs. They think that is okay to break the law.

As long as they get their way. In their eyes and to their way of thinking. It's justifiable.
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From the article (link at bottom)

The evidence of the crime is irrefutable and two criminal counts apply because two vote records were altered.
That this rises to a Texas Jail Felony seems certain given the statutes (see below).

Reading posts and news following Sen. Wendy Davis' successful filibuster reveals a conspiracy led by Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst.
The obvious implication is the end of his political career. At the least, his resignation should be sought immediately.
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Van De Putte Says Republicans Changed Time Stamp On SB 5 Voting Record

.... Sen. Leticia Van De Putte (D) told Texas Public Radio that “Republicans in the Senate, including the lieutenant governor, asked clerks” to make the time change. ....... Van De Putte said the Texas Legislative Library first showed that the bill had passed on 6/26/13 with a time stamp of 12:03 a.m. About 15 minutes later the clerks were told that they needed to change it to the 25th. ...

"My understanding is if you forge a government document or if you alter a government document, I think that might be a felony. That is a very serious, very serious thing," she said. .....

 
Van de Putte: Why I stood with Wendy: Texas women must be heard

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Excellent screen captures of the crimes in progress:
Texas Legislature Changes Timestamps on SB5 Votes

The Texas Legislative Reference Library contains an anonymous statement saying that the official record is that the vote occurred on June 25
.... the LRL statement confirms that the change was deliberate. ...

... Here’s my screen capture at 10.59 pm Pacific. I was clued to the fact that the legislature’s website was displaying what my eyes and ears heard as I watched the livestream: two votes were taken after midnight.

Moments after I tweeted the screen capture, I was unable to access the webpage. .... And when it finally refreshed, all votes were recorded as having taken place before midnight on June 25.

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Minute by minute: How the abortion vote happened

Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, checked the official journal clerk's handwritten log, and it showed the vote took place at 12:02 a.m. Wednesday.

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Davis says voting documents altered after filibuster

Sen. Wendy Davis told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that a fellow senator was informed by a Capitol staff member that the official voting documents had been purposefully changed to falsify the time of the vote on SB 5, the bill killed in her dramatic Tuesday night filibuster.

The discovery was important, she said, because had the vote been stamped on 6/25, rather than 6/26, the bill would have passed.

“We know it was purposeful,” she said. “I think there will be further investigation.”

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Statutory Reference:

Sec. 37.01. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: ....

(2) "Governmental record" means:

(B) anything required by law to be kept by others for information of government; .....

Sec. 37.10. TAMPERING WITH GOVERNMENTAL RECORD. (a) A person commits an offense if he:

(1) knowingly makes a false entry in, or false alteration of, a governmental record;

(2) makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or thing with knowledge of its falsity and with intent that it be taken as a genuine governmental record;

(3) intentionally destroys, conceals, removes, or otherwise impairs the verity, legibility, or availability of a governmental record;

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 (c)(1) Except as provided by Subdivisions (2), (3), and (4) and by Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor unless the actor's intent is to defraud or harm another, in which event the offense is a state jail felony.

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Tweets from #dewhurstfraud, #timestampgate and #txfraud

Mike Gintz ‏
I made a petition on http://whitehouse.gov about investigating #timestampgate #standwithwendy #sb5

Kassandra ‏
Just watched Wendy Davis interview on CNN- the #txlege staff were instructed to change the dates on the votes. #timestampgate

Michael Peterson
I'm pretty sure # of voter fraud cases in sen. chamber just passed all of Texas in the last election #txlege #txfraud

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PETITIONS:

White House

MoveOn = to Texas Attorney General - Open an Investigation

To the Honorable Greg Abbot - Attorney General of the State of Texas:

The unlawful conduct of altering an official state record must not be permitted in any measure and especially not by a Texas lawmaker. It is this petitioner's opinion that: available evidence appears to suggest that allegations of impropriety are sustainable.

It is this petitions request that: an official investigation be conducted to determine whether laws were violated during the late evening State Senate session regarding ("SB 5"), on 25-June-2013, and in the early morning hours of 26-June-2013, immediately following the session expiration.

The fact that the outcome of the vote on ("SB 5") has been deemed untimely, does not negate or preclude the opening of an investigation or its eventual findings. It must be our intention to hold all Texans to the same level of lawful conduct as those who create and enforce our laws.

Very Respectfully,

--Progressive Centralists and the associated petition signors

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LINK TO STORY
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023111696
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I hope that this is prosecuted.

Seeing as to how the rethugs seem to go after any Democrat, for any reason, whether real, imagined or just made-up, no matter how small the infraction.

The right has definitely seem to have gone off the rails since President Obama was elected.

I hope they continue with their self destructive ways and that they continue to fail to realize that the majority of American people aren't as stupid as they think.

Or as their base seems to be.

You know...

Since their not racist or anything.

Or misogynist.

 

 

Justice Scalia on The Injustice Of Racial Entitlements

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You can see more here.  http://maxpics.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/if-you-can-pass-this-test/
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The Attack on the Middle Class

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   I found this in my favorites from 2 years ago and finally got around to reading it. It is Al Franken at the Netroots Nation in Minneapolis.
   I have always liked Al Franken. When he gt into politics I thought if he put the insight and intelligence into politics that he did on SNL that he would be able to do some good.
   That is if the obstructionists aka (The Grand Obstructionist Party) in Washington didn't continue with their way of voting NO on every thing that the democrats proposed. Especially if President Obama gave any inkling that he was for it.
   Most of the things that Mr. Franken talks about are as true today as they were then. As a matter of fact, many of the issues still haven't been addressed because of the way the GOP has continued to block, with filibusters or whatever type of stalling tactic that they can dream up.
   Well enough of my ramblings. Here is the link to his speech. In both text and video. With a couple of excerpts.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/6363-focus-al-franken--the-attack-on-the-middle-class

  

"This is the state that sent Hubert Humphrey, the middle-class son of a pharmacist, to the U.S. Senate, where he cheerfully waged - and usually won - great battles in the name of the young and the old, the poor and the vulnerable, the oppressed and the disenfranchised.

   This is the state where Walter Mondale - who, at the age of 20, had helped to organize Humphrey's first Senate campaign - rose to become the living embodiment of common-sense Midwestern progressive values.

   And this is the state where Paul Wellstone, a professor down at Carleton College in Northfield, became my hero - and the hero of a generation of progressives who believed, as he did, that we all do better when we all do better. We all do better when we all have health care. We all do better when we all can get a good education. We all do better when we all can earn a fair wage at a good job. We all do better when we all can find a good home and economic security and justice when we're wronged.

  Today, 100 years after Hubert Humphrey was born, nearly half a century after Walter Mondale began his legendary career in public service, and two decades after Paul Wellstone won his first race for the Senate, we gather in Minnesota to take stock.

  We all believe that we all do better when we all do better. The question is: How are we doing?

  And if we're talking about the fate of ordinary families, the answer is clear: We're losing.

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  The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens. Say you have a parent who suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home. If Republicans pass these Medicaid cuts, you'd better be ready to take that parent in. That is a radical change to our society.

  The Republican vision is one in which we cut billions from job training and education and infrastructure - the things that enable ordinary Americans to find good jobs, enable businesses to find the customers and trained workers they need to grow, and enable middle class families to build real economic security. All these cuts, just to fund more tax cuts for people who are richer than any people have ever been in the history of the world.

  It's a vision in which workers have no protections from their employers, ordinary Americans have no access to the courts when they're wronged, and big corporations control everything from our media to the Internet to our democracy.

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  The right wants America to be a nation of social Darwinism in which the powerful are protected by the government, and the rest of us are on our own.

  To achieve it, they'll say things they know aren't true, disown ideas they used to support, contradict themselves on everything from how the legislative process should operate to how weather works. They'll let the government shut down, let us default on our debts, bring our country to its knees to fulfill their ideological fervor.

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   The republicans, The TEA Party, and right wing nuts don't care about the country. As long as President Obama is president it will be that way because as much as they say that they aren't racist many of theways that they act and things that they say are.
    That is why they get so upset when they are called out on it and start talking about "taking our country back" or "Obama isn't really American" or the ever popular "He wants to turn this country into a Muslim/socialist/communist/dictator/king/sharia law abiding nation".
   C'mon people, PICK ONE!!! It's like they don't know that almost all of those things are diametrically opposed to each other.
    So it's either that they don't know, don't care or they do know and don't care because they are truly racist assholes.

  

Flooding Across Central Europe This Past Week

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While I haven’t watched much tv in the past month, my wife has. She says that there has been almost no coverage on non-cable news this week.
I’ve read about it online, but I had no idea that it was so wide spread.
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Heavy rainfall over Europe during the the past week has swollen many rivers past their flood stage, wreaking havoc unseen in decades across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic. At least 18 people across the region have been killed, and tens of thousands have been evacuated. In Germany, the crest of the Elbe River is now approaching the North Sea, as the swollen Danube River is surging toward the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Collected here are images from the past several days of those affected by these historic floods, even as meteorologists predict more rain over the coming weekend.
Here are a few pictures. There is a total of 36 at the link. It’s very sobering and a few are more heart wrenching than others.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/flooding-across-central-europe/100530/
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I hope that the photographer was able to rescue this poor thing. We have a female cat named Ebony that looks like this cat. When I saw this and saw the terror in it’s eyes I instantly teared up. The rest of the day hasn’t been the same.

A cat tries to escape floodwater from the river Vltava in Kly, near Melnik, Czech Republic, on June 4, 2013. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images) #
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No words….

A young boy looks out from the back of an army truck that is evacuating people from the flooded village of Devin, in Bratislava, Slovakia, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Radovan Stoklasa) #
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It seems that no matter where a disaster happens, the Red Cross is there. Bless ‘em.

A Red Cross member talks to residents from his boat in the flooded center of Passau, Germany, on June 3, 2013. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) #
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The door of a flooded house in the village of Lounky, Czech Republic, on June 6, 2013. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising waters in the region’s worst floods in a decade. (Reuters/David W Cerny) #
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A girl from the village of Mlekojedy stands with her dog in front of the flooded road to her home, near the city of Litomerice, Czech Republic, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Petr Josek) #
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If you look close, the little boy and this woman have almost the same look in their eyes.

Petra Breitenfeller surveys her flood-damaged shop “Geko” in the center of the Bavarian city of Passau, on June 7, 2013. (Reuters/Michaela Rehle) #
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Seems like no matter what country…..

A German soldier takes a break on the top of a sandbag dam in Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt Germany, on June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) #
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So You Want Your Country Back

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Well...Lotsa luck with that.

  We haven't really had it since the U.S. created the huge web of intelligence agencies after WWII. And as long as they still operate, unrestrained, with enormous budgets, we won't.

  Gov't agencies like the CIA, the NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the 12 other National Security Agencies are largely unchecked. From their budgets, to their activities, they operate in almost total secrecy, and not just from the American people, but from Congress, and to some degree from whatever administration is in power.

  You want to talk about too big to be controlled, then let's talk about the National Security Community.

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  The U.S. intelligence budget (excluding the Military Intelligence Program) in fiscal year 2010 was $53.1 billion, according to a disclosure required under a recent law implementing recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. This figure is up from $49.8 billion in 2009, $47.5 billion in 2008, $43.5 billion in 2007, and $40.9 billion in 2006.

  In a statement on the release of new declassified figures, DNI Mike McConnell said there would be no additional disclosures of classified budget information beyond the overall spending figure because "such disclosures could harm national security." How the money is divided among the 16 intelligence agencies and what it is spent on is classified. It includes salaries for about 100,000 people, multi-billion dollar satellite programs, aircraft, weapons, electronic sensors, intelligence analysis, spies, computers, and software.

  About 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to contractors for the procurement of technology and services (including analysis), according to a May 2007 chart from the Office of the DNI. Intelligence spending has increased by a third over ten years ago, in inflation-adjusted dollars, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._intelligence_community

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  Is the NSA phone record grab the tip of the iceberg? Yes...Yes it is. Are some of those agencies actively spying on  Americans? Given their history, one would have to be blind or a fool not to believe that they aren't.

  Over the years, these agencies have probably done more to harm U.S. Security than to protect it. They what they want, when they want, to whomever they want, with near impunity. Although I bet that it's closer to clear impunity than we realize.

  If you think I'm kidding here are a few examples.

From 2007:

  Long-secret documents released Tuesday provide new details about how the Central Intelligence Agency illegally spied on Americans decades ago, from trying to bug a Las Vegas hotel room for evidence of infidelity to tracking down an expert lock picker for a Watergate conspirator.

  Known inside the agency as the �family jewels,� the 702 pages of documents released Tuesday catalog domestic wiretapping operations, failed assassination plots, mind-control experiments and spying on journalists from the early years of the C.I.A.�s existence.

  The papers provide evidence of paranoia and occasional incompetence as the agency began a string of illegal spying operations during the 1960s and 1970s, often to hunt links between Communist governments and the domestic protests that roiled the nation during that period. Yet the long-awaited documents leave out a great deal. Large sections are censored, showing that the C.I.A. still cannot bring itself to expose all the skeletons in its closet. And many activities about overseas operations disclosed years ago by journalists, Congressional investigators and a presidential commission are not detailed in the papers.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/washington/27cnd-cia.html?_r=1&

  With an almost endless supply of money, do you think the CIA and other agencies are operating any differently than they have in the past? Mark Mazzetti, who wrote the above, doesn't.

  Over the last couple of years, numerous authors have reported on specific aspects of America’s counterterrorism effort, including the Navy SEAL team operations, the bin Laden raid, other targeted killings and the drone strikes.

  The virtue of Mark Mazzetti’s new book, “The Way of the Knife,” is the way in which it perceptively ties all these events together and paints the larger picture: Since the Sept. 11 attacks, America has gradually developed a new way of war, one that thoroughly relies on secret operations by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon. It “is now easier,” Mr. Mazzetti writes, “for the United States to carry out killing operations at the ends of the earth than at any time in its history.”

  Such actions are not unprecedented, as Mr. Mazzetti, a national security correspondent for The New York Times, acknowledges in his book. The C.I.A. carried out large-scale paramilitary operations in Vietnam and supported them in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Pentagon has long engaged in spying.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/books/the-way-of-the-knife-by-mark-mazzetti.html?pagewanted=all

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  So instead of listenng to Fox, Limbaugh, Beck, the NRA and the like, telling you to be afraid of the "scary black man" in 'Your White House'...

 

  Maybe you should be asking this question...

 

WHO'S WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

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President Decides To Skip D-Day Speech.

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President Bush that is.

  He only gave 2 D-Day speeches in the 8 years that he was Cheney's and Rummy's puppet. But the Breitfart blog fails to say anything about that.He also neglected to say anything about Romney not making a speech last year even though he was running for President. Guess the white guys get a free pass.

  In 2001, Bush spoke at the dedication of the National D-Day Memorial. In 2004, he and French president Jacques Chirac marked the 60th anniversary of D-Day at the American Cemetery in Normandy.

In 2008, however, if you scroll down to June 6, you see that Bush gave interviews to reporters from French, Italian, and Slovenian TV; he sent Congress a message warning about dangers in Belarus; he commemorated Flag Day and National Flag Week; he swore in a new HUD secretary; he signed a law "which makes miscellaneous changes to laws relating to the Federal Aid Highway, Mass Transit, and Highway Safety Programs"; and he participated in a panel on China earthquake relief. Nothing about D-Day.

There's nothing about D-Day on June 6, 2007, or June 6, 2006, or June 6, 2005. (Bush did celebrate Black Music Month at the White House on June 6, 2005; good thing Obama didn't try that.) 2003? Nothing. 2002? Nothing. (We did get an "Executive Order Amendment to Executive Order 13180, Air Traffic Performance-Based Organization," on June 6, 2002, but nothing about D-Day.)
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Check out what a supposed Christian thinks about President Obama.

https://www.facebook.com/roy.hines.14


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Breitfart shitheads keep the hate going.

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  Ok you racist fucks, I direct your attention to President George W. Bush's archived White House Web site. Go here. In the left column, click on June for each Bush's presidential years.

  I doubt that any of you will because that means you would have to put down the crack pipe and or Mad Dog and learn something you stupid bastards.

  So just go on your merry way you dipshits, we need the material.

THANK YOU, YOU ASSHOLES!

Don't forget to salute your flag.

Atta Boy Darrell!!! Keep Those IRS Investigations Going!

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The Grand Obstuctionist Party in action.

The jackholes aren't going to stop trying to get that 'uppity boy' out of "THEIR WHITE HOUSE".

And this is the guy that is going after him? With a rap sheet like this he couldn't get a job at McDonalds.


 STORY HERE

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday became the latest Republican to reject Darrell Issa's comments that White House press secretary Jay Carney is a "paid liar" in relation to the IRS controversy. But Graham went further than his Republican colleagues, saying there's no evidence that the White House ordered the tax agency to target conservative groups.

During an interview with "Kilmeade and Friends" on Fox News Radio, Graham said Issa, a California Republican, was a key player in investigating the matter as the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. But, he conceded, "you can go too far" with personal allegations.

On Sunday, Issa accused the White House of ordering the IRS to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status in 2012, even though a 48-page report by the IRS Inspector General and testimony from multiple IRS officials cleared the White House of any involvement. Issa has nonetheless insisted IRS agents were being "ordered from Washington." He specifically directed his criticism at Carney, who has maintained the administration played no role in the targeting and only learned of the matter once an investigation was complete.

One can only hope that they keep investigating, even in the face of evidence that there is or was nothing to warrant such an investigation.

To bad the republicans have been taken over by the teabaggers.

What a bunch of putzes.



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