Andymatic

Month: December 2005

  • Minimum Payment Hikes Timed with Bankruptcy Legislation

    I’d noticed that my minimum payments on my credit cards has changed recently. "Most of the top 10 credit card issuers have raised their minimum payments this year. And in most cases, they’ve done so this quarter." "Regulators urged banks to adjust their minimum payments by the end of 2005." (The legislation passed in 2003) […]

  • NSA, FISA, Bush, Wiretap Roundup

    FBI considered a gay kiss-in a credible terrorist threat. Judge on spy court quits in disgust at revelations. John Aravosis suggests that maybe journalists are the target of the wiretaps. Bush personally asked The New York Times to kill the story. After saying the program didn’t grab domestic calls, turns out it does. Pelosi wants […]

  • Fear, Dreaming Kitties and Red Herrings

    Sometimes I think my cat has a crush on me. I usually have to banish him from the bedroom each morning around 4 AM because he sits on me and press his paws on my nose until I get up. So when I let him back in this morning we have our usual Joyful Reunion […]

  • Clinton's Echelon Complied with FISA

    Right-wing bloggers are reporting that Clinton’s Echelon program was just as bad as what Bush has been doing. In fact: The Clinton administration program, code-named Echelon, complied with FISA. Before any conversations of U.S. persons were targeted, a FISA warrant was obtained.

  • 1. Pick up phone. 2. Call House Rep. 3. 'Say I support HR 635″ 4. Hang up.

    Call your congress critters. Don’t know them? Search House.gov (and Senate.gov when the time comes). John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions and potential violations of international law. The […]

  • White House Spies on Gay and Lesbian Groups

    From AmericaBlog: Pentagon officials have been spying on what they call "suspicious" meetings by civilian groups, including student groups opposed to the military’s "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual military personnel. In the future we’ll all be terrorists. 

  • Ex-Spooks on Wiretapping US Citizens

    Defense Tech talks to security veterans about Bush’s wiretapping: It’s drilled into you from minute one that you should not ever, ever, ever, under any fucking circumstances turn this massive apparatus on an American citizen. You do a lot of weird shit. But at least you don’t fuck with your own people.

  • You Have to Smell What I Want

    My scalp is tight lately which means I’m putting myself under too much tension. I have a lot on my mind as I consider the coming year and how to pace and plan everything. I sometimes sit here overwhelmed and don’t know where to begin or how to start. Got a copy of the book […]

  • 'America Kidnapped Me”

    Lebanese-born German citizen Khaled El-Masri was on a trip from German to Macedonia when he was kidnapped by the United States – he has brought a lawsuit against George Tenet: I was put in a diaper, a belt with chains to my wrists and ankles, earmuffs, eye pads, a blindfold and a hood. I was […]

  • Mao's Little Red Book on Homeland Security Agency Watchlist

    It was a hoax.   A student at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth reqeusted Mao’s Little Red Book for research through an interlibrary loan. That’s when Homeland Security showed up: He was later visited at his parents’ home in New Bedford by two agents of the Department of Homeland Security, the professors told the Standard-Times. The professors […]