ah, none of this noise about a yearning for somebody to go do it …

in addition, you’d like to learn about a game plan to snag Osama …

if all the above meets with your approval, then click, somehow, on the following hyperlink:

http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/osama-and-our-preside nt-dumass-botch_20.html

and get ready for a ride on a wild blog

toodles
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.he who is known as sefton

oh, yes, the above was copied and then pasted by an actual human being, who visited your “Fanatical Apathy” blog.

Hot damn! I spent several years working as the head of Hueston Wood’s Raptor Rehabilitation Center in Oxford, Ohio. We dealt with about 40 raptors a year and even today I have a Screech Owl on an educational permit that I take to schools and will show off at Felberpalooza.

If you come out for the party, the ridge to our west (Tussey Mountain) is THE major fly way for Golden Eagles on the east coast, although they come through later in the season. However in Sept. we should be seeing Broad Wings and of course there are always Red Tails, Shoulders, and K-birds. Speaking of which, my very good friend Dr. John Smallwood (world expert on Kestrels, Beatles knowledge and former editor of the Wilson Journal) will be here. Hope you can make it too.

Those bastards are incapable of being embarrassed. Banana Republicans just keep on keeping on until something or someone slaps the living shit out of them (figuratively speaking here, of course - unelecting the schmucks and, by extension, their appointees is our only recourse in modern America. Civil disobedience has apparently ceased to be a viable option, ecoterrorism is our number domestic threat according to the FBI, and God help you if you’re a Quaker).

So…”and believe me, if there’s any amendment to the Constitution that employees of the National Security Agency are familiar with, it’s the Fourth.” And yet didn’t he say there was no probable cause statement in the Fourth Amendment? (sorry I would have underlined it, but I don’t know how. Look hard, you will see it.) Does nobody actually read these things? Shouldn’t a statement like that, obviously false, be pointed out?
Oh wait, I got the link to the Constitution from Google. No wonder it was wrong…

Wandering back to the topic, and being the last cyberdog on the block to be dipped for ticks, blogwise, here, for anyone who missed it, is an excerpt from the Good General at NSA’s understanding of the Fourth Amendment (kind of like James Baker’s understanding of the Equal Protection Clause, which the Supreme Court bought), an understanding to which “Any Angle Which Produces the Desired Interpretation” Alito
likely subscibes (damn, is that a sentence or what?):

General “What’s this fucking constitution thing you keep talking about?” Hayden today:

QUESTION: Jonathan Landay with Knight Ridder. I’d like to stay on the same issue, and that had to do with the standard by which you use to target your wiretaps. I’m no lawyer, but my understanding is that the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution specifies that you must have probable cause to be able to do a search that does not violate an American’s right against unlawful searches and seizures. Do you use —

GEN. HAYDEN: No, actually — the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us against unreasonable search and seizure.

QUESTION: But the —

GEN. HAYDEN: That’s what it says.

QUESTION: But the measure is probable cause, I believe.

GEN. HAYDEN: The amendment says unreasonable search and seizure.

QUESTION: But does it not say probable —

GEN. HAYDEN: No. The amendment says —

QUESTION: The court standard, the legal standard —

GEN. HAYDEN: — unreasonable search and seizure.

QUESTION: The legal standard is probable cause, General. You used the terms just a few minutes ago, “We reasonably believe.” And a FISA court, my understanding is, would not give you a warrant if you went before them and say “we reasonably believe”; you have to go to the FISA court, or the attorney general has to go to the FISA court and say, “we have probable cause.”

And so what many people believe — and I’d like you to respond to this — is that what you’ve actually done is crafted a detour around the FISA court by creating a new standard of “reasonably believe” in place of probable cause because the FISA court will not give you a warrant based on reasonable belief, you have to show probable cause. Could you respond to that, please?

GEN. HAYDEN: Sure. I didn’t craft the authorization. I am responding to a lawful order. All right? The attorney general has averred to the lawfulness of the order.

Just to be very clear — and believe me, if there’s any amendment to the Constitution that employees of the National Security Agency are familiar with, it’s the Fourth. And it is a reasonableness standard in the Fourth Amendment. And so what you’ve raised to me — and I’m not a lawyer, and don’t want to become one — what you’ve raised to me is, in terms of quoting the Fourth Amendment, is an issue of the Constitution. The constitutional standard is “reasonable.” And we believe — I am convinced that we are lawful because what it is we’re doing is reasonable.

(Copped from Atrios)