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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses his strategic growth plan, that includes $2.5 billion over the next 10 years to make levee repairs and improve emergency response, during a news conference at the Nimbus Dam near Folsom,Calif., Friday, Jan. 6, 2005. Schwarzenegger called on bipartisan support for his growth plan, which he unveiled during his State of the State speech Thursday. At right is Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman.

AP: Schwarzenegger Hurt in Motorcycle Mishap

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger received 15 stitches in his lip Sunday after he and his 12-year-old son were involved in a motorcycle accident near their Los Angeles home, his spokeswoman said.

Schwarzenegger was riding a Harley Davidson motorcycle with his son Patrick in the sidecar when another driver backed into the street, spokeswoman Margita Thompson said in a statement.

“The governor was unable to avoid the vehicle in his path and collided with it at a low speed,” she said.

Both Schwarzenegger and his son were treated for cuts and bruises at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica and released, Thompson said. Both were wearing helmets at the time, she said.

The other driver was uninjured.

Flap hopes the Governor is fine.

Sutures in the lip are never fun.

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Flap cannot resist…….

Hugh Hewitt: The Five Stages of MSM Death –Hiltzik and the Anger Stage

We are now in the second of five stages of old media death. First there was denial, and now there is anger, with Hiltzik’s childish tantrum just the most obvious of many similar outbursts. Soon there will be bargaining –I’ll be nice to you if you are nice to me– and then depression and acceptance.

And then, perhaps, MSM will get back to putting out non-agenda driven news from a balanced newsroom, transparent in its ideological biases, and full of young and talented graduates as opposed to tenured and bitter time-servers.

Patterico and Hiltzik are going at it in the comments section here.

Heh………

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Michelle Malkin Watch: 2005 IN REVIEW: THE WAR ON BLOGS

Bear Flag League Watch: Patterico’s Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2005

Technorati Tags: HughHewitt, MichaelHiltzik, Patterico, PatrickFrey, MSM, LosAngelesTimes

American singer and activist Harry Belafonte speaks as Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez looks on during Chavez’s weekly television and radio program in El Consejo in Venezuela’s Aragua state, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006. Belafonte called U.S. President George W. Bush a ‘terrorist’ while warmly praising Chavez and criticizing a U.S. press that he said has ignored the achievements of his socialist programs.

DAY-O UNHINGED

Michelle Malkin has more, HEY, HARRY BELAFONTE: DON’T COME BACK

ABC News: In Caracas, Belafonte Calls Bush Terrorist

Technorati Tags: HarryBelafonte, HugoChavez, Venezuela, GeorgeBush, terrorist,

Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Arlen Specter, R-PA, is seen inside the court room where Saddam Hussein is being tried at the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Dec. 27, 2005. Specter met with the chief judge overseeing the Saddam Hussein trial, saying he’s ‘disappointed’ the court has allowed the former leader ‘to dominate’ the trial.

ASSociated Press: Specter Seeks Gonzales Testimony on Spying

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to testify during open hearings on the legality of the Bush administration’s domestic spying program.

Why?

First, this is NOT Domestic Spying.

Second, Attorney General Gonzales was NOT the Attorney General when President Bush first authorized the NSA program after 9/11. John Ashcroft was.

Third, Attorney General Gonzales is formerly President Bush’s White House Counsel and any conversations are attorney-client privileged communication and Gonzales will decline to answer.

Fourth, if Specter or any of the other Senators have a problem with the NSA program file a lawsuit in federal court asking to enjoin the President and see how far you get………

Let’s face it – Senator Arlen Specter should NEVER have been chosen as Senate Judiciary Committe Chairman. He is simply not up to the task. But, then look who allowed him to accede to the chairmanship – Senator Bill Frist.

But GOP Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas said, “There was no discussion in anything that I was around that gave the president a broad surveillance authority with that resolution.”

And this guy from Kansas thinks he will be President? Grandstanding Midwestern McCain.

Brownback, on ABC’s “This Week,” said the Senate Intelligence Committee also will hold hearings — closed to the public — on the NSA program.

“I think this is something that bears looking into and us to be able to establish a policy within constitutional frameworks of what a president can or cannot do,” said Brownback, considered a presidential hopeful for 2008.

He said he was “troubled by what the basis for the grounds that the administration says that they did these on, the legal basis, and I think we need to look at that far more broadly and understand it a great deal.”

Flap doubts any Senators on the Intelligence Committee are going to prescribe what the President does – nor should they.

It is called separation of powers.

And Brownback thinks he will get out of Kansas – Doubtful.

And Schumer – well……….

Academics and others will be asked to appear, part of a list of witnesses “who think the president was right and people who think the president was wrong,” Specter said.

Look at the Rasmussen Poll, Specter.

Why are you wasting taxpayer money to have a useless and meaningless hearing?

File the lawsuit – come on Flap DARES YOU!

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NSA Leak Case Watch: Justice Deptartment Probing Domestic Spying Leak

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NSA Surveillance Watch: Carter and Clinton Executive Orders Authorizing Secret Searches Without a Warrant

NSA Surveillance Watch: Calls for Congressional Hearings

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Technorati Tags: NationalSecurityAgency, NSA, AssociatedPress, NSASurveillance, NSALeakCase, NewYorkTimes, RasmussenPoll, ArlenSpecter, SamBrownback

Lt. Smash asks Representative Bob Filner a question. Photo Courtesy of Da Goddess.

Michelle Malkin: WHAT ARE YOU FOR: SUCCESS OR FAILURE?

Another vet rises up…

Milblogger Smash confronted anti-war Democrat Rep. Bob Filner in California at one of the many “Out of Iraq” town hall meetings that took place this weekend.

Read about the exchange here.

Audio here.

Bear Flag League Member, The Indepundit, asks the question:

Representative Bob Filner, D-CA attempts to answer – The Quotes:

“Well, I mean, first of all, let me say I don’t, I don’t want to be seen as a defender of the previous regime, but that was, I think, the previous regime.”

“No, see, you, what you have done, is what I just talked about. That, how the President has gotten away with framing the issue. You framed the issue as “success or failure.” And obviously, if you’re “failure,” you’re a — you’re a jerk, right?”

“…Look, we — First of all, things can’t get much worse than they are now, by the way. They are pretty bad, no matter what Cheney says, no matter what Rumsfeld says. I mean, when you have 200 people killed, you know, in a day –”

“And you know, your brothers and sisters killed, something is wrong. …And, you know, if we shouldn’t have been in there to begin with, then it should not be incumbent on me to try to define getting out.”

But I would say, that an international police force, which could keep the peace, it would — that if we should put that in place at least –

SMASH: Led by whom, sir?

“The United Nations.”

“..Look, if you define success as “democracy,” you know, why — why would you choose Iraq to go anywhere, anyway? I mean, why are we supporting Saudi Arabia, or whatever? So, success can’t be “democracy.” Success can’t be “lack of autocracy,” because we support autocrats other places.

“Success, it seems to me for these guys, is control of, not only the — the strategic positioning, but the oil. So, success for me would say, “we don’t need your lousy oil”. We could start — we could put — we can run this whole country off renewable energy, right this minute.”

“And, we — we wouldn’t even care what happened in Iraq. Like we don’t care what’s going on in Africa, and we don’t care what’s going on in Saudi Arabia, we don’t care what’s going on in all these other nations…”

“Why do we care what happens in this little nation? One reason –”

“OIL”

“And, so, let’s get off oil, and let’s care about human rights in their real form, everywhere.”

Filner supports FAILURE.

What a MORON.

But, what do you expect in California safe congressional districts with a Democrat gerrymand?

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