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Dick Cheney On Meet The Press – Subject: The Confused American Public That Thinks Iraq Was Responsible For 9-11, Saudi Involvement In 9-11, And the “Classified” Pages of the 9-11 Commission Report

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Subject: The Confused American Public That Thinks Iraq Was Responsible For 9-11, Saudi Involvement In 9-11, And the “Classified” Pages of the 9-11 Commission Report
Note: There is no mention whatsoever of this segment in the transcript. (Except for the part in the end about Cheney thinking another attack is imminent.)
Cheney On Iraq and 9-11 (Small – 7 MB)

Dick Cheney On Meet The Press – Complete Video

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
I also have this footage edited into smaller clips, organized by subject, that I’m in the process of uploading right now.

Cheney On Meet The Press – 1 of 2 (Small – 55 MB)

Cheney On Meet The Press – 2 of 2 (Small – 49 MB)









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Protest Against The Recall Tomorrow In Berkeley at NOON and San Francisco at 2:00 PM

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Thanks again, Bobby, for being so on top of things!

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE IN THE BAY AREA TO SAY NO TO THE RECALL
I know it sounds like the Courts are going to push the recall back a few months, but there is still a week before the Supreme Court will finally decide and it is important to keep the anti-recall momentum going forward.

SO………Why don’t YOU show up at Sproul Plaza (Bancroft/Telegraph in Berkeley on the UC Campus) at noon or stop by the Third Baptist Church in SF at 2pm. (The church is at 1399 McAllister Street, at Pierce, in the Western Edition in San Francisco.)
If you want more info, the message MoveOn sent me is below.

But first, a note from Lisa (even though this is “Bobby’s Turn” 🙂
Just wanted to let you guys know that I will be going to this protest in Berkeley tomorrow.
I have just enough time between my morning and afternoon class at SFSU to take BART out to Berkeley and record the speeches and head back. So you’ll get to see the event either way. But it’s really important for there to be a huge turnout at these events, so that the Supreme Court will know how we feel and take that into account while it’s making its decision.
Jesse Jackson will be there. It ought to be really cool.
Footage will go up promptly tomorrow night. (After I get home from class at 5 and have a chance to upload it.)
Hope to see you there!

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Free Expression Policy Project Updates Its Report On “Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom”

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The Free Expression Policy Project has just published a fully revised and updated edition of “The Progress of Science and Useful Arts” Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom – a summary of the major controversies over file-sharing, fair use, the ever-receding public domain, the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” and more.
It’s available at:

The Progress of Science and Useful Arts
Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom

In all, fourteen amicus briefs on Eldred’s side were submitted, with a total of 141 signers. They included groups ranging from the National Writers Union and the College Art Association to the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Their aim was to bring home to the Supreme Court justices the real cultural costs of ever-longer copyright terms, and consequent freezing of the public domain.
The brief from online archiving projects, for example, described how Internet public-domain publishing has revived countless forgotten or hard-to-find works. Archiving projects now “digitize and distribute millions of out-of-copyright books, movies, and music … materials that commercial publishers, distributors, and rights-holders have effectively abandoned.” While media companies that own the copyrights “often let these films decay and books disappear, this material is invaluable to scholars researching our history, artists developing new art forms, and anyone seeking to explore our culture.”
To reclaim these works, they must be in the public domain. Finding and paying copyright owners is untenable, given the millions of documents involved. And in any case, the vast majority of works affected by the Sonny Bono law

9th Circuit Court Of Appeals Says Recall Election, As It Now Stands, Is Unconstitutional Due To Improper Voting Equipment

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Bravo! Bravo! I must say, I am pleasantly surprised by this thoughtful ruling by the 9th District Court of Appeals.
(Too bad the Supreme Court wasn’t as thoughtful in the 2000 presidential election.)

Appeals court blocks California recall
By Bob Franken and Kelly Wallace for CNN.

The ruling follows a hearing last week at which the American Civil Liberties Union argued that election officials should have more time to replace antiquated voting machines in several California counties.
The ACLU said the punch-card system could disenfranchise voters in six counties, including Los Angeles, the state’s largest. Those six counties include 44 percent of state voters and have heavy concentrations of minority voters.
A lower court last month had rejected the request, but the appeals court disagreed.
“In sum, in assessing the public interest, the balance falls heavily in favor of postponing the election for a few months,” the court concluded, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision that settled the 2000 presidential election.
“The choice between holding a hurried, constitutionally infirm election and one held a short time later that assures voters that the ‘rudimentary requirements of equal treatment and fundamental fairness are satisfied’ is clear.”
Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer for the ACLU, called the decision “a masterpiece.”

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Morny mornin’ to ya!

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Okay so I’m not going to be doing much more with the Presidential Debate stuff unless somebody emails me this morning and wants something specific before I erase it from my hard drive. There’s too much else to do. (Oh, alright, I’ll get the Dean clips separated out and uploaded first — I’m not heartless…but otherwise I gotta MOVE ON, so to speak.)
I say this because Dick Cheney was on Meet the Press yesterday morning in rare form, dodging questions with answers that don’t make any sense, as per usual, about the war mostly — and I think putting those clips up has to take priority right now.
So that’s how I’ll be spending my day after I catch up with an old friend over lunch.
But first, the rest of last week’s
Daily Show clips. My friend Jeff Suttor is going to loan me his camera next week while I’m sending mine away to be serviced, so I won’t miss a beat.
So you can all say: “Thanks, Jeff!”
Back in a flash!

PBS Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate – September 4, 2003

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Good Morning Folks,
So I’ll be blogging this in more detail later (note: I’ve since backed out of this task), but I really wanted to get it up for you this weekend so you could check it out before the work week starts. (Yes, I realize that many of you will have to wait ’till the work week starts so you can get your hands on a high speed connection…so this way the files will be ready for you too on Monday am.)
Here is the Democratic Candidate Presidential Debate that aired on PBS on September 4, 2003.
I’ve made the files available in two or three parts.
These files are all huge. The “2s” are about 100 MB each, and the “3s” are about 60 MB each. I’ll have them split up by candidate eventually, but, like I said, I thought I’d give you a chance to spend the day with them if you are so inclined.
I’ll be gone for the first part of today and then back this afternoon to finish my weekend rampage. (I’m actually getting caught up on my blogging todo list!)
Enjoy!

Howard Dean On Good Morning America — Reaction To The Shrub’s Sept 7 Iraq Speech

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Here’s Howard Dean on the Sept 8, 2003 program of ABC’s Good Morning America. (No website available.)
Howard took the opportunity to clarify several inaccuracies in the Shrub’s September 7, 2003 speech regarding Iraq, where he states that Iraq has always had links to Al Qaeda. We know that, in fact, links between Iraq and Al Qaeda before the war have never been substantiated.
(In fact, there is evidence to the contrary.)

Howard Dean On Good Morning America (Small – 9 MB)

New Song Available! Something Better

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I’ve just uploaded a new song I wrote with my guitar player, Ron Taylor.
We’ve just reunited after a 4 year hiatus, and it feels so good!
We’ll be playing around in San Francisco soon under our “band” name: Park and Ride.
(He’s “Park” I’m “Ride” 🙂
Hope you’ll come check us out.
Like all of my music, it’s released under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
That means, in a nutshell: “Take it and run (baby) BUT give us credit.”
(Spelled out: Distribute, Display, and Perform at will — Derivative Works and Commercial Uses OK)
And now, I bring you
Something Better.

Ron and I wrote this song many years ago right after I’d talked him out of joining the Navy. He was joining the Navy because he felt he had nothing better to do with his life. I convinced him that even flipping burgers would be better than potentially dying in some stupid war.
Now he’s happily married with two beautiful children and he still thanks me for helping him out on that fateful day. (Although, I must admit, at the time I was being purely selfish: I didn’t want to lose my guitar player!)
Ron and I have recently reunited (August 2003) and we just recorded this track last weekend by playing into the microphone on my video camera. I played it for some friends, and they all liked it a lot. So I’m taking their advice.
It’s rough, but I think they’re right. It’s good enough for rock n’ roll!
Hope you like it!

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