State of the union speech.So what.

There is no law against wearing T-shirts inside. The Bushies would have been better served to let her stay while wearing it; she would have looked silly.

Is there a law prohibiting what she did? Or have we decided that the 1st amendment is outdated as well?

Cycloptichorn

revel wrote:

You sure are hung up on the superficials, tico.

Where'd you get that idea? Just because I think Cindy Sheehan looks like Nick Nolte, and Michael Moore tends to resemble Jabba the Hut?




Hung up on the superficials? Me? Perish the thought.

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

the democrats aren't in much of position to obstruct anything.

No, but some of them sure as hell do their best. :wink:

ya gonna see gilmour on this tour ?

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

ya gonna see gilmour on this tour ?

Hadn't heard about it. Have they announced a schedule yet?

YOUR OPINION IS PART OF THE RADICAL MINORITY... the America haters... I hope that brings pride in your country and the world of tomorrow will look back and see the partisan special interest politics of the left and spit...

NBC: Charges against Sheehan to be dropped
Antiwar mom removed from State of the Union for wearing protest shirt

WASHINGTON - Charges against antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, who was arrested after an incident involving a T-shirt she wore to the State of the Union address, will be dropped, officials told NBC News Wednesday.

U.S. Capitol Police took Sheehan away in handcuffs and charged her with unlawful conduct, a misdemeanor, when she showed up to President Bush's address Tuesday night wearing a shirt that read, "2245 Dead. How many more?" ?- a reference to the number of soldiers killed in Iraq.

But Capitol Police will ask the U.S. attorney's office to drop the charges, NBC News' Mike Viqueira reported Wednesday.

"We screwed up," a top Capitol Police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

He said Sheehan didn't violate any rules or laws.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11120353/

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Shw was welcome to wear`that t-shirt outside. Nothing has happened to free speech. Not only should she have been arrested, but the fashion police should have slapped her around as well.

It's the state of the union address, not a street performance. Decorum please.

There is no law against wearing T-shirts inside. The Bushies would have been better served to let her stay while wearing it; she would have looked silly.

Is there a law prohibiting what she did? Or have we decided that the 1st amendment is outdated as well?

Cycloptichorn

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/01/sheehan.arrest/index.html

Police admit that they were wrong to remove Sheehan, case closed.

I guess it's "anti-American" to expect the proper laws and regulations to be followed, these days.

Cycloptichorn

Cycloptichorn wrote:

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That is why the left doesn't understand, we can rant too but we actually have some substance to what we have to say... Just because we turn the other cheek does not mean we turn our backs on treachery..

Your rants contain no substance. They are just rabid foaming right-wing noise, repeated loudly.

Your attempt to silence dissent (calling those who dissent 'traitor' even though this is patently untrue and frankly UnAmerican) is ridiculous and just makes you look like an ass.

Cycloptichorn

Oh look kids, another left wing puppet!

If being patriotic makes me look like an ass then bring it on...

Cycloptichorn wrote:

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Shw was welcome to wear`that t-shirt outside. Nothing has happened to free speech. Not only should she have been arrested, but the fashion police should have slapped her around as well.

It's the state of the union address, not a street performance. Decorum please.

There is no law against wearing T-shirts inside. The Bushies would have been better served to let her stay while wearing it; she would have looked silly.

Is there a law prohibiting what she did? Or have we decided that the 1st amendment is outdated as well?

Cycloptichorn

Just as Cindy unethically uses her dead son to promoter her hate America agenda she intended to use our elected presidents state of the union address to promote her radical special interest, get rich quick, treason...

She has lost ALL credibility with that Hugo visit/hug. Even the democrats are distancing themselves from her FAST! The only people that are with her now are the scourges of society, anarchists and flag burners...

Oil's quiet on Senate front

Energy bigs snub hearing day after Prez's 'addict' jab

BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
and KENNETH R. BAZINET
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - A day after President Bush declared America is "addicted" to oil, big oil execs thumbed their nose at a Senate hearing called yesterday to grill them about their record profits.
And Bush showed little sympathy for cash-strapped consumers of gasoline and home heating oil in the face of chart-busting profits for energy companies.

"There is a marketplace in American society," Bush said. "I think that basically the price is determined by the marketplace and that's the way it should be."

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was called to weigh the impact on prices of the oil industry's consolidation to just a handful of companies.

One of those companies, ExxonMobil, reported last week profits of $36 billion last year, the most ever by any U.S. company.

But the execs begged off, saying they were busy.

"If we need to issue subpoenas, we can do that," said an angry Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.).

"We face enormous problems which are impacting in an overwhelming way on Americans at the gas pump, at heating oil, and we intend to do something about it," Specter said.

Bush vowed in his State of Union speech Tuesday that he also planned to do something about the country's reliance on oil, especially foreign oil.

But critics of the President were skeptical.

Playing off Bush's own words, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused the Bush administration of being "addicted to oil companies." Bush is a former Texas oilman, and Vice President Cheney ran energy giant Halliburton before joining the administration.

About 62% of oil consumed by Americans is from foreign sources, up from 58% in 2000, when Bush took office. Americans now spend $200,000 a minute on foreign oil, and more than $25 billion annually goes to Persian Gulf States for oil imports, according to an analysis from the liberal Center for American Progress.

Bush's newfound desire to wean the U.S. off oil and gas comes after years of his spurning incentives for consumers who use alternative energy, like solar panels and fuel storage cells. Instead, Bush has created an estimated $11 billion in tax credits and incentives for corporations that conduct alternative energy research, conservation watchdogs said. Many of those companies are the major oil companies like ExxonMobil.

"The shortsighted obsession of a few politicians has distracted us long enough from finding real energy solutions," said Wilderness Society President William Meadows.

In addition, Bush has done an about-face on the idea of requiring utilities to use a percentage of renewable energy sources to fuel their plants.

Just last June, the White House killed a measure in the energy bill that would have mandated that power companies use a minimum of 10% renewable energy sources by 2020.

The administration also angered conservationists by agreeing to only slight increases to the minimum mileage required for popular SUVs and light trucks. Originally published on February 2, 2006

Must be a slow news day.