Hooray Impeachment Around the corner?????

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http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&SessionId=50&GA=94&DocTypeId=HJR&DocNum=0125&GAID=8&LegID=25794&SpecSess=&Session=
Illinois Legislators Introduce Bill for Bush Impeachment

Three members of the Illinois General Assembly have introduced a bill that urges the General Assembly to submit charges to the U. S. House of Representatives to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States, George W. Bush, for willfully violating his Oath of Office to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and if found guilty urges his removal from office and disqualification to hold any other office in the United States.

The Jefferson Manual of rules for the U.S. House of Representatives makes clear that impeachment proceedings can be initiated by a state legislature submitting charges. The state of Illinois is on its way toward forcing on the House what not a single one of its members has yet had the courage to propose: Articles of Impeachment.

The text of the Illinois bill and information on its status are available here:
http://tinyurl.com/nhs3r

The bill takes up the issues of illegal spying, torture, detentions without charge or trial, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, and the leaking of classified information.

Please thank these sponsors of the bill:

Rep. Karen A. Yarbrough, phone (217) 782-8120 or (708) 615-1747; fax (708) 615-1745

Rep Sara Feigenholtz , phone (217) 782-8062 or (773) 296-4141; fax (217) 557-7203 or (773) 296-0993

Rep. Eddie Washington phone (217) 558-1012 or (847) 623-0060, fax (847) 623-6078

Here is a kit to help with promoting this resolution and with passing others in your towns and cities. Also on this page is information on activities in other states and localities:
http://www.impeachpac.org/resolutions

Get organized in Illinois to pass this bill!
http://pdamerica.org/statecaucus.php?s=IL
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Illegal spying, torture,et.el; these are quite serious matters, Rich. But , now, we have evidence that he has commited an even grevious breach of the law, thanks to the Daily New's Attytood Blog. This time he ripped off the Beatles and the RIAA:

The "smoking iPod": Definitive proof that George W. Bush is a lawbreaker





For five years now, many of us have known that George W. Bush is both a liar and a lawbreaker. But the problem has been finding what the so-called "conventional media" would consider a true smoking gun.

After all, lying about oral sex is one thing, especially in the age of DNA evidence. But lying about uranium from Niger, sand-toilets-as-weapons-labs and "mushroom clouds," and causing 2,379 Americans and countless Iraqi civilians to meet an untimely and unnecessary death? Gee, that one's kind's of squishy, you know what we mean.

By now we've got our definitive proof that Bush violates the law, with pictures (above) and videotape to boot.

The man who took a solemn oath to uphold and obey the law is an illegal downloader, at least according to the rigid standard set forth recently by the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA.

And incredibly, the evidence has been hiding in plain sight all this time. In fact, Bush unwittingly acknowledged the illegal activity several weeks ago, when asked about the iPod that he listens to as he rides his bike (and maybe as he mows down innocent bystanders, too). He said his favorites include:

Beach Boys, Beatles, let’s see, Alan Jackson, Alan Jackson, Alejandro, Alison Krauss, the Angels, the Archies, Aretha Franklin, the Beatles("Uh, did I mention Alan Jackson?"-my addition,rak), Dan McLean. Remember him?

OK, forget the fact that he called the author of one of the great pop hits of all-time "Dan McLean" instead of "Don McLean" or that he admits listening to Betty, Veronica and Jughead. If stupidity were an impeachable offense, the late Chief Justice Rehnquist would have been sending his "Pirates of Penzance" outfit bck to the dry cleaner four-and-a-half years ago. No, the key part is where he admits, not once but twice, that he downloads the Beatles.

The problem is this: You aren't allowed to buy Beatles music online yet, as noted in this article:

Industry experts have speculated that the refusal by Apple Corps owners Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, and George Harrison's widow Olivia Harrison to authorize online downloads has resulted in millions of illegal downloads from which they have been unable to profit.

Surely, though, it's OK to download music from you own CDs? Most people (including us) would argue that, but the people who make the music, the RIAA, apparently disagree:

The RIAA has filed comments with a federal agency in which they claim that ripping a CD isn't fair use.

As part of the on-going DMCA rule-making proceedings, the RIAA and other copyright industry associations submitted a filing that included this gem as part of their argument that space-shifting and format-shifting do not count as noninfringing uses, even when you are talking about making copies of your own CDs:

"Nor does the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even routinely granted, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright owners in the MGM v. Grokster case is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use."

If that truly is the case, then Congress needs to investigate this high crime misdemeanor at once, and begin churning the wheels of impeachment. Silly? Remember this: They nailed Al Capone for tax evasion, didn't they?

Word on the Web is that the Archies are also contemplaiting legal action, though Jughead is still on the fence. When interviewed, Mr. Head explained," Gee, I dunno; like, I kinda relate to this guy. We look at things in the same way. The fact that I'm dating one of the Twins has nothin' to do with it."

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RAK you have GREATNESS!!!!!!!!!!!

[RAK]

Nah, just too much idle time on my hands.