Daily Archives: December 15, 2009

POTUS 43 Lied About Missing Emails.

The 43rd President of the United States according to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washinton (CREW), “knowingly continued to use a broken system for preserving electronic records.”   The former White House will restore these 94 days of missing emails.

From this link:  “‘Documents produced so far show the Bush White House was lying when officials claimed no emails were ever missing,’ a CREW release said. ‘The record now proves incontrovertibly that Bush administration officials deliberately ignored the problem and, in fact, knowingly allowed it to worsen.'”

Please.  Say it isn’t so…

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Tuesday, 12/15/09, Public Square

During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a “bill of rights” that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.

The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.” Continue reading

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