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Anne & Phil

Ambergrass music is the sound of the golden California hills in the hot summertime. It has been said that "It sounds a lot like Bluegrass," but Ambergrass extols the beauty of redwood trees and the dried grasses that blanket the Santa Clara Valley hills in the summertime. Any connection to Bluegrass is fortuitous.
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FlatPick Sidekicks at Vasona Lake County Park
Vasona Vibrations Free Concert Series
featuring a wide variety of acoustic genres by local artists
5 to 7pm Every Saturday
June through July 2010
Anne & Phil's AMBERGRASS LYRICS
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Anne & Phil's YouTube music videos
Ambergrass Express
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1572 Washington Blvd.
Fremont
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Ambergrass Express
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MP3 Music Download
(Click to play or right click then select "Save Target As...")Union Music Download
We are Standing Strong SEIU 3,200kb
Phil's Letters to the Editor
Cupertino Courier Remembering the country store, worried about war (Second Letter on page)
Newspaper article in the Mountain View Voice July 25, 2003
Phil's 1934 John Deere Model B Tractor
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See Phil's 1934 John Deere Model B Tractor now owned and restored by John Boehm
Anne & Phil's Beach Car (rejuvenated by Anne)

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For information about Veterans for Peace local chapter
South Bay / Peninsula Chapter 101
PO Box 24842
San Jose, CA 95154
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Lost both legs when run over by a military train - read his story here
"If all that Americans want is security they can go to prison."
"The only way to win World War III is to prevent it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies,
in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Another such victory and we are undone."
Pyrrhus
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The Right to Torture Americans
by Jacob G. Hornberger
(see the entire post here:)
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2009-06-24.asp
Hornberger's Blog
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Conservatives are protesting a federal judge's ruling that torture victim Jose Padilla's civil lawsuit
against former Justice Department attorney John Yoo be permitted to continue. The conservatives feel that Yoo,
who authored some of the infamous torture memos for the Bush White House, should be immune from lawsuits from
Americans who were tortured as a natural consequence of such memos.
Let's sum up what conservatives (and neo-conservatives) are saying about the America in which we now live.
They'e saying that the federal government now wields the power to torture Americans and that Americans had better
get used to this new way of life. Any American who is tortured should forget about ever suing any federal official
who either does the torturing or who authorizes or facilitates it.
...................
Of course, I would be remiss if I didn? point out that when it comes to torture,
liberal icon Barack Obama has turned out to be no different from conservative icon George W. Bush.
They both utter the same anti-torture mantras (?e don? torture or ?e won? torture anymore?
while steadfastly insisting on civil and criminal immunity for federal torturers and steadfastly
opposing official investigations into the federal government? torture regime.
http://www.nndb.com/people/295/000023226/
In early 2003 a federal judge ruled that under Presidential war powers,
Bush can order any citizen imprisoned as an enemy combatant, but that Padilla
must at least be allowed to see a lawyer. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
refused and instead appealed the case to a higher court. Letting Padilla talk to a lawyer,
Rumsfeld argued, might make him less willing to talk in his ongoing interrogations.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/03pdf/03-1027.pdf
On the merits, the court accepted the Government's contention that the President has authority as
Commander in Chief to detain as enemy combatants citizens captured on American soil during a time of war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(prisoner)
Padilla was held for three-and-a-half years as an enemy combatant after his 2002 arrest
in a purported al Qaeda "dirty bomb" plot. His trial with co-defendants Adham Amin Hassoun and
Kifah Wael Jayyousi on conspiracy and material support charges does not include those allegations.
Padilla has been in custody since his May 8, 2002, arrest at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
His journey through the legal system was unprecedented. His lawyers fought for years against President Bush's
decision to designate him an enemy combatant, taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. With that case drawing closer,
the Bush administration decided in late 2005 to add Padilla to an existing Miami terror support indictment
and drop the enemy combatant designation.
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