Hooray, the White House now says that President Obama won’t veto the National Defense Authorization Act. It flew through the House today and should pass the Senate shortly. Along with the usual gazillion dollars for the Pentagon to buy death machines from military contractors via lobbyists/former members of Congress, the NDAA will also allow the military to seize U.S. citizens on U.S. soil and throw them in Gitmo forever. Remember how the terror prison at Guantanamo Bay was originally filled, after 9/11? And remember how a fraction of the prisoners held and tortured there for years had anything to do with Al Qaeda, because they were just random goat herders or whatever, picked up because the military and the CIA paid a per-head bounty on “terrorists”? Yeah well same thing now, but in the United States!
Everybody excited about the 2012 elections, and football? From AP via the Huffington Post:
WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday abandoned its threat that President Barack Obama would veto a defense bill over provisions on how to handle suspected terrorists as Congress raced to finish the legislation. Press secretary Jay Carney said last-minute changes that Obama and his national security team sought produced legislation that “does not challenge the president’s ability to collect intelligence, incapacitate dangerous terrorists and protect the American people.”
Based on the modifications, “the president’s senior advisers will not recommend a veto,” the White House said.
Don’t worry! Once all the Internet sites that complain about this are shut off by the same U.S. government, you won’t even know what’s going on until your cousin or neighbor or child gets hauled off in the night by black-suited terror soldiers. Besides, the kid/neighbor/cousin was probably guilty of reading Orwell or something similar, like “looking at Arab porn” or “thinking about joining #OWS.” [HuffPo/AP]
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What happened to the Bill of Rights ?Every American should be afraid.All the government needs to arrest you,and hold you without trial or even charging you; is to consider you a threat.That's chilling.
Thanks Hopey. You can count on me not voting for the first time since 1984. You are sucking more butt than Bill Clinton in his 2nd term. Why not join the Klan or maybe make it law that we all have to listen to Nickelback 24/7. Fuck you. Seriously. Also.
Don't worry, nobody will know when you've been snatched. You just disappear. No messy trials and no expensive defence lawyer bills. Suck on that, defence lawyers.
No they'll work in some clause where the get a % of your hobo beans.
And today is Bill of Rights Day!
Happy birthday, Bill of Rights…we got you this nice new police state!
Send the terrorists on Wall Street to Gitmo and we' re good.
Today, we are all potential terrorists.
GF, don't even type that word from here on out. Sadly, seriously.
i was going with 'goat-herder' but terrorist works too.
This has been the case since the passing of the Patriot Act.
Man I am gonna denounce so many people to the CIA or the Army or whatever so I can get them sent to Gitmo forever. You know, that Ken Layne guy…don't want to say anything but I heard from my brother-in-law who talked to a guy who said he was totally al Qaeda.
Oh yeah, and I also heard from a very reliable source that the guy in the White House is really a Kenyan anti-colonialist mole, a Nairobi Candidate so to speak, and as soon as his Control activates him we'll all have to be Muslims. So: off to the military tribunal with him! Or maybe just send a drone strike. Because WTF, it was a really good source who told me.
Man I am gonna denounce so many people to the CIA or the Army or whatever so I can get them sent to Gitmo forever.
Petty revenge is a terrible reason to inform on people and destroy their lives. I'm just gonna do it for the money.
Capitalism, fuck yeah!!!!!1
On the upside, I hear even Republicans support government-run healthcare in military prisons.
You could probably also have food other than Chicken Nuggets and ramen.
The only way you could know that is someone has talked to you. Off you go!
…does not challenge the president’s ability to collect intelligence
Just don't challenge the sheeple's ability to collect porn….
At least our dictator is a cool black dude, not some dopey trust-fund shmoe from Texas, like I used to worry about. Like having Shaft in charge, rather than Gomer Pyle.
Like having OJ in charge, instead of Barney Fife.
Like having Thurgood Marshall in charge, instead of Judge Judy.
Like having Lynn Swann in charge, instead of Tim Tebow…
Like Stalin being a Georgian with a sense of humor.
We're getting the Shaft, I know that much.
Hush your mouth!
… for now…
You're so right. Style is everything.
But we still have money for bombing brown people, right?
We always have money for bombing brown people. And bailing out white collar criminals.
Perhaps we can have some bombings of brown people here on our own turf?
Someone should challenge the Constitutionalily of this in about 3…2…1. Oh wait, if they challenge they'll prolly be hauled off to Gitmo – forever. Thanks fucking Barry! Dickwad.
Hope and Change!
Haha, no doubt the SCOTUS will overturn it on the fast track. Just like the 2000 Florida election results.
Someone should so totally challenge this. Being that Obama's in the White House, and since it's practically a policy, now, that the Supremes have to rule against Obama on big issues, this shit would be tossed out faster than you can say "unconstitutional." I guess Scalito would finally be good for something.
Actually, I suspect that they'll say you'd need to be hauled off to Gitmo before you had standing to take it to court in the first place, so… yah. Good fucking luck getting a case to the Supreme Court from your dank cellar hole with your head locked in a sack.
G'bye, America. 'Twas nice knowin' ya.
Well hell…we're not even pretending to not be fascist now.
Orange is a lovely color.
Plus you get a Koran and halal meals. Something to read, something to eat, enjoyable tropical weather…
Just trying to look at the bright side.
Let's not forget the free haircuts!
"…and the Grinch's
heartappetite for encroachable human rights grew three sizes that day." The End. Sleep well, kiddies!The Fourth Amendment was for pussies anyway.
(there should be an emoticon that represents an inbred hillbilly shooting both guns into the sky)
uh oh, I was looking at pornaments on the Internet today. When I disappear, tell my family I loved them.
In the spirit of the season, may mighty Space Jeebus deliver a three pound kidney stone to each and evey person associated with this.
Better yet, how about 48 1-ounce kidney stones?
I'm ok with that! I'm sure the thoughtfule
American people will respond by saying "of course, we are concerned..Hey isn't that a Kardashian? OMG!"
Made of coal and botulism.
Bob Casey, we're looking at you…
The Bill of Rights? That's just a quaint piece of paper…
We are so fucked.
The powers that be, have just managed to put the final nail in the Constitution.And I do not see the Supreme Court getting this one right.We are all screwed.The Government has in the past considered Green Peace as Terrorist,Tree huggers,and Civil Rights protesters as a threat.1984 has arrived.
Meh, it'll get repealed about three seconds after the Army scoops up the next blond-haired, blue-eyed, Jesus-lovin' McVeigh.
You're assuming the gummint will be consistent in their use of the new powers. That's sweet.
I'm just recalling why we have (well, "had") the Posse Comitatus Act to begin with: because the Army was going after the noble, chivalrous, Jesus-lovin' Klan rather than them uppity nigrahs.
It'll have to be a white girl. The nation goes crazy over mistreated/disappeared white girls.
paging Patty Hearst. Will Patty Hearst please report to customer service?
By the time they get to the blond-haired, blue-eyed, Jesus-lovin' McVeighs the Army would already have rounded everyone one else because when they rounded up the others, the blond-haired, blue-eyed, Jesus-lovin' McVeighs said nothing.
Occupy Gitmo!
But don't occupy the Port-a-potty, because I'm about to hurl.
Sweet! Now I just have to steal WND's mailing list and tell the FBI they are all sekrit Muslin soshulists and – POOF! – wingnuts begone!
All of a sudden everybody likes big government — what the fuck.
At any rate, the provisions in it are so colossally stupid and so badly muddle who gets to imprison who that the Supreme Court will ideally say it's in violation of existing statutes even if Antonin Scalia salivates over imprisoning innocent Americans forever for no reason. Fuckin' nation of dumbasses we are.
the Supreme Court will ideally say it's in violation of existing statutes
Yet Carl Levin would like to remind you when he quoted SCOTUS' something-or-other that “there is no bar to this nation’s holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant.” Not what I'd expected from a seasoned Democrat and public education advocate whom Jon Stewart likes to call "Grandpa Munster."
When we're betting on Scalia as our last defender of our liberties, we're in a very strange place.
We're betting on a strict constructionist to defend a modicum of clarity, and even more so, on the parochial interests of the judicial branch to review what the executive branch is doing, which any extrajudicial detainment fucks with. I'm not saying it's a great deal of hope, but Scalia and a long line of judicial assholes have been willing to fight tooth and nail for their part of checks and balances. That type of meanness I'll bet on.
Sure like to believe it, but look who said that Gitmo detainees don’t deserve judicial review:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061201695.html
I did say "even if Scalia" wants to imprison people forever. Hell, if the five less insane justices vote the way they did in 2008, that would be awesome.
I didn't mean to sound like I was saying either side would vote for the positive outcome in my response, but that in the Supreme Court the justices tend to protect their place in the system regardless of other ideological concerns. Also the law as it now stands ("the military must imprison domestic terrorists but this in no way conflicts with civil law enforcement's mandate to do the same thing") makes no freakin' sense. One of those lines of reasoning should win over the nonsense that Congress and Obama seem to approve of.
Hey, if we live in a world where Ashcroft can save us from Gonzales…
Thanks for the Hope and Change, Obama.
P.S. The only reason the White House was even making noises about vetoing this p.o.s. is because they're of the opinion that they have these war-on-terra powers already.
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Bingo. This is more a fight over executive and congressional powers than it is about the actual issue. It's inside baseball. Very evil inside baseball.
Sorry, nothing funny about this. I'm going home to DRINK.
Pfft, Bill O' Rights about as worthless now as Bill O' Reilly.
Even you non-pragmatic, Firedoglake-loving progressives have to admit that presiding over the final, de facto transformation of the US from a republic to an authoritarian oligarchy does constitute the "change" Obama promised!
I feel the pain of everyone
Then, I feel nothing.
…as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
FREEEEEEEEEEE-DUUUUUUUMMMMMBBBBB!!!!
Your lack of enthusiasm has been noticed, comrade.
Also, I'm all up for holding a public funeral for the American republic.
I mean, you can argue it's always been way overidealized or at least that it's been on life support for decades now, but if the passage of this bill doesn't mark the last desperate, wheezing gasp of American democracy I don't know what did or would.
hey, we still have American Idol, right? that's kind of like living in a democracy. and just today, i chose Coke over Pepsi. i've never felt so empowered!
So glad the Stag's Leap club delivered a case of Cabernet today. If you're going to drink yourself to the point where this doesn't matter any more (somewhere on the continuum between a comfortable drunk, passing out, oblivion or death, it's better if it's a nice wine, at least for the first few bottles.
Look askance at the TSA dude on line in the airport and you get a free extraordinary rendition to the overseas torture site of their choice…
On the plus side, you may qualify for extra Milage Plus Points!
Which you can redeem for upgrades at participating Black Site Suites locations worldwide!
It's true: after your waterboarding, you'll get a nice seaweed mask to help smooth out the wrinkles (earned from screaming at the top of your lungs in terror/pain/begging for death)….
All part of the full service you can expect to receive at the Spa at Guantanamo Bay. New location opening soon in Bagram!
At long last, a reason to catch herpes.
It's sort of like the Salem Witch Trials now, and anyone can rat anyone out. Except the shitty oppressive Puritans at least gave you a trial…a shitty one, but still something. My, how we've progressed.
Well, I for one welcome our new civil liberties denying police state overlords.
Well, they've always been fair and judicious in the past. Just ask Jose Padilla or Bradley Manning. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has a slightly different view, but he's not a US citizen, and gets really nervous when anybody runs water in the sink.
I do, too. Mostly, because we don't have a choice. lol
And it's not as if the US of A doesn't already have a nationally AND globally disproportionate percentage of citizens subsisting in its prisons. Yet why let this inform one's perspective? We're still not coming across as hard-assed and formidable enough? These power-tripping lawmakers are fulfilling what Robin Williams said of cocaine: "Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent – - give me more of that!"
i'd bet good money that a number of those lawyers say the same thing about cocaine that they say about playing with the lives of others.
M, that's what I was thinking too. Let's just flood the already overcrowded prisons with people. And throw the illegal immigrants in there. Fucking millions and millions. And since the most obvious purveyors of terroristic tactics is the Military-Industrial-Socialist Complex itself, throw every bomb making, selling, servicing, dropping member in there too.
We couldn't win the War on Cancer, or Drugs, or most anything, but damned if we don't win this War on the "T" Word.
Shit.
Oh Hopey, I love you but it's times like this I just want to punch you in the dick.
All snark aside, I really want to know what goes through Obama's mind when he looks into the faces of his daughters and then gets ready to sign a bill that would've made it easy to put MLK away in Guantanamo forever.
Somewhere the charred, burning hands of J Edgar Hoover are applauding. And then it is back to looking for Clyde Tolson.
If Hopey could go back in time and confront James Earl Ray as he was getting a bead on MLK, by the time the confrontation was over, Barry would be saying, "OK, you can go ahead and shoot him, but please be gentle."
Sigh.
One step closer to the end of the Republic. It's like watching a car wreck in slow motion. Impossible to stop once in motion, but the sense of inevitably gives the act a kind of sad beauty. Deep down, I feel a lot of resentment towards the older generations for letting it get this bad, but I also realize that things are only going to get more interesting – good or bad? I'd rather not guess.
now i want to watch Crash again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4
now I want to watch American Beauty again.
You press and hold 'A' for aftertouch. /burnout.
Waaaay too obscure.
Link?
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=burnout+after...
So now we have *officially* reached this part: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Slightly off topic, but as a little experiment I conducted on Flickr early this spring, I posted a picture and tagged it with all the popular things going on at the time (Tim Tebow had just been drafted so I included him as a tag)
With a Pro-Flickr account you can see what the actual search engine query was that landed them on the photo. Starting on Nov 26th I noticed that this photo started getting hit with, "Tim Tebows Girlfriend" so I changed the the tag to, "Tim Tebow Girlfriend" and since then, this shot has had 200 views purely due to it being tagged, Tim Tebow Girlfriend.
I just thought it was amusing. I might play around with the tags and misspell them to see what happens.
Oh, here's Tim Tebow Girlfriend: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30500320@N06/4548853...
Haha, here's a new one <a href="http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tim tebow girlfriend on american idol" target="_blank"> <a href="http:// ;http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tim%20tebow%20gir…%3C/a%3E" target="_blank"> ;http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tim tebow gir…
I just added "Tim Tebow Girlfriend Naked Nude Jesus"
Let's see how long that takes.
Well, if nothing else, it's pretty obvious that he doesn't shave his girlfriend's muskrat.
Muskrat tits or gtmo.
Muskrat Love?
Mass, un-Constitutional, indefinite detention is one solution to persistent unemployment.
Man, all those movies from the 70's are coming true.
Bill O,Who's the Pinhead Now?
Zippy libel
One guess.
However, using these laws, a truly progressive President will be able to exterminate the reactionary running-dog lackeys of the oligarchic oppressor class faster than you can say "Bring me the head of Alfredo Molina." But, will it make any difference anyway in the face of global warming and the extinction of clownfish? And, what about the Toronto Bluejays? Zippy the Pinhead wants people to think about these things.
Instead of voting for Obama, why don't we cut out the middle man and vote directly for the shadow government agent that told Obama to make the USA a fascist state, or else.
Col. Hunter Gathers: The president's not the president, anyway. You know that."
First, they came for the… oh, hang on, there's a knock at the door – brb
You really think they'll bother to knock?
The reality of this is making me sick. And I’m sure the Wonketters will be likely suspects. GoodyBye friends. Or wait…maybe we’ll all meet up in prison! Well then…ok!
The president aside, you have to admit that the name "National Defense Authorization Act" is Orewellian as all kinds of hell. I'm wary about anything with the word "authorization" in its name, now, and the "national defense" wording is just plain creepy.
This kind of shit makes it very difficult to tell Paultards that they are just being paranoid.
Just because the Paultards aren't paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't insane.
As a former constitutional lawyer, the president should know better," said Raha Wala, advocacy counsel for Human Rights First. "This legislation not only undermines the Constitution, it compromises national security. The president needed to show leadership on this, and he's failed."
Snark aside (mostly), for the life of me I've never understood why everyone thinks that Obama, because he is a Constitutional "expert", automatically supports everything in the Constitution. Do you have to be a Nazi to teach 20th-century German history at the college level?
Ironically, there is a professor I once worked for who teaches nineteenth and twentieth century German history and looks more than a bit like the Fuhrer. He even has the mustache!
I'm still amazed that the day he came in to lecture wearing a green coat that from a distance looked a little like a Nazi uniform and with his hair parted on one side didn't end with me convulsing with laughter.
No, but apparently being the POTUS turns you into a Nazi.
#goodwinisappropriate
First they outlaw the truck nutz and now this?
Oh, Fox…
What's great / sad is that before I noticed that Romney had become a Kenyan Soshulist, I was busy adding up the percentages to see what they came out to, figuring the New Math had struck again
That's the ultimate flip flop…
Like all cheap brands, they should be forced by consumer protection laws to misspell "news". I suggest "Noooz" .
I can see justification for everything else, but taking away our right to look at Arab porn?
I heard Kim Kardashian is a terrorist. Anyone got any more names we'd like to rid ourselves of?
Todd Palin is associated with the Alaskan Independent Party which is a "t" word, secessionist, treasonous organization.
Oh come on, (not intended to be an imperitave sentence).
ha, ha?
That's OK. I wasn't using my civil liberties anyway.
Exactly. They're kind of like the spices that come with the kit when you buy a rack that no one ever actually uses.
Civil liberties: The Fenugreek of American Democracy.
I guess I should find those hidden pockets in my wallet I'm always losing shit in and just tuck the ACLU card in there for now.
I don't know what pisses me off more about the White House's view on this: The blatant disregard for the Bill of Rights, or that it's forcing me to agree with Paultards on something.
Anyone other than Fox I would assume it was photoshopped. At Fox, just another day in the graphics department.
Romney's BLACK??!!!!??!!!
So we can forget all that stuff about unreasonable search and seizure since it will all be reasonable now.
And basically cut con law too. Well this should make the bar exam a lot easier!
Oh come on guys, if you can't trust the government who can you trust?
Oh for fuck's sake. Makes me wish my little community had a water tower. Or a bell tower. Or even a building over 3 stories high, for that matter. Because no matter how fucked up it gets, you can always carry your rifle to the top of the water tower and you just know you won't be coming back down on your own power…
Except all you would get in your sights are the sheeple. Even the cops are sheeple. I want the perpetrators of this legal coup.
Now can we stop saluting the fucking flag and saying the goddamned pledge of allegiance?
No…now we have to do those things even more. Before EACH class…when you're on the toilet…even when having sex.
Remember when we, as US citizens, had Constitutional rights? (sniff…. lone tear falls from eye)
This: http://youtu.be/35TbGjt-weA
Guess who else did…? Oh, never mind.
OK, now I'm confused….What century is this?
Whichever one the dystopian future was supposed to begin in.
This fucking shit is going to turn me into a libertarian, and I hate libertarians.
I find myself agreeing with Ron Paul more and more, or at least seeing his point on things both foreign and domestic…I am absolutely drawing the line at the gold standard, though.
Having been a victim of UN mind control programs in our schools I am simply incapable of agreeing with him. Oh well!
Libertarians want to do away with a lot of things that I like … things like environmental protection, Social Security, worker safety rules, minimum wage, food inspection, FEMA, unions, public schools, public transportation, fiat currency, indoor smoking bans, being nice to other people, etc.
But I might trade all of those for habeus corpus and the 4th Amendment.
The Democratic Party has also been helping to reduce the power of all of these things for the past four decades or so (well, except for the indoor smoking bans and FEMA).
You know who else had a domestic police force and enacted emergency laws?
All of th … oh, fuck it.
Bloomberg?
Not yet?
In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first American Empire, for a safe and secure society which I assure you will last for ten thousand years.
Won't anyone rid of us these turbulent Jedi?
So this is awesome guys – do you think they'll let us have like a once a week Wonkette table in the lunchroom at Gitmo? I mean we should started organizing now. I've been so looking forward to meeting all of you!
I'll be the woman wearing orange.
So this is awesome guys – do you think they'll let us have like a once a week Wonkette table in the lunchroom at Gitmo? I mean we should started organizing now. I've been so looking forward to meeting all of you!
I am sure that ours will be a kinder, gentler fascism.
I always thought that when fascism would reach America, it'd be wrapped in a kindly, Southern Fried accent. But, maybe, the black guy is the perfect cover to formally implement such an empire.
Shock and awe, baby; shock and awe.
Or at least a Republican, no? The fact that a supposed Democrat is going to sign this one into law kind of calls shenanigans on the whole two party charade. I guess Occupy really does have these fuckers shitting bricks.
It's Wednesday, it's nearly 3am, and it's time for an OT post.
So I found this on the snopes message board. An email relating to their debunking of some wild internet rumour about Hopey randomly changing decor in the White House.
I've fixed for paragraphs but nothing else.
I am writing in regards to your article on the decor in White House since Obama became president. If it is indeed true that each president can change that particular room's decor why is it that whenever he gives a speech or even talks there are no flags present.
Even to you this must be a little strange. I personally did not vote for him and I
can sleep at night knowing I did the right thing. He is destroying this great country. He is always on tv in the limelight. When does he even get to do the job he is supposed to do. He did not even get sworn in using a Bible as all other Presidents before him he used the Koran.
While I feel we have freedom of religion in this country and feel that we should not look at all muslims as terrorists because all of them are not just a lot of radicals are but we have those in our own country. He is destroying this country by spending and not worrying about how it will be paid. The reason for that is that he knows by now that he will probably and most likely be a one term president.
The nation can take some of the blame also because he campaigned on change and no one asked what he would change. We are helping impoverished nations as with all the other presidents but there are many in this country myself included that could use some help also and they keep sending millions of dollars and food and even shelter to other nations and forget about those who do not have food or shelter in our own country.
Some months I have to make a choice between food and medicine. So I get the medicine and get food that I can ration myself on it may not be as healthy for me but I have no choice I have many medical bills to pay no one is going to pay those for me no one is going to help me with food or keeping the roof over my head.
Some of that article is true just needs to be worded differently Obama apologized to the muslims for America we did not hurt the muslims we were hurt by the muslims we should receive the apology no president should be apologising to our enemies. But then no nation will in the end survive God's wrath should they keep going as they are.
This, to me, shows the strength of the GOP narrative. Whoever this person may be, and despite the (rather mad) views expressed, the single bit of personal information is the part I've emphasized and I find it deeply sad.
The person writing this anti-Obama screed is voting against his or her best interest. What the FUCK? HOW is the the narrative that strong? What are we doing wrong in communicating with these people?
Apologies for the snark-free post.
This is a profoundly ill, and increasingly self-isolating nation, is about all I can tell you. I said it during the 2008 primaries that if he was ever elected, they'd never allow him to actually lead, and that this was essentially the powers that be leaving this guy holding the bag as the nation descended into hell. He exacerbated this reality by trying to pretend that he was dealing with honest brokers and people that genuinely cared about America. I'm not talking about the people that write these kind of letters, rather the people that exploit these kind of people.
The peple that cynically opened this wound out of little more than spite and petty politics will pay. The unfortunate and scary thing is that we will ALL pay (and are paying) for this cynical exploitation of low information voters, particularly by the GOP and its allies and ideological brethren.
Hell isn't in the afterlife; hell is right, here, right now. It's time to bring this thing to a head. It's time to start shouting on our end, again. This country needs a massive, national mic check. I said it in another thread, but we used to argue about how we were getting to the moon and how many people we could empower and raise up. Now, we're fighting over a payroll tax cut extension and whether unemployed people get to eat. This nation, and particularly its government, is morally bankrupt.
At three a.m, you should be drinking yourself into a much-deserved coma….just sayin'…
That's just a really long and stupid way of saying, "I hate that nigger, he aint my presnit."
Two things about people. They fear. They want to feel better about themselves.
Put those two together and you have ready made a system that thrives on unknown "others" Those who are below you either in an economic sense or some other internal metric….and those who might somehow gain from where they are. For those who live in a black and white/either or world that gain means their loss.
Yup, it's fucked up, but that's Humans.
Now for REALLY fucked up, bullshit on the Military operating unchecked in America. That's fucked up, but that's America.
BTW, where is Occupy Wall Street when you really need them? I think it's time to shut the Congress down, ourselves, as opposed to them pretending to shut it down, themselves. Occupy the Chambers.
As soon as these fuckers take their holiday break, I say we rush the place. The Capitol Commune has a nice ring to it…
It took until 2010, but a huge swath of Americans started finally recognizing and then vocalizing that the American Empire has no clothes. Problem is, it's apparently too late.
2012 is going to be a very strange year, a very, very, very strange year depending on how things play themselves out.
Well, at least it won't be government run….(they let me drive again, I feel alive again!…)
Today, we are all terrorists! See you all at Gitmo.
Gitmo's relatively small, so only the best of the best "terrorists" will get to go there (you know, tropics, sun, bananas right off the tree, etc). The rest of us will be "outsourced" to our new base in Kazakhstan.
I call top bunk!
I'm not too concerned, because I know that at least I will be told which direction Mecca lies in, and I will be able to align myself for prayer properly.
Keep a hold of your fingers people… as "someone missing fingers" can be suspected of being a terrorist.
Hope my old bass player doesn't get spotted.
This a clumsy bomb making attempt symptom or something?
"…because they were just random goat herders or whatever, picked up because the military and the CIA paid a per-head bounty on “terrorists”? Yeah well same thing now, but in the United States!"
Bonus… the troops are coming home to help with this?
No, the bonus is all the new goat-herding jobs being created.
Isn't it great when the two parties create a balance of power where one party controls the legislature and the other the executive and that keeps extremism in check?
Me neither.
So, THIS is why I married a foreigner.
Dear Hopey,
You can stop sending me emails now asking for my support and/or vote in 2012. I'll just write in the ghost of Eugene Debs who said it is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
Personally, I love this law. I think it's the best law ever, better than all the other laws that we have and all the laws that we will think up in the future. Hooray, this law!
(Do you think that will save me from Gitmo?)
WH switchboard is 1-202-456-2121,l FWIW.
It's been busy for two hours now.
Not that it matters. God, I'm depressed.
Um, don't the courts have a say in this????
Goddamn it Barry. You're really pissing me off.
Why is Obama trying to turn me into a Paultard?
I can't muster much snark. I already sent emails to the two turd senators from NH. But at least I was confident in the veto. I don't understand what is happening but this may be a vote changer for me.
Run OWS, run!
Now that we no longer have Iraq, we need to have our soldiers go to war here inside the US. After all, if we can no longer fight them over there, we might as well declare a few of our fellow citizens "them" and fight "them" over here.
Remember when we used to speak with contempt of the Soviet gulags? Wonder which part of our nation is going to become New Siberia?
I wouldn't mind if we do get a real life John Carpenter's "Escape from New York."
Door County Wisconsin or pretty much anywhere in Rhode Island.
And yet Hilary is still flying around the World denouncing other Countries for their "appalling lack of consideration for Human Rights". Unfuckingbelievable!
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