I can see it now - someone drops a Bible and it makes a big boom sound. Then some handjob stands up and draws his gun, ready to "save the church." Then other armed handjobs see "an armed gunman" so they open fire and the headline reads, "22 people shot at local Church."
This is surveillance fuckery that I would have expected from the last administration, not from this one. You can bet your ass that the conservative bloggers will be all over this like a cheap suit and they will be fully justified in doing so.
Companies and ISPs will have to put NSA black boxes on their systems in order to allow the NSA to tap their computer systems. I have no doubt that the government will provide a very strong incentive for them to do so (like denial of qualifying for government contracts).
I don't know why I am so disappointed in the Obama Administration for going along with this shit, other than the fact that Barry was a fucking professor of constitutional law and should have a pretty clear grasp of the concept that the main intent of the Bill of Rights was to protect citizens from government intrusion. The NSA once was prohibited from collecting any communications on American soil, I guess that has gone the way of steaming open letters and buggy-whips. Cheney, at least, had a long track record of being an advocate of having a police state, so I expected shit like this from him and Chimpy.
The Republicans had the Patriot Act and the various plans to massively engage in datamining and dossier-building on all Americans, as well as seeking to form a Stasi-like national network of neighborhood spies. Bill Clinton started the Nightwatch, er InfraGard, which is sort of a combination of the Junior G-Men and the Brownshirts.
Spying on American citizens has become a bipartisan endeavor. This shit needs to be vigorously opposed regardless of which party is in power or who the president happens to be.
weapons into houses of worship, Jesus wept.
Note the blackboard spellings.
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For the first time I think she's really may run.
Here's the new "Momma Grizzlies" ad. Prepare to wince a lot.
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Tar balls have entered Lake Pontchartrain, and it's all because of the disperants pushing oil far below the reach of skimmers.
St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis said Wednesday that the dispersants being used to break down the oil in the Gulf of Mexico are causing the tar balls to travel underwater, later resurfacing beyond the protective walls of the barges. He urged officials with the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command to cease the use of dispersants, so crews can see the reddish-brown oil and fight it farther out.
They're continuing to pump the dispersants directly into the plume. Obviously, it's going to be many years of this because there's no way to see the extent and volume of the oil from the surface. Which is exactly what BP wants.
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Last week Sarah Palin did a meet-and-greet at the American Amusement Machine Association's International Bowl Expo 2010, where she met this excited supporter.
You know, you'd think that with all that's happened during the past couple of months, the prostitutes in Congress and the administration would waqnt to back off a tad in their gluttonous sucking at the oil companies' tit but then these folks ain't noted for being all that bright. In fact, if you're a typical American politician or high level bureaucrat then once you get focused on all those big bucks being tossed around by the energy lobbies then dollar signs are pretty much all you're ever going to see again.
Even as more tar balls wash up, Congress is on pace to break its record on oil industry contributions. Samuel P. Jacobs on why no one can stop the most uncappable cash spill in politics.
President Obama was so upset about the BP oil spill he announced he was looking for "whose ass to kick." Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) was moved to ask whether companies with bad safety records should be banned altogether. Even oil-industry friendly Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) called for BP executive Tony Hayward to get his yacht down to the Gulf to help clean up oil.The air in Washington is full of hostility toward the oil industry these days, the result of the Deepwater Horizon explosion nearly 80 days ago-and BP's continuing failure to plug the resulting leak. So you'd think all those politicians might be a bit sheepish about collecting campaign checks from the beleaguered industry right about now.
Actually, when you stop to think about it though, why would anyone be surprised that they obviously do not feel any kind of remorse or guilt or pangs of conscience for what they've wrought?
In fact, why shouldn't an increase in the amount of money being spent on bribes contributions be EXPECTED to increase during a time of closer public scrutiny given the frankly whorish nature of what appears to be a huge number of our so called leaders? Let's just file that one under, "What... you expected something different maybe?", and move along.
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