And I suppose the Democrats are going to let this one pass, too

I seem to recall having a right to freedom of assembly. Justice Department doesn't think so.

What is it that we've gotten in our heads that lets us excuse these kinds of abuses? What the hell are we afraid of?

Impeach the Mother Fucker Already.

Israeli plans to nuke Iran

This comes as no surprise. The only thing surprising in the article is the assumption that the US would have give its approval and that the Israeli's might not have the nerve for this. I thought for a while that the writer of the article didn't know or was going to ignore that the Israeli's have done this kind of thing before but he saved it on page 2.

If Israel uses low-yield, mini-nukes the West will look the other way. Iran will not retaliate because the Israeli's wouldn't hesitate to use big nukes on the second pass. Sure there will be lots of anti-Israeli protests all over the world. This is different from today, how? I hate to say it but it looks like there is no downside for Israel.

There are things that they do that infuriate me

The White House is not a private residence. It belongs to us and we have a right to know who is coming and going there, goddammit.

The unmitigated audacity of these worthless bastards.


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I knew there must be Republicans like Sen. Collins

Apparently, sometimes those that write the bills don't like it when the Dear and Glorious Leader makes those pesky signing statements.

Ah, Congresswoman McKinney a bit too late

Cynthia McKinney entered Artciles of Impeachment against the Dear and Glorious Leader a month ago. She won'ta be returning to the new Congress so she didn't have to worry about bucking the party leadership on this.

But she's made it so that the Congress can't later claim that they didn't know these things.


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And he's going to open our mail

Our Dear and Glorious Leader isn't done with us and our Consititution -- oh, no. He's going to open your mail, too.

I'm pretty sure that COINTELPRO was deemed by all to be seriously illegal and nothing has changed since that determination. Oh, you say, but we've had 9-11! Hoover thought that the civil rights movement was made up of terrorists, too. That didn't justify opening their mail.

Joshua Crust.



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Pat Robertson: "Sometimes I miss." ?????

It seems to me that if God was talking to me, I'd be pretty careful not to repeat what I "thought" I heard.

Y'know, I've got a cousin who is in and out of mental hospitals all the time because he hears voices and claims to have a divine mission.

Science is cool

This is a twenty-frame movie of the last twenty full moons. They are all at the same scale and centered appropriately so the change in size is "real" and so is the wobble. By "real," I mean that the moon is visually smaller (or larger) depending on the moon's distance from the earth, which varies a bit.

Y'know, Isaac Asimov hypothesized that if we didn't have such a large, bright moon that just happens to have the same angular size as the sun, we probably would have been really slow, as a species, to develop mathematics because we wouldn't have had an interest in all those complicated calendrical calculations related to great lunations and solar eclipses and such.

Biofuels are not a good idea

I've been saying it all along; mostly I've been saying it about corn- and soybean-oils but it's true for whatever else you might want to burn that way: You are just trading one problem for another.

At best, biofuels are a temporary measure -- very short term. The minute you start setting up agricultural facilities with the intent of growing crops for biofuels, you're either reducing the acreage available for food crops or you're clearing new lands for agriculture and both of those are bad things in the long haul.

We live in a science fiction universe -- Part 43,915

I've read quite a few dystopian future novels and seen a couple of movies where this is the norm.

I understand that it can be quite a bit cheaper but whyowhyo is everygoddamned decision made based on what something costs? This is really pretty frightening when you start thinking about it. How long before gated communities decided to opt out of paying city taxes since they have their own private security firms that can make arrests? Then how long does the city last? Months rather than years.