I didn't want to write about this, because thinking about it makes me angry and depressed at the same time. Our functioning Democracy has been made increasingly dysfunctional by the Bush Administration. Police have been granted far broader powers to spy on American citizens, according to a new Washington Post article. Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnsondescribe the expansion of police powers at the 18,000 local branches of law enforcement in the United States.
Mucho mas antes de "flip"
Here's what the kind critics of the new police state say:
Preemptive law enforcement in the absence of a crime can violate the Constitution and due process. They cite the administration's long-running warrantless-surveillance program, which was set up outside the courts, and the FBI's acknowledgment that it abused its intelligence-gathering privileges in hundreds of cases by using inadequately documented administrative orders to obtain telephone, e-mail, financial and other personal records of U.S. citizens without warrants.
The not so kind critics, such as myself, have something a little different to say. The criminals in the White House continue to destroy the rule of law and the power of our Constitution. It may not be too late to reverse the damage they have done, but there needs to be a reckoning. I write this knowing full well that every citizen now runs the risk of coming under intense scrutiny from every angle of law enforcement, for something as minor as writing down a dissenting opinion.
The new cold war: Two oppressive states who spy on the people comparing the size of their peckers for fun. If anybody has done more to destroy our Democracy than George Bush and Dick Cheney, they have certainly done it very secretively. Two Republican pricks accomplished many of the goals that Nikita Krushchev wanted our nation to realize so badly, but they did it from the top down rather than the bottom up. When Krushchev said, "Мы вас похороним!" he meant our leaders would be buried. The opposite happened, but our country becomes more and more similar to the nation Krushchev lived in. Thanks, Bushevics, and f*** your fascism very much.
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Pound of Cyanide in Denver
So now that the police and the feds are watching everyone we're all super safe. Interesting claim, considering the case of the Somali man found dead in a Denver hotel with a pound of cyanide. I'm not saying he was a terrorist. Maybe he was practicing metallurgy in his hotel room. Perhaps he intended to set up some sort of small hotel room manufacturing operation that required the substance. I know, he <span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> wanted to make sure there were no pests in his room.
I wonder why anyone would be in Denver this month...
Update: I missed the obvious thing. Saleman may have been set up. He may have been innocent of any wrongdoing whatsoever. The United States never plays games of deception, except when it does. Condolences to Saleman's father, in any case. Losing a son, regardless of the factors involved, must be incredibly painful.
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Antichrist Crispies
Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins have both asserted that Barack Obama is not the Antichrist. Jenkins said, "If even the people who created the character Nicolae Carpathia don't see the comparisons as warranted, then perhaps this is overblown." Perhaps it is "overblown," but I can think of some better descriptions of it. Every little bit of vile and venom McCain's campaign spits at Barack Obama has received massive coverage from the corporate owned MSM.
Meanwhile, thanks to McCain's Antichrist message, the real Antichrist has had an extremely easy time going unnoticed lately. Perhaps the Arizona Senator did not intend to make it easier for Satan to take over the world, but that was ultimately the end result of his actions. I can see it's time to stock up on holy water and rosaries, because demons will be boiling out of the earth any minute. So spooky.
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Poke the Bear With A Stick
George Bush may very well be able to leave behind a legacy far worse than the one he already has. In the midst of the Georgian crisis the United States made a deal (as most Kossacks already know, being ahead of the curve) to base a missile defense system in Poland. Good timing. That will settle down relations with Russia.
Oh, nevermind. Russia has responded with a threat of using nuclear weapons against Poland. Col-General Anatoliy Nogovitsyn:
The USA is engaged in an anti-missile defense for its own government, and not for Poland. And Poland, in deploying (elements of the system) opens itself to a military strike. That is 100 percent.
Nogovitsyn went on to say of a nuclear strike:
It is written clearly: We will use it in instances against governments that have nuclear weapons; against allies of countries with nuclear weapons, if they somehow enable them.
I had hopes sanity would prevail. I forgot just how terrible the men in the White House are. Poke the bear with a stick, Chimpy. Who cares what happens to Poland, right?
I think I know what Bush and McCain and the other neocons are up to. Rather than risk handing power over to the evil liberals they're just going to start WWIII. It will be a permanent Republican majority, in hell. They love the smell of war during an election cycle. It smells like... victory, except in this one everybody loses. The only winner would be horrific suffering. I wish I loved war so much. I would never be lonely in the neocon world, a great big gang bang of war lovers.
(written before dawn, Saturday, August 16)
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Just because McCain has trademarked the Abramoff investigation (it belongs to him now, like the United States and the Presidency and your minds) doesn't mean his role in it was honorable in any way. Yesterday I joked that he planned to pardon Jack Abramoff and give him a cabinet position. I knew then and know now such a thing would never happen. McCain doesn't need any more lobbyists. He's got plenty already, which is why I thought it was funny. Okay?
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Please Help Rename CNN
"Fox News" has never presented a problem when it comes to creative renaming. I never write what I call it, but I'm fairly certain everybody has gotten the gist of it. This new situation leaves me in a funk though. For the life of me I am having a hard time naming CNN something clever. There's just nothing to work with. Cable Nutz Network is about the best I have come up with so far.
Update: I got my mojo back. Corporate Nutz Nuze-phuque
Help me, Obi Wan. You're my only hope.
-Audi