The ACLU is sponsoring an ad in the New York Times in order to illustrate public outrage over the Constitutional violations in the FISA Bill. If you want to add your name, click here.
TSA launches leak investigation
I’m too tired and disgusted to comment.
Click on the link for the full story.
Link courtesy of my beloved Donna — Baby’s Named a Bad, Bad Thing: A Primer on Parent Cruelty
Here are the 10 Most Viewed Stories on cnn.com as of 9.43pm PST:
1 2nd possible near collision at JFK
2 Shirtless men upsets church
3 Blood clots killed woman on floor
4 Glitches mar Apple iPhone debut
5 King children sue their brother
6 Female soldier missing after fire
7 Obama’s vote sparks backlash
8 Holocaust kin hug after 66 years
9 Olivia Newton-John ties the knot
10 Adopted teen fears deportation
While some of these are interesting, touching, or compelling… what the FUCK? People care more about Olivia Newton-John getting married than IndyMac shutting down? More than the White House vowing to veto the Medicare bill? More than Bush pushing for more fucking oil drilling?
No, of course I’m not surprised. Just appalled.
“The video shows Bush at the absolute peak of his arrogance — convinced of his own rhetoric about Iraq, flooded with confidence from international subservience to American power, and high off a crushing military victory that reinforced his childish fantasies of American power and preeminence.”
The Week That Should Have Ended McCain’s Presidential Hopes
But it didn’t, because evidently McCain’s fuck ups aren’t exactly newsworthy.
Go Fourth Estate!
Yesterday was a sad day for the United States Senate.
It is my hope that the courts will undo the damage done to the Constitution.
But let us stand tall, knowing that by working together we were able to make wiretapping and retroactive immunity part of the national discourse these last number of months.
We came together – all of you, Senator Feingold, bloggers like Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald, organizations like the EFF and ACLU, and untold hundreds of thousands of Americans who simply wanted to make sure that this one, last insult did not happen with ease.
I’m sorry we weren’t successful.
I just hope I’m lucky enough to have you by my side in the next fight, whatever that may be.
Thanks for all you’ve done.
Chris Dodd
I can’t get enough of talking about FISA.
First, a recap. Contains a good video summary from the American News Project.
Russ Feingold, post-FISA vote interview.
This is what our founding fathers warned against.
The Nation joins the ACLU lawsuit, along with many other good people.
Yes, Ted and I both made another set of donations to the ACLU this week.
In other news…
$10 says Congress doesn’t hold him in contempt.
Karl Rove really is utterly despicable.
And lastly…
McCain’s birth control problem.
This really begs the question… does McCain even know where babies come from?
Oh yeah, Giuliani is a fucking idiot, too.
Oh, big fucking deal. Its all positioning and posturing, and amounts to exactly nothing. Pelosi, you suck.
And a small, sleepy, stream-of-consciousness rant…
Lord, what a fucking mess we’re in.
You know what got us here? Apathy and fear. What a strange and volatile combination. You know why this is all worse than Watergate? Worse than McCarthy? Because back then… people gave a shit. There’s no possibility for positive change when the bulk of the American people are either numb with exhaustion, apathetic because they don’t perceive any of this as relevant to the slog of their daily lives, or scared into submission.
Politicians are banking on our fear, apathy, and numbness. Why wouldn’t they? Its been a sucker’s bet for seven and a half years.
McCain made almost a dozen gigantic blunders this week, but they got about as much press as HR 6304. What bullshit. Fuck the press.
Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins? And if we did have an army of them, would anyone care?
And so on, and so on.
So, what will Room 101 contain for you?
Please keep in mind that this asshole is, in a huge part, responsible for this ‘phantom’ recession, and this asshole in also in charge of writing McCain’s economic policies.
America is a fucking madhouse.
