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Even in the sick mockery of a free country that is Cheney’s post-9/11 America, it nonetheless beggars belief that our airport security personnel are now empowered to seize your fucking laptop (or iPod, or flash drive, or Fisher-Price Speak & Spell) for no goddamn fucking reason, examine everything on it, steal anything they feel like [...]

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Thirty-some days left, time for the big closing number – All Crisis All The Time. Gosh, who could have imagined? Well, at least the House killed that prettified-with-lipgloss Paulson atrocity today. I’m still waiting for an adult, any adult, to appear on the scene. Even all the brilliance and savvy and sincerity of a Barney [...]

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Liars and truthtellers

We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. – Republican Party platform, 2008 It gets worse. If Congress should be so destructive as to buy out $700 billion of bad loans (for starters), [...]

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Well, so much for my tiny shred of ridiculous optimism yesterday. I might have had a clue at seeing these worthless dem fucks being willing to even go near the steaming turd of fascist, textbook shock-doctrine thievery that Paulson dumped at their door. And then watching them accept delivery for it and take it to [...]

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From Democracy Now headlines, 9/22/08: Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations Beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five [...]

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA – God, am I in Crazyworld?

You’ve GOT to be freaking kidding me. Yahoo News headline this morning: Poll: Public opposes increased presidential power Americans strongly oppose giving the president more power at the expense of Congress or the courts, even to enhance national security or the economy, according to a new poll. What?! You mean Americans don’t want President Cheney [...]

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From commenter Anonymous over at Digby’s: John McCain is now a Trojan Horse, the ruse by which Christian Fascism takes over this country.

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Really. Check this shit out. Our local police forces are buying – tanks! These are not National Guardsmen or U.S. Army personnel – these are county policemen. Andy Fucking Griffith. The sad fact is, our (borrowed) tax dollars have so overfilled the coffers of the war merchants, the money now needs elsewhere to go. And [...]

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