... Unfortunately, it is only a crime to lie to the government ... The government, politicians, the media can lie to us all they wish, and they do, repeatedly, consistently, arrogantly. Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never -- never in over 200 years, never until BushCo took office -- tried to sell off part of the Bill of Rights and call it "protecting freedom." Orwell would be proud.
... The daddies in Washington want you to know they have an eye on the bad guys for you. Problem is, they think you are the bad guy.
Hoyer and Pelosi have to go: Hoyer has this backwards. The nature of a "compromise" is that neither side is happy with the outcome. Where, as here, one side is ecstatic and the other side is furious, that, by definition, is not a "compromise." It is, as Russ Feingold correctly says, a full-scale "capitulation." Hoyer's bill gives the two gifts the administration most wanted -- the power to engage in "vacuum-cleaner" surveillance of communications over U.S. telephone and email networks with no warrant requirement (and no required connection to Terrorism) and a guaranteed end to the telecom lawsuits. ... Hoyer and Pelosi have been so deceitful during this latest FISA abomination that their word can never be believed nor trusted.
The team also found that certain genes that appear to have undergone accelerated evolution in the human line, including some related to brain function, have also undergone accelerated evolution in the dog. The results "cast serious doubt" on recent high-profile claims that rapid changes in such genes played a role in the evolution of unique features of the human brain (ScienceNOW, 20 April), says evolutionary geneticist John Fondon III of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The incongruity, the irony, the absurdity: The United States has faced numerous problems finding countries that are willing to accept foreign prisoners [from Guantanamo, no less] who can't return to their own countries because of concerns that they might be tortured there. How can the farce keep getting more farcical. There should be a limit, but evidently there isn't. Farce and tragedy strangling US ethical standards, world standing and repute.
I'll second this: Only the unprecedented, monumental malevolence of the current administration has kept me from turning my back on the Dems ...And Turkana lists a few specific reasons why there is no choice but to stay with, and keep prodding, the Democrats.
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