Update ~ Boy Cries Wolf Ploy Succeeds

The Associated Press reported this afternoon that Democrats were successfully strong-armed by Bush’s threat to veto a compromise that would have had Bushco’s monarchial supersecret spying powers damped by the requirement that he submit requests to the FISA court well  after spying actually commenced.
 Makes this Demon ill to have to post about it.   Manipulated & thoroughly [...]

The Boy Cries Wolf ~ & Other Neocon Fairytales

The boy-cries-wolf meme should have reached terminal exhaustion & death where Bushco is concerned, & especially regarding justification for secret spying programs, but we see in the news today where Democrats are still terrified of being tarred & feathered with the “soft on terrorism” brush ~ so much so that the very Democratic Congresspeople, who [...]

Here’s To Mr. Audacity

 Ill: Micah Wright/Progaganda Remix, With Permission
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We have to give this to Mr. Bush ~ no law, & no tired meme, will he allow to stand in the way of his quest for all-encompassing executive power. In today’s news, courtesy of The Hill, we learn that Bush used his Saturday radio address to try press forward [...]

Big Brother May Be Watching ~ But You Can’t Prove It

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Tangled in the Sticky Wicket of the Bushco State, Court Says “Do Not Pass Go”
Last week’s most distressing ~ or more precisely, frightening ~ news was that two Republican appointed judges of the Sixth Circuit reached what strikes me as a Kafka-esque ruling in denying a group of Plaintiffs who [...]

Happy Birthday FOIA!

Many folks missed this anniversary yesterday. The Freedom of Information Act turned 40 years old. This IS a big deal, especially with the Asshat-in-Chief mucking up the friggin works for the last 6+ years. A little history, thanks to ACLU’s Anthony D. Romero on the act that has come to be known simply by the [...]