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So why can’t this guy be mayor?  Bush really lowered the bar for public office, huh?

Congress is finally holding the Bush administration accountable for its warrant-less and unethical (if not outright illegal) wire taps.  Congress also shunned Bush’s suggestion that telcom companies should be immune from lawsuits for their complicity in these wiretaps.

Bush said, “The American people understand the stakes in this struggle. They want their children to be safe from terror.”

It’s nice to see that Congress wants our children to be safe from Bush.

I’m getting an average of a call an hour reminding me to vote.  In the primaries.  It’s pretty much going to determine whether Hillary or Barrack becomes the Democratic candidate for President.  So they’re asking me to choose between two people who have almost no discernible differences in platform when compared with the evil imperial incumbent party.  Besides, after the utter sham of the last two presidential elections, I’m wondering if I have any say anyway.  I one of very few people outraged when Bush stole the first election, and we see how well that turned out.  I’m bitter about our broken electoral process, and doubt our elections would withstand the scrutiny of the auditors we send to other countries to oversee so-called free elections.  Nope, I’m sitting this one out.  Good luck with that.

I got another of those emails about how much illegal aliens are costing us, the subject line of it was actually, “More Costly Than Iraq.” It’s been a while since I’ve posted a political rant, so…

For my tax dollar, I’d much prefer paying for welfare, food, education and medical attention for people — regardless of citizenship status — than perpetrating an illegal war creating more and more hatred for the United States abroad.

So people saying that war is a great way to spend my money as opposed to blowing it all on food will never have my agreement. War is never the answer. War brings more and more fighting, hatred, and pain. Have you seen gas prices lately? If that were merely supply and demand, oil companies wouldn’t be posting obnoxious profits. We sacrifice American children to kill foreign children over money via oil.
What that article doesn’t comment on is how illegal aliens contribute to our economy. Like the fact that honest, hardworking Americans just don’t show up to do many of the jobs they do. They pay sales tax. They contribute to local economies by spending the paltry sums unscrupulous American business owners get away with paying them — precisely because they are undocumented. You don’t blame mold for growing on bread. You blame the person who left the bread out, right? So we’re going to punish the undocumented aliens for being brave enough to leave their homes, take crappy jobs in circumstances no American would tolerate by throwing them out? Who will mow our lawns? Clean our rooms? Pick our fruit? Americans? Think again.
In short, I’d rather feed them than kill them any day.

It saddens me that so many Americans are so jaded about death and killing that they look for misdirections such as the illegal immigration issue, abortion, gay marriage, and gun control rather than focusing on the fact that we’re facing another quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the Darfur genocide continues, but Darfur doesn’t sit on an oil field, so we decide we’re suddenly not world police.
Politicians keep misdirecting us, and like sheep, Americans follow the bouncing ball.
Like John Lennon said, “War is over. If you want it.”

I predict that all barriers and objections to stem cell research are about to crumble. We’re about to enter an era of aggressive research, all because scientists have extremely promising results in a cure for one of the most seriously debilitating diseases of human beings since time began: Baldness. That’s right. Stem cells will be used to cure baldness. Now, if we could just figure out a way to cure erectile dysfunction with stem cells, we’d really run up the national debt.

One thing we’re good at here in the good old U.S. of A. is bolting that barn door CLOSED once the cows have gone.

Fleen: Your Favorite Faux-Muckrakers Since 2005 » Interview With The Vampire Terror Suspect

Here’s a guy who was investigated for “making terrorist threats” for writing a web comic. Benjamin Franklin said, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

He was talking about us.

A recent study shows that Abstinence-Only Sex Education programs do not change the likelihood of participants having sex. Don’t take my word for it. Check these credible news sources. Wow! Telling teenagers NOT to do something their bodies DEMAND from them isn’t working?! I’m not even a parent and I know that crap doesn’t work. Remember when you were a teenager? Did your parents tell you to not have sex? If so, when the moment/moments came to make your choice, was their opinion foremost in your mind?

I hope, for your sake, that the answer was “No.” Now imagine that the GOVERNMENT RECOMMENDED that you not do it (remember, you’re a teenager!) … How does THAT factor in to your decision making process? Right. Not at all. The US Government has spent over $1 billion dollars on these ineffective programs just in the last 6 years. I could stay at home and telepathically tell teens not to have sex for only $500 million for the next ten years and have the same effect. And save our country money. Write your congressperson.

Rick Perry, governor of my great state, has done a whole lot of no good for Texas.  Converting paid-for highways to tollways was just one of the high points of his office, now he’s apparently trying to be your dad.   I mean, sure, HPV is bad.  Sure, we can save lives by vaccinating all girls against it… But shouldn’t we at least TRY education and voluntary vaccinations before resorting to Third Reich methodology?  I mean, call me a wacky conspiracy theorist, but isn’t it odd that the folks who just got paid to do a study on the Texas Lottery just hired Perry’s son?  Surely Perry has no personal ties with Merck, the company that manufactures the HPV vaccine?  Food for thought…

ZOMG… Read this!

Where to even start?! I made a list:

• What ever happened to living in a free country? Can’t I more or less do what I want?
• Why is this suddenly a problem? What about books? Couldn’t you get hit reading a book and walking through a crosswalk? Walkmans (walkmen?) have been around since the seventies, for crying out loud. Why do we need a law 30 years after the fact?
• I’m a big believer in evolution, and if you’re too stupid to walk and listen to your iPod at the same time, then I don’t want you surviving to breed.
• On general principles, you shouldn’t use the terms “fiddling” and “blackberry” together in a sound byte. You sound retarded.
• Super Mario Brothers on a Game Boy? Why not Pong on an Intellivision? Where has this senator been, anyway? Pick a game & console from THIS MILLENIUM before you get all hopped up on righteous indignation, please.

Stupid lawmakers…