Equality of Conditions

If this doesn’t just perfectly encapsulate the mainstream media’s perfidy with respect to its coverage of politics in America, I don’t know what does.

Also, this just seems wrong on so many levels. Who knew my dear old dad was convicted of a DUI in 1978? This is priceless: “Sentence Status: FINE & COST“. I also enjoy: “Race: WHITE“.

Pass the bottle something-else, please.

To everyone who believes this is “one issue”, as in, well “how can you drop support for Obama on just one issue”. Respectfully, I think that is a narrow minded view. This FISA bill that passed touches on some of the absolute basic fundamentals that I believe one should look for in a candidate.

They are:

1. Respect for the Constitution.
2. Equal justice under the law.
3. Separation and balance of powers
4. Government transparency
5. Fighting Corporate/Lobbyist Influence
6. Government Accountability
7. Rejecting the Politics of Fear

Sadly, yesterday the Democratic-led Senate voted 69-28 to pass the new FISA bill that increases the government’s powers to spy on Americans without a warrant and grants retroactive immunity to the telcos for their involvement in the warrantless government spying that has been going on since, at least 2004. I say ‘at least’ because very few people, including the majority of the lawmakers who passed this bill know what they are granting immunity and for when. That’s right - the Congress passed a bill granting immunity to telcos without even knowing what they were granting immunity for! Unbelievable.

Does anyone actually prefer the kitchen garbage bag variety that does NOT have the built-in cinch or drawstring?

You know, like the kind you are supposed to either close and secure with a twist tie? Or the most offensive: the kind you are supposed to somehow magically tie one flap to another but the bag is always filled up past the point where flap tying is impossible and then you’re faced with a Sophie’s choice of digging garbage out of the bag in order to tie it up or just kind of half-ass your way to spinning it closed in a “as long as I can get it to the garbage can I’ll be alright” gamble you really don’t want to be taking?