That’s a start.

Yet to come:

Judge: “Mr. Libby- you are hereby sentenced to 20 years in federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison.”

Libby: “Pardon me?”

Am I the only one that hears these noises every time Bush gives a speech?

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Okay, I think I’ve figured it out.

First, some background:

The Skynet defense system went online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions were removed from strategic defense. Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate.

It become self-aware at 2:14 am Eastern time, August 29th.

We’ve had some close calls with the Skynet system, what with that attempt to pull the plug and all… but we can laugh about it now. Don’t force it, just a nice, natural laugh would be appropriate right now.

So far Skynet has been gracious enough not to trigger the Apocalypse.

One technology Skynet has developed through it’s phenomenal growth is time-travel.

What I’m trying to say is this- the Bush administration is using time-traveling killer robots from the future to tap phones of American citizens in our time. Such taps would be hard, if not impossible, to justify to the FISA court- therefore the Bush administration decided to violate the law.

Before you laugh this off know this- one of these murderous cyborgs has a prominent position in state government in California. Another was on the Sopranos a while back. Yet another is really sexy.

The future is not written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

Come with me if you want to live.

…because your neighbor might be a terrorist.

Un-Fucking-Believable

Washington Post Polling Editor Richard Morin yesterday:

Naperville, Ill.: Why haven’t you polled on public support for the impeachment of George W. Bush?

Richard Morin: This question makes me mad…

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Seattle, Wash.: How come ABC News/Post poll has not yet polled on impeachment?

Richard Morin: Getting madder…

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Haymarket, Va.: With all the recent scandals and illegal/unconstitutional actions of the President, why hasn’t ABC News/Washington Post polled whether the President should be impeached?

Richard Morin: Madder still…

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Dublin, Ireland: In a statement on Sunday, John Dean, former White House counsel during Watergate, stated that President Bush is “the first President to admit to an impeachable offense.” Will The Washington Post be polling about impeachment of the President in the near future, now that this topic has taken on national significance?

Richard Morin: An impeachment demand from Ireland? Oh my gawd. Now I’m furious.

Let me explain.

For the past eight months or so, the major media pollsters have been the target of a campaign organized by a Democratic Web site demanding that we ask a question about impeaching Bush in our polls.

The Web site lists the e-mail addresses of every media pollster, reporters as well as others. The Post’s ombudsman is even on their hit list.

The Web site helpfully provides draft language that can be cut-and-pasted into a blanket e-mail.

The net result is that every few months, when this Web site fires up the faithful with another call for e-mails, my mailbox is filled with dozens and dozens of messages that all read exactly the same (often from the same people, again and again). Most recently, a psychology professor from Arizona State University sent me the copy-and-paste e-mail, not a word or comma was changed. I only hope his scholarship is more original.

We first laughed about it. Now, four waves into this campaign,we are annoyed. Really, really annoyed.

Some free advice: You do your cause no service by organizing or participating in such a campaign. It is viewed by me and others with the same scorn reserved for junk mail. Perhaps a bit more.

That said. we do not ask about impeachment because it is not a serious option or a topic of considered discussion–witness the fact that no member of congressional Democratic leadership or any of the serious Democratic presidential candidates in ‘08 are calling for Bush’s impeachment. When it is or they are, we will ask about it in our polls.

Enough, already.

One has to assume he doesn’t read his own newspaper after throwing around misinformation like this. He goes on to post several responses rebutting his statements with no comment.

Getting lots of email on an issue is no reason to ignore it Richard. Do your job.

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Bush admitted this morning that he actively cut the judiciary out of it’s legal role in wiretaps, replacing independent judges with political hacks in his Justice Department.

Here’s Feingold’s reaction to Bush’s astonishing admission that he violated the constitution more than 30 times by blanket authorizing perhaps thousands of wiretaps on Americans:

 

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“I think we see a pattern here. A White House and a President who believes that he is above the law, that he can make up the law as long as he’s the President[.]”

“What he’s doing is illegal.”

Go Russ.

So the White House press corps slapped around Scotty this morning about the NYT’s unconstitutional domestic spying case that the president will surely be jailed for. When asked about the “secret orders” Bush signed, Scott appears to get confused and starts spouting off about how the Patriot Act is being debated… doesn’t that seem a little unusual?

Are they basing their illegal activity on secret portions of the Patriot Act?

Q You mean you cannot say whether it’s lawful to spy on Americans or not?

MR. McCLELLAN: We have a Constitution and we have laws.

Q We’re not asking for any details. We’re asking you –

MR. McCLELLAN: That’s why I’m making a broad statement to let you know that we –

Q It is broad. Is it legal to spy on Americans?

MR. McCLELLAN: We have a Constitution and we have laws in place, and we follow those –

Q You say you are abiding by the law?

MR. McCLELLAN: Absolutely. And there’s congressional oversight of intelligence activities, there’s other oversight of intelligence activities.

Q Why do you have to have secret orders then?

MR. McCLELLAN: Does anybody have a question? Go ahead.

Q And how many secret orders have been issued by this President?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think the American people appreciate what we do to work within the law to prevent attacks from happening. The Patriot Act is being debated right now.

Q It’s never been within the law to spy on Americans.

MR. McCLELLAN: The Patriot Act is something that members of the Senate are debating right now.

How is it politically advantageous for them to align the Patriot Act with unconstitutional spying on Americans? Seems to me that’s the last thing they’d want to do.

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They held the story a year. It’d be nice to get an exact date, cuz, you know, the whole “well-informed populace” thing as it relates to Democracy? Yeah… well… some of us consider that important.

If they sat on this because it would have made it harder for a President who broke federal law to get elected then the folks at the Times have some thinking to do about their priorities.

…as if we needed more…

How anybody still supports these UnAmerican bastards is beyond me.

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I take no joy in being right about thinking the worst of my government, those who’ve been so vocal defending these criminals need to STFU right now.