Archive for the ‘Police State’ Category
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
With only five percent of the world's total population, the United States accounts for almost 25% of the world's prisoners, according to an article in today's New York Times. It feels good to still be No. 1, right?
The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, far outpacing the number two contender, ...
Posted in BIO, Police State | 25 Comments »
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
With growing horror, we’re seeing most of South America move to the left. Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador are the most blatant examples. But even such former rightwing stalwarts as Argentina and Chile are slowly moving away from America’s ideals.
One would think that with all we've done for South America, they'd ...
Posted in America, BIO, Current Affairs, Exploiting, Police State, Politics, World News, greed, satire | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Newsflash there Big Dick...last time I checked, this country was still a democracy.
The founders well knew of the dangers of unchecked power in the hands of insane asshat with pretentions of Napoleonism. They knew that if a crapweasel with the morals of a ferret and the ego of Saddam ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, IDIOT, Impeachment, Legal News, Miscellaneous, Police State, Politics, Right Wing Nut | 4 Comments »
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Vice-President Dick Cheney has obviously spent too much time in "undisclosed" locations because since 2003 he has directed his office to quit complying with Executive Order 12958 that requires the National Archives to inspect federal agencies and White House offices to ensure that they are complying with the security procedures ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Impeachment, Legal News, Police State, Politics | 26 Comments »
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
In the aftermath of Watergate, executive authority was diminished as it was determined that unbridled access to the ability to monitor and engage in unwarranted surveillance of U.S. citizens was far too tempting.
Under the Bush administration, the threat of terror allowed the executive branch to once again assert its ...
Posted in Homeland Security, Police State, Politics, Terrorism | No Comments »
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Check the traffic statistics for any blog or site and you'll see plenty of curious things. Every site has it's share of mysterious daily visitors who never seem to comment. Every site gets visits from far away or obscure places. Every site has its share of confounding searches displaying downright ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, Miscellaneous, Police State, Weblogs | No Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
John Ashcroft, for all his evangelical world view mentality, is beginning to look like some kind of Hall of Justice Superhero when compared with Alberto Gonzales. And that's saying a lot about a man who needed to cover up a statue to obscure her nude breasts, a statue which would ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Impeachment, Legal News, Police State, Politics, Terrorism | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
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As the father of five very young daughters I first let out a cheer upon reading this piece that was in the Houston Chronicle today. If there is one type of American that I have no tolerance for ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Education, Police State | 3 Comments »
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
I'm not generally much of a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe Elvis is in Wisconsin working at McDonald's, or the moon landings were staged in a NASA studio, or that somehow the September 11 tragedies were purposely staged by the government. I am, by nature, a skeptic. I like to ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, IDIOT, Impeachment, Miscellaneous, Police State, Politics | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Reading through the comments yesterday on this post reminded me of a local news story I'd seen the other night. It seems that one of Team Bush's freedom buddies, Blackwater USA, is pining for a "training camp" just east of San Diego. "Just east" is mostly comprised of high desert ...
Posted in Iraq War, Military, Police State | 3 Comments »
