Why We Worry

With the new Batman movie coming out tonight, I thought there was no better way to celebrate than by showing this awesome clip from American Psycho starring Christian Bale:

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I thought it’d be nice to start off today with a great quote:
“Maybe a race of alien lizards will land in Mosul and commence their program of world conquest, in which case it would be odd to stick with the 16 month withdrawal timeline…” - Matthew Yglesias
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Obama has been busy this week reinforcing his [...]

Now with video!!!
From the Times of London:

Just in case you can’t see the video, in it Homeland Security adviser and Houston-based lobbyist Steven Payne tells Kazakh politician Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov that he can setup a meeting with Cheney, Rice and other top administration officials in exchange for donations of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the [...]

A new book by Jane Mayer makes it abundantly clear the US government has been engaged in torture.
The book, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” cites International Red Cross reports on the America’s treatment of prisoners.
Here are some excerpts from the NYTimes [...]

…or How I Contributed To The Public Coffers Of Warrenton, NC
Last week, I had to go to court to “defend” myself for getting a speeding ticket. Let me first tell you about how I got said ticket so you understand how I ended up in this situation. My fiancée and I were [...]

Yesterday the Senate approved the new FISA legislation which includes telecom immunity. Bush should happily sign this bill into law soon.
This law, fully embraced by most of the Democratic party (including Barack “I will filibuster any bill that includes immunity” Obama) codifies two major affronts to our former Constitutional republic:
1) The President can ignore the [...]

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The Joe Liebermans of the world want you to be very afraid of Iran. They want you to think that every day brings with it the possibility of our destruction at the hands of the Iranians.
That’s simply an exaggeration, similar to the ones made about Saddam’s Iraq prior to our invasion. Remember the Bush [...]

At the center of the flap between Greenwald and Olbermann was Obama’s reversal of his hardline stance on FISA/Telecom immunity.
This is what Obama said back in January:
I strongly oppose retroactive immunity in the FISA bill…
The FISA court works. The separation of power works. We can trace, track down and take out terrorists while ensuring that [...]

What you want me to do? I’m sorry. I’m back.
I’ll keep you up to date on the most worrisome news with today’s post-vacation blogging. Enjoy.
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Conservatives are rushing to idolize Jesse Helms as the archetypal Republican/Conservative in the wake of his death. Either they are unaware of how bad it looks politically to emphatically embrace unrepentant [...]

They say “they never really miss you til you dead or you gone”
So on that note I’m leaving after the song
I’m going to beach for a few days, so I’m not going to blog until Monday unless I get bored.
But I don’t want to leave you without something to mull over. So, check out this [...]