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The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.
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  • @Lotus Feet re: "Gwen"

    Man, it is exceedingly clever the way you latch onto whatever you deem to be the most salient characteristic of somebody (in Glenn's case, his sexuality, apparently) and then oh-so-sardonically "mock" them using those witty little names that cut to the heart of your target's true nature.

    Since you must having some passing familiarity with yourself, do tell - how do you refer to yourself in your own mind? Suppurating hemorrhoid? Incomprehensibly big asshole? Nauseating turd?

  • Kitt

    Well, an ACLU Lawyer was on The Radio Factor and O' Reilly got him to admit that he doesn't believe the official story regarding 9/11. Somehow that is relevant to stuff and makes the ACLU evil or something like that. I wasn't really listening that closely.

  • I vote for "deluded nitwit who leaves nauseating turds of mangled syntax" . . .

    the "6 liberal networks" thing was classic though. RB is clearly a "true fox believer".

  • Rocky Feet

    yep, most of you would come around and see the light that big goobermint just breeds corruption and waste and can lead to totalitarian nightmares where the authorities decide that all of them innately evil ones need to be eliminated.

    You are so right! That's why we have only private enterprise engage in projects like the War on Iraq, the War on Afghanistan. Why, I bet if the government did these things they wouldn't be profitable at all, and they would probably violate people's rights into the bargain.

  • @bamage

    You don't think "lotus feet" works well? If "lotus feet is what I think it is, tho, it should more likely be "lotus head"

    His Mom wrapped it too tight, and it never grew.

  • There's No Better Guy for that Cesspool!

    "TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

    The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com..."

    http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/07/us/AP-Joe-The-Plumber.html?_r=2

    Now we'll get some of that good ol' time objective reporting Balboa Lotus wants so much!

  • -- Derbig Mooser

    No, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of breedin' going on.

    Can you blame them?

    Imagine, if you will, witnessing the sight of Lotus Blossom and The Little Wallaby making the Camel-With-Two-Backs and then attempting to breed?

    Or how about Shooter doing the nasty with Ghengis Balboa.

    Viagra wouldn't even come close to working.

  • Lotus Feet

    Thanks to your fustian revisionist view of history, each article you produce reminds me of why I rejected your seriously flawed system of political thought when I was eleven years old.

    The last eight years of your wholesale support of gross incompetence, brought us many times the following list of disgusting results from your government. I don't know how you can show your face in public. Perhaps, that's why you find refuge on the Internet.

    1. The tragedy of Walter Reed.

    2. The termination of U.S. Attorneys

    3. Blackwater and civilian contracts

    4. Military Commissions Act

    5. Plame

    6. FEMA and hurricanes Rita and Katrina

    7. Warrantless wiretapping

    8. Extraordinary rendition

    9. Abramoff, Kyle Foggo, Duke Cunningham, Tom DeLay

    10. 35% increase in the national debt

    11. Medicare part D

    12. Alberto Gonzalez

    13. FDA Failing to notice tainted imports from China

    14. Abusing the military

    15. 95% increase in the trade deficit

    16. Bankruptcy bill

    17. Sago mining accident

    18. Stem cell veto

    19. Schip veto

    20. Harriet Meiers

    21. Asserted right to open private mail

    22. Inserting language into a bill that allows appointed U.S. Attorneys to bypass Senate Approval

    23. Abuse of National Security Letters

    24. Paul Wolfowitz and his termination from the world bank

    25. Using RNC mail servers to avoid federally mandated archiving

    26. Cheney shoots his buddy and then attempts weak coverup

    27. Justice Scalia refuses to recuse himself from Sierra Club lawsuit he was a party to.

    28. The NSA wiretaps Mohammed el Baradei and tries to sway him from reelection to the IAEA

    29. The Real ID Act of 2005

    30. NASPER Act of 2005 records all prescribed controlled substances

    31. The Secure Fence Act

    32. Using GSA money to support Republican candidates

    33. Cheney diverts water from the Klamath river for votes and creates huge environmental disaster

    34. David Vitter and Larry Craig

    35. Lisa Murkowski and Ted Stevens

    36. Invoking “state secrets” to avoid prosecution

    37. The Air Force loses 6 nukes on a runway for 10 hours unattended

    38. Three American corporation fund terrorists in South America and get a slap on the hand

    39. Fake FEMA news conferences

    Just how do you show the chutzpah to lecture us after what you have done for this country? Will someone please reach for the foot deodorant?

  • We Have A Winner for Today's ToD

    Link at sig

  • @Jim M

    I don't know how you can show your face in public.

    None of them do. Have we ever had a "conservative" here who possesed the ordinary courage of signing his own name? I don't think so.

    And I just know the California AG is going to be so impressed when he gets a scribbled complaint signed "Wallaby" or "Lotus Feet". I'm sure they'll follow up on it right away. If they can decipher it.

    "Here, let me look at it, I took News-speak in college. I can still translate it sometimes"

  • Today's ToD -- Jebbie

    No fucking fair!

    It is still early on the East coast, and really, really early on the west coast. Then there is Hawaii.

    How are the trolls that work for a living supposed to compete if you call the ToD this early? Is there not a chance that one of the Zionists will come back and unloaded on us all with all that wonderful smear that they have in abundance?

    Damn fellow, just because you are retired does not mean we all are!

  • "6 liberal networks"

    YES!!! I was getting so sick of CBS, NBC and CNN. They sound so damned much like Fox.

    Now, where do I find them?

  • I continue to feel powerless due to the disconect between the people and our elected leaders

    It's like our elected leaders legislate and perform for each other and any attention given to the demands of the people sis merely incidental.

    The media millionaires, the ruling elite of the "Money Party" whose members come from both parties legislate from and for the wealthy.

    An 80-ish class of mentally deteriorating senators like Feinstein and bought and sold senators like Harmann and Rockefellar are so far removed from the American people it's hard to understand how they are even still members of the senate.

    I feel powerless to change the process which allows courageous whistle blowers like Tamm, who is more representative of the people than all of our complicit leaders, to be destroyed for standing up for the people's rights while those who break the law are paraded around as good dedicated protectors of the people. How did we ever become a nation whose representatives are sociopaths and psychopathic liars...and exposed as such...yet we are virtually powerless to get rid of them... and still call our nation a democracy. How can it be a democracy when the people are powerless to control the actions of their elected government...which now requires millions to even get elected to it? Where the laws are used to break the spirit of the law's intention by those with enough money and power?

    I stand ever watchful but filled with despair at the deterioration of the truths we thought were self evident. Reagan turned the 'government' into something evil, not to be trusted...terrifying when it says it's here to help. How do we ever restore it to belong to the people again, to be trusted because it is composed by us and not just the wealthy operating in secrecy? Where someone like Tamm is held up as a hero and a role model, rewarded for his courage, who deserves a real medal of honor. Hopefully he will, after Obama takes office and we get an honest DoJ back again. Hopefully.

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