We’re living in the future

Get ready to get mad

Yup, 9 trillion dollars.  Must be around here somewhere.

Where is the Congress?!?

Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss

The hubris of this amazes even me.

The President is seeking permissions from Congress to suppress any photographs related to FOIA requests that occurred outside American borders if it would ‘endanger the troops’.  Who makes this call?  Ah yes, his appointee, the secretary of defense.
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If you’ve read my blog for any amount of time you’ll know that I’m all for anything that protects the troops.  Not, however, at the cost of the very freedoms they are fighting to maintain.

As Glen Greenwall says:

What kind of a country passes a law that has no purpose other than to empower its leader to suppress evidence of the torture it inflicted on people?
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The Audacity of Hope indeed….

Remember

To all those that came before and to all those who will come after.

We remember.

Big numbers

MIA for a bit

As you might have noticed, the little cog has been MIA.  Apolgies, here’s something to tide you over:

Yup.  Tactical Bacon.

Tea?

Hope everyone’s having a great Sunday.

Justice and Privacy

Justice Scalia questions the need for more privacy laws. One Professors response?

His class turned in a 15-page dossier that included not only Scalia’s home address, home phone number and home value, but his food and movie preferences, his wife’s personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren, reports Above the Law.
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Scalia: 0 Professor Reidenberg: 1

Getting Smart about Guns

A clever idea to keep criminals from owning guns.  Probably would be a small increase in price for we gun owners…but it’s a fair price to pay.

Political reality makes even a modest gun law a difficult legislative sell. But if the Obama administration really cares about limiting gun violence, it could pursue a different strategy, one that doesn’t involve Congress and isn’t likely to provoke a storm of opposition.
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Knife Carry Positions

If you can’t have a little fun with Photoshop at 7:30am in the morning…you aren’t really living the internet dream.