Eh, they just want someone else to pay for their population control.Leisher wrote:China talking tough.
The second Obama term
Obamacare overhead: $273 billion over the next 7 years.
http://www.atr.org/new-rep....billion
I wonder how much operating cost a typical insurance company has.
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							http://www.atr.org/new-rep....billion
I wonder how much operating cost a typical insurance company has.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
			
						Getting closer.
Someone, anyone on the Congressional catering staff, for fuck's sake -- drug the coffee with some sedatives.
			
			
									
						
							Votes are possible after 6 p.m., giving senators just six hours before the laws run out at midnight — and only two before 8 p.m., when the Obama administration has warned the NSA's phone records program would be disrupted.
Someone, anyone on the Congressional catering staff, for fuck's sake -- drug the coffee with some sedatives.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
			
						Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Lapsed.
A small victory considering they'll pass them again in a few days, but still...
It's too bad a Kardashian wasn't involved because then maybe the majority of Americans would care.
			
			
									
						
							A small victory considering they'll pass them again in a few days, but still...
It's too bad a Kardashian wasn't involved because then maybe the majority of Americans would care.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
			
						"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
The Senate voted 77-17 to move ahead on the House-passed bill, the USA Freedom Act...
That's 77 pandering asswipes that deserve to be executed in public.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
			
						Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
I wonder how much they're collecting that they will continue to collect because it isn't public knowledge and illegal for anyone that DOES know to say anything? No one is saying anything about the emails they scoop up or all the text messages. Just the metadata that's already been admitted to.Leisher wrote:Lapsed.
A small victory considering they'll pass them again in a few days, but still...
It's too bad a Kardashian wasn't involved because then maybe the majority of Americans would care.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
			
						Vince wrote:I'm seeing the carrier pigeon making a come back.
Mike Tyson could see a resurgence.
"Hi, I'm Mike Tyson. You don't want the government spying on your behind your back, going all Don King on your ass. So buy one of my birds to carry your sensitive information to its destination. You can also train them to shit on things and people you don't like during flight."
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
			
						Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
FBI watching you.
Domestic surveillance without warrants or any confirmed operating authority. How convenient.
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							According to the senior law enforcement official, the FBI does not need a court issued warrant to fly these surveillance planes because of rules established by the Department of Justice. The same official says that before a plane is used, it is signed off on by various levels of DOJ.
Domestic surveillance without warrants or any confirmed operating authority. How convenient.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
			
						Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Wikileaks offers $100k bounty for the text of "the most transparent administration in history's" trans-Pacific trade deal.
			
			
									
						
							"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
			
						"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Whew. Someone's going to leak it or fake it, for that much.Leisher wrote:Wikileaks offers $100k bounty for the text of "the most transparent administration in history's" trans-Pacific trade deal.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
			
						John Cusack says Obama is as bad or worse than Bush.
He's pretty left wing, so that's saying something.
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							He's pretty left wing, so that's saying something.
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"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
			
						"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell