Police are raiding homes in anticipation of protestors of the RNC. Link, link, and link.

Great. Just great. Makes me so proud to live here. (And for those of you out there who are idiots, that’s sarcasm.)

A quote:

“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who are not dumb and are keenly aware that it’s in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home . . . on Primary Day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”

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So the basic fact is: the Government, somewhere in the executive branch, possibly even the Big Shrub, committed a felony by wiretapping Americans. Today, the legislative branch, led by the opposition party, covered it up. 99% of the media would rather not cover it, since it could someday be their corporate interests who will need the same thing. The same percentage of the citizenry seems not to care.

You could watch this video to have a slightly deeper insight as to what “politics as usual” did to this country today (and as always, h/t to Glenn Greenwald for the clip).

And for those of you who are saying that things will be different once Obama is in charge - that he’s an agent for Change… he voted for this too. After as recently as October, when he said that he would always oppose it. Sounds a lot like business as usual to me. Maybe Barack thinks this kind of precedent could be useful to him as President. It’s now a fair question to ask.

It’s a sad day for ‘Merica. I assure you that Patrick Henry is halfway to China right now, from spinning in his grave. Go read it for yourselves.

So, I was reading this the other day: Petraeus picked to lead Central Command, which basically says that the current head of central command, Adm. William Fallon, was resigning due to widespread (but supposedly false) reports that he was at odds with the Bush administration over Iran that had made his job impossible.

So this morning as I’m “getting ready for work”, I’m reading Esquire (yes I have a subscription to Esquire… it was a gift… screw you!)… and I read this: Meet Fox Fallon

Sure… sure they were *false* rumors… riiiight… if you are too lazy to read all of this, the short version is “expect a war with Iran before January 2009″.

From the “Help me, I’m becoming a Republican!!!” department…

N.J. may OK paid leave for family care
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