Atrios asks a question:

A quick stroll through the google tells us that transit ridership is going up everywhere. I do wonder if this will lead to political pressure to improve and expand transit systems.

Answer: NO!

This has been another edition of simple answers to stupid fucking questions.

Once things stop being rights... they are no longer rights, but merely courtesies extended to you by the king (Chimpy) until he decides otherwise.

Government lawyers told federal judges that the president (Chimpy) can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.

'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

George aWol Bush would approve of this murder. After all, you don't talk to your enemies.

It was her first youthful infatuation and it would be her last. She died on 16 March after her father discovered she had been seen in public talking to Paul, considered to be the enemy, the invader and a Christian. Though her horrified mother, Leila Hussein, called Rand's two brothers, Hassan, 23, and Haydar, 21, to restrain Abdel-Qader as he choked her with his foot on her throat, they joined in. Her shrouded corpse was then tossed into a makeshift grave without ceremony as her uncles spat on it in disgust.

'Death was the least she deserved,' said Abdel-Qader. 'I don't regret it. I had the support of all my friends who are fathers, like me, and know what she did was unacceptable to any Muslim that honours his religion,' he said.

Sitting on a chair by his front door and surrounded by the gerberas and white daisies he had planted in the family garden, Abel-Qader attempted to justify his actions.

'I don't have a daughter now, and I prefer to say that I never had one. That girl humiliated me in front of my family and friends. Speaking with a foreign solider, she lost what is the most precious thing for any woman.

The creepy, dim-witted, secretive, fascist fuck himself

So she has to hang around just in case Barack Obama gets shot?

Wow. What a bitch.

Is it me or do you want to wipe that insipid smile off with a shovel?

Watch Pat Buchanan angrily defend racist West Virginian voters

FBI catalogs US torture acts

It's nicely organized for you by country.

British lawyer for detainees charges that the U.S. is 'holding 27,000 in secret overseas prisons.'

This is what happens when proper elections are thwarted and the will of a countries people are ignored.

'27,000 in secret overseas prisons.'

Main Core - More information on the Total Information Awareness Program comes to light.

Remember that Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root had been awarded a $385 million dollar contract by Homeland Security to construct detention and processing facilities in the event of a national emergency? Well, guess how Chimpy is going to fill the Gulag?

"There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously."

Ketcham goes on to explain that the Bush Administration was cross-referencing Main Core with its warrantless wiretap program. I'm not entirely clear whether Ketcham is saying BushCo used Main Core to come up with potential targets of warrantless wiretapping, or whether they used the warrantless wiretapping intercepts to add to Main Core--I think, but am not positive--it's the latter.

This is wholesale slaughter and elimination of FISA, and the constitution. As Digby notes, I could be wrong, but I would guess offhand that liberal bloggers and their readers might be among the future inhabitants of such gulags.

Everything you say and do goes into Main Core

The e-mail addresses you send to and receive from, and the subject lines of those messages; the phone numbers you dial, the numbers that dial in to your line, and the durations of the calls; the Internet sites you visit and the keywords in your Web searches; the destinations of the airline tickets you buy; the amounts and locations of your ATM withdrawals; and the goods and services you purchase on credit cards. All of this information is archived on government supercomputers and, according to sources, also fed into the Main Core database.

Main Core also allegedly draws on four smaller databases that, in turn, cull from federal, state, and local "intelligence" reports; print and broadcast media; financial records; "commercial databases"; and unidentified "private sector entities." Additional information comes from a database known as the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, which generates watch lists from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for use by airlines, law enforcement, and border posts.

Read the Radar story yourself. The scope of ChimpCo's crimes will take your breath away. To Quote DIgby again:
It's not a stretch to think that under pressure, any government could, (*ahem*) overreach just a tad and decide that certain political undesirables need to be dealt with. If they've built the capability, there is every chance they will use it. It's how these things work.

What's this got to do with Total Information Awareness? The TIA Program was part of the US Information Awareness Office from February to May 2003, when it was renamed Terrorism Information Awareness Program Following public criticism that the development and deployment of these technologies could potentially lead to a mass surveillance system, the IAO was defunded by Congress in 2003, although several of the projects run under IAO have continued under different funding.

Well, apparently, it went ahead with out Justice department approval and was funded anyway. Read what the unamerican commies at the ACLU said about this in 2003.

To sum up, the most unpopular US president ever, makes the biggest strategic failure in US history, and maybe is also the biggest federal criminal ever.

Phyllis Schlafly is a sick twisted fuck.

The bitch led a feminist life, and embraced her oppressors. Isn't that called the Stockholm Syndrome? Why has this silly bitch been allowed to exceed her 15 minutes?
By the time she married Fred Schlafly, a prominent St. Louis lawyer, in 1949, she had put herself through Washington University working full time as an ammunition tester, firing rifles and machine guns for the war effort. She had also completed a master's in political science at Harvard. Her mother, a librarian, had supported the family during the Depression, when her father was unable to find work. "I grew up believing that I should support myself," Mrs. Schlafly said.

Phyllis Schlafly - Stockholm Candidate. Our most astute psychological political blog entry ever. -ed.

Chimpy makes the ultimate sacrifice. The ultimate. No one has ever sacrificed more, than Chimpy. No one. Ever. God bless the wise, beautiful leader.

E-mail from VA worker says to avoid PTSD diagnosis

The US Gov't may give you a medal for it, just don't ask for treatment, you whiny sniveling losers.

An internal e-mail written by a Veterans Affairs Department employee suggested avoiding a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans and instead considering a diagnosis that might result in a lower disability payment.

A copy of the e-mail was distributed Thursday by the groups Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a congressional watchdog group, and VoteVets.org. The e-mail dated March 20 had been forwarded to VoteVets.org, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans lobbying group opposed to the Bush administration’s handling of the war and veterans issues.

“Given that we are having more and more compensation seeking veterans, I’d like to suggest that we refrain from giving a diagnosis of PTSD straight out. Consider a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder, R/O PTSD,” the e-mail said.

It also said, “Additionally, we really don’t or have time to do the extensive testing that should be done to determine PTSD.”

Douglas Feith does not do his race justice. He is a dumb mother fucker.

Why is it that all right wing neocons seem to be such Frank Burns (Think M*A*S*H) pussies? The glasses, the stut-stut-stuttering, the general feeling like the pansies should have gotten their asses kicked more in high school? Why is it that I get the feeling that neocon assholes never picked up an icky gun before and got deferments instead?

Just Askin'.

Shut the fuck you, you ignorant, evil, murderous piece of shit.

You have to admit, saying "I gave up golf" must have a real special meaning to the person keeping the flag that once covered the coffin of their child.