You're guilty. You just don't know it yet

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to "white collar criminals," state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.

For example,

The NSA contacted the CEO/Chairman of QWest before 9/11 asking to wiretap all the customers. After he consulted with Legal, he refused. As a result, NSA canceled a bunch of unrelated billion dollar contracts that QWest was the top bidder for. And then the DoJ targeted him and prosecuted him and put him in prison for insider trading -- on the theory that he knew of anticipated income from secret programs that QWest was planning for the government, while the public didn't because it was classified and he couldn't legally tell them, and then he bought or sold QWest stock knowing those things. This CEO's name is Joseph P. Nacchio and TODAY he's still serving a trumped-up 6-year federal prison sentence today for quietly refusing an NSA demand to massively wiretap his customers.

Those charts are FAKE!

Dumbest Wingnut of the Week? Or Dumbest Wingnut Ever?

It's best to think of "Do Not Track" laws as a "track me in secret" law

Really: if you tell a "Do Not Track"-enabled company that you don't want to be tracked, it will stop showing you personalized ads. But your activity will be tracked -- and your personal information collected, sold and used -- just like everyone else's. It's best to think of it as a "track me in secret" law.

Brian Roberts of Comcast says his company is so shitty because he gets a lot of phone calls

Who is this fat pig?

And why are republican governors killing its citizenry?

“If by a "Liberal"

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”

Section 215 of the Patriot Act allows the Federal Government to keep and maintain a Gun Registry

Then the DOJ hid it from Congress.  Will teabagists and gun nuts do anything? No. No they wont. Not a single thing.

why senate republicans were nuked

Fuck you, republican

Why senate republicans deserved to be nuked

republican Gov. Scott Walker is uneducated

He spent four years at college but didn't graduate. The scumbag lied about it.

The three Senators, all members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have submitted amicus briefs to share with the court that, from what they've seen, there's no evidence that the bulk data collection program has been at all useful -- which is likely to be a key claim by the DOJ.

Based on the experience of Amici, the public—and this Court—should view the government’s claims regarding the effectiveness of its surveillance programs with searching skepticism and demand evidence rather than assurances before accepting them.

Everest Wilhelmsen says he has the authority to assassinate President Obama

Maybe the Secret Service could find an intern to call good old Everest Wilhelmsen.

We now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill him. His willful violations and alienation of our Constitution, constant disregard for our peaceful protests and corruption of all the three branches of government, (i.e., rogue and illegitiimate government), reveal the dictator that he is. Obama and his co-conspirators disrespect our Constitution (constitutional rule of law) and abuse the American people. The authority to kill Obama comes from the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution: He is levying war on the United States and aiding and comforting our foreign enemies -- the 2nd Amendment gives us the right and duty (authority) to engage an enemy of the United States that does so with the design to reduce us under absolute Despotism. I would be very surprised, if Obama does not leave Washington DC today (Nov. 19th) ...never to return, if he is not dead within the month. PLEASE JOIN US AT CHRISTIAN AMERICAN PATRIOTS MILITIA: https://www.facebook.com/groups/417199228403274/

Nuke the republican bastards in the senate and pack the courts with hippie liberals

Tell Chuck Grassley to go fuck himself

Pentagon Plugs: Pentagon Has Hidden Trillions In Missing Money And Equipment

Audit the pentagon and put the flag officers in jail.

republicans are destroying America

When you think of a conservative, you don't think of scumbags who inherited their vast wealth like the Koch brothers or Willard Romney. Most Americans that think of mean spirited pricks like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum or the useless orange drunkard that 'leads' the US House.

Republicans and republican lawmakers are seen as bigots.  Yes, America, conservatives are generally racist. The Teabag wing of the Klan especially.  That's not to say all conservatives are racist, but if you are racist, you're voting republican.  You guys are seen as anti-immigrant, anti-science, anti-minority and misogynistic. Republicans claim to love America but clearly, clearly, they hate Americans that aren't white. Republicans are anti-American on every single issue that faces America today. Infrastructure, banksters, clean energy, patent reform, gun control, religion in government, for profit prison, tax loopholes, wars of aggression, stand your ground, animal rights, voting rights, privacy, an even bigger military, paramilitary cops, vindictive judges, abusive prosecutors, TSA sexual abuse, Guantanamo, torture, global warming, pot, domestic spying rivaling East Germany and Oceana (1984 reference!) healthcare, pollution, gay marriage, tax cuts for the 1%, food stamps, minimum wage, nothing republicans do helps America. Nothing. And by doing nothing they are destroying America and making it difficult for the adults in the room to fix anything.

Instead of helping, republicans are easily offended, vindictive and fond of saying 'No'. At every turn since Chimpy aWol Bush stumbling from the podium to convert Jews to Christ, republicans decided to destroy America. Because to do other wise would help the Kenyan.  Could most conservative find Hawaii on the map with both hands? Kenya?

Yes, republicans are destroying America out of spite. Republicans are pissed that other people are getting ahead. They hate being a minority. They hate not being in charge. So they are going to burn it down. The roof is on fire. Let the mother fucker burn.

The tragedy of republican obstructionism is that the US is leaving money on the table.  Everyone lost in the Second Great Depression, wholly owned subsidiary of the deregulation ideologues of the republican party. Austerity does not grow the economy, nor does the non-existent jobs bill or too big to fail and jail banksters. But republicans don't care. They'll even shut down the government just to give a seditious "fuck you" to the American people. Conservatives are hurting Americans out of spite. This is sociopathic behavior aimed at hurting all of us, the vulnerable and strong alike because we are all vulnerable to nihilist, seditious republican obstruction.  There is no accountability. America is being held hostage by gerrymandered red state welfare recipients represented by the likes of Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert and Joe Barton.  Uneducated hillbillies perpetually frightened and insecure, willing to destroy everything, because derp. The ignorance is breathtaking in scope only to be surpassed by the pain and suffering inflicted on the rest of the citizenry. When was the last time so few screwed so many?  Oh, fuck you, libtard. These republican lawmakers are millionaires and they don't like you.  They have theirs, so fuck you. They will leave the world a worse place. Want an example?

America hasn't been able to 'do' anything big for quite a while. Since disgraced presidents Nixon, Reagan and the Shrub fascists it has been harder and harder for America to do anything competently. America hasn't won a war since 1945.   America can't build a high speed trains, space shuttles or the worlds tallest building. America couldn't even steal the oil from Iraq responsibly.  Not only cant America 'do' anything,  since Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, it become clear that We The People, are the Enemy and nothing will be fixed. The US is left with a corrupt expanding military that is bleeding the economy.  The republican response is to cut food stamps for the hungry mooching 47%, provide a painful expensive end to sick Americans and tax cuts for the rich.

The American can't 'do' thing is not limited to Congressional obstructionists. American republicans can tear shit down.  Bush V. Gore was an abortion. Gutting the voting rights act was a moral obscenity. Supreme Asshole Fat Tony Scalia thinks suitcase nukes might be allowed under the Second Amendment because a person could physically carry it. He also believes the devil is a real live person and that broccoli is the same as health care. Citizens United allows foreigners to subvert American elections but the one of the most absurd, the most ridiculous the most insane wing nut bullshit also comes from republicans in the Judicial branch. Say it in R-Money's voice and chuckle his creepy laugh at the end. "Corporations are people, my friend'.  Meanwhile congressional republicans are preventing Obama from doing his constitutional duty of appointing judges to the federal bench via filibuster.

All the while Faux Spew, Deadbart, Drudge, America's Shittiest Website, Newsmax, hate radio and the rest of the smug assholes who live in the Epistemic Bubble fellate each other while mumbling nonsense about Kenya, socialism and marxism.  Some of you republican assholes are even happy, gleeful even to deny Americans the opportunity to see a fucking doctor. The republican strategy is to sabotage ObamaCare which will kill Americans while conservatives cheer.

The worst part? Obama is governing like a moderate republican.  His signature piece of legislation? A republican plan snatched from the fascist far right Heritage Foundation. He killed OBL, kept the Abortion in Afghanistan going, increased drone war crimes started under the ChimpCo regime kept the Bush tax cuts for the rich and he loves Drones! The deficit is falling faster than any other time in the last 60 years and the Stock Market is through the roof. So what could be the problem? Oh, right. Republicans hate Negroes.

The good news? Ever day Faux loses another viewer. That is to say, another racist conservative bigot dies. The republican party becomes smaller and irrelevant everyday.  Enjoy the hate while it lasts, assholes because you can't disenfranchise enough black and brown people to ever win a national election again. You are a fringe, nationalist party like Europe's Neo-Nazi's or Apartheid Israels Likud party. You are a national embarrassment that is going extinct though not nearly fast enough but you are going. 

Good riddance to bad garbage.