Sad Day For Americans

My cat wouldn't get out of the bathtub, so I thought I'd try turning on the water to solve the problem. Here's the result.

My new house will have one of these...
http://youtu.be/q7mXLqIJXHs


American public to Congress: Get out. All of you.
Exactly 220 years to the date after the Bill of Rights was ratified, the US Senate today voted 86 to 13 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, allowing the indefinite detention and torture of Americans. 


Obama Breaks Promise To Veto Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans --"Obama has destroyed the civil liberties movement in the United States . . ." 

THis was a 'suggested view' from YouTube. Not disappointed.


"NO more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. NO more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. NO more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war or ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is NOT who we are." 
- Senator Obama 

Obama to sign first indefinite detention bill since the McCarthy era into law 


An Open Letter to Washington from the founders of Wikipedia, Craigslist, Mozilla Firefox, YouTube, and many more (actual letter, not just a blog about it).

TIL (This Is Legit) The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent. 


Pretending That Ron Paul Doesn't Matter Won't Make Him Go Away -- "Ironically, by ignoring Paul so transparently and absurdly, the conservative movement is behaving a lot like the one institution it hates more than any other -- the establishment media."

Abandoned Foreclosure House Has An Occupant

Ron Paul is the real threat to Obama in 2012

A guy I know hit a rock in his field and kept digging...



Paul slams Gingrich for lack of military service - "[Gingrich] supports all of the wars in the Middle East, a thousand times more than I would, but you know in the 1960s when I was drafted in the military he got several deferments. He chose not to go. Now he will send our kids to war."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_PRZCWoalr4#!

R.I.P. USA! 1791 - 2011: Indefinite detention bill passes in Senate.

Meanwhile in Russia

How Ron Paul could give the GOP a heart attack: Sean Hannity and his fellow Republican elites are realizing they might have their own Jesse Jackson problem

Meanwhile Nothing Stops Bus 62

16 years old and still chases down rabbits. 


Music.