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Thursday, March 02, 2006

 

Hopelessness

"People don't need to worry about security. This deal wouldn't go forward if we were concerned about the security for the United States of America." —George W. Bush, on the deal to hand over U.S. port security to a company operated by the United Arab Emirates, Washington, D.C., Feb. 23, 2006

And I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company." —George W. Bush,


U.S. OUTSOURCES HOMELAND SECURITY TO NORTH KOREA

Little-known Korean Firm ‘Seems Okay,’ Says Chertoff
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff raised eyebrows today by announcing that the United States would outsource all of its homeland security operations to a little-known North Korean firm called Jim KongIl, Inc.

“When is the last time anyone has been seen crossing any North Korean border?” spoke up President Bush.



Democrats Vow Not To Give Up Hopelessness

February 27, 2006
WASHINGTON, DC—In a press conference on the steps of the Capitol Monday, Congressional Democrats announced that, despite the scandals plaguing the Republican Party and widespread calls for change in Washington, their party will remain true to its hopeless direction.





Read the rest here.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/45793

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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

"so this how liberty ends. with thunderous applause."
Padme Skywalker, Star Wars Episode 3

"All men having power ought to be mistrusted."
James Madison

"The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive."
Judge Antonin Scalia

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
Thomas Jefferson


"To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, it is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people."
Theodore Roosevelt
 
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