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Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case
palegray.net is one of many who writes "President Obama has publicly sided with the Bush administration on the question of whether the President should be allowed to establish warrantless wiretapping programs designed to monitor US citizens. The President has asked a federal judge to stay a ruling that would allow key evidence into the domestic spying case against the government. 'Thursday's filing by the Obama administration marked the first time it officially lodged a court document in the lawsuit asking the courts to rule on the constitutionality of the Bush administration's warrantless-eavesdropping program.'" jamie points out that Obama's views and opinions were made clear through his Senate vote and numerous public statements, but many others see this as a disappointing start to an administration promising transparency and openness.
Finally, change we can believe in!
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. - Winston Churchill
..Oh bummer =(
"Don't be evil*"
*for small values of "evil"
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Warrantless wiretaps are good now. You see, they weren't good before. But they are good now.
Anyone who can't see that is a racist reactionary.
Le Roi est mort. Vive le Roi!
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato
Oh come on, it took an entire 3 days for him to officially step on that promise, I think he's doing better than bush already!
Bush might not have always been wrong.
You take that back. YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW1!!!1!
Clearly you've not had a Dog who has eaten all the Candy Canes on a Christmas Tree.
Would you please stop getting your common sense in everybody's Kool-Aid? This is slashdot, after all.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Yeah, sorry. Bad habit of mine.
It's like a choose you own adventure post
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oh you pay for it. and if you don't go to the doctor much, you probably pay more for it than you would if it was private.
Exactly why we shouldn't allow this sort of thing in America! For that matter, when did my taxes start subsidizing wasteful government spending on things like fire departments and the army? My house is not on fire or being invaded by a foreign country, so why should I have to pay for those things?
Obviously what we should do instead is set up multiple competing private institutions with the goal of making a profit through distributing the costs of those services across arbitrary subsets of the population while also artificially inflating those costs...duh!
It's a personal choice, and people like to sugar coat the truth or say "it's not your fault," but if you're obese, its YOUR fault and YOU need to get your diet under control.
These are the same people that probably sugar coat the truth and then eat it.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. - Nietzche
The only thing that could make this post better would be a flow chart.
Sic Semper MicroSoft
search /. and look for all the posts I've read from Canadians bitching just about how much they pay in taxes.
Doesn't everyone bitch about taxes? I thought that was the universal principle that unites all of humanity.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Just make sure it's not that peppermint-flavored dog poop.
Dog poo does not yet smell like peppermint.
Give the guy a few days on the job at least! I have it on high authority that the executive order on peppermint dog poo is, erm, in the pipes.
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