Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[ice grillin you]

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/19/r_i_p_michael_hastings/

[Geowhizzer]

File this one under "The More Things Change..."

Bank of America whistle-blower's bombshell: "We were told to lie"

[Rome]

Too big to fail my royal Irish ass.  Nuke 'em all.

[Diomedes]

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/19/fbi-uses-drones-in-u-s-says-mueller/?hpt=hp_t2

"No big deal, I assumed they used them anyway," said most Americans.


If the press didn't find this shtein out; if leakers and whistleblowers didn't talk...do you think they'd ever admit to using drones?  If they could keep it secret, they would, right?  So why would anyone ever believe anything they are telling us?

[Rome]

You understand the government has spy satellites with optics so advanced they can show the hair on a mole on your ass, right?

Everyone knows this, Dio.   

And before you say it, yes, it's disturbing.  There's also nothing (repeat NOTHING) any of us can do about it.

[ice grillin you]

so why would anyone ever believe anything they are telling us?

they wouldnt and they dont

[Rome]

Overheard 10,000 years ago...


How can you tell when a politician is lying?

When he speaks.

[Geowhizzer]

farging Mesopotamians.

[Eagaholic]

yeah, their officials would babylon forever but the mesopotamians saudi lies

[General_Failure]

MOSCOW (AP) — Law enforcement agents forcibly evicted the head of one of Russia's leading human rights groups and about a half dozen others from his Moscow office early Saturday, in the latest attack on a Russian non-governmental organization.

Lev Ponomaryov, 72, who heads For Human Rights, said he was beaten all over his body when security forces stormed the building at around 2 a.m. and dragged him out. Dozens of riot police had raided the office on Friday and ordered employees to leave, but they had refused.

[SD]

Zimmerman defense opening statement complete with a knock knock joke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WpQSJVgKn8k

[phattymatty]

ugh. i couldn't even make it to the joke. that's def. the kind of first impression you want to make on a jury. gonna be a rough one for georgie.

[phattymatty]

supreme court struck down the voting rights act today. so that''s swell.

[Diomedes]

Watch now as all of those states jump to institute ID requirements and other poll taxes. 

[Eagles_Legendz]

I'm left leaning but section 4 of the VRA as applied is unconstitutional - I agree with the majority unfortunately.  The sad thing is I think the law does a lot of good, I just wish they expanded it to cover all of the other racially discriminatory practices in Ohio and the like.  If they did, the law wouldn't have been gutted today.  Unfortunately there's no evidence in 2013 that the areas covered by it are any more discriminatory than other areas without the VRA, which is what the problem is.