Help your government! Make a phone call today!

Doesn't matter to whom or to where. Your assistance is required in aiding the National Security Agency compile the "largest data base in the world of every phone call ever made."

Although they are not necessarily recording your calls, it is strongly recommended that you trust the NSA with your deepest darkest secrets. Please don't feel threatened in any way, or consider using some 'code' to discuss personal matters you erroneously feel is none of the NSA's business as such behavior may bring you undesirable attention from men in suits wearing dark glasses.

Read all about it: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls

Also, praise the Lord! The NSA has finally gotten that childish Justice Department probe off its back:

The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. LINK

There! Don't you feel safe and secure knowing Big Daddy (who needs a Big Brother?) is watching?

Those of you who do may find this quote from Judgement at Nurenberg enlightening.

But this trial has shown that under the stress of a national crisis, men - even able and extraordinary men - can delude themselves into the commission of crimes and atrocities so vast and heinous as to stagger the imagination. No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget. The sterilization of men because of their political beliefs... The murder of children... How easily that can happen. There are those in our country today, too, who speak of the protection of the country. Of survival. The answer to that is: survival as what? A country isn't a rock. And it isn't an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult. Before the people of the world - let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what we stand for: justice, truth... and the value of a single human being.~Spencer Tracy as Chief Judge Dan Haywood in Judgement at Nurenberg

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At the risk of repeating myself let me end with:

What? No revolution yet?

Cheers,
Clemsy


QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

So, I’m saying today, I was wrong to have voted for George W. Bush. In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President in the history of the country. Worse than Grant. I also believe a case can be made that he’s the worst President, period. After five years of carefully watching George W. Bush I’ve reached the conclusion he’s either grossly incompetent, or a hand puppet for a gaggle of detached theorists with their own private view of how the world works. ~Doug McIntyre, right-wing radio host in LA


WOOPS! OF THE WEEK

SOME 200,000 guns the US sent to Iraqi security forces may have been smuggled to terrorists, it was feared yesterday.

The 99-tonne cache of AK47s was to have been secretly flown out from a US base in Bosnia. But the four planeloads of arms have vanished. LINK