Zaphod for President

With all this recent talk about FISA, you may wish to learn more about the grim history of government surveillance. Luckily, nationofcriminals.com has prepared an excellent article:
Many people, when confronted with outrage on the issue of government spying, immediately say something like “That’s nothing new, the government has been spying on citizens forever”. This marginalizes […]

Currently, more than 5,000 Obama supporters have joined a user group urging Barack Obama to vote against the current FISA bill, which still contains telecom immunity. This group is hosted on Obama’s own website, and can be joined in a matter of moments by clicking right here.
Obama’s “flip flop” on the FISA bill has […]

January 2009 - Washington D.C.,
Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. President Obama will coterminously serve as Head of State for the United States. Obama’s contemporary to the north will be Canada’s Governor-General Michaëlle Jean. A woman of color born in Haiti.
Unlike the United States, Canada’s […]

From Yahoo! News*:
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison.
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The victims testified that they were beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, and forced to climb stairs and take freezing […]

From TheHill.com:
Objections by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) will push back an overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) until after lawmakers return in July, Democratic leaders said Thursday. Feingold is strongly opposed to language that would likely give telephone companies that participated in warrantless surveillance retroactive immunity from lawsuits.
Kudos to Mr. Feingold, and a […]

I am still sore at Ron Paul for missing the recent FISA vote in the House of Representatives. Granted, his vote would not have made any difference, but for those of you familiar with the rEVOLution, that is hardly the point.
However, rest assured that Ron Paul had a good excuse for missing said vote: […]

I got dibs on Dot Change, Dot Wifi, Dot whatever….

I hereby recant my prior endorsement of Barack Obama.