Every morning the Grey Lady emails me their top headlines, and almost invariably every morning I get from that same email a reminder that we are ruled by an insane clown posse that, while feasting on the plunder from our national treasury, is gleefully driving our creaky old school bus of a republic off a steep cliff.
Today's insanity.Lawmakers Set Deal on Raising Fuel Efficiency. 35 mpg by
2020.
Do I actually have to comment here? Ok, I'll state the obvious. This is total bullshit. We need 35 by 2010 and 70 by 2020. In fact we need to restructure our society so that it is not completely dependent on individual automobiles run on oil.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/washington/01energy.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=sloginWitness Names to Be Withheld From Detainee.
Defense lawyers preparing for the war crimes trial of a 21-year-old Guantánamo detainee have been ordered by a military judge not to tell their client — or anyone else — the identity of witnesses against him, newly released documents show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/us/nationalspecial3/01gitmo.html?th&emc=thNow I realize that most of us slept through Civics class, if in fact we had a Civics class. So for those who don't quite recall:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense. That is commonly known as the sixth amendment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/us/nationalspecial3/01gitmo.html?th&emc=thBut wait, we are not done yet!
Wall St. Sees Silver Lining in Economy
As Wall Street rallied this week, it seemed that investors were taking comfort in the notion that the economy had become so imperiled by the crumbling housing market that it was forcing the government to finally mount an aggressive rescue effort.
Yes indeed, the same folks who brought you the S&L bailout are gearing up for another
massive raid on the treasury for their own benefit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/business/01econ.html?th&emc=thAin't life grand?