Saddam to sue Bush, Blair for destroying Iraq… (Washington Times)
Lawyers will love this … he certainly learned the American Way.
Enemy of the State – 2006
Posted on January 22, 2006 ·
The TV is running in the background, some movie started on ABC. An elderly congressmen and another overcoat are having a heated discussion at a lakeside:
“Telecommunications Security and Privacy Act! Invasion of privacy is more like it. You read the Post? “This bill is not the first step towards the surveillance society. It is the surveillance society. ”
– Liberal hysteria.
– Listen, I’m not gonna sit in Congress… and pass a law that lets the government point a camera and a microphone… at anything they damn well please.
– Phil. – [Grunts] Look, I don’t care who bangs who, what cabinet officers get stoned. But this is the richest, most powerful nation on earth, and therefore the most hated. And you and I know what the average citizen does not: That we are at war hours of every day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I have to itemize the number of American lives we’ve saved… in the past months alone with judicious use of surveillance intelligence?”
Hm, must be a very new movie, discussing the NSA’s extensive surveillance powers, recently enacted by President Bush. King George. But wait .. the Mercedes that two minutes later becomes the Congressman’s coffin is a really old model… it can’t be a new film – what is this?
It’s the 1998 movie, Enemy of the State. Wow. This is scary. Not the film itself. But the fact that a 1998 film so precisely fits our everyday politics today, in 2006.
Tags: Politics, Surveillance, Wiretapping, Privacy, Bush, King George
Say Goodbye To Good Ol’ U.S.A.
Posted on January 19, 2006 ·
Say hello to Greater Georgelandia. It’s power to the peephole. Yay! Mark Fiore. (Flash). SFGateOpinion
(Hey, I warned ya’all)
Update (1/19) : Patriot Search has been released…
- Google And The Feds? Use Patriot Search Instead
- Why, yes, this IS why we have a Patriot Act
- Don’t Look Now, But It’s Happening
- Feds want Google search records
Tags: Politics, Humor, Political Humor, Bush, Bushland, Georgelandia, Mark Fiore, Patriot Search
CNN Banned From Iran for Mind-reading
Posted on January 16, 2006 ·
Iran’s government banned CNN journalists from working in the country Monday after a translation error broadcast by CNN 
mistakenly quoted Iran’s president as saying his nation has the right to build nuclear weapons, the state-run news agency said.
In fact the President said that Iran had the right to nuclear energy, and that “a nation that has civilization does not need nuclear weapons.”
Apparently the interpreter working for a translation company hired by CNN misquoted him as having said Iran has the right to build nuclear weapons. He must have read his mind … interpreting his thoughts rather than his words 
CNN issued a correction and apologized; however, the Iranian government revoked the press cards issued to CNN journalists in Tehran.
Tags: Politics, CNN, Iran, Nuclear Weapons
Connecticut Apologizes for unleashing King George on us
Posted on January 12, 2006 ·
I doubt it’s real, but like it anyway 
hat tip: Mark Pincus
Tags: Bush, King George, King George Bush, Politics, Humor, Political Humor
What do the San Francisco Police and the British Royal Navy have in common?
Posted on December 11, 2005 ·
The talent to produce satirical / scandalous (pick one) videos.
Video scandal rocks S.F. police, says the Chronicle. Hm.. Most Politically Incorrectly, I tend to side with Patrick, in that a stupid little prank got blown way out of proportion. Nevertheless, the genie is out of the bottle, and now there is no turning back.
But wait… if these videos were scandalous, then what exactly is the British Royal Navy’s interpretation of Bohemian Rhapsody (by the Queen)? Produced on board the HMS Campbelltown while on patrol in the Indian Ocean:
If for some reason the embedded video does not play, watch it here.
Tags: SFPD, Navy, Royal Navy, Queen, Parody, Satire, Scandal, Police Video, Politics, Humor
The Scary Thing About Ads – Part 3
Posted on December 6, 2005 ·
Now matter how much ad-placement algorithms improve the inevitable mistake happens from time to time:
A story on news.com.au talks about how CIA prisons in Europe ‘closed’ and prisoners got relocated to somewhere in Afcrica in a rush prior to Secretary Rice’s visit to Europe. Check out the ad served up right of the article. Quite a gem.
Previously mentioned “gems”:
Scissors on Fligthts???? TSA Nonsense
Posted on December 2, 2005 ·
What exactly do air travelers need scissors for on a flight? The 9/11 hijackers used boxcutters … now we’re making it easier? The new TSA regulations are total nonsense.
Other bloggers on the subject: here, here, here and here… just to pick a few.
Update (12/02).
The Department of Homeland Security’s current list of most-confiscated objects from people getting on airplanes:
| Lighters | 8,124,525 |
| Sharp objects | 3,041,218 |
| Knives and blades | 1,650,894 |
| –Less than 3 inches | 1,599,103 |
| –3 inches or longer | 51,791 |
| Tools | 819,450 |
| Flammables/irritants | 362,613 |
| Ammunition and gunpowder | 21,939 |
| Box cutters | 19,499 |
| Clubs, bats and bludgeons | 19,183 |
hat tip: Paul Kedrosky.
3 million sharp objects + 1.6 million knives and blades … and now it’s OK to bring them on board? Insane.
Upate 2 (12/03) TSA Approves In-flight Party Favors
Tags: TSA, Airline Security, Airport Security, Homeland Security
Terminator Terminated
Posted on November 9, 2005 ·
I can’t possibly phrase it better than Dave did ….
Tags: Politics, Humor, California, Terminator, Schwarzenegger
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