I'll tell you how crooked Dick Cheney is.

Dick Cheney's so crooked that Nigerians don't scam him, HE SCAMS THE NIGERIANS.No lie. Nigerian prosecutors are looking to file charges against Dick Cheney for engaging in fraud and graft while he was CEO of Halliburton, on the grounds that the company spent $180 million to improperly influence government ( Read more... )

Apparently so, if these guys are to be believed.

I'm not so sure, myself - it seems plausible on the surface, but . . . it also has a distinct "mad-scientist" feel to it.

Apparently November 1 was a slow news day, if their biggest story was them poking fun at the Stewart/Colbert rallies.

I'm pretty sure that everyone who watches The Daily Show with Jon Stewart or The Colbert Report is aware that, yes, those shows are poking fun at traditional news shows (be they akin to the somewhat-left-of-neutral CNN, the  ( Read more... )

They're both serious about alternative energy.

How serious? Well, Carter put solar panels on the roof of the White House. (Ronald Reagan took them off again, but that's another story).

Barack Obama, however, is putting them back.

Yes, yes, I know - a single array is just a drop in the bucket. But it's a step in the right direction.

 . . . but - if this report on Flayrah is accurate - apparently you can be banned from attending said 'con if you exercise your right to open carry in Pennsylvania, even if you don't carry your weapon at the convention itself.

Never mind that the guy in question was proven to be operating within the law and that the officers who arrested him both ( Read more... )

You want to know why marriage equality and the repeal of crap like "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" are having such trouble?

It's because of idiots like this.

I mean, does anyone really believe that "just because [a state] allows gay marriage, children in schools [will be] "subjected" to lessons on how best to penetrate members of the same sex"?

Anyone sane, ( Read more... )

Well, if you're part of the Australian government . . . expect to be DDoS'ed, have pornographic faxes and emails sent to you, and to be repeatedly prank-called.

Yes, that's right. In response to the Australian government's proposed anti-porn and net censorship laws, activists have unleashed a wave of cyberattacks (dubbed "Operation Titstorm") in ( Read more... )

Jesus fucking CHRIST, this is idiotic.

Do you honestly think people are going to take your latest law seriously?
How many groups and/or people do you really think will register as "subversives"?

Do you even know what kind of a can of legal worms this law opens?

Unbefuckinglievable.

A military judge dismisses terrorism-related charges against a detainee in Guantanamo Bay, stating that the system set up by Bush to try the Guantanamo detainees "is a system of justice that does not comport with American values."Of course, the people prosecuting the case are going to appeal the decision, but they face an uphill battle (partly ( Read more... )