Watch list not so exclusive a club any more

Terror watch list swells to more than 755,000 names

The government's terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list's effectiveness.
The size of the list, typically used to check people entering the country through land border crossings, airports and sea ports, has been growing by 200,000 names a year since 2004. Some lawmakers, security experts and civil rights advocates warn that it will become useless if it includes too many people.

Know what we should do? We should all do something to get on the list. If no one can fly, the airlines take the hit. They might as well watch everyone and keep a list of people not to watch. People would have to pay a huge application fee to get on it, and they could use that money to bail out the airlines. An innovative way to tax the rich.

But they would probably just make a sublist of people to really really watch, and let the others fly. But it'd make a great paperwork bomb, nonetheless. You like the idea of peaceful revolution? Well, there you go.

Be careful not to actually break the law to get on the list. Just start all your phone conversations with the words "Bomb, bomb, bomb" so the line tap switches on.

How about mauve?

Both parties plan green conventions

The interest in greening political conventions, from buying confetti made from recycled paper to purchasing carbon offsets to reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, shows the increasing relevance to both parties of appealing to voters mindful of global warming.

Oh, give me a BREAK. If you want to reduce hot air emissions, cancel the goddamned conventions altogether.

(Yes, I know, that joke is trite. C'est la mort.)

Stick with the red, white and blue, guys.

Purchase carbon offsets? Bwahahaha! The emissions are happening NOW. Offsets take years to have any impact.

The point here, always assuming global warming is indeed what is happening, is:

IT'S TOO LATE!

It's too late to stop global warming!

The effects of pollution have escalated past the point of no return. The polar caps are breaking up, people! It's over! What is this we've-got-five-years crap? Five years is NOTHING in the context of the life of the earth. The earth takes millions of years just to reach over and scratch its ass. It's about to. And the dead skin that flakes off will be YOU.

I suppose we might be able to maintain a holding pattern, if everyone cooperates really hard for the rest of eternity, which everyone won't.

Any of you who let this pathetic pandering to the politically correct affect your choice of candidates deserve exactly what you get.

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She finally gets it

Cindy Sheehan has resigned to spend more time with her family.

Wait...you mean she wasn't holding an office to resign from? Could've fooled me.

I'm not going to say everything that comes to my mind, because of my respect for her loss, a loss she has done much to disrespect. (Damn, I said I wasn't going to say stuff like that. This is difficult.)

The most telling point in her statement is this:

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried every since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful. Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

Now you get it! You finally understand. He died for nothing. They're all dying for nothing. You can't "make it meaningful" because the only meaning it has is that there is NOTHING worth dying for in this clusterfuck.

Partisanship means nothing. You found that out when you disaffiliated with the Democrats. It's too bad for you that you didn't know it going in. They used you. But you used them. So it goes.

And the anti-war movement means nothing, either. The war machine does control us. They control us because they have better guns. A movement is only as powerful as those who enforce its results.

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