Quote of the day

I disagree with Bush and Obama on all the stuff they agree on, which is pretty much everything. They both want to kill people, they both want the government to be bigger, and they both want less freedom for individuals.
-Penn Jillette

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Another comic that hits the mark

Nifty

Funny and sad

So true

Continuity of the Wrong Kind

"The Obama administration failed — miserably — the first test of its commitment to ditching the extravagant legal claims used by the Bush administration to try to impose blanket secrecy on anti-terrorism policies and avoid accountability for serial abuses of the law.

On Monday, a Justice Department lawyer dispatched by the new attorney general, Eric Holder, appeared before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. The case before them involves serious allegations of torture by five victims of President Bush’s extraordinary rendition program. The five were seized and transported to American facilities abroad or to countries known for torturing prisoners.

Incredibly, the federal lawyer advanced the same expansive state-secrets argument that was pressed by Mr. Bush’s lawyers to get a trial court to dismiss the case without any evidence being presented. It was as if last month’s inauguration had never occurred.

Voters have good reason to feel betrayed if they took Mr. Obama seriously on the campaign trail when he criticized the Bush administration’s tactic of stretching the state-secrets privilege to get lawsuits tossed out of court. Even judges on the panel seemed surprised by the administration’s decision to go forward instead of requesting a delay to reconsider the government’s position and, perhaps, file new briefs."

Obama disgraces himself again

Yet another bit of news to enrage and sadden those of us that voted for Obama, hoping for change, and praying that we would not be let down. He seemed so sincere!

Well it looks like we get more of the same Bush tactics when it comes to denying the world access to the truth. The Obama administration is not only allowing those that tortured under Bush to use the Nuremberg defense, but he has re-applied the state's secrets act to a lawsuit that threatens to expose the wrongdoings of the previous administration. This makes his campaign promise A BIG LIE.

Bravo, Obama! Thanks for failing us again...