So you give US civilian rights to someone who isn't a US citizen and has never been here?

Well, generally if you are to believe the U.S. Declaration of Independence rights are endowed by the Creator and not by the State or by citizenship. Likewise, the U.S. Constitution generally refers to the rights of people or persons, not citizens. So, generally it is people like the GP who founded the United States on the principle of human rights not U.S. civilian rights.

do you think if I donate him $5000 I can get out of paying my taxes?

Since the donations are for the Treasury, my guess is yes as long as your tax bill is less that $5000.
But it looks like my guess is wrong, it is probably handled like other gifts. An account for accepting gifts to the U.S. Treasury was established in 1843. So much for an email suggestion I guess.

The insightful mod is well deserved. U.S. Attorney Morrison has been with the DOJ for 17 years.

Sure, Obama was sworn in on January 20. AG Holder was confirmed on February 2.

Rather than political finger pointing, I find it more interesting that U.S. Attorney Morrison has been with the DOJ for 17 years. Sadly, this is probably more indicative of how the DOJ does business than who was in the White House the day the subpoena issued.

Only the calls with one of the ends outside America [mit.edu] were ever "spied" on.

And we'll just have to take the NSA's word on that I guess.

While the legality of the program limits how the information is used, everything I have read leads me to the conclusion that they have "wholesale" access to the information. The article you link to suggests that that is what the NSA wanted/asked for. The details that have leaked about how the system is constructed support the conclusion that they got what they asked for. You are just choosing the believe the Government's story on what they are doing.

Calling it "wholesale" isn't flamebait. From a technological perspective it sounds like an accurate description of the level of access they have.

For the sake of accuracy, I do not believe that criminal charges were ever filed against Bill Richardson. It would appear that a year long investigation did not provide enough evidence to get a grand jury to indict him. While there are political fingers pointing in both directions, I would think that if they had the evidence, they could have gotten an indictment before Obama even took office.

While I agree that the handling of the New Black Panther case looks political, it was a civil case not a criminal one.

The unfunded liabilities of universal health care will make Medicare part D look like pocket change.

Well, lucky for us there aren't any unfunded universal health care bills on the table. Perhaps you should inform yourself on what health care bills are currently under consideration.

Dude, what are you talking about? Who is "we"? Last I knew, Sony was a Japanese company. Is "we" referring to Japan?

I remembered this story from 2003 about the U.S. more or less outsourcing missile guidance systems to China. Given that we are letting the Chinese buy and relocate our manufacturing capacity there, and given the amount of computer products we ship there to be "recycled"; I have a hard time believing there are any significant trade restrictions with China. Perhaps you can supply some references? How does Lenovo manage to manufacture Thinkpads and PCs without a steady supply of Intel CPUs?

The story I recall regarding Playstation "supercomputers" involved them being imported into Iraq pre-invasion.

The earliest humans were, in fact, scavengers, were not contemporary with saber toothed tigers

I do not think that is correct. Smilodon went extinct only 10,000 years ago. I believe humans driving them to extinction is still one of the popular theories.

You might want to double check your copy of the Constitution. Congress clearly has the power to regulate interstate commerce. So, as long as your ads and products are crossing state lines, the federal government can regulate. Since television and radio transmissions tend to ignore state boundaries, they get regulated by the FCC.

Granted the commerce clause has been pushed to rather ridiculous limits, but corporations have had no small part in pushing it in that direction. They would much rather have one set of regulations to deal with than 50.

I was handed a piece of paper was it a post-it?

Ayers admits everything he was accused of.

That is far from true.

Ayers himself was the genuine article - the kind of terrorist who wanted to randomly murder innocent people

This for example.

Nice use of irony. Labeling a man who would attack his own government a terrorist, then suggesting the overthrow of the government. Troll+1