I guess that includes having a belief system straight from MSNBC...
Is that rose colored kool-aid flavored with butterfly farts your're drinking?

Great quote from another fucking socialist progressive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
How about these gems
“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
Philip K. Dick
"We are a strong nation. We cannot allow ourselves to be scared into suspending the Constitution. If we do that, we might as well call the terrorists and tell them that they have won."
Representative Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (2008)
"We are committed to protecting our Nation from terrorism while protecting our precious civil liberties, protecting the people and protecting the Constitution. We will continue to work with the Senate to produce a FISA bill that does both."
Nancy Pelosi
"In order to defeat the violent Islamist extremists who do not believe in human rights, we need not give up the civil liberties, constitutional rights and protections that generations of Americans fought to achieve. We do not need to create Big Brother. With the administration's attempts to erode FISA's legal standing as the exclusive means by which our government can conduct electronic surveillance of U.S. persons on U.S. soil, this is unfortunately the path the president is taking us down."
Richard A. Clarke

Try this, imagine Government officials and every one else who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the US, actually did so and that people voted on that basis rather than on soaring rhetoric, lies, and propaganda. Oh yea, and they actually had some experience and track record of doing so.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
-Benjamin Franklin

"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."
John Adams

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
-Patrick Henry

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."
-William Pitt

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
Patrick Henry

"How's that hopey, changey thing working out for you?"

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Benjamin Franklin

In other news, George Orwell's "1984" was published 64 years ago yesterday.

"The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

What tools are the Borg supposed to use then?


(Oh wait - Googleplex, nevermind...)

There, fixed that for ya...

I think there are enough knobs at Google already...Tools too!

A slip of a journalist's tongue can get you thrown in the gulag in many places in the world...

Not sure why you posted AC - I concur, it was a great site and it will be missed.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323735604578440981119902460.html
Our government is broken and dysfunctional. I wonder how bad it will get before it gets better?