Pollywogs!

I wonder if its thick and juicy?

I wonder if it also contains a copy of the rant I emailed to the White House in the spring of 2001 about the follies of maintaining an army geared towards fighting a third world war against the USSR when the true dangers of the future were terrorists and rogue nations. I want a copy of it…I sent it about 2AM, I was pretty much foaming at the mouth by the time I was done. I’m sure writing hostile letters to the president gets you flagged.

What am I talking about? Oh, the usual…’King George’ breaking the law, violating (no, not violating, raping and shitting in the mouth of) the constitution.

(thanks go to thedailykos.com for the heads up)

This administration’s disdain for the Constitution really knows no bounds.

A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens.

The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities, but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts.

Isn’t it handy when all these things fall into place? Congress discontinues the program, but its activities can easily be carried on under the cover of classification at the NSA. And even more conveniently, this program just happens to have components that could aid in the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.

Tom Armour, the Genoa II program manager, declined to comment for this story. But in a previous interview, he said that ARDA — which absorbed the TIA programs — has pursued technologies that would be useful for analyzing large amounts of phone and e-mail traffic. “That’s, in fact, what the interest is,” Armour said.

How much longer is this Congress going to stand by to see its will subverted, its power eroded? How many more times can this administration thumb its nose at Congress before our legislators wake up to the fact that they are becoming increasingly irrelevant? With BushCo sycophants Frist and DeLay in charge (and make no mistake, DeLay is still in charge, even if just behind the scenes), it’s not going to happen any time soon.

So thats how it is…and now I hear that the government is going back through the National Archives and ‘reclassifying’ information as they see fit without telling anyone what or why. Ahh, yes, the sweet sound of history being re-written and covered up, so todays ‘facts’ turn out to have been true all along. Twenty-five years from now, we’ll all remember the Bad Old Days before Father Bush took the nation under his wing and Protected Us from ourselves and the Bad People in the world who were out to Harm Us, and the Glorious Rebirth of our nation in the years that followed into the new Kingdom of Christ and Cheney, where everyone loves Father Bush and sleeps safe as long as their smile is 100% honest…

On a lighter note, would you like to witness (after the fact) the evolution of a song? First, a brand new Pearl Jam song, they have a new album coming up soon (I’ve got NPJAA for sure), this is a little taste I guess :

http://www.musiccherry.com/archives/2006/01/gone_a_new_pear.htm

This was a day or two before the concert we went to, apparently Ed had written it in the hotel a day or two prior. Apparently Ed didn’t think it would make the album. I did get the original demo copy (from the hotel room) as this years Christmas single, but I haven’t dusted off the record player to listen to it yet. The other side of the single was ‘Little Sister’ with Robert Plant recorded late last year at a Katrina benifit. Coming full circle (as full as my circles go), you might remember that I saw the hillbilly in the redneck bar play ‘Last Kiss’ and ‘Little Sister’ back to back a couple days after the concert (probably better than PJ, tho maybe it was the alcohol…) if you read that paticular blog entry. BTW, did you hear the guy holler ‘You’re gonna die’ at Eddie at the end of the song? What a jerkoff…

http://www.musiccherry.com/archives/2005/11/pearl_jam_light.htm

This link has two copies of ‘Light Years’. A demo and the studio version. I don’t really care for the studio version…but I fucking adore the demo. Strange how amazingly far the song traveled from where it started to where it ended. I wonder what they said in their heads during the process where the answer they came up with was ‘lets scrap this and do it completley differently’.