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The White House Reponse to the “Pardon Snowden” petition is going to be interesting.

NSA Boundless Informant tool at the Guardian.
NSA flashback: remember the phone sex huddles?

Want to apply for his old job?

27 quotes.

Alan Dershowitz calls Greenwald and everyone else a Liar.

Your government at work: Â Why are the Prism Powerpoint Slides so damned ugly?

Interesting WE Jackson attack line.

Turkey’s Revolution Graffiti.

Chamber of Commerce rails against Seattle’s Capitol Hill district.

Students suspended for Nerf Guns.

Grand Jury rejects indictment of teen arrested for his violent rap lyrics.

Miss World nixes bikini competition due to Muslim protests.

Snopes again: Â Obama: not facing Impeachment.

“No, there isn’t a GOP civil war.”

New tools in the war against cockroaches.

Is social media to blame for rise of vandalism?

The Bible: Less sex in it than you think.

Just to rebuff any and all “Republicans making hay on the Obama hypocrisy in civil liberties” line: Â Lindsey Graham is a’okay with it.
Sorry, fellow Democrats and Obama supporters of whatever vintage: Republican hypocrisy cover can’t be a standby.
And here’s a trio of links on it, starting with Glen Greenwald and going on from there.
Obama proves his transparency, releases nation’s phone records to public.

Summer Vacation: debating the merits.

Dickwad Valedictorian gives Lords Prayer instead of valedictorian speech at his South Carolina high school. Â I suppose it’s more entertaining than the dronelike quality of these speeches. Â Mostly I’d just be happy at graduation that I can now leave such a place.

Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor candidateÂ EW Jackson gets the National Review treatment, which can’t help but point out that he’s insane.

Iraq: Â Civil War a’happening.

The New Jersey Gubernatorial Primary is Tuesday, and here’s Chris Christie’s primary challenger.
Chris Christie, predictably enough, was once against the special elections he has now gone forth with.

Vermont’s Secession Movement gets a book about it, reviewed by (who else) The American Conservative.

Former Drone Operator says he’s haunted by his drone work.

At the beginning of the 20th century, 20 percent of the Mid East were Christians. Â Now it’s five percent.

Looking at the design of various conspiratorial nutcase sites. Â It is a distinctive look.

Â Arizona Governor Jan Brewer moves left, accepts Obama’s healthcare measures, opposes religious right bullying of gays.

Wall Street Journal blasts NYC Totalitarians’ Â privatizedÂ bike sharing program.

John Oliver on his upcoming guest stint for the Daily Show.

Legal analysis of the conclusion to that damned Batman movie.

Bush demanded accountability on Plame, supposedly.

Former Scientoloyg on the new Will Smith movie.

What was Will Smith thinking?

PopÂ culture exports to be added to gdp figuring for the government.

How to deal with Information Overload, as pegged through history.

This years’ bilderberg guest list.

Pacers Roy Hibbert makes anti gay slur in press conference, inevitably sends tweet to Jason Collins, My thought: “Yeah. Â He’ll get that for all NBA gay related issues.” Â I’d come to hate that.

Â Watch the Turkish elections.

How Chinese Censorship works: Â say you hate the government all you want; just don’t say you will do anything about it.

On having a wikipedia page.

Mythical Irish land of Hy Brasil.

The Republican Study Group that overthrew Ford’s control and how it rules in 2013.

The “Nothing to Hide” ARRRGH! comment lobbed from the LA sheriff to Justin Bieber.

Putin has nothing against Mansanto. Â That’d just be weird.

An Oysters related comic book.

Girls names — Emma vs Sophia, red vs Blue.

Oregon Man tries to blow up misspelled sign.

Local News photos of people with their arms crossed.

History of Premarture Prophets.
78,000 want in on a one-way ticket to Mars.

Toronto mayorÂ Rob Ford protester pictures. Â (No sign saying “Crack is Whack”?)

JC Penny now selling HitlerÂ Tea Kettles.

Justin Bieber used in billboard against a minimum wage raise.

I find this Rasputin versus Stalin thing amusing.

Where was OBAMA on the night of Benghazi?: Â Having hot gay sex while on cocaine?. Â Huh.

Obama’s new crappyÂ Consumer ProductÂ Safety Commission pick.

Nova Scotia has not banned Mansanto’s cucumbers.

ThoseÂ Tea Party groups reaching for IRS tax exemptions.

The Health Care Plan and what states aren’t much to implement it.

Constitution Party Submits Wyoming Referendum Signatures on Public Education matters. Â Sounds dreadful.

al qaeda’s office politics.

Heat unprepared for Pacers grueling defense; chainsaws.

Snide remarks ofÂ Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo of Kansas on the Gitmo Hunger Strikes.

Larry King’s signed up with Russia Today. Â Why? Â Well, he did suggest some admiration for Putin.

on Soviet era advertising.

“I am Governor Jerry Brown“… a positive review of Brown, but I’m sorry, I can’t read anything about him without the Dead Kennedys song playing in my head.

Wikipedia’s war on Paganism.

Tom the Dancing Bug and the Nixonian Presidency of Barack Obama.

Donald Trump hearts newsmax.

John McCain versus Mike Lee.

Another day, another old Republican comes out hating his party and lobbing a bit of equivalence to Obama. Â Bob Dole.
And John Warner doesn’t like his state’s Gubernatorial Ticket.

In defense of Lois Lerner. Â Because, really, a hostile Congress that takes anything and everything out of context for partisan gainskeeping is not the place to get to the bottom of things.

Russian media Moscow Times: Â “Despite Cheap Wigs, The CIA are big spenders“. Â ooo… burn.

John Kennedy loved the Nazis.

Alex Jones drifts into a homosexual mocking in response to Rachel Maddow’s attack on him.

Mitch McConnell calls out Obama’s Culture of Intimidation… or is that Maine’s governor LePaige’s?

a book about NORML. Â Sounds interesting.

FLUORIDE!!!

3 possible solutions to corporate tax avoidance.

Teenagers migrating from facebook to twitter for a few really sound, good reasons.

A conservative commitsÂ Suicide in the face of gay marriage passing.

The highestÂ Sam Sex Couples Raising kidÂ Â rate: Â Salt Lake. Â Actually this makes a bit of sense.

So. Â What was the Fox News reporter James Rosen, the Fox News reporter in the only real Obama scandal, reporting?
… interestingly, the guy’s a Nixon Apologist.
Neither of which excuses Obama, by the way.

ACLU sues FBI on Antiwar.com’s behalf.

Blah blah blah… Alex Jones… blah blah blah… Oklahoma Tornado… blah blah blah… Gummint created it… blah blah blah.
What say Westboro Baptist? Â Basketball…

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
… gets the Jon Stewart treatment.

“Thank the Lord” “I’m an Atheist”. Â Oklahoma Tornado report.
Atheist Lawmaker in Arizona quotes Carl Sagan for opening prayer.

Reports of a Vortex to Another Universe in UK. Â City council uninterested in investigating further.

Ai Weiwei’s new video.

Back to the Future stretching to make a point.

Kentucky Democrats eyeing who for their Senate candidate?

Secret Service looking into right wing radio host’s graphic violent rhetoric on Hillary Clinton.

Yes, Dodd Frank did some stuff.

The American Conservative asks: Why’d the party just nominate this guy for Lietenant Governor?
Interesting ad history for this guy.

Nation Supposes it’s outraged by White House Scandals, it guesses.

The one scandal that actually matters.
More here.

Charting the “uhs” and “ums” at the Supreme Court.

British Independence Party cares about the Bilderbergs.

FAIR on Jonathan Kyl… the new Judy Miller, you can say.

an ooze in China. Â Interesting to look at.

Chuck Grassley tweets US had “no foreign policy” in 1939, and that we’re on the verge of another Hitler. Â Also our political figures should not be on twitter.

Jeff Merkley proposes Mananto Protection Act Repeal.

Noam Chomsky says Obama would have started a Nuclear War to Kill Bin Laden.Â (Hyperbole to make a point or — ?)

The Private Schools now getting public money thanks to Bobby Jindal in Louisiana.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Spreads his money with Fridge Magnets after abandoning town hallÂ .

Journalist scandal: Â Jonathan Karl and his Benghazi fabrication.

Rob Ford versus Joe Quimby: Â Who said what ?

Libertarian Wrestler Kane might contest Lamar Alexandar in Tennessee.

Georgia police slow to react to mob violence at Gay Rights MarchÂ . Â At least its the other Georgia.

George Takei responds to traditional marriage advocate sign holders, which appears to be the hot new trend of political promotion.

The one thing about the Printable Gun: Â it’s pretty hard to do.

Monkey versus Puppy.

1955 “no go” map for tourists to USÂ from the Soviet Union.

Cold War hit its hottest point in 1983.

Meet Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Candidate for the Republicans…Â Â E. W. Jackson. Â Who’ll be referencing the KKK a bunch.

Into the various portholes of the Internet Archives.

British student studying abroad in America lays out what’s good and badÂ about it.

Parsing whether Joe Kennedy was an anti-semtite or not.

Partisan Politics in the age of twitter… Eric Cantor and the WHite House feeds and this is just a stupid age we live in.

100 Pages of Benghazi Notes. Â Not going to read any of them.

North Carolina seeks to ban the Electronic Car. Â

Religious shit being blown up the world over to make way for Commercial crap.

Science Fiction Economies.

Obama has not threatened 14 governors.

Cicero never said this.

Binky finds a skull while getting ice cream.

Great Britain moving to the Brezhnev Stage.

Stalin versus Rasputin Rap Battle.

Portland Scientologists photoshop the crowd.

Mansanto wins against Indiana Farmer.

Â Utah Congress critter murmurs Impeachment.

Daily kos making fun of Portland’s Fluoride debate.

The TriMet Barber getting creepier and — yeah, he’s banned from the bus now.

The latest from Free State New Hampshire.

Buchanan and Hitchens agree on Clinton. Â Kind of where they met up in their ideological journeying. Â Years later Hitchens would slip into neo-conservative war mongering and Buchanan would stand pat at neo-isolationism.

Good Luck in battling this regime.