http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...st_pe/us_patriot_act
Want to know why people in the US don't vote? Because nothing ever changes.
This doesn't surprise me at all. I tried to explain this sort of thing to the newly politically-charged people who honestly thought that Obama was "different" and would bring "change," but it fell on deaf ears.
Politics as usual.
But this upsets me less than the healthcare debacle. I knew that we'd never see social medicine on the scale that Obama promised during the election (far, far too many powerful lobbies and interests in the way... not to mention the hopelessly corrupt institution that is the US Congress,) but the level of ignorance displayed by people over the past months has been disgusting.
See this morass of idiocy as an example (and please don't think we're all like that, Europeans.)
So yeah, the Patriot Act. Politics as usual.
Though I will say this:
I'm very glad to have a President that can actually speak this time around.
I'm also proud to have a President that is willing to call Kanye West a "*******."
I thought this was funny.Originally posted by GoToAway:
See this morass of idiocy as an example (and please don't think we're all like that, Europeans.)
Until I realized that they were serious.![]()
I thought this was funny.Originally posted by ImMoreBetter:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by GoToAway:
See this morass of idiocy as an example (and please don't think we're all like that, Europeans.)
Until I realized that they were serious.</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
The tea parties, while good in theory, have been hijacked and turned into a platform of simple left bashing. The original point of them was to protest *all* government actions that were excessive, not just the ones from the left. That's why after the first one I went to, I got the hell out of there as fast as possible.
Originally posted by stalkervision:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Urufu_Shinjiro:
That whole damn act should be repealed and laws enacted to prevent a similar act from being passed ever again!
DAMN RIGHT!</div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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