[speechlesstx]

Not when its bubbling in my front yard for 6 months.

It was a yes or no question.

[talaniman]

What if it was bubbling up in your yard for 6 months?

[speechlesstx]

It was a yes or no question.

[speechlesstx]

Here you go, the best example of the Obama administration's commitment to transparency I've seen to date:

Most Transparent Administration in History Releases Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping

Page after page after page of this:

[tomder55]

Not when its bubbling in my front yard for 6 months.

Shale oil ,natual gas, and methane hydrate are the future of energy for the next century.. deal with it .

[speechlesstx]

It's come to this... Dana Milbank Obama, the guy that's argued for and grown the government Leviathan because this nanny is good and necessary can't be blamed for any of these scandals because... government's too big.

The media is helping. Obama isn’t a bad guy, he’s merely out of the loop, we’re told. He is “President Passerby,” as Dana Milbank calls him. And besides, as David Axlerod said this morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” government is just so vast that nobody can really know what’s going on (as one of my Twitter followers noted, why didn’t Bush think of that to explain Abu Ghraib away?)

Read more: The new narrative: Obama is 'President Passerby' | The Daily Caller

Let's see if I have this straight, Axelrod is resorting to the conservative argument against big government to let Obama off the hook?

[smoothy]

THose our our tax dollars at work... supplying Obamaphones to Africans in Africa.

[speechlesstx]

In calling the Ft Hood shooting a"workplace violence" the perp is still collecting his army salary, up to $278,000 so far.

Worse yet, it means the victims are not eligible for combat-related benefits.

The Army has not classified the wounds of the Ft. Hood victims as “combat related” and declines to label the shooting a “terrorist attack”,

The “combat related” designation is an important one, for without it Burnett and other shooting victims are not given combat-related pay, they are not eligible for Purple Heart retirement or medical benefits given to other soldiers wounded either at war or during the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon.

As a result, Burnett, his wife Torey, and the families of other Fort Hood victims miss out on thousands of dollars of potential benefits and pay every year.

To Burnett the shooting felt like combat.

“You take three rounds and lose five good friends and watch seven other people get killed in front of you. Do you have another term that we can classify that as?” asked Burnett.

The Army has categorized the shooting as a case of “workplace violence.”

“Sickens me. Absolutely sickens me. Workplace violence? I don't even know if I have the words to say,” said Burnett.

"They don't need to be treated like this. They don't need to sit and fight every day for this benefit or that,” said Torey Burnett.

As that fight continues, Burnett was stunned to see a letter detailing the more $278,000 Hasan has been paid since his arrest. NBC 5 Investigates received the letter from the Department of Defense in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

"There have been times when my wife and I cannot afford groceries. We cannot afford gas in our car,” Burnett said. “Literally, times where we ate Ramen noodles for weeks on end. This [that Hasan is still earning a paycheck] makes me sick to my stomach,” said Burnett.

Shameful.

[talaniman]

So are the sexual assaults in the military. We should fix that too.

[speechlesstx]

So are the sexual assaults in the military. We should fix that too.

So holler at your congressman about it.

[NeedKarma]

So holler at your congressman about it.

So you aren't interested in protecting women after all?

[talaniman]

So holler at your congressman about it.

I do, here is where you can start your own hollering,

Find Your Representative · House.gov

Emails and letters are better than hollering.

[speechlesstx]

Once again the media is surprised to learn the Pope is Catholic because he apparently believes the devil is real. Shocker.

[tomder55]

Well that's a 'duh ' . The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, shook, then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him.
For a second there I thought that they would say the young man stood up and did an Irish jig .

[speechlesstx]

Fact of the day, do with it what you will. The Obama administration has killed more Americans with drone strikes than foreigners were waterboarded under Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/us...d=tw-bna&_r=1&

[talaniman]

That no comparison. Mean nothing.

[paraclete]

Fact of the day, do with it what you will. The Obama administration has killed more Americans with drone strikes than foreigners were waterboarded under Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/us...d=tw-bna&_r=1&

Really, a nothing statistic, what does enemy combatant mean to you, someone to be shot at? Is America actually acknowledging drone strikes now? So much for plausible denieability. Don't you think Bush would have used the tool equally well?

The idea that torture should be used is abhorant.. The idea that cowards can sit in their castles thousands of miles away and rain death on whoever is abhorant

[speechlesstx]

If you haven't heard Anthony Weiner has tossed his hat in the ring for NYC mayor (hopefully it wasn't the only thing covering his weiner when he did), and kicked it off by reminding voters of - Pittsburgh.

Weiner's Pittsburgh Snafu: Campaign Website Shows Pittsburgh Skyline, Not NYC's

[excon]

Hello again, Steve:

I don't know.. People who think it's cool for Mark Sanford to come back, but not Anthony Wiener are hypocrites..

excon

[talaniman]

Vitter came back too, and no big deal?