i've seen this movie before

[solarbird]

This is stupid: Federal rules are now so interventionist that the Seahawks can't have Metro shuttles anymore - they're required to pay over three times as much to a private company instead if they want the service.

Meanwhile, a variety of Hersey's products no longer meet the definition of "Chocolate" in any form. Labels have been changed subtly to match.

Over here, a national automatic vehicle tracking system is being shopped to Homeland Security.

And finally, The New York Times is giving positive commentary to an Alan Dershowitz book proposing to reform torture - not eliminate torture, "reform" it - by creating torture warrants.

Welcome to Brazil.

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[elfs.livejournal.com]

Here's one to make you see blinding, white-hot rage: White House Deputy Tony Fratto let drop this detail (http://www.rollcall.com/news/28599-1.html?type=printer_friendly): "The [bailout] plan was not slapped together and had been drawn up as a contingency over previous months and weeks by administration officials. He acknowledged lawmakers were getting only days to peruse it, but he said this should be enough."

Enjoy the taste of bile. Now in a can!

[solarbird]

Elevated.

[solarbird]

I ran out of rage after FISA. I thought I'd run out after torture, but really, it took FISA, just because that demonstrated that there wasn't actual opposition.

[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

In "Brazil" they had effective public transportation.

[solarbird]

Good point well made. Out of glass bricks!

[maellenkleth]

RCMP/ICBC/Translink are building just such a surveillance network in the Next Big City to the north of you (obfuscated because of Google). Just be aware that that project did notgo away when its existence was first leaked. They say it is to assess the feasibility of congestion charges in the Translink catchment area.....

Enough to make a person want to take up walking, again. :P

[kensaro.livejournal.com]

Fucking A on the chocolate thing, as far as I was concerned Hershey's didn't make chocolate in the first place, not by my standards at least.
I believe over here you can't use Anything but cocoa butter if you want to call it chocolate, no veg fats at all.

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

yeah I was going to say, hershey's stuff never met my definition of chocolate. (even compared to the cheap UK brands like cadbury's, which also isn't proper chocolate).

[solarbird]

I don't eat it either; I was just flashing on the ice-cream-scoop lumps of food product with photos by them of the food they're supposed to represent in the movie.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

Jesus, Dershowitz knows nothing about torture and interrogation at all. What an asshole. It's monstrous; he's monstrous. He does this shit just for publicity.

[flirtaciousj.livejournal.com]

I'm with them on Hershey's. But I share your outrage over the shuttles. The 'Skins lost their shuttles as well, and now I get to hoof it about a mile to and from the station from the Metro. Bastards.