X-Tra Rant

Well, the Democrats in the House finally caved and capitulated to an unpopular party pushing an unpopular bill - and expanded spying powers at the same time!!! Way to go! The “compromise” essentially gives telco companies retroactive immunity for helping the government spy on American citizens illegally as long as the President says it was legal. Nice “compromise”, jackasses.  Now our government can really start doing some Stasi style domestic spying. Weeeeeeeeee!!

The vote tally is here.  Looking at the tally:

• 105 Democrats have some explaining to do as to why it’s okay to take a big old dump on the constitution. There was an illegal domestic spying program on AMERICAN CITIZENS. You just gave amnesty to the companies who helped the executive branch engage in that. A majority of Americans are against that. Your party standardbearer for the Presidency is against that. Yet you 105 caved because you’re scared of what the big mean Republicans are going to say about you. Boo. Fucking. Hoo.
• 1 Republican apparently doesn’t want to burn the constitution. Good for you, Rep. Johnson (IL).
• 10 Republicans and 3 Democrats (including Visclosky(D-IN01)) didn’t bother to vote. That’s even more spineless.
• The Indiana delegation was a mixed bag. The Republicans of course voted yes. Fuck constituents’ rights. As mentioned, Visclosky didn’t bother to vote. Brad Ellsworth (IN-08) and Joe Donnelly (IN-02) are among the Spineless 105. Baron Hill (IN-09) voted ‘no’ despite being in one of the crackeriest cracker districts in the state so good for him. And Andre Carson (IN-07) passed his first major test (in my eyes) and voted no.

Congratulations AT&T. You just massively broke the law at the behest of our unpopular law breaking President and got away with it! Now lower my cell phone bill since you won’t need those lawyer fees.

Fuck I’m pissed.

Just saw this ad pop up on my Yahoo mail.

It’s animated and starts out saying “Feeling Fat?”

Now, 99.99% of my readers will know exactly what all is wrong with this. Fat? HER? If anything she’s scrawny. Not to mention the whole body image issues that come out of this.  Seriously, this ad sickens me. Weight loss is one thing - I could stand to lose a few pounds for health reasons. But ads that are targeted to take advantage of body issues, and specifically those of girls, just.. fuck. No words. Good job, Yahoo and Hoodia.