Blog of Billy

Finals are over! I just need grades to be posted, and my blood pressure and pulse rate can go back down to "dangerously high" from their current "absurdly high" level, and I can get the last of my paperwork in to be an official-like Sooner again.

As it turns out, our illustrious President is admitting that he is bypassing even the secret court that he set up to grant instant warrants for fabricated and tenuous reasons, and moving directly to wiretap and spy on whoever checks out the wrong library books. Bush says it's not illegal, but the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 seems to be pretty clear that some kind of secret court has to approve any electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens, specifically if they are accused of terrorism. The only exceptions allowed are if the Attorney General can certify that only foreign citizens are going to be searched. I always thought the Constitution made it rather obvious that searches and seizures could only be carried out with impartial magisterial approval. Do you really want to claim that a wiretap is not a search that the Fourth Amendment regulates? Good luck with that.

No wonder Bolivia is electing indigenous anti-US socialists. Wait...keep it up, Bush!

Target.com on being helpful with last minute Christmas shopping:

Ah, the Manson Family Movies: the gift that keeps on giving.

Think of all the things we put him through.
In the face of his God would he tell the truth?