lifeandliberty.gov (and its siamese-twin-like sister sites, patriotact.gov and protectamericaact.gov) has been banished to the purgatory that is the DOJ archives.
good-bye, patriot act cheerleaders. we’ll miss your crazy enthusiasm for some horrible legislature.
Want free marijuana and cocaine? Want to get off scot free even when you get caught? The answer is easy, my friends: become a police officer.
Huzzah for the double-standard!
Bus firm takes car sharers to court
Instead a group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of “an act of unfair and parasitical competition”.
Buh. Juh. Wha. Huh?
It’s like someone in France said “You know what? There are a lot of stupid and frivolous lawsuits going on in America. We must find a way to top them all.”
And to you, monsieur or madame French-person, I tip my hat.
Some people seemed concerned that the South is getting more military than the rest of the country.
“Virginia and Texas have bigger militaries that just about anybody on the planet,” says John Pike, a defense analyst at GlobalSecurity.org. With this realignment, he adds, “It’s accentuated.”
Ah, the government gets involved again
When new STDs were first noticed about 20-30 years ago, many people believed that they could be fully controlled if everyone used a condom correctly every time they had sex. It made good sense. Just cover up any area that might be infected or might become infected.
So, basically, before 1975, people had no idea how gonorrhea, syphillis, and the like were transmitted.
Brilliant.
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