Jawadewan Vinnie lambasts those "seditious bastards" at the New York Times who leaked the information about U.S. surveillance of terrorists, and then feign shock at the idea a U.S. President might actually order surveillance of an American citizen suspected of terrorism.

Vinnie, Vinnie, Vinnie. I think that's terrible what the President did, spying on those Americans without their knowledge. Why, he ought to be impeached.

Oh wait, he was impeached--although not for his decision to have military satellites scan the Elohim City (Oklahoma) white-suprematard compound right after the Murrah Building bombing in 1995. President Clinton's boys didn't get a warrant before they went a peepin', either.

I'm waiting for the gasps of outrage from folks like Chuck Hagel and Arlen Specter and the anti-Patriot Act crowd. And I'm dead certain the New York Times hacked up a gigantic hairball of screeching outrage over the Clinton administration's unwarranted use of spy satellites on Americans in America. I just can't seem to find it.

After all, for anyone who reads a Tom Clancy novel, the idea that the NSA will sniff at incoming calls and e-mails is nothing particularly new. But those spy satellites...wow. Brave New World ya got there, Bill.

It is fascinating to me that the actual thorughly researched f---ing news being broken here is delivered by the McCurtain Daily Gazette, out of Idabel. Oklahoma (and those of you from around Oklahoma will know that Idabel, God bless it, is not exactly Manhattan). Contrast that with the recycled and misleading product placement thrown up by the Old, Gray, Seditious Bastard Lady of 47th Street.

I'm off to Tashi Station to pick up some power converters for Christmas, so the bloggery will be light from me until aught-six. Y'all have a good one.

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