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South Carolina tries to find a way to ban Gay/Student Alliances

GSA's are clubs usually found in high schools to promote awareness of gay students and their issues. South Carolina is desperate to figure out how to kill them without banning all clubs from campus.

Americans face a declining standard of living over the next 20 years

If this doesn't scare you, nothing shall. Soaring costs for everything are leading to a bunker mentality for most households, and consumerism is dropping to an all-time low. But the irreversibility of it is the really scary part. Dammit, where's my fusion-powered future? (via solarbird)

What the frack is John McCain on?

I've seen this quote in a thousand different places, so I'm just going discuss the original quote from John McCain:

We're now going to have the courts flooded with so-called "habeas corpus suits" against the government, whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material. Our first obligation is the safety and security of this nation and the men and women who defend it. This decision will harm our ability to do that.

Let me be the first to applaud the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling stating that wherever the United States exerts sole authority over people, the rule of US law is intact and not to be overridden by the rule of men.

But what the hell is McCain on? If "the courts are flooded," so the frack what? Isn't it his duty as someone seeking the office of president to see to it that the courts are funded, maintained, and operated in a manner consistent with the constitution? You know, that whole Amendment 6 thing, "Right to a speedy trial, confrontation of witnesses" thing.

So far, McCain has dissed the First Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, and Article I section 8. Can this man really swear to uphold the Constitution?

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[gromm.livejournal.com]

Re: Declining standard of living...

Does anyone else remember that line at the beginning of The Road Warrior: "They had built a house of cards"?

This should come as a surprise to noone.