Government can work at superluminal velocity when it's something the owners want..

[Fumesucker]

Anybody remember the PATRIOT act?

Signed into law October 26, 2001

How about TARP?

Proposed on Sept 19, 2008, enacted Oct 3, 2008

Was there interminable months of utter bullshit involved with either of those clusterfucks?

These fuckers can move so fast they emit Cherenkov radiation if it's something the movers and shakers want.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Money opens many doors n/t

[glitch]

2. K & R for the brilliantly obvious. nt

[Electric Monk]

5. +1

[troubledamerican]

3. Congress can also ignore anything, even Anthrax Attacks on its own (Democratic) members

[Greyhound]

4. Which leads to the question, "is there any bullshit that is so far fetched the

American sheeple won't buy it"? How many times must we be "trickled on" before we figure out that they are pissing on us as they steal our wallet?

It's getting so that you can barely tell DU from a Republik board.

[Nihil]

6. The answer appears to be "No". (n/t)

:shrug:

[Hydra]

7. I keep waiting for it

But the bar keeps getting lower and lower.

Pretty soon, they'll just be saying: "The banks want you to subsidize them. Pay up or we'll shoot you."

Oh, wait...

[gratuitous]

8. The Terri Schiavo meddling?

Hell, they even yanked Stupidhead back from one of his interminable vacations early so he could autograph that turd of a bill.