I've long been amused, particularly at the level of acrimony between the followers of the 2 major cults...er, political parties. When I say "amused," I mean it in a kind of
"you have to find the irony in this, or you'll cry" kind of way.
I'm not the brightest light bulb in the pack, but I've long understood that the only real differences between the republicrats and the demonrats is who they want your hard-earned money to go to once they steal it. The former want to keep it for themselves and their rich, azzhole buddies; while the latter want to give it to people who don't want to work for a living.
Other than that, there's no real difference between the 2 major cults of power. For a while, I used to go around saying that the vote came down to a choice between socialism or totalitarianism, but I'm not so sure that the line is all that distinct.
Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security
By Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, December 1, 2008; A01
The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.
The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.
There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.
But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.