i wasn't drunk or high

it wasn't late. it was early evening. about 5 pm. i was driving home from my pop's house to my house. it's a mile. i wasn't falling asleep at the wheel. i THOUGHT i heard on the news (i'm guessing it was npr since that is what my car radio is usually tuned to. although weekdays between 3 and 6 if i'm in my car i may have colin mcenroe on). arlen specter was getting all up in about the patriots (i just spit I HATE the pats). wtf? shouldn't he be worrying about CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY? HEALTH CARE? THE ATROCITY THAT IS IRAQ? (and so very much more)? huh?
no wonder our effing country is falling apart from the inside out

well i wasn't having an auditory hallucination. it WAS real
Top senator demands 'spygate' answers from NFL
Nick Juliano
There may not have been any waterboarding shown on secret video tapes that the NFL destroyed, but that's not stopping a prominent GOP senator from demanding answers from the league.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, says plenty of questions remain about revelations the New England Patriots spied on the New York Jets earlier this season, secretly videotaping defensive coaches' signals to players during a game. The NFL confiscated the videotape, fined the team and its coach $750,000 and denied a first-round draft pick to the Patriots, who will play Sunday in the Super Bowl after an undefeated regular season. ..........

i'm confused (once again)

isn't one of the republican platforms, LESS government interference? LESS government period?

not only isn't there LESS government, there is an administration that has shredded our constitution. rights? WE DON'T HAVE OR NEED ANY STINKIN' RIGHTS!!! (or liberties or freedoms either)

NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort
Intelligence Chief Says Bush Authorized Secret Activities Under One Order


By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer

The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described.
The disclosure by Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, appears to be the first time that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005.
In a letter to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), McConnell wrote that the executive order following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks included "a number of . . . intelligence activities" and that a name routinely used by the administration -- the Terrorist Surveillance Program -- applied only to "one particular aspect of these activities, and nothing more."..........