I protest.

Outrage overload.

Maybe I should have an "all of the above" category. Today it is difficult for me to write simply because there is so incredibly much to be angry about.

First off, there's the takeover of the media by the big media conglomerates (link added). The FCC is considering rescinding regulations that limit the number of radio and television stations a particular company can own in any single market. This would have the effect of having virtually all mass media be in the hands of a few very large corporations. Fox News on an even more massive scale.

Second, the idiot-in-chief carefully not claiming "victory" in Iraq, since "victory" would mean that we would actually have to follow the Geneva conventions as the victor and occupier of the defeated nation. Which means we would have to release the POWs, for one thing. Can't have that, can we. Meanwhile, the so-called "liberal" media slobberingly report every minute detail of said idiot's landing on the aircraft carrier. Here's a picture of the moron, busy acting the idiot he is. If you look closely, you can see the strings.

Next is the suppression of a report of the failures leading up to the 9/11 attacks. They even want to reclassify parts that are already public knowledge! This is insane.

As if those weren't enough, there's the US Department of State Terrorism Report (via Beautiful Horizons and CalPundit). The report itself isn't so bad, it's that it will almost certainly be used to make the Administration "look good" by carefully reporting certain parts but not others. Yeah, terrorism dropped. No, it didn't drop in the Middle East, virtually all of the drop was in Colombia. Terrorist attacks in Asia increased. And attacks in the United States stayed at the usual level of zero.

Then there's the segregated prom in Georgia. Lots of bloggers are picking this one up, as well they should. This is truly a giant leap backwards. Of course it's Georgia.

Plus this story, about the end of the Fourth Amendment. How would you like to be having a nice Indian dinner with a friend and suddenly have a gun shoved in your face by these — these — fascists.

Oh, yeah, and today isn't International Labor Day, it's Loyalty Day. Time to go fly a flag upside down, I think. Or burn one. I'll be loyal to that damned bastard just as soon as he starts actually upholding his oath of office. The one that he as obviously conveniently forgotten about.

And on top of everything else, the economy sucks hot rocks, and is only getting worse. I have been out of work for over three months, now. Hopefully something will appear soon. Fortunately, finances aren't a problem at the moment. Others aren't so lucky. You know what the solution is, though, don't you? Yes, tax cuts for the rich!

Fuck George W. Bush and the horse he rode in on. It's just too bad that the pilot of that plane today didn't have a sudden attack of overwhelming patriotism and crash the thing into the sea.

But that would be wrong, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it?