The White House has confirmed that President Obama will veto the controversial snooping bill CISPA.

According to Techdirt, Obama had previously threatened to veto the controversial bill, which has already passed the House and been amended, to take in some of his concerns.

However the White House has indicated that the amendments aren’t enough to save CISPA and he will veto it, setting fire to it and then dancing around his flaming waste paper basket while the fire alarms sound.

Sadly it does not mean an end to bizarre snooping laws entering US law. Obama is a big fan of the Lieberman cybersecurity bill in the Senate, which contains language similar to CISPA.

The Lieberman bill is not quite as nutty. CISPA allowed government and big corporations to spy on US citizens and share the information on the grounds that it was good for security.

The two laws share a provision that would give internet service providers and web companies preemptive legal immunity for sharing information about their users with the government without a warrant. 

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cognitivedissonance:

After tonight, I’m convinced.

WOW WHAT A FIGHTER 

“Underground”

Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.

ronpaulsucks:

When some in a crowd of anti-war activists meeting at Democrat National Committee HQ in June, 2005 suggested Israel was behind the 9-11 attacks, DNC Chair Howard Dean was quick to get behind the microphones and denounce them saying: “such statements are nothing but vile, anti-Semitic…

HOLY FUCK THIS POST IS LONG 

BUT SO GOOD 

stfuconservatives:

chuckasayexplained:

The job of President requires many different roles.

Don’t we value that in a president? The ability to be both a dove and a hawk when its appropriate?

-Joe

Actually, this guy got the exact opposite message to me across than intended. 

Obama is under a crapload of pressure right now. He has been doing a lot of different things to help our country, though, and that’s in addition to all the speeches, dinners, and visits he does. If Obama were to put on a different, brand-sparkling-new outfit for every event, meeting, and bill signing he did, he’d be able to donate those outfits to every impoverished person in America. 

So yeah, maybe he does have to try to make himself look good and glorious when he does something drastic like sending troops out somewhere. But wouldn’t any President do that? 

fsufeminist:

PERFECT.

REBLOG EVERY TIME

Can we keep him? Please? 

I love Obama because he’s not just a politician. He’s a leader. When he says stuff like this, it’s then that I appreciate that we have Obama as a President.