I didn’t see ‘em, so they must’ve been there. *g*

No “noseeums” in the Boundary Waters…just carnivorous Black Flies.

Were ya thinkin’ of me with regard to retirement?

Citizen emptywheel and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Am I the only one out here who is worried that the corruption of the US Department of Justice and the USA’s is so deep and so thorough that the existing Obama DOJ doesn’t have the resources to handle it? In addition, the staffing of the executive is bein’ held up far beyond what the fascists did to Clinton in either term, which means that the new administration is forced to pick and choose which festering metastatic mass they are gunna start on. The corruption and hollowing out of the institutions of government is virtually complete and with regard to justice and the federal courts, Obama can’t even begin to investigate what has gone on over the last 8 years without bogging the entire government down in criminal investigations and procedings. And as a result of Rove’s poisoning of the USA office, Obama couldn’t just fire ‘em all and start over because then the precedent of the Bush actions gets cemented into history goin’ forward. What a fuckin’ mess!!

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, SOME OF THESE BASTARDS HAFTA GO TA JAIL!!

Thanks for the link.

Bob in AZ

He worries about those left behind, his de facto family. He’s out and they’re not, and that’s a source of guilt. Though the Obama administration has said it will close Guantanamo, hundreds of detainees remain there and at Bagram.

He asks a reporter to tell President Obama, the United Nations, someone, to help them. “People there are sick,” he says. “They should be treated. They should be freed.”