Gonzales received another report of an NSL-related violation a few weeks later. “A national security letter . . . contained an incorrect phone number” that resulted in agents collecting phone information that “belonged to a different U.S. person” than the suspect under investigation, stated a letter copied to the attorney general on May 6, 2005.

At least two other reports of NSL-related violations were sent to Gonzales, according to the new documents. In letters copied to him on Dec. 11, 2006, and Feb. 26, 2007, the FBI reported to the oversight board that agents had requested and obtained phone data on the wrong people.

In an effort to lash out at the world for the grinding horror of their sad meaningless jobs, flight attendants have taken to using sadistic paranoid hatred as a weapon against their helpless captives.

One passenger on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City was arrested for leaving his seat to go to the lavatory less than 30 minutes before landing (due to the incident, air marshals ordered all passengers to put their hands on their heads for the rest of the flight).

Seventy to 90 percent of the Iraq detentions in 2003 were “mistakes,” U.S. officers once told the international Red Cross.

“God is the one who chooses our rulers.”
- Katherine Harris, Our Founder

Update:
Not content with appointing herself God in her role in appointing our Commander Guy, Harris wants everyone to know that she still has an enormous set of hats. So watch out.

Also: Longboat Key Kiwanis Citizen Of The Year sez fuck all y’all bitches!

Initially, Jason Fortuny was mobbed by his “rfjason” LiveJournal fans, armed with roflcopters and lollerskates. On Friday, his stunt was summarized by Andy Baio at Waxy and started hitting blogs and aggregators. He claimed the NY Times interviewed him. Eventually he shut down annonymous comments on his journal, but his LJ fans were still LOL A++!!!1!1!

The tide of destruction washed slowly across the web all weekend. Seattle news, British news, a Wired blog, which called Fortuny a sociopath. (To assist with self-diagnosis, he posted a LiveJournal poll)

Saturday, his business website (freelance web designer and network admin) finally died, replaced with a basic contact form — conspicuously lacking the privacy notice it used to have. So much for that business model. By Monday, even that was down.

On Saturday and Sunday it hit the front page of Digg, BoingBoing, Something Awful, Slashdot, …

Jason Fortuny had accomplished something very difficult — he had consciously set out to construct a meme, and had succeded. But he seems to have uncovered a horrible corrilary to the rule against deliberate meme creation: you can do it on purpose, if you set out with the cold desire to exhibit the absolute worst aspects of your deformed psyche.

Tens of thousands of people around the world declared Fortuny an unspeakable asshole who richly deserved his impending legal crucifixion. Meanwhile, his LiveJournal defenders continued the ROFLMAO party. Many of them (using their LJ handles no less) spread out across the web to defend Fortuny’s actions as a fun little prank which should now be forgotten. No really. Just forget it. lol.

Rfjason sits at the sad intersection of a blind desire for fame, a brutal puritan morality, a genuinely sociopathic ignorance of consequences, all wrapped up in idiotic chat speak. Privacy lawsuits, possible criminal charges, ruined lives, personal self-destruction, and nearly two hundred violent perverts who want to hurt you. Teh lulz!!

Maybe it’s all just a small, sad psychodrama. Fortuny is a seriously fucked up individual. (Quote: “I’m just going to quickly and quietly say that the refugees in New Orleans are human trash who don’t deserve to live“). On the internet, no one may know you’re a dog, but eventually everyone will figure out that you’re a suicidal exhibitionist idiot.

But watching hundreds of LiveJournal defenders swarm around him, it starts to seem like a symptom of something more widespread and horrorifying. It starts to look like the kind of simple-minded tribalism and moralizing self-surveillance that dictatorships thrive on. Why have teh riht to privacee when u can have teh lulz omg???

More:

Sociopaths Unite!

According to Waxy, Fortuny has whored himself to man-whore, and proudly outspoken sociopath, Tucker Max. Cute couple. Maybe this has something to do with the testosterone suppliments Fortuny was taking…

Reading about his real or imagined medical problems and his all too real psychological problems, you might feel a small twinge of pity for the doomed. But Fortuny comes through with the asshole bonus round, telling his new pimp:

“Let’s milk this. All the way… There must be a way to combine this. Into money. Money is important. Money is good.”

Making a profit off this seems… doubtful. Let’s just say, doubtful.

But a “milking” of some kind seems very likely. And everything Fortuny does get will have been well earned.

The real danger is that we who support the war will reach the point that we say we might as well be taken as wolves then as sheep.

[P]eople assume that there’s no point in behaving morally when they’re going to be called monsters anyway. This seems rather uncontroversially obvious to me.

Could these lurid evocations of wolf packs and armed mobs really have any effect on a prosperous, well-educated, civilized nation?

What’s the cutest thing about bloodthirsty worshipers of the God-King of War?

Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! Puppies!

“I look forward to continuing cooperation with our government to protect America’s ideas and innovations.”said MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman.

In other news, a basic removal of the SonyBMG spyware rootkit from a PC will probably render the computer useless and require a complete system reinstall.

But it must be this way. To fight terrorism.

Most poor people in America can afford food (that’s why so many poor people are fat). They do have other problems that make preparation less likely, though (if you’re the kind of person who thinks ahead and prepares for emergencies, you’re much less likely to be poor to begin with)

So according to Glenn Reynolds, if you’re poor, you’re probably also a stupid fatty. And stupid fatties are too stupid and fat to waddle their big fat stupid ass out of town . But obviously — because they’re so damn fat — they can afford to buy a few extra fifty cent hamburgers and keep them in storage until disaster strikes. It’s just that they’re too stupid to do that!

Stupid fatty!

(And because Bush is neither poor nor fat, he is clearly not responsible for his own administration? Hmmmm…)

I have to say that the stupid fatty defense is a fairly original entry in the list of disgusting conservative disaster responses…

But it turns out he had no reason to be shocked by the abandonment of more than 120,000 of his city’s poorest and most helpless residents. Because not only was their abandonment part of his overt plan, he was in the process of distributing DVDs to poor neighborhoods which spelled out this fact.

As I write that, I still can’t believe it.

They made a DVD to give to the poor telling them that in the event of a major hurricane, their only hope for escape was to stick the DVD up their ass, spin around like a motor boat, and make a beeline for fucking Cancun.

From the Times-Picayune on July 24 2005:

City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give the poorest of New Orleans’ poor a historically blunt message: In the event of a major hurricane, you’re on your own.

In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm’s way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation.

In the video, made by the anti-poverty agency Total Community Action, they urge those people to make arrangements now by finding their own ways to leave the city in the event of an evacuation.

“You’re responsible for your safety, and you should be responsible for the person next to you,” Wilkins said in an interview. “If you have some room to get that person out of town, the Red Cross will have a space for that person outside the area. We can help you.

“But we don’t have the transportation.”

They had planned on distributing the DVD to the poor this month. I guess not quite everything went according to plan…

This has now been widely linked, [TalkLeft among others] but it’s amazing it took a week for this to start getting publicity. There’s gunna be some medieval grade slapstick when those helpful interviews get online.