News that hurts...

...just a few tidbits of things that irritate the heck out of me.

• NSA has revived Total Information Awareness
• White House not releasing unfavorable Pentagon report
• KBR quadrupled cost of military towels by forcing them to be embroidered with their logo
• KBR feeds untreated sewage water to troops, making them sick, and we pay them to do it
  
• torture is called "enhanced interrogation techniques" not just as a euphemism, but because "enhanced interrogation techniques" has no legal definition, and therefore, cannot be legally torture
• Hagee is the new face of Christianity in America--just what we needed
  
• Feds pay off failing banks for participating in the housing loan scam
• Britain refuses asylum to Iranian gay teen on the basis that there is no absolute proof that Iran will kill him if he is deported, even though they've already executed his boyfriend