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To: puborectalis who wrote (864048)	6/9/2015 10:13:43 PM
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Washington Post: Disappointment in Obama leads some blacks to ask: Is voting even worth it? Snip: But as Motley and some friends sought shade recently under a mulberry tree and looked across the landscape of empty lots and abandoned houses that has persisted here, they wondered whether they would ever bother voting again. “What was the point?” asked Motley, 23, a grocery store clerk. “We made history, but I don’t see change.”

To: puborectalis who wrote (864048)	6/9/2015 10:14:44 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 1580032

Lesser of two evils? Obama Goes Full Stalin: Tells Secret Court To Ignore Law He Signed 4 Hours Earlier, Extend Illegal NSA SurveillanceSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 06/09/2015 - 18:55 Just when we thought the absurdity that marks every single day of Obama's reign could not possibly be surpassed, we learned that 4 hours (3 hours and 47 minutes to be precise) after the US president vowed to sign a new law banning bulk data collection by the NSA (named, for purely grotesque reasons, the "USA Freedom Act"), the Obama administration asked the secret Fisa surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months.