US citizens: call on your state legislators to cut ties with ALEC.

A right-wing Japanese politician proposed a stealthy change to the constitution, and proposed the Nazis' stealthy change to the German constitution as an example.

Proposing a stealthy change to the constitution is enough reason to end a politician's career, even if had not cited Nazis as a positive example of doing so. However, there is reason to think that that politician's may have other views in common with Nazis, as he visits the shrine in which war criminals, the Japanese equivalents of Dubya, are worshiped.

The foreclosure of 4 million homes in the US has devastated neighborhoods and entire towns. The banks do not bother to maintain the foreclosed homes, so they are looted and become valueless.

What's the point of foreclosing a house and letting it be destroyed? The only point I can imagine is sheer malice, a desire to make others suffer. The banks which have done this deserve to be destroyed themselves.

As for the people who carry out these evictions, it is a wonder that nobody takes personal revenge on them.

Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia.

I expect he is unhappy being stuck there, and would rather go to a country such as Venezuela which permits real political opposition, and has a real opposition press.

The US security state has told so many lies, and half-truths, that we cannot trust any statement unless we can verify it. And with so much secrecy, we can't verify anything. We can only judge who is trustworthy and then trust him.

Here's a lexicon detailing the Orwellian US government practice of twisting everyday English words and making statements that mean one thing to us, while they claim it means the opposite to them.

This practice is deceptive. So I refuse to use these words with their Orwellian NSA meanings. I will insist on using them with their normal meanings and applying those normal meanings to the NSA's actions.

Obama and his men have lied and betrayed us many times, in many areas; but Snowden's statements, even when they seemed incredible, have turned out to be true. I don't trust Obama. I trust Snowden.