My roommate is watching Fox News. Listening to them go on and on about Clinton and Obama meeting or possibly not having met yet, whether anyone new has arrived or departed, descriptions of vehicles, anything they can think of. I’d almost forgotten why I don’t watch TV news.

Will go to Barack Obama.

I recently learned the California Democrat Party will allow me to vote in their primary as an independent, and I will do so. I was completely ready to vote for Obama four years ago, though a bit less inclined to do so after his campaign got going. Realizing that no candidate will be a perfect fit for me, I am voting for someone who actually inspires me a little bit when I hear him speak. Plus, there’s that whole thing where I absolutely will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

Anyway, we’ll see what happens after Obama takes office.

Another U.S. Attorney General who’s willing to look the other way on torture.

While I’m still disappointed that there was never any furor in Congress over now former Attorney Gen. Alberto Gonzales’ refusal to say that torture is always illegal/wrong, I am quite happy that he has finally resigned. Good riddance.

It’s a long shot, but I would love to see him start talking more candidly about his and the White House’s abuses of power now that he is no longer under their employ. I won’t get my hopes up though.

Ex-SoCal councilwoman could be deported

(from the Associated Press)

LOS ANGELES - All of her life, Zoila Meyer believed she was an American. She even won election to the City Council of Adelanto. But now she is facing a threat of deportation for illegally voting, because she never became a citizen after being brought to this country from Cuba when she was 1 year old.

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