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Good news -- CNN: NSA phone surveillance program unconstitutional

No shit. Now you know why the Bush and Obama administrations fought so tirelessly over the years desperately trying to keep the question about the NSA with their fish net strategy of all communications everywhere on earth out of court when faced with the question, is this snooping constitutional?

More and more this Edward Snowden is proving to be not a villain but a patriot who has never changed his story while the snoops and spooks and government spies change theirs weekly. Funny the guys accusing Snowden of breaking the law do the same things themselves.

(CNN) -- The government's once-secret program of collecting domestic telephone communication records of Americans was ruled unconstitutional Monday by a federal court.

"I cannot imagine a more 'indiscriminate' and 'arbitrary invasion' than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval," said the judge, an appointee of President George W. Bush. "Surely, such a program infringes on 'that degree of privacy' that the Founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment."

Much more from CNN.

Dying has never been so darned much fun!

Imagine this. Your cremated remains blasting off into low orbit where your living friends can actually track you zipping around for a few months on an iPhone app before you burst into an intergalactic spire of flame upon re-entry. How much fun would that be?

Well sure there's the dead part but come on, don't let that get in the way of a good time. A Gloomy Gus never has any fun. A company called Elysium Space will send your cremated remains into orbit for the low low price of $1,990 and zero cents. At that price you can't afford not to buy. Maybe you know, whoops, your space coffin goes a little cattywumpus and picks off an NSA satellite. You'd be doing us all one last favor.

If Casper the Friendly Ghost were alive today he'd approve of this we're pretty sure.

Happy Independence Day!

Today might be a good day to look at your dwindling freedoms under George W. Bush, Barack Obama, the NSA, the FBI, PRISM, and the Patriot Act. Seriously, are you just going to give away your RIGHT to not be spied on with dubious warrant claims? Are you just going to give away your FREEDOM to not have your phone calls listened or your internet searches cataloged? Are you going to let National Intelligence Director James Clapper lie to Congress and not go to jail over the depth and scope of the spying? Guaranteed if you lied to Congress you'd be in jail yesterday.

So while you watch the teevee specials today on great Americans who built this land and gave us our birthrights, and watch the shells bursting over the Hudson River tonight ask yourself if you're just willing to accept what you're told by the powers that be or if you're ready to hold them to account.

Again, Happy Independence Day and Restore the Fourth!