This administration, in light of all the spying, prying and nosing into our personal business...has now told us that it’s none of OUR business who comes and goes in the White House. After all, its become part and parcel of this administration, to keep things to themselves..things that have nothing to do with "states secrets"..just things they don't want us to know anymore. The list is up to 29 items or statistics or just plain ol' information we used to be able to access but the Bush administration no longer allows us, the universal us..to access.

If you would like to see this “Memorandum of Understanding” that changes who owns the Visitors Log you can view it here. TPMuckraker in fact, has a great article that shows us information that used to be available to citizens but under Bush, no longer is. I really love the title of the TPM article: “Bush Admin: What You Don't Know Can't Hurt Us.

Another little secret, according to the TPM article: “Department of Defense has suddenly classified the numbers of attacks in Iraq for September through November of this year -- after providing the figures for every month since the war began. Why classify the information now? If there's a good explanation, we don't know it, and the Pentagon isn't returning our calls.”-Why, one might ask..is classifying this info now as “secret” important and necessary? Must have some bad juju in there was my thought.

But then, we have these gems, also courtesy of the TPMuckraker: 

In March, the administration announced it would no longer produce the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation, which identifies which programs best assist low-income families, while also tracking health insurance coverage and child support.

In 2005, after a government report showed an increase in terrorism around the world, the administration announced it would stop publishing its annual report on international terrorism.

After the Bureau of Labor Statistics uncovered discouraging data about factory closings in the U.S., the administration announced it would stop publishing information about factory closings.

When an annual report called “Budget Information for States” showed the federal government shortchanging states in the midst of fiscal crises, Bush’s Office of Management and Budget announced it was discontinuing the report, which some said was the only source for comprehensive data on state funding from the federal government.

When Bush’s Department of Education found that charter schools were underperforming, the administration said it would sharply cut back on the information it collects about charter schools.

In March 2006, the Department of Health and Human Services took down a  Web site devoted to substance abuse and treatment information for gays and lesbians, after members of the conservative Family Research Council complained.

The Department of Labor also removed from its Web site roughly two dozen fact sheets on women's workplace issues such as women in management, earning differences between men and women, child care concerns, and minority women in the workplace.

The list is long..twenty-nine items long and I don’t have the space to post it all here..but if you wish to take a swig of Mylanta or eat a few Rolaids and peruse it all..be my guest. The bottom line, for me, is this:

Our government, under President Bush, treats us like mushrooms my dear reader. They keep us in the dark and feed us bs, or in some cases..refuses to feed us any information at all when it serves their purpose.