Condi Rice Pulls a Nixon: If the President Orders Torture, It Must be Legal

Obama's 04_29_09 Presser - Jake Tapper: Did BushCo sanction torture?

Jimi Hendrix - Power Of Soul

With all of the news about recession, swine flue and torture...we need a message of love and a soulful break from Jimi.

Rachel Maddow - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Ret. - Torture and Cheney. Ouch, Dick...

Zelikow: Bushies Said My Alt. Torture Memo Was "Inconvenient

Hmmmm...

Exactly, the Somalian pirates need to start their own bank then sell bogus securities and fraudulent investments to passing ships.

When the scheme goes bust they give each other outrageously huge bonuses and retire....all perfectly legal.

Never Happened?

Imagine a Republican President ruling out pursuing investigations and criminal charges against a previous Republican administration with such obvious and plentiful evidence of guilt?

Would never happen, would it?

And if they're serious about letting these acts of torture be the new acceptable legal reality, then the U.S owes a formal apology to all of the evil people who have been convicted and punished for water boarding in this last century. Since no one is going to apologize to the Nazis, Japanese,Khmer Rouge etc., this just points out the absurdity of this position to look the other way when we do it and to hell with justice when it's not convenient.

Intolerable

;)

I Can Has Cheezburger?

Exploring the 2 most popular resources on the inter tubes...

from the inimitable Merkley

Changing Winds

The former Peruvian President was sentenced today to 25 more years to go along with his previous sentence.
He is charged with abuse of power, illegal wiretapping, corruption, kidnapping and torturing his opponents...

Amnesty international is pleased,

"It is not every day when a former head of state is convicted for human rights violations such as torture, kidnapping and enforced disappearances.

"We hope that it is just the first of many trials in both Latin America and throughout the world."

His crimes were very similar to the Bush administration's but much smaller in scope and no one openly confessed their crimes as has already happened with the Bush administration from Cheney down.

In a related development, Spanish prosecutors are going ahead with charges against Gonzales and 5 other high ranking Bush administration lawyers and officials, charged with torture at Guantanamo.

America continues to be paralyzed to the reality that must be resolved, a national cognitive dissonance.

Believe or Dye

10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer

Happy Easter!

The Rachel Maddow Show: Insani-Tea: Conservatives Rally Around "Teabagging"

Teabagging, which is slang for an exotic sexual activity, seems to elude those on the right using it, to the the dismay of those on the left who are having much subliminal fun with this joke...

Wassila Family Values

Maybe Sarah should accept all of her federal stimulus money. She doesn't want the part for social services which would be seen as social engineering I guess versus the good Christian family values that are doing so well back home?

Meanwhile it's same old same old around Wassila, Palin's sister in law is arrested for repeatedly breaking into homes to steal money, one would think for a drug habit and Levi is on the air waves explaining why abstinence doesn't work with young people, like with Mrs. Palin's knocked up brood, who aren't allowed to hear about any of that godless liberal sex education crap.


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Caturday's For Bird Watching

Jeff Beck and Joss Stone - People Get Ready [2007]

TGIF