Tortured Excuses

Condi's got the Biden gaffe bug. In one fell swoop with a single sentence she implicates Bush officially as the torture deciding ring leader and implicates herself as part of a plan to authorize illegal torture.

This video would be devastating evidence in an investigation or trial, assuming justice is for more than just Presidential sexual peccadilloes.

Sorry, wrong excuse. It's just that there's too much going on now to tear the nation apart with the horror of a corrupt Republican administration, except that during the Nixon trials there was also a war going on and economic crisis and of course, the networks would love the ratings boost.


The U.S. signed a treaty (under Reagan ) that requires them to investigate and prosecute torture.
Wouldn't you love to see these liars thoroughly exposed under oath? No one would be sentenced sadly, but the national conscience would finally be cleared and legal obligations to treaties would be met.

If the above link to atlargely.com is down the same story was at Olbermann's.

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.


most excellent cartoon found at undelibs

Caturday's For Bird Watching

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

TGIF

George Galloway 2009-03-20 - Channel 4 News

If British MP Galloway was a terrorist, why is he allowed in every country but Canada? Why is he still an elected MP in Britain?

Because he isn't.

Because our government is a world class embarrassment of religious right neocon bullshit.

They put anti science creationists in charge of science portfolios and ban people like Galloway for sending humanitarian aid to elected governments as an excuse to keep out an effective anti war critic that they don't want influencing Canadians...otherwise known as banning free speech.

Jesus Is My Friend by Sonseed

Reason #17 why I'm not a Christian.

Give Us A Break

All I can say is heh, humph, hkkttt.... pitouie...

It would be worth reading if it contained anything truthful...but how could he possibly tell the truth when it would send him directly to prison or the Hague?

Caturday Sonnet

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare's Cat

Mark Danner: Press Is Obfuscating Torture Issue

So why is the torturer in chief allowed in Canada?

Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush - Wood (HBO)

It's Caturday!

Happy Caturday to computer savvy felines everywhere.


Oh noes...not teh posts!

Enough Bullshit Cramer

Ok Cramer.
You wimped out like a wounded puppy on the Daily Show where Jon Stewart exposed all that's wrong with Wall Street reporting on CNBC, you shook hands as a gentleman, you agreed with Stewart's evisceration of Mad Money's excesses and you agreed to reform yourself and purge dishonesty on your show......so do it...... or else...watch the ratings drop further !

Countdown: John Dean on the Sy Hersh Claim of Cheney Assassination Ring

D.L. Hughley: Frank Schaeffer Author of Crazy for God on What's Left of the GOP

Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC and Rick Santelli - March 4, 2009

Stevie Wonder performs Superstitious at White House

A White House is back...that we can relate to...finally ;)

Bat Shit Crazies

I'm sure you will Sarah, don't give up on those dreams....although there's always Tom Cruise to compete with... but this week it was Joe the plumber who steals the crazy prize with this gem,


"Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot 'em. And there'd be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don't talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict."


1) Joe, exactly when were those days of legal assassination?
2) Joe, name anyone in government who has been disrespecting the troops?

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Caturday's For Art Lovers

Americans are NOT stupid - WITH SUBTITLES

Sunday

This whole economic crisis is one big Ponzi scheme and it's become apparent that Wall St. was there to further Wall Street's greed, not the nation's economic interests.




The govs can't afford to play this obstructionist Gingrich/Boehner game of sore losers.
The GOP, like Wall St., place their selfish interests ahead of the nation. Why?
Because they're assholes.




Exactly.
Truer words have never been spoken.

Them Changes - Band Of Gypsys

Sounds as great as it did in 1969.

Bwahaha

Total Assholes

Great job supporting the stimulus bill Republicans...and wow, 3 members actually supported it...3 Republicans supporting a Democratic President trying to dig everyone out of Bush's disasters.

Happy Darwin Day

May help explain why only 39% of Americans believe in evolution.

Out of Work

Kerry rips Republicans' new-found love for housing

Republicans are assholes.

Heh

from AtheistBus

Beastie Boys - Shadrach

20th anniversary of the the groundbreaking hip hop album 'Paul's Boutique'!

USA! USA!

Rachel Maddow Show: Former Gitmo Prosecutor Lt. Col. Darrell Vandeveld

What happens when you accept things uncritically.

Kafka's "The Trial" Moves to Canada

We don't charge terror suspects like other criminals. As pointed out by Alison at Creekside from the star.com,

"Under the anti-terror legislation, the government doesn't need to prove an accused terrorist took part in or even knew about a specific plot.
All it has to prove is that he knowingly participated in the activities of a terrorist group and contributed either directly or indirectly to anything "enhancing" its abilities."



In Kafka's 'The Trial', Joseph K. was condemned and considered guilty with simply having been charged. In the U.S. rights were circumvented with Guantanamo, a place to indefinitely hold people without any human rights considerations, people mostly rounded up without evidence or just cause in many cases.

In Canada we create a crime, have a trial, then convict people even for their thoughts and associations apparently...

And here I was thinking that it's lucky the technology doesn't exist yet to determine subconscious crimes... as I've had a few directed towards certain political figures...

Cats Have Dreams Too

Happy Caturday to indoor cats everywhere.

Memorial to Another Hero

A memorial to the courage of the Iraqi shoe thrower.

George wasn't capable of catching the irony, that the most dangerous nation on earth that had to be invaded for our safety was so dangerous that the only defense we'll remember is that some guy threw a shoe back.

Bush is a monster.

Hmmm...

It's not like she hasn't heard that one before.....the little cutie.

$20 Billion in Bonuses

Boundless greed...

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness.- Emo Philips
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Banksy in New Orleans

Heh

Poor George, has to suck it up in his new Dallas mansion in a former whites only enclave...that until recently continued to segregate...
poor George watching the gradual exposure of the truth, that one man's delusion and total incompetence is everyone else's national nightmare....sadly of epic proportions.

ZZ Top Brown Sugar

Just the thing after a long day...

Great Expectations

Harbinger of Hope

The worlds intelligent, competent professionals have been locked away for 8 years during our modern equivalent to medieval darkness, is it possible now, that unleashed on the worlds challenges, could these competent among us resolve all of our problems so elegantly?

I hope this is an omen of things to come.

CNN's Rick Sanchez vs.

Heckuva Job Georgie

Bush has thought long and hard about the federal response to Katrina and he has decided that they couldn't have done more....in fact they did a heckuva job...

This man is too stupid to ever get it...his catastrophic failures...and he's really the only case for water boarding just because he's an arrogant stupid bastard beyond any rehabilitation who must meet some reckoning...somewhere...sometime...for wilful negligence causing many many deaths and endless suffering.

A Fine Choice

Maybe he`s too intelligent or too moral for the Senate?

Bad Time To Quit Smoking

Felicitous Caturday

And what will this Caturday bring....peace on earth, economic prosperity and good health for all?....oh that's right, that shangrila is sadly not our world...here on glorious earth, everything is wasted or fought over with needless suffering for all....which is why cats forbear dogma.

Real Estate Downfall

Weather Report - Birdland

2008

Is We Winnin' Yet?

After recent intelligence gathering successes attributed to giving away free Viagra to Afghan war lords with too many young wives, the newest U.S strategy in Afghanistan is to arm everyone with AK-47s and hope for the best in the ensuing shootout....

Montage

Merry Holidays

2009 sucks already.

Behind all of the economic fear and confusion...

We're being robbed by the super rich. Which makes no sense to want more when you already have more than everyone?

$1.6 Billion in bonuses to executives of banks getting bail outs!

The demands for more carry on...

"Benefits included cash bonuses, stock options, personal use of company jets and chauffeurs, home security, country club memberships and professional money management, the AP review of federal securities documents found."

This is how the wealthy repay you when during war time, they get the largest share of tax cuts.

Where's the revolution?

Maybe We Should Bail Out the Environment First

We could probably kick start a new 21st century economy bailing out the environment... and still put the Bush administration on trial at the same time...

Blagojevich speaks, says he's done nothing wrong

This guy breaks me up...has to be a coke head or owe a ton of money to lie that bad....