Bush judge: sharing a cell box with an insect (or a giant scorpion) is not torture. (Click it.) Glenzilla on the content of the just released Torture Memos: Just consider parts of this August 1, 2002 Memo (.pdf) by then OLC official (and now-federal judge) Jay Bybee, authorizing the following techniques for Abu Zubaydah, who was shot three times during …
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Obama Denies Habeas Corpus colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest In a pretty sharp attack against the Obama Administration’s apparent shell game of shutting down GITMO only to outsource its constitutional problems to Bagram AFB in Afghanistan, Stephen Colbert does his faux mentor Bill “Papa Bear” O’Reilly …
Ever since the collapse of what passed for a legitimate government in Somalia in the early 1990s, the Horn of Africa has suffered at least two major insults. Firstly, it has become a dumping ground for a lot of European toxic waste, including nuclear waste (a major profit center for the Italian mafia). This has been in keeping with a …
Apparently, proximity to the Bekasaurus is a factor.
Right wing fear monger, genus glennusbekasaurus Anger is like a stone thrown into a hornet’s nest. —The Urantia Book Anger interrupts the functioning of your frontal lobes. Not only do you lose the ability to be rational, you lose the awareness that you’re acting in an irrational way. When your frontal lobes shut down, it’s impossible to listen to another …
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, aka “Blue Mosque”, Istanbul, Turkey Though the bulk of US media coverage of President Obama’s tour to the Middle East shows visuals of him addressing the Turkish Parliament in Ankara and US troops outside Baghdad, the one that captures my interest is his visit to Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. I was there almost a decade ago to …
