Sharing A Cell Box With A Giant Scorpion Is Not Torture.
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 …
Brewing UP Trouble UPDATE 2
The irony of protesting wasteful government spending by purchasing a million tea bags and throwing them in various bodies of water is lost on teh protesting Tea Baggers. Which “grass roots” group came up with those bucks? Then there’s the sheer craziness of middle class Republicans protesting the end of tax cuts for the wealthy (the way the Republican controlled Congress under Bush wrote the law in the first place) after the passage of the largest tax cut for the rest of us, in our history.
Humping The Leg Of Habeus Corpus
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 …
Baggers Brewing UP Trouble
After way too much delicious coffee and enough free wifi to gag a geek, I decided to get out and scout around for teh Baggers.
Brewing Up Trouble
They call this really clever protester’s costume “The Limpbag,” modeled by Rush Limbaugh look-alike, Margo Orange-Pico. HOLLYWOOD — I’m in the L.A. area today looking for a Hate America First teabagging party to infiltrate, and I’m pretty damned discouraged right now. These are some coffee latte espresso drinkin’ fools out here I can tell you. I haven’t found any teabagging …
And Now, For The Rest Of The Pirate Story
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 …
