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Cheney's Shadow Government In 10th Year

February 15, 2010

Here we are beginning the second year of the Obama administration….and it's deja vu all over again. 2010 will mark the 10th year of Dick Cheney's 'shadow' administration. At the beginning of 2009, the 9th year of the Cheney 'shadow' administration, we saw still-vice-president Dick Cheney and his newly appointed Sec. of State, daughter Liz [...]

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Exceptionally Imbecilic

October 2, 2009

Yesterday, the House voted 258-163 to approve a non-binding recommendation prohibiting the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo to the U.S. for trial or imprisonment. 88 Democrats voted with the majority. Here's the typical defense for continuing, indefinitely, American offshore gulags….. "There is no reason these terrorists, who pose a serious and documented threat to our [...]

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The Endless Spin Cycle

June 11, 2009

Scanning the insanity…. Lest a new earworm begins gestating in the tone deaf ears of corporate media slugs and conservative "faith basers"….. NY Times… ….President Obama’s agenda, ambitious as it may be, is responsible for only a sliver of the deficits, despite what many of his Republican critics are saying. ….. About 7 percent (of [...]

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"I Think People Should Be Afraid"

May 26, 2009

Updated below From NBC's "Press the Meat", aka, "Meet the Press", this past Sunday… The Republican Party's "idea man", Mr. Newton Gingrich….. "Let me just say, I think people should be afraid. I think the lesson of 1993, the first time they bombed the World Trade Center, was fear is probably appropriate. I think the [...]

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President O-bush-a

May 23, 2009

First, let me state without reservation or qualification, that having Barack Obama as President is a far superior situation for America than if John McCain, with his full-throated, neo-conservative military and foreign policy ideology, were guiding the ship of state. That said….not only has Obama followed Bush/Cheney footprints on state secrets, transparency, and, now, indefinite [...]

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Heroes & Laws On Torture

May 17, 2009

Republican war hero and last year's GOP presidential nominee… "All I can say is that it was used in the Spanish Inquisition, it was used in Pol Pot's genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used against Buddhist monks today," McCain told the New York Times "Of presidential candidates like Mr. [...]

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Tastes Like Chicken

May 12, 2009

The script writers for the teevee program "24" should be hired by our defense department as full time military planners. Eliminate the middle men. That way our great protector-leaders can skip over all the liberal whining horsesh*t over torture and get down to protecting us like real men should. Why bother with pansy-assed anti-torture appeasers [...]

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How Many Americans Must Die For Bush?

May 6, 2009

Philip Gourevitch of The New Yorker writes… "When one of the prisoners resisted, (Corporal Charles) Graner later told Army investigators, “I bashed him against the wall.” Running hooded prisoners into walls was also standard practice at Abu Ghraib, but this prisoner fell to the floor, and blood ran out from under his hood, and a [...]

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Torturing Detainees Cost American Lives

April 29, 2009

Conservatives, arguing that Bush era torture crimes should not be investigated or prosecuted, have chosen to resort to a slogan in defending their position. Torture, "saved American lives". Therefore, the slogan implies, torture should not be prosecuted as a crime. Not only is the slogan not factual, the truth is just the opposite of the [...]

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Why The Bush Administration Ordered Torture

April 27, 2009

We now know that the Bush/Cheney administration ordered the torturing of detainees being held in U.S. secret prisons, in direct and repeated violation of national and international law. That is no longer in dispute. We also know now that the Bush administration ordered torture to be done BEFORE any Justice Department "legal" memos defending those [...]

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