SCALIA: No. To the contrary. You think — Has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don’t think so.

Hey Antonin Scalia, go fuck yourself. Bitch.

Look, we have to be right every single time in order to prevent terrorist attacks. It is damn hard work.

Add “securing Afghanistan” to the Bush administration’s extensive list of failures it excuses away by calling it “hard work.”

"Nine Days of Silence from the Willing Accomplices." AKA Brian Williams is a republican stooge.

At no time did our analysts, on my watch or to my knowledge, attempt to push a rosy Pentagon agenda before our viewers. I think they are better men than that, and I believe our news division is better than that.

Oh, and Peggy Noonan is Pulitzer!!!

Fuck free market conservatives.

We now have two precedents. If the Federal Reserve judges that a major financial institution:

* is too big to fail in that its failure will generate systemic risk
* has followed portfolio strategies that have produced inappropriate and excessive leverage
* requires immediate action

Sytemic risk defined as: "let's cut the brakes in the Ford and let the FREE MARKET stop us at all stop lights.

"Jacked: How 'Conservatives' Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not)"

At the end of World War II, corporations paid half the cost of the federal government. They now pay 7 percent, and many of them pay 0 percent. Unless you are very wealthy, you pick up the tab, and the tab has grown. The federal government now spends more than what it spends on everything else on the military alone, and that cost keeps rising.

Jeremiah Wright Delivers the Knockout Punch

Wright has also paid his dues; he's an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam when most of his critics were either hiding behind their student deferments or languishing in the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas National Guard. He's earned the right to say whatever he chooses.

Pentagon suspends media propaganda campaign.

Probably because its fucking illegal to domestically perform PSYOP on US civilians in the US? Maybe.

Scalia: "Get Over It"

Nev. Er. That decision will be hung around his neck like a dead albatross all the way down through the rest of history until the day the world ends.

It proved he personally was nothing more than a cheap partisan hack. He knows it. He even uses the old cheap partisan hack slogan, "get over it." The court disgraced itself and the Republican party showed the country and the world that they no longer cared about legitimacy.

"If there is anything this president responds too, it's written criticism"

Senior Message Force Multiplier, Senior Military Analyst -Rob Riggle. The Daily Show.

Con Men

US media keeping Indiana 'mad pig' plant locations secret

Eighteen pork plant workers in Minnesota, at least five in Indiana and one in Nebraska have come down with a mysterious neurological condition they appear to have contracted while removing brains from slaughtered pigs, U.S. researchers and health officials said on Wednesday -- Reuters News

U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Kentucky Republican calls Senator Obama a "nigger" and a “snake oil salesman”.

Some white bread racist from Kentucky calls Senator Obama a 'boy' at a Red Meat fundraser.

“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”

I bet 20% will come to know and believe Senator Obama is terrorist before this is over.

My Wall Street Journal
Rupert is none too happy.

BONUS QUOTE: "Get Roger (Ailes) on this! He's a sadistic little shit!"

Spare change for the assassination of george w bush?

At what point is Hillary going to explain why she's still losing to the guy she says can't win?

Hillary needs to explain to the SuperDelegates how she can beat McCain in the fall when she can't even beat Obama in the spring.

shorter lindsey graham (closeted gay asshole-SC) to gen david petraeus

Oh god i wish i could suck your cock. I'm such a fag.

Graham quickly pointed out that wasn't the case, and with the military, political and economic gains being made in Iraq, "If I could promote you to five-star general, I would."

BBC: The CIA murdered JFK, RFK.

A new BBC documentary supports the conclusion that the CIA planned and executed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. The new video and photographic evidence -- the result of a three year long investigation --"puts three senior CIA operatives" at the scene of the murder.

Three of these men have been positively identified as senior officers who worked together in 1963 at JMWAVE, the CIA's Miami base for its Secret War on Castro.

David Morales was Chief of Operations and once told friends: "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard."

The Reid Nine Steps of Interrogation

You're guilty, you probably didn't realize it.

Step 1 - Direct Confrontation. Lead the suspect to understand that the evidence has led the police to the individual as a suspect. Offer the person an early opportunity to explain why the offence took place.
Step 2 - Try to shift the blame away from the suspect to some other person or set of circumstances that prompted the suspect to commit the crime. That is, develop themes containing reasons that will justify or excuse the crime. Themes may be developed or changed to find one to which the accused is most responsive.
Step 3 - Never allow the suspect to deny guilt. Reid training video: "If you’ve let him talk and say the words ‘I didn’t do it’, and the more often a person says ‘I didn’t do it’, the more difficult it is to get a confession."
Step 4 - At this point, the accused will often give a reason why he or she did not or could not commit the crime. Try to use this to move towards the confession.
Step 5 - Reinforce sincerity to ensure that the suspect is receptive.
Step 6 - The suspect will become quieter and listen. Move the theme discussion towards offering alternatives. If the suspect cries at this point, infer guilt.
Step 7 - Pose the “alternative question”, giving two choices for what happened; one more socially acceptable than the other. The suspect is expected to choose the easier option but whichever alternative the suspect chooses, guilt is admitted.
Step 8 - Lead the suspect to repeat the admission of guilt in front of witnesses.
Step 9 - Document the suspect's admission and have him or her sign as a confession.

Resistance therefore requires denying the interrogator control of the interrogation, preventing the interrogator from building rapport, and preventing any attempts at emotional manipulation. The suspect must maintain an attitude of detached hostility and skepticism at all times.

McCain is a campaign finance criminal. He can't be trusted. Obama should never make any campaign spending agreement with McCain. Ever.

You know, a democrat might want to, you know, talk about that.

John McCain physically attacked fellow congressman. Called his wife a CUNT

In 2006, the Arizona Republican congressional delegation had a strategy meeting. McCain repeatedly addressed two new members, congressmen Trent Franks and Rick Renzi, as 'boy.' Finally, Renzi, a former college linebacker, rose from his chair and said to McCain, "You call me that one more time and I'll kick your old ass." McCain lunged at Renzi, punches were thrown, and the two had to be physically separated. After they went to their separate offices, McCain called Renzi and demanded an apology. Renzi refused.

What an asshole.

In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt."

mainstream political debate = republican opinion.

American public opinion isn't "divided" or "split" on this question. There are no pro-war trends here that signal the Iraq War is about to become a huge asset for the McCain campaign. Nor are any of the other cliches used repeatedly by the establishment press to claim that unconditional withdrawal is a politically unpopular position even remotely true.

To the contrary, Americans overwhelmingly favor unconditional withdrawal and it's not even close. They favor that by a 25-point margin, and it's a 29-point margin among independents. Those are huge margins. Very few public policy questions of any significance produce margins that large. And the whole point of asking the question this way -- do you favor withdrawal "regardless of what is going on in Iraq?" -- is to exclude the excuse made by John McCain, The Politico and Cokie Roberts that Americans only want to withdraw once we've "won" or once we've created a peaceful democracy there.

The financial ship is listing, and the mainstream media is doing its best to keep the public in the dark.

The term “subprime” is a red herring; it is used by the media to minimize what is really going on. The meltdown in financing extends across the entire range of mortgage-security products. No loan-type has been spared. The wholesale market for anything connected to mortgages is frozen and the details are being intentionally withheld from the public. Two years ago, more than 65 percent of all mortgages were converted into securities and sold off to Wall Street. No more. That scam unraveled in July when two Bear Stearns hedge funds blew up and their were no takers for billions of dollars of mortgage-backed junk. Since then, bankers and hedge fund managers have been scrambling to conceal the facts about what mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are really worth; nothing. The fear is that when the public finds out what is really going on, they'll draw the logical conclusion that the banking system is insolvent, which it probably is. Just look at these eye-popping losses which appeared in Bloomberg News on April 1 The financial ship is listing, and the mainstream media is doing its best to keep the public in the dark.

Satan finally pried the gun from this toupee wearing, has been, hacks fingers.

You traded an illustrious film career to a bunch of insecure, paranoid children. Enjoy hell bitch.

It occurs to us that the reason republicans deny global warming is because they know where they are going.

Extremely, extremely, very, very, very popular American writer is a liberal.

anti class-warfare and anti gun.

Makes you wonder what his FBI file says. Hey, Steven, you know your phones are tapped, right? Right?

Bush Administration Officials Will Be 'Indicted For War Crimes'

SULLIVAN: The latest revelations on the torture front show the memo from John Yoo...means that Don Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes.

caught up with arlen spector (republicant -Penn) on bill maher

he makes prostitution look like a legitimate and enjoyable profession. When in gods name will the world be rid of mr Magic Bullet theory? Hasn't he hurt the world enough?

Shorter Douglas Feith on 60 Minutes March 6th 2008

Yea, i'm jewish chickenhawk that smoozed a great fucking job in the pentagon. As a israeli proxy, i forced the US to kill as many arabs and muslims as i could to the detriment to the US and it's interestes. Everything else was well, just a wet, sloppy blowjob. Your point is?

“Shouldn’t - seriously, I’m serious about this- shouldn’t all Americans be proud that?”

Yes, he's very serious. h/t Atrios.
But you know what? His best is not good enought. It's called FAILURE.

The Iraq war has been a colossal moral, fiscal, and humanitarian disaster.

When can we stop pretending? Ms Clinton?

ChimpCo buying expensive oil to benifit his oily friends or getting ready to bomb Iran.

WASHINGTON - The Energy Department said Friday it would continue putting oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve even as crude oil prices remain above $100 a barrel.
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The department announced a solicitation of bids for 13 million barrels of oil, with deliveries expected to begin in August, when the current delivery contracts expire. Oil will be put into the reserve at about 76,000 barrels a day, about the same rate as current deliveries, through December.

Bids are due by May 13, the department said.

The government reserve, which was created to serve as a cushion against major oil supply disruptions, has a capacity of 727 million barrels. It now holds about 700 million barrels.

Constitutional lawyer: Bush 'ordered war crimes'

Yet no one gives a fuck. A sitting US president demonstrably has repeatedly and continues to order WAR CRIMES and no one gives a fuck.

"It is really amazing because Congress -- including the Democrats -- have avoided any type of investigation into torture because they do not want to deal with the fact that the president ordered war crimes," Turley told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Thursday night. "But evidence keeps on coming out.... What you get from this is this was a premeditated and carefully orchestrated torture program. Not torture, but a torture program."

buffoon rebuffed by his superiors at his last NATO summit.

“many [European leaders] are looking forward now to the next president,”

McCain gets booed at MLK speech. Has a black man hold his umbrella.

McCain gets booed at MLK speech. Has a black man hold his umbrella.

Republican Rep. McHenry calls U.S. soldier in Iraq a ‘two-bit security guard.'

then goes on to demonstrably lie about a death in the green zone. What a fucking asshole. Go see for yourself.

SECDEF Gates and VP Cheney are talking about killing 1 million Iranians and a big breasted blond.

George wonders up and asks, "What's up with the big titted blond?"

Dick Cheney says, "I told you nobody would care about 1 million dead Iranians."

We are reminded of that joke when we read this:

Disclosure Of Torture Memo Fails To Grab Traditional Media's Attention

What if they disclosed a torture memo and nobody cared? Yesterday, an 81-page memo, authored by John C. Yoo, who was a deputy in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice at the time of its creation, was declassified and made public. The memo, which, among other things, was used as the rationale for authorizing the torture of government detainees, has long been held to be a savage reimagining of the structure of the Executive Branch and its authority, hostile to the traditional checks and balances that circumscribe the President's authority. And that's stating the matter diplomatically. A less kind observer might conclude that the memo was a legal abomination which tortures the accepted body of Constitutional law along the way to glibly authorizing a Grand Guignol of authoritarian power that our nation's founders would find abhorrent. With these high stakes as the prologue, you'd have to imagine that the disclosure of the memo would be of pre-eminent importance to the media.

In simple english it means the secret Bush memo declared the US a dictatorship. It means that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.

God bless george aWol bush. aka Chimpy, the despicable arrogant coward.

That dawn, naked, covered in blood and feces, bleeding from her anus, she found a US soldier she did not know lying naked in the bed next to her: his gun lay on the floor beside the bed, she could not rouse him and all she could remember of the night before was screaming and screaming as the soldier anally penetrated her while a colleague who worked for defense contractor KBR held her hand--but instead of helping her, as she had hoped, he jammed his penis in her mouth.

Over the next few weeks Smith would be told to keep quiet about the incident by a KBR supervisor. The camp's military liaison officer also told her not to speak about what had happened, she says. And she would follow these instructions. "Because then, all of a sudden, if you've done exactly what you've been instructed not to do--tell somebody--then you're in danger," Smith says.

Closeted gay republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) absurdly states McBush has done more for global warming than al gore.

“Climate change is the road less traveled but John McCains traveled it even more than Al Gore,”

What a flaming piece of shit. Pun intended. He is the pole smoker and the old douche bag.

Idea No. 1: Protecting the environment harms the economy or Idea No. 2: A healthy economy depends upon a healthy environment

How Conservatives Have Duped Us in the Global Warming Fight

how it is that in a Democratic Congress, conservatives are the worst earmark "offenders"...

fucking worthless democrats

The ‘George W. Bush Sewage Plant.’

The enterprising Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to rename Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the “George W. Bush Sewage Plant.” The group explains it seeks to “select a fitting monument to this president’s work” and to “honor George W Bush for his eight years of honorable public service.” “No other president in American history has accomplished so much in such a short time,” the group notes.

The ‘George W. Bush Sewage Plant.’

The enterprising Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to rename Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility to the “George W. Bush Sewage Plant.” The group explains it seeks to “select a fitting monument to this president’s work” and to “honor George W Bush for his eight years of honorable public service.” “No other president in American history has accomplished so much in such a short time,” the group notes.

The GOP seems to systematically preside over slower growth and rising inequality.

I’ve known about this result for quite a while. But I’ve never written it up. Why? Because I can’t figure out a plausible mechanism. Even though I believe that politics has a big effect on income distribution, this is just too strong — and too immediate — for me to see how it can be done. Sure, Republicans want an oligarchic society — but how can they do that?

Dept. of Justice: Bush is above the law and torture laws don't apply

Today, the Washington Post revealed the actual contents of a memo from top Dept. of Justice official John Yoo that authorized torture and, basically, said the President is above the law:

Feith: Only ‘assholes’ are concerned about torture.

Yes, the man Gen Franks called the "dumbest mother fucker on the planet", jewish neocon architect of the iraq war says you are an asshole if you concern yourself with torture.

"$13,400 billion was what was leveraged on a measly $80 billion? Leveraged 167 times? Bear Stearns had less than 1% in the pot?

Now, in any normal country the ex-CEO of Bear Stearns, James Cayne, would be in jail by now, getting raped daily by Bubba the Mass Murder/Jail Pimp and thinking how lucky he was to get off so lightly. In the old Soviet Union, Caney would be in the KGB Lyubyanka prison celler, watching his fingers being popped out of place one by one and steel rods being inserted under his fingernails.

In many Western Europe countries, big on stuff like "ethics" and "honor", Caney would be given a gun with one bullet in it - and the understanding that to avoid all the fuss and spare his family, to shoot himself.

But... this is the USA!

Director of National Intelligence says George aWol Bush let 911 happen.

But it's OK because repuglicants hate facts and in fact, hate america.

Mukasey claimed that the U.S. received a phone call from a terrorist safe house in Afghanistan prior to 9/11, but couldn’t trace the call because the FISA laws were too restrictive — which is, of course, a lie. Mukasey was a Federal Judge, he knows that. Olbermann says that someone in the House or Senate needs to haul the Attorney General in and question him and find out whether he was lying to make a political point, or if the Bush administration really did receive such a call and chose not to act on it, leaving the country vulnerable to attack.