the national disgrace that is the george a"W"ol shrub continues to shame the US.

US President George W. Bush drew gasps at the Vatican on Saturday by referring to Pope Benedict XVI as "sir" instead of the expected "His Holiness," pool reporters said.

A prison is right out of repuglican science fiction.

It is not as if the United States government doesn't have access to the mountains of information that shows these techniques are incredibly unreliable and counterproductive. It's not as if they don't know that there are much better ways of extracting information. It's not as if over the course of centuries we developed a set of moral guidelines that define what it means to be a decent society. They know all these things. They just chose to use television shows and movies as their guideline instead of real information, real morality or the rule of law.

Let's just say they aren't the greatest at unilaterally discerning who's guilty and who's not. Which, again, is the fucking reason for due process in the first place.

So, they adopted a torture first, ask questions later approach based upon ... what? Season 1 of "24"?

Stop it.

It's unacceptable to write someone's employers about something they wrote on the internet if they were not representing their employers when they did so. There's no gray area here. It's wrong. Don't do it.

Retirement benefits. Yea. Right. Retirement benefits.

Nooo, its because you, Dick Pace, are a fucking incompetent careerist. Work your retirement benefit package while US children die under your incompetent greedy management!

Loren Thompson, head of the Lexington Institute think tank, wrote in February: “there is speculation that the widely-liked Mullen is actually being groomed to replace Gen. Peter Pace when he departs as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the fall. Pace’s early departure is said to be related more to the triggering of certain retirement benefits than his close association with the discredited former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.”

Operation Mockingbird

Truth about illegal crimes by the US government exposed by Democratic oversight.

"The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda. These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets."

Guess who's on the payroll these days?

Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were, according to Wikipedia, propagandists for the CIA

Imagine our shock.

The inspectors did go in, as we all know. Still, some say the inspectors went in, some say they didn't, who is to say who is right?

Mitt Romney is a miserable stupid fuck. Goddam you lying fucking repugs.

If you're saying let's turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in.

But he didn't do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in.

I like small parties. And the repuglican party is getting just the way I like it...

Number of Republicans in US hits new low.

No Mosques Allowed in America

I have said it before, and I will say it again. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Members of the American Jewish community who think it is entertaining to spread hatred against another minority will eventually discover that the habits of hatred are hard to uproot and know no ethnic boundaries.

The World Health Organization ranks America at 37 in the world—not two, or five—37

Except for one thing: We're not first. America isn't ranked anywhere near first in anything except military might and snotty billionaires. The country that is ranked No. 1 in health care, for example, is France. The World Health Organization ranks America at 37 in the world—not two, or five—37, in between Costa Rica and Slovenia, which are both years away from discovering dentistry. Yet an American politician could not survive if he or she uttered the simple, true statement, "France has a better health-care system than us, and we should steal it." Because here, simply dismissing an idea as French passes for an argument.

VFW To Marine Corps: "Exercise A Little Common Sense," Drop Probe Of Anti-War Veterans

The Corps shoots itself in the foot, again. Vehemently 'protecting' the Corps by prosecuting this guy, the Corps comes off weak, paranoid, juvenile, fearful and petty in a time of war when recruitment has been a bit of a problem lately. These guys look themselves in the mirror and assure them selves they are doing the right thing by fucking this guy.

The US Marine Corps miss the point completely and they badly lose the Strategic Communications battle and the Perception Management battle because some thin skinned officer got his feathers ruffled. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb. .

The nation's largest combat veterans group on Friday urged the military to "exercise a little common sense" and call off its investigation of a group of Iraq war veterans who wore their uniforms during anti-war protests.

"Trying to hush up and punish fellow Americans for exercising the same democratic right we're trying to instill in Iraq is not what we're all about," said Gary Kurpius, national commander of the 2.4 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Defend the Children of the Poor & Punish the Wrongdoer

On the dome above the court is to be found the statue of Lady Justice, a woman holding in her right hand a sword standing for the power to punish, and in her left hand a balance standing for equity. The statue is not blindfolded, as most images of Lady Justice are, and this fact has received many a scoff from criminals being brought into the Old Bailey, remarking that their justice is not impartial and unbiased.

During the Blitz, the Old Bailey was bombed and severely damaged, but subsequent reconstruction work restored most of it in the early 1950's. In 1952 the restored interior of the Grand Hall of the Central Criminal Courts was once again open.

You're Goddam right we are going to Blogroll you!!

Good luck. Sat hello to PSoTD!

Why did Chimpy invade Iraq? Profits for big oil.

Didn't it work out grand?


UPDATE from Atrios:
Lots of other people stay in Iraq just because they don't like to admit they're wrong. Their egos are more important anything.

Ultimately it's all centered around oil, the endless needs of the military industrial complex, and various other financial interests masquerading as ideology. But there isn't one reason, just a grand harmonic convergence of wingnuttery.

Asymetrical PR.....Sounds a lot like 4th Generation Warfare

..and the repuglicans just don't fucking get that the US is loosing this war, badly, and it's just getting worse and worse. What's that old adage about "if you find your self digging a hole, stop..." what was it? How did that go?

...but it really isn't funny. Guantanamo is indeed a PR disaster for the United States and it's entirely self inflicted. And now we have presidential candidates talking about "doubling it" to wild applause by American citizens. I think somebody needs to stop these nutzoid Republicans from hurling their rhetorical feces as weapons and committing acts of asymetrical warfare against the rule of law as soon as possible.

Repuglicans putting profits over American health

This is why they are so pro-life. They want a poor WHITE population to do the crappy work in this country. The rich have health care.