Friday, June 05, 2009

Domestic rightwing terrorism

Roeder's Ties To Operation Rescue

Jews publicly, loudy racially taunt Obama - On Video

Watermelons, Nigger, Death, the whole thing. Is this mainstream Israeli sentiment? The author and producer of the video seems to think so. The highlight must be when one happy Obama hater is simply baffled when asked "Do you know who Netanyahu is?"

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Journalist claims papers turned down story about Bush’s desire to invade Iraq - in 1999

Baker eventually published his story online in October of 1999. In it, Herskowitz is quoted as saying, “He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999. It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade·.if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it.”

He wasted it.

Ex-House candidate: Lindsey Graham is gay

An openly lesbian 2008 South Carolina Democratic candidate for Congress has called out three Palmetto State Republicans for being closeted gays in an interview for a progressive Democratic blog.

The bombshell statements were made in a FireDogLake interview on June 1 from Linda Ketner, an openly lesbian 2008 Democratic candidate against South Carolina’s First Congressional District incumbent Henry Brown.

“We have more gay people serving in South Carolina than probably in anyplace in the United States; they’re just not out of the closet,” she told blogger Howie Klein. “We have an awful lot of people in the closet — Lindsey Graham, Glenn McConnell who’s our Senate president pro tem, our Lt Governor [AndrĂ© Bauer].”

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

only after the fact, retroactively “deciding” upon the most efficient pathway.

Wow.

A. We did not torture because:


1. SERE training proves these techniques are not torture.
2. OLC memos say it isn't torture.
3. "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" are not the same as torture. (Just look at the name, guys!)
4. These techniques do/did not cause permanent or lasting harm.
5. Psychologists said it was all right.
6. If you call it torture, you will have to prosecute (and you don't want to do that).
7. It's unpatriotic to say Bush officials authorized torture.

Steve Benen accurately summarizes Perception Manager Rick Santorum

Santorum’s condescending attitude, his errors about African-American families, his apparent belief that he’s qualified to give dating advice to the president, or the fact that this discredited former senator continues to be a fixture at major news outlets.”