I just found this amusing, for no other reason than there has been little to laugh at as of late:
Oh, boy. First, the grand jury that heard the original testimony has expired. If Fitzgerald is pursuing this, he must have read back transcripts of the relevant material to an existing grand jury, and they must be begging for the book-on-tape version about now. Not all the US sanctioned torture is happening in Eastern Europe.
Heh.
And this is where some earnest liberal comes and scolds me that torture is not funny, under any circumstances.
*** Update ***
First runner-up goes to Navy SEAL Froggy, of Froggy Ruminations, regarding whether or not WP is a ‘chemical weapon’:
Wanna know beyond reasonable doubt that Willie Pete does NOT create a “lethal cloud” spanning a 1/4 mile? Because it comes in phreaking hand grenades with a fuze of less than 5 seconds. I’m pretty sure if you threw one, you wouldn’t be able to unass the area in 5 secs.
Second Runner-Up in the amusing quip contest goes to Neil, in this post on on ‘race-based medicine’:
You know, if they found a heart disease medication that only worked on white people, it wouldn’t be called “race-based medicine” .. it’d just be called “medicine.”
More of this, please.
p.lukasiak
The reason its not funny is that it probably wouldn’t take that long to read the relevant parts of the transcripts, and relate the other relevant information, showing that Rove is lying.
Basically, FitzG could simply present this other grand jury with a pre-written indictment which establishes probably cause, answer a few questions from the grand jury, and get his vote.
apostropher
John, torture is not funny under any circumstances.
Unless you’re torturing a clown.
Jcricket
I wonder who will do the book-on-tape reading?
Perhaps Colin Powell will volunteer? “And over here you can see the leaker, and the leaker’s mobile lab”
Charlton Heston? “Get your hands off me you damn dirty leaker”
Maybe Rumsfeld? “Rove didn’t go the press with the leaks he wanted, he went with the the leaks he had”
Cheney himself? “Go l**k yourself”
John Cole
Heh.
a guy called larry
I thought the baseball analogy was torture enough, thank you.
DougJ
Did you actually think that was funny?
Mr Furious
So John, as a former military man, is “unass” a common phrase for “get the hell out of there”, or what?
I could get into using something like that…
Jcricket
unass = de-assify the area = remove one’s own ass from the location where the grenade was dropped. Most soldiers aren’t particularly interested in becoming suicide bombers.
John Cole
Mr. Furious-
YEah. I forget that certain phrases are pretty exclusive to the military. I had one CO who was known to bellow at people he was unhappy with to “Unass my AO (area of operations),” meaning get out of my face.
The other day I used a phrase that I heard a lot in the military, and that was ‘No Screaming Eagle Shit.’
I wonder how many people know what that means and whether it was armywide or just something I heard people say in my units.
Steve
My father says that on payday in the Air Force they used to say “the eagle shits tonight.” I never know whether to believe my father.
jg
This would only be true if anyone thought an instant 1/4 mile cloud would appear the second the pin was pulled. Still funny tho. ‘Unass the area’. LOL Military talk is hilarious. I’m going to start telling people to unass my cube when they hang around to long.
Jcricket
This was, in all seriousness, part of the plot of a recent episode of House (Fox show). A black patient didn’t want the medicine that was known to work better on blacks with heart disease, for a combination of reasons: One, fear that whites were performing medical experiments (again) on blacks; Two, under the misguided notion that “black medicine” was worse than the “white medicine”.
Matt
Oh come on. Obviously the effects of WP depend on the quantity used and the method of delivery.
Jon H
“Wanna know beyond reasonable doubt that Willie Pete does NOT create a “lethal cloud” spanning a 1/4 mile? Because it comes in phreaking hand grenades with a fuze of less than 5 seconds. I’m pretty sure if you threw one, you wouldn’t be able to unass the area in 5 secs.”
And mustard gas is also harmless if deployed in small enough amounts, too.
And high explosive could never knock down a building or a dam or a bridge. That’s crazy talk. After all, it comes in *bullets*. Big ones, but they’re still bullets.
I’m just saying.
It’s not like WP is *only* used in hand grenades.