I honestly don’t think I can take anymore.
Make the pain stop.
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Song Pong Thread
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame, but I know.
It’s The Other Steve‘s Fault.
Right Back At Ya.
Gavin says dance, we say “How High, Sir?”
This is all Tim’s fault.
Lack Of Oversight Leads To Incompetence And Abuse
Same old story, one small difference. Instead of screwing the country Republicans shat their own bed for once. Apparently the geniuses didn’t exempt their internal bookkeeping from the right’s ideological hatred of good management practices. If the GOP was a roofing contractor nobody in their right mind would go near them.
Point and laugh. As small and pathetic as Republicans seem today, wait until we get kiddie locks back on the levers of power.
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So What if Obama Wears Muslim Garb
Open Thread
Have at it. A spammer appears to have spoofed my gmail address, as I have 1200 out of office and auto-replies in my inbox. if you mailed me, chances are I will not see it.
Smile And Wave
William Haynes, who wrote some of the most reprehensible legal advice in the Bush admin’s swirling black hole of legal thinking, will not supervise the Guantanamo “trials” after all. Telegraphing that he won’t have any acquittals at his trials might have something to do with it.
“I said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process,” Davis continued. “At which point, [Haynes’s] eyes got wide and he said, ‘Wait a minute, we can’t have acquittals. If we’ve been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can’t have acquittals, we’ve got to have convictions.'”
Of course we didn’t permit torture confessions at Nuremberg. In fact I don’t think that we tortured anyone at all. And apparently we had some presumption of innocence back then. But other than that and political appointees constantly interfering with and overruling professional military lawyers you could barely slip a plastic card between Nuremberg and our Guantanamo hangin’ party.
Sure American values won a little victory today. Now let’s see who replaces him.