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Quotes
"The United States is committed to the world-wide
elimination of torture and we are leading this fight by example.
I call on all governments to join with the
United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting,
investigating, and prosecuting all acts of
torture and in undertaking to prevent other cruel and unusual punishment.
I call on all nations to speak out against
torture in all its forms and to make ending torture an essential part of
their diplomacy."
-- The Number One Torturer in the World, Link
"Heh
heh - Think they bought it?
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Colonels in Mirrored Sunglasses
Excerpt:
I can appreciate why Karl Rove is upset about
recent revelations about Bush's torture policies. After all, who wants
their
friends and colleagues to end up looking like
war criminals? Rove has a specific job to do: make Bush and his team look
better,
while trying to destroy President Obama and his
team. The latest evidence puts Rove in a tougher position. Poor guy.
But that hardly excuses the kind of foolish rhetoric
Rove is throwing around. On Fox News (where else?), for example,
Rove said the administration's recent disclosures
about torture are 'very dangerous.' Rove insisted, 'What they've essentially
said is if we have policy disagreements with
our predecessors . . . We're going to turn ourselves into the moral equivalent
of
a Latin American country run by colonels in mirrored
sunglasses and what we're gonna do is prosecute systematically the
previous administration, or threaten prosecutions
against the previous administration, based on policy differences.
Is that what we've come to in this country?'
You see, in Rove World, the way to avoid becoming
a banana republic is to have a chief executive who ignores the rule of
law.
They are stuck and they know it.
After 8 years of destroying the GOP, the Bush bastards are now asking
all conservatives
to become pro-torture to save them and I wonder if they're willing
to go that far.
The GOP is trying desperately to stage a comeback - but can they do
that by being pro-torture?
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Subject: Texas wants out?
Hey Bart, if Texas if fed up with government inteference
and secedes, will they refuse foreign aid from the US?
Will they refuse military assistance since they
have no standing military for protection? How long before they will be
annexed by Mexico since they believe it to be
a part of their country anyway?
They should just be stocking up on all those assault
weapons going south because they will need them when there
is no US to protect their border and the drug
lords move in to operate freely. Just a few of the thoughts I have
about their being fed up with US government.
Where will they be without it?
Odis
Texas hasn't thought any of this through.
They're just throwing a tantrum like a nine-year
old kid.
Who knows? Maybe they want to bring back slavery.
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Hannity Offers to be Waterboarded
Excerpt:
Sean Hannity had actor Charles Grodin on his
show tonight, and the two men actually had some
genuinely good natured sparring with each other
over the news of the week
GRODIN: You're for torture.
HANNITY: I am for enhanced interrogation.
GRODIN: You don't believe it's torture. Have you ever been waterboarded?
HANNITY: No, but Ollie North has.
GRODIN: Would you consent to be waterboarded? We can waterboard you?
HANNITY: Sure.
GRODIN: Are you busy on Sunday?
HANNITY: I'll do it for charity. I'll let you
do it.
This will only work if the waterboarding
is done by somebody who hates Hannity.
The Right has portrayed waterboarding as cuffing
a man and sprinkling his chest with water,
which any six year old could do four hours without
any problem.
The trick comes when the viictim actually believes
he's drowning,
which won't work if Hannity's in a studio
giggling with his co-workers.
So expect a sham.
If they wanted to do this right, they'd blindfold Hannity, strip him
naked and turn him over to me
in a barn far away from his friends. Real quick, Hannity would realize
he was in real danger and you
can bet your balls he would actually be afraid for his life because
I'd hold his head underwater until
he was forced to swallow. After I did that about 20 times, Hannity
would be my little bitch.
I give you my very best Nancy Grace Guarantee that Hannity would go
back to his studio
with an entirely new perspective on the meaning of waterboarding.
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Quotes
"This is not fucking torture!!"
-- Shepherd Smith (R-Tool) live on FOX News, Video
So, if you scream the f-word on live TV, it's not torture?
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Quotes
"Bush has very graciously kept his mouth shut,
in deference to his successor. The same can’t be said of Cheney,
who is rocking the cable news circuit
with his apocalyptic baritone...After spending most of the Bush presidency
in undisclosed locations, Cheney has
become America's surliest pundit."
-- Reiham Salam, Link
"Go fuck
yourself..."
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This is
a story of America. An America beset by tyranny, theocratic skulduggery,
crippling
climate change, diminished petroleum, nature gone awry, and unrelenting
war.
George
W. Bush has been declared Emperor, and the United States is on the verge
of dissolution.
To make
matters worse, bees are disappearing, aliens are invading, and politicians
are in cahoots with bankers.
Why Torture
is Good
by the Whore Stereet Journal Editors
Excerpt:
In a saner world (or at least one that accurately
reported on original documents), all of this would be a point of pride
for the CIA.
It would serve as evidence of the Bush Administration's
scrupulousness regarding the life and health of the detainees,
and demonstrate how wrong are the claims that
harsh interrogations yielded no useful intelligence.
Instead, the release of the memos has unleashed
the liberal mob, with renewed calls in Congress for a "truth commission"
and even, perhaps, Judge Bybee's impeachment
and prosecutions of the other authors. Obama has hinted that
while his
Administration won't prosecute CIA officials,
it may try to sate the mob by going after Bush officials who wrote the
memos.
One major concern here is what Obama's decision
to release these memos says about his own political leadership.
He claims that one of his goals as president
is to restore more comity to our politics, especially concerning national
security.
He also knows he needs a CIA willing to take
risks to keep the country safe. Yet Mr. Obama seems more than willing to
indulge the revenge fantasies of the left, as
long as its potential victims served a different president.
In other words, it's unpatriotic to enforce the law. A few scrolls
above, Bush said,
"I call on all nations to speak out against
torture..." which is exactly what Obama is doing.
Bush knew he was committing crimes and he repeatedly said
"We do not torture."
And now that he's been caught, the Whore Street Journal wants us to
believe that Bush is a decent, honest man?
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Still the best advertising bargain on the Net
Banner ads by the day,
by the week,
or by the month
Quotes
"When the subject has anything to do with sex,
the right in America is the party of moral absolutes.
We know what's right, we know what's wrong,
and even if there's a price to pay we can't shirk our responsibility
to set a proper example and do the right thing.
But when the subject is torture, suddenly it's all about carefully
weighing the costs and benefits. Having
an honest debate about how far we should go to protect ourselves.
Understanding the context of what happened.
It's just not possible to flatly say that waterboarding and sleep
deprivation and stress positions are barbarisms
unfit for use by a civilized country. It's much more complex
than that. Funny how that works, isn't it?"
-- Kevin Drum, Link
He's right - sex is always wrong, according to the Grand
Old Perverts.
But kidnapping? Torture? Rape? Murder?
- it all depends on the circumstances.
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Subject: "American" Cars
Bart, you asked
> So what explains America's refusal to buy
from GM, Ford and Chrysler?
For me it was this:
I had a GM for 3 years and replaced the transmission,
muffler, starter, alternator and catalytic converter.
I had a Chrysler for 2 years and replaced the
alternator, muffler, smog pump, CV joint, 2 clutches, and radiator.
I had a Ford for a year and a half and replaced
the transmission, timing belt, carburator, muffler, alternator,
and vacuum advance unit (wtf ever that is)
Then I had a Subaru for 10 years and drove it
until it had 200,000 miles on it and other
than routine maintenance it was in the shop exactly
once, for a broken tail light cover.
I never even bothered to change the oil until
it went 15 or 20 thousand miles.
I don't really give a crap where it was made,
I just want the thing to go when I need it to.
You know what they say, "fool me 4 times, shame
on me."
Chris in Denver
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Cheney's
Spirit of Openness
Link
Excerpt:
When he was vice president,
Dick Cheney never acknowledged the public's right to know anything. Now,
suddenly,
he has the full disclosure bug. He told Fox News
this week that President Obama’s decision to release memos written
by the Bush Justice Department authorizing the
abuse and torture of detainees inspired him to ask the Central Intelligence
Agency to release transcripts of those interrogations...
Cheney claims that the waterboarding saved thousands
of lives. Most accounts that don't come from officials involved in
the formation of those policies suggest that
that is not the case. The question needs to be answered so Americans can
decide if they want to buy into Mr. Cheney's
view that the ends always justify such barbaric means.
If torture works, if their methods got valuable
information from the al Qaeda guys,
why haven't they caught or killed Bush's former
oil partner, Osama bin Laden?
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Subject: Your World Series of Poker venture
You might want to give folks an update as to what
you are doing to TRAIN for the WSOP.
Perhaps an evening in the Full Tilt room to 'spar'
with your fans?
-- dave
Davbe, we tried that - a bunch of times.
But even when the economy was good, we couldn't find 6 or 9 people
who were willing to risk $1.25 to play poker so after a while we gave
up.
But yeah, I've been playing a lot of $1 sit-n-go tourneys at Fult Tilt.
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Bush started
torturing...
...then he asked if it was legal
Excerpt:
A man imprisoned after 9-11, as a suspected terrorist
was tortured in numerous secret CIA prisons before
Bush bastard memos allowing the practice had
even been written, according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court.
"Beginning in December 2001, [Rafiq] Alhami was
tortured repeatedly, the lawsuit claims," reported the Whore AP.
"The methods were varied: At different times Alhami
was stripped naked, threatened with dogs, shackled in painful
'stress' positions for hours, punched, kicked
and exposed to extremes of heat and cold. The suit also alleges Alhami's
interrogators sprayed pepper spray on his hemorrhoids,
causing extreme pain.
Ouch.
Like the Fascist dogs and Clinton's impeachment, these Bush bastards
were always going to
torture somebody. They just needed an excuse - and 9-11 showed
up and made their day.
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Quotes
"Barack Obama is going to rue the day that
he opened up this Pandora's box,
because this is a Pandora's box that
could bite lot of people, including people in his administration."
-- Forked Tongue Ari Fleischer,
Link
I say we let the chips fall where they may.
If we end up losing Pelosi and Reid, ...well, ...that's a price
I'm willing to pay.
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Subject: the handshake!
I saw Ronald Reagan shaking hands with the leader
of the Evil Empire, Mikhail Gorbachev.
I also saw Pappy Bush shaking hands with Manuel
Noriega.
Both of them sold weapons to Iran.
Of course, we all saw Nixon in China.
Diminished moral standing? Give me a break.....
Steve in MT
Reagan and Bush sold weapons to terrorists, and lied about it - and that's OK.
But if Obama shakes the hand of another country's leader, he's putting
America in danger.
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Randi Rhodes Joins Pigboy/Hannity Network
Excerpt:
Randi Rhodes is joining Clear Channel Inc.'s
Premiere Radio Networks, home to Piggu Piggy and many of the nation's Top
Nazis.
"For Premiere to step up in this economy and take
this show says a lot about Randi," said Robert Gaulin, Ms. Rhodes' lawyer,
who called Premiere "the home of the Rushbo."
Randi will run weekdays starting May 11.
So is Randi going to be on all those Nazi stations?
Do they have the balls to run her between Pigboy
and Hannity?
If so, small towns all over America are about
to hear a whole lotta truth for the first time.
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Subject: A Small Plane in Washington...
Hi Bart,
How is it that the U.S. Air Force can be all over
a small plane within a few minutes
when it wanders into Washington DC protected
air space, but they can't manage to
intercept four commercial jets on 9/11 within
40 minutes?
Nelson
Nelson, the Air Force has admitted they had orders to "stand down" that day.
But, of course, the shit we call the American Whore Media can't be bothered
to cover that because people want more info on what Paris Hilton is
doing..
Reminder:
That 9-11 Commission was a sham designed to make Bush look less stupid
and less guilty.
We have no idea what happened that day.
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Agent Andy Taylor is sent on the most important
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penetrate the Birkenstock Curtain surrounding
Boulder, Colorado.
His team: Barney, Gomer, Floyd and Aunt Bee.
But things go wrong, they are cut off behind
enemy lines.
Were they betrayed? How will they survive?
Subject: 2009 World Series of Poker
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Marty's Entertainment Page
Marty always has good stuff.
Need to take a sudden trip?
Now with working link
Saw it on foxnewsboycott.com
Quotes
"A war crime investigation does not look at
the people who drove the trains -- they look at the people who told
the trains to roll. Bush and Cheney, the CIA
director, the attorney general ... implemented, in full knowledge that
it was a war crime, the torture program. A
true war crime investigation would be given to a special prosecutor,
who would follow it where it would lead him
or her. And that would most certainly lead him...or her to Bush and Cheney
and the people like the CIA director and attorney
general who pushed through this program. God help us if the
only thing we get out of this is a commission
modeled on 9/11."
-- Jonathan Turley, Link
We all know the Bush bastards are guilty - and how do we know?
Because they stood there for years and said, "Torture
is wrong so we're not doing it."
I knew the 9-11 Commission would be a total handjob the minute
they announced that
Lee Whitewash Hamilton would chair the son of a bitch. Gee, I
guess Pauly Shore was busy that day?
Lee Hamilton
helped Poppy Bush cover up Iran-Contra,
so by putting him in charge of Bush's phoney 9-11 commission,
we were guaranteed that "mistakes were made" and "nobody was responsible."
Of course, any investigation will take years and years and the American
Whore Press
will spend those years screaming, "Witch hunt,"
and the public will get sick of it.
Bottom Line:
If you're going to commit global crimes, make 'em super-sized and there's
no penalty.
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Top legislators knew of interrogations
Excerpt:
The CIA briefed top Democrats and Republicans
on the congressional intelligence committees more than 30 times
about Bush's torture schemes, according to intelligence
sources who said the lawmakers tacitly approved the techniques
that some Democrats in Congress now say should
land Bush administration officials in jail.
Between 2002 and 2006, the top Republicans and
Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees
"each got complete, benchmark briefings on the
program," said one of the intelligence sources who is familiar with the
briefings.
"If Congress wanted to kill this program, all it had to do was withhold funding," said the source.
Those who were briefed included Nancy Pelosi,
Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia and Rep. Jane Harman of California,
all Democrats, and Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas,
Sen. Shelby of Alabama and Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, all Republicans.
I say we (figureatively) hang them all.
Pelosi, Rockefeller and Harman should - at the very least - step down
from power.
They supplied the funding for torture and that makes them guilty.
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Subject: Texas wants out
Not sure why you continue to defend the centralized
regime in DC.
As long as that much power is concentrated there,
we will be subject to more military-industrial theft, wars, and corruption.
Obama's administration has confirmed that.
I for one have had enough, and so have a lot
of other people.
It's time to restore human-sized government.
http://middleburyinstitute.org/
Tuggle
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Subject: Git Along Lil Doggie
Ron Kuby had the perfect solution if Texas wants
to secede.
We build that big wall they want on the other
side of Texas and have the
gun lovers in Oklahoma protect the wall to keep
the Texas out of our country.
We invade Texas and steal all their oil.
We make them use passports if they want to travel
in our country.
We do away with NAFTA and tax anything going
in or out of Texas.
I would also suggest a heavy toll at the border.
If a hurricane happens to hit Texas, they can
handle it themselves.
As far as the NFL is concerned, America's team
will become Texas' team
and will not be playing in our NFL anymore. An
added benefit would be that
we would no longer have to worry about Texas'
electorial votes and Democrats
will win every national election. Sounds like
a plan to me.
Rude Rich
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They read it in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
They read it in Lyndonvill, Vermont
They read it in Nuuk, Greenland
They read it in Goldfield, Nevada
They read it in Changchun, China
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Why sell just to America when you can sell to the whole world?
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