"While meeting with several U.S. Congressmen yesterday, Cuban leader Raul
Castro vowed to continuing defying America and its "evil" capitalist society.
But his defiant stand was tempered somewhat when Castro asked the Congressmen
if they had any spare toilet paper."
- Jake Novak
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Lifting Restrictions?
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=707b0582d9aa3e500a19ac43a2c5337e
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Press Allowed To Cover Return of Dead Soldiers
http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/press_allowed_to_cover_return_of
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the media was permitted to witness a
casket containing the body of a dead soldier arrive on U.S. soil. What do you
think?
Helen Steuben, Willow Worker
"Does this mean the press will be able to see alive soldiers returning to
America sometime soon?"
Paul Sabers, Mechanical Engineer
"Well, I guess this makes pictures of the unemployed slightly less depressing."
Tony Koch, Systems Analyst
"I'm glad they're doing it, but it's a shame that the question-and-answer part
didn't go so hot."
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It's Time....
http://tinyurl.com/cbznaf
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Obama In Baghdad, Tells Troops Iraq Must Take Over
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_obama_iraq
Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into
Iraq on Tuesday and promptly declared it was time for Iraqis to "take
responsibility for their country" after America's commitment of six years and
thousands of lives.
"You have given Iraq the opportunity to stand on its own as a democratic
country," the president said as he made a brief inspection of a war he opposed
as candidate and now vows to end as commander in chief. "That is an
extraordinary achievement."
A total of 4,265 U.S. troops have lost their lives in Iraq since March 2003,
and Obama said American forces had "performed brilliantly ... under enormous
strain."
"It is time for us to transition to the Iraqis," he said as an estimated 600
troops cheered. "They need to take responsibility for their country." ...
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Obama Makes First Visit To Iraq
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2009-04/46030259.jpg
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"A pilot, who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight school and
was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets, was taken into
custody after he landed on a Missouri highway. The FBI was shocked: who on
earth would leave Canada nowadays to come to Missouri?"
- Pedro Bartes
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>From Now On....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=dda1d46adff1547d3571e7ccff059975
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Report Outlines Medical Workers' Role in Torture
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/world/07detain.html
Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of
terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency, including
torture, and their participation was a "gross breach of medical ethics," a
long-secret report by the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded.
Based on statements by 14 prisoners who belonged to Al Qaeda and were moved to
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in late 2006, Red Cross investigators concluded that
medical professionals working for the C.I.A. monitored prisoners undergoing
waterboarding, apparently to make sure they did not drown Medical workers were
also present when guards confined prisoners in small boxes, shackled their arms
to the ceiling, kept them in frigid cells and slammed them repeatedly into
walls, the report said.
Facilitating such practices, which the Red Cross described as torture, was a
violation of medical ethics even if the medical workers' intentions had been to
prevent death or permanent injury, the report said. But it found that the
medical professionals' role was primarily to support the interrogators, not to
protect the prisoners, and that the professionals had "condoned and
participated in ill treatment."
At times, according to the detainees' accounts, medical workers "gave
instructions to interrogators to continue, to adjust or to stop particular
methods." ...
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"A new Red Cross report says medical professionals working for the C.I.A.
helped torture inmates. Apparently, while the agents waterboarded the
detainess, Doctors innundated them with thousands of pages of medical forms to
fill out."
- Jake Novak
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The Bush Six
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/04/13/090413ta_talk_mayer
"If I were they," he said, referring to the former [Bush] officials in
question, "I would think carefully before setting foot outside the United
States. They are now, and forever in the future, at risk of arrest. Until this
is sorted out, they are in their own legal black hole."
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What Happened?!?
http://cagle.com/working/090408/chappatte.gif
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TOP TEN SIGNS YOUR KID IS IN AL QAEDA
from The Late Show with David Letterman
© CBS Broadcasting Inc.
10. His name: Mike Jenkins -- now goes by Mike Bin Jenkins
9. Runs inside for cover whenever a satellite flies overhead
8. His chemistry tutor? Chemical Ali
7. If he doesn't like what's for dinner, he throws a shoe at you
6. On invitation to his birthday party, he wrote "No Kurds"
5. Hides in his room and communicates through randomly-released audiotaped
messages
4. Yearbook declares him "Most likely to defeat the American jackals in the
name of Allah"
3. Asks to go to sleepaway camp in Peshawar, Pakistan
2. Happiest day of his life: when Ayman Al Zawahiri showed up at his Bar Mitzvah
1. Instead of Hannah Montana, he has a crush on Pooja Fallujah
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INCOMING!!!
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=c7a5fec96ca035c2497d69586a5fde61
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Obama's "Respect" For Muslims Is Code For Submission
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/06/gaffney-fan-cheney/
David Corn: Where in that speech does he say we're going to submit to anybody?
Frank Gaffney: I think what he is using is code... When he uses the word
"respect," in the context of a waist-bow to the king of Saudi Arabia, for
example, and talks about respectful language, which is code for those who
adhere to Sharia that we will submit to Sharia. We will submit to the kind of
program--
David Shuster: We have to know the code? We all have to know the code to
understand how we're making ourselves more vulnerable? ... David Corn was
asking you for a specific example, and you're referring to code. You're
referring to code!
Frank Gaffney: I'm telling you the code as they receive it in the Taliban
headquarters and in al Qaeda's cave and in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They
perceive this as submission. ...
"I'm a member of Dick Cheney's fan club!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gi6Y2Rk5sk
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"Sometimes it's hard to believe that these people are the end result of the
fastest sperm in the load."
- TBogg, tbogg.firedoglake.com
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So, how does Gaffney reconcile this?!?
http://dohiyimir.typepad.com/bush-abdulah.jpg
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it
at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
- Buddha
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So.... B. Hussein Obama is not only in cahoots with the Zionists (re: Seder at
the White House!), but he submits to the Ayrabs too?!?
IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!!!
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The "Notice-Me-Now" Rocket
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/08/fiorenoticeDTL
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BIDEN: CHENEY IS 'DEAD WRONG'
http://tinyurl.com/cvbgmd
"I don't think [Cheney] is out of line, but he is dead wrong," he told CNN's
Wolf Blitzer. "This administration -- the last administration left us in a
weaker posture than we've been any time since World War II: less regarded in
the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars
under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world.
"... I guarantee you we are safer today, our interests are more secure today
than they were any time during the eight years" of the Bush administration. ...
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Oh, "Dick", Will You Never Shut Up?!?
http://us.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2009/03/25/mitchell/index.html
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Pentagon Misplaces Dick Cheney
http://www.crystalair.com/content.php?id=99200904006
The Pentagon's Inspector General yesterday released a report that suggests the
government may have lost track of former Vice President Dick Cheney and has no
idea where to locate him. Officials fear that if he is not found, he may fall
into the wrong hands.
"They really have no idea where he is," Rhonda Blythe, a senior analyst at the
Center for Defence Information, told CAP News. "It likely means that this
angry, bitter old man is loose in the wild, and God help us if he starts his
bitching."
Equipment, personnel and other consumable items no longer needed by various
branches of the U.S. government are often transferred to foreign governments as
"excess defense articles," a kind of Goodwill program for developing
third-world countries. Pentagon officials believe Cheney may have been shipped
to the Pacific island country of Kiribati.
"This oversight increases the risk of providing a foreign government
unauthorized property that could be used to threaten our national security,"
the report concluded. "Not to mention our diplomatic ties with that country
once they get sick of [Cheney] and his antics."
Political pundits have been hesitant to put much stock into the Pentagon
report, pointing out that Cheney has disappeared before only to resurface
unharmed. Many believe that when the time is right for Cheney to level new
accusations at President Obama, he will return. ...
"I can only imagine what our buddy Dick must be going through. Cold, lonely,
shivering and hungry," said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). "Won't you come home, Dick
Cheney? Won't you please come home?"
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"Is this where we're headed?"
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904020037
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The emerging portrait of Richard Poplawski: A white-supremacist radical
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/emerging-portrait-richard-poplawski-
Thanks to some sleuth work on the Internet, we're starting to learn more about
Richard Poplawski, the 23-year-old who killed three police officers yesterday
in Pittsburgh, evidently out of fear that his guns were going to be taken away.
...
He slept with a gun under his pillow in a basement room filled with firearms
and ammunition, convinced that Jews controlled the media and President Obama
was scheming to take away his arsenal, friends and relatives said Saturday. ...
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I will never be paranoid enough to be a conservative....
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American Therapy
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=0f56cdccf9b78850df5d8d9235a7d17e
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Caller criticizes Limbaugh, Hannity, etal, on torture:
"It's like you're all brainwashed"
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904070031
LIMBAUGH: We're going to go to Chicago. This is Charles. Charles, thank you for
waiting and for calling. Great to have you here. Hello.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Rush, listen, I voted Republican, and I didn't -- really
didn't want to see Obama get in office. But, you know, Rush, you're one reason
to blame for this election, for the Republicans losing.
First of all, you kept harping about voting for Hillary. The second big issue
is the -- was the torture issue. I'm a veteran. We're not supposed to be
torturing these people. This is not Nazi Germany, Red China, or North Korea.
There's other ways of interrogating people, and you kept harping about it --
"It's OK," or "It's not really torture." And it was just more than
waterboarding. Some of these prisoners were killed under torture.
And it just -- it was crazy for you to keep going on and on like Levin and
Hannity and Hewitt. It's like you're all brainwashed.
And my last comment is, no matter what Obama does, you will still criticize him
because I believe you're brainwashed. You're just -- and I hate to say it --
but I think you're a brainwashed Nazi. Anyone who could believe in torture just
has got to be - there's got to be something wrong with them. ...
LIMBAUGH: Charles, Barack Obama is president of the United States today because
of stupid, ignorant people who think like you do. You pose -- you and your
ignorance are the most expensive commodity this country has. You think you know
everything. You don't know diddly-squat.
You call me a Nazi? You call me somebody who supports torture and you want
credibility on this program? You know, you're just plain embarrassing and
ludicrous. But it doesn't surprise me that you're the kind of Republican that
our last candidate attracted. Because you're no Republican at all based on what
the hell you've said here.
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Living In Fear....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=711328d63f481a6a0a58ac59976132e7
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Pope Rush excommunicates those who don't follow the dogma....
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Postcard: AMMO
http://tinyurl.com/crkrul
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Pardon me, Jeff Foxworthy!
If you've ever altered your teachings about the history of the world to include
humans riding dinosaurs because they're a popular marketing tool for the
kiddies, you might be a Republican....
If you've ever demanded that people follow your "Contract with America" while
breaking your marriage contract with two different wives, you might be a
Republican....
If you've ever lamented the slipping morality of America while snorting cocaine
of a gay male hooker's back while within eyesight of children while filming
"Jesus Camp", you might be a Republican....
If you've ever allowed a gay, male hooker posing as a legitimate journalist to
ask questions at a White House press briefing, you might be a Republican....
If you've ever taken a "wide stance" in a public toilet, you might be a
Republican....
If you've ever promoted War as a solution for Peace, you might be a
Republican....
If you've ever shot a close friend in the face, and HE apologized to YOU, you
might be a Republican....
If you've ever sent troops in harm's way and then failed to supply them with
adequate arms and armor, PLUS cut their VA medical benefits when they came home
wounded, you might be a Republican....
If you ever thought starting a war was a good way to boost the economy, you
might be a Republican....
If you've ever demanded that we give up our freedoms in order to defend them,
you might be a Republican....
If you've ever claimed that $4.9 million a year isn't rich, you might be a
Republican....
If you've ever wished for the President of the United States of America to FAIL
in his efforts to lead the nation, you might be a Republican....
If you've ever apologized to Rush Limbaugh, you might be a Republican....
If you've ever prepared your budget without numbers, you might be a
Republican....
If you've actually had your guns pried from your cold, dead hands, you might be
a Republican....
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