"The government is now recommending that schools stay open even if they have a
confirmed case of swine flu. I love it. In one week, the swine flu has gone
from the end of the world to not as bad as snow."
- Jimmy Fallon
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
GOP Pollster:
Our National Security Attacks On Obama Make Us Look "Irrelevant"
http://tinyurl.com/cq4b3n
A high-profile and well-respected GOP pollster is strongly criticizing the new
effort by the GOP Congressional leadership to revive the party's national
security attacks on Obama, saying the strategy risks making the party look "out
of touch and irrelevant."
"What are we, in a time machine?" the pollster, Tony Fabrizio, asked scornfully
in an interview with me moments ago. "We just got clobbered in two successive
elections and lost majorities in both Houses, and the leadership appears to
keep on playing the same cards." ...
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
"The White House announced Friday that Joe Biden will travel to Bosnia,
Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo. Biden was surprised and wanted to know who
scheduled a trip to Bosnia on a boat that goes through the coast of Somalia."
- Pedro Bartes
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
CORRECTION
Last week we mistakenly reported that CIA interrogators waterboarded Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed 183 times in March, 2003, an average of slightly more than six
times per day. In fact, there are 31 days in March, so he was waterboarded an
average of slightly less than six times per day. We regret the error.
- IronicTimes.com
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
Torture Memo Author Advocated Presidential Pardons, Jury Nullification
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/06/pressure-increases-on-tor_n_197764.html
A Bush administration attorney who approved harsh interrogation techniques of
terror suspects advocated in 2006 that President Bush set aside recommendations
by his own Justice Department to bring prosecutions for such practices, that
the President should consider pardoning anyone convicted of such offenses, and
even that jurors hearing criminal cases about such matters engage in jury
nullification.
That advice came from John Yoo, a former attorney with the Justice Department's
Office of Legal Counsel and author of memos that served as a legal rationale
for the Bush administration's interrogation techniques. Yoo's recommendations
constitute one of the most compelling pieces of a body of evidence that Yoo and
other government attorneys improperly skewed legal advice to allow such
practices, according to sources familiar with a still-confidential Justice
Department report. ...
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
The Shallow End
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=e33fa9b121716da4fa3839e36f1a5e67
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of
civilization."
- Sigmund Freud
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
BUSH LIBRARY PLANS WATERBOARDING EXHIBIT
Visitors Will Be Able to Experience Genuine 'Near Drowning'
http://www.satirium.com/2009/05/bush-library-plans-waterboarding-exhibit/
The Board of Directors of the George W. Bush Presidential Library voted 13-0 to
establish a waterboarding exhibit in which visitors who pay an extra admission
fee will be subjected to the controversial "enhanced interrogation" technique.
"As the unanimous nature of the vote indicates, the board was quite
enthusiastic about establishing this exhibit," said a library spokesman. "The
board feels that allowing the public to see firsthand someone undergoing
waterboarding will convincingly show the public that it is not torture and
President Bush did not allow torture during his administration."
A member of the Board, who asked not to be identified, said he hoped that
senior members of the Bush Administration would agree to allow themselves to be
subjected to waterboarding at the Library's exhibit in a series of fund-raising
events.
"I'm confident that if someone like Vice President Cheney were to undergo
waterboarding at the Library, that event alone could raise several million
dollars in pledges," said a board member, who asked not to be identified.
"Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Al Gonzales -- there's a whole host of people who
could undergo waterboarding and put the Bush Library fund raising well over the
top," he said.
The board member said there was "spirited, enthusiastic discussion" at the
meeting about the fund-raising potential in selling video DVDs showing former
Bush Administration officials undergoing waterboarding at the museum.
"There's a goldmine here for the Bush library. Imagine the royalties from a
video game in which the players could use waterboarding of Cheney and Rumsfeld
to score points and so on," the board member said.
A spokesman for Cheney said the former vice president was "greatly cheered by
the board's decision and believes such an exhibit will forcefully show the
public that waterboarding is not torture, that it is a humane and effective
tool to encourage a detainee to cooperate during an interrogation."
He said the former vice president "would be happy to undergo waterboarding at
the Library as a fund-raiser, provided his doctors will permit it."
Cheney wears a heart pacemaker. His doctors would most likely rule out letting
him undergo waterboarding, even if the former vice president doesn't consider
it torture.
Media reports have said that the library's board of trustees hopes to raise
$500 million for the facility, which will be built on the campus of Southern
Methodist University in Dallas.
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
TORTURE....
http://webpages.charter.net/micah/lds.jpg
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
"George W. Bush was reported Monday to have raised a hundred million dollars
for his presidential library at Southern Methodist University. Silence will not
be tolerated inside. It's the only library in the world that tortures you
unless you talk."
- Argus Hamilton
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
To keep from closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, top House Republicans have
proposed legislation -- the "Keep Terrorists Out of America Act" -- to block
the Obama administration from transferring any detainees to any state without
receiving approval from that state's legislature and governor.
About 240 detainees remain at Guantanamo, and dozens of those have been cleared
for release.... some, as long as 4 years ago.
And don't forget the SuperMax prisons we already have for the worst of the
worst.
To show you what WATB's the Republicans are:
At the end of World War II there were 175 POW camps spread out over the US.
containing over 425,000 prisoners of war.
(note: WATB = Whiny Ass Titty Baby)
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRWi1yzf43U
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
"House Democrats included no money in the military funding bill Tuesday for the
transfer of terror detainees from Guantanamo prison, because no states will
take them. It's a dangerous time to have Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in California.
William Morris is about to fire one hundred agents who will be thirsting for
revenge and looking for a leader."
- Argus Hamilton
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
Prepare Yourself....
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=3c1b65219ddcdc899789c6723d52280e
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
"Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a group of fourth graders that
the Bush Administration never used torture to interrogate terrorist suspects.
Condoleezza spoke to the fourth graders using simple, uncomplicated words that
they could easily understand. Same way she explained it to President Bush.
Almost verbatim."
- Jay Leno
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
Babes in TortureLand
http://tinyurl.com/dcfgbc
. . Then a fourth-grader named Misha Lerner asked a tough one: what did Rice
think about the things President Obama's administration had been saying
concerning methods used by the previous administration to get information from
detainees? ...
"Let me just say that President Bush was very clear that he wanted to do
everything he could to protect the country," Rice responded. "After September
11, we wanted to protect the country. But he was also very clear that we would
do nothing, nothing, that was against the law or against our obligations
internationally. So the president was only willing to authorize policies that
were legal in order to protect the country."
Rice's response to the Babes in TortureLand echoed what she had said earlier at
Stanford, while pleading for sympathy: "I hope you understand that it was a
very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the
country." Nevertheless, she reiterated, "Even under those most difficult
circumstances, the president was not prepared to do something illegal..." ...
"And I'll tell you something," she continued. "Unless you were there in a
position of responsibility after September 11th, you cannot possibly imagine
the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans. And I know a lot of
people are second-guessing now, but let me tell you what second-guessing would
really have hurt me -- if the second-guessing had been about 3,000 more
Americans dying because we didn't do everything we could to protect them."
Apparently when you're in that position of responsibility, it helps to be
'tough-minded' like Bush and Rice. ...
=--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--= =--=
BREAKING NEWS from PNN.news.com
-- Condi ignored warnings: '4th Grader Determined to Strike'; "How was I to
know that a 4th grader would have a superior moral code and more respect for
the law than a certain Stanford professor of Political Science?"
(SatiricalPolitical.com)
PNN:
Making you more informed and obnoxious than when you woke up.
*************************************************************
© 2008 PBen News Network, Inc. "We say it, you believe it."
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/WebTV-Pals
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
