Memorial Day Bat Shit Crazy

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Tuesday May 31, 2005 · 2:13 PM PDT

2005/05/31 · 14:13

The man on the podium in front of the kastle looked a lot like a smirking chimpanzee and was certainly screaming like one, "Now is the day of our national humiliation ... ! First there was the Big K ... then there was the Big V ... and today we are engaged in our own personal National Quagmire ...the Big I!!"

The crowd roared it's approval.

"And yes! we have reached the Turning Point, we can see the Light At the End of the Tunnel which is Mission Accomplished: stalemate and utter frustration is in hand and we are well and truly fucked!"

More roaring. I felt faint. It seemed to me that I had heard these words before, somewhere in a rotting jungle hard by the China sea ... Read More

Damn Title 18!

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Thursday May 26, 2005 · 12:58 PM PDT

2005/05/26 · 12:58

Torture isn't torture if we say it isn't, or pornography isn't torture, and what the hell is the definition of "is"?

Title 18 is a part of the US Criminal Code, specifically the felony stuff, like murder, grand theft, fraud and conspiracy. Stuff like that. What we are concerned with here is the torture section, which makes it illegal to torture people pornographically, especially prisoners, whether civilian or military (which is also covered by the Geneva Convention on the Conduct of War, 19 something or other), defining it as a Class 1 felony, punishable by pretty stiff jail sentances, like 25 years to life and a good browbeating.
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The conservative secret agenda

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Thursday April 21, 2005 · 8:56 PM PDT

2005/04/21 · 20:56

While liberals and conservatives bash each other on the head about nominations to ambassadorships and secretaries of state and attorneys general, the key issue is judicial nominations. In the battle between Federalists and strict constructionists, the presiding judge and his precedent-setting rulings and opinions are the prize, and the reactionary conservatives are going for broke.

With Bush, they are united in a common cause to return this country to its pastoral and lassaiz faire roots in a nineteenth century slave labor economy and giant land ownership, including corporate serfdom. And, using Puritan Massachusetts as a model, install a born-again Christian-dominated theocratic government. In order to do this, they must install a radical set of judges across the board, from local municipalities to the Supremes. These radical judges (Bush has already appointed, and the Senate has confirmed, over 200 of them), are hell-bent on destroying any vestige of New Dealism or even mildly progressive legislation. Read More

Executive Order 13303

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Thursday April 14, 2005 · 10:31 AM PDT

2005/04/14 · 10:31

One more time: the Bush administration is a criminal organization guilty of grand theft, hiding behind the mask of legality.

Usually the items that I write up for my blog are things that jump out at me on the TV news or in the LA Times, as I do a double take over the latest Repug chicanery and get steamed up. Yesterday, however, I was listening to Randi Rhodes on Air America (1150 AM in Los Angeles, a Clear Channel [!] station). Randi was talking about Executive Order 13303, which I had never heard of. This got me to wonder just what an Executive Order really is and what color is it and does it have feathers.

I had thought that these directives were just that, either proclamations ("I declare this day Pet Goat Day!") or executive orders straightening out some befuddled agency ("No more assassinations!"), as defined here. Sadly, I was mistaken. Read More

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