How I Predicted the False Torture Confessions

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 9:40 PM PDT

2009/05/14 · 21:40

Last month, we found out that the real reason the Bush administration tortured prisoners was the same reason that evil people always torture prisoners -- to extract false confessions. In particular, as we learned from Col. Lawrence Wilkerson today, Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney was looking for an excuse to invade Iraq, so he ordered interrogators to torture prisoners until they said that Saddam Hussein was helping Al-Qaeda. Well, who could have predicted such a thing?

Me, that's who.

(the amazing truth, below the fold)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Thursday August 07, 2008 · 6:04 AM PDT

2008/08/07 · 06:04

Now that the McCain campaign has revealed the startling fact that the South Side of Chicago is actually a hotbed of elitism, it looks like we'll have to revise that Jim Croce classic, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".

Hit it, Jim!

"Well the South Side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named ~~Leroy Brown~~ Barack Obama"

(more after the jump)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 9:33 AM PDT

2008/07/30 · 09:33

It's been a while since we've had a good old-fashioned poll-freeping here at the Daily Kos. Now's your chance to take part in this time-honored tradition. Simply follow this link to an AOL straw poll and vote for Barack Obama.

The poll currently has McCain ahead 70 - 30%, so you can be pretty sure it's already being freeped by the Freepers. Let's see if we can change those numbers!

McCain's latest flip-flop: payroll taxes

Thomas Kalinowski

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Tuesday July 29, 2008 · 11:58 AM PDT

2008/07/29 · 11:58

From the AP comes this story of Straight-Talk McMaverick flip-flopping on the issue of raising payroll taxes. The story quotes McCain thusly:

At a July 7 town-hall meeting in Denver, he said voters faced a stark choice between him and Democrat Barack Obama.

"Sen. Obama will raise your taxes," McCain said. "I won't."

Two days later, though, McCain began backpeddling.

(backpeddle beyond flip)

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Running for the RI General Assembly

Thomas Kalinowski

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Friday June 27, 2008 · 12:14 AM PDT

2008/06/27 · 00:14

Yeah, that's right, I've finally succumbed to the peer pressure here at the Great Orange Satan and thrown by battered old "Dean for America" hat into the ring. I'm running for a seat in the Rhode Island General Assembly.

The lower house of the GA, the House of Representatives, has 75 members, and my own district, the 75th, was held by Democrat Paul W. Crowley. Crowley died of cancer back in September 2007, and in a special election the seat was won by a Republican, Steve Coaty. Now it's time for Coaty to defend his seat, and he's got two Democratic challengers: me, and a guy named Peter Martin.

(more)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Friday December 28, 2007 · 5:32 AM PST

2007/12/28 · 05:32

Jonah Goldberg, whose only claim to fame is being the offspring of Clinton stalker Lucianne Goldberg, has for the last several years been working on an utter load of frequently-retitled crap called (currently) Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.

As the series of excerpts from Sadly, No! and Spencer Ackerman make clear, Goldberg's magnum dopus is just as awful as you'd suspect from the title. It deserves every bit of mockery that it has (and will) collect.

One such piece of mockery is this post by internet satirist Jon Swift, a lolcats version of Liberal Fascism. I think you can see where I'm going here.

(to be continued)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Friday October 05, 2007 · 4:12 PM PDT

2007/10/05 · 16:12

President Bush today cited the growing cholera epidemic in Iraq as evidence that the troop surge is succeeding. He was echoed by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a spokesman for General David H. Petreus, commander of Coalition forces in Iraq.

Yesterday saw the death of Majida Hamid Ibrahim, a 40-year-old woman from Baghdad's southern outskirts who became the first confirmed cholera case in the Iraqi capital from an outbreak spreading around the country.

(more below)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 6:40 AM PDT

2007/04/24 · 06:40

Journalism is a serious profession, just like being a doctor, or a scientist, or an accountant. We know this, because the journalists themselves tell us so. And even though doctors, scientists, and accountants belong to professional organizations that police their members to ensure that they maintain the highest ethical standards, and journalists don't, who are we to question them?

So you'll understand that not everyone is cut out to be a journalist. You can't just show up at a White House press briefing claiming to be from some news outfit nobody ever heard of, and expect to be taken seriously.

Do you have what it takes to be a Serious Journalist? Take the test beyond the jump, and find out!

Thomas Kalinowski

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Thursday March 15, 2007 · 12:54 PM PDT

2007/03/15 · 12:54

In a statement released today, the Daily Worker has announced that it has reached an agreement with the Nevada Democratic Party and the Western Majority Project to have the venerable news operation host a Democratic presidential debate in Reno in August. Daily Worker editor Terrie Albano stated:

"The Daily Worker is proud to be a leader in coverage of the 2008 campaign season and a co-host of this important presidential debate. We look forward to working with the Nevada Democratic Party and the Western Majority Project."

(more after the break)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Tuesday February 20, 2007 · 8:01 AM PST

2007/02/20 · 08:01

Dear Abby,

An unfortunate incident occurred yesterday, and I'd like your advice on how to proceed.

My neighbor George (we share a duplex) asked to borrow the car so he could drive blindfolded to the 7-Eleven and buy a smoke alarm, because he was worried that our duplex might catch fire. My wife, who is very shrill and swears a lot, told me I shouldn't do it because George would just get into a terrible accident and might kill somebody, and anyway they don't sell smoke alarms at the 7-Eleven.

(story continues)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Saturday February 17, 2007 · 9:17 PM PST

2007/02/17 · 21:17

A.P. NEW YORK 3 February 2009
Billionaire George Soros announced today that he has purchased former president George W. Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch for an undisclosed sum. Bush announced the sale of his Prairie Chapel Ranch – actually a pig farm -- to an unnamed buyer two days after the end of his term of office.

Soros has stated that he intends to transform the property into a theme park and museum called the WorstPresidentEverland Ranch, featuring Bush-themed carnival attractions and artifacts from Bush’s eight years in office.

(continued on p. 2)

Thomas Kalinowski

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Saturday February 17, 2007 · 5:55 PM PST

2007/02/17 · 17:55

What went wrong in Iraq? Well, for one thing, the whole notion of trying to use military force to create political change was fatally flawed. Even so, there were specific conditions in Iraq that guaranteed the occupation's failure and contributed to making a bad idea into a worst-case scenario, and they can all, ultimately, be traced to the state of the Republican Party.

There were several factions within the Republican Party going into the invasion, each with its own goals and methods, and they were operating at cross-purposes. Each interfered with the goals of the others, and together they succeeded in transforming a brutal but stable dictatorship into a cesspool of chaos, violence, and civil war.

(details of the train wreck below the fold)

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