Beatings, partial drownings, slamming detainees against walls, punching, kicking, poisonous stinging insects, forced nudity, sleep deprivation, profound disruption of sensory input, exposure to extreme cold and heat, all of it was so very necessary in prying loose information the psychopathic former vice president claims would have been used to keep us snug and secure at night when we climb into our cozy beds, and he slides back into his box of sacred dirt. . .
Now, this is what really annoys me about scientists. Their punctiliousness makes in damned near impossible for them to think creatively about anything. They all just assume that the only kind of life the universe is capable of harboring has to be in the same fucking temperature range as our little ball of mud, because . . . well, just because.
Like most nations, the United States continues to conduct espionage against other nations, and we use clandestine spies employed by the CIA to get the information we think we need to keep us safe.
Hugh Francis Redmond was just such a fellow.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, aka “Blue Mosque”, Istanbul, Turkey Though the bulk of US media coverage of President Obama’s tour to the Middle East shows visuals of him addressing the Turkish Parliament in Ankara and US troops outside Baghdad, the one that captures my interest is his visit to Istanbul’s Blue Mosque. I was there almost a decade ago to …
Only by coming together, all of us, and expressing that sense of shared sacrifice and responsibility … can we do the work that must be done in this country. That is the very definition of being American.”
I don’t know what anybody’s “traffic” is like, so I don’t know who could possibly be is smaller than we-uns right here, but first I tell you to check out the usual suspects on our blog roll, and then with all the time left over you’ll want to check out this bunch of malcontents.
The Small Voice We know that the still small voice is there to be heard, and yet every excuse is made not to find the time to listen to it. You think you desire to put aside a small part of each day for your divine appointment, and yet, your mental appetites make it impossible of accomplishment. Some people even …
