Judgment Day

It’s time to excise the cancer for the American body politic known as Bush-Cheney Administration. When both Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Grand Inquisitor Darth Cheney agree that critical documents be declassified about how torture was used during the previous eight years, you know the worm has turned. In other words, it’s time for a truth commission. …

JUNE Apocalypse

The Apocalypse just keeps on coming; this month, Dick says to Jesus, “I can take that there dove off your hands with one shot.”
Got my June Issue of Apocalypse Magazine today, even though my subscription expired a year ago, there have been massive layoffs and firings of writers and staff, and the company is in receivership. Now ain’t that America for you and me. When I first subscribed, I didn’t realize that there was another meaning for the word apocalypse, product of popular culture that I am.

Torture In Context: Update 3 3/4

Since my April 22 post, Torture In Context, I’ve noticed a number of people pursuing the same logical conclusion from slightly different angles: The reverse engineered SERE torture resistance training used on various al Qaeda captives was not designed to produce actionable intelligence but to elicit false confessions to support the case for the invasion of Iraq. These have included …

The Christian Obama Nation

Are we “One” yet?  Click and see. Friend Quaker Dave writes, “We have become what it is we claim to fear.” Rather:  We have always been and still are what we claim we hate. And that is a people that continue to justify the torture and murder of other human beings in the name of— whatever. If America really is …

The Darth Cheney Torture Tour

Darth Cheney takes to the road on his 50 state torture tour What is it with Dick Cheney these days? Why the hell is he still on my teevee? I can’t decide whether he’s trying to taint the jury pool for his war crimes trial or whether he’s just so full of himself that he can’t shut up. Probably both. …

Torture In Context: Update 2

Darth Cheney’s ancestor getting the story Last month, I wrote: 3. The “brainwashing” techniques from which the Bush Administration’s torture regime was derived was specifically DESIGNED TO PRODUCE FALSE CONFESSIONS FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES. HuLO-OH… (I still recall grainy black and white film of harried looking POWs from the Korean War, denouncing America; dozens of videos of John McCain doing the …

George W. Bush Liebrary Update: Fund Drive Kills

An urgent fund raising letter sent to current and prospective donors to the George W. Bush Presidential Liebrary has met with an overwhelming response, yielding over $100 million since the Bush Administration left office.