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 …

SATAN TRAPPED ME

If you wanna see it good, you must click it Carrie Prejean: “I felt as though Satan was trying to tempt me in asking me this question. And then God was in my head and in my heart saying, “Do not compromise this. You need to stand up for me and you need to share with all these people . …

THE BEAUTY QUEENS’ CRUSADE

Miss America is roused from her post-pageant funk by the familiar strains of Burt Parks. . .

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.

They’re Here To Fux You Up

Maybe Rush Limpbot will buy an island somewhere,
and you can all immigrate there, take a loyalty oath,
and form yourselves a little wingnut paradise.

Oh, Liz. . . Is that Water Coming Outa Your Nose, Or are you just happy to be alive?

If Liz Cheney were captured by an enemy, thrown into a dark and windowless cell, strung from the ceiling by shackles, kept awake for weeks on end, thrown headlong against a plywood wall thirty times in a row and waterboarded 183 times, would she really emerge from that ordeal and say she wasn’t tortured? I mean: really? Let’s get real here: she’s a fraud defending a monster.