Archive for the 'gop crime' Category
Complicit Democrats
Glenn Greenwald confirms what I’ve been saying since 2007. he links to the same Washington Post article about Nancy Pelosi’s knowledge of torture too.
It is absolutely the case that, as Mayer pointed out yesterday and as I wrote about at the time, Bush officials faced serious danger of criminal liability in the wake of [...]
Cruelty x2
Disgusting treatment of illegal immigrants, and a must read.
“It is no secret that the Postville ICE raid was a pilot operation, to be replicated elsewhere, with kinks ironed out after lessons learned. Next time, “fast-tracking” will be even more relentless. Never before has illegal immigration been criminalized in this fashion. It is no longer enough [...]
Moneybomb!
Glennzilla’s got the details:
All of this highlights the central political dilemma in the U.S. The Bush-led Republican Party, marching in virtual lockstep, has been the author of the radicalism, extremism and lawlessness of the last seven years, presiding over an endlessly expanding Surveillance State and accompanying war-making machine, and the dismantling of numerous core Constitutional [...]
Money Bomb
Please click the link on the top of my right sidebar, and ledge something to the August 8 moneybomb.
Let’s fuck the sonsofbitches who stole our rights like they’ve never been fucked before. Let’s fuck ‘em so hard they feel like Annabel Chong.
Arlen Specter E-Mails Me; I Call Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter emailed me this afternoon. All emphases are mine.
Dear Mr. Skwire:
Thank you for contacting my office to express your concerns regarding the United States’ treatment of detained enemy combatants and suspected terrorists. I appreciate your interest in this matter and your willingness to share your views with me.
I have consistently supported efforts to prohibit [...]
Fuel Prices Fucking Families
Tell me about it…
Gas prices have gone up steadily in the last few days, jumping from an average of $3.42 Saturday to $3.44 yesterday in Philadelphia, and from $3.26 to $3.29 in South Jersey.
With gas prices jumping an average of 16 cents in two weeks nationally, they are as high as they were during the [...]
Shaming and Shunning
One of the ways in which the Amish maintain social order is through the practice of shunning those individuals who refuse to meet community standards of behavior. In 1997, the New York Times did an interesting piece on the role of public shaming, stating
Even those skeptical of the penalties, whose effectiveness has never been [...]
Crappy Birthday to You…
Happy Birthday Iraq War! You were supposed to be over in 6 months, and only cost a few billion dollars. We were going to be greeted with candy and flowers, greeted as liberators! We were going to get cheap oil and gasoline as a result, and a flowering Jeffersonian democracy!
So Happy Birthday [...]
Captain Petard
Well, well, well. Look who got caught sticking his dingaling in a woman who’s not his [second] wife.
A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate [...]
Ahhh! So THAT’s Why Impeachment’s Off the Table!
Via Atrios and Corrente, with links to the Washington Post, Nancy Pelosi knew about the torture all along and chose to do nothing.
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique[ly illegal and unconstitutional?] CIA program designed to wring [torture] vital [...]
