Maybe if someone shows this to Obama, he'll close the place. And the secret second prison in Bagram where we are still torturing:
Most Guantanamo detainees low-level fighters, task force report says.
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The Palin Brand
In the midst of one of the most precipitous political crashes in the Mountain West, Sarah Palin made a mad dash into Boise on Friday, urging the election of a man who had plagiarized his campaign speech from Barack Obama, had been rebuked by the military for misusing the Marine uniform and had called the American territory of Puerto Rico a separate country.
And why not? Vaughn Ward, the Republican congressional candidate from Idaho, has the dubious character trifecta of the Palin brand: bone-headed, defiant and willfully ignorant. When told that Puerto Rico was not a country, he said, "I don't care what you call it."
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We just had the 1,000 US death in the Afghanistan war, which is also our longest running war, ever.
So sad. Let's not forget that our long weekend is to remember our heroes — whoever they happen to be — and to remember those who have gone before us.
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If you're ever lucky enough to be in Afghanistan, Gunnery Sgt. Benjamin Lepping's left butt cheek has a special surprise… the soldier said. "I decided, 'What could be better than getting a tattoo of the hottest cougar in the Republican Party?'"
And all this time I just thought Mooselini was a butt-head.
(Raw Story)
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The start of the cougar season
Happy Memorial Day to Sarah Palin and the troops! (same thing)
Hooray, it's… an ugly Blingee! It depicts America's Fence, keepin' those perverts away from America's Piper Palin, except for the ones that can moondance through the large, large gap. Happy Memorial Day weekend to the troops, as well as regular humans! Everyone walkin' around the beach, stone drunk, no pants, no nothin'…
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Money well spent? - Dims pass a $60 BILLION war bill.
Deficit reduction 1 - Dims cut $24 BILLION in healthcare extensions for the unemployed.
Deficit reduction 2 - Dims cut $23 BILLION payout to preserve 100,000 teachers's jobs.
And that is our lesson today about priorities, and how to balance the budget GOP-style, which means on the backs of the poor. Besides, why do we need to educate the cannon fodder?
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Liveblogging Obama On The Gulf Coast, Talking About… Let's See… Oil Spill?
Barack Obama is down in Louisiana near the abandoned beaches and marshes soaked in oil and murder. He has a little podium set up near some rocks, protecting him from the oil and mud and dead animals and unemployment. Let's see what he has to say, if he ever talks! We hear that he's going to throw some money at gulf coast people. Hooray!
3:00 — OBAMA'S COMING OUT. It looks so hot out there. Oh good god, he has Charlie Crist on one side, David Vitter on the other. Is it possible for Obama to get out of this situation without a brutal gangbang?
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Watergate x1 billion
Legal, normal political dealing with Sestak made sleazy by Bill Clinton's involvement
Ha ha, how'd that "White House investigation" go, Barack? Pretty good, we bet: "It has been suggested that the Administration may have offered Congressman Sestak the position of Secretary of the Navy in the hope that he would accept the offer and abandon a Senate candidacy. This is false." Hooray! But what about the other thing, the part everybody's actually jabbering about? "The White House Chief of Staff enlisted the support of former President Clinton who agreed to raise with Congressman Sestak options of service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board. Congressman Sestak declined the suggested alternatives, remaining committed to his Senate candidacy." Who is reporting this made-up sleaze? Oh, the White House counsel? Okay. MORE »
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Who the hell wishes he was Steve Doocy?!
Ha ha, I mean, oh gross! The damn socialist teleprompter strikes again! Or did it...
Fox News anchor Clayton Morris called himself the wrong name Friday -- twice! Morris was reading the intro to the Fox & Friends web feature, Fox Flash, when he jokingly introduced himself as "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy.
"Hey there everyone, I'm Steve Doocy, this is your Fox Flash," Morris said.
At the end of the segment, he did it again.
"That's your morning Fox Flash, I'm Steve Doocy," he said.
A Fox News insider says, "It was wishful thinking on Morris' part, and executives didn't find it amusing."
OK, Maybe Gretchen Carlson does. But that's besides the point.
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The Grand Old Panderers
Last night, Republican warnings of voting as a block turned out to be bluster. They'd promised a "vigorous defense" of the policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but five Republicans wound up voting for repeal. Rising GOP star Paul Ryan actually sat out the vote, perhaps a signal that Republican house leadership had given up on the idea. And shame on the 26 Democrats who voted against it. Still, the repeal -- conditional though it is -- passed the house 229-168. Sanity prevailed.
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Christian Prisons
Corrections Concepts Inc.'s effort to establish America's first all-Christian prison in Oklahoma has hit some roadblocks, but it is still continuing to move down the pike.
And while the proposal might still be a pipedream for Bill Robinson, the founder of Corrections Concepts Inc., it appears to be inching ever closer to reality.
Robinson recently told the Tulsa (Oklahoma) World that a bonding company had expressed interest in his project — a private prison administered by Christian officials, attended to by Christian guards, adhering to Christian programming and stocked with Christian prisoners — and that full funding for it depended upon states agreeing to send 285 prisoners to the facility.
Wonderful, except that…
"Tax payers should never be forced to support religious indoctrination," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. "This scheme is fraught with constitutional problems, and no state should subsidize it."
In the letters to corrections officials, Americans United attorneys — Legal Director Ayesha N. Khan and Staff Attorney Ian Smith — noted that in 2007, a federal appeals court struck down public funding of an evangelical Christian program at an Iowa prison. The Christian prison in Oklahoma, they say, would likely meet the same fate.
"If the Department were to provide funding to Corrections Concepts' prison, indoctrination would be the inevitable result…," Americans United asserted. "And, just as inevitably, the funding of such indoctrination would violate the Constitution."
How about also introducing Muslim prisons, Jewish prisons and prisons for atheists? And if you're going that route, then why not have prisons for blacks and others for whites? A Hispanic one would be nice too for all them illegals running around. Once that is done then prisons could be segregated based on sexual orientation. A prison for white, gay, Christians sounds appealing. And here's a novel idea: why not set up prisons based on political affiliation? I'm sure conservative child rapists would be relieved to know they would never have to shower in the company of filthy libruls.
Sigh. Another screwed up idea courtesy of the clowns at the Christian Taliban…
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