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TGIF/Weekend edition - April 24-26, 2009
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Pelosi, Reid part ways on torture panel
CNN Political Ticker - 4-24-09
...Reid said the bipartisan intelligence panel should complete its work by
the end year and "we'd all be better off just relaxing" until all the facts
are in. |
Liz Cheney: Obama doesn't 'stand up' and defend America
CNN - 4-24-09
Liz Cheney, former State Department official and
daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney...believes the new president
is taking the nation down a "dangerous" path and that he has an "obligation
to stand up." |
The-World-Will-Be-A-Safer-Place-Without Saddam
Meanwhile Back In
Pakistan
The chairman of the U.S.
Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview broadcast Friday that he was
"extremely concerned" about the Taliban's recent moves closer to Pakistan's
capital of Islamabad.
"We're certainly moving closer to the tipping point"
where Pakistan could be overtaken by Islamic extremists
Obama is being accused of having it in for George Bush. Yeah. Him and 64
million other Americans. –Will Durst
"Even Dick
Cheney was into Earth Day. Did you see what he said today? He called for the use
of only recycled water when waterboarding prisoners." --Jay Leno
Disturbing News
"Next
month in Toronto, Canada, former President George W. Bush will debate former
President Bill Clinton. The question of the debate -- is it worse to lie to your
wife or lie to the entire country?" --Jay Leno
McCain Calls Karl
Rove "Creepy"
Meghan McCain —
who said earlier this week that she found Karl Rove "creepy" —
said Thursday she wished the
former Bush advisor would just "go away."
Republican-Shenanigans News
Queen of the GOP. Of
Course She's Blonde!
Miss California may have
lost her shot at becoming Miss USA after expressing her opposition to same-sex
marriage but she’s nevertheless emerged as a star.
After getting booed by the beauty pageant crowd and berated by one of the
contest judges Sunday, Carrie Prejean is suddenly a conservative sensation, a
poster girl for the right who has bloggers, talk show hosts and
Republican pols singing her praises.
"The
Justice Department says they want to make an example of this Somali pirate guy.
And I thought, really? In terms of making an example, I don't think you can do
much better than shooting the other three guys in the head." --David
Letterman
VIDEO-- Michele Bachmann: As Obama Denies Jesus, We Must Humble Ourselves Before
God
Rock-The-Voter News
Ready the
waterboard and buff up the electrodes for Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rove and Rumsfeld:
they need to be held accountable. We know how to get the truth out of 'em: they
taught us all we need to know. - Grant
"Bud" Gerver
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Biz-Tech News
Industries Promoting
Lies About Global Warming? I'm Shocked, I Tell You, Shocked!
For more
than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with
profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations
campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to
global warming...But a document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that
even as the coalition worked to sway opinion,
its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing
the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.
"President
Obama has kind of a happier outlook on torture. He says instead of waterboarding
terrorists, he's going to put them in dunk tanks." --David Letterman
Bush-Prison-Torture News
"But Dick
Cheney is now criticizing President Obama, and he's saying that his recent
actions around the world are 'disturbing' and 'not helpful.' Yeah, yeah, things
were so much better when Cheney was president, weren't they?" --David
Letterman
Go-F**k-Yourself News
"Well,
here's an interesting study. Researchers in Britain announced today that global
warming is caused in part by overweight people. They say obese people release
more carbon dioxide into the air. No, this is real. This is real. See, all this
time you used to think it was caused by coal-burning factories. Turns out it was
Cheesecake Factories." --Jay Leno
All Hat No Cattle Weekend Commentary
This isn’t torture – just pranks
Oh, come on, now. Waterboarding is NOT torture, say the mavens of the right
wing.
And we here at AHNC agree wholeheartedly. It’s just an extension of high school
high-jinks behavior, like when one student (usually larger) walks up behind
another who is bent over a water fountain and holds his face down over the spout
so that he gets a longer-than-expected spurt in the face. Yeah, it’s just like
that!
And to prove the point, courageous Sean Hannity of Faux News offered on his show
the other night to let himself be waterboarded for charity.
This could be fun – if it ever happens.
But here’s a little prediction. It won’t. Somehow, some way, Hannity will find a
way to back out of the ordeal. His extremist blathering on TV over the years can
accurately be described as Hannity Insanity.
But the fellow isn’t really crazy. Just stupid and cowardly, as evidenced by the
nonsense he frequently espouses and the way he tries to bully guests on his show
who disagree with him.
And the coward in Hannity almost certainly will win out when it comes time to
get strapped down with head inclined and have the simulated drowning process
begun.
Of course, he will take a lot of heat as the pressure from liberals mounts for
him to fulfill his foolish statement. Hannity’s tendency to shoot off his mouth
without first considering the import of his words has often caused him problems
in the past.
Keith Olbermann of MSNBC already has upped the stakes over Hannity’s
waterboarding offer by pledging $1,000 to charity for every minute that Hannity
tolerates the torture.
Oops, there’s that word again. Let us repeat: Waterboarding is not torture,
according to its supporters. It is an “enhanced interrogation technique.”
Waterboarding and other misdeeds committed against prisoners by U.S.
intelligence and military personnel – such as the stacking of naked Iraqi
prisoners on top of one another and threatening them with guard dogs and
electric shock – amounted to little more than college fraternity hazing.
That’s what right-wing radio hack Rush Limbaugh said way back when the activity
was first revealed.
The only problem is that some U.S. troops went to prison for it. And that many
U.S. military leaders spoke out forcibly against the activity.
This past week, while Hannity was again proving to the world just how stupid he
is, the former U.S. commander of the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq said
American troops were scapegoated for the brutal behavior that went on there.
Brigadier General Janis Karpinski said orders for the torture and mistreatment
came from the upper echelons of the Bush Administration.
Which brings an interesting image to mind: Three waterboards, side-by-side, with
Hannity, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto
Gonzalez occupying them. For former President George W. Bush, there would be a
fraternity paddle engraved with his name.
After all, it’s not torture. Just high-jinks and hazing.
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An 8-year-old
male sea lion Kanji performs 'Smiling' with a visitor during a photo session at
Kamogawa Sea World in Kamogawa, east of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, April 12, 2009.
Photo/Itsuo Inouye
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