21
POPSU.S. military pushed back against torture regime Then-Captain and now-Rear Admiral Jane Dalton told the (Senate Armed Services) committee that her staff discussed the military's concerns with DoD General Counsel Jim Haynes, one of the architects of the program, and that he was aware of the military's objections. Haynes, meanwhile, testified that he didn't know that the military was opposed and had written memos to that effect. He later qualified that denial to say he wasn't "sure" that he hadn't been made aware. His deputy, Eliana Davidson, also told him his torture project "needed further assessment," but Haynes, again, said he didn't recall Davidson telling him that. (Joint Chiefs of Staff) Chairman Richard Myers met with Haynes, Dalton told the committee, and returned to tell her to kill her review on Haynes' order. It was the only time Dalton had ever been told to cut short a review, she told the committee.
16
POPSAmerican Stonehenge: "In case of Apocalypse..." more: What's most widely agreed upon—based on the evidence available—is that the Guidestones are meant to instruct the dazed survivors of some impending apocalypse as they attempt to reconstitute civilization...
13
POPSTwo-word refutation to "The Gathering Storm" anti-gay marriage ad: "Fred Phelps!"
More: But the point here is that Fred Phelps is a free man. His only legal troubles stem from instances of direct physical assault -- not from the hateful content of his beliefs. So when the folks at NOM insist that their opposition to same-sex marriage is a matter of "religious liberty," the liberty they're talking about has to be the liberty to exceed the Fred Phelps standard -- the liberty not just to restrict membership on religious grounds, or just to preach against homosexuality as a sin, or to condemn and denounce homosexuals as people hated by God, but the liberty, apparently, to go beyond all that, beyond anything even Fred Phelps has imagined. Fred Phelps is a free man, so if you think your freedom is going to be restricted, you must be planning to outdo Fred Phelps. So there's the two-word answer for every…dubious claim about being persecuted or punished or threatened or jailed or whatever for their anti-gay beliefs.
9
POPSCheney Defends His Approval of Torture.
It worked, Cheney says This certainly deserves an investigation. This guy should be put on trial. Evidence should be presented. A judgment made. As it stand now, likw muxh of American Gossip News, one person can say one thing and another person says something else. Justice is where you attempt to get the facts, not spin, gossip or partisian opinion. But Cheney appears committed to keep telling us how good a job he did, how Obama is threatening the nation by exposing this info, etc. It's amazing and this might be another clever ploy to mess up the chance of justice -- what he's asking for I don't think any nation on earth would hand over: the result of interrogations. Like the clever ploy of getting lawyers to give him legal opinions saying torture (waterboarding, etc.) was okay. Since he was apparently in charge of much of this he couldn't say he was "only following orders," but he can say "I was acting in according with legal opinion." Legal opinion of sham hand-
12
POPSAbolish Draconian Laws Direct parallels exist between the 40 year old "war on drugs" and prohibition. Until we've dug our way from under the thumb of the Puritanical Right I don't see any real progress being made to control this problem.
2
Top Clips on April 23, 2009
Popular
Pops
Newest Clips
Latest Comments
Print
Save
Turn on live update