Oh Yeah? -- Yeah!

Torture Policy (cont'd)

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed dismay on Thursday about editorials in which "the implication is that the United States government has, in one way or another, ordered, authorized, permitted, tolerated torture."
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Since Mr. Rumsfeld referred directly to The Post, we believe we owe him a response.
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If U.S. soldiers, Iraqi citizens and foreign leaders can see for themselves that American doctrine excludes illegal abuse, then the dangers Mr. Rumsfeld cited will be greatly lessened.

Hardly a real fight. Just pushing and posturing by both parties. Really, if this were a real fight the Post would have just said what we all know: Rumsfeld wants, orders and condones torture.

If you're police, then show us your badges.

Badges! We don't need no stinkin' badges!

Thomas B. Griffith, President Bush's nominee for the federal appeals court in Washington, has been practicing law in Utah without a state law license for the past four years, according to Utah state officials

His Majesty need only wave the presidential seal and his loyal vassal will be confirmed.

Can't eat just one

Kenneth! what is the frequency Kenneth?

Safire Pudding

Bill Safire talks to "The Dead" Richard Nixon on Iraqi sovereignty, the 2004 campaign and the Clinton restoration in 2008.

"Q:" is Bill Safire
"RN:" is Bill Safire

Q: But what of our prison abuse——

RN: Look, when the Iraqis in the street get sore, not at us but at the bombers not only blowing up their oil wells but killing their wives and children, any terrorist suspects the new government rounds up will wish the Americans were back in charge. That prison story and the C.I.A. recriminations will drag on and on in the media here because it helps the doves make a necessary war look bad.

You just wait - They be begging us to come back and tortue them.

Q: And what should Kerry be doing as his Boston convention approaches?

RN: First, stop the daily grousing, which turns people off after a while. Stay the hell away from job creation, which has backfired on him. Claim credit for straightening Bush out on Iraq and move on to the great dream. Pick one powerful domestic issue — old folks' health or college education, whatever — hit it hard and make it his own. Kerry's been all over the lot so far.

Let me get this straight. This is advice to Democrat John Kerry from Republican Bill Safire who is pretending to be a dead Richard Nixon who is answering Bill Safire's question about what Kerry should be (but isn't) doing to become President over Safire's favorite-son G.W. Bush.

This column devolved quickly - like a confusing a Star Trek Time travel episode. Speaking of which ...

Next week Bill Safire time travels into the past to sire himself so he can be born and later write a his NY Times column becasue if he isn't born or it all disappears and everyone forgets that he/it ever existed. Just like his Nobel Peace Prize... oh no !! That's already vaporized and no one remembers it becuase it did/didn't happen because Safire never existed to save the planet with his sage advice column because he wasn't born and anyway the United Federation of Planets headquarted in San Francisco's Presidio gets replaced with the George Lucas "Star-Wars" Amusement Park !!

Oh if we can only manage to send him back to at least salvage the NY Times column but not far enough back to restore his Nobel Peace Prize. Oh the sacrafice and noone will remember his contributions except Bill Safire. Oh The Irony.

Finally a serious look at Ronnie Ray-Gun

Reagan's knife sliced up San Jose

MENTALLY ILL WERE DUMPED ONTO CITY STREETS

Mercury News Editorial

President Reagan had a penchant for speaking in simple truths. Here's one: Reagan contributed mightily to downtown San Jose's downward spiral in the pre-redevelopment years.

The man for whom the term the Teflon president was coined wasn't without shortcomings, especially on domestic issues. Beyond the massive budget deficits and failure of supply-side economics, his approach to the downtrodden and the mentally ill contributed directly to the deterioration of San Jose's downtown core during Reagan's tenure as governor and president.

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Reagan compounded San Jose's downtown woes as president. Hoping to offset his massive military buildup, he took direct aim at one of the most important sources of housing for the downtrodden. Reagan cut the budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development from $32.2 billion in 1981 to $7.5 billion by 1988. The result: America's homeless population, a virtually unknown problem in the 1970s, grew to roughly 2 million by the time Reagan left office.

David Brooks is lying

B.S.

DAVID BROOKS: A sense of national unity. It was bitter. I think until this Iraq War, I think the contra fight about the Nicaraguan contras was as bitter a little Washington fight that I've seen. It was bitter. The debate over Reaganomics was bitter. People did hate him. A lot of people hated him. I was in a college bookstore when he was shot and there was happiness around.

JIM LEHRER: Really? Is that right?

DAVID BROOKS: Yeah.

MARK SHIELDS: I didn't see that.

Who, What, Where, When, and How? Well we know "when", when Reagan was shot. We know how: It was a college book store and a bastion of liberalism.

And when Brooks says Iran Contra was a "bitter little Washington fight", does he mean to imply it was a petty fight over a little thing? What was "little"?

NY Times sez

NY Times editorial

What we have seen, topped by that legalistic treatise on torture, shows clearly that Mr. Bush set the tone for this dreadful situation by pasting a false "war on terrorism" label on the invasion of Iraq.

Google ("torture" "bush" | "clinton")

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,320,000 for torture bush. (0.45 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 280,000 for torture clinton. (0.13 seconds)

Legalizing Torture

A well Krafted editorial from the WA PO

There is no justification, legal or moral, for the judgments made by Mr. Bush's political appointees at the Justice and Defense departments. Theirs is the logic of criminal regimes, of dictatorships around the world that sanction torture on grounds of "national security."

...add scalded milk slowly, beating and stirring constantly...

In honor of the 40th President: Google ( "Reagan" "pudding" )

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,700 for REAGAN PUDDING. (1.06 seconds)
Mrs. Reagan's Persimmon Pudding

1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup persimmon pulp, pureed
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons warm water
7 tablespoons brandy
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 egg
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
salt to taste
1 tablespoon brandy flavoring
1 cup heavy whipping cream

1 Stir together sugar and melted butter. Resift flour with salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add to butter mixture. Stir in persimmon pulp. Dissolve baking soda in warm water. Add to mixture with 3 tablespoons brandy and vanilla. Add eggs, mixing lightly but thoroughly. Add raisins and walnuts, stirring just until mixed.
2 Turn into buttered 5 to 6 cup heat-proof mold. Cover and place on rack in large pot. Pour in enough boiling water to reach halfway up sides of mold. Cover pot and simmer 2-1/2 to 3 hours. Let stand a few minutes.
3 Unmold onto serving dish. Pour about 4 tablespoons warmed brandy over pudding and flame. Serve with Brandy Whipped Cream Sauce.
4 Prepare the brandy whipped cream sauce by beating the egg until light and fluffy. Beat in butter, confectioners' sugar, salt and brandy flavoring. Whip cream until stiff. Gently fold into egg mixture. Cover and chill.

Makes 7 servings

Howell Raines' TV Guide to Politics

Although he has left the NY times, Howell Raines stays on message and provides insightful analysis in the spirit of how he managed the NY Times politic coverage:
Kerry = Lurch
Bush = Goofy


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FORMER New York Times executive editor Howell Raines is comparing John Kerry's face to that of Lurch (above), the zombie-like butler from "The Addams Family." In a column for the Guardian in London, Raines writes that not only is Kerry "pompous" and "ponderous," he has an "Addams Family" face — "as if Lurch had gone to Choate." Raines also disses the visage of George W. Bush, whom he likens to a certain dopey Disney character: "Kerry has to face the fact that even though the incumbent looks like Goofy when he smirks, he's going to win unless Kerry comes up with something to say. To stay 'on message' you have to have one."

A pudding cup & Scooby snack for Mr. Howell.

google ("free speech" site:mil)

Viola

Disclaimer

The conclusions and opinions expressed in this document are those of the author cultivated in the freedom of expression, academic environment of Air University. They do not reflect the official position of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, the United States Air Force or the Air University.

What a fish.

December 03, 2003

OKAY, I'M OFFICIALLY PRONOUNCING THE PLAME SCANDAL BOGUS:

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