226 – I may not always be able to read them at the times they go up, but I’ll read every one. I’ve finished the article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and now have to re-read it.

I thought I’d followed relatively closely, but almost everything in the article was new info to me. Great stuff – plus I learned about FUD. I’m going to have to reread more than once to process 1/2 of it. It was absorbing.

FUD is one of the great concepts of our time. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt — what has been shoveled down our throats till we gag. The masters of that have been every single Bush White House Press secretary who’s answers to the few serious and hard questions get a response which fits one of the three boxes. But believe me, it’s not limited to just those jamokes — gazillions of our dollars are spent just out of those three elements.

sorry, just had to say that whiling swimming in epu land. ;)

I thought I’d followed relatively closely, but almost everything in the article was new info to me. Great stuff – plus I learned about FUD. I’m going to have to reread more than once to process 1/2 of it. It was absorbing.

Mui,

Heh.

Bob in HI,

I’ve read he was loony tunes delusional, not unlike many other nutjobs in the country, from the git-go. It’ll be hard to find out much about the *real* Jose Padilla now, though. Supposedly he’s a complete vegatable forever, since Bushco beat his mind, spirit and body into human hash. There’s no *there* there anymore.

And for what? Pure sadism? I’ll never, ever understand the logic. Was he being interrogated while he was tortured for 3 1/2 years? I seriously doubt it.

Thank you Jenny from the Blog, grasping for words here. Character, personality etc. is mutable. With Padilla it’s probably in shreds.

A young Naval Intelligence Officer became a protege of Allen Dulles and Prescott Bush, after deep sixing a report that linked Dulles to a Nazi industrialist. In gratitude, they launched his political career.

The Officer’s name? Richard Nixon.

Wow! I never knew that. No wonder GHW Bush was involved with the Bay of Pigs (in a small way). That linkage brings a lot together.

pow wow @ 185

[Reid says the Senate will pass their new supplemental legislation this week, in order to conclude their conference with the House by the end of next week, before taking their Memorial Day break (to rest up from their exertions…).]

Memorial Day break – does that allow Bush to make any ‘recess’ appointments????

unfortunate, but true (unless they can figure out a way not to formally recess)

I thought I saw where Padilla had been examined and found unfit to contribute to his defense.
Stockholme syndrome plus kinda generally being almost insane from sensory deprivation and isolation.
Anyone else see something along those lines?

So, when he’s found “not guilty” and released he’ll be right as rain and right back to his old life without skipping a beat. NOT