Santa by santapaul

Santa by santapaul

One can only admire the sort of mastery of snark that leads a DC Court of Appeals panel to rule that a Guantanamo detainee was not an enemy combatant:

With some derision for the Bush administration’s arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its allegations against a detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents.

The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a Lewis Carroll character: “I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.”

“This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true,” said the panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit…

…The panel included one of the court’s most conservative members, the chief judge, David B. Sentelle.

I’m shocked, shocked to hear that just because the government says something, it isn’t true. Even worse, that perhaps, just perhaps, the government might be making assertions that anyone with a whit of sense would know are backed up with zero evidence. Which is to say, that perhaps, just perhaps, the government might not just be, uh, misguided, but lying?

Next thing you know the courts will shatter my last illusion in the case of Virginia vs. S. Claus, and try and tell us all that "no, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus. He does not exist, just as surely as goodness and decency do not exist, have not existed and cannot exist in this Republican government".

Until then, and I know it’s six months out, I’d just like to note for the record that I’ve been mostly good this year and that when I’ve been bad, it’s been, mmm, a good bad.