Comments on: Goon show

By: kcwells

kcwells — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:39:43 +0000

…and the truly foul part about it was that so many people engaged in it knowing full well they were peddling poison.

I agree with this but don’t understand it. Isn’t it sorta like seeing dog poop on the sidewalk and going out of your way to step in it?

By: RickinSF

RickinSF — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:49:43 +0000

Hannity really stepped into it.
He knows waterboarding is torture, but, if he were to experience it, he could no longer deny this and his act would come apart.

By: texasaggie

texasaggie — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:36:28 +0000

Saw yesterday that some dope saw no difference between waterboarding and a beer bong. I suggested that he be waterboarded with beer after signing a statement exonerating his torturers of responsibility if he drowned. Maybe if enough of these jerks get waterboarded, one of them will drown and then we won’t hear anymore about it.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:22:52 +0000

IIRC that figure is higher than the “official” estimate of Irakis killed after a couple years.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:18:36 +0000

Do you want to argue that we didn’t murder 100,000 citizens of Iraq in the first hour when we lit up Baghdad?

Uh, ok I’ll argue that. You want to make a point that’s great but just throwing stuff up there isn’t all that effective.

By: parsnip

parsnip — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:11:53 +0000

But they don’t want Supreme Court justices to have gut feelings, such as empathy, to interfere with their cold-blooded pro-corporate reasoning. That might interfere with the mental gymnastics required to misinterpret the original intent stated in the Preamble: ”…promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…” But then I guess it depends on what the meaning of ’ourselves’ is.

By: tjbs

tjbs — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:08:36 +0000

We have to resort to torture for controlling a large population of peoples that didn’t invite us to invade them.
Do you want to argue that we didn’t murder 100,000 citizens of Iraq in the first hour when we lit up Baghdad?
i have a problem with cluster bombs, Nuclear weapons, Puff the magic dragon gunships, 20,000 # “daisy cutter” bomb, claymore mines just to name a few and the country that leads the development of exotic weapons.
This wanton waste dismayed me my whole life. The squandered resources that could have been applied to medicine, education and social stability dismayed me my whole life. I’m just a peace crazy kinda guy.

By: tk1200

tk1200 — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:59:20 +0000

Amen. It’s always the physical cowards and anti-intellectuals from the right wing who tower above the discourse over such maters as waterboarding, i.e., Buch, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Wolfowitz, et al and shout it down to their level. All patriots from an armchair afar unlike a General Powell or General Petraeus, for example.

Charlie Pierce is right on once again! Many thanks.

By: RevBev

RevBev — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:56:35 +0000

Is that a wedding ring on the hand pointing at us? How scary. Someone to scream all the time. In my home it was very important to know about an inside voice….these 2 did not learn.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:54:25 +0000

because it embraced a “movement of Conservatism” that celebrated anti-intellectualism is now incapable of conducting itself in any other way

The Rethugs will now steal and reshape an old Army slogan:

Be as dumb as you can be.