Friday, May 30, 2008

Icky War Crimes Make Scott McClellan Dance for his Dollars

Several years ago, I wrote about today's man of the hour, and now, I wonder if he didn't take my hint...
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Icky War Crimes Make Scott McClellan Dance for his Dollars
Written by anonyMoses
Published November 10, 2005

White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times

It must be tough being an apologist for war criminals and their icky need to torture, especially now that they can no longer claim proprietorship of the so-called American mainstream, which they polluted and left for dead in their race to reach the right fringe of Hell.
So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs — who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.

So much easier to just emulate Jesus or Rumi or Gautama than to emulate power-crazed megalomaniacs — who could never see beyond their alcohol-emboldened egos.
America should be courageous enough to cough up its own hairballs when they threaten the flow of air. And yet our air is filled with hairballs and nutballs, all hyperventilating shrill emotions, as if amplitude will serve to persuade. But as George Bernard Shaw once observed, "Not intelligent, only opinionated." Yet some people guzzle opinion as if it were knowledge, thus real food. Only when they die of malnutrition might they realize that one has to eat something more substantial than chicken. Faux chicken.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Bugliosi: George Bush's Unseemly Response to the Suffering He Has Caused

How has George Bush reacted to the hell he created in Iraq, to the thousands of lives that have been lost in the war, and to the enormous and endless suffering that the survivors of the victims -- their loved ones -- have had to endure?

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