becasue if Obama takes the oath seriously, Bush & Cheney do jail time:

1. Former president George Bush has admitted ordering enhanced interrogation techniques (water boarding and other forms of torture) for certain detainees held by the United States. Attorney General nominee Eric Holder has declared water boarding to be torture.

2. Susan J. Crawford, a retired judge who served as general counsel for the Army during the Reagan administration and as Pentagon inspector general when Dick Cheney was secretary of defense, and named convening authority of military commissions by the Bush Administration in 2007 says US treatment of detainees "meets the legal definition of torture."

3. In 1988, conservative icon Ronald Reagan signed the Convention Against Torture, a treaty requiring every signatory nation to prosecute torture:

Article 2

1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction.

2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. [I.e., no "Jack Bauer ticking-time bomb" excuses]

3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture

. . . the mush-mouthed-shit-for-brains-jug-eared-squinty-eyed-dry-drunk-incompetent-fool-from-Crawford-asshole-of-the-universe-Texas.

the key character indicator in her narrative was:

I'm the one with the money. Not that I have a ton left after the divorce! We had a very fair divorce because I was guilty as all hell

So, if she hadn't felt guilty as hell, she would've screwed the hubby legally the same way she did maritally?.

And is there ever evident in this tasteless tale an indicator she ever thinks about anyone but herself for more than an instant??

but of course,. had NATO done that, they would have had to declare war on the CIA, Gen. John Singlaub, Oliver North, George Herbert Walker Bush . . . well, you get the idea.

LEGALIZE THE GODDAM STUFF.

Takes the big profit incentive right out of the business plan.

They could hold the Republican Convention at Hooters!!! This is the bestest idea since the NEW COKE!!!

how you like the salary cap when you're newly unemployed and the last place you worked went belly up because of you're inability to properly manage assets.

Fuck these whining bastards.

his anus sports a huge suppurating sore whose painful existence only triple-doses of OxyContin can alleviate.

and it's going to be pretty much fun watching him scramble through this one.

If Richard Nixon had spent 20 years pulverizing rox in Leavenworth, Bush & Cheney never would have had the stones to engage in their criminal enterprises.

As Raskolnikov knows only too well: Crime AND Punishment.

and Leon Panetta pissing himself before the wrath of Kit Bond . . . and the failure to investigate torture . . . gosh, we sure don't want to offend any of those lawbreakers. It would be partisan to think that powerful criminals should fall prey to outraged Justice.

He'd come under fire recently for having tried to squash subpoenas issued during the legislature's "Troopergate" investigation

Go ahead, blame Spellcheck.

It's called the criminal justice system and its worked - more or less - for 220 years. Truth Commissions are for emerging third world entities. We have the awesome weight of the history of Anglo-American law, dating back to 1215 and before!!!

I live in Missouri, and Article I of the Missouri Statutes says:

The common law of England and all statutes and acts of parliament made prior to the fourth year of the reign of James the First, of a general nature, which are not local to that kingdom and not repugnant to or inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States, the constitution of this state, or the statute laws in force for the time being, are the rule of action and decision in this state

We've got a history and tradition of the Rule of Law. And interestingly, James' son, Charles I, was the guy who claimed Unitary Executive power in 1648, telling Parliament: The King Can Do No Wrong! [Sound familiar?] Parliament disabused him of this preposterous notion by lopping off his head in 1649.

If Parliament could try and convict a monarch in 1649, why in the world can't the American justice system try and convict Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. (IF they are found guilty).

The Rule of Law is binding upon the government and all of its officials! ~Justice Anthony Kennedy, ABA Keynote Address, 2006

Revenge: Revenge (synonym vengeance) is a harmful action against a person or group as a response to a (real or perceived) wrongdoing. Although many aspects of revenge resemble the concept of justice, revenge connotes a more injurious and punitive focus as opposed to a harmonious and restorative one.

Justice: Justice generally implies actions undertaken and supported by a legitimate judicial system, by a system of ethics, or on behalf of an ethical majority, revenge generally implies actions undertaken by an individual or narrowly defined group outside the boundaries of judicial or ethical conduct. The goal of revenge usually consists of forcing the perceived wrongdoer to suffer the same or greater pain than that which was originally inflicted.

The people want justice, NOT vengeance. It's a distinction that matters.