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Porn producer invokes the Bush/Yoo defense -- unsuccessfully Citizens who produce fictitious films depicting "humiliation" and "degradation" will be sent to prison. Government officials who do that in reality will be immunized.
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  • babahumming bug? no slow dancing or hugging allowed. speak clearly.

    ... pistol in the pocket"...

    A mouse, a bumblebee, a hungry growling humming lion, a moose burger,with Guden's mustard, o a pint of wild turkey whiskey,

    or what then?

    a one thousand sheet roll of bath tissue?

    A world is heard sobbing. o a stinginess.

    When is the DoJ gonna pull up the pants?

    O. Justice. A word demands some honesty.

  • Just a necessary reminder

    Yoo also testified that he couldn't say whether it would even be illegal for the President to order the torture of suspected terrorist's CHILDREN. The admissions of guilt are all on videotape now. Freely given statements all the way up to Bush himself.

    Who will speak up when the Bush administration addresses a serious food crises with a refutation of the basic laws against cannibalism?

    Enjoy.

  • timtimes. (watch the war thugs bum a Newport Kool) beg for a last puff of smoke after satiated on deaths..

    They are carnivores. After there last meal,

    'be it the rotten corpse with buzzing flies.

    Ponder the reality. Truth. Watch 'um dash.

    Did you ever see the desert hyena photos?

    The prints in 'The National Geographic'? ...

    What would Auschwitz survivors think`?....

    The Big Lie: Auschwitz, Viet Nam vets `?...

    Well, what will a DoJ do? Dash away truths?

    Share all stories about wartime.`Give picks?

    After the last meal of carrion ~Watch them.

    They `THEM will probably light a cigarette.

    Yes. sad. Watch them light the filtered end.

  • Going to party like its 1999!

    Dow under 10,000 this morning. Lots of people partied over 10,000 back in 1999; so I will on the downside.

    An end to the evil empire in the making? I sure hope so.

  • The Bushies just don't like the competition

    If they can suppress make-believe S&M films there will be a bigger market for the Army's and CIA's true-life S&M films. Hey, anything to take a chunk out of the deficit.

    Joking aside -- who was humiliated? Surely not the actors, who were no more humiliated than they were injured.

  • dr. limerick. (out/over)

    It's even too silly and dimwit for me too.... It's gonna be happy cocktail hour soon.

    I don't even drink ah, except ay special wedding and funeral celebrations. It's goofy to be here and fret. We'll turn into wrinkled prune face kooks, singing the blues at a crescent moon that sigh... oh,

    is a scythe.

    "degradation"

    The garden scythe wields with a sharp blade. Nature's autumn harvest Moon is coming soon.

    When the lies, betrayal, and nonsense is exposed, the light shines on the dark era, a good people will soon picket?

    Youth want sweet soda pop?

    Fresh gum to chew. Whiter front teeth.

    Tooth paste? Thermal Under Garments.

    Boxer shots, wool boxing gloves, for loving people.

    Where is Glenn. Furious? apologies. Wear a yarmulke?

    A rock star with a head shaved bare? Mad as a hellion.

    It's the trouble making commenters who are "humiliated"

  • Porn-torture connections

    I wonder how many of the perpetrators at Guantanamo and Abu Graib got their inspiration, or their drive from "consenting fictional accounts."

  • @AKA Smith

    I'm sorry to hear about your PTSD, that is an incredible burden. I will not get explicit with the following, because I don't want to wish on you more bad images, but I do want to point out why I said 'no' to your question about a common root.

    Probably because this sort of thing -- dreadful though it is -- is hardly new. Ever read Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will. There is a chapter there about torture and war.

    Ever read Alice Miller?

    No, and No. I went to both of their sites after you posted this. Alice Miller's characterization of the underlying cause motivations of torturers do not correspond well with facts, see Darius Rejali (actually maybe just trust me on him, please). I have no confidence that Against Our Will correctly talks about the situation in the Congolese war, because your first statement isn't true. "This sort of thing -- dreadful though it is -- is hardly new," is unfortunately and quite horribly, not a true statement.

    What happened specifically to women in the Congo is, in fact, new and newly brutal, as if humankind needed a more brutal form of war than we currently have. The only comparisons being made to it are the current, and much smaller, crisis in Darfur. It forms the basis of the new efforts to declare acts like what happened to women in the Congo to be in a category worse than ordinary crimes, worse than war crimes, worse than crimes against humanity -- that is to say, there is an effort to equate them with genocide, the worst crime known to the human race. That isn't a misplaced effort at all. And what it means is that even systematic torture pales in comparison. I have images burned into my brain too, and some of them have to do with what Pol Pot did. It is hard for me to think there is now something worse, but that is the consensus about the Congo.

    In a world where we build holocaust museums, and vow, "Never Forget," and, "Never Again," the world managed to have this happen with only, "Never heard about it."

  • Judge Bucklew Received a Copy of the Column

    On Sunday, I printed the column and then faxed a copy (with a polite cover page) to Judge Bucklew at 813-301-5757. Interesting to note that that fax number has now been deleted from her listing on the official USDC website. It still shows up in the Google cache of the page: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:SborjZDWfaEJ:www.flmd.uscourts.gov/judicialInfo/Tampa/JgBucklew.htm+bucklew+fax+site:flmd.uscourts.gov&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us.

    I guess I wasn't the only one that had this idea.

  • OT and way too early to gloat, but...

    Following Sarah Palin's bizarre performance of Thursday, and her weekend racist smear campaign, Obama's poll numbers are only rising. Rasmussen and Gallup both have him at eight over McCain, and Rasmussen notes that Obama's current 52% is higher than either 2004 candidate polled (as far as Rasmussen goes).

    My god, its gratifying that after the last ten years of bizarro media and political manipulation, of the most unfounded lies being repeated ad nauseum everywhere you turn, that finally these tactics seem to be doing nothing but backfiring. McCain and Palin look are revealed to be pigs bathing in their own feces. Life is good today.

    Tomorrow of course, they will claim that Iran has a nuclear suitcase bomb, declare martial law and suspend the elections.

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