Again, something that could be in humor or could be in politics, but I'm going to humor. Thank you YouTube...

YouTube - George W. Bush Saves A Baby

Sort of like Pac-Man, but it's Mark Foley chasing pages. Wrong, but insultingly funny.

GSN - Foley's Follies

Each contained a typewritten letter stating either, “I am going to kill you,” or, “We are going to kill you,” and adding, “This is poisoned.”

And now for the moron of the month award...

Justice Recalls Treats Laced With Poison - New York Times

UK security experts have cracked the sooper sekure new UK biometric passports. It took 48 hours. With 174 worth of sniffer hardware, attackers can read all the personal information off of any of the three million new UK passports in circulation

Boing Boing: UK RFID passports cracked

BECK: OK. No offense, and I know Muslims. I like Muslims. I`ve been to mosques. I really don`t believe that Islam is a religion of evil. I -- you know, I think it`s being hijacked, quite frankly.

With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let`s cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."

What the fuck??? I expect asshats like Rush to say things like this. This is CNN? This? Fire the son of a bitch and let him go try to dislodge someone at Faux.

CNN.com - Transcripts

In December, 2001 he was detained as a "material witness" to suspected acts of terrorism and ultimately charged with various terrorism-related offenses, mostly relating to false statements the FBI claimed he made as part of its 9/11 investigation. Al-Marri vehemently denied the charges, and after lengthy pre-trial proceedings, his trial on those charges was scheduled to begin on July 21, 2003.

But his trial never took place, because in June, 2003 -- one month before the scheduled trial -- President Bush declared him to be an "enemy combatant." As a result, the Justice Department told the court it wanted to turn him over to the U.S. military, and thus asked the court to dismiss the criminal charges against him, and the court did so (the dismissal was "with prejudice," meaning he can't be tried ever again on those charges). Thus, right before his trial, the Bush administration simply removed Al-Marri from the jurisdiction of the judicial system -- based solely on the unilateral order of the President -- and thus prevented him from contesting the charges against him.

This is what "The Greatest Generation" fought and died to stop. The current administration has demonstrated itself to be a perversion of everything this country has tried to do for hundreds of years. The last line will be when he starts sending the people in Gitmo to the "showers."

The Military Commissions Act in action

Decius wrote:

And I think everyone knows that. If the partisan blame game started back up on Katrina, everyone would loose. Its mutually assured destruction. So instead we're focused on other things.

My position is, that would be a good thing. Expose the screw ups. Find what went so horribly wrong in the political system that a) created a situation where this could happen, and b) made the aftermath into such a god-awful nightmare.

Understanding a) isn't that hard. In general, people don't take the steps that preparedness asks for. Never have. Chicago has some of the strongest fire codes in the country after half the city burned to the ground 135 years ago, but they still don't work that well (the town hasn't burned down, but...). San Francisco has stong construction laws on trying to quake proof buildings, but as the Series quake proved, they weren't enough. New Orleans levee system was rated to handle a cat3, but failed because of some poor design and some cost cutting. The bottom line is that in the long run, preparedness is cheaper than recovery (see Clinton, Iowa in the flood of 1993, they were largely flood free but the areas that did not build a 500 year floor levee system like they had got creamed), but no one wants to go to that expense because there are other things that need doing now that have more immediate and tangible benefit.

Understanding b) is a hell of a lot harder, and fixing b) would go a long way towards dealing with a).

Thanks also for sourcing Powerline. Those oxygen thieves are the problem. It's always "us vs. them" over there which means they'll never produce anything of any value whatsoever. Assrocket and company would be doing the world a favor if they went for a long drive in a short garage.

RE: For Conservatives, It’s Back to Basics

The Justice Department said Monday that the detainees have no constitutional rights because they are being held overseas. Giving military detainees access to civilian courts "would severely impair the military's ability to defend this country," government attorneys wrote.

Bullshit you blivets. Either handle them through the courts like everyone else or treat them as POWs. One or the other.

Administration: Detainees have no rights - Yahoo! News

Four days after calling his party affiliation a "closed issue," U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman said Sunday he was "not ruling it out" that he could turn Republican.

Well Joe, I guess we know who to blame when you flip and fuck the entire country.

courant.com | Lieberman Leaves GOP Door Open

Though nearly 79,000 families have applied to the program, called the Road Home, only 1,721 have been told how much grant money they will receive. And just 22 have received access to the cash

In the meantime of course, they're on their own, and have been for months now.

Slow Home Grants Stall Progress in New Orleans - New York Times