Once again, the amazing Brad Hicks has said something that needs to be heard, and in a very cogent manner.
Burying the Lede Again: It’s Not about the DEFINITION of Torture
I would also refer you to where I discussed this very same thing earlier this month.
Link to Brad courtesy velvetpage
Bush Is Gonna Take His Iron Maiden and Go Home:
Here’s how you know you’ve lost your war: Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Peter King said this about detainee treatment legislation: “If we capture bin Laden tomorrow and we have to hold his head under water to find out when the next attack is going to happen, we ought to be able to do it.” Let’s put it this way: it’s one thing to say that in a one-in-a-million Jack Bauer-esque situation, you’d probably break the law and a few fingers to get the info you need so the nuke doesn’t go off. But it’s another thing entirely to say that you wanna make it the law.
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This is what we’ve been reduced to as a nation: arguing with each other over how far we can push our notions of “civilized” and still feel good about ourselves. How low can we go? ‘Cause, see, once you take one step down on a ladder, the next rung is right there, and the bottom gets ever closer.
There’s much more at the link above, but as always, he’s called the Rude Pundit for a reason.
Prepackaged salads may contain E. coli (snopes.com)
On 14 September 2006, the FDA issued another national alert about e. coli and ready-to-eat produce. Bagged fresh spinach is suspected in the September 2006 outbreak that has so far resulted in one death (in Wisconsin) and sickened a further fifty people (eight of them seriously) in eight states (Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wisconsin).
Read the entire item. It’s not just the current spinach outbreak. The first such outbreak was October 2005, and was related to packaged salad greens with lettuce. And the FDA still has no idea how E. coli is getting into packaged salad greens.
From the latest alert: Continue reading
Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs
Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
Former Texas governor Ann Richards dies
AUSTIN, Texas – Former Gov. Ann Richards, the witty and flamboyant Democrat who went from homemaker to national political celebrity, died Wednesday night after a battle with cancer, a family spokeswoman said. She was 73.
She died at home surrounded by her family, the spokeswoman said. Richards was found to have esophageal cancer in March and underwent chemotherapy treatments.
The silver-haired, silver-tongued Richards said she entered politics to help others — especially women and minorities who were often ignored by Texas’ male-dominated establishment.
“I did not want my tombstone to read, ‘She kept a really clean house.’ I think I’d like them to remember me by saying, ‘She opened government to everyone,'” Richards said shortly before leaving office in January 1995.
Goodbye, dear lady. You will be missed.
More at the link above.
An Aging Trans Woman 