I am very, very glad that the Democrats won control of the senate. Without that, Bush's unconstitutional creeping tyranny might have gone unchallenged as his enablers papered things over again and again ( Read more... )

I read an interesting column by Bill Maher titled "Mocking Bush is my patriotic duty ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4718328.stm

"A US state department legal adviser said the government felt it was better for the photos not to be released. John Bellinger said this was "not because there was anything to hide" - but rather "because we felt it ( Read more... )

The pictures at the link below show some truly foul and disgusting torture. These are not pranks, or occasional hijinks, or mere humiliation. They are not some carefully-judged extreme measure to defuse a ticking bomb. They are damnable evil, aided and abetted by a chain of command that deliberately refused to set any moral limits. The Bush ( Read more... )

The Bush administration appointed a 24-year-old, incompetent political hack who lied on his resume to a decision-making post at NASA. Where said idiot applied pressure to stifle and slant scientific reports. I'm disgusted but not surprised. These people need to be impeached, sued, charged, and/or imprisoned before they do yet more damage to the ( Read more... )