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The military has banned it but the CIA stills gets to employ this method of persuasion usually associated with Nazis and villains from a Late, Late, Late Movie.
Maybe GW should have been forced to subject his mother, wife and daughters to this technique before signing off on it?
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21 Jul 2007 |
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How many times have I thought "I wish I could see 1,500 inmates in a Phillipine prison perform the dance from Thriller (also a Phillipine lady-boy would be nice)"
Well wish no further!
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18 Mar 2007 |
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25 Sep 2006 |
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02 Jun 2006 |
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Oh merciful heavens, some civilians have been killed in Iraq? Gosh, how could that happen? Up till last week the war was a pure, noble effort. Now it's tarnished.
Let's see... the pentagon gets to
a) confirm the number of deceased
b) and confirm their status as "enemy combatants."
How could that system possibly be abused?
If you think the two cases of Iraqi civilian deaths in the news this week are the first non-combatant murders, you can un-naive yourself here. The only question I have is after 5 years, what political intrigue occured, so that finally some civvy deaths could become "news."
Fortunately, Rummy has a solution: our army will be given an ethics course. The most impotent rejoinder since John Kerry redirected all election questions on policy with "I have a policy. It's on my website."
To recap
The conservative viewpoint: murderers in Texas deserve lethal injections, but murderers of non-white people who got in the way of our weapon-delivered freedom just require sensitivity training.
Update: Soldiers in case #1 cleared! Those bastard Iraqi civilians deserved it. Get out on your porch and wave your Muhrikun flag!
This war owes itself to the naive who can't imagine someone on our side is evil until they say "I'm the villain," and the opportunists, relieved that everyone knows never to say "I'm the villain."
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17 Apr 2006 |
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...unless a halo goes around your ankle.
Special prosecuter Patrick Fitzgerald chalks up a conviction for Illinois' ex-governor, George Ryan (R). It's so nice to see the system works occasionally.
See ya Gov.
He'll have company in the big house; Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R) expects 6 Republican congressmen and 1 Senator to go to jail over the Abramoff scandal.
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15 Feb 2006 |
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As expected, more photos from Abu Ghraib (or, as Dubya prefers, "Aboo Gareff") are all over the Internets. They are burly.
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02 Nov 2005 |
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AFTER INNOCENCE tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Included are a police officer, an army sergeant and a young father sent to prison and even death row for decades for crimes they did not commit.
Interesting that it doesn't appear to be playing in Illinois anywhere; a state where the death penalty was suspended because so many cases were being overturned with new evidence.
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14 Jul 2005 |
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From page six:
July 14, 2005 -- WINNIE Dunbar, a CNN business news producer based in New York, missed the hurricane that never arrived in Memphis — but she ended up in the right seat on her Northeast flight back. Dunbar, who was returning to cover the sentencing of WorldCom fraudster Bernie Ebbers, found herself sitting next to him and his wife in coach. "I'm going to New York for the same reason you are," Dunbar told the former billionaire, who was tight-lipped except to say he found his trial "completely bizarre." Ebbers kept an unlit cigar clenched in his teeth the whole flight, even while asleep, except when he was eating candy and potato chips. After his petite spouse collected their luggage, they waited on the taxi line, chauffeur-driven limousines a distant memory. Ebbers got 25 years yesterday.
See also: Ebbers speaks out ahead of sentencing
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14 Dec 2004 |
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A self-described "monument to decadence," the Monster Thickburger consists of two slabs of beef (one-third pound each), three slices of cheese, four strips of bacon and a generous dollop of mayonnaise on top, and the whole thing is nestled between two sesame-seed buns.
Which are buttered.
Available at Hardees
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10 Nov 2004 |
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30 Apr 2004 |
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I missed the 60 Minutes II piece on prisoner mistreatment in Iraq, but the accompanying article is pretty disturbing.
One of the soldiers facing court martial, Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Chip Frederick, is a reservist who is a prison guard from Virginia. Frederick is pleading not guilty, despite photos like these (Warning: Possibly NSFW, and definitely disturbing) yet claims no personal responsiblity in these events due to a lack of "rules and regulations" on how exactly to run a prison from his commanding officers. WHA?!?!
"Well, they never said we couldn't make 'em strip and sit on top of 'em!"
America's finest...
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26 Apr 2004 |
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You really can't make this shit up. Take that, Granny! The cop that pepper sprayed her empty eye socket must feel like a real douchebag.
Moments later, she felt someone strike her in the head, which dislodged her prosthetic right eye from its socket, and was knocked to the ground, she claimed in her lawsuit.
Officers said Crowder ignored their commands not to climb into the trailer and tried to bite Miller's hand.
They acknowledged she was "pushed onto the dirt next to the sidewalk," according to the city's legal brief filed in court.
While on the ground, Crowder asked the officer what he thought he was doing and kicked Miller. She said the officer kicked her back, then pepper-sprayed her in her eyes.
"While she's still on the ground, on her stomach, they tased her in the back and in the breast," her lawyer said.
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18 Feb 2004 |
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I came across this fascinating site that has helpful advice in determining sentencing for convited felons.
You can play at home with the cool score cards and grids. Then download the PDF of an alphabetized list of crimes. It's like Vice City without the joystick.
Note: works best in Explorer.
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15 Oct 2003 |
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14 Oct 2003 |
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Green turtleneck.
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10 Sep 2003 |
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Hold up a bank for a couple thousand dollars and you'll get ten to twelve.
Quietly bilk hundreds of thousands of people out of billions in savings, while wearing a tie, hiding behind a corporation and shouting "Long live the free-market!" and you might serve less than 5 years.
Predatory capitalism: The nations deepest value.
Enron's imaginative CFO was just sentenced and my hunch is he's not headed for a federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison.
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18 Jun 2003 |
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This Just In... I meant to post Dog's bio as an adjunct to this story but somehow messed up the post. Dog got his man, but he and Andrew Luster are cooling their heels in a Mexican jail..
Dog The Bounty Hunter is on the case.
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08 Jun 2003 |
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Ditch those pesky civil liberties and work on your tan in lovely downtown Guantanamo Bay!
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20 Mar 2003 |
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A man who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault had an additional six months tacked onto his eight-year sentence after he mooned the judge.
Judge Jim Parsons held 40-year-old Ray Mason in contempt of court Monday after he dropped his pants and showed Parsons and the rest of the court his backside.
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17 Feb 2003 |
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Police in Italy have recorded what is thought to be the world's first conviction thanks to a tip-off using an image sent by a mobile picture phone.
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31 Jan 2003 |
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In today's Trib, economist Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors, expounds on the current recession: "Growth is up, growth is down, the economy's growth is all over town."
He later suggested that Cindy-Lou Who might be out of a job at the Whoville Truffula Refinery by the end of the quarter.
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09 Oct 2002 |
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Now you at home can decipher the wiley code of the Jew-run media. Get me Spielberg on the smontess, I wanna talk geld!
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15 May 2002 |
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Now it's getting really interesting: Vigilante justice in the face of church under-rug-sweeping... A man shot a former Catholic priest who molested him over a three-year period in the 1990s.
"This is retaliation," said Lionel Pauling, 39, who works at a nearby convenience store...the law didn't do what they were supposed to."
One reaction seems to indicate how parishoners feel about this complex issue. Joseph Marine, 89 years old said "They say priests are married to God...and they say God is male. So priests are married to a man? It is a difficult situation."
Sounds like grampa forgot to take his medication.
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29 Jan 2002 |
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Peoria officials say that Flores and her husband, Tony, last year violated a code requiring Christmas decorations to be removed 19 days after the holiday. They were still on the home in April.
Kee-rist, this should be a federal law!
There's a house over by where we used to live that has enough crap on their house, in their lawn, and hanging from specially constructed scaffolding to put the owners away for multiple life sentences. It defies explanation. Every year I swear I'm going to get a picture of it but I never get around to it. And yes, the "decorations" (I'll use the term loosely.) are still up; we drove past it last night, and it appears as though they are slowly creeping over to the neighbor's house as well.
via Obscure Store
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25 Jan 2002 |
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Only in America! Only in Tennessee! The funniest part of this--the thief will receive 6 to 10 years in prison, the same sentence a Hockey Dad got for killing a man in a fist fight!
via The Obscure Store and Reading Room
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30 Oct 2001 |
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Say hi to all them Yalies for us...
"For God, for Country, and for Yale."
via Obscure Store
Actor on Trial in Hit-Run Incident
I'm envisioning an out-of-shape, slightly balding and unshaven C. Thomas Howell alternately yelling and mumbling at this kid, brandishing a hammer, smelling slightly of scotch and old cheese...
(Yes, I'm bored and reading Obscure Store.)
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26 Sep 2001 |
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My patience is growing thin...
Thought: The media focus on returning the aggression prevents us from getting angry at the politicans and corporations culpable for the selfish decisions that put us here.
The peace movement - Let's get up to speed: Ex-hippies made friends with capitalism in the eighties, and became lousy parents shortly thereafter but haven't moved beyond their outdated ideas about war. "We can't kill innocent people." in the face of those who have no such compunction. "I don't want my son to go to war. He's only nineteen." Yes it's much better to sit here passively and wait to be hit again. I watch these people and begin to think we deserve what's going to happen.
Democracy achieves nothing quickly. The terrorists must be laughing at us hobbled by diplomacy, as we debate the bill of rights and while Reuters considers whether "terrorist" is an inflamatory term. Forget fiddling while Rome burns, this is basically jacking off during a nuclear explosion. Our opponent is desperate but our politicians are all thumbing through the index to Roberts Rules of Order.
Prediction: We will undergo a second wave of terrorism before we get our response together. The same beauracrats who brought you the first wave are helping to insure a second.
Get Real People!
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17 Sep 2001 |
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I got an email today from a friend who recently moved to New York. After talking in detail about the horror of the recent events that he had the displeasure of watching from his office window he wrapped up with these comments:
...and as if it isn't already too much, i spend the next couple of days listening to The Dolt make inspiring statements about "finding these folks" (did he actually call terrorists "folks"!?), how we're gonna "whip terrorism" (not crush, destroy, vanquish...) and say "this was the first war of the 21st century". so "the war", it's over then? and this just in: "There's an old poster out West as I recall that said: 'Wanted, dead or alive." does he think this is a CBS mini-series?
God help us.
I couldn't agree more.
via Dennis of New York
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13 Sep 2001 |
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The Taliban recently released a press release that made me feel sorry for them until tonight - It was revealed that they trained 14 arabs how to fly Boeing 737's over the last year.
It's time to bomb Afghanistan without mercy.
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25 Jul 2001 |
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I was just called a "fucking idiot" by the biggest ex-frat, sporty fuck i've ever met. I played a voice file that I created to entertain my friends at work, and he was apparently on some big shot important phone call. By the way, this is the same idiot who doesn't know the first thing about process or working with people. But he licks a fine executive ass. Anyway, he called me a "fucking idiot" under his bad breath, but I heard him anyway. Go Jocko, Go!!!!!! Or, in my true words, GO STICK IT!!
via Me
