Maybe George Bush and his fellow Presidential Pinnochios won’t win, but shouldn’t we at least consider entering them collectively for the award? Surely by now, he must be embarrassing Dick Nixon, rolling in his grave in jealousy. According to the report released yesterday by the Center for Public Integrity, principal Pinnochios of the Bush administration issued 935 [...]
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If Osama bin Laden is so down on Western culture, how come he is so vain as to dye his beard to try and reduce his age. If he really had any wisdom, which anyone with sense knows he lacks, he wouldn’t need to try and pretend he is younger than he is.
See, this is what happens when Kiefer Sutherland goes in the slammer for his second DUI, Hayden destroys the tapes of the torture. I said it before, torture is and should be illegal. So now we find out for certain that the CIA did in fact waterboard people AND the torture was actually videotaped for [...]
The bile, the anger rises only occasionally–when I read an op ed or news article that brings the reality of the abuses to my consciousness. Torture. Blackwater. George Bush praising General Musharraff’s grasp of democracy. Warrantless wiretaps. Secret detentions. Legal proceedings that Franz Kafka could not have imagined happening here. Lies and deceptions about why we started [...]
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I am here at the Florida Nature and Culture Center, enjoying the sunny warm weather and the Active Duty Military and Veterans Conference. What better way to ensure the future safety of American–and the entire world, than further expanding and developing the network of Buddhists among this group of people. Many years ago, I recall hearing an Air Force [...]
On November 11, I will be at the Florida Nature and Culture Center, an SGI-USA facility for a conference focused on veterans and active duty military personnel. SGI-USA has always had a large number of active duty military members because so many of the early members accompanied spouses from Japan. In more recent times, many [...]
Don’t you want to? I do, until the smirk fades and he cries for his mommy. I couldn’t waterboard him, not after my post yesterday. In Vietnam, I lay in my bunk at night or sat in a guard tower on a berm dreaming of rolling a grenade into the Commo Chief’s hooch. Stubby was [...]
Michael Mukasy, Bush nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales as U.S. Attorney General, says he needs to research the matter before he can say whether waterboarding is torture. Why is this even a question that must come up at a confirmation hearing? Because “Fredo” and his friends at the Imperial Justice Department of the Bush Imperial Presidency [...]
Oh, I’m sorry; that’s the Dalai Lama. It’s just that the Washington Post has had at least one item (often two or more) about his visit to the DC area for at least the past week. No need to be snarky or whiny here; he is doubtless a well-spoken exponent of peace and understanding. He [...]
It’s been years, many years, since I last marched in protest of anything. Then it was the Cambodian incursion of May, 1972. Two and one-half years of protesting hadn’t brought an end to the war. Campaigning for McGovern didn’t work either. It only ended when Dick Nixon and Henry Kissinger decided it was time. Several more [...]