Gonzales: Torture treaty doesn't bar 'cruel, inhuman' tactics

At what point does this end? There seems to be an infinite amount of abject stupidity mindless cruelty disguised as policy coming from current and future leaders within the Bush administration.

Gonzalez is consigliere, for sure but is serving a role that is beyond the scope of anything we have seen since, I'm guessing, the days of the old bosses in New York and Chicago. He's an errand boy who cleans up, covers up, and subtlely (or perhaps not so subltely) threatens those who may not be working for "the cause."

My guess here: 26 of the 44 Democratic senators will vote against the nomination of Gonzalez to be Attorney General. Is this, along with yesterday's session on Condi, the formation of the spine of the New Democratic Party?

How Many...?

Q: How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: None. There is nothing wrong with the light bulb; its conditions are improving every day. Any reports of its lack of incandescence are a delusional spin from the liberal media. That light bulb has served honorably, and anything you say undermines the lighting effect. Why do you hate freedom?

(via Kos)

Pro-Birth vs. Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice

This new word needs to be put into the Pro-Birth, and those who align themselves in such a way need to called out for what they are as described in Daily Kos.

Ohio Official Refuses Interview Over Vote

Blackwell pulls a "Condi" and refuses to be interviewed by lawyers involved in the investigation.

The Fix is In

A nice summary of how little is known about the level of voting fraud went largely undetected in Florida.

Homeless shelters getting Iraq vets - (United Press International)

It's already happening. A troubling reprise of a disturbing development following the Vietnam War. Remarkably, this article is from the Washington Times. Must have slipped through the RW spinmeisters, who would have suggested that these vets were the special undercover agents working to identify potential threats amongst our nation's homeless.

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Rat Smelled, but does it matter?

This article in Zogby suggest some foul play. But what remains is the complete disinterest of the SCLM to act on the data in any fashion that produces something beyond a "scent" of fraud. We have find actual fraud, don't we??

Keep Hope Alive!

Greg Palast tells up to KERRY WON OHIO
JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS.

John Dean's Take on Understanding the 2004 Presidential Election

Denial of the facts, even those that are communicated and validated by the Bush Administration, is a standard behavior trait of the Bush supporter. So says John Dean in this piece from Findlaw.

"The caller had...told her friends that there was no connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq - and pointed out that Vice President Cheney had admitted as much in the Vice Presidential debate, and that the 9/11 Commission's report had so found. But her friends insisted there had indeed been such a relationship; that Cheney had misspoken, and she was wrong about the 9/11 Commission's report."

Our Anger will be met with Their Force

Tanks were deployed at an anti-war protest in Los Angeles earlier this week. This is the new reality that 59MM voted for last Tuesday.

The Guy Who Set the Bar Lower than the Geneva Convention

I'm already getting nauseous, and its only been a week.

It has always been my belief that Americans have a responsibility to set the bar higher in how we conduct ourselves around the world. Admittedly, this is a painfully naive belief on my part, especially with respect to the record of this administration. In the past, when we threw out the playbook, we would at least have the crisis of conscience to hide our efforts (not that I am forgiving that behaviour either). Not any more. We not only work to set the bar lower, we take pride in it, and nominate the guy primarily responsible for that strategy as the new The New York Times > Opinion > Attorney General

"The president is putting his own counsel, Alberto Gonzales, who wrote the famous memo defending torture, in charge of our civil liberties. Torture Guy, who blithely threw off 75 years of international law and set the stage for the grotesque abuses at Abu Ghraib and dubious detentions at Guantánamo, seems to have a good grasp of what's just. No doubt we'll soon learn what other protections, besides the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution, Mr. Gonzales finds "quaint'' and "obsolete.''

A Comprehensive List of Election Problems from Across the Country

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Voting Without the Facts

Bob Herbert gives a view of the uninformed masses and their patters of voiting without a view of the facts

I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election's outcome as values. A recent survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland found that nearly 70 percent of President Bush's supporters believe the U.S. has come up with "clear evidence" that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al Qaeda. A third of the president's supporters believe weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. And more than a third believe that a substantial majority of world opinion supported the U.S.-led invasion.

Kerry Won. Here are the Facts.

A redux of Greg Palast's post election day article breaking down the reality of a Kerry's "victory.".
"As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry."

Florida Data - Stunning Disparity Between Registered Party Numbers and Votes Cast

The table indicates that all the independents may have gone to Bush, PLUS there must have been a huge crossover of Democrats from Kerry to Bush - but only in counties that used computerized ballot scanners

Ashcroft, Evans to Leave Cabinet, Country in a Mess

Woops. I added that last part to the headline. Ashcroft's pact with the devil must have expired.

Shocking! Appalling! From the Bush Administration Even?!!

Sez the Times: A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base here as war criminals.

The Voting Weirdness Just Keeps Getting Weirder

This latest link from Eschaton paints a troubling picture of the happenings in Cuyahoga County. We've already determined that the improbable happened (more votes than registered voters). Now there seems to be an odd -- dare I say manipulated -- pattern in the results.

Why are all the overvotes in Bush's favor?

It's an Epidemic of Fraud

"Sarpy County election officials are trying to figure out how they ended up with more votes than voters in the general election. As many as 10,000 extra votes have been tallied and candidates are still waiting for corrected totals."