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I’ve had sex.
Therefore, I am supremely qualified to be teh Most Awesomest Porn Star.

Of course in minds other than my own this may or may not be entirely accurate.

Crooks and Liars » Wesley Clark on Face the Nation: CNN accuses Clark of “Swiftboating”

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Just a few days ago they made me read Freidman.
Now they’re making me read MoDo.

And I’m liking it!
Astral convergence of some sort, no doubt, cosmic rays and such.

(but I feel dirty)

“It’s hard to believe that if Americans get attacked after all these years of getting strip-searched at the airport, they’re going to be filled with confidence at the performance of the Republicans on national security. And at least Obama wants to catch Osama and doesn’t think he’s getting his directions on war from “a higher Father.” “

Op-Ed Columnist – More Phony Myths – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com

Much like Senator Dodd:

“I don’t think you can hold the rule of law in any greater contempt than sanctioning torture,” Dodd said. . . .

“Controlled death. Outsourced torture. Secret prisons. Month-long sleep deprivations. The president’s personal power to hold whomever he likes for as long as he’d like. It is as if we woke up in the middle of some Kafka-esque nightmare.

“Have I gone wildly off-topic . . . ? Have I brought up a dozen unrelated issues?

“I wish I had. . . I wish that none of these stories were true.

“But, we are deceiving ourselves when we talk about the U.S. attorneys issue, the habeas issue, the torture issue, the rendition issue, or the secrecy issue as if each were an isolated case! As if each one were an accident! When we speak of them as isolated, we are keeping our politics cripplingly small; and as long as we keep this small, the rule of men is winning.

“There is only one issue here. Only one: the law issue.

“Does the president serve the law, or does the law serve the president? Each insult to our Constitution comes from the same source; each springs from the same mindset; and if we attack this contempt for the law at any point, we will wound it at all points.

“That is why I’m here today. . . . Immunity is a disgrace in itself, but it is far worse in what it represents. It tells us that some believe in the courts only so long as their verdict goes their way. That some only believe in the rule of law, so long as exceptions are made at their desire. It puts secrecy above sunshine and fiat above law.”

Required reading my friends:

Dan Froomkin – One Senator Says ‘Enough’ – washingtonpost.com

Guy’s back!

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We are a nation ruled by children.

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Think Progress » Rove Rips NYT For Outing CIA Agent’s Identity And ‘Putting Our Country At Risk’

The appeals court ruled that the Pentagon improperly designated Huzaifa Parhat, an ethnic Uighur Chinese national, an “enemy combatant” after being swept up by the U.S. military in Afghanistan in 2001 and then sent to Guantánamo Bay, where he has been held since…

…
DEREK STOFFEL, CBC HOST: Mr. Willett, what’s your client’s reaction to this ruling?

SABIN WILLETT (PARHAT’S LAWYER): Boy what a great question that is because my client doesn’t know about this ruling because I’m not allowed to tell him. […] He’s sitting in solitary confinement today. He has no idea what’s happened as far as I know.

We are the keepers of the gulag.

Think Progress » Gitmo Detainee’s Lawyer ‘Not Allowed To Tell Him’ He’s No Longer An ‘Enemy Combatant’

…left.

Think Progress » NBC: U.S. Commanders In Afghanistan ‘Complained To Us’ That They Lack Resources Because Of Iraq

Another, “but us liberals already knew this” affair. The DOJ has been caught hiring based on the Republicaness and/or Jesusness of the candidate. They destroyed evidence when they had knowledge of the investigation. Y’know you kind of expect some corruption at high levels of law enforcement in places like those small Barney Fife towns, or the traditional Chicago style corruption in some big cities, but DOJ has been shockingly Alberto’d (slimed up) from top to bottom.
Luckily that last bastion of honesty and integrity (hell, he was confirmed by the Democrats on a “or else we’ll get someone corrupt” vote), Mukasey, is on the case, or near it, or something honest like.

Firedoglake » Breaking: OIG And OPR Confirms Politicization Of Hiring At DOJ

It’s as if our addict-in-chief is saying to us: “C’mon guys, you know you want a little more of the good stuff. One more hit, baby. Just one more toke on the ole oil pipe. I promise, next year, we’ll all go straight. I’ll even put a wind turbine on my presidential library. But for now, give me one more pop from that drill, please, baby. Just one more transfusion of that sweet offshore crude.”

Sort of like this post, I just had to have one more suck off the glass Friedman pipe.

Op-Ed Columnist – Mr. Bush, Lead or Leave – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com

and balanced.

Think Progress » Appeals court rules against Bush administration in enemy combatant case.