(WATERBOARDING 2)
“The CIA didn’t want to torture.” – John Yoo
Absolved of abetting criminal intent
John Yoo, now on book tour, tells us
he only provided legal justification
of various options of interrogation
of war prisoners. Just legal recipes.
Now teaching at Cal (UC Berkeley),
in a protected academic environment
he’s safe from waterboarding
by any of his legal colleagues
however much they loathe him,
while no really hard rain falls.
(22 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v2
Monday, February 22, 2010
Saturday, February 20, 2010
HAIG in HELL
In Hell (alpha order): Dubya Bush, Gerald Ford, A. Sinister Force, Alexander Haig, Bob Haldeman, Henry Kissinger Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Schultz, Deep Throat (Mark Felt), Casper Weinberger.
In DC (alpha order) Hillary Clinton, Obama, Woodward & Bernstein.
[Note: all quotes are verbatim.]
Cast assembles around a circular table
for a séance led by A. Sinister Shade
who brings each of the departed back.
Haig: Where am I now?…now I remember:
“I am in control here” the Hell I am, it's
“pending the return of the vice president”
I was "vicar of American foreign policy."
Schultz: Al, “I think of you as a patriot's patriot;
no matter how they sliced you
you came out red, white & blue.
You were always willing to serve”
enter Kissinger: Actually, I was always in charge.
enter Haldeman: Actually, I was in charge.
Nixon: Yes, you were Bob, Kissinger, ah, lies.
Deep Throat: Who can I tell this to?
Shade: Tell me. I will tell no one...
Woodward & Bernstein lurk about, listening.
Kissinger: I was always in charge.
They ignore him & Ford, asleep beside him..
Kissinger: Haig "soon became indispensable"
Weinberger: No, I was indispensable.
Kissinger: I am still indispensable!
In a gesture of comity::
Obama: In “our finest warrior-diplomat tradition
Haig “dedicated his life to public service."
In a gesture of co-comity:
Hillary: Haig “served his country in many capacities
many years, earning honor on the battlefield,
confidence of presidents & prime ministers,
earning "the thanks of a grateful nation."
Deep Throat: Fortunately, he never caught me.
Reagan: Who?
Dubya: That Deep Throw guy.
All rise, except Haig.
In DC (alpha order) Hillary Clinton, Obama, Woodward & Bernstein.
[Note: all quotes are verbatim.]
Cast assembles around a circular table
for a séance led by A. Sinister Shade
who brings each of the departed back.
Haig: Where am I now?…now I remember:
“I am in control here” the Hell I am, it's
“pending the return of the vice president”
I was "vicar of American foreign policy."
Schultz: Al, “I think of you as a patriot's patriot;
no matter how they sliced you
you came out red, white & blue.
You were always willing to serve”
enter Kissinger: Actually, I was always in charge.
enter Haldeman: Actually, I was in charge.
Nixon: Yes, you were Bob, Kissinger, ah, lies.
Deep Throat: Who can I tell this to?
Shade: Tell me. I will tell no one...
Woodward & Bernstein lurk about, listening.
Kissinger: I was always in charge.
They ignore him & Ford, asleep beside him..
Kissinger: Haig "soon became indispensable"
Weinberger: No, I was indispensable.
Kissinger: I am still indispensable!
In a gesture of comity::
Obama: In “our finest warrior-diplomat tradition
Haig “dedicated his life to public service."
In a gesture of co-comity:
Hillary: Haig “served his country in many capacities
many years, earning honor on the battlefield,
confidence of presidents & prime ministers,
earning "the thanks of a grateful nation."
Deep Throat: Fortunately, he never caught me.
Reagan: Who?
Dubya: That Deep Throw guy.
All rise, except Haig.
CHENEY at the PACS
CHENEY smiles Chenily
at the CPAC convention,
visibly glad to be seen by
everybody, still assuming
they’re all still Cheneyist.
At AIPAC they are,
reports Wonkette.
(20 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v1
at the CPAC convention,
visibly glad to be seen by
everybody, still assuming
they’re all still Cheneyist.
At AIPAC they are,
reports Wonkette.
(20 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v1
Friday, February 19, 2010
Gingrich ober both
Never fully forgetting
The Contract with America (1994),
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America
www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html
suddenly, I realize what I see
governing the tea-baggers only repeats it:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/18/
a-rally-cry-from-mount-vernon/?fbid=yGnnWZIqF7q
ober both, bobbles Newt Gingrich.
(19 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v2
The Contract with America (1994),
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America
www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html
suddenly, I realize what I see
governing the tea-baggers only repeats it:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/18/
a-rally-cry-from-mount-vernon/?fbid=yGnnWZIqF7q
ober both, bobbles Newt Gingrich.
(19 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v2
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Boner/beaner
A foggy morning.
Nothing’s visible beyond
The Church of the Valley
on the cor. of Dolores St.
In the parkinglot below, cars
range from: red (3), white (9)
blue (2), grey (1), silver (3)
black (1), tan (1), green (1).
I pop to barking Boehner’s
website, finding he’s an R.C.
from outside Cinncinnatti,
dedicated to much less,
hardened by a life of being
called a boner/beaner.
(17 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v2
Nothing’s visible beyond
The Church of the Valley
on the cor. of Dolores St.
In the parkinglot below, cars
range from: red (3), white (9)
blue (2), grey (1), silver (3)
black (1), tan (1), green (1).
I pop to barking Boehner’s
website, finding he’s an R.C.
from outside Cinncinnatti,
dedicated to much less,
hardened by a life of being
called a boner/beaner.
(17 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v2
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Worser & worser...
The worst thing one can be nowadays is a realistic pessimist. It seems that no one can stand hearing any nay-saying about the prospect of bringing these decades of Reganitic fiscal-delusion to any relatively 'graceful' conclusion..
My "Palinocity" (Feb. 7, 2010, below) may be too much for some with its extrapolating Palin's airheadism, but I expect she's always talking similar jive somewhere to somebody.
[FYI] I want to see this country, & those of us it living within it at this time, not just survive but turn around, BUT that will take the collapse of the nay-saying Republicans & Obama's getting some hardcore Democratic balls around him a mile deep. As even 'bluedog' Democrats voluntarily quit congress (cf. Birch Bayh, et. al.), that seems numerically quite unlikely. Meanwhile, nay-Rs see this & hardnay it. Worser & worser....
My "Palinocity" (Feb. 7, 2010, below) may be too much for some with its extrapolating Palin's airheadism, but I expect she's always talking similar jive somewhere to somebody.
[FYI] I want to see this country, & those of us it living within it at this time, not just survive but turn around, BUT that will take the collapse of the nay-saying Republicans & Obama's getting some hardcore Democratic balls around him a mile deep. As even 'bluedog' Democrats voluntarily quit congress (cf. Birch Bayh, et. al.), that seems numerically quite unlikely. Meanwhile, nay-Rs see this & hardnay it. Worser & worser....
Assets?
In today’s world
everything’s
a risky asset:
a house, to refi,
a car, to recall,
a job, to lay-off,
health, to illness,
life, to death.
What’s happening?
Was it always like this?
people wonder.
(17 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v1
everything’s
a risky asset:
a house, to refi,
a car, to recall,
a job, to lay-off,
health, to illness,
life, to death.
What’s happening?
Was it always like this?
people wonder.
(17 FEB 10, Santa Clara CA)v1
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