Wednesday, March 10: Yes, someone watched you as you walked to work today. In fact, someone watches you every day, everywhere you go, because this is America, where 9/11 happened, so we’ll never forget what you’re wearing, where you’re going and who you’re talking to. This, as the Cato Institute explains, is the mentality consuming everyone, even the dirty, America-hating libruls. [Cato Institute]
- Wednesday, March 10: What’s the best way to find a terrorist? Well, it depends on whether you like John Yoo, or prefer to play nicely. The New America Foundation asks if it’s possible to talk someone out of being crazy, while the Center for American Progress plainly asks when the hell Yoo will be held accountable for making torture an American pastime. [New American Foundation, Center for American Progress]
- Wednesday, March 10: A long, long time ago when the President was in Cairo, he promised something that sounded a lot like there would be peace in the Middle East real soon. 8 months later, the Brookings Institution looks at Iran and its nuclear weapons and the fact that Israelis and Palestinians still hate each other, and asks if the President’s Middle East strategy is anything more than just empty rhetoric? [Brookings Institution]
- Wednesday, March 10: It turns out that we grow terrorists right here in America?! Who knew that dissatisfaction with US policies and crazy people also exist in the US? What happens next? Aside from an increase in domestic terrorism, we also get a discussion all about it from CSIS. [CSIS]
- Friday, March 12: Remember that time when war, not massive, deadly earthquakes, was the thing happening outside America that we were all interested in? Well, we are at war, and CSIS wants you to remember this, AND they want you to know just how the Afghan people feel about the situation: turns out that they just love it! [CSIS]
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As an exhibitionist, I wholeheartedly endorse the new airport full-body x-ray machines, which will enable me to show off my enormous penis.
All this thinking is making my head hurt!
I’d encourage anyone who has Wednesday free to see Matthew Alexander at the New America Foundation thing. He’s the guy who wrote How to Break a Terrorist about his fight to use real, known effective, non-torture interrogation techniques in the field in Iraq instead of the thuglike ones John Yoo so desperately ought to experience.
I thought that said John Woo. I’m much less interested now.
That supposed expert doesn’t look like either Rick or Ozzie Nelson. Just sayin’.
[re=526798]InsidiousTuna[/re]: But John Yoo has all the senseless violence without the need for a two-hour attention span.
needs more buttseks
the afghans are lovers, not fighters, paul
Intercepting United Statesians’ emails and phone calls is the cornerstone of the Obama Admin.? I thought that it was the Divine Right of Kings?
*******
Why do the Catoes hate America?
If the NSA doesn’t eavesdrop here, it will have to eavesdrop over there.
http://tinyurl.com/yjck98u
The Brrokings Institution should limit itself to commentary which does not make them look ass stupid. Perhaps they should start issuing releases about getting wine stains out of upholstery, or the most-effective strategy for maximizing “double coupon day” down at the Giant Food.
They should at any cost avoid the attempt at political thought.
So bummed I live in CA today. I would totally go to CSIS and watch Mark Harmon talk about torturing domestic terrorists. So dreamy!
[re=526804]SayItWithWookies[/re]: senseless violence?
You realize this the director who perfected the “leaping sideways through the air while firing a pistol with each hand and chewing a toothpic all while wearing a trench coat” trope, one that has been often imitated but never surpassed?
Senseless indeed
I was going to ask, is this an indication that Arielle will be covering these exciting discussions? Please?
The Brookings Institute? Pshaw!
I’d pay them to stop thinking & instead keep fapping to NFL cheerbabes, all the fellows (of the Institute; fellows can be male or female in this case) crowed into Greggggggggggggg Easterbrook’s office.
In conclusion, fuck a Brookings Institute!
[re=526836]donner_froh[/re]: Nobody’s saying violence can’t be senseless and sensual at the same time, especially if John Woo does it. With Yoo though, it’s all senselessness and insensibility.
Obama “The Annointed One” will finesse his idiotic Mid-East policy into a nuclear war. According to Dan Rather Obamatard couldn’t sell watermelons..
http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978091112
http://www.radically-raw.com
[re=526874]radically-raw[/re]:
Hoo, boy are you a racist idiot or what?
Sooooo much in that comment is begging for the banhammer, IMHO…this one won’t even be fun to play with.
[re=526874]radically-raw[/re]: That would be a refreshing change from those American presidents who just shove their way into a Mid-East war like they were after the last PS3 at the Wal-Mart. Worst thing was when they went home with their brand new fucking war without even checking to see if the instructions were in the box.
Hey, do me a favor and tell the Dubya poster on your ceiling that there’s a shoe with his name on it.
Talking people out of being crazy is called psychiatry.
What seems to be the problem?
[re=526874]radically-raw[/re]:
#1 let the whack-a-troll games begin
#2 finesse?? Das a verb means sumpin’ like “to bring about, direct, or manage by adroit maneuvering.” Id dat what you meaning?
Just remember that John Yoo is the kind of lawyer Liz Cheney wants in our government.
[re=526874]radically-raw[/re]:
No mo Whiskey Skoal fer yew, son.
The Cato Institute?
Is that some kind of martial arts dojo with the Green Hornets little buddy as the Sensei?
Excerpt from ‘Wonkette’ sometime in March, 2660:
“650 years later, the Brookings Institution looks at Iran and its nuclear weapons and the fact that Israelis and Palestinians still hate each other…”
Shouldn’t Wonkette be using the The Day After Tomorrow logo for this?
[re=526894]dijetlo[/re]:
OMG! OMG! OMG!
The the otters have started eating the olds!.
THE FUCKING OTTERS ARE FORMING DEATH PANELS!!!!
Who saw that coming?
[re=526874]radically-raw[/re]:
Rather is merely paraphrasing a Repub attack on Obama, aka Barry the ineffectual weakling, the flip-side of “the arrogant, socialist dictator Obama” metaphor. The Repugs will continue to throw contradictory shit at the wall just to see what sticks.
DAN RATHER: Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama’s leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. “Listen he just hasn’t been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death.” And a version of, “Listen he’s a nice person, he’s very articulate” this is what’s been used against him, “but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2010/20100308044344.aspx
[re=526906]dijetlo[/re]:
They just look so darn cute when they use a rock to smash oldies’ dentures.
Does John Yoo go to Canada for HIS health care?
Completely O/T but here’s a really cool article about an amateur stock trader who became a professional fund manager who was one of the few people to predict — and get rich off of — the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.
[re=526932]Jukesgrrl[/re]: If John Yoo has any sense he’ll avoid countries that have a greater respect for the rule of law than his boss did.
[re=526932]Jukesgrrl[/re]: He goes to Iran for his interrogation techniques.
[re=526932]Jukesgrrl[/re]:
Johnny Yoo now teaches vivisection at UC Berkley. Mmm, yummy. http://tinyurl.com/yck5vuw
But he, like the rest of the agronomy faculty, could be up the proverbial creek once Ahnold’s budget cuts hit home. Costs will increase dramatically to hone down his incissors.
For some reason John Yoo is my favorite person to hate from the past administration. Does that make me a bigot? Mr. [re=526874]radically-raw[/re]: you seem to be an expert bigot, what is your opinion?
[re=526906]dijetlo[/re]:
I smell a conspiracy.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/09/national/main6281167.shtml?tag=exclsv
Only Yoo can prevent florist couriers. Or something.
No, Barry’s strategy is completely full rhetoric.
[re=526906]dijetlo[/re]: What’s a 96-year-old man doing walking around at 4:23 am? He was clearly asking for it. He probably did something to provoke the rabid otter. He dressed provocatively. It was all his fault. Also.
Seriously — he’s damn lucky there were OTHER people wandering around with garden tools.
[re=526932]Jukesgrrl[/re]: I knew Neilist, I commented with Neilist; you sir, are no Neilist.
Support your domestic terrorists. The job you save may be your own! USA! USA! USA!
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