MadDog

With the news that Military Commissions are likely to be our “First Line of Defense” for GWOT detainees including KSM, it appears that Chief of Staff “Beauregard” Emanuel has convinced President Obama Lincoln that in order to be “moving forward, not backwards”, he only has to nullify a good part of the Constitution, the Federal Judiciary and then surrender at Appomattox to South Carolina in order to form “a more perfect union confederacy”.

Bugging Senator Mary Landrieu’s telephones by clowns…wearing big clown shoes…and driving tiny clown cars. Sheesh!

As the Supreme Court has now ruled that corporations (and unions) have the 1st Amendment right to provide unlimited funding for politicians, political campaigns and political issues, here’s a suggestion on Congress might respond.

Senior members of the Senate Defense Appropriation Subcommittee were briefed on the Bush/Cheney Administration’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program (aka the Terrorist Surveillance Program – TSP) before the program was revealed by the New York Times in December 2005.

And they were briefed in order to fund this massive violation of US citizens’ rights!

Is Al Qaeda targeting the destabilizion of Pakistan or influencing the state of play in Pakistan to not take over Pakistan, but by means of blackmail, bribery, intimidation, assassination or simply joining with like jihadi-minded Pakistan military and/or intelligence types to acquire a nuclear weapon.

And to use that weapon not on the United States, but as a “spectacular” operation against a target that Al Qaeda has not previously struck; namely Israel?

This Oxdown Gazette diary makes great use of information provided by the ACLU on 2/11/09 and have posted on their website referencing FOIA documentation released by the Army CID (Army Criminal Investigation Division) regarding:

Investigation into the deaths of two detainees at the Bagram Control Point (BCP) in Bagram, Afghanistan. Both detainees were determined to have been killed by blood clots that were dislodged and travelled to their hearts, causing pulmonary embolism. The blood clots, and their subsequent dislodging, were caused by sustained standing chained in place, as well as by sleep deprivation and dozens of beatings by guards and possibly interrogators. The investigation reveals systems of torture perpetrated by Military Intelligence and the Military Police guards at the BCP, as well as allegations of torture at joint American-Afghani prisons in Kabul, and maltreatment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…

Are civilian deaths in Gaza are “accidental”? Not bloody likely! You be the judge.

A response to today’s Bradley Burston post in the Haaretz

Could Blagojevich appoint himself to Obama’s vacant Senate seat?

Would he?

Wingnuts and Bi-partisanship? Not bloody likely!