We need you to stay terrified

Cheery message from Republican John Boehner.

Stay afraid, and let us start torturing again. It felt so good.

Rep. Virginia Foxx - Today's most loathsome person

She said this while Matthew Shepard's mother sat in the gallery, listening.

What a hateful "person" this Foxx is.

Swine flu name branded 'offensive'

Religious morons strike again.

The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, an Israeli health official has said.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

Akk, the stupidity.

Morally Bankrupt Americans: The New York Times

Exactly what constitutes torture continues to be a matter of debate and hasn’t been resolved by a court. This president and this attorney general say waterboarding is torture, but the previous president and attorney general said it is not. On what basis should a newspaper render its own verdict, short of charges being filed or a legal judgment rendered?

Are these people nuts? Do we have to wait until some government official tells us if murder is ok as well.

Sickening.

Read more here.

Bunny Show Jumping

Torture OK with FOX News

The immorality of it doesn't seem to matter.

Morally Bankrupt Americans: David S. Broder

Japanese soldiers waterboard Americans, hang 'em!

Americans waterboard their prisoners..."Stop Scapegoating"

One of the pleasures of the release of the torture memos is seeing who supports torture, and goes on the record in doing so.

Historians of the future, I envy you.

If ever there were a time for President Obama to trust his instincts and stick to his guns, that time is now, when he is being pressured to change his mind about closing the books on the "torture" policies of the past.

Read more here.

Torture and Star Trek

From when what is torture was plain and the response to it obvious. Before the war criminals and the media that seemingly is backing them muddied the linguistic waters.

Morally Bankrupt Americans: David Gregory

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Listen to this. Don't you get the feeling we are being told that white is not white?

The voice may be that of Mr. Gregory, but the words are not his.

In a nutshell

When caught, lie

It's a picture that perfectly captures the wide open spaces and wild skies of Alberta. No wonder the folks who designed Alberta's new $25-million "re-branding" initiative were keen to use it as a signature image in their campaign roll-out.

There's just one problem.

The picture was shot near the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland, 70 kilometres north of Newcastle-on-Tyne. In England, it's a famous beach, near Bamburgh Castle, known as the legendary home of Sir Lancelot.

So what do you do when this little fact is spotted? Why make up the biggest lie you can think of:

"This slide represents Albertans' concern for the future of the world," Olga Guthrie, manager of the brand initiative for Alberta's public affairs bureau...

"There's no attempt to make people think that this is Alberta," says Tom Olsen, the premier's director of media relations. "There's no attempt to mislead. That picture just fit the mood and tone of what we were trying to do."

But, but, the big "Alberta" on the image? Oh silly me.

Read more here.

Gays in Uganda should leave..now

This kind of crap is very dangerous, and can lead in frightening directions.

One of the more viler things you will see today..

A newspaper in Uganda, a country with hostile views against homosexuality, listed dozens of gay individuals, including their names, occupations, physical descriptions, HIV status, and partners. The report, published in The Red Pepper on Sunday, names ordinary people like bartenders and bankers.

Read more here.

We do not fucking torture

Strange moment from FOX News..oh and by the way, you are a torture nation.

A scary glimpse of a possible future USA

Sure, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann is one of the crazier people in US politics, and she is one of the loudest against President Obama.

But but....

A scary glimpse into the minds of some Americans and how they see the world.

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Morally Bankrupt Americans: Peggy Noonan

An unbelievable admission of willful ignorance. Wake up Peggy, your country is no longer a "Great Nation", just a brutish one like all the others.

Welcome.

More unbelievable is that Americans are actually in doubt this was a war crime and that something should be done.

Walk on, walk on. Befehl ist Befehl.

ATHEIST!!!!!!!

NonStampCollector is a very funny man.

DNA test to prove Bronze Age link

Men are needed for DNA tests to prove their distant ancestors moved from the Mediterranean to north west Wales as migrant workers 4,000 years ago.

Participants will be asked for a cheek swab sample for genetic analysis.

Researchers at the University of Sheffield hope to link the migration of men in the Bronze Age to the discovery of copper.

Read more here.

Whores, politicians and ugly buildings...

...all become respectable if they last long enough.

A defense of concrete architecture:

A process that sometimes takes an attitude adjustment.

Like lack of taste.

Read more here.

As Costs Fall, Companies Push to Raise Internet Price

It was big mistake handing over the net to providers such as these. If US providers want to start ripping off their customers and turn the net into cable TV, they need to come up here to Canada and learn from Rogers and the CRTC, who fuck over customers on a regular basis. Of course it helps when the so called consumer protection agency is in the pocket of corporations.

It's easy here. Just make an outrageous change (DNS redirecting anyone?) and sit back. Customer anger means little, as no government agency will step in.

Internet service providers want to end the all-you-can-eat plans and get their customers paying à la carte.

But they are having a hard time closing the buffet line.

Faced with rising consumer protest and calls from members of Congress for new regulations, Time Warner Cable backed down last week from a plan to impose new fees on heavy users of its Road Runner Internet service.

Read more here.