August 3, 2008
July 31, 2008
TEXAS SADISTS FOR JEEEESSSSUSSSS!
What next? Throwing a few virgins down a well? FOR GOD OF COURSE!
Texas Supreme Court rules that it’s perfectly acceptable to pin an underage girl to the ground and beat the crap out of her as long as you’re doing it for religious reasons! Church exorcism protected by First Amendment
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
A woman who claims she was injured during an exorcism performed by a Texas church group is reportedly planning to take her case to the US Supreme Court after state judges ruled the actions of the church were protected by the First Amendment.
Laura Schubert Pearson’s lawsuit accusing members of the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God Church of subjecting her to a two-day exorcism ordeal in 1996 that left her so distressed she attempted suicide was dismissed by the Texas Supreme Court last month.
The judges overturned a lower court’s decision awarding her damages and ruled that because Mrs Schubert Pearson’s claims of injury amounted to a religious dispute over church doctrine it would be “unconstitutional” for the court to get involved.
July 30, 2008
EVERYTHING ON/OFF/ON THE TABLE
John McCain was just kidding about that “no new taxes” pledge
By CHARLES BABINGTON – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain drew a sharp rebuke Monday from conservatives after he signaled an openness to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, contrary to previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind.
REPUGS BLOCK CHILD PORN BAN!
Senate Republicans block omnibus legislation to help paralyzed people and stop child porn
(The Politico) Sen. Tom Coburn is used to being a lonely “no” vote on overwhelming Senate votes, but on Monday afternoon, his GOP colleagues came to his defense.
Coburn (R-Okla.) prevailed in blocking a massive package of generally non-controversial bills that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brought to the floor, angering Democrats and some Republicans while raising Coburn’s status as a cult hero to fiscal conservatives. The vote was 52-40 on a procedural motion that required 60 votes.
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July 29, 2008
July 28, 2008
STOOOOOPID!
“I [Sara Taylor] , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So
help me God.”
As Jim White notes in comments, former White House official Sara Taylor actually went before the Senate and testified that she understood that she took an oath when she went to the White House that was “an oath to the President”: It’s easy to mock Blakeman’s warped understanding of how our Government works, but it isn’t principally the by-product of ignorance but, instead, a reflection of how our Government actually now functions.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/18/blakeman/
SEE VIDEO @ http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/18/blakeman/
PREEMPTIVE PARDONS?
BUSH’S PREEMPTIVE PARDON LIST?
Bush Administration Does Not Rule Out “Pre-Emptive” Pardons
http://www.truthout.org/article/bush-administration-does-not-rule-out-pre-emptive-pardons
Charlie Savage reports for The New York Times: “Felons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests…. As the administration wrestles with the cascade of petitions, some lawyers and law professors are raising a related question:
Will Bush grant pre-emptive pardons to officials involved in controversial counterterrorism programs?” All his criminal cronies? Himself?
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July 26, 2008
After 9/11 Cheney Lost It
After 9/11 Cheney Lost It — Traveled with Gas Mask, Space Suit, and Doctor
Trish | Jul. 14, 2008
A new book chronicles the early days after the 9/11 attacks, when Dick Cheney was always reported to be hiding in an underground bunker or a bomb shelter or an orbiting space capsule. Turns out extreme paranoia really did take hold of the vice president.
On Oct. 18, 2001, a White House alarm went off indicating that sensors had detected dangerous levels of radioactive, chemical or biological agents. According to Mayer, anyone who had entered the White House situation room, including Cheney, had been exposed. “They thought Cheney was already lethally infected,” said a former administration officer who had kept the White House secret until now, according to the book.