Comments on: You Gotta be Shitting Me

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:24:54 +0000

But, The Terrorists would do the same to US! Which why he have to fight to stop them! They’re so barbaric! So we have to do it… oh wait. Shit.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:10:10 +0000

wÃ´Ã´t!

By: Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:59:04 +0000

Kangaroo were hopping mad at this sort of talk. she thought herself
Far superior in intelligence to the others. she was their leader.

By: Herr Doktor Bimler

Herr Doktor Bimler — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:55:39 +0000

Judge Kang is in the pocket of the cruddy-evidence lobby.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:27:55 +0000

And people wonder why I couldn't bring myself to vote in this last election for any Democrat who had signed off on MCA. Luckily for me, my senatorial race in Florida was a done deal, what with it being between Bill Nelson and the Evil Clown of the Century. I don't know what I would've done if it had been an actual contest.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:32:25 +0000

and mikey, the slopes are as slippery as ever, we just started further down than we thought we were.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:30:16 +0000

“You can Guru, you can!”

/jethrotull

By: Snag

Snag — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:39:39 +0000

I’m glad Congress was at least able to stand up to the powerful pro-rape lobby.

By: pastormaker

pastormaker — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:32:25 +0000

Earlier this week, facing questions concerning Australian detainee David Hicks, who’s been in Quantanamo for 5 years, Australian government ministers were insisting that the trials would be fair and impartial.

Then, when confronted with evidence that David Hicks, due to his treatment at Guantanamo, was no longer mentally fit to stand trial, the Australian Foreign Minister claimed he’d received a report from an official that stated Hicks was in fine psychological health. It turned out the “report” came from an official at the U.S Embassy in Australia who was treated to a 3 minute display of David Hicks during on of those guided tours of Guantanamo.

By: mikey

mikey — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:16:46 +0000

I gotta agree with the esteemed karl rove II. The politicians are too afraid of looking “soft on terror” to make any adjustments to this stalinesque piece of legislation. They (at least the ones who care about right and wrong, as opposed to winning and losing) are going to sit back and wait for the courts to “force” them to reluctantly allow these people the minimum rights they absolutely must.

But y’know what? That doesn’t bother me. Or rather, sure it does, I guess it doesn’t SURPRISE me. Like the snake the woman carried halfway across the river, it is their nature. For me, here’s the scary part. The PEOPLE don’t care. The people say “their just muslim terrorists, who cares?”. The people say “the government knows what they’re doing”. Unless the people begin to recognize that this erosion of civil liberties and equal justice DOES apply to them, does affect them, does MATTER, the politicians will have no compelling reason to take on this issue, fraught with all manner of career risk as it is.

Nope, they just don’t seem to make slopes slippery as they used to…

mikey

By: Tulkinghorn

Tulkinghorn — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:54:30 +0000

Any ex-JAGs in the house? This sounds like standard rules of evidence for proceedings under the military code.

By: billy pilgrim

billy pilgrim — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:29:11 +0000

Evidence-related anecdotes.

By: norbizness

norbizness — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:23:17 +0000

“We’ve got hearsay, conjecture, and excited utterances extracted by waterboarding… those are KINDS of evidence.”

By: Karl Rove II

Karl Rove II — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:12:19 +0000

“The new Congress had better have the stones to stand up to this stuff.”

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha….that was FUNNY!

…ain’t gonna happen.

By: Pentagon Spook

Pentagon Spook — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:11:11 +0000

If anyone here wants to flip on Brad, Gavin, Retardo, Travis or Seb, now’s your chance!

By: owlbear1

owlbear1 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:09:23 +0000

Well, everyone knows America would be much better off as a Fascist Dictatorship, just as long as rich white men are in charge.

By: Gus

Gus — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:52:06 +0000

Yes, if there’s one thing Congressional Democrats are known for it’s political courage. I almost typed that without laughing.

By: BenA

BenA — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:17:31 +0000

Given that around a dozen current Democratic Senators voted for the Military Commissions Act, I think repeal is unlikely.

By: Sarcastro

Sarcastro — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:10:25 +0000

Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.

By: Jeff Fecke

Jeff Fecke — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:49:29 +0000

The problem, of course, is that they passed over the distinguished jurist Judge Kangaroo Jack, whose work on international money transfers is second to none.