Comments on: Wow

By: celticgirl

celticgirl — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:21:33 +0000

Toast: this guy’s got the right idea

http://brendancalling.com/2008/04/02/shaming-and-shunning/

By: gbear

gbear — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:31:46 +0000

We (Toast, you still there?) really do need to find someone to rub BenGay into his shorts while he’s in the gym.

By: Snorghagen

Snorghagen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:38:06 +0000

This thread is old and gray, but I’m still going to contribute this John Yoo quote from today’s NY Times.

In an e-mail, Yoo has denied that his memo had anything to do with what happened a few months later at Abu Ghraib:
While each case of abuse is regrettable, it is not possible for a large organization charged with protecting the national security, under extraordinary pressure, to perform its mission error-free.

Contemptible turd.

By: J.R. Labrador

J.R. Labrador — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:00:21 +0000

Shorter Yoo: Badges?! We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:46:00 +0000

I hear ya Lisa.

If I were to make a movie about where we are and where we may be headed, it would end with Sadlynaughts being gassed – and telling poop jokes.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:41:26 +0000

I have been laughing everytime I think of “John ‘whassamatta’ Yoo” for a good twenty four hours now. This is getting ridiculous. I have already spent a week chuckling over the photo of N.W.A. with “Spizzecial Cuzzuverage” stamped across it.

This is serious shit. I can’t keep chuckling and snickering whenever someone brings up the Bush admin’s vile, unrepentant torture policies or our country’s inability to discuss race in a mature and thoughtful manner.

Damn you.

By: celticgirl

celticgirl — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:02:29 +0000

Nutellaon Toast: “Chuck Yoo”.

On stickers, on posters, on banners…

By: ahem

ahem — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:51:10 +0000

In the spirit of Bill Hicks, I believe we have the star of the pilot for my fall ’08 reality show “Let’s Kidnap and Waterboard Warmongering Right-Wing Filth”.

But if UCB’s students can drive the fucker out of Boalt Hall first, that would be nice. Frees him up to be unsuspectingly dragged off a street, flown 8,000 miles and tied up in a shithole.

By: mikeinportc

mikeinportc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:13:33 +0000

from mikey:"Where he gets to be the unitary executive.."etc. Nice to dream..... Got an email today ,from a contact that's pretty sharp , about everything. (He also wrote to the CA Board of Regents "demanding" that they fire his (Yoo) ass, and stop giving him taxpayer $ to teach torture, badly ) "Has anybody noticed yet that under unitary executive theory, if the Torture Memo constitutes a war crime, the person who must be prosecuted is not John Yoo, but President George W. Bush. That's what unitary executive means: That all accountability and access is through the executive." -xxxxxxxxx Ooops! Bet Yoo forgot to mention that part to Prez. Gump.

By: Gus

Gus — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:04:21 +0000

I was gonna go ballistic on this evil motherfucker, but mikey, as usual, expressed my feelings best.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:36:31 +0000

I have this imaginary moment where John Yoo is magically transported to the fishhook in cambodia in 1970. Where he has to try and make decisions that will keep him alive for another ten minutes, another hour, another day. Where the most evil of his calculations are not just authorized, but are necessary survival tools, except that in this model he has to execute them in real time, under fire, at night with arty falling danger close. Where he gets to be the unitary executive that can offer life and deal death, but it’s down to your rifle and your grenades and your bayonet that take those lives, and a bad decision gets you and your friends killed, hard and ugly.

Where John Yoo learns the price of suffering, the cost of pain, the value of honor, and still decides to shit on the covenant and finds himself alone in a hole on the wrong side of a collapsing perimeter looking for help or mercy and finding only the vicious expression of mans inhumanity and hatred. And finds he doesn’t have the sawdust and sand to live thru the night.

That, my friends, feels like justice to me…

mikey

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:08:08 +0000

Karma’s gotta gum this little shitbag of a man and then hand him over to something with blunt teeth for all eternity.

By: Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:15:25 +0000

Yoo got a lot of nerve
To say Yoo are my friend
When I was tied up, beaten, raped, electrocuted, starved, and mauled by large dogs Yoo just stood there grinnin

By: Senator Ted

Senator Ted — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:59:13 +0000

Well said Jim!!

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:45:31 +0000

Not that they aren’t allowed to, I mean, it’s just that the university doesn’t have to hire if they don’t want to.

By: Hysterical Woman

Hysterical Woman — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:44:34 +0000

I feel I should add, after the fact, that while people have the right to free speech, they don’t have the right to teach at a university.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:57:48 +0000

Wow Jim, that was fucking great. All in one neat little package that I will be stealing. Ok?

By: Rightwingsnarkle

Rightwingsnarkle — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:49:17 +0000

Oops, I meant to reference – Gary, they’re called “boobies”.

By: Rightwingsnarkle

Rightwingsnarkle — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:48:17 +0000

Great minds think alike!

By: Random Observer

Random Observer — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:40:21 +0000

If a government defendant were to harm an enemy combatant during an interrogation in a manner that might arguably violate a criminal prohibition, he would be doing so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the al Qaeda terrorist network,” Yoo wrote. “In that case, we believe that he could argue that the executive branch’s constitutional authority to protect the nation from attack justified his actions.”

Qualify much? Anyone can argue anything? Argue effectively? Not so much.