Month: June 2005
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I'm telling you, tasers don't hurt, now stop screaming
Check out this video of a cop tasering a woman via Stone Bridge. Stone Bridge notes that the cop remarks, likely for benefit of the camera (a) that it didn’t hurt, and (b) that she took a swing at the second officer and thus the taser. She didn’t take a swing. Stone Bridge didn’t observe…
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"No can do, can’t give photos of abuse," says Bush Co., "the evidence would violate the Geneva Convention!"
The ACLU has prevailed and a judge has ordered the government to release more Abu Ghraib photos and videos showing abuse of prisoners. But get a load of the brilliant argument Bush Co. used against releasing them. Government lawyer Sean Lane had argued that releasing pictures, even in redacted form, would violate Geneva Convention rules…
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"Oh, now, don’t start gettin’ down on the Guantanamo guards for a little water balloon play. You don’t get gooder, cleaner fun than water balloons."
Via Talkleft the Pentagon has admitted, “Well, hmmm, yeah, we disrespected the Quran.” Pentagon Confirms Soldier Mistreated Prisoner’s Quran Other Incidents Also Confirmed PENTAGON — The Pentagon has confirmed for the first time that a U.S. soldier deliberately kicked a Guantanamo Bay prisoner’s Quran in violation of the military’s rules for handling the Muslim holy…
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No other purpose but for the memory book
Ok. No one is going to be interested in this post except for a very small group of people who attended Jason Lee school in Richland, Washington in 4th grade in 1966-1967. And chances are perhaps not even they would be interested. And chances are zero that any of that small group of people who…
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Catch 22
[clear] Catch 22 waving bye to me not long before I fled the theater my first viewing Several times last week I had an almost, not-quite exchange with laizzes-faire “well, this is unacceptable so certainly it will be taken care of blitheness”, variation of a too nonchalant “this too shall pass” which left me disoriented,…