Doris Kearns Goodwin Throws Her OWN Team of Rivals Under the Bus

I saw the turkey thing too---fortunately, MSNBC blotted out the gory details but Dipshit Barbie kept blabbering on, apparently oblivious to what was going on behind her. At the end, David Shuster said that the cameraman did ask her if she wanted to do the shoot with that ghastly scene in the background and she thought that was just fine by her. Jesus H. Christ, what a demented and sociopathic monster Palin is. This whole incident was just disgusting.

Children in Haiti are screwed, while China's shoddy housing codes already screwed over 19,000 of its children. A judge says five Gitmo suspects have to leave, since there's no credible evidence against them being terrorists. Paulson continues to be full of it, especially forgetting our last two crises under Republican Presidents were only 30-40 years apart. Don't pick Gates please, Obama. Congress expands unemployment benefits. Yesterday's news, but police use a taser on a pallbearer, and are forced to make a settlement for beating down May Day protestors.

This is kinda cool: Mozart's Symphony No. 40

I meant to say now much I enjoy Chocolate News. I believe that new episodes are on Wednesday nights on Comedy Central (could be Tuesday...since I travel so much, I lose track of what day is what.)

Thank you for posting this.

This didn't have to be our future. When the scumbags took over in 2000, we were on a much different path. Look at all the shit they've done and they still think they should have a say in what happens in this country? It makes me violently angry.

is that we are godless.

No, seriously. By the WALL STREET JOURNAL!

It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.

You have GOT to read this entire piece of tripe.

I hope the WSJ tanks in the amount of time it took Murdoch to fuck it up.

You say yes
I say no
Palin saves a turkey
But when it comes to many turkeys
She says go go go

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Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.

Cheney, Gonzales and the others will not be arrested, and do not need to appear in person at the arraignment, Presiding Judge Manuel Banales said.

In the latest bizarre development in the case, the lame-duck prosecutor who won the indictments was a no-show in court Wednesday. The judge ordered Texas Rangers to go to Willacy County District Attorney Juan Guerra's house, check on his well-being and order him to court on Friday.

Half of the eight high-profile indictments returned Monday by a Willacy County grand jury are tied to privately run federal detention centers in the sparsely populated South Texas county. The other half target judges and special prosecutors who played a role in an earlier investigation of Guerra.

One indictment charges Cheney and Gonzales with engaging in organized criminal activity. It alleges that the men neglected federal prisoners and are responsible for assaults in the facilities.

The grand jury accused Cheney of a conflict of interest because of his influence over the county's federal immigrant detention center and his substantial holdings in the Vanguard Group, which invests in private prison companies.

The indictment accuses Gonzales of stopping an investigation into abuses at the federal detention center.

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with all the association that the wingnuts tried to tie obama to...why did they never go after his main fund raiser, penny pritzker?

the pritzer family has tons of skeletons in the closet, and they were the first to try tieing subprime to securities (causing a bank to fail and losing depositor's money)

to me...this is a no brainer

so what does pritzker have on the wingnuts that not one of them mentioned her, or her family

From This Modern World:

Judge Patricia Wald, former chief judge for the D.C. Court of Appeals and jurist on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, writing in the new report “Guantánamo and Its Aftermath” (pdf):

There are bound to be casualties when any nation veers from its domestic and international obligations to uphold human rights and international humanitarian law. Those casualties are etched on the minds and bodies of many of the 62 former detainees interviewed for this report, many of whom suffered infinite variations on physical and mental abuse, including intimidation, stress positions, enforced nudity, sexual humiliation, and interference with religious practices. Indeed, I was struck by the similarity between the abuse they suffered and the abuse we found inflicted upon Bosnian Muslim prisoners in Serbian camps when I sat as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, a U.N. court fully supported by the United States. The officials and guards in charge of those prison camps and the civilian leaders who sanctioned their establishment were prosecuted—often by former U.S. government and military lawyers serving with the tribunal—for war crimes, crimes against humanity and, in extreme cases, genocide.

From an AP story, June 30, 2001:

The dramatic decision to deliver Milosevic to the tribunal in defiance of an order by the Yugoslav Constitututional Court staying any extradition threatened to plunge the Balkan country into a political crisis.

Milosevic’s successor, Vojislav Kostunica, denounced the handover as ‘’illegal and unconstitutional.'’ Others accused Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who spearheaded the decision, of ‘’treason'’ and knuckling under U.S. pressure….

President Bush praised Yugoslavia for handing over Milosevic, saying the move showed the Balkan nation wants to turn away from ‘’its tragic past and toward a brighter future.'’

U.S. officials said the administration planned to make a pledge in the range of about $100 million for a Yugoslav assistance package, to be discussed Friday in Brussels at a conference of international aid donors.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair hailed the handover as ‘’a thoroughly good thing.'’

The full statement by Bush, available on the White House website:

I applaud today’s transfer of indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. This very important step by the leaders in Belgrade ensures that Milosevic can finally be tried for his war crimes and crimes against humanity. During various visits by Yugoslav authorities to Washington, they pledged that Yugoslavia was committed to cooperating with the Tribunal. Milosevic’s transfer is a strong sign of that commitment. We are confident that the government of Yugoslavia will continue down the path of cooperation with the Tribunal.

The transfer of Milosevic to the Hague is an unequivocal message to those persons who brought such tragedy and brutality to the Balkans that they will be held accountable for their crimes. Milosevic’s transfer further signals the commitment of the new leadership in Belgrade to turn Yugoslavia away from its tragic past and toward a brighter future as a full member of the community of European democracies.

The United States stands ready to assist the people of Yugoslavia as they continue to take the difficult steps to advance its democratic and economic reform.

(Suggested by Glenn Greenwald’s reference here: “[T]here were early statement from the Bush White House in 2001 about how critical it was to prosecute these Yugoslav leaders for war crimes…”)

Will Bush/Cheney be on American soil when the globulous propagations of executive orders hits the fan?
Will they be at some disclosed location performing a pagan pavane in celebration of the demise of American democracy?
Never before in OUR history has one man taken away so much from so many to give away to so few. For the preservation of OUR Constitution Bush/Cheney and all of their accomplices need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.We need to hold the Dems accountable for all high crimes and misdemeanors that have been committed in the past 8 years if they do not act to bring these criminals to justice. No measure of complacency or forgiveness should be tolerated if the Dems do not act to protect OUR Constitution!

Russia/Venezuela.