Cheney endorses waterboarding?
The White House denied Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney had endorsed "water boarding" — a technique many consider torture — when he said earlier this week that dunking terrorism suspects in water during interrogations was a "no-brainer."
Cheney's comments sparked an outcry from human rights groups, which claimed his statement amounted to an endorsement of water boarding, an age-old technique in which a prisoner's head is kept under water to simulate drowning.
So what? I support turning them inside out over a long period of time. Let's Airboard them instead, keeping their heads above water to simulate breathing. Would that make you happier Mr. Human Rights Watch? Instead of extracting information from them we stuff them with Rice Pilaf, Lemon Pepper Fish and Orange Glazed Chicken until they gain an average of 30 pounds, give them Korans, prayer rugs, prayer beads, prayer oils and put arrows in their cells pointing at Mecca so they can pray 20,000 times a day and then we decry their captors as torturers. All because the president conducting the war has an (R) after his name...
Chavez counters Karl Rove?
The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.
America may be saved after all. Bwhahahahahahaha!! Allen kind of stepped in it here:
Virginia U.S. Senate candidate James Webb yesterday delivered his strongest criticism of incumbent Sen. George Allen of the fall campaign, vigorously defending himself against Allen's charges that he wrote sex-laced passages in his fiction novels.
I was following the controversy on Fox News (you know the evil, mean spirited GOP TV channel) last night and they pointed out that adorning the book's cover is an endorsement by none other than John McCain, kinda takes the wind out of Allen's sails if you ask me. Who cares if the guy wrote a book with sleazy bits in it? Am I wrong?
Swans are now telling us it's too hot:
For decades, the arrival of the first V-shaped flights of Bewick's swans in Britain's wetlands after a 2,000-mile journey from Siberia heralded the arrival of winter. This year, a dramatic decline in numbers of the distinctive yellow-billed swans skidding into their winter feeding grounds could be the harbinger of a more dramatic shift in weather patterns: global warming. Ornithologists at the main reserves that host the birds, the smallest of Britain's swans, said only a handful had appeared on lakes and water courses. Normally, there would be several hundred.
...maybe they found somewhere else to go.
Perhaps the noble Swan needs to talk to the Sun about Global Warming:
Mike Sissons calls attention to the November, 2002, issue of Liberty magazine, in which scientists from Lowell University, MIT, the University of Paris, and NASA JPL report three bodies in the Solar System other than Earth -- Mars, Triton, and Pluto -- as exhibiting measurable warming in recent years. The January, 2002, issue of Science News describes the rate of erosion of the northern polar ice cap of Mars as "phenomenal." Imagine the panic if this had been observed on Earth. (Jim Locker says to add Neptune also: see Sky and Telescope, Neptune's Forecast: A Cloudy Summer, by J. Kelly Beatty - August 2003 issue, page 22). The simplest explanation that applies to all would be an increase in the Sun's output. The June 18, 2003, issue of Physics News Update (No. 642) reports a study by researchers at Duke University and the Army Research Office that finds evidence linking solar flare activity with changes in the Earth's temperature. Despite giving them plenty of time to think about it, there hasn't been a word -- as far as I'm aware -- about the possibility of such a connection from the Global Warming lobby. The warming that Earth seems to have been experiencing for about the last 300 years represents a recovery from the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century and is part of a long natural cycle that goes back to include the "climatic optimum" of around 1100 AD, when Greenland was green and colonized by the Danes, and an even warmer period around 4,500 years ago. An interesting aspect is that these periods of warming appear to have preceded increases in carbon dioxide, suggesting that rising temperature triggers the release of carbon from such reservoirs as Arctic permafrost. The roughly one degree rise of the last century happened before 1940, whereas the CO2 increase came later, raising the legitimate question of whether human activity had anything to do with it at all. So, the "connection" that the environmentalists claim is indeed real. But as usual, they get it the wrong way around. Although the clearest correlation with these variations is solar activity, the seemingly obvious conclusion was resisted by the scientific establishment until the early 1990s because the idea that the Sun could vary went against prevailing theory. The astronomer William Herschel suspected it as early as 1801. In the absence of any means of direct measurement at the time, he suggested using the price of wheat as an indicator of sunspot activity. He was laughed at, of course. But the records in retrospect show him to have been absolutely right.
I'll keep trotting that little tidbit out as long as I have to to make my point. Democrats: The Party of the Proletariat, the Common Worker, The Little Guy:
Over half a century, the father of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer built an empire of glass and steel - and a fortune worth some $500 million - in the priciest precincts of Manhattan. Spitzer has lived rent-free with his family at 985 Fifth Ave. for 13 years. The 25-story tower off 79th St. has just two apartments per floor and terraces that look down at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thanks to his dad's generosity, Spitzer, his wife and three daughters have lived in a home graced with at least three bedrooms, four baths, a balcony, library and sweeping vistas of Central Park.
How boojwa! Marriage is a joke Jim, give it up. Cindy Sheehan's exscaped uterus kicks the game winning field goal for Baylor.
Hypocrite Dickheads:
This is fun:
Hybrid cars are all the rage in Hollywood. Celebrities drive them like they're a badge of honor. You save a few gallons of gas, you save the planet. Right? Well, not when you hop on a private jet and burn enough fuel to propel NASCAR through 2050.
Of course, the stars need to go here and there. The location shoots, the fabulous vacations, etc. But that's why God created United Airlines. G-IV's, on the other hand, were created in the image of precious celebs.
My Personal Favorite:
George Clooney
On the ground: George favors a Tango, an electric car that gets a whopping 135 miles to the charge.
In the air: Los Angeles/Tokyo, 5500 miles in a private jet.
Gas guzzled: 7,000 gallons of jet fuel.
Electric shocker: Even with his super-saver Tango, he'll have to drive over 57 oceans -- Pacific Oceans to break even.
So George says: Clooney's rep, publicist Stan Rosenfield, tells TMZ, "You clearly have no understanding of certain people's need for private transport," and points out that Clooney often has "no control" over his travel schedule.
Invent a Hybrid Plane George, you're a cutting edge kinda guy. Even jet setting celebrities don't want to die in an electric plane crash, at least John Denver had the courage of his convictions. Time to get out my radioactive pants...
Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves....
Waiting for Gore-doh... Since Al Gore was offered the opportunity to facilitate serious debate on the underlying science of global climate change, 9 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 21 hours, 10 minutes, and 55 seconds have elapsed. Despite milking lucrative speaking engagements and book deals with his global warming schtick he declines any such debate. Perhaps he's afraid of the Real Inconvenient Truth.
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