Monthly ArchiveApril 2009
Education & Politics admin on 30 Apr 2009
Torture Memos Show Bush Targeted Toddler Story Time
The present administration announced today that it is preparing to release another round of potentially embarrassing torture memos, perhaps as early as next week. These new memos claim to show the extent to which the Bush administration was willing to go to garner acceptance for its “enhanced interrogation techniques,” both in the present and the future.
“They say that history is written by the victor? Well, in this case, the attempt was to see the future written by Doctor Seuss,” says Charles Seymour, head of the independent Children’s Literature Anti-Political Initiative (CLAPI). “This was a shameful attempt to pervert an entire generation into accepting torture and inoculating it to believe torture is okay.”
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U.S. admin on 16 Apr 2009
Liberal Gun-Hoarding on the Rise
From rusty pickups to cherry Harleys to hulking Hummers, Earl’s Gun-Porium in Peachville, Georgia has seen a wide range of vehicles parked outside its camouflaged doors, but owner Earl LaMotte is still surprised by what’s been showing up in his parking spaces of late.
Volvos.
“Used to be my doors would swing open and in would come a good old boy in a wife-beater or flannel shirt,” Earl says. “Now it’s more often than not a doctor or lawyer in a fruity sweater with Chinos or tennis shorts, polluting the place up with their Sex In The City ring tones.”
Earl shrugs. “Long as their money’s green, what do I care?”
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Politics & World admin on 01 Apr 2009
Spain To Investigate AG Moose-Senator Link
A Spanish special prosecutor known for legally reaching beyond his country’s borders has announced that he is considering an investigation into the United States’ new Attorney General Eric Holder.
But unlike past Spanish cases involving torture and other human rights violations, this investigation will center around something different: moose burgers.
“AG Holder wins an Alaskan sweepstakes, and two weeks later Mr. Stevens gets off? Amigo, that’s some cojones felleas there,” Spanish Magistrate Baltasar Garzon said Wednesday. “Does it reach the level of having your nipples clamped to a car battery? No, but the law is the law.”
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