Daily Archives: April 24, 2009

The Tortured Logic of the Torture Superfans

Bob starts this entry on torture loving idiots. And truly, how degenerate are you that you can call yourself a Christian AND lust after torturing people at the same time?

Over at Political Irony, some more deep thought has been put into confronting this issue. Arianna Huffington frames it as it should be considered, as a “What does this say about America?” question.

Meanwhile, even FAUXNews talking heads like Shepard Smith question his network’s stance, not to mention the GOP’s, on cheerleading torture. To be fair, Smith is the only employee over there who doesn’t drink all of Murdoch’s Kool-aid, but still a bold move for him, if genuine:

Cliff May is an idiot who thankfully doesn’t get on my TV often, but his angle is that we HAVE to torture Muslims because their religion forbids them from talking to us. Dolt.

It doesn’t matter that the only reason we tortured was apparently to get some detainees to admit to a non-existant link between al-Qaeda and Saddam. It doesn’t matter that according to the FBI, torture did NOT foil ANY terrorist plots.

Indeed, say it with me: Torture NEVER Works. Not for the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the KGB, a pack of Neanderthal hunters. Not the Bush-era CIA or roving bands of West Virginia National Guardsmen and -women. It. Does. Not. Produce. Viable. Intelligence.

Ever.

More from Rachel Maddow interviewing Ron Suskind.

An FBI interrogator says Bush and Company lies about any intelligence gains from torture.

And Bill O’Reilly proves to be more of an inhuman beast the more he speaks on the issue.

(Well, video got pulled but you could probably imagine the sick glee.)

To get the taste of THAT out of your mouth, we close with Jon Stewart’s take from earlier this week.

(This video, too, has been scrubbed. There were actually an additional three vids of him interviewing Cliff May, which are also gone.)

But on the plus side….

“But on the plus side, if Texas did secede from the Union, we could then invade them for the oil.”

– Jay Leno

So…more on the whole Texas secession concept. This is just the latest spin on disgruntled Texan behavior. It happened when I moved down in 1982 and spawned a militia during the 1990s.

Here’s a comedic look at this idiocy:

And here is a list of where Texas stands in relation to other states. It ain’t pretty. Five Thirty Eight lays out some other benefits to ditching the Lone Star State.

There isn’t much a chance for an independent Texas to improve things either. After we pull out the military bases, nuke bombers and MX missiles in the silos, there is going to be some pretty big unemployment. Since the US isn’t using the Houston Ship Channel and the Navy will be ditching Corpus Christi and the Air Force rides out of San Antonio – not to mention moving NASA – there are a lot of jobs leaving.

Plus, and this is key, apparently 35% of Texas’ income comes from – (drumroll) – American federal dollars. And yes, this is an amount far more than Texas pay in taxes.

Bonus fun: either the State Department is playing along or is just infested with Clintonite numbnuts but they had temporarily listed Texas as a foreign country recently.

Damn, if this keeps up I’m going to have to create a whole other category.

Marriage a choice, just like religion – Las Vegas Sun

Thank God not all of Vegas is infiltrated by Talibangelicals. Give this a read and be sure to down some painkillers before starting in on the comments.

I truly wish that those bigoted hatemongers who supposedly speak for the Almighty would kindly shut the hell up and let actual caring folks speak for their religion.

Not that I’m holding my breath or anything….