By now you know about the John Yoo memo about allowing CIA torture and the NSC meeting where methods of torture were discussed in great detail including how many times you could use which procedure. Apparently any form of torture was OK if it didn't lead to organ failure. In attendance were all the usual suspects, George Bush, Vice President Dick Chaney, George Tennant head of the CIA appointed by Clinton, Congelisa Rice, and John Ashcroft, Attorney General. Rice told the CIA to "go for it". Ashcroft was the one voice of conscience who said that history would not judge our actions well. I would have blogged on this sooner except I've had a host of situations to wrestle with in my personal life. It would seem Air America radio wants "War Crimes" charges brought against all these principals. I don't know. The whole network might be declared illegal by the government. You never know how powerful "The Powers that Be" really are. This John Yoo memo hasn't been talked about that much by the leading candidates for President. ABC news has a pretty good video on this subject if you're looking for a more in depth factual review to look at. Apparently the torture used was useful in nabbing at least one terrorist suspect. I think an adverse astrological alignment occurred April 9th. or 10th. and I plan to investigate that further. All of the news is bad these days. One can only ask themself now "What's Next?" It would seem to me if we were going to try and prosecute any of the principals of the torture, we would first have to impeach the President and remove him from office to insure that he didn't deliver a massive sweep of eleventh hour pardons just before he leaves office. Bush by his speech on Iraq yesterday morning still believes the Iraq War is going well. This republican pipe dream of being in a perpetual state of war with its attendant emergency measures- - is something the electorate will have to wrestle with in November. But right now I just don't think the average American citizen is upset enough about any of this to do anything about it. Usually things don't remain static. They either get better or they get worse. It would seem by all measurements "worse" is what we can expect.
People are upset because you can buy military equipment on Ebay and Craig's List. You can get this night vision stuff that identifies Americans and you can buy parts for F 14 hilicopters. Of course you can also buy any type of assault weapon you want incliding fifty calabre guns that have an amazing range. Personally I'm more afraid of what the government will do rather than the risk of some nut getting a hold of military weapons he shouldn't have.
The news now is so screwy. I know I’ve fallen behind the learning curve in not keeping up with it in my blogs. You know what Ship High In Transfer stands for you, don’t you? A lot of “Ship High In Transit” is coming down these days. Apparently they used to ship "cow pies" in the hulls of ships for fuel in hard times. However sea water would get into the hulls and cause the turds to emit methane gas and so when people would come down into the hulls with gas lanterns the whole place would explode. So they had to ship the cow pies higher up so that they could remain dry. The news gets worse every day. Microsoft still wants to gobble up Yahoo taking one more step twords a monopoly. We have the whole airlines flights mess and all this unscheduled maintenance. Hopefully I’ll be moving out of this place where I live. But to do that you need friends and I don’t have any, at least any that I dare lean on. I have found myself overwhelmed by various events in the past couple of days. I have gotten so much contradictory information from various people about the Bush tax refund coming next month and know that with every day I delay it will be that much delay in getting the money. They now have said the lowest gasoline prices are $3.49 and $3.54 a gallon. They didn’t say what the highest figures were but I imagine you pay four dollars some places. We have this pandemic energy crisis because China and India and all these places are requiring more energy production. These people are also demanding more meat in their diet and beef cattle eat wheat, which is wheat that could otherwise be used to feed human beings. Also wheat production is being abandoned in favor of the non food production of corn for ethanol production, not only here but around the world. Around the world food prices are doubling, no matter which country you survey. It’s not all a stretch to believe that they could have food riots and food wars before too long. Then you have China making that oil deal in south Sudan. And we are going along with that deal because we don’t care about individual rights but merely in keeping China happy. Who cares if the local people are screwed. Then there is the whole Texas cult thing in El Dorado where now mothers are complaining that the government has separated them from their children. At least this government raid was done without violence. You know if I were a Christian I might be praying at this point “Beam me up, Scottie”. But reality forbids us from having such fond fantasies.
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