Eric Holder better get his ass in gear if he wants a crack at everyone’s favorite war criminals:
MADRID, (AP)
— A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case
against six former Bush administration officials, including former
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal
cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday.
Human rights lawyers brought the case before leading anti-terror
judge Baltasar Garzon, who agreed to send it on to prosecutors to
decide whether it had merit, Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers who
brought the charges, told The Associated Press.
Gonzo can’t get a job, so maybe he could do some jailhouse lawyering once he gets to The Hague.
From one of my favorite stops in Wingnuttia - Clown Hall:
Take Michelle Obama…please. Every time I turn around,
there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay
off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the
same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I’ll make an exception in
her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got
her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has
sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she
insists this is a mean country. The burning question in my
circle is: if the First Family gets a female dog, will she be the First
Bitch or will she have to settle for second place?
Wow - you’d think all those professional Christians over at Town
Hall wouldn’t call people names. Would Jesus use language like that?
Naturally, the left-wing media is now trying to convince
us that this James Brown-look-alike has all the allure, glamour and
fashion sense of Jackie Kennedy.
James Brown? Huh?
Shorter Burt Prelutsky: You black kids get off my lawn!
This is a Bentley GTC.
It has a six liter, twelve cylinder engine. It gets twelve miles per
gallon. It costs around $197,500, and it will go from zero to sixty
miles per hour in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. It's one impressive Volkswagen.
MARCH 16–A Florida man wearing an “I ♥ My Marriage”
t-shirt was arrested last night for allegedly choking his wife during
an argument in their Tampa-area home. Bradley Gellert, a 32-year-old
financial consultant, was busted by Hillsborough County Sheriff’s
Office deputies and booked into jail on a felony domestic battery by
strangulation charge.
Would have been funny if Joe the Plumber had been wearing a McCain t-shirt when he beat up the missus.
Remember yesterday, when AIG CEO Edward Libby said that AIG’s other insurance businesses were just fine thank you? Not so fast:
Thomas Gober, a former Mississippi state insurance
examiner who has tracked fraud in the industry for 23 years and served
previously as a consultant to the FBI and the Department of Justice,
says he believes AIG’s supposedly solvent insurance business may be at
least as troubled as its reckless financial-products unit. Far from
being “healthy,” as state insurance regulators, ratings agencies and
other experts have repeatedly described the insurance side, Gober calls
it “a house of cards.” Citing numerous documents he has obtained from
state insurance regulators and obscure data buried in AIG’s own
300-page annual reports, Gober argues that AIG’s 71 interlocking
domestic U.S. insurance subsidiaries are in hock to each other to an
astonishing degree.
Bush joked that he’d need more such engagements to pay for the house his wife, Laura, bought without him seeing it. “I actually paid for a house last fall,” he told the crowd. “I think I’m the only American to have bought a house in the fall of 2008.”
From his fainting couch, Richard Cohen clutches his pearls and complains that Jon Stewart was mean to CNBC and Jim Cramer:
What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct
him when he’s wrong, as he was about the financial media, particularly
CNBC and its excitable analyst Jim Cramer. They didn’t cover up the
story of financial shenanigans. They didn’t even know it existed.
Setting aside the fact that lots ofpeople knew - shouldn’t CNBC have known about the problem? They’re the experts.
Writing about the spat with [Laura] Ingraham on her
Daily Beast blog this weekend, [Meghan] McCain wrote that “instead of
intellectually debating our ideological differences about the future of
the Republican Party, Ingraham resorted to making fun of my age and
weight.” “At this point, I have more respect for Ann Coulter than I do for Laura Ingraham because at least Coulter didn’t come back at me with heartless, substance-less attacks about my weight,” wrote McCain.
Ingraham fired back while McCain was appearing on The View.
President Obama lifted the restrictions on stem-cell research yesterday. But suppose Preznit Bunnypants hadn’t put them in place to begin with?
Sure, we know about the dead in Iraq - the people, the soldiers
- and we know about what happened in New Orleans. But how many people
would be alive today if Bush hadn’t put his religion before the rest of
us? How many people would be walking instead of in wheelchairs had
science not been hobbled for the past eight years? How many people
would be enjoying their lives instead of suffering? We’ll never know.
SITTING in the back seat of his mother’s van as she drives through Atlanta suburbs, Jonathan Krohn is about to sign off with a conservative radio talk show host in Florida. In the 40 minutes he’s been on the air, with the help of his mother’s cellphone, this hyper-articulate Georgia eighth grader has attacked the stimulus bill, identified leaders he thinks will salvage the Republican Party’s image, and assessed the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
Would it surprise you if I told you he's home-schooled?
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), whose career became mired in
the D.C. Madam prostitution scandal back in 2007, and is now headed
into his 2010 re-election campaign, is championing the cause of family values in the omnibus bill, and the need to stop government spending on family planning. Really.
Michael Steele dropped to his knees before Rush Limbaugh, what? Twenty-four hours after criticizing him? And now Bobby “The Exorcist” Jindal wants sloppy seconds:
Jindal also responded to Michael Steele’s recent flap
about Limbaugh: “I’m glad he apologized. I think the chairman is a
breath of fresh air for the party. As I said before, I think Rush is a
leader for many conservatives and says things that people are concerned
about.”
“Says things that people are concerned about”? What the fuck does that mean?
This is sad and kind of awesome. Maurice “Hank”
Greenberg, the man who built up AIG into the global powerhouse, before
being forced out by Eliot Spitzer, is suing his old company for securities fraud. Greenberg says that mirepresentations by the company caused him to overpay for the stock.
It’s as though he killed his own parents and is now complaining because he’s a fucking orphan.
Six more things pushing me towards that inevitable psychotic meltdown: 1) D.L. Hughley - I have never sought this person out. On the few occasions when I've been watching CNN and he has appeared, he has not been funny. Yet his entire job is to be funny. Why does he have a show, much less a career?
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