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Once again, what kind of moral creed makes a central tenet of torture?

When Van Susteren asked if waterboarding is torture, Gingrich hemmed and hawed. “I think it’s something we shouldn’t do,” he said, but he qualified his statement, adding, “Lawyers I respect a great deal say it is absolutely within the law. Other lawyers say it
absolutely is not. I mean, this is a debatable area.” When asked if waterboarding violates international law,

Moral Bankruptcy R Us, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party.

Via Raw Story.

Oh, my. One person’s reaction:

In fact, as we discovered this week, it’s simply the start of a bold change in strategy on the part of the US government. The Department of Defense may be cutting and running, but their colleagues over in the State Department are getting ready to pick up the pieces and deliver the one thing post-war Iraq really needs to help it get back on its feet. I’m not talking about clean water or safe streets or bomb disposal dogs – that’s old fashioned thinking. No, the one thing that Iraq really, really needs, according to the State Department… is Twitter.

I am not making this up. The department has just airlifted Twitter’s Jack Dorsey along with representatives from WordPress, Meetup.com, YouTube and Google into Baghdad to discuss how social media can help build Iraq 2.0.

I noted the background for this here.

Support the ACLU here.

John Cole has more.

Brendan demonstrates teabagging.

Honestly, don’t miss this one, folks.

Here.

Via Thers.

Phillybits has the details.

I was hoping these folks had disappeared by now.

I cannot decide whether this is grossly insulting, not only to the target audience but to everyone; absurd beyond imagining; or both.

Via Thers.

Clinical. They are all clinical.

Via Brendan. Follow the link and read the rest of Brendan’s post.

Glomarization mounts a protest against action based on ignorance.

Aside: As her post implies, folks who do not understand what happened then cannot get it right now.

It’s called “history.”

It is beyond appalling that the legal apologist for Bushie torture and concentration camps is rewarded with a newspaper column.

Given that the field of principled, moral conservatives with personal and political integrity is very small, the Shrinquier, if it wanted someone to join Santorum and Ferris, both of whom give intellectual lightweights a bad name, could have done a lot better than this.

I think I shall be sick.

Addendum, the Next Day:

Will Bunch weighs in.

When it’s in Alabama.

In bridge, we bridge players call this a “reneg.”

It’s not a joke. It’s a bill.

These are the people who put the “nut” in “wingnut.”

It is not good to take a day off from the net to straighten up the house. Coming back and finding all that assembled stupidity all at once is just too much.

Jesus.

“Saddam might . . . strike again”?

Saddam never struck the first time.

Glomarization sums it up:

Republicans lie. Every last one of them, all the time.

She left out, “Every time.”

Brendan makes a video:

(Ya know, he’s a got a point there.)

Over at Phillygrrl’s place.

A carrion eater is a creature, such as a hyena, that comes along and eats the remains after a predator, such as a lion, had finished with it. Lions seldom morph into hyenas in the wild.

In nature, defrocked lions seldom re-invent themselves as hyenas. Not the case in what passes for busine–oh, I give up. If I write any more, I shall break my own ban on raving profanity.

Fairly or not, Countrywide Financial and its top executives would be on most lists of those who share blame for the nation’s economic crisis. After all, the banking behemoth made risky loans to tens of thousands of Americans, helping set off a chain of events that has the economy staggering.

So it may come as a surprise that a dozen former top Countrywide executives now stand to make millions from the home mortgage mess.

Stanford L. Kurland, Countrywide’s former president, and his team have been buying up delinquent home mortgages that the government took over from other failed banks, sometimes for pennies on the dollar. They get a piece of what they can collect.

Via Balloon Juice.

Look!

Over at Google.

Some executives got bonuses and

they. did. not. even. destroy. the. company. and . demand. a. bailout!

Who woulda thunk!

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Who woulda thunk?

Oh.

My.

Goodness.

Teh stupid

Via the Booman.