As usual, Religous Fucktards contradict themselves

From God is for Suckers:

Diocese of Little Rock is urging its members not to donate to a breast cancer foundation

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Diocese of Little Rock is urging its members not to donate to a breast cancer foundation known for its fundraising races across the globe because the group supports Planned Parenthood.

The diocese says the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, which has invested about $1 billion in cancer outreach and research, gives money to Planned Parenthood to hold breast exams and offer education to women in its clinics.

“Donors cannot control how an organization designates its funds,” a diocese statement reads. “Therefore, money donated for a specific service … directly frees up funds to support other areas of an organization’s agenda.”

Marianne Linane, director of the diocese’s “respect life” office, said those other agendas includes abortions and contraceptive services. The Catholic church’s policy is that abortion is wrong in every instance.

[But allowing women to die from breast cancer is ok.]

Linane said the Little Rock diocese, which oversees all churches in Arkansas, used the same statement sent out by the church’s St. Louis diocese last year. However, the end of the Little Rock letter included addresses of Arkansas hospitals parishioners could donate to that would eliminate “the administrative funds for a middle broker.”

Monsignor J. Gaston Hebert sent the statement to parishes and Catholic schools this month and planned to send out a follow-up letter, Linane said. Hebert did not return a call for comment Tuesday.

Little Rock follows other dioceses in raising concerns with the foundation. In 2005, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston abandoned its support of the foundation, while in 2006 the newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix took issue over Komen’s Planned Parenthood funding.

Rebecca Gibson, a spokeswoman for the Komen foundation, said the group invested $69.6 million in more than 1,600 community-based education and screening programs during 2007. Planned Parenthood received less than 1 percent of that money, she said.

“It’s insignificant in relation to all of the funding we do,” Gibson said. “I think it’s just really unfortunate undue attention is being shed on organizations that are providing vital services in those communities.”

The diocese’s decision comes as northwest Arkansas prepares for its running of the Race for the Cure on April 19.

Officials estimated Little Rock’s running last year brought out more than 43,000 participants and raised more than $1.65 million.

Knock Knock. Who's There? The Terrorists...

From Thinkprogress.org

Perino Attempts To Defend Wiretapping Spin

The Reichstag has been very, very busy trying to tell the American public that we are losing important information on when the Terrorists are going to attack us because the congress will not approve immunity for the telecoms who broke the LAW. Yup, those pesky Terrorists are just text messaging away with total abandonment now that the airwaves are not monitored.
The shit that spews out of the mouths of these filthy no-good used car salesmen never ceases to amaze. The bald faced lies vomited by propaganda minister Perino is just exhilarating.
And I quote:
Reporter Helen Thomas also pressed Perino on who gave telcos the “right to break the law,” to which Perino testily replied, “You’re entitled to your opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own set of facts.”
BASTARDS!

The Crackpot is at it Again

The esteemed Ralph Nader said in 2000 that the Republicans and Democrats were to much alike.
Looking back at the last 7 years, I rest my fucking case!

The Terrorists are Calling! The Terrorists are Calling!

For immediate release posted on the ACLU's website:

Playing politics with domestic surveillance bill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: (202) 675-2303 or media@dcaclu.org

WASHINGTON - Statement of Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office:

"In an attempt to get sweeping powers to wiretap without warrants, Republicans are playing politics with domestic surveillance legislation. The president is saying he does not want the courts to have any say in whether telecommunications companies acted illegally when they turned over private information to the government. As usual, the Bush administration is trying to insulate its activities from public scrutiny, this time by trying to keep the telecommunications providers out of court for illegal actions.

"The ACLU's plaintiffs are not in it for money; they want the truth to come out. They deserve their day in court against companies that were supposed to keep their information private. Let the courts decide. Have some faith in the U.S. justice system Mr. President. If the companies did not break any laws, why would they need immunity?

"Instead of trying to work on a compromise on what they claim is vital legislation, Republican lawmakers are refusing to even come to the table to do the hard work of negotiation. Instead, Republicans want the House to accept the unconstitutional Intelligence Committee bill passed by the Senate, without change. The ACLU once again commends the House for refusing to yield to administration fear-mongering. This bill, S. 2248, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2007, would grant the administration unfettered access to all communications coming in to or out of the United States without any meaningful court review or finding of wrongdoing. In addition, it would grant complete immunity to companies that cooperated with illegal wiretapping over the last several years.

"Also, in a ploy to get the House to cave in on the immunity issue, the White House agreed this week to show the full House Judiciary Committee legal documents related to its warrantless domestic surveillance program. This agreement to show a few members of Congress some of the documents comes after years of stonewalling.

"The president is claiming that without the Senate intelligence bill American's lives are in danger, and yet, they threaten that the president will veto any legislation that doesn't give immunity to the telecommunications companies. So if you believe their false assumption that the Intelligence Committee's bill will save lives, then they are saying that giving a break to the telecommunications companies is more important than saving American lives.

"As House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and the Cato Institute noted, America is in no danger from the expiration of this unconstitutional law. Orders issued since last August remain in effect until their internal cease date, up to a year after issuance, ensuring that current surveillance programs will continue, in some cases, into 2009. These programmatic orders are not limited to individuals or facilities so that new targets can be tapped under existing orders. Of course, the government always has the option of tapping targets immediately and returning to court within 72 hours to obtain an order under the FISA procedures that have served our intelligence community well for nearly 30 years.

"Congress should take the time to craft a bill that gives the intelligence community only the narrow authority it needs to track terrorists abroad while protecting the privacy of people in the United States. It is critical that Congress does not repeat the mistakes made last August when it gave the executive branch the ability to conduct mass, untargeted surveillance, unconnected to suspected terrorists, with no limit on how American information can be used. The House of Representatives has already taken the first step towards restoring our rights by letting the Protect America Act sunset. It would be a travesty, if after making this courageous move, Congress ultimately decided to pass a bill that substantially replicated that overreaching authority.

"The government's legitimate interest in protecting the nation against terrorism can be accommodated without sacrificing the constitutional liberties that make the United States worth defending.

"Any new surveillance law should give the government the tools it needs but also ensure that:

• Government surveillance is subject to meaningful judicial oversight.
• Government surveillance is directed at suspected terrorists, not at innocent people.
• Government surveillance is targeted at individuals and does not constitute an indiscriminate dragnet.
• Where government surveillance sweeps up the communications of innocent people, the information gathered is - except in a narrow and clearly defined category of contexts - destroyed rather than disseminated.
• Congress should not deny Americans their day in court against the telecommunications companies to vindicate their rights. No immunity for the telecommunications providers."

For more information: www.aclu.org/fisa

Fucking Religeous Idiots

It's hard to believe we are living in the 21st century.
It's very hard when you read about these Honor killings
that these fucking fundamentalists are so fond of.
Ah, I just love religion, it's such a nice way to make excuses for being an animal.
GO SIGN THIS:
International Campaign against killings and stoning of women in Kurdistan
In the bloody name of God.
Assholes!

International Campaign against killings and stoning of women in Kurdistan

More of "We Don't Do That"

An interesting article from the Washington Post today about the CIA actually driving a detainee insane. If you read Naomi Klien's "The Shock Doctrine", she goes into detail about how this method came about. The idea was to drive someone so insane that you had a "clean slate" to work with, to "rebuild" the mind from the beginning. The CIA adopted this technique to make the victim dependent upon the questioner. I'm going to post the article here because the dailys remove them after a certain period of time and I want this to be able to be referenced in the future.
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Inside the Mind of a Gitmo Detainee_________________________________________________________________

By Joseph Margulies and George Brent Mickum Saturday, February 23, 2008; 12:00 AM

As you read this, we expect to be in Guantanamo, meeting with the man President Bush mentions when he talks about the intelligence gained and the lives saved because of "enhanced" interrogation techniques. We represent Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah in a legal effort to force the administration to show why he is being detained. And this week, with our first meeting, we begin the laborious task of sifting fact from fantasy. Yet we worry it may already be too late.

The administration declares with certainty that Zubaydah is a "senior terrorist leader and a trusted associate of Osama bin Laden" who "helped smuggle al-Qaeda leaders out of Afghanistan." Dan Coleman, a former FBI analyst who was on the team that reviewed Zubaydah's background file, disagrees, describing him as "insane, certifiable" and saying he "knew very little about real operations, or strategy." We do not presume to know the truth. So far, we know only what has been publicly reported. But we hope to uncover the facts and present them to those with the power to act upon them.

Yet Zubaydah's mind may be beyond our reach. Regardless of whether he was "insane" to begin with, he has gone through quite an ordeal since his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. Shuttled through CIA "black sites" around the world, he was subjected to a sustained course of interrogation designed to instill what a CIA training manual euphemistically calls "debility, dependence and dread." Zubaydah's world became freezing rooms alternating with sweltering cells. Screaming noise replaced by endless silence. Blinding light followed by dark, underground chambers. Hours confined in contorted positions. And, as we recently learned, Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding. We do not know what remains of his mind, and we will probably never know what he experienced.

Of course, the challenge of reconstructing what took place was made infinitely more difficult when the CIA destroyed the recordings of Zubaydah's interrogation. But we already know something about what these techniques produce. It was the Cold War communists who perfected the dark art of touchless torture. And with it, they brought U.S. soldiers to the tipping point, where the adult psyche shatters, leaving behind a quavering child. At the end of their ordeal, these soldiers made fantastic admissions of American perfidity and spoke unreservedly about their supposed misdeeds.

The Bush administration says Zubaydah and other products of the CIA "black site" program repeated their confessions to FBI agents -- a "clean team" that used authorized interrogation techniques to scrub away the fetid stain of torture. But the communists didn't need to hold our soldiers at gunpoint as they recited their confessions. Continued cruelty becomes unnecessary when a prisoner has lost the will to resist.

What will we be able to learn, at this point, from Zubaydah? Will we be able to recreate the interrogations without the tapes? Will we get access to the material that led Coleman to a conclusion so different from the administration's?

Because we represent Zubaydah, some people will likely discount whatever we say. But do not misunderstand; this is not a plea for pity. Whether people approve or disapprove of what has happened to Zubaydah, that's a separate question.

The American system of justice is founded on the idea that truth emerges from vigorous and informed debate. And if that debate cannot take place, if we cannot learn the facts and share them with others, the truth is only what the administration reports it to be. We hope it has not come to that.

Joseph Margulies is assistant director of the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Law School. George Brent Mickum is an attorney in Washington, D.C.

Copyright The Washington Post

More Gems from This Utter piece of Human Waste

Well, this just in from the AP.

"Rove asked a former Republican campaign worker to find evidence that the Democratic governor of Alabama at the time was cheating on his wife."

Well, whats new with that? Thats how this shitheel works.
Plays for keeps. Great strategist.

Fuck him! I, along with Joe Wilson, am waiting for the day he is "Frog Marched" into an awaiting police vehicle. But of course, that will be after monkeys fly out of my butt.

A snippet of Jill Simpson's ( the campaign worker) statement.

Karl Rove asked you to take pictures of Siegelman?" reporter Scott Pelley asks.

"Yes," Simpson replies.

"In a compromising sexual position with one of his aides," Pelley says.

"Yes, if I could," she responds.

Hmmmm, I dunno, he's such a true and righteous upstanding citizen. I'm not sure I would believe her.

"Simpson said she is speaking out because Siegelman's seven-year sentence on corruption charges bothers her, the release said. She said she found no evidence of an affair."

"Democrats on Capitol Hill, however, have been looking into the case as part of a broader investigation into political meddling by the White House at the Justice Department. Also, more than 40 former attorneys general have asked for a congressional investigation into the case."

This interview with Simpson will be upcoming on CBS 60 Minutes.
I'm going to watch for it. I have to see her actually make these statements, look in her eyes, before passing judgement on such an honorable person as Karl Rove.