Author - Bob Cesca
A presidential directive on detainees
Since the release of the FBI e-mail mentioning an Executive Order in which the president authorized use of torture on detainees in Iraq, just about every federal department has issued denials of such...
Bad News Bush: 49% approval rating
So the news gets worse for our torturer-in-chief. In addition to a dismal press conference, and new FBI documents indicating that he authorized some of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, a new USA...
ACLU: Bush ordered Abu Ghraib abuses
A new set of documents obtained by the ACLU via the Freedom of Information Act seems to indicate that Bush himself authorized the use of certain forms of torture via an Executive Order. An e-mail...
Bush's job is to tell us about his job
Bush conducted a piss-poor 55-minute press conference this morning peppered with the usual disorganized, rambling non-sentences interspersed with brain-fart pauses, pulpit-thumping, and disrespectful...
We can barely have elections in Ohio…
Are we really deluded enough to believe there will be real elections in Iraq when electoral commission workers are shot and beheaded in broad daylight in the streets of Baghdad? The AP: "About 30...
No Child Left Behind prompts cheating
A Dallas Morning News investigation has shown that Texas schools (the administration, not the students) in Dallas, Houston, and other regions have been allegedly cheating their test results in order...
AP: 'potential' U.S. invasion of Cuba?
Today, Cuba wrapped up its largest war exercises in 18 years in preparation for what Fidel Castro is calling an impending invasion of Cuba by U.S. forces. The AP: Thousands of Cubans took to the...
Tucker goes to MSNBC
Tucker Carlson, who was smacked down by the truth-talking Jon Stewart, is set to take over the Deborah Norville slot on MSNBC at 9pm weeknights, according the TV Newser. So the news media's parroting...
Yellow magnets V: Bring them home
Iraq war veteran, Marine Lance Corporal Michael Hoffman in Allentown, PA's Morning Call: If you have one of those magnetic "support our troops" ribbons on your car, Michael Hoffman suggests you grab...
Meanwhile, in Iraq today
While Bush talks baby-talk with Barney (RealPlayer) and basks in his preordained legacy... Karbala, Najaf car bombs kill 58 10 kidnapped in Baghdad Voter registration site attacked
TIME picks Bush, lowers standards
"For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be...
Yellow Magnets IV: Beyond Profitdome
Tonight, while shopping with my wife at a Bed, Bath & Beyond (don't laugh, they donated 93% to Democrats), I noticed a large display of "Support Our Troops" magnets near one of the check-out...
Sauron: Saruman is 'doing a great job'
Speaking for the president, Scott McClellan yesterday voiced the administration's support for Donald Rumsfeld, which is tantamount to Sauron saying, "Saruman is the Saru-MAN!" "Secretary Rumsfeld is...
FBI: Torture orders came from Rummy
Following up on the Navy documents acquired this week, Joe Conason reports in Salon (Torture begins at the top) that a May, 2004 FBI memo (download pdf) obtained by the ACLU states that Donald...
Poll: No liberties for Muslim-Americans
A Cornell University poll, announced today, found that nearly 50% of Americans think the government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim-Americans. NY Newsday: The survey also found...
Neighbors in human rights violations
Our human rights record has become so deteriorated that CUBA, of all nations, calls us out... This billboard was placed across from the U.S. Interest Section's offices along a highway in Havana...
Bubble Boy Index, 12.17.04
Americans killed in Iraq: 1304 Funerals attended by Bubble Boy: 0
O'Splotchy: We never curse Dems
Media Matters had this today: In response to reports that actor and comedian Chevy Chase called President Bush a "dumb f---" while co-hosting a December 14 People For the American Way awards ceremony...
Bush's "support" for 9/11 reforms
Bush delights lawmakers with a doodle of "either a fat woman bending over, or a light bulb" while Senator Joe Lieberman inexplicably strokes his own crotch. Today, George W. Bush signed the National...