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Monday, December 10, 2007
Can You Imagine?
Sinkhole in Guatemala City, February 23, 2007You're lying in your home in your bed, sleeping or whatever, and suddenly the ground disappears from beneath your home. Then your home disappears and you with it. This is a sinkhole that mysteriously appeared in Guatemala City this year. Several homes were swallowed and some people that lived here are missing. Aside from all of the usual worries of being a human being in today's world, the world could literally fall right out from under you. We think the ground is so solid beneath our feet, but is it really? Who knows what kind of activity has been going on under there. Is it natural? Could it be the result of acid rain in limestone which, I'm guessing, makes up most of the terra firma in that area?
The thing is absolutely huge. They could throw people in there and never find them again. Amazing!
Can We be Adults Here?
I just rejected a comment by an anonymous individual. I would love commentary on the blog; it shows that people are reading it. Any comment that is intelligent and makes a point will be accepted and published, no matter how relevant or irrelevant, no matter how reasonable or unreasonable, or whether valid or invalid.The comment I rejected was a vulgar episode of name calling with no purpose other than a dastardly, pusillanimous, and poltroonish attack on another human being. Name calling is not argument or debate. If that is all you have within yourself, please don't waste everyone's time.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Clintons cannot be trusted
Here is a very informative website that takes you on a historic ride into the Great American Scam that is Bill and Hillary Clinton. The author fills it with transcripts, video, and quotes from the Clintons and their minions.
- Bill Clinton threatened to use force against Iraq several times;
- Now Bill Clinton, while campaigning for his wife, is condemning the use of force in Iraq;
- When he was President, he was convinced that Iraq was stockpiling weapons;
- The Clintons are trying to renounce the war even though they supported it.
Unlike President Bush, who holds the line to protect us, the Clintons will voice support for whatever they believe to be a popular point of view on any issue. That is the way I perceive Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Motorcycles
1979 Honda Hawk 400cc motorcycleI used to ride a bike just like one of these in law school in Lubbock. It was great. I could get back and forth to school for two weeks on two gallons of gas. Not that gas was real expensive back then, but come on, I was in law school. I had no money.
I never felt threatened or in danger in Lubbock. Perhaps that was my own naivete, but Lubbock was not anything like the big city it is now. I always wore a helmet, and I even put a windshield on it to keep road debris out of my face.
After I graduated from law school and passed the bar exam, I moved to Dallas and brought my motorcycle with me. I actually rode it one time on LBJ. I had never been so afraid in my life. I put it up for sale the next day. I knew that I could be careful, but when you ride a bike, you are putting alot of faith in the attentiveness and ability of other drivers in cars and trucks.
I love riding a motorcycle, but I'm done with it. If the US became like Bermuda, for instance, where riding two-wheelers was a way of life for everyone who had to get back and forth to work, I would ride again. It's safer when all drivers are on the same terms, but a motorcycle is never on the same terms with a car or a truck in a collision.
Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
This was in the paper today. Don't you know that the Al Quaeda spies and Taliban followers in the United States are passing this along to enemy combatants to lift their spirits?
How long must the press keep giving morale boosts to the enemy?
There is no reason for them to capitulate. They can learn form the American media that America does not have the stomach for a fight. What happened to the American resolve that caused us to all pull together for victory? Do any of you believe that this sympathy for the enemy would have been tolerated then?
Note the liberal slant of the story. The writer could just have easily told us what Majid Khan was doing in Pakistan, and what actions lead to his arrest. They would rather print inflammatory quotes from Khan's attorney. This story is not about informing the public; it is about attacking our government's efforts to protect us. It is about attacking President Bush. Why do you suppose they don't use this type of propaganda to attack the enemy with such fervor?
11:20 AM CST on Sunday, December 9, 2007
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A suspected terrorist taken to Guantánamo last year says he was tortured in overseas CIA prisons and is now suffering physical and psychological trauma as a result, one of his attorneys said Saturday.
Majid Khan, the only U.S. resident among 15 "high-value" detainees, described the alleged abuse in October during his first meetings with attorneys at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base in Cuba.
"He was subjected to state-sanctioned torture," said attorney Wells Dixon, who was not authorized to share details of his client's account.
None of Mr. Khan's specific assertions of torture could be read in the heavily redacted documents.
A Central Intelligence Agency spokesman denied allegations that it tortured Mr. Khan or any others in terror interrogations beginning in 2002.
Mr. Khan, a 1999 graduate of a Baltimore-area high school, was seized in Pakistan in March 2003 and held until last year in secret CIA custody. In September 2006, he was transferred to Guantánamo, where he may be charged and face prosecution under a new military tribunal system.
After hearing Mr. Khan's account of his time in CIA custody, his attorneys sought a federal court order for the government to preserve any evidence of torture. The motion filed Nov. 30 argues that evidence of harsh interrogation techniques is key to Mr. Khan's ability to prove he has no connection to al-Qaeda.
"Khan admitted anything his interrogators demanded of him, regardless of the truth (redacted) in order to end his suffering," according to the attorneys' filing.
The bid to preserve evidence became urgent after the announcement Thursday that the CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later.
"The government is plainly no longer entitled to the presumption that they've acted in good faith," Mr. Dixon said.
How long must the press keep giving morale boosts to the enemy?
There is no reason for them to capitulate. They can learn form the American media that America does not have the stomach for a fight. What happened to the American resolve that caused us to all pull together for victory? Do any of you believe that this sympathy for the enemy would have been tolerated then?
Note the liberal slant of the story. The writer could just have easily told us what Majid Khan was doing in Pakistan, and what actions lead to his arrest. They would rather print inflammatory quotes from Khan's attorney. This story is not about informing the public; it is about attacking our government's efforts to protect us. It is about attacking President Bush. Why do you suppose they don't use this type of propaganda to attack the enemy with such fervor?
11:20 AM CST on Sunday, December 9, 2007
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A suspected terrorist taken to Guantánamo last year says he was tortured in overseas CIA prisons and is now suffering physical and psychological trauma as a result, one of his attorneys said Saturday.
Majid Khan, the only U.S. resident among 15 "high-value" detainees, described the alleged abuse in October during his first meetings with attorneys at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base in Cuba.
"He was subjected to state-sanctioned torture," said attorney Wells Dixon, who was not authorized to share details of his client's account.
None of Mr. Khan's specific assertions of torture could be read in the heavily redacted documents.
A Central Intelligence Agency spokesman denied allegations that it tortured Mr. Khan or any others in terror interrogations beginning in 2002.
Mr. Khan, a 1999 graduate of a Baltimore-area high school, was seized in Pakistan in March 2003 and held until last year in secret CIA custody. In September 2006, he was transferred to Guantánamo, where he may be charged and face prosecution under a new military tribunal system.
After hearing Mr. Khan's account of his time in CIA custody, his attorneys sought a federal court order for the government to preserve any evidence of torture. The motion filed Nov. 30 argues that evidence of harsh interrogation techniques is key to Mr. Khan's ability to prove he has no connection to al-Qaeda.
"Khan admitted anything his interrogators demanded of him, regardless of the truth (redacted) in order to end his suffering," according to the attorneys' filing.
The bid to preserve evidence became urgent after the announcement Thursday that the CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later.
"The government is plainly no longer entitled to the presumption that they've acted in good faith," Mr. Dixon said.
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