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I really really really want to like Dave Westlake…

Proud Progressive — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:20:54 +0000

I just wish he wouldn’t make it so hard. I have never met Mr. Westlake, and he seems by all accounts to be a very nice person. I also fully respect the campaign he has run(although I dont understand how he can do it), but getting out and meeting people and being willing to [...]

Unfortunately, it is not out of the realm of possibility…

Proud Progressive — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:39:59 +0000

A quick browse of the Huffington Post and my eye caught this story. After a nice belly laugh, I started looking elsewhere on the page and came across these stories also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/22/rod-blagojevich-future-in-politics-fox-news_n_690372.html

It was symbolic when the six Republican candidates for U.S. Senate stood up together side-by-side during a debate Wednesday. It resembled their [...]

Soldier accused of waterboarding his four year-old daughter

Zach — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:02:06 +0000

Joshua Tabor, a U.S. soldier at the Lewis-McChord base in Tacoma, Washington has been arrested and charged with assault after he admitted to police to having waterboarded his four year-old daughter because she was unable to recite the alphabet. Tabor admitted to police he had used the CIA torture technique because he was angry [...]

Lynndie at the LoC redux

PartiallyBlue — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:04:52 +0000

Somehow I missed this last week.

Lynndie England, the ex-U.S. soldier who became infamous for her role in abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, mistreatment captured in photos that appalled people across the globe, was scheduled to speak at the Library of Congress today as part of the tour to promote her new book. [...]

Petraeus endorses Obama torture, Gitmo plans

Zach — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:49:58 +0000

In an appearance on Radio Free Europe on Sunday, General David Petraeus made it clear he supports President Barack Obama’s decisions to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and to put an end to the use of harsh interrogation techniques:

“I think, on balance, that those moves help [us],” said the chief [...]

Mancow gets waterboarded, agrees it’s torture

Zach — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:43:09 +0000

Watch Chicago radio personality Eric “Mancow” Muller get waterboarded:

Now keep in mind Mancow has previously said on his show that he didn’t believe waterboarding was torture. It’s funny how one’s opinion changes once they’ve experienced waterboarding.

H/T to James [...]

Feingold: “So-called enhanced interrogation illegal”

Zach — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:40:41 +0000

For weeks, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been making the rounds on television to defend the Bush administration’s torture program, and during his media blitz, Cheney has been citing two CIA memos as proof that torture works as a method of obtaining intelligence.

However, during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing today, [...]

Is waterboarding torture? You decide.

Zach — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:44:35 +0000

I’ve spent a little time here on Blogging Blue talking about waterboarding, and I’ve made it clear I believe waterboarding is torture. I’ve read the argument that waterboarding can’t be torture since it’s used to train American military forces in SERE training, and I’ve also read the argument that waterboarding isn’t torture because it’s [...]

Waterboarding for Walker

Zach — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:34:37 +0000

From the first post at Heartland Hollar comes a novel fundraising idea for Scott Walker’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign, which kicked off this week:

s you may know, Scott Walker is “officially” believing in himself as governor again (or did he ever stop) and he is going to need a lot of charity from people [...]

‘Nuff said

Zach — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:46:18 +0000

Just a warning that this is definitely not safe for work due to language…

H/T to Emily Mills over at The Lost Albatross.