Just thinking about war, and dead people. I'm sure it's no surprise that I'd prefer that we... not be at war. Really, with anybody. But Memorial Day is for remembering and thinking about the people who died for our national interests... whether I agree with those interests (WWII, for example) or not (our present circumstances ( Read more... )

Ok, don't everybody panic. Amendments to ban gay marriage in PA have failed twice before. Noting also that gay marriage is illegal here (just not constitutionally enshrined.).

Pa. senator prepares new bill to ban gay marriageAlso, philly.com reports that our amendment process is similar to Iowa in that we need two consecutive state legislatures to ( Read more... )

Saw the Prodigy at the E Factory last night. They tore that stage apart. Holy crap ( Read more... )

Just spent the last ... oh, 2 hours trying to get through all the possible things on tomorrow's primary. I always wait too long to start this process. There are just So Many Judges.

~sigh~

Anywhoodle. On the plus side, I got this nifty flyer from Liberty City when I was at Fuze last Saturday which gives recommendations from the LGBT community, ( Read more... )

Can you believe this shit?
Inquirer defends the indefensible: A monthly column by torture architect John YooMeh. Ya know. There's a real chance that this schmuck who advocated for our government to torture in our names is not in fact going to be even investigated let alone prosecuted or dare I contemplate convicted of what are obvious-to-everyone- ( Read more... )

That was Skye's appraisal, and I find myself in agreement ( Read more... )

Not that I'm necessarily sure that will mean a whole lot more posting or anything, but there it is.
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Watch this weasely bureaucrat twist herself in logical knots:
It's not torture because we based the techniques on the SERE program.
The SERE program is a program designed to get our soldiers to be able to withstand... um... well,
the SERE program is something done to our own soldiers, so therefore it can't be torture. Tada!

And in case you're ( Read more... )

Watch Shep Smith (Fox News anchor) lose his shit over the torture issue:

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If you're as horrified about the whole torture thing as I am, you might want to consider adding your voice to this ACLU petition requesting that Eric Holder appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate all this torture business. There's also a short (less than 2 min) video there of an ACLU rep describing their position on this situation ( Read more... )