There are many who applaud Obama for his decision to block the release of Iraqi abuse photographs. I am not one. I know people have loved ones in the line of fire, I can't judge any opinion, partly because I...
ProPublica/Salon published a really good article on the role of psychologists in crafting the Bush administration torture policy. This article is well worth the read and provides tons of information on many of the players and issues popping up in...
It's been a while since the election when last I checked in on my fellow Idahoans. A couple of interesting things popped out. Thought maybe some folks might enjoy a change of pace ... so here they are: Musings of...
So I was browsing the newly released "Inquiry Into The Treatment Of Detainees In US Custody" and I came across this paragraph in the executive summary:On April 16, 2002, Dr. Bruce Jessen, the senior SERE psychologist at JPRA, circulated a...
I think the emerging belief that Harry Reid delivered a "smackdown" to liberal pressure groups is totally off base. Yeah, I think a smackdown was delivered. But some people have totally misidentified the smackee.Sure, a statement like "this isn't helping"...
Walk with me if you will down memory lane. Back to a time before everyone had achieved selective amnesia that allowed them to blame everyone's problems on a small group of people working to fix them.The date is October 16,...
Here's a little gem from last week. Not as important as a total spaz over .001% of the financial industry bailout funds going to people who were *gasp* in the financial industry when it collapsed, but significant none the less. ...
The thing that gets me about these AIG "bonuses" is that they have been known since well before AIG got the initial $85 bn. Nobody hid them. Congress, the press, the Fed, bloggers, everyone knew about it.I understand why the...
Here's an interesting bit that seems to have slipped through the cracks in all this economic panic. It seems a rather important policy is under bipartisan attack.The National Institutes of Health, which funds the majority of biomedical research in...
A man walks down a sidewalk. Another man says "Don't walk down that sidewalk, I'll ruin your life". The first man, says "I've walked on this sidewalk my whole life, and I'm quite successful. You must be mistaken". The second...
Well, I'm embarrassed to say that our new democratic congressperson in Idaho is one of the 11 who voted against the stimulus package. I'm not sure what this means for my long-term support of the man, but today I am...
For all of you who seem to think that Burris is such a decent and honest (totally rejected by Illinois voters time and time again) guy who would never engage in any sort of quid-pro-quo ... this just in. ...the...
Last night an email came in from the AndroidMarket team laying out some plans for the new year. Thus far, participation in the Android Market has been sort of like living as a mushroom, so it was really nice to...
I've noticed Blue Dog Democrats are viewed with roughly the same level of disdain as Joe Lieberman and head lice.Up here in Idaho, we worked our butts off to unseat one of the worst examples of GOP idiocy ever to...
FDL's Jane Hamsher has an article on Huffington Post (with this title) presenting an angle to the automotive issue I'd never seen before. Apparently foreign automakers are already incentivized with tax dollars to compete with our own corporations.[in Alabama] We...
Taking advantage of the severe mental defects (terminal GOPtardation) exhibited by the incumbent and a national party newly willing to give attention to ignored constituencies, Walt Minnick has been elected as democratic congressperson for the 1st district of Idaho.Congratulations to...
I just got a call from the robotic twin of 'ole Mittens Romney on behalf of our erstwhile gravity-hating congressmoron Bill Sali(ID-1). It's the first contact in over a month and came from some committee, not the campaign. I was...
I'm so excited I could just burst! I have been watching my local congressional race - in blood-red Idaho and doing a bit of clandestine campaigning. As I have mentioned previously, the congressional race in Idaho's 1st is way closer...
OK, this is hardly confirmed yet. But the rumors make me want to see some research done on this guy. Especially because his original story doesn't add up IMO.From the blog of someone called Martin Eisenstadt:If Steve Schmidt had any...
