Representative Cunningham took bribes, say prosecutors

Things are looking sketchy for San Diego County's most notorious Congressman, Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

"It reads kind of like an indictment," said Bob Grimes, a veteran criminal defense lawyer who has handled many high-profile cases in San Diego. "They're accusing him of criminal conduct."

Batton down the hatches on that "borrowed" yacht, Duke! Rough seas ahead!

Schweeeeeeet.

Insecurity Moms

How best to support the reactionary agenda of a pseudo-Christian, Middle-Easterner-bashing, homophobe "President"?

Why, by ripping off a song popularized by a rock star who was a gay AIDS victim of Zoarastrian-Persian ancestry, of course!

Of course if they had any sense of shame or irony, they couldn't remain Bush Republicans.

Click the link, but have a bag ready for the contents of your guts.

Over half of America realizes Bush is doing a bad job.

Five years into the most corrupt Administration in U.S. history, Americans are finally realizing what a terrible job Bush is doing.

And I thought I was slow waking up.

Time for some uplift

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Does this count as torture, or is it merely child "abuse"?

According to this article, U.S. and British forces are arresting children, holding them in oppressive prisons like Abu Ghraib, and inflicting cruelty and suffering on them, including rape.

Unicef is outraged, Save the Children is outraged, and even U.S. allies in the Iraq occupation, the Norwegians, are outraged.

How long until Americans wake up and demand accountability from their government?

Kangaroo Courts at U.S. Cuban Gulag

The first email is from prosecutor Major Robert Preston to his supervisor.
Maj Preston writes that the process is perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and that the cases being pursued are marginal.
“I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the American people,” Maj Preston wrote.
“Surely they don’t expect that this fairly half-arsed effort is all that we have been able to put together after all this time.”
Maj Preston says he cannot continue to work on a process he considers morally, ethically and professionally intolerable.
“I lie awake worrying about this every night,” he wrote.
“I find it almost impossible to focus on my part of mission.

Read the rest here.