Yesterday's QUOTES ...

We do NOT ... torture!

... "we start with the least harsh measures first" and stop the progression "if someone becomes cooperative." ... that is, Frances Fragos Townsend of Homeland Security is telling us that the US doesn't torture once those doing the torturing are satisfied with what the victim has said, what the victim has turned into, or that the victim is completely incopacitated or dead!

I hope the Burmese can free themselves. I hope we can. Because there isn't much help on the way from above, folks. Even if we got the perfect progressive president in 2008, they'd have to rely on the public to get their backs. In the end, there's only ever going to be boring, ordinary people deciding that they just can't take the bullshit and the inhumanity anymore and that maybe it's time to act to stop it.

It's not women they're seeking to honor with that proverbial 'pedestal' ... These people who say they have nothing but respect for the military are the very ones who denigrate those who serve. They say they’re "honoring" us, while they’re telling us we’re unable to think for ourselves.
... No, it's soldiers who dare to think for themselves and step out of the mold set by those with the Neo-Con (really the neo-fascist) mindset who mostly reside among the 'conservatives' of this nation.
... Would that there were genuinely leftist voices in mainstream American politics, not because I agree with many of their positions, necessarily, but simply because the breadth of "acceptable" public discourse in this country is dangerously claustrophobic. ...