A question

I just saw someone make vomiting noises as they viewed Nancy Pelosi on TV, speaking about Gabby Giffords' sacrifice. The person couldn't bear to watch Pelosi for one second because Fox has informed her that Nancy is the devil. It didn't matter that it was a decent remark about Gabby. This was the devil speaking, and never mind that what she was saying was kind and generous.

Here's my question. After all the old people in this country die off, do you think rabid TV like Fox will survive? I don't. There will always be stupid religious people but I don't believe we'll see this level of ignorance, logical failure and unfettered hatred again in our lifetimes. At least I hope not.

What's your opinion?

NYT has a great opinion piece on Obama today

Wonderful op-ed by Drew Westen in the NYT today. Here's an excerpt:

The president is fond of referring to “the arc of history,” paraphrasing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous statement that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” But with his deep-seated aversion to conflict and his profound failure to understand bully dynamics — in which conciliation is always the wrong course of action, because bullies perceive it as weakness and just punch harder the next time — he has broken that arc and has likely bent it backward for at least a generation. 

Read the whole thing. It's excellent.

PZ takes on the popey guy

You remember how the popey guy commissioned a report that was guaranteed to say that pedophilia among priests came about because there were dirty hippies in the world?

Well, today PZ takes on the evil empire in this post about the awfulness of the report produced by John Jay College. Everything the popey guy touches is slimed. I doubt there will be a church left to pass on after the popey guy's finished with it. It's a fun read. G'wan, follow the link. You'll be glad you did.

Until all the Bushies are jailed . . .

I assume you know that Bush had to cancel a trip to Switzerland last week. Why? The Swiss say the trip was canceled for security concerns but the real reason is that he would be arrested the minute he placed a foot on Swiss soil. Torture is illegal, even if Americans are too stupid to understand this fact.

From today's Counterpunch:

The human rights community promised to pursue Bush and the other human rights violators whenever they leave the US.  Katherine Gallagher and Claire Tixiere, the lead lawyers authoring the 2500 page criminal case in Geneva stated:  “The reach of the Convention Against Torture is wide – this case is prepared and will be waiting for him wherever he travels next. Torturers – even if they are former presidents of the United States – must be held to account and prosecuted. Impunity for Bush must end.”

Until they're all jailed, every one of them, this isn't my United States. This also highlights how Obama has let the country -- and the world -- down. It is his failure to prosecute the human rights violations of the Bush administration that gives Europe the right to prosecute him. If we had pursued criminal charges against our Animal House version of a former president, the proceedings would have occurred on U.S. soil. But Obama's abject failure to pursue charges against Bush, especially after Bush admitted ion his book that he authorized waterboarding (which is firmly established in the law as torture) is what gives Europe the right to go after him now.

Bush is a criminal and Obama is guilty of collusion in his crimes. They both deserve harsh repercussions for what they've done, and not done.