The House of Horrors

CIA feared for future of interrogation program, report shows
A decade ago, when word started getting out in Washington that the CIA conducted brutal interrogations, the program had already hit a major speed bump inside the Bush administration over whether the White House really knew what was going on at the secret "black site" prisons overseas.




Torture totally solves everything. That's why the world was perfect when Bush and Cheney left office.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Attacks Kill 15 in Iraq as Country Battles IS
• Suicide Bomber Kills 6 Afghan Soldiers
• Hong Kong Police Arrest Protesters and Dismantle Encampment
• FSU Lecturer Fired After Blaming ‘Filthy Rodent Muslims’ for Ruining America

Weird. The only administration who thought they needed torture was the only administration that didn't stop 9/11.- LOLGOP

They Knew
 Just six days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, President Bush signed a secret order that gave the Central Intelligence Agency the power to capture and imprison terrorists with Al Qaeda. But the order said nothing about where they should be held or how the agency should go about the business of questioning them.
They envisioned a system in which detainees would be offered the same rights and protections as inmates held in federal or American military prisons.

It's Crap, Says Cheney
In an interview that aired on Fox News Wednesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney called the recently released report on the CIA’s use of torture after 9/11 a “terrible piece of work.”





That awkward moment when Cheney says "we needed to torture to stop another 9/11" and Obama stopped torture and another 9/11 didn't happen.- Top Conservative Cat

Republican Shenanigans

• Cheney Throws Bush Under The Bus On Torture Program
• Republicans clash on reversing nuclear option in Senate
• Shutdown wary US Republicans likely to OK funding bill
• Republican Praises MSNBC Host from House Floor

Sure, our former vice president is running around admitting to war crimes but at least he isn't trying to fight global warming.- LOLGOP

There’s No Way Bush and Cheney Didn’t Know
The Senate Intelligence Committee suggests that the White House knew everything about the CIA’s torture program but the details.




Be warned, children! Launch aggressive wars, approve torture, destroy millions of jobs and YOU TOO could end up on Meet the Press.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Partisans collide as Obama team seeks to avoid CIA fight 
• Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race

The Race Gap Widens
- Americans overall say they disapprove (51%) rather than approve of (41%) the executive actions President Barack Obama plans to take to deal with undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. However, Hispanics, U.S. immigrants and blacks approve of the actions by wide margins, whereas whites are oppose them.








A church in Alabama will start hosting their Sunday services at Buffalo Wild Wings so they can reach a wider audience. And no audience is wider than the people who eat at Buffalo Wild Wings.- Seth Myers

This Trailer for the movie W. by Oliver Stone Captures The Bush Presidency 

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Business/Tech News

• Oil edges up toward $65, traders see more downside
• Iran: Fall in oil prices is 'treachery'
• Judge sides with California workers in Walmart labor dispute
• U.S. spending bill adds $1.46 billion for military to buy 15 Boeing jets

Meanwhile, South of the Border...
Mexico is ready to intervene in currency markets to fight the peso's fall against the dollar amid concerns over dropping oil prices and a possible increase in U.S. interest rates.




"Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets in yet another guy from South America.'" –Conan O'Brien

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Odd News

• Israeli youngsters try to rob bank with toy guns
• Police: Students stole fraternity's chicken, ate it
• Boater rescued south of Hawaii after 12 days adrift
• Man Living In Sports Bar Ceiling Trips Water Main, Gets Stuck In Wall
• Man Facing Heroin Charges Brings Syringe To Court: Cops

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The Maldives.

Peace.

Sen. Harry Reid eviscerates GOP leaders in New York Times exit interview

Sen. Harry Reid eviscerates GOP leaders in New York Times exit interview
Asked whether any of his Republican counterparts could become president, outgoing Senate majority leader replies, 'Of what?'




This would be a good time to remind some people that Ronald Reagan banned torture.  And technically, Jesus did too. #TortureReport - John Fugelsang

They say Bush purged bin Laden's scourge
And torture did protect us
But soulless hacks are lax with facts
Like textbooks made in Texas.- John Fugelsang





The Feces Are Hitting The Oscillating Fan In Democrat Land
The CIA is still lying about its post-9/11 torture program, even in the face of a devastating Senate report, Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) said Wednesday.

In a dramatic floor speech during his final month in the Senate, Udall said the CIA's lies have been aided and abetted by President Barack Obama's White House and called on the president to "purge" his administration of CIA officials who were involved in the interrogation program detailed in the report.

On 9/11 America was attacked by 15 Saudis and now the CIA is explaining why we had to torture people in Iraq.- John Fugelsang





Afghan President Is Mad At The CIA. Well, Duh.
Afghan president condemns 'inhumane torture' described in CIA report.
Ashraf Ghani vows to defends the dignity of those who had been jailed in reminder of how impact of CIA interrogation programme still fuels anger

Those who do not learn from history are determined to elect another Bush.- LOLGOP





Papa Bush Was Out Of The Loop On Iran/Contra
Baby Bush Knew Nothing Of The Torture. And We Paid These Guys A Salary?
President George W. Bush was promising the world the United States would not torture while the CIA was torturing.
President George W. Bush marked June 26, 2003, the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, with a strong statement spelling out America's commitment to eliminating the scourge from the earth.
Behind the scenes, however, the agency tasked with carrying out the Bush administration's torture program had no idea what the president was talking about.

Bush/Cheney foreign policy may have been an unmitigated disaster, but on the other hand they also tanked our economy, so it all evens out!- The Teenage Sleuth tweey

Ch-Ch-Ch Cheney In The Torture Report
It may come as little surprise that former Vice President Dick Cheney's name crops up 41 times in the Senate report on the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation." Here are some of his noteworthy appearances:

1. Cheney personally worked to quash press coverage of the CIA's secret prison network.....

The Tortured Will Eventually Tell You What You Want To Hear
 A Senate investigation into the CIA's use of brutal interrogation practices released Tuesday suggests that at least one detainee supplied false intelligence contributing to erroneous claims by the Bush administration that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and was working with al-Qaida.

Radio Hack Makes Heroes Of The  Torturers. How Much Lower Can America Sink?
Radio host and former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh suggested on Wednesday that anyone who participated in torture techniques like rectal forced feedings or chaining prisoners naked to the floor were “American heroes.”




Most of you aren't old enough to remember this but The Torture Report was the original name of the O'Reilly Factor.- LOLGOP

"In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To deny Social Security benefits to Nazis. So from now on, no SS for the SS." –Craig Ferguson

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I had to do a quickie edition, today. Deep apologizes for any humor inconvenience. 

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Grand Canyon Elves Chasm, Colorado River.

Peace.

The Bush Legacy

Sexual threats, other CIA methods detailed in new U.S. report
The CIA used sexual threats, waterboarding and other harsh methods to interrogate terrorism suspects and all were ineffective at eliciting critical information, according to a U.S. Senate report released on Tuesday.




Why would the release of the torture report damage America? It's not like we'd ever elect the brother of the guy who approved torture.- LOLGOP

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Ex-British Guantanamo inmate says CIA "torture" report won't help
• French hostage held by Al Qaeda is freed in Mali after three years
• Israel indicts American over plot to bomb Muslims
• More than 150 arrested in California during police killing protests
• Mother of Cleveland boy killed by police says she wants conviction
• New York attorney general seeks to probe police killings of unarmed civilians

Torture gave us real info about bin Laden, say politicians who gave us false info about Iraq.- John Fugelsang

Iraq Wants US To Continue Bombing
 Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pressed outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday for more air strikes and weaponry to accelerate what he called the "descent" of Islamic State.




Welcome to America, where some of you will have an easier time buying an assault rifle than marrying who you love.- John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• Republicans insist CIA methods in report helped capture terrorists
• CIA 'torture' report cites 'rectal rehydration,' other unapproved tactics that would have made Colin Powell 'blow his stack'

So torture goes along with 9/11, Iraq, Katrina & the financial crisis on the list of ahistorical fuckups that somehow happened under Bush.- LOLGOP

Jail For Man Making Threats. Bush Torture Is Okey Dokey
A New York man was sentenced on Monday to 33 months in prison for threatening Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, federal prosecutors said.




Conservatives vow another Obamacare repeal vote, ask black people to get over slavery.- LOLGOP

Torture led us to Iraq, not bin Laden.- LOLGOP




McCain Comes To His Senses
Republican Sen. John McCain broke with members of his party Tuesday, lauding the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture and decrying the use of torture as having "stained our national honor" and doing "much harm and little practical good."




I'm going to try to remember only the John McCain who speaks about torture from now on.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Obamacare consultant apologizes for remarks on stupidity of voters
• Obama's Ebola czar Klain to exit White House by March 1

Today I learned that if you have information the CIA wants, they'll shove food up your ass.- The Good God Above tweet

Business/Tech News

• US stocks lower, following global declines
• White House rolls out new tire safety, efficiency program
• Supreme Court rules no worker pay for security screening
• Nissan settles class-action lawsuit claiming faulty brakes

Another Republican Liar Caught
The top executive charged in a chemical spill that left 300,000 people without drinking water lied about his role with the company to protect his personal wealth of nearly $8 million from lawsuits, according to an FBI affidavit.

I generally don't recommend holding a cat while bare-chested at the exact moment someone turns on a vacuum.- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Hallmark pulls holiday wrapping paper with swastika-like image
• Teacher quits after student pens Jesus, pot story
• Student charged after teacher eats pot brownie
• Nuts! Korean flight delayed by first-class spat
• Troopers drive 87-year-old across Utah to see son

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Khafre Pyramid, Sphinx at Giza, Egypt.

Peace.