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I wish I could say "Ding Dong the witch is dead" to go along with the title of today's entry, but the flying monkeys are still circling the poppy fields.
Dick Cheney is now saying that torture is acceptable if it yields results and, damn it, now he wants the top secret memos made public to prove that his torture program kept us safe.
Even though I seriously doubt that by waterboarding Abu Zubayda 83 times in August 2002, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times in March 2003, our government got any actionable intelligence that kept us safe from harm, I'm also relatively positive that our treatment of "detainees" has served as a reliable recruitment method for their friends and families.
I was really going to deal with the case before the Supreme Court today on this program... that of the then-13 year old who was strip searched at her school because some other kid said she had (gasp) prescription strength ibuprofen! If the US Supreme Court rules that school personnel can violate the privacy of a child in such a manner, with no proof or even a reasonable assurance that the child is putting other kids at risk and without first notifying her parents, then I'll have to find an alternate way to educate my child.
But I'll see what the outcome is before I get too crazy.
Instead, I made the mistake of watching MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for just long enough this morning to see this exchange...
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