Letting It Sink In – Part 9

Posted on 01/15/2009 at 4:03 pm by Bob Cesca

“I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, waterboarding is torture.”
—Attorney General-designate Eric Holder

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  • LameDuckHunting

    I LOVE this guy………..

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    So he passed the litmus test. He doesn’t owe any back taxes, does he?

  • LameDuckHunting

    >>He doesn’t owe any back taxes, does he?Hopefully, no….and if he did, I hope Mark Rich didn’t pay them for him, either………

  • LameDuckHunting

    I’m going for my piece of the pie – George Jefferson

  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein

    God, you’re the cut-and-pasty-est, PayYourWay! Anything else you’d like us to know that’s just a Borrow Someone Else’s Thinking click-and-cut away?

  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein

    Mmmm, “chump” and “spunk” in the same comment. You’ve outdone yourself, Sir, huzzah!

  • https://www.coffeemakersetc.com/images/Paper_Filters.jpg Elvis the Dingeldein

    Adding: I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816

  • ceu

    payyourway has a point. I’m off to repair the pot holes in the road past my house…anyone know where I can pick up some macadam cheap?

  • theo

    What’s with the sudden influx of trolls lately?

  • http://www.polytropic.org BrunoMachiavelli

    theo, perhaps increased troll traffic (trollfic?) is the price (and leading indicator) of fame on the blogotubes. . .

  • EL Mystico

    >>>perhaps increased troll traffic (trollfic?) is the price (and leading indicator) of fame on the blogotubes.Yeah. I remember when this whole area was just wheat fields.

  • ceu

    There are a few trolls that venture forth every now & then when something Bob writes for HuffPo stirs them up.

  • GItheScholar

    ceu,Great point. Bob insulted the High Priestess Hannity and now the followers are out. Good republicans that know how to use the tubes will never let an insult to a fellow conservative go unanswered.Has anyone in this Blog ever felt bad that their taxes went to help poor people?

  • SillyGit

    Has anyone in this Blog ever felt bad that their taxes went to help poor people?

    No. That’s what I hope my tax dollars will be used for. I only expect a few things from my government: (in order of importance)1. Provide food and health care for people who would not have any otherwise.2. Transportation – Keep Rails, Roads, Bridges in repair and safe.3. Research that the Free Market does not address. example: The Space Program4. Defense – Keep me safe.The right wing is only good at 4 and suck horribly at 1, 2, and 3.I’d rather see my tax dollars going to feed the poor than enriching Halliburton’s coffers.Right wing trolls are cheap. They only troll where they don’t need to use chum. They despise the notion that someone might be getting a free meal.

  • ceu

    >>- – - – Waterboarding ?? LOL !!Ouch. Too bad no one told that to the Japanese who were convicted of war crimes & hanged after WWII for waterboarding prisoners. Guess the LOL is ’cause the joke was on them, eh?

  • ceu

    >>Why do conservatives donate more of their time, blood and money to those less fortunate than liberals do?I’m sure Warren Buffet will be interested in that…However, I work in non-profit and in my experience, the vast majority of people that work in non-profits are LIBERAL. As to the political leanings of the donors – that’s not something we ask, nor do we care.I, for one, am quite happy that we’re going to have an Attorney General who will abide by the laws – all of them, even the laws with which you don’t happen to agree. You think waterboarding is a joke, but it’s illegal in this country. Feel free to start a campaign to make it ok – write to whomever you have to, march on the Capitol, start a petition drive, sit-in in front of the WH, whatever it take to change the law. I’m sure that our active duty troops (who may, at some point be captured) will all thank you soundly for your efforts.In the meantime, realize that you’re not going to change anyone’s mind here and you’ve long since ceased being entertaining or thought provoking.

  • jane from The Hague

    C’mon, ceu. “Ceased” implies an end to entertainment or provocation.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Perhaps we need a monitor named BillyGoatGruff.

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    >>In the meantime, realize that you’re not going to change anyone’s mind here and you’ve long since ceased being entertaining or thought provoking.ceu – This makes the assumption that lib4ever aka payYourWay was entertaining or thought provoking to begin with.

  • humpdoggie

    I suppose we should waterboard payyourway and then conduct a post torture interview and see how it compares to Cops.Also, hanging is not considered torture for the simple fact that it’s an execution technique. Last time I checked, you live after your waterboarded. This guy is just too much.Finally, the $70 Billion dollar fraud, or supposed fraud, pales in comparison to the shit private insurance pulls and that we have no hard figures for. One figure I do have readily available though is the 1.37 Billion dollar bonus the CEO of United Health Care received in 2008. Anyone else feel like paying $78 dollars to wait in the waiting room for 15 extra minutes like I just did for an out patient procedure?Its guys like this that completely ruin our Democracy, but its because they dont want there to be a Democracy at all, they would much prefer us to be under one party republican/corporate rule until we are all broke and begging the government to “protect” us from terror.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    Lib,Follow this link, and then tell me which is draining the system?http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/canadas-healthcare-is-more-efficient/Health Insurance in America is a jobs program, keeping CEO’s fantastically wealthy, and employing thousands of people to do the same job that Canada does far more efficiently, while covering everyone.Any way you slice it, Lib, there’s more than enough money in our nation to provide health care for everyone, and do it far more efficiently than we do now.By the way, I work with insurance companies as a financial advisor. i help small businesses get their coverage. I hate it. It’s not a joke, it’s a crime. Health insurance companies want to collect $10,000/year while providing $5,000 of health services. It’s asinine, stupid, silly, fucked up, and otherwise nonsensical. It’s a TOTAL waste of money. if you actually researched how much money health insurance companies take in against how money they actually pay out in claims, you’d puke immediately.