What the fuck is up with the Supreme Court

Justice Scalia, what the fuck is wrong with you? Here is a brief transcript of his interview with 60 minutes, as provided by Democracy Now.

Justice Scalia: I don’t like torture. I’m—although defining it is going to be a nice trick. But, I mean, who’s in favor of it? Nobody. And we have a law against torture. But if the—everything that is hateful and odious is not covered by some provision of the Constitution.

Lesley Stahl: If someone’s in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized by a law enforcement person, if you listen to the expression, ‘cruel and unusual punishment,’ doesn’t that apply?

Justice Scalia: “No, no.”

Stahl: “Cruel and unusual punishment?”

Justice Scalia: “To the contrary. You think—you think that you would—has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don’t think so.”

Stahl: “Well, I think if you’re in custody and you have a policeman who’s taken you into custody—”

Justice Scalia: “And you say he’s punishing you?”

Stahl: “Sure.”

Justice Scalia: “What’s he punishing you for? You punish somebody—”

Stahl: “Well, because he assumes you, one, either committed a crime—”

Justice Scalia: “No, no.”

Stahl: “—or that you know something that he wants to know.”

Justice Scalia: “It’s the latter. And when he’s—when he’s—when he’s hurting you in order to get information from you—”

Stahl: “Yeah.”

Justice Scalia: “—you don’t say he’s punishing you. What’s he punishing you for? He’s trying to extract—”

Stahl: “Because he thinks you’re a terrorist, and he’s going to beat the you-know-what out of you.”

Justice Scalia: “Anyway, that’s my view. And it happens to be correct.”

And this fucktard is on the Supreme Court? Thanks Bush for his appointment. Maybe Harriet would have been a better choice after all. If he is going to allow this for prisoners in American custody abroad, it will only be a matter of time before this is allowed for prisoners in American custody in the homeland.

April Fucktard of the Month

This prestigious honor goes to Mr. Will Utt of KBR. Pretty much, he runs a company that imprisoned a woman contract worker in Iraq because she wanted to complain the fact that she was raped. Other cases of women getting raped by KBR employees without the company providing support, assistance, or punishment have been documented.

Yet, despite all these reports, KBR is still getting multi-million dollar government contracts. These people are the worse of the worse when it comes to war profiteering.

What kills me is that Congress has done absolutely shit about this, besides holding a hearing that went nowhere.

Second runner up, George W. Bush for his feigning for the care of veterans of a war he started. It was a very close second.

EPA, you are on notice....bitches.

All right, the big thing I talked about earlier probably isn't a big thing, retrospectively. And, since this is 'Earth Week' or whatever hippy holiday it is, I decided to do my part, all be it limited and very non-time consuming.

I was looking at new cars, specifically the stickers. As most know, each car sold in the U.S. has to have a mileage rating, both for city and highway driving. Well, I was curious how the highway mileage was calculated.

When I was driving to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia, I noticed that the national highway speed set by these states were at least over 65 mph, and some over 70 mph. When the Highway Mileage Display (I do not know the specific law's name) law went into effect, the national highway average was 55mph. Now that most states increased their mileage to over 65+, few still have 55, I believe. I was just curious if the new highway mileage took this into account. Because, after all, what is the point of having a highway speed determined at 55mph when you live in a region where it is over 65mph. Doesn't seem to make much sense to me.

Well, I asked this question. I went to the www.fueleconomy.gov website, found the contact person, selected my regional representative (NY is region 2), and sent off an e-mail earlier this week, asking this very question.

Now, it is Thursday, and no response. Not sure if this is a good thing, or bad. Granted, it is green week and I am sure the EPA is busy, but I do not think it takes much to answer, Yes, highway mileage is calulcated at 65mph, or no it is not.

Well, if I do not hear from them in about a week from today, I will do something I will forever regret. I will enlist the services of Greenpeace so that their army of lobbyists can figure this shit out and hopefully change it. Their bastards, and will always be, but Hell, every bastard can be usefull from time to time.

Gotta Love Meatloaf

Man, i am glad to see MeatLoaf is getting some props.







Meatloaf, Fuck Yeah!!!

But seriously, McCain voted against a bill that will enforce equal pay for women because of the litigation it will allow.

But, without suing, how can we force a company to comply? Companies aren't going to do this voluntarily unless the get called out for it and it'll cost them more money. Dumbass.

I know presidents do crappy promos but..

Seriously, Deal or No Deal. Even you could have done better.

Oh, your whole 'Im for the veterans is bullshit.' You need to be called out on it. Like for instance, this. Seriously, you are that desperate where you calling up people who are DEAF, not because he was born that way, because he was in an Afghanistan shithole and a rocket exploded near him.

Or how about this, where you finally fired the commander who ran the Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital. But, too bad, you cut the funds for that so he could not perform the upgrades.

Or this article, where veterans are committing suicide at the rate of 17 per day because they were denied treatment at the VA Hospitals.

Or this instance, where the VA denied health care because he left Iraq under the 'sole survivor' rule when his two other brothers were killed.


To President Bush:
You don't give two shits about veterans. Never have, never will. Don't pretend otherwise. Maybe if you and your cronies would stop the war profiteering, maybe you can actually spend some money on these people.

Too Good!

Haven't Forgot

I know it has been awhile since my last rant, but I have something major in the works. HHHUUUGGEEE.

Not happening

"This is america. We cut our pizza into slices, not rectangles."

Couldnt have said it better myself Dave.

Spying on Greenpeace

See here. Don't let those hippy do good no shower takers fool you. They are just as dangerous as Al Qaeda, except they have a better PR department. I hope whatever intel was collected totally fucked them over. Fucking Hippies.

Homeland Security My Arse

Pretty much, the Government Accountability Office, GAO, pretty much found everything under the sun, from F-14 antennae, body armor, even sensitive military night vision goggles which has the ability to determine if the person your looking at is friend or foe. Sweet.

All this stuff was found on eBay, Craigslist, and other various online re-sellers/auction houses. See here.

Way to go homeland security. Stellar performance. Shouldn't all the money we spend on big brother to analyze the internet and eavesdrop on us should have found this stuff? Since you can not even get the No-Fly list working properly, I guess having CARNIVORE / ECHELON programs working is too much to ask for. Start small, then work your way up to the big stuff.

Praise Jeebus that the GAO found this stuff. GAO, your off my government shit list. Since you found this, and exposed this different scandal, your good people. Keep it up.

Again, more proposed government bullshit

This comes from the land of broken levies and crawfish. LA Government is proposing to castrate sex offenders. I hate to say this, but I never thought I would be on the side of sex offenders. We have a little known document called the Bill of Rights, and in that (specifically amendment 8), it prevents the government from inflecting cruel and unusual punishment.

Now, I am not a legal scholar, but losing a set of testes at the government hands, should be considered cruel, if not, definitely unusual.

I bet the cougar mascot cries himself to sleep at night

Seriously, who ever is in this Cougar's mascot uniform, you lost all respect and manhood, for life. period. no appeals. your done son.

Ive said it beofre and I will say it again...

Old people, at least those who can get AARP benefits, should be able to do whatever the fuck they want. See here. All I have to say is that my politician was decent enough to get a hooker.

How is KBR still getting military contracts

See here. The money quote is "Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job."

The fact that this occurred over a year ago and is just now getting face time with the Senate is absolutely appalling. If KBR is guilty of the imprisonment and assault, they should get the book thrown at them. But, of course they wont, because their Daddy Company, Haliburton, has some friends in pretty high places.

40+ other women have come forward about similar accusations with KBR and Haliburton. A "Lisa Smith" is schedule to testify before the Senate tomorrow about what happened to her.

If KBR / Haliburton are held responsible, they should get the mother fuckin book thrown at them Samual L. Jackson style. But, a little known fact, is that American Contractors generally operate with immunity from their actions in IRAQ, so I do not think that will happen. Money quote, "It's very troubling," said Dean John Hutson of the Franklin Pierce Law Center. "The way the law presently stands, I would say that they don't have, at least in the criminal system, the opportunity for justice." What the fuck is up with that bullshit. I hope, if these allegations are true, she takes KBR for everything that they are worth.

I weep for the future

Man, where do I begin. Nothing like making a big hit on the internet by beating the shit out of someone. Like, way cool, like, you know.

Are people getting more stupid? Do people think that if they commit a crime then upload it on myspace and youtube, they will not get caught. Those girls are fuckwits. Well, they are teenage girls, so I guess rationale, logic and reason aren't high on their priority list. I blame Daria.

Crackpot Conspiracies

Here is what is hopefully not going to happen. If Hillary becomes the Democratic Nominee, that is because she pulled up enough dirt on these 'Superdeligates' that they voted for her. Yeah blackmail.

Or, if McCain wins, it is because right before the presidential election, Bush is going to announce that they caught Osama bin Laden and then hang his ass on the White House Rose Garden. To make it better, there will be a Nathans hot dog vendor, and the president will have a dog for the ultimate photo op. America, Hangings and Hot Dogs since 1776.

These are just crackpot theories, but if they are true, I wanted it on record for the ultimate 'I Told You So.' If not, it'll be another one of my humorous conspiracy theories.

Hillary, Hillary, Hillary

Yet another reason why I am not liking Hillary. Her Chief Strategist owns his own PR / Lobbyist group, and this guy, Mr. Mark Penn was hired by the Colombians (the same people who brought you Cocaine in a Can), to push a free-trade agreement with their nation.

First, Hillary's second in command owns his own PR / Lobbyist firm. Hillary claims she is anti-lobbyist but her second in command is one. Smooth. Second, Mr. Penn decided to represent the Colombians to push their free-trade agenda with the U.S. Yet, Hillary is trying to be anti-free trade. Nice.

Best part, after this ordeal went down, the Colombians fired his ass. He is just lucky he is not hanging from a helicopter scarface style.

Census counts on paper for 2010

I am almost on the government's side on this one. I am glad that they are sticking to paper for the census instead of using the digital pda version they wished on implementing. Their system had discovered a bunch of bugs and issues that would not have been resolved in time. Props, for once.

However, this is what I do have an issue with. Pretty much, switching back to paper, is going to raise the cost to something in the ballpark of $14.5b to perform the census. That seems just a wee bit too high. Maybe the rising gas prices had something to do with it.