I Run In Wild Circles And Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

I was once on the same label as these guys and, when I was young, I listened to them for pleasure. 

No kidding:

The government uses their music on prisoners at Guantanamo,…

 

Eat, Stupid

If I Can't Trust FRONTLINE Who Can I Trust?

Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.

Right now the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is scared because, along with their divisions PBS and NPR, they know they're being shown the door. The main reason it's happening is an end to government waste, but along with that is conservative's burning hatred for the liberalism they've been expected to subsidize.

I know this hatred well. For me it's mostly directed at their Louise Hay-produced NewAge programming during pledge drives, but, for instance, also for the way Garrison Keillor, for no apparent or damned good reason, would destroy the pure Americana of A Prairie Home Companion buy interjecting ugly partisan jabs at conservatives during the broadcast.

I just stopped listening.

Various figures associated with the CPB claim they're non-partisan, but, as a longtime listener/viewer I don't buy it. They can't help themselves. For instance, I remember the episode of FRONTLINE, above, bothered me greatly. It bothered me because I thought, at the time, it was unfair. I haven't re-watched it, but here are a few thoughts I can remember flashing through my mind, and one that occurs considering more recent developments:

If Vice-President Cheney was "restoring" presidential power to the what the framers intended, why are his efforts portrayed as "enhancing" - as though President Bush was getting something more than the framers intended?

If Cheney's lawyer, David Addington, had "experience in all of the matters", as well as "very well grounded views", why are he and Cheney's efforts treated as suspect in this episode? Why the ominous music for "very well grounded views"?

Why is restoring the executive called "extraordinary"?

Now that President Obama has signed on for military tribunals and the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in hindsight, is the portrayal here fair to the Bush administration? And if not, then why not, if FRONTLINE is considered the gold standard of investigative programs in America?

Here's an episode on "alternative" medicine (unfortunately, I can't embed it in the post). Since I know there aren't two sides to this story, why - except for something like Louise Hay's money - does FRONTLINE present it as though there were?

Next: You'll Say We Should've Spoken Louder,...

You see, what we've had here is a 4-year failure to communicate:

President Obama on Monday cleared the way for new military trials for suspected terrorists at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the White House insisted that the president still intended to eventually close the embattled facility.

Obama lifted a freeze on new prosecutions under the military commission system that he put in place shortly after taking office in 2009, saying that the process, which had been heavily criticized by human-rights groups and other countries for a lack of fairness, had been revised to better safeguard the rights of detainees.

The president said his actions Monday "broaden our ability to bring terrorists to justice, provide oversight for our actions and ensure the humane treatment of detainees."

About 170 detainees remain jailed at the prison, down from 242 when Obama took office.

Shuttering the prison at Guantanamo and shifting cases to civilian federal courts was a bedrock promise of Obama's presidential campaign,...

See, we clearly remember repeatedly saying the man was wrong, an idiot, and a liar, but somehow - over 4 whole years - the rest of y'all must not have heard,...probably too busy listening to yourselves jowl on. Whatever:

Congratulations - again - to President Bush.

"That Ol' Black Magic's Got Me In It's Spell,..."

And if you thought Haiti had a problem with education, wait until you get a load of this shit:

Walid Muhammad Hajj: The most common method to wear down the brothers was witchcraft. 


Interviewer: How did they do this? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: There were, of course, Jews among the [staff of] the Guantanamo Base, and they would set traps for the guys. 


Interviewer: Give me an example of witchcraft. 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Witchcraft was used on most of the guys. 


Interviewer: They would cast a spell on them? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes, but by the grace of Allah, through frequent reading of the Koran and invocation of the names of Allah, they managed to withstand this. 


Interviewer: How did you know that somebody was under a spell? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Someone like that would change. 


Interviewer: In what way? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: For example, somebody would take his clothes off, all of a sudden, or would sit on his bed for three days straight without sleeping. 


[...] 


They would use all kinds of witchcraft against the guys. 


Interviewer: Tell me more. 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: I will tell you how the witchcraft affected the guys. A person would suddenly see his brothers and sisters naked before him. 


Interviewer: And they weren't really there? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Absolutely not. It was as if he was in a different world. 


Interviewer: You mean, his brothers and sisters from back home. 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: That's right. I remembered an incident with a guy who sat next to me in the morning. When they brought the milk, he began to urinate into the milk. 


Interviewer: In front of you? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes. I said to him: "Why are you urinating in the milk?" That's when we knew that he was under a spell. After he had recovered a little, after we read Koranic verses to him, he said to me: "The birds on the barbed wire would talk to me, and tell me to urinate in the milk. When the guards pass by my cell, the sound made by their pants talks to me." 


Interviewer: They tell him to urinate in the milk? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Yes. 


[...]

Interviewer: Did they ever use witchcraft on you? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: There was one attempt. 


Interviewer: How did they do it? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Once, when I was sleeping – on the floor, not on a bed – I suddenly felt that a cat was trying to penetrate me. It tried to penetrate me again and again. I recited the kursi verse again and again until the cat left. 


Interviewer: But there wasn't really any cat there? 


Walid Muhammad Hajj: Absolutely not.

We know what you're thinking:

Where would we be without journalists, right?

This guy's as credulous as a "progressive" shopper in the Wellness Section of Whole Foods. Where'd he get his credentials, from The Wizard of Oz? Sheesh.

He'd better hurry, or both he and Walid Muhammad Hajj are going to miss the balloon going back to reality,...

Folks, We've Caught A Rat In The White House

"Obama has essentially endorsed the detention policies of George Bush without the courtesy of apologizing for slandering him over the last two and a half years.  Obama and his allies screeched endlessly about indefinite detentions, and not just in Gitmo, either. They specifically railed against the holding of terrorists without access to civil courts in military detention facilities around the world, specifically Bagram, but in general as well. Not even six months into his term of office, Obama realized that Bush had it right all along.

Did he even have the grace to admit that? No. Instead, the White House took the cowardly method of a late-Friday leak to let people know that Obama had adopted the Bush policy all over again. Barack Obama just appeared at a press conference this last Tuesday to discuss Iran, energy policy, and ObamaCare, where he could have told the national press that he had changed his mind on indefinite detention. Instead, he kept his mouth shut, and had his media staff whisper it into phones to a couple of White House favorites in the press.

It’s a shameful performance, and the measure of the man in charge.

Addendum: I guess Obama has finally conceded to Dick Cheney on national security, hasn’t he?"

-- Ed Morrissey, backing me up on something I've said a billion times: NewAgers never apologize, thinking that kind of honesty is just so much Hot Air.

The people who voted for this clown are morons - racist black skin-worshipping morons - and, if the rest of the American people don't say something soon, we will officially become a nation of morons.

Save yourselves - and your country.

And stop worrying about whether you look good doing it: Just do it.

Nobody Knows When To Stop Anymore

"Nothing prepared me for the way in which the authorities at [Guantanamo] have allowed the most extreme religious cultists among the inmates to be the organizers of the prisoners' daily routine. Suppose that you were a secular or unfanatical person caught in the net by mistake; you would still find yourself being compelled to pray five times a day (the guards are not permitted to interrupt), to have a Quran in your cell, and to eat food prepared to halal (or Sharia) standards. I suppose you could ask to abstain, but, in such a case, I wouldn't much fancy your chances. The officers in charge were so pleased by this ability to show off their extreme broad-mindedness in respect of Islam that they looked almost hurt when I asked how they justified the use of taxpayers' money to create an institution dedicated to the fervent practice of the most extreme version of just one religion. To the huge list of reasons to close down Guantanamo, add this: It's a state-sponsored madrasah."

-- Christopher Hitchens, throwing around the "C" word early - and showing yet another way that even our military supports such endeavors - when we ought to be working towards a clean Slate.

Come On: Step Up, Big Guy

"As a candidate, Obama pushed the notion that George W. Bush was a constitutional Neanderthal and destroyer of American values. Now he’s discovered that it is really hard to figure out what to do with these really bad people."

-- Jennifer Rubin, again mentioning that which must not be mentioned - Obama's (and the Democratic Party's) hypocrisy and politically expedient lies during the election - on Pajamas Media.

Fuck You: NewAgers Will NEVER Admit They're Wrong About Anything Everything - EVER!!

"The Guantanamo Bay military prison meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions.


According to a Pentagon review ordered by President Obama. So… great. I’m proud of our military. But am I proud of our President who first promised to close the place and then got the study showing the facts relevant to the question whether it should be closed?

Let’s see if he can say now, as he has before, I screwed up."

-- Ann Althouse, exposing another lie* of the Democratic Party's cultists, at the Althouse.

*This one is HUGE - and it ain't just the president's lie alone,...mark our words:

Our entire nation, and culture, is being warped by an unrelenting multitude of continuously evolving NewAge lies. They've already cost us prestige, money - and too many American lives to count. This is, still, TMR's view:

It's time to start shaving heads and marching these betraying assholes through the streets - just like the French who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII - as an example to all.

TMR NewAge News (For The Indiscriminate Fool)

"The CIA has issued a statement after last week’s catastrophic waterboard incident in Guantanamo that embarrassed the agency and raised questions about security.
 
The events unfolded as a suspected terrorist was being interrogated and the session went on for nearly four hours. According to sources, the suspect 'seemed to enjoy it' and at one point nearly fell asleep.
 
An investigation revealed the water had been inadvertently stored next to a photograph of Valium and aspirin, and had apparently retained that memory. The origin of the photo is unknown, and calls to NewAge World Headquarters in the Sedona suburb of Circle Rock, AZ went unanswered. A spokesperson in the Roswell, NM office declined comment.
 
In a brief statement, the detainee told reporters he felt relaxed, pain-free and 'very clean.'
 
The water has been checked into a rehab program."

-- Joseph Nigro, on a "terrible" situation, only made better by the hilarity of it (with the following video) as The Macho Response.