Thursday, February 21, 2013

bennie's "Story" Just That . . . .

As we suspected, it appears there's much more to bennie's resignation than he originally led the faithful to believe.

From The Guardian today:



A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, some of whom – the report said – were being blackmailed by outsiders.




Looks like the holy father may have been caught in a rather large lie.

Who's he gonna confess his major fib to, eh ? ? ? ?

Friday, February 15, 2013

Matt on Drone Murder . . . .


Matt Taibbi weighs in on the drone murder policy of The Excited States:

The news that the executive branch had claimed for itself the power to assassinate Americans managed to very briefly raise the national eyebrow, but for the most part, the body politic barely flinched. I got the sense that most of the major press organizations sort of hoped the story would go away quietly (aided, hopefully, by the felicitous appearance of some distractingly thrilling pop-news/cable sensation, like Chris Dorner's Lost Weekend). 
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Meanwhile, it also recently came out that the New York Times, among other papers, sat on knowledge of the existence of a drone base in Saudi Arabia for over a year because, get this, the paper was concerned that it might result in the base being closed.
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What the Times proposes is the same sort of thinking. In their minds, the problem with our drone program isn't that we're murdering masses of people, it's that we're doing it without the appearance of legality.

 
Not to worry, tho, 'cuz barry announced yesterday he was going to be more open and forthcoming with his "kill list" operation.

Feel better now ? ? ? ?


Tuesday, February 12, 2013