even feinstein introduced legislation to shut it down. it's a continuing abomination.
Posted by Turkana at January 11, 2008 08:25 PMIt will make a great place to warehouse the Bush criminals after the dems get to the bottom of things next year.
Posted by TIKI AL at January 11, 2008 10:56 PMThere was another group of people who were declared "non-persons" and 12 million of them ended up dead or in Concentration camps.
Posted by Judith at January 11, 2008 11:47 PM
Cheney says it's Club Med in the tropics so go fuck yourself with all your bitching and moaning, world.
Posted by Sharkbabe at January 12, 2008 06:57 AMGreat post, Mary. These are the kinds of things that are getting overshadowed by the horserace. Thanks!
Posted by iamcoyote at January 12, 2008 09:27 AMIn your concluding paragraph you mention James Madison in a quite laudatory context.
From a Canadian vantage point, Mr. Madison is remembered as the President who tried on multiple occasions to invade and annex the country between 1812 and 1814. Mr. Madison's minions for instance burned the town that became Toronto (losing a couple of hundred dead in the assault I might add) and committed numerous criminal acts against the civilian population. Luckily all the attacks without exception were bungled and miserable failures in the end. There was a lot of cutting, running away and mass surrenders involving Yankee soldiers.
In other words, Mr. Madison was just one more imperial aggressor in a long and inelegant line of same. Maybe the guy had better PR in Washington though I can't imagine abandoning the White House for the Tommies from the Royal Marines to burn would have been a stellar positive item for his vitae.
Hope you get your country back in one piece some day.
Posted by anondo at January 14, 2008 12:30 AM