How to do it

Torture?

Better that one should die.

My Robot Friend

US: No longer hoods

Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from prisoners captured in ongoing wars. <Washington Post, Sept 7, 2006>
Also, no more 'disappearing'.
Interrogation Rules of Engagement: wall poster

The presidents highest Constitutional duty

is to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution
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Obama echoed John in his Oslo acceptance speech
sigh

Was this the worst?

What, we didn't boil anybody?
The deaths at Bagram AFB.
What about murders in NYC?


Abdul Wahed died in the American special forces bases at Gereshk in southern Afghanistan in November 2003. etc.

Upper Utopia

Independent Lens

Sen Jeremiah Denton

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True Believer.
"We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America."
12Feb1973
Proud having served in Vietnam,
and (proud?) supporter of the contras.
David Belavia, deja vu.
There is a way that seems right to a man

No room for the hopeless sinner

Who would hurt mankind, just to save his own

Chinese water tortureBamboo under the fingernails, etc

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Treating the wounded, in Vietnam.

Sweet

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Quang Tri, Vietnam

A superfund site. Or should be.

46th mersenne prime number

has 13-million digits, the article says.
Does it?
The "46th" mersenne prime number is (2**43,112,609)-1

1 + log base 10 of a number is the number of digits in a number:
log base 10 of 10 is 1; of 100 is 2; of 1000 is 3.

log base 10 of 2 is 0.301029996, from google

(2 ** 43,112,609) = (10 ** .301029996 ** 43,112,609)

(.30103 * 43,112,609) = (12,978,188)

12,978,189 digits is less than 13 million.

The approximation of 2**10 = 1,000
is useful for estimating powers of 2.

For example, (2**60) = (2**10**6) = (1,000**6)
1,000**6 is six commas or a quintillion.

Applying that approximation to this question,
2**43,112,609 has 4,311,260 commas or 12,933,782 digits

The sick man of europe

(c)
For some reason, these new birds did not seem as interested in William's bird seed.
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When an empire collapses, the squabbles start.

Torture 1967

Tossing the highest ranking VC out of a helicopter served
to loosen the tongue of the rest of the detainees.
As in Winter Soldier, but with purpose.

DV

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My Precious

Invisibility. State secrets. My Precious.

Pick up your cross

and follow Me.
How far? I mean, I thought he died for us? No?
Not exactly

The Blind

leading the blind. So far so good.

Vacation in Alberta

Come for the oil, stay for the adventure.

Tear gas

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can kill.

The 50th anniversary

of the failed Tibetan uprising.
That is to say, of the Chinese invasion of Tibet.

Keith Giles

is not a well individual.

The globe

is falling.
The tribe is cockroach.

The Noughties

Power

corrupts

Planting Season

Cross your fingers.

NPO

DNR

Refugees

Get in line now. There will be no cutting.

Dmitry Orlov

Shoots his mouth off.

Hospice care for the financial systems.

Jim Kunstler

Shoots his mouth off.

Michael Pollan

Shoots his mouth off.

Children of the mountains - ABC

"When the banking industry melts down, it's like, 'Oh, no, we have a structural problem. We need to reinvest in those people.' But when the folks in Appalachia or the inner city are poor, it's their fault," Davis said.

What a way to go

Building 7 vs the Mandarin Oriental Hotel

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Broken promises

The economy is based on promises.
For example, your bank account is a promise.
The US Government has promised to pay 11 trillion dollars.
Some of that to you. Do you think they will?
Where will they get eleven trillion?

Here is a picture of it

Except that the fish is eating himself.

Diminishing Returns

War - have we gone too far? Passed peak possibly?

Video Junkie

Escape from reality.

Losing Your Shirt

Collapse of Empires & Civilizations
Or see the slides.

Dont Vote

Things are fine the way they are.

Jupiter's Wife

Antidemystification
Meanwhile in another world
Dangerous liasons

The end of the USA

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Globalization, dreamliner, french wine

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Toast. All toast. Without the butter.

Straits of Magellan

Why would Magellan take a shortcut like this?
The Chinese said he could save some time going this way.
On the other hand, he may have noticed that the water was salty.

Energy Independence

The amount of oil that we use for transportation is about equal to the amount of oil we import. Therefore traveling less cannot eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Any use of oil for transportation requires foreign oil, at current efficiencies.

Tripling efficiencies for transport would help some,
but any use of oil for transportation requires foreign oil

Sex drive

Mosquitos have a working sex drive,
and their brains are quite small.
Apparently, not much brain is required.

Fort Benning, Georgia

Father Ray Bourgeois served as a missionary in Bolivia and El Salvador. There, he witnessed death squads, that were trained in the US at the "Special Forces" school at Fort Benning, Georgia. When he returned to the United States, he became a nationally known peace advocate. He will be excommunicated next week for participating in a ceremony that the Vatican considers unacceptable: the ordination of a woman who is not transsexual.
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We do not know if Jesus considered sex reassignment surgery, since we do not know if that surgery is sinful. We can assume that Jesus was tempted by homosexual thoughts, since homosexuality is worse than heterosexuality.

Select the best answer

33. Saint Peter was
a) Selected by Jesus
b) A Catholic
c) A pope
d) A priest
e) Married
f) All of the above

And that's why priests can't marry.

Love your enemies

Love the devil?
Not gonna happen.
Not in my lifetime.

Solitary confinement

On the cheap

If I onlyhada heart

The cowardly lion
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The intelligence failures that Bush reminds us of were manufactured in Doug Feith's office in the White House.

Select the best answer

31. (mommy)Where do babies come from?
a) The hospital
b) The delivery room
c) The birth canal
d) The womb
e) Ask your father
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It depends on what the meaning of baby is.

Old vs. New

a smoldering wick he will not snuff out

No group is all bad

viz. Samaratans, theives

Godless capitalism's answer

How to survive the upcoming economic meltdown:
open a nuclear test facility on your wyoming ranch.

What shall we do

Is it ok to vote for a law you think is immoral,
or vote against a law you think is moral?
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For that matter, is it ok to vote for a law that is moral?
Isn't it redundant?