CyberJesus will always love you October 5, 2006
Posted by Wade Rockett in Church, handbasket.Tags: jesus
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“Hey! It’s me - Jesus,” says the Max Headroom-like computerized dude at Cross Rev Connect, the Web site for Newburgh Assembly of God.
His laid back manner, white skin, blue eyes, and American accent leave no room for doubt that this is truly our living Lord and Savior, updating us on this year’s National Fine Arts theme. SAVE US, CYBERJESUS.
Um…CyberJesus seems inordinately interested in my mouse pointer once he’s finished his speech.
(Via goodmanson)
I feel safer already? September 26, 2006
Posted by Wade Rockett in Politics, handbasket.1 comment so far
Slate magazine, Today’s Papers:
The Bush administration, supported by House allies, has slipped a small but important change into last week’s “compromise” bill on terror suspects, the Post reports. The earlier bill, worked out in negotiations with restive Senate Republicans, defined enemy combatants as those who have “engaged in hostilities,” but the latest draft legislation expands the definition to include those who have “supported hostilities.” The new language could boost the administration’s contention that it can designate virtually anyone an enemy combatant; the Post notes it “does not rule out the possibility” that the designation could be applied to a U.S. citizen.
From the Post story:
Under a separate provision, those held by the CIA or the U.S. military as an unlawful enemy combatant would be barred from challenging their detention or the conditions of their treatment in U.S. courts unless they were first tried, convicted and appealed their conviction.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) yesterday assailed the provision as an unconstitutional suspension of habeas corpus, which he said was allowable only “in time of rebellion or in time of invasion. And neither is present here.”
Probable presidential candidate Sen. Bill Frist is a hateful jackass September 25, 2006
Posted by Wade Rockett in Politics, handbasket.Tags: torture
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The Post stuffs, and appears alone in reporting, Sen. John McCain naming some specific interrogation techniques that would be banned under a compromise bill now in the Senate: extreme sleep deprivation, forced hypothermia, and “water-boarding,” among others. Probable presidential campaign rival Sen. Bill Frist said McCain’s disclosure of the techniques “helps the terrorists.”
– Slate magazine, Today’s Papers textcast
It’s not too early in the game to tag him with the nickname “Waterboarding Bill”, is it?
Tags: John McCain, Bill Frist, torture
