HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SMOTHERED?
How does it feel to be smothered? Do you really need to ask? Christopher Hitchens submitted to a waterboarding session in an effort to understand the human cost of the use of harsh “aggressive interrogation” tactics. He was lucky, though, he got to stop the session seconds after it started.
(VANITY FAIR)
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
"BUG"
This story in today's paper has some special meaning for those of us who know Jorene's niece "Hayli Bug". We've been watching this little bitty girl overcome some pretty large obstacles in her life. Way to go bug!
(MOBILE REGISTER)
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Canadian denied U.S. fortune dies at 108 in Cuba | Top News | Reuters
NOT RED GRAND DAME
Mary McCarthy, born in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1900, moved to Cuba in 1924 when she married her husband, a wealthy Havana-based Spanish businessman whom she had met at the Boston Opera.She soon became a member of Cuba's high society, co-founding the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra and an orphanage for boys.Her husband died in 1951, but she stayed in Cuba, even after the 1959 revolution when Fidel Castro took power and all the neighbours in her wealthy neighbourhood fled to the United States. She was not able to touch the money her husband left her after the United States imposed a trade embargo against Cuba in 1962, and had lived in near poverty for years.
(REUTERS)
Mary McCarthy, born in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1900, moved to Cuba in 1924 when she married her husband, a wealthy Havana-based Spanish businessman whom she had met at the Boston Opera.She soon became a member of Cuba's high society, co-founding the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra and an orphanage for boys.Her husband died in 1951, but she stayed in Cuba, even after the 1959 revolution when Fidel Castro took power and all the neighbours in her wealthy neighbourhood fled to the United States. She was not able to touch the money her husband left her after the United States imposed a trade embargo against Cuba in 1962, and had lived in near poverty for years.
(REUTERS)
Monday, April 06, 2009
MULTI-TASKING
Doug Feith is best known for cooking up bogus prewar Iraq intelligence linking Iraq, al-Qaeda and 9/11. But in addition to his duties of stove piping phony intelligence directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney, Feith was also a key member of a small working group of Defense Department officials who oversaw the implementation of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' at Guantanamo Bay.
(TRUTHOUT)
Doug Feith is best known for cooking up bogus prewar Iraq intelligence linking Iraq, al-Qaeda and 9/11. But in addition to his duties of stove piping phony intelligence directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney, Feith was also a key member of a small working group of Defense Department officials who oversaw the implementation of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' at Guantanamo Bay.
(TRUTHOUT)