Cousin Smart Ass got his ass handed to him in the PayPal dispute he started with me. He sent me a donation and I sent him four art cards, albeit conceptual art cards that I knew he would hate. He did indeed hate them but I fulfilled my end of the bargain and he got his cards. He tried to claim he didn't get what he ordered but art, being subjective, is art and he got four art cards. I just got an email from PayPal telling they resolved the matter in my favor. Here's what they said:
"We have concluded our investigation and have decided in your favor. Any funds that may have been temporarily held have been returned to your account."
So I got my money back, he got his art cards which he hates, and he knows that I don't want any contact from him ever again. It's a win, win, win!
Showing posts with label the wheels of justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the wheels of justice. Show all posts
Monday, January 9, 2012
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Disgusting
The more we find out about what the Bush/Cheney administration did to get "intelligence" out of detainees in Iraq and at Gitmo, the more disgusted and sick I become. And so should you.
The bottom line is water boarding is torture. We tried and convicted Japanese military personnel for doing it during World War 2, and we called it a war crime when they did it. They want to call it 'enhanced interrogation' when we our CIA and military does it? It suddenly becomes all right when it's done by non Asian people? Bull shit. If it was wrong for the Japanese to do it to our men, it's wrong for our country to do it to 'terrorists.' They fact is they, John Yoo, Bybee, and the rest of the Bush lackeys, changed the definition of torture so their idiot leader George W could parse his hypocritical words and say what we were doing wasn't torture, but it was. Everyone knows it was and the full light of disclosure needs to be shone on the whole mess.
And then what needs to happen is that the Obama administration needs to prosecute all of those involved, that is to say the ones who gave the orders and who came up with the twisted definitions of torture, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This notion of not doing it because we need to look forward and not backward is nonsense. How can we look forward if we remain blind to justice and the rule of law? The previous administration broke the law, they didn't just change a policy as Karl Rove and the rest of the pundit village claim they did, the broke the law, they broke with hundreds of years of precedent, they took a shit on the law and they rubbed our noses in it and they need to be brought to justice for doing that. And thank goodness there are some in Congress who are calling for just that, and here's one of them:
Oh how I wish spitfire Debbie Wasserman Schultz was my Congress person. Or Dennis Kucinich, or Maxine Waters, oh if only I had someone who had the balls (or ovaries as the case may be) to stand up to the banality of evil that was Bush/Cheney/Rove and call for their prosecution.
People like Schultz, Waters and Kucinich almost make up for the craven cowards like Stenny Hoyer and Jane Harman who said that damn it we had to let Bush and company spy on us for our own good. Now when it comes to light that the NSA was listening to Jane Harman's phone conversation's she and Hoyer suddenly find some outrage? Bullshit. If we'd listened to Wasserman Schultz and Kucinich then maybe Bush's illegal spying wouldn't have gotten so out of hand and maybe they could have done something about the torturing too.
It's comical now to see Dick Cheney claim that the torturing he did worked. As usual, the old ghoul is wrong. It didn't work. If it did then they would have had to water board those guys over 180 times. If it had worked then the war on terror would have been over years ago when all that intelligence they got was used to round up Bin Laden and all the members of his terrorist organization. If it had worked then all the terrorist groups in the world would have thrown their hands up in resignation and they would have surrendered and Cheney would have shot them in the face for fun, like he did to his hunting buddy.
The fact is torture doesn't do anything but create more terrorists and more hatred for the USA. It only serves to make us look bad and it made us sink to the same level as the North Koreans and the Serbs. If we want to regain any shred of credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world or if we want to regain a tiny morsel of the high ground we used to live on, then the Obama administration needs to stop pussyfooting around and they need to go after the people in the former administration who committed the war crimes. They've got to stop continuing the Bush era policy of claiming state secrets prevent the fair and open trials of the so called terrorists and they've got to let those men defend themselves in open court. If they don't then they're just as bad as Bush and Cheney, in fact they will be their accomplices in war crimes.
The bottom line is water boarding is torture. We tried and convicted Japanese military personnel for doing it during World War 2, and we called it a war crime when they did it. They want to call it 'enhanced interrogation' when we our CIA and military does it? It suddenly becomes all right when it's done by non Asian people? Bull shit. If it was wrong for the Japanese to do it to our men, it's wrong for our country to do it to 'terrorists.' They fact is they, John Yoo, Bybee, and the rest of the Bush lackeys, changed the definition of torture so their idiot leader George W could parse his hypocritical words and say what we were doing wasn't torture, but it was. Everyone knows it was and the full light of disclosure needs to be shone on the whole mess.
And then what needs to happen is that the Obama administration needs to prosecute all of those involved, that is to say the ones who gave the orders and who came up with the twisted definitions of torture, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This notion of not doing it because we need to look forward and not backward is nonsense. How can we look forward if we remain blind to justice and the rule of law? The previous administration broke the law, they didn't just change a policy as Karl Rove and the rest of the pundit village claim they did, the broke the law, they broke with hundreds of years of precedent, they took a shit on the law and they rubbed our noses in it and they need to be brought to justice for doing that. And thank goodness there are some in Congress who are calling for just that, and here's one of them:
Oh how I wish spitfire Debbie Wasserman Schultz was my Congress person. Or Dennis Kucinich, or Maxine Waters, oh if only I had someone who had the balls (or ovaries as the case may be) to stand up to the banality of evil that was Bush/Cheney/Rove and call for their prosecution.
People like Schultz, Waters and Kucinich almost make up for the craven cowards like Stenny Hoyer and Jane Harman who said that damn it we had to let Bush and company spy on us for our own good. Now when it comes to light that the NSA was listening to Jane Harman's phone conversation's she and Hoyer suddenly find some outrage? Bullshit. If we'd listened to Wasserman Schultz and Kucinich then maybe Bush's illegal spying wouldn't have gotten so out of hand and maybe they could have done something about the torturing too.
It's comical now to see Dick Cheney claim that the torturing he did worked. As usual, the old ghoul is wrong. It didn't work. If it did then they would have had to water board those guys over 180 times. If it had worked then the war on terror would have been over years ago when all that intelligence they got was used to round up Bin Laden and all the members of his terrorist organization. If it had worked then all the terrorist groups in the world would have thrown their hands up in resignation and they would have surrendered and Cheney would have shot them in the face for fun, like he did to his hunting buddy.
The fact is torture doesn't do anything but create more terrorists and more hatred for the USA. It only serves to make us look bad and it made us sink to the same level as the North Koreans and the Serbs. If we want to regain any shred of credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world or if we want to regain a tiny morsel of the high ground we used to live on, then the Obama administration needs to stop pussyfooting around and they need to go after the people in the former administration who committed the war crimes. They've got to stop continuing the Bush era policy of claiming state secrets prevent the fair and open trials of the so called terrorists and they've got to let those men defend themselves in open court. If they don't then they're just as bad as Bush and Cheney, in fact they will be their accomplices in war crimes.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
I'm sad to report that I was not among the chosen people
I did not get picked to be on the jury in today's civil trial. I was ready to serve but they did not call my name.
The case involved a multi car accident where one car rear ended another then the car that hit the first car got hit by another and as they people were getting out of the second car the third car got hit sending it deeper into the second car and it caused some injuries to the people who were in the second car. At least that's what I think happened anyway. So the people who hit the first car were suing the people in the fourth car for medical bills and pain and suffering, I think. Alas, I'll never know because they did not pick me. They did read out my first name and I was hopeful but then the last name they called out was not mine so I sat back and waited. But I waited in vain.
The two attorneys then had a chance to dismiss any of the jurors but they decided to dismiss none and the judge then said that he had never in all his days on the bench see two attorneys not dismiss at least one juror. Judge S. then smiled and thanked all of us on jury panel "A" for coming in and he told us to call in sometime this weekend. I've got another 6 weeks of being on call to go so my hope springs eternal, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
The case involved a multi car accident where one car rear ended another then the car that hit the first car got hit by another and as they people were getting out of the second car the third car got hit sending it deeper into the second car and it caused some injuries to the people who were in the second car. At least that's what I think happened anyway. So the people who hit the first car were suing the people in the fourth car for medical bills and pain and suffering, I think. Alas, I'll never know because they did not pick me. They did read out my first name and I was hopeful but then the last name they called out was not mine so I sat back and waited. But I waited in vain.
The two attorneys then had a chance to dismiss any of the jurors but they decided to dismiss none and the judge then said that he had never in all his days on the bench see two attorneys not dismiss at least one juror. Judge S. then smiled and thanked all of us on jury panel "A" for coming in and he told us to call in sometime this weekend. I've got another 6 weeks of being on call to go so my hope springs eternal, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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