Teh Stuped

The torturee who brought the Bush Administration the much-needed - if untrue - rational to kill Saddam Hussien, several hundred thousand Iraqis and thousands of US troops is dead.

Conveniently, he killed himself with his bedsheets in a Libyan prison just as the investigation into his connection with Cheney and Rumsfeld’s use of torture to find links between Saddam and Al Queda was gathering steam. When interviewed last month by Human Rights Watch all he would say is “Where were you when I was being tortured in American jails?”

Lawrence Wilkerson, aide to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, says Al-Libi was tortured in the spring of 2002, long before the Justice Department memos justifying torture were produced.

Two important things come out of these revelations. We tortured prisoners not to avoid future terrorist attacks, but to start a war. We tortured before the weak fig leaf of the Justice Department memos were written.

Of course the biggest issue of all remains - we tortured. Luckily, this story isn’t going away and every week gains new legs. We must convict those involved.

–Reporting from Mother Jones

Come on, Sean. You’re doing my job for me. I think even the basest of your base could see the pettiness in attacking mustard choice. I would never eat dijon, but hey, this is America.

“[A]s you all know, President Obama is a real man of the people. And yesterday he dropped by a popular Virginia restaurant to grab a burger with his pal [Vice President] Joe [Biden]. Now, the Gateway Pundit blog pointed out that plain old ketchup, well, it didn’t quite cut it for the president. Now take a look at him ordering his burger with a very special condiment. … Dijon mustard? I think the president watched just a little bit too much television as a kid.”

Video Courtesy of Media Matters

Time reports “Joe” the “Plumber” is leaving the GOP. Apparently the Republicans aren’t irrelevant enough to share the couch with this buffoon. Quite an unexpected move from the “common sense,” “it’s my principles”  banner waver whose espoused “values” are consistently against his own interests. If they’ve lost this toady, they’re cooked.

Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party — and he’s the bull’s-eye of its target audience. But he also said he wouldn’t support any cuts in defense, Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid — which, along with debt payments, would put more than two-thirds of the budget off limits.

–Huffpo

OK, enough with the hand-rolled html and the one-thing-at-a-time thing. We’ll never get all the posts from the past back, but luckily, stupid happens every damn day, and you kids keep spelling it wrong. Crank up Teh Stuped.