pussies

* laura is still on the Duke et al's case with a new article at Prospect: "While we know how companies belonging to Wilkes and Wade benefited from their bribes to Cunningham -- with several hundred millions of dollars in sensitive U.S. government contracts -- it is still opaque what precisely Kontogiannis got out of the Cunningham arrangement. One is left to wonder what other interests Kontogiannis may have been representing, interests which could have benefited from his favors to Cunningham in ways that have not yet been revealed." (link)

* blinky on his meeting with Merkel: " This meeting has got a lot of diplomacy in it today, because this is a subject in which we've spent a lot of time." (link)

* "Members of a Defense Department investigative task force were told not to participate in aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002 because officers and lawyers believed the tactics violated policy and would not elicit information, according to documents released by the Pentagon." (link)

* "Declaring that the United States was at a crossroads in Iraq, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops said Thursday the time had come to withdraw U.S. troops as fast as responsibly possible and to hand control of the country to Iraqis." (link)
pussies.

* btw - yesterday i had a post up about the outlaw criminals in the whitehouse. actually, the post wasnt complete and i meant to save it as a draft rather than publishing it. sorry about any confusion. i'll try to finish the post over the weekend. (no baby posts were harmed in the production of this PSA)